May 25, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files, Military Tech
It was supposed to be the perfect spy tool: a silent device capable of delivering drugs through clothing with no trace and no needle. Instead, it ended up in a folder stamped with failure-and a warning about what science can’t solve with gadgets alone. A 1950s-era...
May 22, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
It started with a promise: a chemical that could make anyone talk, spilling secrets without resistance or deception. What the U.S. got instead was confusion, contradiction, and a costly pharmacological dead end. A declassified report titled Development of Truth Drug...
May 22, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
When the CIA planned out its psychological warfare strategy in the 1950s, it wasn’t just exploring exotic drugs and hypnosis. It was engineering an entire operational ecosystem-custom labs, human test subjects, field schools, and behavioral modification programs...
May 22, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
In 1951, the CIA quietly circulated a document that reads less like inter-agency correspondence and more like the pitch deck for a psychological weapons program. Titled simply Items of Special Interest, it outlines the Agency’s hunger for a chilling array of...
May 12, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files, Drugs
A long-forgotten letter from a U.S. government researcher has emerged from the vaults, shedding light on a chilling experiment conducted under the banner of addiction science-but with the unmistakable fingerprints of psychedelic control. "After three days on LSD-25,...