May 28, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
A declassified government file has surfaced, exposing a chilling use of Desoxyn-the pharmaceutical name for methamphetamine hydrochloride-in experimental interrogations under chemically induced "twilight conditions." "The drug made the subject very talkative,...
May 25, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
In a 1951 internal memo stamped for ARTICHOKE review, a CIA technical officer laid out a research proposal with chilling simplicity: use U.S. military prisoners as human test subjects for high-risk psychological and pharmacological experiments. The proposal detailed...
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...