Inside Project ARTICHOKE: The CIA’s Blueprint for Total Behavioral Control
What would it take to fully break a person’s will-without them ever realizing it happened? That was the question driving Project ARTICHOKE, a top-secret CIA research program detailed in a declassified 1952 memorandum. Unlike earlier efforts, this was no vague...
“She Has No Memory of Last Night”: CIA Agents Could Control Minds
A declassified CIA training film reveals just how deep U.S. intelligence once ventured into the realm of hypnosis-based mind control-not as science fiction, but as standard operating procedure. "Mary Jones was made to carry out her surreptitious and illegal activity...
Declassified Study Reveals LSD Tolerance Builds in Just 3 Days
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,...
How the U.S. Enabled France’s Colonial Return to Vietnam
In 1945, as colonial empires crumbled, the U.S. made a pivotal choice: back Vietnamese independence - or let France return. Despite anti-colonial rhetoric, America sided with the latter. This is the untold beginning of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. "We have fully...
