Jun 8, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
In September 1951, a U.S. intelligence official submitted a detailed set of handwritten and typed questions to colleagues concerning a confiscated object-a crude, collapsible injection device recovered from an unspecified operation. The document doesn’t name a suspect...
Jun 6, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files, Drugs
Before MK-Ultra had a name, before LSD entered the agency’s toolbox, U.S. intelligence was already sketching out a method to collapse resistance and extract confessions-one chemically induced blackout at a time. The document, simply titled "Interrogation", offers a...
Jun 4, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files
It wasn’t just what was said-it was how it was said, and who translated it. A declassified document reveals that during the Cold War, the CIA convened a specialized brainstorming meeting to dissect the role of translation as a strategic tool-not just for information...
May 31, 2025 | CIA/FBI/NSA Files, Military Tech
While the world looked for bigger bombs, a small team of U.S. researchers was building something stranger: a guide to shutting people down-mentally, physically, and psychologically-without killing them. The Quarterly Technical Progress Report, a document spanning late...