NSA Memo Details Dozens of U.S. Privacy Violations in Just One Quarter
It was supposed to be careful, targeted, and strictly within legal boundaries. But for three months in early 2003, the NSA’s internal compliance report reads like a checklist of domestic violations. From listening in on Americans’ private conversations to...
How the CIA Identified, Approached and Broke Recruits
A 1944 CIA training document, recently declassified, lays out in cold detail exactly how the agency evaluated and manipulated potential assets. More than a manual, it’s a psychological dissection of human vulnerability-who can be recruited, how to spot them, and how...
The U.S. Government Wanted a Truth Drug And Got a Chemical Lie Instead
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...
From Brainwashing to Bombproof Memory: Inside the CIA’s Psychological War
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...
