Lisle is careful not to speculate beyond the available evidence about what the program that launched a hundred conspiracy theories did, even granting that Gottlieb and the CIA destroyed a lot of that ...

National Security Archive analysts have uncovered everything from CIA assassination plots of Fidel Castro to programs that ...

“When you know, you just simply know,” muses Charles Manson in one of Chaos: The Manson Murders’ many archival clips. Yet the thing about the infamous fiend’s story is that not everything is known—or, ...

My chief resident gave me a strange look when I arrived for another day of work at the Mayo Clinic one morning. “Something you’re not telling us?” she asked, gesturing to the two letters on my desk ...

Project MKULTRA was the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) mind control program that used LSD and hypnosis techniques to brainwash individuals. Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was a ...

A sinister CIA program with a decades-long history of mind-control experiments is now being linked to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Congressman Tim Burchett claimed that US intelligence ...

Can hypnosis be used to make someone do something against his or her own will? This question has been the source of great controversy. I served as a consultant about hypnosis to Woody Allen’s film, ...

“It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, ...