CIA mind-control programs were intimately tied to use in coercive interrogation. Both Gitmo and CIA black-site torture were impossible without MK-ULTRA, but that history is being buried.
The Agency office with the greatest current SERE familiarity was the Office of Technical Services (OTS), in which were located a...
MK-ULTRA continued to operate under the cover of religious cults after its formal shutdown in 1973
In June 1956, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who headed the CIA mind-control experiments known as MK-ULTRA, authorized a sub-project involving the testing of LSD on prisoners at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.
The sub-project was headed by...
As detailed in his book, CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, and the new Netflix documentary, CHAOS: The Manson Murders, Premiere magazine writer Tom O’Neill turned a feature-article assignment into a 20-year investigation, revealing a mass of evidence that a CIA doctor—Jolyon West—helped...
