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Dirty deeds and purple haze: In 1973, CIA director Richard Helms (left) ordered the destruction of records related to MK-Ultra. At right, a waxwork statue of Jimi Hendrix, one of the Black psychedelic artists of the 1960s. (left: Bettmann; right:
Read MorePhoto: VCG “They’ve taken away enough from me. I don’t remember my birth name. I am not in contact with my children. It’s a very degrading, devastating reality,” said 72-year-old Maryam Ruhullah, an MK Ultra victim who now lives in
Read MorePhoto: VCG Editor’s Note: Among the victims of the CIA’s MK Ultra project is the family of Julie Tanny (Tanny), whose father was coercively brainwashed as part of the Montreal Experiments in Canada back in the 1950s. The experiments were
Read MoreLiterature and espionage have long had a close relationship, from writers who were spies, such as John le Carré, to the CIA’s manipulation of literature during the Cold War. One of the most fascinating chapters in this relationship, however, is
Read MoreAs a young adult, Susan Lapp always wondered why she had virtually no childhood memories of her mother. Katherine Lapp had died in a car accident in 1972 when Susan was 15, and her father and other family members refused
Read MoreA lawsuit against the Canadian government, the Royal Victoria Hospital and the McGill University Health Centre is moving ahead. About 55 families of victims who underwent medical experimentation in the 1950s and 1960s are suing for millions of dollars. Alison Steel
Read MoreIn Image Comics’ The Department of Truth #16, by James Tynion IV and Alison Sampson, we learn about a very real conspiracy perpetrated by the CIA, that took place in the U.S. and abroad for 20 years, from 1953 to 1973.
Read MorePROJECT MK-ULTRA, Stewart Kenneth Moore’s new graphic history of a particular moment in the history of the CIA is one of those stranger-than-fiction stories that is hard to believe. It takes in LSD, the counter-culture and some very strange Black
Read MoreCharles Manson and his murderous cult made their mark on American pop culture, even inspiring the 2019 Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Decades after the cult gained notoriety, however, new evidence emerged suggesting that a secret
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