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No one would mistake the recent Netflix sci-fi series Stranger Things for being based on a true story. Despite its heavy doses of ’80s nostalgia, the parallel dimensions and flesh-eating monsters and telekinetic little girls don’t exactly lend themselves to an air of realism. So it would be easy to …
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Next Friday, Matt Damon returns for a fourth outing in the film “Jason Bourne,” as the superspy continues to investigate his fuzzy past and piece together all the terrible things he’s done. Bourne’s amnesia has always been central to the character’s story. The ex-black ops soldier has spent years …
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Reading Time: 14 minutes Continuing our exploration of secret government experiments on American citizens, we now re-publish an article I wrote in 1999 about the CIA and LSD experiments. That article was originally commissioned by the New York Times Magazine, which opted in the end not to publish …
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On an elegant dead-end block on the north side of Telegraph Hill is 225 Chestnut St., a swanky modernist building with panoramic bay views. It’s about the last place you would have expected to find a clandestine CIA program during the Cold War. Yet from 1955 to 1965, this building was the site of …
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QIn a startling new performance piece, Sarah Anne Johnson reimagines her grandmother’s experience with the CIA’s secret MK Ultra program.CBC Radio · Posted: Mar 30, 2016 8:51 AM EDT | Last Updated: March 30, 2016Artist Sarah Anne Johnson’s new performance piece “Hospital Hallway” reimagines her …
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Psychiatrists and psychologists have been used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to facilitate mind control and torture in Project MKUltra and in the American Psychological Association-bolstered CIA torture program. Psychiatric political abuses in nations that are U.S. enemies have been …
Read MoreIn the first half, Harvard University science historian Rebecca Lemov discussed her research into brainwashing and mind control, drawing on historical cases like that of Korean War POWs, MK Ultra, and Patricia Hearst. She noted that the brainwashing experienced by individuals, while not permanent, …
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For ten years during the Cold War, the CIA conducted mind-control experiments on unsuspecting San Franciscans. Dubbed Operation Midnight Climax, the program was packed with salacious details: a power-mad narcotics agent, a brothel equipped with two-way mirrors, and gallons of LSD. Top image: Surian …
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Detainees stand with hoods on their heads and their hands bound in the al-Qadisiyah neighborhood after house-to-house searches in September 2005 in Tall Afar, Iraq. Suspects held by the US or by other countries working with the US were subjected to brutal torture based on discredited interrogation …
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The CIA’s controversial mind-control program is getting a miniseries treatment at ABC. The network has put in development MKUltra, a historical mini from writer Karen Stillman and ABC Studios’ boutique division ABC Signature. The project tells the story of MKUltra, the CIA’s top-secret research …
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