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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, ...

Editor’s Note: James “Whitey” Bulger was found dead in federal prison on October 30, 2018, officials told CNN. He was 89. The article below first published in 2014 as a part of coverage of CNN Films’ “Whitey.” CNN — If ...

The hippies and other counterculture movements weren’t the only groups to experiment with mind-altering substances. Starting in 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency conducted research on psychedelic drugs as part of a top-secret behavior modification program codenamed MK-ULTRA. This bizarre project ...

When the extent of the U.S. government’s domestic spying program was revealed this past summer, many were surprised and outraged: how could a government which so prizes liberty of its citizens covertly collect data on its own people? Advertisement Yet, ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly 60 years after the death of a government scientist who had been given LSD by the Central Intelligence Agency without his knowledge, his family says it plans to sue the government, alleging that he was murdered and ...

1953: Central Intelligence Agency director Allen Dulles authorizes the MK-ULTRA project. The agency launches one of its most dubious covert programs ever, turning unsuspecting humans into guinea pigs for its research into mind-altering drugs. More than a decade before psychologist ...

1953: Central Intelligence Agency director Allen Dulles authorizes the MK-ULTRA project. The agency launches one of its most dubious covert programs ever, turning unsuspecting humans into guinea pigs for its research into mind-altering drugs. More than a decade before psychologist ...

For two decades or more during the Cold War, the CIA and the military allegedly plied the unwitting with acid, weed, and dozens of psychoactive drugs, in a series of zany (and sometimes dangerous) mind-control experiments. Now, the Vietnam Veterans ...

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The annals of science describe thousands of noble experiments monitoring the effects of drugs, from alcohol to Tetrahydrocannabinol (cannabis extract), on animals including monkeys, dolphins, pigeons and spiders. But the biggest and most controversial animal drug experiment involved a three-tonne ...

Nine justices of the Supreme Court this week agreed that Congress gave the CIA broad powers to conceal information obtained from intelligence sources. Justices Brennan and Marshall, in a concurring opinion, would have defined “intelligence sources” more narrowly, so as ...