Literally the stuff of nightmares, MK Ultra is the code name for an early–Cold War CIA program during which unsuspecting Americans were given large doses of powerful hallucinogenic drugs like LSD.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, numerous men followed sex workers into the apartment at 225 Chestnut Street in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood. Instead of the cramped, charmless ...

When the CIA recently shared millions of pages of declassified documents online, the agency included a collection of files for what was arguably one of the U.S. Army's strangest initiatives: ...

Newly declassified records on the CIA's infamous MKULTRA program have been published by the National Security Archive and ProQuest. The collection, which was released on Monday, includes over 1,200 ...

A new collection of over 1,200 documents detailing the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) infamous mind control program, MKULTRA, was published by the National Security Archive and ProQuest on Monday ...

On this day in 1953, the then-Director of Central Intelligence officially approved project MKUltra. The project, which continued for more than a decade, was originally intended to make sure the United ...

There’s been much research done to perfect mind control technology — and no, not the brainwashing kind. Recent developments include a car that could be moved using a person’s thoughts, and several ...