National Security Archive analysts have uncovered everything from CIA assassination plots of Fidel Castro to programs that ...

Lisle is careful not to speculate beyond the available evidence about what the program that launched a hundred conspiracy ...

My chief resident gave me a strange look when I arrived for another day of work at the Mayo Clinic one morning. “Something you’re not telling us?” she asked, gesturing to the two letters on my desk ...

“When you know, you just simply know,” muses Charles Manson in one of Chaos: The Manson Murders’ many archival clips. Yet the thing about the infamous fiend’s story is that not everything is known—or, ...

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 ...

A sinister CIA program with a decades-long history of mind-control experiments is now being linked to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Congressman Tim Burchett claimed that US intelligence ...

One of the prevailing theories around Charles Manson is that the infamous cult leader had intended to incite a race war by orchestrating his so-called family’s killing spree in the 1960s. But Errol ...

Project MKULTRA was the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) mind control program that used LSD and hypnosis techniques to brainwash individuals. Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was a ...

Can hypnosis be used to make someone do something against his or her own will? This question has been the source of great controversy. I served as a consultant about hypnosis to Woody Allen’s film, ...

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a man who followed a prostitute into the apartment at 225 Chestnut Street in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood received a longer, more intimate encounter ...