InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Oct 18Richard Helms and What Each Inquiry Was ToldThe Church Committee says he authorised the Castro plots. The MKUltra files were destroyed on his watch. He pleaded no contest in 1977.
The Unseen Dossier·Oct 17Dossier 019: MKULTRA and the Files the CIA Destroyed in 1973The CIA tested drugs on people who did not know it, then shredded most of the evidence. What survived did so by clerical accident.
InReaders ClubbyPaul Smales·Oct 8What Do You Know of MK UltraBetter off not knowingA response icon1A response icon1
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Sep 30MKDELTA: The CIA Built a Covert Drug Capability and Rarely Used ItBy Gottlieb’s own 1960 count, the CIA used disabling drugs in nine operations in eight years. No lethal use was reported.
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Sep 29MKSEARCH: What the CIA Kept Doing After It Said MKUltra Was OverMKUltra’s public story ends in 1963. Its successors ran to 1973, funding drug tests on soldiers and prisoners at Edgewood Arsenal.
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Sep 28Operation Midnight Climax: The CIA Safe House Where Unwitting Men Were Dosed With LSDFor about a decade, a CIA safe house dosed unwitting men with LSD while agents watched through a mirror. Most of the files were destroyed.
InILLUMINATIONbyDr. Janine Bouey·Sep 7The Nuremberg Papers Were a Reading ListAmerican judges wrote the rule. American officers went looking for the research it condemned.
InThe PolisbyDr. Janine Bouey·Sep 6The Study Is Still in the FootnotesThe CIA paid for the study. A medical journal published it. Robert Kennedy handed the man a medal.A response icon2A response icon2
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Sep 5Sidney Gottlieb — The Man Who Wanted to Fix Everyone Else’s MindA stutter kept him quiet. A clubfoot kept him out of war. Neither kept Sidney Gottlieb from spending twenty years trying to break minds.
InThe ApparatusbyJ Gray·Sep 5MKUltra: Twenty Years Chasing a Weapon That Was Never RealThe CIA spent twenty years hunting a mind control weapon that never existed, and wrote down a method that did.