Stephen Kinzer's book, 'Poisoner in Chief,' exposes how CIA scientist Sidney Gottlieb worked in the 1950s and early '60s to develop mind control drugs and deadly toxins that could be used against ...

In Stranger Things, there are many references to things from other fictional worlds, specifically the land of Dungeons & Dragons. But, when the series began to expand the backstory of Eleven (aka Jane ...

Guest: Stephen Kinzer Back in the 1950’s as the Cold War with the Soviet Union was heating up, the C.I.A. became convinced that the country that could control the mind would dominate the world. It ...

The new Netflix documentary 'Chaos: The Manson Murders' speculates that Charles Manson was linked to the CIA's MKUltra operation. Find out what it was and why it was so controversial Jessica Sager is ...

During the early period of the Cold War, the CIA became convinced that communists had discovered a drug or technique that would allow them to control human minds. In response, the CIA began its own ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This real covert operation took place during the 1950s and 1960s with some volunteers and quite a few unwilling participants who ...

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 ...

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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 ...