Yahoo News: Let’s just start out by telling our listeners about Sidney Gottlieb. Who was he? Stephen Kinzer: I’ve devoted a lot of my career to try to find out what happens behind the facade of public ...

In the late 1950s, the CIA was obsessed with mind control—what it was, how to weaponize it, and how to keep it out of Soviet hands. But instead of toiling in the lab to find the answers, the agency ...

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 ...

Starting in 1953, the US CIA conducted research on mind control using techniques ranging from hypnosis to electroshock, torture, and the administration of LSD to unwitting people. Called MK-Ultra, the ...

Newly declassified records on the CIA's infamous MKULTRA program have been published by the National Security Archive and ...

Declassified CIA documents reveal a covert program that tested the behavioral and toxicological effects of drugs and chemicals on humans and animals. The project, known as MKOFTEN, ran from the late ...

Scientists have discovered that mindful meditation can help subjects learn and improve the ability to mind-control brain computer interfaces (BCIs). A BCI is an apparatus that allows an individual to ...