MK-Ultra ran from 1953 to 1973 amid fears the Soviet Union and China were brainwashing prisoners during the Cold War.

An investigative journalist alleged Tuesday that notorious figures from the 1960s were assets of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Project MK-Ultra. Investigative journalist Tom O’Neill said ...

A House Oversight Committee task force investigating long-classified federal secrets will hold a hearing Tuesday focused on the Central Intelligence Agency’s controversial MK-Ultra program, a Cold ...

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Tom O'Neill, investigative journalist and author of "Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties," delivered this opening statement at a House Oversight Committee hearing on ...

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As the fear of communism was rising in the U.S. after World War II, government officials set their sights on developing a weapon that sounds straight out of science fiction: mind control. This effort ...

A Florida congresswoman says a congressional hearing examining the CIA’s MKUltra program, a secretive Cold War–era operation long criticized for unethical human experiments, is set to take place in ...

Conspiracy beliefs often take hold because it is easier for our brain to comprehend one explanation, one villain, or one horrific theme, rather than a multitude of competing theories, which can be ...