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Project Artichoke: The CIA’s early Cold War mind control experiments and what they mean today

Project Artichoke: Inside the CIA’s Cold War mind control programme.

The recent viral circulation of CIA documents has revived scrutiny of Project Artichoke and its exploration of mind control, interrogation and behavioural manipulation during the early Cold War. Newly shared 1952 memoranda, long available in declassified archives, outline proposals to test drugs and psychological techniques that could alter behaviour without …

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