Sidney Gottlieb and the 1958 Logic of Precipitous Action
Kept secret for decades, a 1958 fitness report marks the moment a chemist known for mind-control experiments was unleashed as a case officer in Europe.
By June Hargrove ·
MKULTRA
Sidney Gottlieb Fought to Continue Testing Drugs on Unwitting Americans
Unwitting U.S. citizens were administered behavior-altering substances in 'slipshod' safehouses during an illegal program whose 1975 freeze may never have been lifted.
By June Hargrove ·
CIA Official Fought FOIA to Hide 600-Pound Uranium Loss
Unwitting LSD subjects and a 600-pound uranium loss were treated as brand threats by an official seeking to limit public access to Agency records.
By Desmond Okafor ·
CIA Spymaster Sidney Gottlieb Admitted to Assassination Plots and LSD Tests
Unwitting subjects including friends and acquaintances were dosed in secret safehouses while redacted testimony hides who authorized the agency's assassination capabilities.
By June Hargrove ·
Sidney Gottlieb authorized secret funds to target unwitting subjects
Unwitting subjects were targeted with physiologically active materials in a clandestine safehouse where the agency deliberately ensured no paper trail existed for the spending.
By June Hargrove ·
Sidney Gottlieb pushed CIA to keep drugging unwitting Americans
Unwitting Americans were cast as disposable assets by CIA leaders who argued that the only accurate data came from people who did not know they were being experimented upon.
By Miriam Adler ·
Sidney Gottlieb Admitted Patients Were Kept on LSD for 77 Days
Psychiatric patients and prisoners suffered pharmacological assault and state-sponsored coercion while the CIA used secret funding mechanisms to shield its architects and purged key files.
By Miriam Adler ·
CIA Officials Sought Large Numbers of Bodies for Mind-Altering Drug Tests
Psychiatric patients and returning Korean War POWs were eyed as 'bodies' for mind-altering drug tests during a CIA effort to bypass official oversight and avoid public scrutiny.
By Eleanor Voss ·
CIA drugged unwitting Americans from all walks of life in secret safehouses
Unwitting subjects were targeted in a program where only two managers held full knowledge and records were suppressed to avoid the risk of compromise and damage to the Agency.
By June Hargrove ·
Sidney Gottlieb used Atlanta prisoners for LSD-25 behavior tests
Prisoners in Atlanta were subjected to behavior-modification research for an illegal CIA program that still keeps the identity of certain chemical products blacked out.
By Eleanor Voss ·
Helms and Gottlieb burned illegal human experiment records
Victims of illegal human experimentation were scrubbed from the record by CIA leadership in 1973, leaving the agency's behavior-modification research permanently buried.
By June Hargrove ·
CIA used Georgetown patients for secret biological warfare research
Human patients and volunteers were used for biological and chemical warfare experiments in a hospital wing masked by a philanthropic fund to protect the reputations of CIA scientists.
By Eleanor Voss ·