From the corridors of the Truman administration to the hills of Nicaragua, an apparatus spent three decades refining how to vanquish the "political animal" of the human mind.
By Constance Bell ·
Communist biological warfare propaganda in Korea was countered by a Time Inc. executive whose files contain receipts for intelligence summaries that were systematically destroyed.
By Constance Bell ·
Global charities and private foundations were leveraged to shape perceptions abroad while the government managed narratives about biological warfare epidemics in Korea.
By Marcus Boone ·
Espionage convicts and Korean defectors served a secret strategy that linked special weapons to the fight against Soviet influence.
By Constance Bell ·
Soviet farms and the psychological effects of atomic energy were watched for years under labels for office furniture to hide the manipulation of global perception.
By Marcus Boone ·
Intelligence operations and public diplomacy merged in an opaque fight for the world's opinion that tracked everything from 1954 budget estimates to the upkeep of a station wagon.
By Constance Bell ·
Target names remain hidden, but U.S. officials used psychological profiles to bend conversations at the UN and counter biological warfare propaganda during a Korean epidemic.
By Theo Marchetti ·
Patrice Lumumba was targeted for assassination and J. Robert Oppenheimer was stripped of his clearance while Gray tracked the fallout and managed psychological warfare in Korea.
By Desmond Okafor ·
Target populations had their thoughts and behaviors shaped by a secret alliance of the CIA and Defense Department, while specific tactics and failures stay locked in archival files.
By Marcus Boone ·