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 ·
Sidney Gottlieb
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 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 ·
CIA Targeted Soviet Defector for Special Interrogation in 1957
An unnamed Soviet defector faced "special interrogation techniques" during a November weekend in a guarded safehouse, while the project name and outcome remain redacted.
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 ·
Sidney Gottlieb admitted CIA used mental hospitals for behavioral experiments
Prisoners and the criminally insane were subjected to LSD and hypnotics in a bid to manipulate the mind, though the full scope of the Agency's experimental sites remains a gap.
By Eleanor Voss ·
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 ·