For the first time, declassified documents confirm the CIA carried out tests on North Korean POWs and planned for much more ...

In Stranger Things, there are many references to things from other fictional worlds, specifically the land of Dungeons & Dragons. But, when the series began to expand the backstory of Eleven (aka Jane ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Allan Memorial Institute where CIA-funded brainwashing experiments took place in the 1950s and 1960s. (Elizabeth Thompson/CBC ...

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, numerous men followed sex workers into the apartment at 225 Chestnut Street in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood. Instead of the cramped, charmless ...

From psychic spying to LSD-laced cocktails, the CIA’s history is filled with bizarre and ethically murky experiments aimed at hacking the human mind. During the Cold War, paranoia drove covert ...

Stranger Things may feel like pure fiction, but parts of its story echo real Cold War experiments. The CIA ran programs exploring mind control, sensory deprivation, and human behavior under extreme ...