Ukrainian snipers had a problem: Russian forces in eastern Ukraine were trying to blind them. As the Ukrainians were looking through their scopes in order to find their targets, the Russians had begun ...

In the late 1950s, the CIA was obsessed with mind control—what it was, how to weaponize it, and how to keep it out of Soviet hands. But instead of toiling in the lab to find the answers, the agency ...

The ACLU filed a lawsuit against James Elmer Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, two psychologists contracted by the CIA to design, implement, and oversee the agency’s post-9/11 torture program. The ...

For decades, the CIA explored the limits of human behavior, psychology, technology, and even the paranormal. Many of these programs sparked controversy and were supposedly discontinued. But classified ...

The CIA was rumored to have experimented with mind-control methods during the Cold War, in an attempt to turn citizens into cold-blooded assassins. Now, a psychiatrist who reviewed more than 1,500 ...

A secret Central Intelligence Agency mind control program. National Security Agency spy operations aimed at Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali. A federal manual for political assassinations. It's ...

WASHINGTON — CIA Director John Ratcliffe told skeptical U.S. lawmakers that American military strikes destroyed Iran’s lone metal conversion facility and in the process delivered a monumental setback ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An explosive Pop Mech feature recently uncovered the disturbing story of how America’s intelligence community tried—and ...