The CIA unleashed a monster on Boston. It’s on page 11 of the June 24, 2011, interview of James “Whitey” Bulger, two days after the Most Wanted mobster was caught hiding out in Santa Monica, Calif., ...

The country was shocked — and gripped — when members of a cult known as the Manson Family brutally murdered actress Sharon Tate, who was eight months pregnant, and eight others in the summer of 1969.

The CIA gave LSD to unsuspecting people and secretly observed their reactions to it to research uses for the drug in espionage and interrogation. Some victims developed severe psychological trauma, ...

In the summer of 2025, a rumor spread that the CIA once ran a "fake" brothel in San Francisco, California, in order to test drugs, including LSD, on its unsuspecting patrons. For example, on July 31, ...

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 ...

A new Netflix documentary, CHAOS: The Manson Murders, explores various conspiracy theories surrounding a 1960s killing spree carried out by Charles Manson's followers. The Manson Family murders were ...

Conspiracy beliefs often take hold because it is easier for our brain to comprehend one explanation, one villain, or one horrific theme, rather than a multitude of competing theories, which can be ...

The CIA program is best known for its unique approaches to studying human behavior as a way to extract information from spies ...