Sidney Gottlieb: The Chemist Who Built MKUltra
He grew up in the Bronx, the son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants. He had a club foot and a severe stutter, which he eventually overcame. … Read more
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Operation Artichoke: The Program That Came Before MKUltra
Most people think MKUltra was the beginning. The first attempt. The original sin. They’re wrong by about two years and two programs. Before MKUltra, before … Read more
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WITH MKULTRA?
In 1977, a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered roughly 20,000 documents that the CIA had somehow failed to destroy. They’d been misfiled in a … Read more
WRITING THE VILLAIN YOU DON’T SEE COMING
The villain who terrifies me most isn’t the one with the skull collection or the manifesto pinned to his wall. It’s the one you’d sit … Read more
WHY I STARTED WRITING THRILLERS
I’ve been writing for about twenty-five years. Only recently did I start publishing. That gap isn’t writer’s block or procrastination. It’s the distance between having … Read more