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Oct 30, 2025 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The Top Secret Testimony of CIA’s MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…
In secret Senate testimony from October 1975, Gottlieb said the CIA experienced “as many failures as successes” in exploring the intelligence applications of LSD and other drugs, saying “it was probably not a high pay-off program.” nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/…
Aug 29, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Both @ArmsControlWonk's thread on completely different redactions of the same doc and @BryanDBender's piece on the White House's new effort to rein in classification got us at @NSArchive thinking about all the ridiculous things we've seen over the last 37 years. A #FOIA thread.
Like the time we got two versions of the same page of a White House email addressed to then deputy national security adviser Colin Powell. It was reviewed ten days apart by the same reviewer - can you spot the differences? #FOIA
