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Former Archive FOIA coordinator Nate Jones, now of The Washington Post, on the first known instance where the State Department has removed previously declassified and published documents from one of its "FRUS" historical volumes. @foianate.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/foia...
Getting to the bottom of why the State Department quietly deleted 15 pages of history on the risk of inadvertent nuclear war.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Former Archive FOIA coordinator Nate Jones, now of The Washington Post, on the first known instance where the State Department has removed previously declassified and published documents from one of its "FRUS" historical volumes. @foianate.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/foia...
Here's a link to the documents:
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The Top Secret Testimony of CIA’s MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2025 – The CIA experienced “as many failures as successes” in exploring the intelligence applications of LSD and other drugs, according to the October 1975 U.S. Senate te...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
November 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Here's a link to the documents:
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Gottlieb described LSD as “otherworldly,” adding that it “gave you propioceptions,” meaning you were “perceiving feeling in yourself as opposed to feelings of things outside yourself, like seeing a door as opposed to feeling something inside your own body.” nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The Top Secret Testimony of CIA’s MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2025 – The CIA experienced “as many failures as successes” in exploring the intelligence applications of LSD and other drugs, according to the October 1975 U.S. Senate te...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
October 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Gottlieb described LSD as “otherworldly,” adding that it “gave you propioceptions,” meaning you were “perceiving feeling in yourself as opposed to feelings of things outside yourself, like seeing a door as opposed to feeling something inside your own body.” nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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Other parts of the deposition focused on Gottlieb’s involvement in CIA assassination plots, especially those targeting Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and its support to the activities of other federal agencies through a project called MHCHAOS. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The Top Secret Testimony of CIA’s MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2025 – The CIA experienced “as many failures as successes” in exploring the intelligence applications of LSD and other drugs, according to the October 1975 U.S. Senate te...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
October 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Other parts of the deposition focused on Gottlieb’s involvement in CIA assassination plots, especially those targeting Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and its support to the activities of other federal agencies through a project called MHCHAOS. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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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-boo...
The Top Secret Testimony of CIA’s MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2025 – The CIA experienced “as many failures as successes” in exploring the intelligence applications of LSD and other drugs, according to the October 1975 U.S. Senate te...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
October 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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-boo...
Gottlieb described LSD as “otherworldly,” adding that it “gave you propioceptions,” meaning you were “perceiving feeling in yourself as opposed to feelings of things outside yourself, like seeing a door as opposed to feeling something inside your own body.” nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The Top Secret Testimony of CIA’s MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2025 – The CIA experienced “as many failures as successes” in exploring the intelligence applications of LSD and other drugs, according to the October 1975 U.S. Senate te...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
October 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Gottlieb described LSD as “otherworldly,” adding that it “gave you propioceptions,” meaning you were “perceiving feeling in yourself as opposed to feelings of things outside yourself, like seeing a door as opposed to feeling something inside your own body.” nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Other parts of the deposition focused on Gottlieb’s involvement in CIA assassination plots, especially those targeting Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and its support to the activities of other federal agencies through a project called MHCHAOS. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
The Top Secret Testimony of CIA’s MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2025 – The CIA experienced “as many failures as successes” in exploring the intelligence applications of LSD and other drugs, according to the October 1975 U.S. Senate te...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
October 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Other parts of the deposition focused on Gottlieb’s involvement in CIA assassination plots, especially those targeting Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and its support to the activities of other federal agencies through a project called MHCHAOS. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
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-boo...
The Top Secret Testimony of CIA’s MKULTRA Chief, 50 Years Later
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2025 – The CIA experienced “as many failures as successes” in exploring the intelligence applications of LSD and other drugs, according to the October 1975 U.S. Senate te...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
October 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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-boo...
The New York Times article also links to the handwritten notes of CIA director Richard Helms of Nixon's instructions to prevent the inauguration of president-elect Salvador Allende in Chile, the subject of a National Security Archive posting from 2020. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
‘Extreme Option: Overthrow Allende’
Washington, D.C., September 15, 2020 – On September 15, 1970, during a twenty-minute meeting in the Oval Office between 3:25 pm and 3:45 pm, President Richard Nixon ordered the CIA to foment a militar...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The New York Times article also links to the handwritten notes of CIA director Richard Helms of Nixon's instructions to prevent the inauguration of president-elect Salvador Allende in Chile, the subject of a National Security Archive posting from 2020. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Another is the CIA's long secret internal report on the Bay of Pigs invasion, which was decalassified in 1998 after a Freedom of Information Act request by the National Secrity Archive. nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB... nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
October 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Another is the CIA's long secret internal report on the Bay of Pigs invasion, which was decalassified in 1998 after a Freedom of Information Act request by the National Secrity Archive. nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB... nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...