25-50-100 Years Ago — July 8
100 Years Ago
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A double agent who operated for the CIA and the Dutch security service against the Stasi tells his story for the first time.
They called it Phung Hoang, the South Vietnamese, after the phoenix|mythological bird of conjugal love that appears in times of peace, holding a flute a...
In an effort to get a handle on just exactly what Dr. Sidney Gottlieb did for a living, several of his obituaries referred to him as "the real-life "Q," as if the perpetually-annoyed-by-007 spy-gear supplier from the James Bond movies came close to describing the man who was also known as "Joseph Scheider." The fact is: we'll probably never know the whole truth about Gottlieb, the director of the CIA's Project MK-ULTRA from 1953 to 1972. EVERYTHING pertaining to his work on "mind control," "truth serums," poisons and their delivery systems, and chemical, biological, and radiological warfare...