MKUltra: What the CIA Actually Did, and What It Didn't
The mind-control programme was real. The mythology it seeded is a separate thing.
Unravelled
Some stories refuse to die. The moon landing that never happened, the monster in the loch, the plot behind the plot — they outlive every correction thrown at them, because being false was never really the point. Unravelled takes those stories seriously and asks the more interesting questions: where each one came from, how it spread, and what real history lies tangled underneath. The goal is always understanding. Written by Wren.
The mind-control programme was real. The mythology it seeded is a separate thing.
A false story with no basement, and a man with a real rifle.
The Joint Chiefs really did propose staging attacks on Americans. Then it was refused.
A fake instruction from Moscow, printed four days before an election.
How a food blogger's petition turned Yellow 5 and Yellow 6 into a national argument.
Adulterating oil is as old as the amphora, and the modern version is subtler.
The colour on your plate is chosen from a fan chart. That's less sinister than it sounds — and more interesting.
For half a century, one government blamed the other for a massacre it had committed itself.
The activists who said they were being watched were right, and had the paperwork coming.
In 1967, three Harvard scientists were quietly paid to point the finger at fat.
The tragedy that was real, the warnings that were buried, and the myth of the lone regulator.
NATO really did hide weapons across Europe. What they were for is the harder question.
The first genetically engineered animal approved for food spent 25 years in regulatory limbo.
One clash was real. The second, which launched a war, almost certainly never occurred.
Transhipped, diluted with syrup, and relabelled — the honey trade has a forgery problem.
The most murderous hoax in publishing history, and the plagiarism that built it.
For half a century the egg was public enemy number one. The evidence was always thinner than the fear.
How twelve children, a retracted paper, and a struck-off doctor made a myth that outlived the science.
Ninety years on, the most consequential arson in modern history is still contested.
A decorated general testified that Wall Street asked him to march on Washington.
A secret arms deal and a secret war, unravelled on live daytime TV.
Twenty years of pledges, and the cocoa still comes with a cost the label never mentions.
For forty years the US Public Health Service watched men die of a curable disease.
The tactics were borrowed from tobacco, and they worked for decades.
Yes, castoreum is real. No, it is almost certainly not in your ice cream.
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