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In footage from Operation Delirium, a US soldier experiences a "controlled" mental breakdown in a secret Army test. The Army cooperated with the CIA throughout the duration of MK-Ultra, sharing the findings of their own dubious experiments. (The New Yorker) On this day in 1953, the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) began work on Project…
A group of Red Army men read Pravda. (24tv.ua) On this day in 1953, the Soviet newspaper Pravda published an article entitled "Vicious Spies and Killers under the Mask of Academic Physicians." The article - which alleged that 9 famous Moscow doctors were plotting to poison high-level Soviet officials - was part of an effort…
Iranian trucks on a highway leading towards Tehran. (source: Wikimedia Commons) On August 15th, 1953, the Iranian Coup D'état began when British and American-backed rebels overthrew the government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. With the backing of the Persian Shahs (religious leaders), high-ranking members of the Iranian military tried to depose Mossadegh, ostensibly because the…
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