Declassified records have revealed disturbing details about the CIA's infamous MKUltra program, which involved drugging and psychologically torturing Americans in secret mind-control experiments.

More than 1,200 pages of documents released in 2025 described methods including induced sleep, electroshock treatments and so-called 'psychic driving,' in which heavily drugged subjects were subjected to repeated messages for weeks or even months in attempts to reprogram their minds.