Journalist Edward Hunter was the first to sound the alarm. “Brain-washing Tactics Force Chinese Into Ranks of Communist Party,” blared his headline in the Miami Daily News in September 1950. In the ...

David Chase, the creator of the iconic HBO series The Sopranos, is back in business with a new project: a miniseries about the CIA's infamous MKUltra ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On September 24 1950, a strange article appeared in the Miami Sunday News. “Brainwashing,” it began, “is the ...

The term “brainwashing” was first used in 1950 by an American journalist — who had worked in wartime intelligence, and later with the CIA — to describe a technique introduced by the Chinese to ...

For those who may be unfamiliar, MKUltra was a covert program operated by the CIA in the mid-20th century that involved the ...