The CIA unleashed a monster on Boston. It’s on page 11 of the June 24, 2011, interview of James “Whitey” Bulger, two days after the Most Wanted mobster was caught hiding out in Santa Monica, Calif., ...

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, numerous men followed sex workers into the apartment at 225 Chestnut Street in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood. Instead of the cramped, charmless ...

Charles Manson was the evil behind the brutal murders of Sharon Tate and at least eight others — but a new documentary speculates that Manson and his "family" of followers may have been influenced by ...

From psychic spying to LSD-laced cocktails, the CIA’s history is filled with bizarre and ethically murky experiments aimed at hacking the human mind. During the Cold War, paranoia drove covert ...

Conspiracy beliefs often take hold because it is easier for our brain to comprehend one explanation, one villain, or one horrific theme, rather than a multitude of competing theories, which can be ...

In 1953, a CIA scientist plunged from a New York hotel window, and authorities quickly ruled it a suicide. Decades later, new evidence, government admissions, and a second autopsy raised serious ...