THE CIA MUST HAVE MADE HITLER AND HIMMLER PROUD

Declassified CIA memo reveals plan to turn citizens into unwitting assassins

 

By Chris Melore

 

Daily Mail

Feb 26, 2026

 

 

 

Declassified CIA files discussed drugging a foreign worker as part of a mind control plot to assassinate a high-ranking foreign official or a US politician 

 

A secret CIA program allegedly experimented with a plan to brainwash individuals and use them as unwitting assassins against America's own leaders. 

According to declassified documents quietly added to the agency's public records in 1999, Project Artichoke was a top-secret mind control plan conducted from 1951 to 1956, which focused on influencing human behavior and psychological manipulation.

In January 1954, the CIA issued a classified report revealing that the US intelligence community had selected a target for the Artichoke experiments and was plotting to turn this foreign official into an assassin without their knowledge.

While the memo noted the target as a high-ranking politician in the unknown country, it also added that this technique could also be used against American officials 'if necessary.'

The file, from a Senior Representative whose name was redacted, stated that agents working on the Artichoke team had visited this country between January 8 and January 15 to answer one sinister question: 'Can an individual of [REDACTED] descent be made to perform an act of attempted assassination involuntarily under the influence of ARTICHOKE?'

A handwritten footnote suggested the plan was to drug the would-be assassin 'through the medium of an alcoholic cocktail at a social party.'

The scheme, however, remained hidden until 1979, when a citizens’ group obtained the documents through the Freedom of Information Act. 

Artichoke served as a precursor to the CIA's MKUltra program, which later broadened mind-altering experiments on a larger scale. Many files were destroyed in the 1970s, leaving the full extent of the research and how far it progressed unknown.

 

 

Project Artichoke revealed detailed plans to target a member of an unnamed foreign government with mind-altering drugs in order to kill their political leaders

 

Despite intelligence officials redacting the names of government officials and the target of the mind control operation, the memo still provided a detailed picture of the CIA's assassination plot.

The individual agents selected were said to be around 35 years old, well-educated, fluent English speakers, and well-connected in both social and political circles in the unnamed foreign government.

The CIA operatives had already spied on the unwitting assassin, learning they were a heavy drinker, which helped the agency hatch a plan to spike their beverages to take over their mind, according to the memo.

CIA officials in 1954 even knew that the target had recently quit or been fired from a different job and was now working directly with that country's government.

Since the agency thought they would have limited chances to brainwash this person, the memo stated that agents would need to target 'a single social meeting' and put the Artichoke drug in their drink at that party.

However, the intelligence community wasn't just theorizing about ways to target leaders of other countries, as the memo suggested this same brainwashed killer could be used against 'a prominent [REDACTED] politician or if necessary, against an American official.'

Multiple declassified reports found in the CIA's public database have revealed the use of mind-controlling drug experiments, which allegedly targeted US citizens during the Cold War.

The four-page document claimed that this plot was only 'simulated,' suggesting it was never carried out. 

 

Although the memo claimed Project Artichoke only simulated this experiment, it mentioned 'future applications' of the mind control program, which was later seen in the CIA's MKUltra

 

However, recently disclosed government documents have only fueled conspiracy theorists convinced that the CIA played a role in high-profile assassinations worldwide, including the murder of President John F Kennedy, just nine years after the memo on Project Artichoke was written.

While the thousands of pages in the JFK files released in 2025 did not prove this, they did show that one of the slain president's top advisers called for the CIA to be disbanded in 1961, referring to it as a 'state within a state.'

In November, Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee claimed that mind control programs were still in use today and were still transforming American citizens into potential assassins.

He claimed, without evidence, that failed presidential assassin Thomas Crooks was psychologically manipulated online using techniques reminiscent of MKUltra. 

According to the congressman, Crooks was allegedly 'programmed' to act as a disposable patsy, sending a warning that Trump and his supporters were targets of the so-called 'deep state' - a near identical description as JFK's advisor Arthur Schlesinger in 1961.

'They programmed this kid. You got a kid who's got access to guns or has some basic knowledge of firearms, he was programmed,' Burchett claimed to conservative influencer Benny Johnson on November 14, 2025.

Burchett's description of Crooks as a disposable patsy of the US intelligence community was eerily similar to Project Artichoke's thoughts on their target in 1954.

'After the act of attempted assassination was performed, it was assumed that the SUBJECT would be taken into custody by the [REDACTED] Government and thereby "disposed of,"' the document explained.