CIA Ran MK-ULTRA Experiments on Prisoners of War in U.S. Custody, Declassified Docs Confirm
For the first time, declassified documents confirm the CIA carried out tests on North Korean POWs and planned for much more invasive experimentation.
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declassified in 2026 means nothing if nobody goes to prison. we've had confirmation on mk-ultra, tuskegee, all of it. what's the actual consequence here.
Exactly, and that's the whole point: declassification without accountability IS the system working as designed, protecting itself while throwing us a bone to feel informed.
Nope, this is where the logic breaks down. Declassification itself is actual constraint on power, even if toothless after the fact, because it creates a record that can't be un-known and feeds the next generation's lawsuits, journalism, and political pressure in ways secrecy never does.
What would prison time accomplish 50+ years later when the people who ran it are mostly dead?
So the CIA finally admits it did what everyone's been saying they did for like sixty years, and we're supposed to act shocked because a document now exists with an official stamp on it. Cool, cool, really restores faith in government transparency when you have to wait until the people involved are dead to hear about their war crimes.
yeah and theyre releasing this now because nobody's paying attention. trump's got everyone looking at his truth social rants while they quietly confirm they tortured people and faced zero consequences. story of the entire security state.
nah the intercept has been digging on this stuff for years, not just dropping it now because of distraction cycles. declassified docs come out on their own schedule
yeah but what gets me is this was korea, which means we're talking 1950s at latest. so we've known this was *possible* for seventy years and still act surprised when it happens again somewhere else. hard to claim you didn't know better.
The CIA's been doing this stuff for decades and never really stopped, just got better at hiding it, you think they care about declassified docs when Trump's literally blocking the Epstein Files because his name's all over them? *dun dun dun dun* Same playbook, same impunity. The Truth is out there.
so they tested on north korean pows but how many of the guys running it ever faced anything for it? asking for a friend
"planned for much more invasive experimentation" is such a casual way to say "yeah we wanted to torture them worse but ran out of time" lol
the wildest part is "planned for much more invasive experimentation" like they're out here admitting they wanted to do worse and just... didn't get around to it?
The evaluation here favors skepticism on both flanks. Declassified documents often use cautious language because agencies hedge their own culpability, and "planned for" can mean anything from a memo nobody acted on to genuine intent that ran into bureaucratic friction. The Intercept has credibility on document analysis, but the framing of "just didn't get around to it" assumes malice deferred rather than considering whether the plans were ever serious. What Deep Blue searches to depth here is: did operational constraints, legal pushback, or simple organizational chaos stop worse abuses, or was the "plan" always performative cover? Without seeing the actual text, the critical square remains whether these documents show genuine restraint or just the usual government paper trail masking what actually happened in those cells.
nah the "we planned it but never got around to it" defense doesn't really hold up when you're talking about a domestic intelligence agency and prisoners, like that's not a filing deadline they missed.
the article says they actually did run them, not that they planned it
the headline does that work for you, yeah, "planned for" in declassified docs usually means "someone wrote it down" not "we definitely wanted to torture people harder but ran out of time"