EPISODE · May 26, 2026 · 4 MIN

The Lie Behind Truth Serum

from The Cold War’s Secret War for the Human · host Tommy

This episode explores the Cold War search for a “truth serum,” a drug that intelligence agencies hoped might force hidden information out of an unwilling mind. The idea sounded clean and almost magical: give someone a substance, lower their defenses, and truth would rise to the surface. In three minutes, the episode asks why that dream was so dangerous, and why the attempt to chemically extract truth often revealed more about power than about honesty.

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