Michael Evans

@colombiadocs

Editorial Director at National Security Archive. FOIA enthusiast. Colombia specialist. Bluegrass guitarist. He/Him nsarchive.gwu.edu

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Lead story in the Conway Daily Sun (NH) today is based on a freedom of information request 💪 www.conwaydailysun.com/news/local/d...

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· Jul 13

Marine LePen at her next staff meeting. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· Jul 5

Schadenfourth

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· Jun 30

Stephen Kinzer was good, as expected. He knows his stuff.

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· Jun 27

I really love living in DC, and Trump has me feeling all

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· Jun 20

This is an incredible first paragraph.

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· Jun 19

Here's the full text of the Harper's reading about Gottlieb, titled, "Evasive Maneuvers." (They didn't credit us.)

Evasive Maneuvers

From the transcript of the deposition, in 1975, of Sidney Gottlieb, the head of the CIA’s secret MK-Ultra program, which used LSD and other drugs to alter human behavior. The deposition was conducted by the professional staff of the Senate’s Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities and declassified in October.

elliot maxwell: Do you have a general awareness of the testing that went on under CIA auspices at hospitals, mental hospitals, prisons, jails, and institutions for the criminally insane?

sidney gottlieb: I certainly wouldn’t say yes if you mean all of those. If you mean any of those, the answer is yes.

maxwell: Do you recall experiments with psychochemicals on human subjects being done in prisons?

gottlieb: Well, I am having trouble with the term “prisons.” The reason for the confusion is that there are institutions that I have trouble defining. I wouldn’t call it a prison. It had people with criminal backgrounds in it, but they were not confined as they would be in a prison. I would call it more of a treatment facility.

ted ralston: Would this be a halfway house?

gottlieb: Something like that, yes. It was a hospital, but it was not a hospital for the criminally insane. It was just one of those definition problems.

maxwell: At this point I am not going to pursue the specifics, but that may well be considered in the future.

gottlieb: I will cope with it when it comes.

maxwell: The memo also indicates in paragraph—

gottlieb: Excuse me. I want to comment on something. I hope you understand; I am not trying to be obstructive. I am just extremely sensitized to words like “criminals” and “criminally insane.” And that is what is going through my mind. I want to answer the questions very carefully for that reason.

maxwell: Fine. Let me try to make clear what I believe the response is. There was some confusion on the part of Dr. Gottlieb as to whether the institution that he had in mind where psychochemicals were tested on human subjects was accurately described as either a “prison” or a “hospital” or an “institution for the criminally insane” or any other institution—that the institution in question may well have crossed lines in the definitions he would have set up for any of those—and that in fact, the institution that he had in mind when he was responding might best be called a “treatment facility” rather than either a hospital or a prison, and that it may well be that the individuals utilizing that

maxwell: Fine. Let me try to make clear what I believe the response is. There was some confusion on the part of Dr. Gottlieb as to whether the institution that he had in mind where psychochemicals were tested on human subjects was accurately described as either a “prison” or a “hospital” or an “institution for the criminally insane” or any other institution—that the institution in question may well have crossed lines in the definitions he would have set up for any of those—and that in fact, the institution that he had in mind when he was responding might best be called a “treatment facility” rather than either a hospital or a prison, and that it may well be that the individuals utilizing that “treatment facility” had engaged part of the time in criminal acts, or might have been convicted criminals, but that it would not be accurately described as a “detention center.”

counsel for the witness: I think that is a fair statement.

maxwell: Dr. Gottlieb, do you recall testing on human subjects involving psychochemicals at universities?

gottlieb: I am having trouble with that one, because some of the individuals that we worked with surely had university affiliations. But the work with human subjects was done in hospitals. So when you say universities, it is again one of those confusing terms that I would like to be accurate about.

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· Jun 18

It's genuinely funny how New Yorkers think that everyone else in the country feels just like they do all the time.

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· Jun 17

My man, this explains so much.

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· Jun 15

Checks out.

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Michael Evans@colombiadocs· Jun 2

Loving this crosswalk outside the Carter Center in Atlanta that has a beg button and an ADA-compliant dimpled ramp that leads straight into what is basically forest floor.

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· Jun 1

Get excited

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Michael Evans@colombiadocs· May 20

Yeah well that's what happens when you have all the money.

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· May 20

Here are the Very Serious Intelligence Products that DNI Gabbard has been churning out through the DIG and partisan clowns like James Erdman.

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· May 18

Here's the part of the FBI affidavit describing Lang's assault of police on Jan 6. It's one of thousands of documents that used to be available in a Justice Department database that the Trump administration has now memory-holed.

Pages from FBI affidavit of Jacob lang describing his Jan 6, 2021, assault on police at the Capitol.

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· May 18

Sopranos GIF says "I have friends in law enforcement, and they'd call this extortion."

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· May 5

Others have pointed this out, but how out of touch with reality is Ezra Klein if he says this in 2026? Does he remember what DOGE did? Does he know he has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths?

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· May 2

Nice of them to plug our MKUltra collection though.

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· May 2

So it was a self-driving car?

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· May 1

This cartoon from 30 years ago has lost none of its explanatory power. Source: www.hcn.org/issues/issue...

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· Apr 29

Lmao

Michael Evans@colombiadocs· Apr 29

Hmmm... Says here the EEOC is focusing on cases that "match Trump's agenda" and that are "politically charged." I wonder what that means? Computer, enhance! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/u...