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Project Chatter
The Navy's Hunt for a Truth Serum and the Birth of Chemical InterrogationBy Steve Miller
Length1h 22m
About this audiobook
In the autumn of 1947, weeks after the Nuremberg Code declared consent essential, the U.S. Navy launched Project CHATTER: a secret hunt for a drug that could make anyone talk. Drawing on declassified Senate, Pentagon and FBI records, this book traces the search from scopolamine “twilight sleep” and OSS marijuana cigarettes to Dachau’s mescaline trials, a university study disguised as motion-sickness research, and covert tests on Soviet defectors in 1952. It reveals how fear of Soviet brainwashing pushed science across ethical lines, why every truth serum failed, and how CHATTER paved the way for MKULTRA.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length1 hr 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Note on Sources
2Prologue: The Promise of a Chemical Key
3Chapter 1: Twilight Sleep and the Invention of the Truth Serum
4Chapter 2: The OSS and the Marijuana Cigarette
5Chapter 3: Dachau's Shadow
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6Chapter 4: Autumn 1947 and the Birth of CHATTER
7Chapter 5: The Pharmacy of Speech
8Chapter 6: The Rochester Contract
9Chapter 7: Mindszenty, Korea, and the Fear of Brainwashing
10Chapter 8: September 1952, the Test in Germany
11Chapter 9: The End of CHATTER and the Rise of MKULTRA
12Chapter 10: Exposure
13Chapter 11: The Verdict of Science
14Epilogue: What CHATTER Teaches
15Timeline
16Selected Sources
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