For years, the Soviets competed with the U.S. in studying mind control.
At the time, the Soviet Union and the United States were in an arms race of a bizarre, unconventional kind — that has been exposed in a new report.
Beginning in 1917 and continuing until 2003, the Soviets poured up to $1 billion into developing mind-controlling weaponry to compete with similar programs undertaken in the US.
While much still remains classified, we can now confirm the Soviets used methods to manipulate test subjects’ brains.