CIA Considered Using ‘Truth Serum’ Drug on Terror Suspects After 9/11

The CIA considered using a drug it believed could function as a “truth serum” on detained terror suspects after 9/11, the Associated Press reports. According to a 90-page CIA report released Tuesday to the ACLU, the agency concluded a drug called Versed was “possibly worth a try” after some research but did not end up employing the method. The drug research program, called “Project Medication,” reportedly went through records of “Soviet drug experiments” and the CIA’s MK-Ultra program—which exposed human subjects to LSD and other mind-altering substances in the 1950s and 1960s.