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 The Fairshake Files is a documentary investigation channel producing long-form, multi-part deep-dive series. We provide well-researched, sober analysis of history's most controversial events, from infamous true crime cases to declassified government programs and unsolved historical mysteries.

Our mission is to go beyond the official story to explore competing theories, alternative narratives, and complex conspiracies. We present all angles with a calm, narrative style that values research over sensationalism.

This channel is for viewers seeking nuance and in-depth context on topics like Project MKUltra, COINTELPRO, the Manson Family, and other pivotal historical moments. We dissect the legends, present the evidence, and let the viewer decide.

New investigations are opened monthly. This is the home for historical deep-dives, true crime analysis, and conspiracy theory deconstruction.

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  • PROJECT MK-ULTRA: The Two-Way Mirror (Chapter 2)

    PROJECT MK-ULTRA: The Two-Way Mirror (Chapter 2)
    Feb 12 2026
    The Fairshake Files continues through the declassified record on Project MK-ULTRA — the CIA’s covert Cold War program to research behavioral modification, interrogation, and chemical influence.

    This chapter moves from theory into the street. In 1955, an operation known as Operation Midnight Climax ran out of a San Francisco safehouse: a staged apartment, hidden microphones, a two-way mirror, and unwitting “subjects” dosed with LSD while the government watched from behind the wall.

    We follow the mechanics of the operation, the people who ran it, and the collateral damage that followed — including the Wayne Ritchie case. Then we trace how MK-ULTRA solved its two problems: deniable dosing in the outside world, and repeatable access inside a prison. This is intelligence history, documented record, and true crime with context and receipts.

    IN THIS EPISODE:
    • Operation Midnight Climax and the San Francisco safehouse model
    • George Hunter White and the role of cut-outs in domestic CIA activity
    • The two-way mirror, microphone holes, and the reel-to-reel record
    • How the operation used coercion, leverage, and controlled access
    • The Wayne Ritchie case and what “collateral” looked like in practice
    • John Mulholland’s misdirection manual and the logic of deniable dosing
    • The prison pathway: MK-ULTRA expansion into the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
    • Repeated LSD dosing and the “research” logic applied to captivity
    • The Inspector General report, oversight failure, and what the receipts exposed
    • The 1973 destruction order — and how the paper trail still leaked through
    SOURCES & CITATIONS
    • CIA FOIA Reading Room — MK-ULTRA documents
    • U.S. Senate hearings and reporting on CIA behavioral modification research
    • Inspector General reporting (oversight era context)
    • Declassified archival material and supporting documentation tied to releases


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    27 Min.
  • PROJECT MK-ULTRA: The Manchurian Question (Chapter 1)

    PROJECT MK-ULTRA: The Manchurian Question (Chapter 1)
    Jan 21 2026
    The Fairshake Files opens the declassified record on Project MK-ULTRA, the CIA’s covert program to research behavioral modification, interrogation, and chemical influence during the Cold War.

    This chapter begins with a fear that obsessed American intelligence: the idea that a human mind could be “scrubbed” and rewritten. From show trials and public confessions to POW statements that sounded impossible, the question becomes policy.

    The search for an invisible weapon turns into a system, and then into a program with a name. This is American intelligence history, declassified documentation, and true crime with context and receipts.

    IN THIS EPISODE:
    • The Cold War “brainwashing” panic and why it hit Washington like a psychological contagion
    • The early precursor programs (BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE) and what they were designed to do
    • The pivot point: LSD enters the picture and the stakes change overnight
    • Allen Dulles authorizes the next step, and the project becomes MK-ULTRA
    • Sidney Gottlieb steps forward as the chemist who will operationalize the mandate
    • The ominous early signal of where this leads, including the Frank Olson case
    SOURCES & CITATIONS

    - Project MK-ULTRA (CIA FOIA Reading Room)
    - BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE declassified documents (CIA FOIA Reading Room)
    - U.S. Senate reporting and hearings on CIA behavioral modification research
    - Frank Olson files and archival reporting tied to documented releases

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    36 Min.
  • COINTELPRO: Paranoia with a Budget (Full Series)

    COINTELPRO: Paranoia with a Budget (Full Series)
    Dec 23 2025
    This is the bundled release of Chapters 1–4 of The Fairshake Files COINTELPRO series.

    These chapters appear as originally published, with their original structure intact. This compilation is provided for listeners who prefer to follow the full arc in one sitting, without release gaps.

    COINTELPRO wasn’t about surveillance.It was about disruption.

    Across four chapters, we trace how the FBI built a domestic playbook of “neutralization”, using informants, psychological operations, forged letters, internal sabotage, and pressure campaigns that moved far beyond traditional law enforcement.

    The program began under the justification of COINTELPRO — White Hate, targeting violent extremist groups. But the methods didn’t remain limited to those targets. What started as an exception became a precedent.

    The same tactics were redirected toward civil rights leaders, anti-war activists, student movements, and political organizations—until “disruption” became a standing permission slip.

    This compilation follows the full trajectory: from infiltration and psychological warfare, to escalation against lawful dissent, to the moment COINTELPRO stopped being deniable and became documented...exposed by a burglary in Media, Pennsylvania, forced into daylight through FOIA litigation, and confronted by the Church Committee’s investigation.

    It also tracks the modern afterlife of the logic: new authorities, new language, and a surveillance ecosystem where investigations can begin without a criminal predicate, and disruption doesn’t always look like disruption until it’s too late.

    This series isn’t asking whether the first targets were “bad.”

    It’s asking what happens once a government decides it can violate its own laws to stop them.

    Once that line is crossed, the definition of “bad” never stays fixed.

    IN THIS EPISODE:
    • Origins: How COINTELPRO emerged as a domestic “neutralization” program
    • White Hate: Infiltration, informants, and the “Good Lie” justification
    • Disruption: Psychological warfare tactics deployed without warrants
    • Escalation: The expansion to civil rights leaders, students, anti-war movements, and political organizations
    • Exposure: The Media, Pennsylvania break-in, FOIA disclosures, and the Church Committee
    • Afterlife: Guidelines, “assessments,” expanded domestic authority, and modern surveillance ecosystems
    SOURCES & CITATIONS (selected)
    • U.S. Senate (Church Committee), Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans (Book II)
    • FBI COINTELPRO directives and memoranda (declassified / FOIA releases via FBI Vault)
    • DOJ, Attorney General’s Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations (2008)
    • FBI, Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (DIOG) (selected sections)
    • DOJ OIG reporting on post-Watergate guideline history (Levi / 1976) and related oversight
    • ACLU reporting on FBI “assessments” and domestic intelligence practices
    • Documented reporting on social-media monitoring tools and related civil liberties cases
    • ACLU / Statewatch materials on JTRIG “effects” capabilities and documented techniques
    Next investigation: Project MKULTRA

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