The Truth About Truth Serum
Curio • Written by Alan Bellows • Non-Fiction • December 2005 Popular culture makes gratuitous use of powerful lie-repelling agents known as Truth Serums . They are usually depicted as injected drugs which strongly inhibit a subject’s ability to lie, causing him or her to mechanically recite the truth to an interviewer upon questioning. Such drugs have been utilized by some of the three-letter government agencies in the not-so-distant past (CIA, FBI, DOD, KGB, etc.), particularly during the rampant paran...