Episode 42 - MK-ULTRA

In the 1950s, the United States bought the world's supply of LSD in the pursuit of "science". This week Michelle tells us the insane story of MK-ULTRA, a top secret research project exploring the possibility of mass mind control. Led by a very questionable chemist, this twenty year endeavor was filled with drugs, torture, questionable decisions and a whole lot of WTF.

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Sources:

• History.com - ‘MK Ultra’ by History.com Editors - Last Accessed on April 21st, 2022

• SmithsonianMag.org - ‘What We Know About the CIA’s Midcentury Mind-Control Project’ by Kat Eschner - Last Accessed on April 21st, 2022

• Intelligence.senate.gov - Joint hearing documents

• History.com - ‘THE CIA'S APPALLING HUMAN EXPERIMENTS WITH MIND CONTROL’ by Brianna Nofil - Last Accessed on April 21st, 2022

• The Guardian - ‘From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets’ by Stephen Kinzer - Last Accessed on April 21st, 2022

• Book: ‘Poisoner in Chief’ by Stephen Kinzer

• Podcast: Armchair Expert with Dax Shephard: Armchaired & Dangerous: MK-ULTRA

• Podcast: Stuff You Should Know - Did the CIA test LSD on unsuspecting Americans?