The true story of how the US government experimented on its own citizens with psychedelic drugssometimes ending in death.
However, the US government, has admitted it.
They even admitted to destroying most of the official documents about it.
God & Man
In 1977, about 20,000 MKUltra files were found in a separate building.
The documents mostly involved funding for MKUltra and very little about the projects activities.
For that, we depend on the testimony of participants and victims of the project.
It involved psychedelic drugs, death, mind control, interrogation, isolation, hypnosis, and sensory deprivation.
And US citizenswho, ironically, funded the project through their taxeswere its unwitting victims.
Many returning US soldiers were found mindlessly parroting the communist propaganda they had been sent to Korea to fight.
Three days after delivering this speech, Dulles launched Project MKUltra.
Drugs that could cause permanent memory loss and brain damage.
Drugs that would induce amnesia in subjects.
Drugs that would break down the ego and induce mental dependency on others.
Drugs that would lower a persons ambition.
Drugs that made it impossible for people to lie.
He quickly fell into a deep depression and resigned from the CIA.
Nine days later, he was deadthe result of falling from a motel window.
It was revealed that another CIA agent had occupied a separate room in the same motel as Olson.
Olsons family sued the US government and received a $750,000 and an official apology from the CIA.
Some of the victims were CIA agents themselves, and the sex tapes were saved as potential blackmail material.
In other cases, the victims were heroin addicts who agreed to take LSD in exchange for more heroin.
Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to unwitting subjects in social situations.
He described the experience thusly:
Eight convicts in a panic and paranoid state.
Total loss of appetite.
The room would change shape.
Hours of paranoia and feeling violent.
We experienced horrible periods of living nightmares and even blood coming out of the walls.
Guys turning to skeletons in front of me.
I saw a camera change into the head of a dog.
I felt like I was going insane.
But At Least Its Over, Right?
The MKUltra program was officially ended in 1973.
