Dosed Without Consent
For two decades, the CIA fed LSD and worse to Americans who never agreed to anything. The program had a name: MKUltra.
In 1953 the CIA launched a secret program to learn how to control the human mind. It was called MKUltra, and for the next two decades its researchers dosed prisoners, hospital patients, soldiers, and ordinary citizens with LSD and other drugs — most of whom never knew they were part of an experiment.
The Chemist
The program was run by a CIA chemist named Sidney Gottlieb. Under his direction, MKUltra spread across more than 150 subprojects funneled through universities, hospitals, and prisons. In one operation, agents lured men to safe houses, secretly dosed them, and watched through one-way glass to study the effects.
The point was control. The subjects were never asked.
The Shredding
In 1973, as scrutiny grew, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the MKUltra files destroyed. Most were. What the public knows survived almost by accident — a misfiled box of financial records discovered in 1977, which forced the program into the open at Senate hearings.
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No one went to prison. The vast majority of the people who were dosed were never identified, and never will be.
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A government agency drugged its own citizens for twenty years, then shredded the proof. A rogue program — or the system working as designed?
Poisoner in Chief — Stephen Kinzer
The definitive account of Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA's hunt for mind control.
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