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DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross. You may have heard stories about the CIA’s secret experiments with LSD, through which ’60s counterculture luminaries like Ken Kesey and Allen Ginsberg were first introduced to the drug. There’s a lot more to the CIA …
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Many conspiracy theories about the Central Intelligence Agency exist, but this one happens to be true, according to documents published by the U.S. Senate. Starting in the 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, more than 30 institutions and universities (and perhaps as many as 86) acting under the …
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II. Lloyd Schrier’s mother, Esther, had a difficult childhood, losing both her parents at an early age. In 1936, when she was four years old, her father died. Slightly more than a year later, her mother was diagnosed with a brain tumour and given a lobotomy. Unable to look after her children, she …
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Project MKUltra From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search “MKULTRA” redirects here. For other uses, see MKULTRA (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Edgewood Arsenal human experiments. CIA program experiments on human subjects Declassified MKUltra documents …
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Review of Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer (Henry Holt & Co, 2019). On November 28, 1953, Frank Olson, a scientist researching biological warfare for the US army, fell to his death from the tenth floor of the Manhattan Statler hotel. Did he …
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Britney’s career has been rife with conspiracy theories, especially after her 2007 public breakdown that led to her current conservatorship. Alongside the #FreeBritney campaign, which often claims she’s being unfairly controlled in her conservatorship, some fans believe that Britney is also a …
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In a world where “it is getting more and more difficult to sort fact from fiction,” it’s crucial to dissect popular conspiracies and hold governments accountable, said Michelle Shephard. Brainwashed, the new CBC Podcast co-produced with The Fifth Estate and hosted by Shephard, shines a light on one …
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MONTREAL — CIA-funded brainwashing experiments carried out at a Montreal hospital in the 1940s, 50s and 60s ruined the lives of many of the patients. “It destroyed his life,” said Lana Mills Sowchuk of her father. He was admitted to the Allan Memorial Institute in 1953, told that a doctor there …
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(Review of Stephen Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2019)) The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has a fearsome reputation. The author and executor of countless coups and political assassinations, the CIA is notorious …
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Fiction mirrors reality in ways we could never comprehend. What we see on Television or on the Big Screens have some unexplained real world parallels. That is just how the show business industry has worked ever since its inception. Stranger Things, at first glance, looks like something that could …
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