Q&A: Scott O’Connor on ‘Half World,’ MKUltra and CIA mind control
Q&A: Scott O’Connor on ‘Half World,’ MKUltra and CIA mind control Los Angeles Times
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The hippies and other counterculture movements weren’t the only groups to experiment with mind-altering substances. Starting in 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency conducted research on psychedelic drugs as part of a top-secret behavior modification program codenamed MK-ULTRA. This bizarre project
Read MoreMKULtra’s Purpose. According to the hearing report, the project was intended to “develop a capability in the covert use of biological and chemical materials.” The motivation was also …
Read MoreWASHINGTON — Nearly 60 years after the death of a government scientist who had been given LSD by the Central Intelligence Agency without his knowledge, his family says it plans to sue the government, alleging that he was murdered and
Read More1953: Central Intelligence Agency director Allen Dulles authorizes the MK-ULTRA project. The agency launches one of its most dubious covert programs ever, turning unsuspecting humans into guinea pigs for its research into mind-altering drugs. More than a decade before psychologist
Read MoreFor two decades or more during the Cold War, the CIA and the military allegedly plied the unwitting with acid, weed, and dozens of psychoactive drugs, in a series of zany (and sometimes dangerous) mind-control experiments. Now, the Vietnam Veterans
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Read MoreThe annals of science describe thousands of noble experiments monitoring the effects of drugs, from alcohol to Tetrahydrocannabinol (cannabis extract), on animals including monkeys, dolphins, pigeons and spiders. But the biggest and most controversial animal drug experiment involved a three-tonne
Read MoreNine justices of the Supreme Court this week agreed that Congress gave the CIA broad powers to conceal information obtained from intelligence sources. Justices Brennan and Marshall, in a concurring opinion, would have defined “intelligence sources” more narrowly, so as
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