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Part Two: MKUltra: When The CIA Tried to Destroy Free Will

Behind the Bastards

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Do You Really Need to Use Heroin as a Truth Drug?

Cocaine makes people want to talk but doesn't make them reliably tell the truth. After this comes heroin, which if you were going to me and saying which drug is least likely to be an effective truth serum, I would probably say heroin. CIA memos note that heroin was frequently used by police and intelligence officers.

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