
Ep290 CIA Crimes
Wine & Crime
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The End of the CIA's LSD Experiments
The CIA's experiments with LSD persisted until 1963 before coming to a fairly anticlimactic end. The inspector general insisted the agency follow new research ethics guidelines and bring all the programs on non-consenting volunteers to an end. There were real human victims as a result of these programs, including at least one death that of a scientist who was given LSD without his knowledge.
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