The MK Ultra Program

Jason Johnson: The subject of our episodes for the next two weeks is the MK Ultra Program that the CIA carried out through most of the 50s and early 1960s. It's impossible for me to separate what I actually know as fact and what I've merely heard in conspiracy theory circles, he says. "The federal government devoted countless resources and essentially like a license to kill to a bunch of scientists so that they could attempt to eradicate the concept of human free will using LSD," writes Johnson. 'We're going to be talking about that for quite a while here'