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

Behind the Bastards

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Can LSD Treat Alcoholism?

In late 1949 an officer of the army chemical corps reported to el wilson green that sandos chemists had created a new hallucinogen next kenzer writes green was riveted he collected all the information he could find on the subject then produced a long report entitled psycho chemical warfare a new concept of war it concluded with a strong recommendation that the government begins systematically testing lsd mezcalin and 60 other mind-altering compounds. The first group of people who really gets hard into acid are not hippies they're CIA agents and scientists affiliated with the CIA. It is fair to say that hoffman was right this kind of immediate thing he thinks when he takes acid like oh

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