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

Behind the Bastards

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Are We Going to Find Out?

In the early 1950s, there's no evidence that any communist country even saw the drug is having that kind of potential. After a few months of benign experimentation on his friends and colleagues, Gottlieb leaves the United States to test LSD on human prisoners for the first time. In 1952, Dulles brought Dr. Gottlieb and his team to post-war Munich in southern Germany. They set up a base in a safe house where scores of expendables were given massive amounts of drugs. Each experiment failed. The expendables were killed and their bodies burned.

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