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

Behind the Bastards

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The MK Ultra Project - The Search for a Repeatable, Efficient Method of Mind Control

The goal of MK ultra was to end the concept of free will by turning people into programmable machines. The quest for a perfect truth serum, the quest for a drug that could eliminate memories or rewrite them methods by which people could be reprogrammed to carry out actions against their old moral beliefs and political allegiances. There's different specific projects, but the overall goal is always the same; it's mind control.

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