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#629 - John Lisle - The Insane Tactics The CIA Used To Defeat Hitler In WWII

Modern Wisdom

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The History of Psychedelics

During World War II, the OSS was trying to develop a truth drug for interrogations. The idea is that if you can have a truth drug, you can give it to someone you're interrogating and they have no choice but to tell you the truth. This has been around forever basically with alcohol,. But now an Bureau of Narcotics officer's job becomes giving drugs as part of these experiments.

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