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

Behind the Bastards

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Why Do Drugs Go Wrong?

There are no doctors or other health professionals on hand at any of these brothels in case an experiment goes wrong. In one particularly disastrous example, a federal martial named Wayne Richie was dosed with LSD at the federal building in San Francisco. He flipped out, grabbed two guns and immediately robbed a bar in the Fillmore district. "It is kind of impossible to see how George White, who is the guy running their experiments on LSD, could possibly have conducted experiments that provided useful data," he says.

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