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

Behind the Bastards

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What Did Dr. West Really Find?

In 1954, a three year old girl was raped and murdered in San Antonio. The man eventually charged with and convicted of Cher Joe Horton's murder was a guy named Jimmy Shaver. Investigators interrogated Shaver through the morning; he didn't recognize his wife. Dr. West hypnotized Shaver and injected him with sodium pentathol to clear his amnesia. Evit eventually, while drugged, Shaver recalled remembering the act of murdering Horton.

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