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

Behind the Bastards

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Operation C Spray Is a Big Win for the CIA and the US Army

In 1950 the director of the CIA decides that the agency needs its own dedicated team working on mind control technology. Project Bluebird which the intercept describes as a quote mind control program that tested drugs on American citizens most in federal pinatenturies or on military bases. Alan Dullis becomes convinced that there are untapped scientific potential for manipulating minds in different hallucinogenic drugs and it's not impossible that we were in fact using something we'll never really know because it's you know war crimes and such there's much to be learned from C spray.

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