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

Behind the Bastards

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Dosing LSD

The CIA's head poison guy is kind of a hippie. He starts to become convinced that it holds the secret to all of the things he's trying to accomplish for Alan Dulles. A lot of these guys agree to be dosed by surprise. So this is consensual, right? There's nothing wrong with saying, yes, you can sneak LSD into my food at a random point in time. They have not started like horribly doing things with this yet. But you can see kind of where stuff's about to go because the very next group of people they start to drug is army trainees. And so they're just kind of like drugging 18 year old boys with this mystery substance

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