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

Behind the Bastards

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How to Turn a Human Into a Robot?

The CIA sees this project, the goal of perfect mind control as a Manhattan Project. Dr. Cameron's work in depatterning people over at McGill University is a really good example of like the scope of ambition of this project. "I think now we're ready to take actual human beings and see if we can program them to become super assassins," he says.

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