John Lisle is a historian and an author.

The government’s history of secret experiments feels stranger than fiction. Covert projects, UFOs, mind reading, even studies of the occult. But no operation is more infamous than MKUltra. What really happened inside the CIA’s most notorious mind control experiment, and how much of its legacy still shapes our world today?

Expect to learn where the CIA got their interest in mind control from, what the origins of MKUltra were and how it got it’s name, the double lives of the head scientists behind the project, how LSD and other drugs we’re used in secret mind control experiments by the government and if any of their findings had any objective value, the most unethical experiments MKUltra did and what ended up leading to it's downfall and much more…

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Researching MKUltra, The CIA, & Mind Control

(15:14) MKUltra's Origin & LSD Experiments

(26:41) The Main Scientists Behind MKUltra

(30:41) CIA Funding & Celebrity Involvement

(41:30) Experiments On Mental Health

(47:27) The Worst & Unethical Brain Experiments

(52:27) Did MKUltra Create Anything Useful?

(1:01:14) The Downfall Of MKUltra

(1:09:30) The "Project Monarch" Conspiracy Theory

(1:14:44) Find Out More About John

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