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

Behind the Bastards

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Is LSD a Good Weapon for Spy Spies?

LZ Granderson: It seems like basic logic should have played a role in this. But there are some reasons why you can see people at this time would have thought LSD could be a really good weapon for like spy shit. He says the concept of hallucinogens, particularly artificially created hallucinogens is much newer than mushrooms. LZ: I think some of it's just that people don't understand this stuff as well. And everything they're going to do is deeply flawed research on an conceptual level.

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