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

Behind the Bastards

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Do You Know if You Can Treat Someone Horrible?

"This is proof that you can, because all that proves is that if you do enough damage to somebody's brain, you can ruin their life," he says. "It's like you haven't discovered anything. You've just discovered that if you treat someone horrible, you can, you can permanently mess them up." The study was conducted in a hospital room where the subjects were sedated and electrocuted before being given more acid.

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