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

Behind the Bastards

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The CIA's Hunger for Test Subjects Could Not Be Stopped by George White

The CIA's hunger for test subjects could not be sated by one man dosing strangers. In 1955, the program expanded to hire sex workers and use them to draw in men who could be drugged and then observed secretly in a brothel. The prostitutes were paid in part with chits which they could use for favors such as getting out of jail. White installed bugging equipment in a two way mirror behind which he would sit on a portable toilet, quaffing a martini from a picture he kept in the refrigerator and observe the proceedings.

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