The CIA got creative with its mad scientist schemes and projects to try to manipulate and control the human mind.  They let the genie of LSD out the Sandoz lamp, and then took a hard turn into dystopian bad trip. (Cor) 

Or at least, that's what we're meant to believe! (Twystor)

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We were hoping to riff on a gameshow trope with the episode, but a couple panelists didn't make it. Still, it may have been the best chapter thus far. We specialize in Unknown Experts!

A couple of the key insights: 

Maybe a lot of the research experiments just didn't work (Andrew).

Alternatively, what we can see in the list of 149 known subprojects may only be the stuff that DIDN'T work. 

In other words, maybe they kept the stuff that DID work secret.

We review 3 out of the 149, speculating wildly. Standard earthbound conspiracy researchers will be OK with the convo until about halfway. 

After that, the ET Woo kicks in. We propose that the ET Mantids harvest us two legged, three-brained beings mainly for our music. 

Mathers wraps it up on a prophetic note: We are facing either an evolutionary Wall. Or else a Bottleneck, in which what comes out the other side won't look like the humans of today.

Correction: Mathers' Up the Drone show is now scheduled for Dec 1, 2021, at Corazon Gallery in Topanga CA. @wisdommathers on IG

References:

List of 149 MKUltra Subprojects from the Book-keeping Records

illluminatirex.com/list-of-mkultra-subprojects/

MKUltra Researcher Jolyn West

https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Louis...

The Poisoner in Chief, by Stephen Kinzer

In Search of the Manchurian Candidate, by John Marks

Acid Whorehouse

https://franklinfurnace.contentdm.ocl...

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, by Norman Ohler

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/51898...

Mary Pinchot Meyer

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...

Operation Mockingbird

https://medium.com/@LaurenvonB/operat...

DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman

https://www.simonandschuster.com/book...