This episode will discuss how terrible the government really is. Kaydra dives into Project MK Ultra: an illegal human experimentation program that took place over the course of 20 years during the Cold War. The project was designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), intended to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used in interrogations to weaken individuals and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture.

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SOURCES/SHOW NOTES:
1) a 2019 NPR.org article by Terry Gross
2) a 1974 New York Times article by Seymour M Hersh
3) Wikipedia
4) the podcast "Red Web"
5) the podcast "Last Podcast on the Left"
6) https://www.drugs.com/illicit/lsd.html
7) Stephen Kinzer's book "Poisoner in Chief"
8) Richard Harris Smith's book "OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency"
9) 1975's "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate" by John Marks
10) A 2020 article from the National World War 2 Museum (https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/wwii-secret-agents-the-oss) with contributions from Walter Wolf III.

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