John Kiriakou

The Russians were, and the source was wrong.

But the CIA believed that it was behind the eight ball.

And if the Chinese were experimenting in mind control, then we needed, by God, to experiment in mind control and to figure out if we could sort of create a Chinese zombie world.

who could then work his way through the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party and take over China and then do away with communism.

And we all live happily ever after.

That's how it started.

So the CIA went about doing this in all of the worst possible ways.

Right around the time that MKUltra was being hatched,

a scientist in Switzerland, invented something called LSD.

And LSD did these incredible things.

And it could manipulate your mind.

You could see colors that didn't exist.

You could see people that didn't exist.

And maybe if we micro-dosed people with this new LSD, then maybe we could control their minds.

The CIA began by using it on their own people.

Now, we know that one of those CIA contractors actually jumped out of a hotel window and committed suicide because he thought he could fly.

That's been well documented.

Then they decided, you know, maybe experimenting on our own people isn't the best way to go about this.

Maybe we should just experiment on random citizens in San Francisco.

And so they went to San Francisco.