John Kiriakou

They rented it.

a safe house, they recruited a bunch of prostitutes and sent the prostitutes out on the street to pick up dates, bring the dates back to the safe house, dose them with LSD without their knowledge, and then try to get them to reveal their innermost secrets just to see if the CIA could collect those.

Another part of MKUltra, also in San Francisco,

was they decided to create a virus or a bacterium, in this case it was a bacterium, that they could just

push out into the air and see how many people they could infect.

They waited until an unusually foggy day where the air is very heavy and sitting close to the ground.

And all around the city of San Francisco, as well as on the public transit system, they released this bacterium.

And eight people came down with this very rare upper respiratory infection.

So then they tried to couple that and the release of the bacterium with the LSD.

Can we release LSD into the air?

They experimented in a small village in France by dosing the yeast in the village's only bakery with LSD.

Everybody in the village ate bread from that bakery and everybody went nuts for a day or two.

And so that was another successful operation.

In the end, nobody's mind was taken over.

We didn't bring down Chinese communism or Russian communism or anything else.

It was a failure.

But then Congress got wind of it.

The Church Committee got wind of it in 1975 and called the Director of Central Intelligence to testify.

And then at the testimony, specifically ordered him to not destroy the documents.

He immediately went back to CIA headquarters and told everybody, destroy everything.