John Kiriakou
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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.
That's why what we have today is only 15% of the MKUltra documents.
Everything else was destroyed in 1975.
Now, he was held in contempt of Congress.
And by God, he was fined $150.
And all the CIA employees chipped in to pay the $150 fine for him.
That's exactly right.
I think you're exactly right.