Episode 60: MKUltra — The CIA's Secret Mind Control ExperimentsThis is not a conspiracy theory. MKUltra is documented, confirmed, and one of the most disturbing chapters in the history of any government. For over a decade, the CIA conducted secret mind control experiments on unwitting American and Canadian citizens — in hospitals, universities, and prisons — without their knowledge or consent. Then they tried to destroy the evidence.This episode explores:* How MKUltra began in 1953 and ran for over a decade under the direction of chemist Sidney Gottlieb* The unwitting administration of LSD to civilians, mental patients, and prisoners* The deliberate destruction of MKUltra files in 1972 on the orders of CIA Director Richard Helms* The 20,000 documents that survived by accident — misfiled in a financial records building* The 2024 and 2025 declassified document releases, including Gottlieb's own previously secret congressional testimony* The death of Frank Olson — a CIA scientist dosed without consent who fell from a hotel window ten days laterFor believers, MKUltra is the definitive proof that governments will experiment on their own citizens when they believe the stakes are high enough. For historians, it is a dark chapter addressed — imperfectly — by the oversight mechanisms that eventually exposed it.What is certain: it happened. The CIA tried to make sure we would never know. And the files that survived were an accident.Keywords: MKUltra CIA mind control, MKUltra experiments real, CIA human experiments, Frank Olson death, CIA LSD experiments, MKUltra declassified 2025, government mind control conspiracy, Sidney Gottlieb, CIA secret programme, mind control history

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