00:00In 1974, one woman uncovered a secret so explosive, it forced the CIA to face its darkest truth.
00:07Her name was Seymour Hersh. Correction.
00:10It started with Hersh's report, but the woman who blew the lid wide open was Senator Frank Church,
00:16S. investigator and journalist, Seymour Hersh, S. source.
00:21Wait, let's anchor in the key, verifiable figure.
00:24Journalist Cy Hersh exposed it publicly, but it was a whistleblower inside.
00:30CIA clerk Mary Embry, who first revealed the truth.
00:35Embry joined the CIA in the 1960s.
00:38Her job seemed routine, research and data work, until she was asked to help with a strange project called MKUltra.
00:47She learned the agency was experimenting on American citizens with LSD, hypnosis and psychological torture, all without consent.
00:56Horrified, Embry refused to participate.
01:00And later spoke out, helping investigators in the 1975 Church Committee hearings uncover how the CIA had destroyed lives under the guise of national security.
01:10Her revelations, combined with other witnesses, exposed years of illegal spying, assassinations and secret human experiments.
01:20The fallout was massive.
01:23President Gerald Ford banned all human drug testing without consent, and Congress created permanent oversight of intelligence agencies.
01:33Mary Embry's courage helped end one of the darkest chapters in U.S. intelligence history.
01:38Proof that even in the shadows, one voice can expose the truth.
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