00:00In the 1950s, the CIA ran secret experiments to control the human mind, without consent, and without mercy.
00:08It was called Project MKUltra, launched in 1953 under CIA director Alan Dulles.
00:16The mission? To find ways to manipulate thought, erase memory, and even create brainwashed assassins, all during the paranoia of the Cold War.
00:26The project was led by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, a chemist who believed drugs like LSD could unlock mind control.
00:35Thousands of tests were performed across the U.S. and Canada, in prisons, hospitals, universities, often without the subject's knowledge.
00:44One victim, Frank Olson, a U.S. Army scientist, was secretly dosed with LSD in 1953.
00:50Days later, he fell to his death from a New York hotel window, officially ruled a suicide, but later exposed as part of the MKUltra program.
01:02For two decades, the CIA experimented on civilians, mental patients, and even its own employees, all in total secrecy.
01:10In 1973, as investigations loomed, most MKUltra files were ordered destroyed.
01:17Only fragments survived, enough to prove it was real.
01:21When Congress finally exposed the program in 1975, Americans learned the truth.
01:28Their own government had tried to rewrite the human mind.
01:31A Cold War experiment that nearly erased the line between science and horror.
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