00:00In 1951, the CIA launched a control program so brutal that it made MKUltra seem so slow.
00:06Project Artecoc was designed to do one thing: completely destroy humans.
00:11CIA operatives tortured prisoners, mentally ill patients, and foreign nationals without their knowledge.
00:17They used extreme electroshock, depression, and drug experiments that have never been tested on humans.
00:24The most horrifying part was called the terminal experiments.
00:27These weren't meant to gather information, they were designed to erase personalities entirely.
00:33Nazi scientists, recruited after the war, helped design the torture methods.
00:38Declassified documents reveal subjects were left as vegetables after testing.
00:43Many died on the operating table.
00:45One memo described a subject who could no longer speak, eat, or recognize his own family after treatment.
00:51The program was connected to real assassinations.
00:54The CIA was creating programmable killers.
00:57When investigators got close to the truth, all evidence was systematically destroyed.
01:02Project Artecoc ran for 12 years.
01:06Hundreds of victims.
01:07Most never knew what happened to them.
01:09The perfect crime hidden in plain sight.
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