5. The CIA secretly gave LSD to unsuspecting individuals to test mind control.
From 1953 to 1964, the Central Intelligence Agency secretly dosed individuals with LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) to test the potential usefulness in the fields of brainwashing and mind control. During this “test” which was called Project MKUltra, thousands of Americans were given LSD without their knowledge or consent.
In 1973, the CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the destruction of all records and evidence related to Project MKUltra. That’s why now there is very little evidence that remains, but this inhuman research was most likely responsible for some resulting deaths.
One of the most notable death was that of Frank Olson, a United States Army biochemist and biological weapons researcher who was given LSD without his knowledge or consent in 1953.
Project MKUltra was first brought to public attention in 1975 by the Church Committee of the United States Congress and Gerald Ford’s United States President’s Commission on CIA activities within the United States.
