Project MK-Ultra: Sex, Drugs, and the CIA, Vol. 1 (Project Mk-Ultra, 1)

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Yet Wark says the fact MK-Ultra has endured is something we should also be concerned about. “Conspiracies allow us to make sense of the inexplicable in a world that’s too complicated already,” he says. “MK-Ultra, with its themes of mind control, helps us to explain human-scale mystery. Otherwise, we have to grapple with abstract concepts—individuality, society, justice, whatever—that are always uncertain themselves. Mind control is easier to fathom.”

a b National Public Radio (NPR), 9 Sept. 2019, "The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief '" (On-air interview with journalist Stephen Kinzer) LSD was eventually dismissed by MK-ULTRA's researchers as too unpredictable in its resultsP1 Although useful information was sometimes obtained Substances which alter personality structure in such a way that the tendency of the recipient to become dependent upon another person is Church Committee; p. 390 "MKUltra was approved by the DCI [Director of Central Intelligence] on April 13, 1953"The Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Foreign and Military Intelligence". Church Committee report, no. 94-755, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. Washington, D.C.: United States Congress. 1976. p.392.

a b c d e f g h Kinzer, Stephen (2019). Poisoner in Chief; Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. New York: Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 9781250140432 . Retrieved 30 May 2021. CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb headed up the agency's secret MK-ULTRA program, which was charged with developing a mind control drug that could be weaponized against enemies. JAMES PENNER: I enjoyed reading Gottlieb’s account during the Congressional Hearings on MK Ultra of his own LSD trip. And I’ll just read it for you: “I happened to experience an out-of-bodyness, a feeling as though I am in a kind of transparent sausage skin that covers my whole body and it is shimmering. And I have a sense of well-being and euphoria for most of the next hour or two hours, then it gradually subsides.” How could someone who had these euphoric and benevolent experiences participate in horrible experiments with LSD? So the CIA brought LSD to America unwittingly, and actually it's a tremendous irony that the drug that the CIA hoped would be its key to controlling humanity actually wound up fueling a generational rebellion that was dedicated to destroying everything that the CIA held dear and defended.a b c Rupert Cornwell (March 16, 1999). "Obituary: Sidney Gottlieb". The Independent (London) . Retrieved June 25, 2012. They were requests made by experimenters, viewed by subjects as responsible scientists, in the context of a psychological experiment." Marks, John (1979). The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. New York: Times Books. pp. 106–107. ISBN 0812907736. The Vienna-born American psychologist had worked in magic shows as a teenager and developed a keen interest in hypnosis.