Between 1953 and 1964, in a project called MKULTRA, the CIA experimented with LSD on unwitting civilians, prisoners, government employees and even its own agents, in a manner that Senator Edward Kennedy later described to Congress as making little scientific sense. It came to the point where surprise acid trips became something of an occupational hazard among CIA operatives, as Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain describe in Acid Dreams. The agents monitoring the experiments werent scientists, and at least one person died after jumping out of a window under the influence of LSD. By the time the Senate held hearings on MKULTRA in 1977, many documents related to the operation had been destroyed on the orders of then-CIA Director Richard Helms in 1973.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 15:51:18 +0000
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