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Podcast: Perplexity: A Mystery Podcast
Episode: Episode 14: Project MK Ultra
Description: This episode will discuss how terrible the government really is. Kaydra dives into Project MK Ultra: an illegal human experimentation program that took place over the course of 20 years during the Cold War. The project was designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), intended to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used in interrogations to weaken individuals and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture.-----------------------------------------------SOURCES/SHOW NOTES:1) a 2019 NPR.org article by Terry Gross2) a 1974 New York Times article by Seymour M Hersh3) Wikipedia4...