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Episode: MKUltra: CIA Quest For Mind Control Never Ended, They Only Changed The Name w/ Shane Cashman, Mark Groubert & Christina Bobb
Description: For 2 decades, a CIA project ran secret mind control experiments on unsuspecting Americans. Many believe their quest for human behavior modification never truly ended — it only changed its name and went underground.
Project MKUltra, active from 1953 to 1973, utilized LSD, electroshock therapy, hypnosis, and total isolation in tests tied to more than 80 institutions. While the program was officially designed to counter Soviet brainwashing, it resulted in the testing of dangerous tactics on prisoners, soldiers, and civilians—often without their knowledge or consent.
But we may never know the true depravity of its medical abuses: before the prog...