Before the world learned about Project MKUltra, most people believed governments would never experiment on the human mind.
Then the documents surfaced.
In the 1950s–1970s, the Central Intelligence Agency secretly funded hundreds of experiments using LSD, hypnosis, psychological torture, sensory deprivation, and other techniques in an attempt to understand and potentially control human behavior.
Many test subjects had no idea they were part of an experiment.
The program was eventually exposed during investigations by the U.S. Senate Church Committee in the 1970s.
But there’s one disturbing detail that rarely gets discussed.
In 1973, as the scandal grew, CIA director Richard Helms ordered most MK-Ultra files destroyed.
Thousands of documents were burned.
Meaning the world only ever saw a fraction of what actually happened.
And this is where the mystery begins.
Some researchers claim the program didn’t disappear.
They believe it evolved into something even more secretive a proj...
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