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In 1979, ABC News aired a three-part report "Mission Mind Control" on the MK Ultra Project, a secret CIA program in the 1950's in which thousands of subjects were given experimental doses of LSD.

The show tells the story of George Hunter White's rise to power in the OSS, and his use of LSD to attempt to perfect mind control.

Includes a rare interview with R. Gordon Wesson, who wrote the Life Magazine cover story on magic mushrooms, which helped introduce psychedelics to the American public. See: https://www.trippingly.net/lsd/2018/5...

Covers the CIA's operation of a brothel in San Francisco: https://www.trippingly.net/lsd-studie...

Sidney Cohen, MD, is interviewed, and discusses how the CIA inadvertently spread the use of LSD by sponsoring LSD research.

Discusses Frank Olsen's apparent suicide, following being dosed with LSD. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_O...

The death of Harold Blauer, who died while he was unknowingly injected with mescaline is discussed. Since the airing of the show, the estate of Blauer was awarded $700,000 for the wrongful death. https://apnews.com/article/2e5220ecb1...

James R. Thornwell was given LSD during intense interrogation over missing documents. Following the airing of the show, Thornwell was awarded $625,000, settling litigation. Thornwell died at age 46 of a seizure. https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/29/ob...

The Montreal experiments are discussed, where brutal experiments were conducted, which included psychedelics along with electric shocks. See https://www.mcgilltribune.com/mind-co...