MK-ULTRA continued to operate under the cover of religious cults after its formal shutdown in 1973 In June 1956, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who headed the CIA mind-control experiments known as MK-ULTRA, authorized a sub-project involving the testing of LSD on prisoners at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. The sub-project was headed by...
CIA mind-control programs were intimately tied to use in coercive interrogation. Both Gitmo and CIA black-site torture were impossible without MK-ULTRA, but that history is being buried. The Agency office with the greatest current SERE familiarity was the Office of Technical Services (OTS), in which were located a...
As detailed in his book, CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, and the new Netflix documentary, CHAOS: The Manson Murders, Premiere magazine writer Tom O’Neill turned a feature-article assignment into a 20-year investigation, revealing a mass of evidence that a CIA doctor—Jolyon West—helped...