MKUltra: Inside the CIA's Cold War mind control experiments

Thousands of Americans were unknowing test subjects for psychological warfare research

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Forty years ago, a Freedom of Information request revealed the terrifying scope of Project MKUltra, a CIA programme which used human subjects to experiment with mind control for more than ten years.

Although the majority of documentation relating to the project had been destroyed by 1977, enough remained that - along with witness testimony - two congressional investigations were able to build an eye-opening picture of the programme.

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