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It was damning. They were experimenting
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on American citizens. I hate conspiracy
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theories that run a muck. But you know,
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a former CI director is the one who came
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up with the term conspiracy theory to
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discredit people by making them sound
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like crazy people when in fact there was
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such a thing called MK Ultra, Operation
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Grasshopper or MK Chickwit. You the CIA
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did crazy crazy stuff from roughly 1952
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to 1975. The Chinese told us in like
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1951
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that the Russians were using LSD to try
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to engineer it to be used as a mind
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control drug. That was disinformation.
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The truth was the Russians had no LSD
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program. The Chinese did. So they tried
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to throw us off the off the scent by
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blaming the Russians.
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We panicked. And by 1952, we started
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this program called MK Ultra, which
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began by using LSD experimentally. They
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started by dosing their own employees
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without telling them. Several committed
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suicide. One jumped out of a hotel
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window.
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>> Dosing them with what?
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>> LSD.
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>> With the hope that
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>> see if we can control them. See if we
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can plant memories that didn't actually
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happen. Then they decided, no, it's not
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a good idea to dose our own people.
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Let's just dose strangers out in public.
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So they went to San Francisco, rented a
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safe house. They hired prostitutes to go
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out on the street, pick up John's,
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people who hire prostitutes, bring them
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back to the safe house, dose the John's
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with uh LSD, and just see what happens.
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But I mean, these are like serious
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crimes you're committing against people.
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The CIA paid sex workers to lure men to
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safe houses where agents drugged them
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and then watched them through oneway
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mirrors and recorded their behavior.
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>> Exactly.
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>> They tried to erase their personality.
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>> Nice, huh?
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>> The goal was often to break and rebuild
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the human mind. In 1973, the CIA
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director ordered mass destruction of the
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MK Ultra Files.
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>> That day, he testified before the Church
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Committee. The church committee
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specifically told him, "Do not destroy
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any documents." He went back that
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afternoon to the CIA and said, "Destroy
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everything."
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>> Why?
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>> Because it it was damning. They were
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experimenting on American citizens. They
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were they were experimenting by
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spreading diseases in American cities.
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He was fined like $150
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and um about 15% of the documents were
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overlooked and survived. We'll never
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know exactly what happened under MK
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Ultra.