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 |  Subject: Flashback: CIA’s Mind-Control Experiment Reverberates 40 Years After Hearings  Sun Sep 10, 2017 7:05 am | |
| Flashback: CIA’s Mind-Control Experiment Reverberates 40 Years After Hearings
September 10, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor
 Forty years later, the story still seems hard to credit: In the summer of 1977, Capitol Hill was gripped by revelations of the CIA’s top-secret MK-Ultra mind control research program, targeting unsuspecting American citizens, in some cases by luring them to brothels to be fed LSD-laced cocktails. The blockbuster hearings that summer, chaired by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, and aided by a timely dump of intelligence documents, touched some of the country’s rawest nerves: the assassination of Kennedy’s brothers, the possibility of mind-controlled “Manchurian candidates” and the increasing prominence of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs across Western culture. (READ MORE) |
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