The MK ULTRA: The CIA Mind Control Program

One of the most shocking and unsettling human experiments ever done in the United States was project MK ULTRA, otherwise known as the CIA’s mind control program. This began in the early 1950’s and continued through most of the 60’s. The CIA wanted to see if they could use such techniques to make people speak against their own will, something that would be useful in dealing with spies. The way the U.S government tested these “mind control” drugs, was the farthest thing from ethical.
The CIA tested drugs like LSD, and other hallucinogens on “people who could not fight back.” This included tests involving prisoners, mental patients, and others considered societally marginalized. The cruelest part was that most of the time, these “lab rats” didn’t