“He was creator and destroyer, an outlaw who served power, a gentle hearted torturer… above all he was an instrument of history,” writes Stephen Kinzer of Sidney Gottlieb, chief of the CIA’s mind control program notoriously known as MKULTRA. The revelations of Kinzer’s fascinating and disturbing biography, Poisoner in Chief, are unsettling enough. Kinzer, former...
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Did the CIA’s Notorious Mind Control Program Create an Infamous Killer?
One of the best books about the world of secret intelligence in the past year is Stephen Kinzer’s Poisoner in Chief, a biography of Sidney Gottlieb, the countercultural chemist who ran the CIA’s notorious MKULTRA program that experimented on unwitting subjects in search of ways to manipulate human behavior. Kinzer recently spoke to Michael Isikoff...
Fact Check: The El Paso-MKULTRA Conspiracy Theory
A reader asked me to check out a story on the internet about the possible connection between the El Paso shootings and the CIA’s notorious MKULTRA mind control program. So I did. I doubted there was any connection between MKULTRA (which was shut down in 1971) and the El Paso shootings 48 years later. But...
New MKULTRA Documents Posted By Black Vault
MK-ULTRA was the CIA’s code name for program to develop ways to control human behavior. MK-ULTRA, launched during the Korea War, continued through the early 1970s when its existence was exposed by investigators from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Affairs, also known as the Church Committee. Because of its notorious character, and the CIA’s...