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Declassified CIA Cold War Mind Control Files Resurface Online

Declassified CIA Cold War Mind Control Files Resurface Online

Declassified CIA Cold War Mind Control Files Resurface Online
Above: The CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia. Image credit: Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis/Getty Images

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These documents prove the government's intent to poison Americans through food, water, alcohol and vaccines to induce anxiety, depression and compliance. They point to a deliberate campaign to drug the population into submission, transforming independent citizens into controllable zombies who can't resist tyranny. Yet an even more unsettling question remains: if this was the scope of research taking place seventy years ago, what kinds of projects might be underway today?

MKUltra was a Cold War-era program that ended in 1964 and involved experimental research on willing volunteers and prisoners, not mass population control, amid fears of Soviet brainwashing advances. It was a defensive — albeit controversial — program to counter enemy interrogation advantages, ultimately yielding limited results that helped the agency understand the boundaries of coercive techniques. There is no evidence of any drugging campaign against Americans.

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