MKUltra

[bhaney]

I'm glad that we learned from this and took measures to prevent the US government from carrying out any more abhorrent secret operations on its own citizens. All the extra accountability and transparency that's been woven into our institutional frameworks since this was discovered makes me much more confident that it won't happen again.

[wopwops]

I think this is sarcasm.

[xyst]

The American obsession with torture is wild. Psychological and physical (esp during post-9/11)

[krapp]

If anything we (and by we I mean the CIA) learned how not to mind-control people, and moved on to more effective and subtle means of manipulation through the media.

[dbspin]

/s

[skilled]

From 5 years ago,

Project MKUltra (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21165137) - Oct 2019 (121 comments)

Stephen Kinzer wrote a book about MKUltra:

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control (https://www.amazon.com/Poisoner-Chief-Sidney-Gottlieb-Contro...)

And these two articles talk about the book in brief:

The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief' (https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-que...)

When the C.I.A. Was Into Mind Control (NYTimes) (https://archive.is/cRmWm)

[beaugunderson]

Poisoner in Chief was a great read.

[faizan-ali]

There is an excellent behind the bastards podcast on this: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kSz7fsdOV9fzFFC93tdS7?si=U...

[mikelovenotwar]

The 'behind the bastards' podcast did a series of episodes on this that are worth checking out.

[ted_bunny]

Not really. I've listened to most of that podcast's episodes and noticed a pattern (AFAICT). He leaves out a lot of relevant information anytime the CIA is involved in a story.

[wheresmyshadow]

Reading through this gave me serious chills. This sounds like something straight out of Josef Mengele laboratory.

[jakeogh]

Is that over? Interesting how we are expected to collectively[0] experience every piece of bad news and pretend humans aren't awesome.

[0] https://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/video/pret...

[kolinko]

As a Russia’s neigbour - it’s nowwhere even remotely close.

[superb_dev]

Hey both can be true though