MKUltra: What the CIA Actually Did, and What It Didn't
The mind-control programme was real. The mythology it seeded is a separate thing.
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The mind-control programme was real. The mythology it seeded is a separate thing.
The Joint Chiefs really did propose staging attacks on Americans. Then it was refused.
For half a century, one government blamed the other for a massacre it had committed itself.
The activists who said they were being watched were right, and had the paperwork coming.
In 1967, three Harvard scientists were quietly paid to point the finger at fat.
The tragedy that was real, the warnings that were buried, and the myth of the lone regulator.
NATO really did hide weapons across Europe. What they were for is the harder question.
One clash was real. The second, which launched a war, almost certainly never occurred.
Ninety years on, the most consequential arson in modern history is still contested.
A decorated general testified that Wall Street asked him to march on Washington.
A secret arms deal and a secret war, unravelled on live daytime TV.
Twenty years of pledges, and the cocoa still comes with a cost the label never mentions.
For forty years the US Public Health Service watched men die of a curable disease.
The tactics were borrowed from tobacco, and they worked for decades.