"Gottlieb oversaw such experiments in the name of national security, to counter the perceived threat of Soviet and Chinese brainwashing techniques. He's also known as the inadvertent father of the LSD counterculture, as he introduced the drug to the CIA in the 1950s, in an effort to explore the possibilities of controlling human consciousness. Some test subjects were volunteers from the agency, military officers and college students who had knowledge of the nature of the experiments."
"Chase won five Emmys for the Sopranos, a complex drama about a New Jersey mafia family widely credited with starting the golden age of prestige television. Since the show, starring the late James Gandolfini, wrapped in 2007, Chase has mostly focused on feature films. He wrote, directed and produced the 2012 film Not Fade Away. He also co-wrote and produced The Many Saints of Newark, a Sopranos prequel starring Gandolfini's son, Michael, that premiered in 2021."
David Chase will write MKUltra, a limited HBO series about Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA's cold war-era Project MKUltra. The series, based on John Lisle's Project Mind Control, will dramatize Gottlieb's leadership of covert experiments that tested hallucinogenic drugs, hypnosis, and torture from 1953 to 1973. Gottlieb introduced LSD to the CIA to counter perceived Soviet and Chinese brainwashing and to explore controlling human consciousness. Test subjects included agency volunteers, military officers and college students, plus coerced mental patients, prisoners, addicts, and sex workers, some left with permanent damage. Chase previously created The Sopranos and won five Emmys; he has focused on films since 2007.
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