#mkultra

#mkultra

Some of the cruelest, most scientifically useless forms of abuse perpetrated under MKUltra occurred on Canadian soil. At McGill University, agents drugged civilians with hallucinogenic and narcotic drugs in the pursuit of novel forms of torture and interrogation. Maybe, instead, we should take as our example the Central Intelligence Agency agents (both named and anonymous) who abetted in the murder of Patrice Lumumba, former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1961.

There aren't many American cold-war villains as stone evil as Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA chemist who oversaw the crimes and depredations of the Company's MKUltra program. In 1975, Gottlieb appeared before Senator Frank Church's committee that was looking into the various crimes and depredations of the CIA. (Church's committee remains one of the most important episodes in recent history of the many we've chosen to forget about.)