CIA Mind Controlling Experiments

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During the Cold War the CIA conducted a mind controlling experiment that was used to get information from people known as project MKULRA. It ran from 1953 to 1973.the CIA admitted that they were doing mid controlling project on countless unwittingly U.S. Citizens, they even told us their methods: hypnosis, drugs, and interrogation techniques.Project MK-ULTRA tested psychotropic drugs and experimental torture on U.S citizens in order to develop mind control and interrogation techniques. Research often cause permanent psychological damage. Frank Olson was illegally experimented on one week before he jumped to his death. The agency admitted the CIA director Richard helms destroyed almost all MK-ULTRA records in 1973. In 1977 former CIA employee

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