by Willow Tohi, All News Pipeline:

• • The CIA’s MKULTRA program, a Cold War-era initiative, aimed to develop mind-control techniques through unethical experiments on unwitting human subjects, including the use of LSD, hypnosis, sensory deprivation and physical methods.

• • Over 1,200 declassified documents reveal the program’s disturbing scope, confirming its unethical practices and the CIA’s deliberate destruction of evidence in 1973, ordered by then-CIA Director Richard Helms and Sidney Gottlieb.

• • Experiments often targeted ordinary citizens, with federal narcotics agent George White conducting tests on unsuspecting individuals using LSD in CIA safehouses, justified as necessary for national security.