![]() ![]() Gottlieb was also the CIA's chief chemist, creating poisons and innovative ways of surreptitiously administering them. He ran it until it was shut down in the early '60s. The MKUltra program was created by Sidney Gottlieb in 1953. Many of the unwitting subjects of these experiments were subjected to what amounts to psychological torture. ![]() LSD was just one of the mind-altering drugs that were used in the program to see if and how they could be weaponized to control human behavior. Our guest, journalist Stephen Kinzer, has spent several years investigating the CIA's mind control program, which was known as MKUltra. There's a lot more to the CIA experiments with LSD, and some of it is pretty horrifying. You may have heard stories about the CIA's secret experiments with LSD, through which '60s counterculture luminaries like Ken Kesey and Allen Ginsberg were first introduced to the drug. ![]()
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