I'm glad that we learned from this and took measures to prevent the US government from carrying out any more abhorrent secret operations on its own citizens. All the extra accountability and transparency that's been woven into our institutional frameworks since this was discovered makes me much more confident that it won't happen again.
From 5 years ago,<p><i>Project MKUltra</i> (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21165137">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21165137</a>) - Oct 2019 (121 comments)<p>Stephen Kinzer wrote a book about MKUltra:<p><i>Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control</i> (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Poisoner-Chief-Sidney-Gottlieb-Control/dp/1250140439/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Poisoner-Chief-Sidney-Gottlieb-Contro...</a>)<p>And these two articles talk about the book in brief:<p><i>The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief'</i> (<a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-que...</a>)<p><i>When the C.I.A. Was Into Mind Control (NYTimes)</i> (<a href="https://archive.is/cRmWm" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/cRmWm</a>)
There is an excellent behind the bastards podcast on this:
<a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kSz7fsdOV9fzFFC93tdS7?si=UcZQnj2QS4SSAgFSGMjMZg" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kSz7fsdOV9fzFFC93tdS7?si=U...</a>
Is that over? Interesting how we are expected to collectively[0] experience every piece of bad news and pretend humans aren't awesome.<p>[0] <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/video/pretext.mov" rel="nofollow">https://s3.amazonaws.com/nasathermalimages/public/video/pret...</a>