CIA MK-Ultra: When The Government Dose LSD Without Your Knowledge

LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, a synthetic drug is a hallucinogen that produces delusions and hallucinations that distort people’s sense of time and identity. It creates flashbacks, sometimes fatal, for some people. The drug came into popularity in the mid 1960s. The MK-Ultra CIA operatives slipped LSD into their subjects’ drinks without informing most of them. Birth of MK-Ultra In April 1953, CIA Director Allen Dulles authorized the operation because there were concerns about communists using substances for brainwashing POWs during the Korean Conflict. The agency used taxpayers’ money to finance the project. It had expectations that LSD or a similar…