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Sep 10, 2019 · Sidney Gottlieb was a brilliant biochemist, and a deeply sensitive humanist. As chief of the Clandestine Service’s Chemical Branch, he dealt in some pretty nasty potions – though principally ones ones that disabled rather than killed. In 1953 he was tasked by CIA’s Director, Allen Dulles, to investigate the mind-altering properties of LSD.
Sidney Gottlieb approved of an MKUltra sub-project on LSD in this June 9, 1953, letter. Origin of the project [ edit ] During the early 1940s, Nazi scientists working in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau conducted interrogation experiments on human subjects .
Feb 26, 2009 · Last week, the SSCI completed its review of the declassified transcripts of Sidney Gottlieb's testimony before the SSCI in 1975 on the MKULTRA project and other behavioral control research programs. On Friday, 11 August, the Committee approved the release of the transcript to the Office of General Counsel for use in depositions in an ongoing ...
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control is a 2019 book by The New York Times journalist and historian Stephen Kinzer. The book contains untold stories of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chemist called Sidney Gottlieb , who tried to "find a way to control the human brain".
Sep 10, 2019 · 4.09. 2,454 ratings361 reviews. The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s. The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer--the agency's "poisoner in chief."
Sep 10, 2019 · Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. By Stephen Kinzer. In 1955, R. Gordon Wasson set off for southern Mexico to experience a sacred Indian ceremony rumored to provide a “pathway ...
