Sidney Gottlieb

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Sidney Gottlieb (1918–1999) was an American chemist and spymaster who directed the CIA's Project MKUltra mind-control program from 1953–1972, involving extensive illegal human experimentation with LSD and other drugs, as well as assassination plots against foreign leaders using toxins he developed.

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Project MKUltra

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Illegal CIA mind-control research program (1953–1972) directed by Sidney Gottlieb that conducted extensive experimentation with LSD and other psychoactive drugs on unwitting human subjects without consent.

Formally approved by CIA Director Allen Dulles on April 13, 1953
Involved over 80 institutions including universities, hospitals, prisons, and clinics
Received over $25 million in funding; distributed through CIA front organizations to conceal sponsorship
Used numerous methods including high-dose LSD, electroshock, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, and torture

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