Inside the CIA’s Mind Control Program: MKUltra & The License to Kill (Stephen Kinzer)

On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Stephen Kinzer, author of Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. He discusses the role of Sidney Gottlieb in the CIA’s search for mind control, how he was relatively unknown and had a license to kill from the US government and how he was the most powerful man in the 20th century in America. He also discusses Winston Churchill’s demand for bioweapons, the Korean War and how it served as the beginning of the CIA’s obsession to research and achieve mind control, the hiring of Nazi scientists by the United States through Operation Paperclip, how Sydney Gottlieb, who has a Jewish background, worked side-by-side with Nazi scientists after the Second World War conducting medical experiments on live humans, the use of torture, LSD and mass poisonings by Gottlieb and his group of Nazi scientists on African Americans and other victims of the CIA’s attempts at mind control and more!