Project MKUltra

Oh, Project MKUltra, what a delightful little romp through the annals of “What if we play God with people’s minds?” Back in the Cold War days, the CIA got this genius idea—let’s dose random folks with LSD, mess with their sleep, and see if we can turn them into walking confession machines. You know, for national security, of course.

They didn’t stop at acid trips, though. Oh no, they really went for it, electroshock therapy, sensory deprivation, you name it. Some poor souls came out of these experiments more scrambled than a Denny’s breakfast. But hey, someone had to suffer for science, right?

The whole thing blew up in the 70s, when a few nosy people decided to poke around and found out the CIA had been shredding documents like it was a bad day at Enron. What’s left of the story is sketchy at best, but isn’t that part of the charm? Nothing says top-tier government agency like wreaking havoc and then pretending it never happened.