TheCIAactuallyranasecretmind-controlprogramusingLSD,electroshock,andsensorydeprivationonunwittingAmericanandCanadiancitizens.Thisisn'tatheory—it'sdeclassified.Thedirectororderedallfilesdestroyedin1973but20,000pagessurvivedbyaccident.
February 1959. Nine experienced Soviet hikers died under impossible circumstances on a Ural Mountains expedition. They cut their way OUT of their tent from the inside, fled into -30°C wearing almost nothing. Some had massive chest trauma with no external wounds. One was missing her tongue. Soviet investigators concluded "a compelling natural force" killed them. The case was classified for decades.
Abstract expressionism — Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning — was literally a Cold War weapon. The CIA secretly bankrolled exhibitions, galleries, and critics through front organizations to prove American culture was superior to Soviet realism. The artists never knew.
In 1962, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously approved a plan to stage fake terrorist attacks on American cities, sink boats of Cuban refugees, and blow up a US ship — all to create a pretext for invading Cuba. JFK rejected it and fired the Chairman. The documents were declassified in 1997.
The CIA actually ran a secret mind-control program using LSD, electroshock, and sensory deprivation on unwitting American and Canadian citizens. This isn't a theory — it's declassified. The director ordered all files destroyed in 1973 but 20,000 pages survived by accident.
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