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According to Operation Paperclip [1] part of the motivation for the US investigating weaponized LSD was the fear the Nazis were investigating it. But I'm not su
by dreamdu5t 9y ago
According to Operation Paperclip [1] part of the motivation for the US investigating weaponized LSD was the fear the Nazis were investigating it. But I'm not sure Nazi use was documented to the extent it was in the US, with the CIA's MK-ULTRA program experimenting on unknowing citizens by dosing them with LSD [2].
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Paperclip-Intelligence-Program-Scientists/dp/031622104X https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Paperclip-Intelligence-Prog...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra#Drugs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra#Drugs
- eip 9y agoCIA. Nazis. Tomato. Tomato.
- castle-bravo 9y agoIf I understand correctly, saying that Nazi scientists were experimenting with LSD is technically true, but very misleading. The "scientists" (read: professional torturers) were /former/ Nazis working for the CIA /after/ the end of the war. This source [1] states that a paper-clipped Nazi scientist brought LSD to the attention of the CIA in 1948 (though its credibility is suspect because it suggests that a CIA operative died die to LSD poisoning, a highly improbable occurrence). [1] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/11/what-cold-war-cia-interrogators-learned-from-the-nazis http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/11/what-cold-w...