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> when “Artichoke scientists came up with a new drug or other technique they wished to test… they asked the CIA station in South Korea to supply a batch [of] ‘e
by rdtsc 7y ago
> when “Artichoke scientists came up with a new drug or other technique they wished to test… they asked the CIA station in South Korea to supply a batch [of] ‘expendable’ subjects...
While I’d like to believe the CIA has since found its moral compass and abandoned these kinds of experiments, I have a suspicion that it might still be going on and they just found ways to hide it better.
There had to be other technology since then that they looked at and said “we should try this thing on humans”.
> One of Pfeiffer’s subjects was James “Whitey” Bulger, who later became a notorious Boston gangland killer. Bulger said that as a young inmate, he was given LSD daily for more than a year.
That is bizarre. Wasn’t another killer, the unabomber also tied to some psychological experiments when he was in college...