MKUltra

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Another time, a hypnotized woman was told to wait by a phone to receive a call. The person on the other end would mention a code word in the course of a normal conversation, causing the woman to pass into an undetectable trance state.

The woman would then proceed to a location and plant an incendiary device hidden in a briefcase.

https://nypost.com/2025/04/15/us-news/unbelievable-operations-the-cia-actually-carried-out/

[Free Hate Speech]

Imagine telling normies that you believed stuff like this had occurred, before the declassification of these documents.
Then imagine their utter lack of a lesson learned after showing them these documents

[prime]

In my view, it is a mixed bag.

1. Cold war authorities did lots of experiments. No evidence suggests this was widely rolled out.

2. However, this shows us how bureaucracies view citizens, as tools with potential utility and collateral damage.