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🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Our miniseries on the 1975/76 Church Committee findings on CIA and FBI operations continues. This episode, we re-visit our conversation about the MKULTRA program, which conducted mind-control and psychedelic drug experiments on unwitting subjects during the 50s and 60s. The existence of the program came out during the Church Committee hearings.
Be sure to check out the whole “Family Jewels” series, where we’re looking at Meddling Abroad, Meddling at Home, Meddling with Your Mind, and Meddling in the Press.
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone Jody here. If you've been listening you know the drill by now we are in the middle of a four-part series on the |
0:09.2 | 1975- 1976 Church Committee hearings and report which uncovered all sorts of |
0:14.8 | sketchy activity from intelligence agencies like the NSA, the CIA, FBI. |
0:19.6 | We've covered what the committee revealed about meddling abroad in other people's elections and so forth, |
0:25.0 | meddling at home with things like co-intel pro and domestic spying. |
0:29.0 | And today, part three of four, meddling in your mind. |
0:32.0 | This is all about those experiments and |
0:34.4 | schemes to use psychedelics and other drugs and basically use human guinea pigs |
0:38.7 | for this research which largely fell under the very notorious MK Ultra program. |
0:44.4 | And today's episode is a rerun. |
0:46.8 | Ha! I fooled you. |
0:48.0 | But look, you're already listening. |
0:49.4 | You might as well stay here. |
0:50.4 | But seriously, we did an episode on MK Ultra last year and it fits really nicely into this mini |
0:55.8 | series. So here it is in case you missed it or you want to listen again given the new context that we're doing. |
1:01.1 | It's really interesting stuff and our guest for the |
1:03.8 | Family Jewel series Rick Perlstein is not on this of course because we were |
1:07.4 | recording it last year but he will be back on for the fourth and final |
1:11.3 | episode of the series. |
1:12.9 | Okay, here we go. |
1:14.0 | Let's pick this up with me saying hello to Kelly and Nicky. |
1:17.5 | She here to discuss as always our Nicole Hammer of Columbia and Kelly Carter |
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