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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

MKULTRA 101: The Basics

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.310.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The rumors spread for decades: Somewhere in the US, our own government was conducting dangerous, heinous and illegal experiments on citizens from all walks of life. This conspiratorial tale seemed set to remain little more than an urban legend -- until, that is, intrepid reporters and members of Congress managed to expose MKULTRA, the insidious series of experiments run by the Central Intelligence Agency with almost no oversight. In the decades since the revelation, MKULTRA has been featured in countless works of fiction, documentaries and more. But what exactly was it? Join the guys as they separate the MKULTRA fact from fiction.

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1:49.0

Hello, welcome back to the show. What's your name? My name is Matt, my name is Noel.

2:03.0

They call me Ben, we are joined as always with our super producer Paul Mission Control Deckint. Most importantly, you are you, you are here.

2:12.0

And that makes this stuff they don't want you to know. This is an episode that we've received numerous requests for and Matt, if I recall correctly, at least the two of us, we were both surprised that we had not done this yet. Is that accurate?

2:27.0

Yeah, we're having many echoes of videos such as the Project Artichoke several part series that we made in the past.

2:35.0

And we've mentioned MK Ultra so many times on this show just as a throwaway mention of Mind Control whenever we bring something even closely related to that or kind of related to Mind Control.

2:45.0

We always joke MK Ultra, right?

2:47.0

Yeah, right.

2:48.0

But we've never put it all in one thing.

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