The CIA, in its attempt to foil the spread of communism during the Cold War, created a covert

program called MK Ultra, to test and develop techniques and gadgets to stop the Soviets in

their tracks.

Most evidence of M.K. Ultra's activities was destroyed by CIA director Richard Holmes, but

a secret magic manual meant to train agents in the art of trickery and misdirection survived.

Here are some of its most revealing secrets that very few people knew about.

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The US government believed that the Soviets were using trucks for mind control and assassinations.

Afraid they'd fall behind and interested to explore its potential, they created their own secret program, MK. Ultra.

Among its tasks were developing poisons and ways of delivering them.

Their arsenal had eight lethal substances and 27 incapacitating ones.

Many were found in nature, such as shellfish toxins, cobra venom, botulinum, and crocodile bile.

To deliver these toxins, the CIA developed weapons like the non-discernible bioculoculator, a 45-caliber colt pistol that could fire a toxin-tept dart filled with poison.

If used with a side and a shoulder stock, it could shoot a dart up to 250 feet and leave no traces.

Many plans were hatched to eliminate threats to the U.S.

An example was President Patrice Lumumba of Congo who appealed to the Soviets when the West turned on him.

This alarmed the Eisenhower administration. In 1960, a tube of Poison Lace toothpaste was prepared for an agent to insert into Lumumba's toiletry kit.

Larry Devlin, CIA office chief in the capital city of Leopoldville, is said to have tossed the tube into a river in the plan abandoned. Another target

was Iraqi General Abdel Karim Qasem. The agency sent him a poison handkerchief laced with

the incapacitating agent, Bruce Celosus. However, he was killed by a firing squad before the

handkerchief arrived. One particular focus of intense CIA involvement was Operation Mongoose.

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