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Manipulation, Coercion and the CIA

Project MK-ULTRA was a top-secret CIA program that developed procedures and identify drugs to be used to weaken people psychologically and physically, and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. In other words, extreme manipulation.

The program was illegal and involved the covert administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and even sexual abuse, and other forms of torture. But that did not stop the CIA...


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