Joseph P Kennedy officiates during an exhibition of articles made by disabled World War veterans at Imperial Institute in South Kensington, England. The United States ambassador to the Court of Saint James opens veteran exhibit. Various hand made articles displayed by the disabled war veterans.
United States President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy board a helicopter on the lawn of the White House (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500, United States). The helicopter takes off with the Washington Monument in the background. President Reagan along with his wife disembark from aircraft in Paris. President Reagan holds an umbrella while he descends from the airstair with Nancy Reagan. President Reagan visits the Élysée Palace (55 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France). French troops in uniform stand along with French President Mitterrand to welcome the United States President. Members of the Economic Summit receive a red-carpet welcome at the Palace of Versailles (Place d'Armes, 78000 Versailles, France). British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is seen, along with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Japanese Prime Minister Suzuki Zenkō. United States Secretary of the Treasury Donald Regan speaks before the assembly. A gala dinner and dance are held in the evening, ending with fireworks.
Pope Pius XII delivers an Easter message to a quarter of a million Easter pilgrims from St. Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro 00120 Città del Vaticano Vatican City) in the Vatican City. A huge crowd gathers at the square to attend the Pope's Easter Urbi et Orbi address. People walk through flooded streets in New York City. People cover their heads with umbrellas and boxes to avoid getting wet while entering Saint Patrick's Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). A woman holds a live Easter rabbit.
Spring training camps for the 1957 baseball season, held in Florida. Brooklyn Dodgers practice and train at Vero Beach. Several Dodgers players seen, including Don Newcombe, Sal Maglie, Fred Kipp, Don Zimmer, and Pee Wee Reese. Visiting Japanese players from the Tokyo Giants stand and watch along side Walter O'Malley. New York Yankees practice at Saint Petersburg, including players Al Cicotte, Art Ditmar, Bobby Shantz and Mickey Mantle (brief closeup of Mantle). In Tampa, Chicago White Sox players like little Nellie Fox, Jim Wilson, Dick Donovan, Jack Harshman, Larry Doby and Walt Dropo practice.
Documentary depicts development and administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) as a tool for mind control (Project MKUltra). Scenes of swirling colors and lights meant to simulate the experience of someone being under influence of a hallucinogen. Prostitutes and late night city street scenes. A bull in a bull fighting ring that narrator says has electrodes implanted in its head to control it. A man sitting in a chair while under the influence of a drug speaks emotionally and cries. A close up of George White who worked on the CIA program. On September 21, 1977, Stansfield Turner, Director CIA, speaks about Mission Mind Control. Members are seated in a hall. News correspondent Paul Altmeyer stands in front of the Headquarters of OSS (Office of Strategic Services, and precursor to the CIA) in its original World War 2 era location in Washington DC. The first mind control work began from this Headquarters. The members who are the part of this mission are the shapers and molders of the OSS. Still photos of U.S. General, William Joseph Donovan, nicknamed 'Wild Bill', and Boston industrialist Stanley Lovell, who is the Head of OSS Research and Development efforts into mind control. Still images of OSS Captain George H. White, formerly of the Bureau of Narcotics. Correspondent shows and reads from the diary of George White and talks about his training and schooling. J. Michael Burke, President of Madison Square Garden Center is seen walking across the basketball court in the Center. He was a former colleague of Mr. White, and Burke talks about George White and his technical knowledge. Another colleague of White who is a narcotics officer talks about him. A close up of George White. A note written in White's diary. George White worked on a truth drug at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington DC where experiments were conducted. View of exterior of Saint Elizabeth's psychiatric hospital in Washington DC. A 1952 CIA memo says the aim is "controlling an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will." Exterior views of the Sandoz Laboratory buildings in Basel, Switzerland where doctor Albert Hofmann believed that they had discovered and found a psychedelic drug and the discovery was LSD. Retired Chief Psychologist for CIA, John Gittinger, talks about the powerful drug and is being interviewed publicly. CIA's interest in LSD was intense but they were worried that the Russians would get hold of it. Commentator notes that mistaken intelligence reported that Sandoz Laboratory was going to put 100 million doses of LSD on the open market. Concerned, the United States was prepared to buy the entire supply. However, through information learned from Freedom of Information Act filings, John Marks, author of The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, tells the interviewer that this was mistaken information caused by a mixup when an American military attache confused milligrams versus kilograms, so there were in fact only 100 doses on the market. Brief footage of CIA chemist, Dr. Sydney Gottlieb.
Opening scene shows Prince Rainier leading Princess Grace, of Monaco, who carries their baby daughter, Princess Caroline Louise, through a gathering of people as they enter the Saint Nicholas Cathedral (4 Rue Colonel Bellando de Castro, 98000 Monaco) for the baby's christening ceremony. A glimpse of the baptismal party including four bishops and 15 priests, as Bishop of Monaco, Gilles-Henri-Alexis Barthe, christens her, Caroline Louise Marguerite. Closeup of the baby Princess held in the arms of her Godmother, Margaret Ann Davis, from Philadelphia, Princess Grace's niece. Her Godfather, another cousin, Hungarian Prince Georges Festetics, from Vienna, is seen in military uniform. The royal christening party leaves the cathedral.