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.
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