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This is the story of a 30 year 
search by U.S. intelligence 

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agencies to perfect mind 
control. 

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Some of those engaged in that 
search have agreed to talk about

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it for the first time, one said.
I think every last one of us 

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felt sorry to attempt this kind 
of thing. 

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We knew we were crossing the 
line. 

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The search would be endless. 
From brothels, an agent says. 

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We learned a lot about human 
nature in the bedroom, to the 

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mystical rites of a magical 
mushroom ceremony performed by 

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an Indian shaman to a Spanish 
bull, Ray. 

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The bull has had electrodes 
implanted in the brain and is 

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controlled by a scientist. 
There would be victims. 

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One intelligence agency tried to
peel this man's mind back to 

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reveal its deepest secrets 
lived. 

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Through it. 
I've lived through it. 

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This man worked on some of these
programs. 

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He would write of his work. 
It was fun, fun, fun. 

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This is the story of the search 
for mind control. 

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ABC News. 
Club we are not professing. 

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To tell you. 
The complete story of these 

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activities. 
We are professing to tell you 

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the complete story that we know.
But. 

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These records that we've 
uncovered don't tell the story, 

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they tell pieces of it. 
This is a story that has been 

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told in bits and pieces. 
This is an attempt to pull most 

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of it together. 
We know we don't have the full 

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story. 
We do, however, have some 

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striking new revelations and 
insights. 

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The story begins here, just off 
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mall, the buildings. 
Behind me were the headquarters 

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for the World War 2. 
Office of Strategic Service. 

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It was here that the first 
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control began. 
The shaper and molder of OSS was

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General Wild Bill Donovan, he 
said of his group's work. 

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We may have made mistakes, but 
we were not afraid to try things

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that were never done before. 
In this Anything goes 

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atmosphere, Donovan appointed 
this man, Stanley Lovell, a 

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Boston industrialist, to break 
new ground in many scientific 

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and technical fields. 
Donovan called Lovell his 

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doctor, Moriarty, after the 
fiendish professor in Sherlock 

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Holmes. 
Lovell liked the name and posed 

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for this Saturday Evening Post 
photo. 

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He later wrote of his OSS job 
that it was, quote, to stimulate

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the Peck's bad boy beneath the 
surface of every American 

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scientist and to say to him 
throw all of your normal law 

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abiding concepts out of the 
window. 

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Here's a chance to raise merry 
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It was in this atmosphere that 
the search for mind control 

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began. 
This bizarre man would be an 

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active participant in that 
search over the next two 

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decades. 
His name is George White, an OSS

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captain who had formerly been 
with the Bureau of Narcotics. 

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In his diary, seen here publicly
for the first time, White left a

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legacy of the darker side of 
American intelligence work. 

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He received his early OSS 
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school at Oshawa, Canada, to the
same school where Ian Fleming, 

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the creator of James Bond, was 
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White referred to the school in 
his Diaries as the Oshawa School

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of Mayhem and Murder, fellow 
Mike Burke, former OSS colleague

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of Whites and now president of 
Madison Square Garden Center. 

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Very compelling fellow, 
mysterious fellow, almost 

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mystical fellow. 
He was fascinating because you 

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didn't even know something about
him and not enough about him to 

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really get a fix on him. 
He also knew a great deal about 

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the swifter elements of society,
the gamier side of life and and 

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he was very impressive in his 
technical knowledge of of the 

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underworld, so to speak. 
He said one of one of our men 

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get speed up. 
He says. 

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You have to act real fast and 
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Charles Suragusa, a former 
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White's. 
He's all come around, he says. 

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I'm breaking kneecaps. 
With that, one guy laughed and 

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George White always had a little
a little Billy with him. 

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And this one guy sort of snaked 
George White, turned on and 

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wiped him across the neck with 
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Then he picked up a pool stake 
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He made his point and he. 
Made his point. 

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George White was not a man of 
understatement or subtleties. 

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His boss at OSS, Stanley Lovell,
referred to him as deadly and 

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dedicated in this note from 
White's Diaries. 

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It says call Lovell regarding 
TDTD was a rather transparent 

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cover for Truth Drug. 
George White worked with the 

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Truth Drug Committee here at 
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the nation's capital. 
They experimented with 

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mescaline, scopalamine and 
marijuana on unwitting victims. 

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The committee soon learned there
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drug at this stage. 
But White and later colleagues 

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would not stop trying. 
The goal remained the same as 

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this 1952 CIA memo says the aim 
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Controlling an individual to the
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bidding against his will and 
even against such fundamental 

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laws of nature as self 
preservation. 

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But it was a discovery here in 
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Laboratories by Doctor Albert 
Hoffman that led the 

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intelligence agencies of America
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the panacea. 
The discovery was lysergic acid 

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diethylamide LSD. 
The film that you see is 

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considered by many experts to be
the closest illustration of the 

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effects of a hallucinogenic. 
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that anybody had run into a 
powerful drug that was different

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than anything else that they 
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John Gettinger, recently retired
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This is the first time Gettinger
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We could disable the whole city 
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on a water supply after all of 
these years of us. 

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Those of us who involved and 
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drug, this was the only thing 
that began to look for the first

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time, like it might be something
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The CIA's interest in LSD was 
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The worry was that the Russians 
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Were the Soviets into LSD? 
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Don't have to say, I'm sure they
were that. 

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If you ask me to prove it, I've 
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it. 
But at one point, intelligence 

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information received from 
Switzerland said that Sandoz 

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Laboratories was about to put 
100 million doses of LSD on the 

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open market, and it caused 
enough concern within the agency

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that the United States was 
prepared to buy the entire 

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supply. 
However, a slight mistake had 

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been made. 
The mistake is made public for 

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the first time. 
I just found out on a new CIA 

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document that there were no such
large quantities of LSD on the 

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market. 
John Marks has filed numerous 

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Freedom of Information suits 
against the CIA and has 

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unearthed much new material. 
He is the author of The Search 

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for The Manchurian Candidate, a 
history of intelligence agency 

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work with mind control. 
He is a consultant for this 

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report. 
What happened is that there was 

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a military attache in 
Switzerland, an American 

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officer, who got milligrams and 
kilograms mixed up. 

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In other words, he made a 
mistake of thinking 11 

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thousandths of a gram was the 
same as 1000 grams, which is a 

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mistake of a million times. 
So when the CIA got the 

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intelligence that there were 100
million doses on the market, in 

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fact, there were 100 doses. 
The man who would oversee.