EPISODE · Jul 14, 2026 · 44 MIN
The Mind Thieves — Project MKUltra and the CIA's War on the Human Brain
from The Evident Conspiracy Files · host ECF Studios
Send us Fan Mail The morning of 28 November 1953. A scientist comes through a closed window thirteen floors up and falls to the New York pavement. His own government had secretly slipped LSD into his drink nine days earlier — and watched. They called it suicide. Forty years later, his family dug him up, and his bones told a different story. Tonight Mark and Grim open the one file that needs no exaggeration — because every horror in it is signed, sworn, declassified, and apologised for by a sitting President. This is Project MKUltra: the day the CIA decided to break open the human mind and reach inside. Meet Sidney Gottlieb, the goat-farming, folk-dancing "Poisoner in Chief" who bought up the world's supply of LSD. The Montreal psychiatrist who erased patients' minds with drug comas and looping tapes. The safehouses where strangers were dosed and watched through two-way mirrors. The files Richard Helms ordered burned in 1973 — and the question of what was in the ones too damning to survive. Was it a failure? Or did they simply learn, in exhaustive detail, how to take a human being apart? Next time someone says "the government would never experiment on its own people," you only need one word back: MKUltra. This wasn't folklore. This was the receipt. Enjoy, remember to follow so you don't miss an episode. Give us a 5star review, the team will appreciate it, and it will help us break the algorithm. From the shadows. Stay curious, stay sceptical, and keep your mind your own. And we will catch you again, somewhere in time... 🎧 The Evident Conspiracy Files · TheECF.co.uk · Follow us on X Content note: discusses non-consensual experimentation, institutional abuse, and a contested death. Support the show Our new show - GRIM STORIES - is now available... https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/grim-stories/id6794635228
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Send us Fan Mail The morning of 28 November 1953. A scientist comes through a closed window thirteen floors up and falls to the New York pavement. His own government had secretly slipped LSD into his drink nine days earlier — and watched. They called it suicide. Forty years later, his family dug him up, and his bones told a different story. Tonight Mark and Grim open the one file that needs no exaggeration — because every horror in it is signed, sworn, declassified, and apologised for by a si...
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