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It sounds like conspiracy theorist fodder, but it's not: http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs/95mkultra.pdf


The combined letters "water" shows up in that text 7 times. In all but one of the cases, it's because of Senator Barry Goldwater's name is in the report.

In the remaining case (the only time the word 'water' itself shows up) is this sentence:

> One police writer claims that the threat of scopolamine interrogation has been effective in extracting confessions from criminal suspects, who are told they will first be rendered unconscious by chloral hydrate placed covertly in their coffee or drinking water.

Which is absolutely unrelated to putting chemicals in the drinking supply of a population in an attempt to mind control them.


Try searching for "unwitting". I think it's completely fair (and true) to state that past government programs tested chemicals on unwitting Americans and foreigners. Might not have literally been attempts at "mind-control" or "tainting water supplies with psychedelics", but misdirection and abuse of power definitely occurred and continues to occur.

"In order to meet the perceived threat to the national security, substantial programs for the testing and use of chemical and biological agents-including projects involving the surreptitious administration of LSD to unwitting nonvolunteer subjects "at all social levels, high and low, native American and foreign"-were conceived, and implemented. These programs resulted in substantial violations of the rights of individuals within the United States."

pg. 73 (393)

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson


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>Then what the fuck are we talking about? Seriously, what the fuck are you doing? I'm beyond tired of folks derailing conversations like what you've just done.

So much anger, in such a personal form. Why the chip on your shoulder?

This thread, while straying from the content of the submitted post, has come to be about your implication regarding CIA and mind control. I have admitted that the CIA directly participating in mind control efforts via water supply poisoning seems outlandish, while pointing out that you are overlooking some crucial tidbits in the above link. The CIA has participated in some unsavory experiments on unknowing citizens in the past. While NSLs and the CIA have a tenuous connection at best, you did indeed bring the CIA into the conversation in the first place. I'd say that pointing out past government indiscretion (MKULTRA) is fair game, when we are considering the merits of another (NSLs).




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