from Robert Lusetich, for The Australian
Easily lost, on page 425 in the mass of the CIA’s notorious “Family Jewels” files, is a short paragraph outlining “potentially embarrassing Agency activities”.
“Experiments in influencing human behaviour through the administration of mind- or personality-altering drugs to unwitting subjects.”
Of all the heinous acts committed by the CIA in the name of national security, these experiments, done on the agency’s behalf by prominent psychiatrists on innocent victims – including children as young as four – may be the darkest.
