Project Mind Control

"MK-ULTRA gave him the power to decide the life and death of other people." Cruel human experiments in secret prisons, new torture methods, mind-altering drugs in fake brothels and undetectable poison assassinations - all on behalf of the CIA and American presidents. This is not the plot of a Hollywood flick, but part of the biography of chemist Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, one of the CIA's deadliest secret weapons until the 1970s. As head of the top-secret MK-ULTRA project, he researched ways to control people's consciousness. In clandestine operations, Gottlieb also spearheaded CIA assassination attempts on disfavored government leaders such as Fidel Castro, Chu En Lai and Patrice Lumumba. Journalist and best-selling author Stephen Kinzer sheds light on this dark and never-ending chapter in American history. Using new documentary research and original interviews, Kinzer shows how unscrupulously the U.S. government - also in cooperation with other nations - conducted experiments on "expendable" people to serve the supposedly higher purpose of domestic security.