The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency approved project MK-Ultra in 1953 as a response to rumors of other world powers researching mind control tactics (3). Tests were conducted in hospitals, prisons, and even military bases (4). In the same year as the inception of the CIA program, an unbelievable series of events occurred involving a CIA scientist by the name of Frank Olson. The scientist worked in the biological warfare branch of the U.S. Army’s Biological Warfare Laboratories (5). Olson attended an off the clock get-together with other CIA employees and was unknowingly dosed with LSD by CIA agents who were in attendance. The scientist soon began to question his highly-classified line of work and exhibited symptoms of mental illness; most likely due to being unwittingly dosed with a mind-altering substance. Frank Olson allegedly jumped from a New York Hotel window to his death in November 1953 (6). It wasn’t until 1977 when the Rockefeller Commission investigated MK-Ultra that new details arose; documents revealed that Olson and several other government employees had unintentionally ingested LSD, courtesy of the CIA (7). The project was previously shut down in 1973. Olson’s family requested a second autopsy on his body in 1997, and the results were unnerving. The forensics team discovered that some of Olson’s injuries had most likely occurred before the fall; evidence that pointed to murder in lieu of suicide. The Scientist’s family eventually brought the case to court and won a settlement of $750,000, and an apology from Gerald Ford and former CIA Director William Colby (8). There is an excellent documentary chronicling these events; I’ll link the trailer below.