# 7/9/26 - MK-ULTRA

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Podcast: [The Anchormen](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-anchormen-7194712)
Published: 2026-07-09T23:00:02+00:00
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Duration seconds: 3239

## Resource

The Anchormen dig into one of the darkest chapters in U.S. intelligence history: the CIA’s MK-Ultra program — where Americans were allegedly abducted, drugged with LSD, psychologically tortured, and used as human guinea pigs in the pursuit of mind control. Was this just a rogue Cold War experiment, or did the CIA successfully create “programmed” operatives capable of carrying out acts — even assassinations — that ordinary people would never commit? And the biggest question of all: did MK-Ultra ever really end?

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