And the person named for administering the LSD to Frank Olson was none other than Sidney Gottlieb, by this time known as the Black Sorcerer and Dirty Trickster.

So a lot of the things that Sidney Gottlieb was up to with MKUltra, his blueprint was basically Stanley Lovell.

Basically, the way that MKUltra was structured with these sub-projects, Sidney Gottlieb wasn't running these experiments himself. What he would do is he would fund other people to do experiments. And most of the time, these people were experts in their own field. So they were like reputable people. Ewan Cameron was the head of the American Psychiatric Association, the Canadian Psychiatric Association, and the World Psychiatric Association. He was like the most famous psychiatrist in the world, and he was being funded by this. So Sidney Gottlieb thought, well, if I can fund reputable psychiatrists or drug researchers to do these experiments, then it's up to them to provide the safety and the procedures, you know, to keep these patients safe. It's not my job. They're the ones who are conducting the experiments. That's how he justified it to himself. But that's how the structure of MKUltra typically worked. Such a diffusion of responsibility. Exactly. Gottlieb is funding people, and he's not even funding them directly. In most cases, what's happening is he's using cut-out organizations. So he's giving the money to one of them is called the Gettschaker Fund. One of them is called the National Institutes of Mental Health. And then the CIA sets up its own cut-out organization called the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, which is just a made-up organization. So the CIA would transfer the funds to the society, who would then transfer it to the researcher.

So, one of the things that got, I should say, Sidney Gottlieb, interested in investigating LSD was the fact that maybe this could be an incapacitant that we could use to basically eliminate an enemy army for the time being, and then we could go and conquer them without actually having to kill them ourselves. So, he was trying to use it almost as a more ethical form of warfare where instead of killing someone, you just incapacitate them.

In reality, Alan Dulles, as the head of the CIA, had given ultimate approval for the program, but it was run by Sidney Gottlieb. This is a pretty well-known piece of information.