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Oct. 24, 2025 - Lionel Nation

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MKULTRA is Now an HBO Series About the CIA's SECRET Mind Control Program

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	You've heard it before, didn't you?
	They said it was a myth.
	They said it was paranoia, some wild tale for the tinfoil crowd.
	But what if the craziest story you've ever heard turned out to be true?
	For decades, MKUltra was whispered about in conspiracy circles, secret labs, LSD experiments, government mind control.
	But now, Hollywood has its hands on it.
	HBO is adapting Project Mind Control, a book by historian John Lyle, into a prestige thriller called Project MKUltra.
	The same director who gave us the Sopranos wants now to bring the CIA's darkest secret to the screen.
	Why now?
	Why now?
	Is there something to it?
	Is there something behind it?
	Because the truth has finally caught up with the legend.
	Are you ready to hear this?
	Are you ready to hear the truth?
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	For years, the mainstream media called it fiction, a Cold War ghost story.
	They said the CIA drugged people, tested LSD on civilians?
	Impossible!
	No way, that's nuts.
	But then came the declassified files, hundreds of pages detailing a real operation that spanned hospitals, prisons, universities, and safe houses.
	Its architect was Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA's chief chemist.
	His mission was to explore how to control the human mind.
	No sci-fi here, my friends.
	Just a bunch of men in suits and white lab coats, you know, just chasing psychic dominance one acid trip at a time.
	It's hard to believe, and I don't blame you for wanting to believe it.
	It's tough for people to believe this.
	This is tough.
	But Gottlieb became known as the black sorcerer.
	The agency gave him money and power and secrecy.
	And what he gave them in return were nightmares, nightmares in triplicate.
	People still can't believe this happened.
	And as the LSD haze lifted over America, the counterculture that it birthed, in essence, traced its roots right back to those secret labs.
	You know, the whole turn on, tune in, drop out movement?
	Well, let me tell you something.
	The thing that terrified parents and thrilled rebels began with CIA research grants.
	Oh, this is critical.
	Are you surprised you haven't been taught that?
	Are you surprised what?
	The cable dos hasn't discussed it?
	Well, John Lyell's book, Project Mind Control, doesn't speculate.
	It documents.
	It draws from hundreds of pages of sworn depositions and interviews and culled and collated and acquired declassified memoranda.
	They describe experiments that sound like horror fiction.
	Patients dosed without consent.
	Prisoners pumped full of psychedelics.
	Soldiers tested until their sanity cracked.
	How far could they do this?
	It's Manchurian candidate, baby, on steroids.
	Even the agency itself eventually burned the records, but not fast enough.
	Because the church committee uncovered fragments and the rest leaked out over decades.
	Each document erased another so-called conspiracy theory.
	And now, decades later, the story has become entertainment, mainstream.
	HBO's official description calls it a dramatic thriller centered on the infamous chemist and spy master, Sidney Gottlieb, who conducted dangerous and deadly mind control experiments on willing and unwilling subjects.
	That's not rumor.
	That's the network's log line.
	What was once unthinkable is now prestige drama.
	So why is the story re-emerging?
	Why now?
	Why not?
	Because we live now in an age, thank God, that rhymes with the Cold War, a time when information itself is weaponized, when data replaces LSD as the new serum.
	You know, back then, back then they wanted to control thought chemically.
	Now they shape it algorithmically.
	Look at what we're doing right now.
	This is mind control.
	Believe it or not.
	Back then, the CIA studied how to plant suggestions in a subject's head.
	Today, we swipe through personalized feeds engineered to do the same thing, playing with dopamine versus LSD.
	And that's why MKUltra isn't just history, it's prophecy.
	It's a mirror held up to the present.
	The same question echoes, how much of your mind is still your own?
	You know, when David Chase, by the way, if you've ever seen this guy speak, looks like he's been a subject of a few experiments.
	But when he speaks, you know, he, of course, is the mind behind the Sopranos.
	He's a genius for that.
	But he takes on this material.
	It means one thing.
	It means the establishment wants to talk about what it used to deny.
	Project MKUltra will explore Gottlieb's obsession, the human cost, the shadow politics behind it.
	He'll executive produce through River Rain Pictures, bringing HBO's full weight to a story once relegated to late-night AM radio and dusty forums.
	Hey, I guess that's me now.
	Anyway, it's really, if you think about it, cinematic validation.
	A secret program once labeled conspiracy, now marked as based on true events.
	And audiences can't look away because deep down everyone senses it.
	The line between classified and culture has blurred officially.
	So behind the drama lies a question of ethics.
	What drives a nation to experiment on its own citizens?
	Fear.
	The same fear that drove the Cold War drives today's surveillance age.
	The idea was simple.
	Control behavior, win the future.
	The result was tragic.
	Shattered minds, ruined lives, and a stain that never faded.
	But here's the irony.
	The very public that once scoffed at MKUltra is now fascinated by it.
	We binge-watch the same horror we used to dismiss.
	Because when fiction and fact collide, curiosity wins.
	And somewhere in Langley's archives, the ghosts of those experiments still flicker under fluorescent light.
	So ask yourself this.
	If the government once studied how to hijack the human mind in secret, what makes you so sure they stopped?
	If the tools have evolved from psychedelics to data analytics, from chemical doses to dopamine hits, has the mission really changed?
	Is mind control just better, Brandon, now?
	That's the real filler.
	Or a thriller.
	Or a filler.
	I guess what it's doing right now is playing out, you know, not really on HBO, but in real time, on every glowing screen we stare into, like you're watching now.
	When Project MKUltra hits your feed, don't just watch.
	Remember, remember that truth always begins as heresy.
	That conspiracy is sometimes just tomorrow's declassified file.
	Read the documents.
	Read Lyle's book.
	Learn who Gottlieb was.
	Know the names of the real victims.
	Because the more we know, the less they can hide.
	Share the story.
	Talk about it.
	Demand transparency before history repeats.
	Because the mind is the final frontier.
	And once it's conquered, freedom becomes illusion.
	You know, they called it a conspiracy, in a conspiracy theory.
	Now, they call it television.
	What will they call it next?
	If you value truth over comfort, hit subscribe.
	The next secret, my friend, drops soon.
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	I know you love this.
	You love this as much as I do because it is absolutely, unequivocally, absolutely fascinating.
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	And whatever you do, I beg, beseech, entreat, and importune you.
	Importune.
	What did I say?
	It doesn't matter.

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