Sidney Gottlieb: The Man Who Ran the CIA's MKUltra

Showing 1 Sidney Gottlieb video from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Sidney Gottlieb directed the CIA's Project MK-Ultra, the real and extensively declassified mind-control research program that subjected American citizens to LSD, electroshock, hypnosis, and sensory deprivation without their knowledge or consent over roughly two decades of Cold War-era domestic operations funded by American taxpayers, according to a congressional task force on declassification. That subject pool included prisoners, hospital patients, and veterans. The task force's chair states that when the program ended, its leadership refused to cooperate with investigators and instead destroyed evidence, noting that CIA Director Richard Helms personally ordered MK-Ultra records destroyed in January 1973 shortly before leaving office, a documented historical cover-up rather than a disputed claim. Separately, the podcast Due Dissidence discusses author Tom O'Neill's book Chaos, which raises the theory that the Manson Family may have been an inadvertently successful CIA mind-control experiment rather than an intelligence failure, a claim the hosts present as O'Neill's own documented research rather than settled fact. The same hosts speculate, without offering supporting evidence, about a possible connection between Gottlieb's historical MK-Ultra work and open questions surrounding Charlie Kirk's assassination decades later.