The extent of MK-Ultra will never be known. Many who were both administering and participating are either dead, silent, or suffering horrifically. Loads of classified documents were purposely destroyed. MK-Ultra was a disaster and not unlike the unthinkable crimes of Hiitler and The Nazis. The fact that sadistic mind altering drugs among myriad other roxic experiments were administered on unwitting participants is a crime - plain and simple.

This film throws a spotlight on some hard to wrap your head around harrowing things our own government has done. Bad things with, often deadly, consequences,. Welcome to the CIA/US Army chemical weapons with attempts to control the mind. It uses historical written, video, and audio documents as well as a few actual participants with a respected group of talking head types to paint what appears to be an unimaginable rtrue-life horror story. Areas in both the US and abroad were among the laboratories and the lab rats were often innocents who never knew what was happening in their minds or bodies. The lack of morality was beyond any shred of humanity, certainly against the tenants of Christianity. How mis-guided can a supposed God fearing country’s leaders be?

I think like most of the stories about this stuff there is much added speculation. That said this, mostly, has the ring of exposing more truth than hyperbole. I think it makes a good primer and almost demands further investigation into the trove of books on the subject. A pretty powerful introduction to one of the greatest breaches of trust our government has been a party to. See it to decide where you stand.

This documentary was very informative, but at the same time extremely disturbing. I had heard in the past about some of the experiments that had been done by or for the CIA by scientists and psychiatrists in the name of mind control for military use such as MK ultra. This film blew my socks off by going into detail with what bits of information still exists as to what was done, and interviews with actual subjects who miraculously are still mentally stable enough to discuss how they were used as human guinea pigs in the name of science. The tragedy is that it was done to our own citizens. The A bomb fallout exposure tests on the soldiers in the fifties, and the lsd experiments in the sixties, and many other experiments performed on people in mental hospitals, prisons, and the army. What made this so scary is that it wasn't Hollywood.

This is a basic Primer which I found as a great high level fly over because it shows how much the CIA has been involved in to unlawfully harm humans with their mind control experimentation. This should be good incentive to dig deeper while knowing that the CIA is capable of Nazi horribleness if left unmonitored in their actions to control nations and the globe.

An interesting documentary that provides evidence from declassified document, testimony and apologies from U.S. presidents after internal investigations acknowledging that the CiA and the army in conjunction with prisons, psychiatric hospitals and universities conducted unethical experiments with uninformed consent on it's own citizens from the 50's to the early seventies under various project names including MK Ultra. There is also significant circumstantial evidence from documents that were not destroyed by the CIA that the small village in France was most likely was experimented on unknowingly by tainting some flour with large doses of LSD.

The importance of this documentary is to demonstrate and bust through the denial that the U.S. government has and is capable of doing some horrific things to citizens both home and abroad. It touches on the fact that other countries, like the U.S.S.R. was probably doing some of the same things. It also demonstrates that people in positions of authority can sometimes abuse their power beyond the original scope of some experiments as was demonstrated in the Stanford Prison Experiment. Secrecy and lack of transparency and accountability are enemies of the ethical treatment and humane experimentation

Eye opening as to how knowledge was obtained about experimental medication, drugs, and treatments. Thought the United States had a higher level of human welfare, than several countries. However, not only were individual citizens targeted for "trials" but entire sections of the country. This documentary left me speechless.

I agree with several of the other viewers in that the more one learns about the truth, ugliness and heinous reigns everywhere.

I want to believe the information that this film offers--and I do, begrudgingly. I am not a conspiracy theorist, though I've known enough people with sordid government tales that seem straight out of a Phillip K. Dick novel. Such is the same in this piece; the shattering of human rights and ethical practices in the US, post-WWII. The information, historicity and case studies presented are all believable, and backed up by truth--take a jaunt down Wikipedia lane, and you'll find every segment featured in the film. Being a critical thinker--a better way of phrasing cynical--I just wish the writers and producers of this piece hadn't slipped into a True Crime format. The entire subject becomes implausible as this style grows throughout the film. It's a shame, considering the atrocities that took place, and the copious victims that were sadly left to tell the tale. Great subject, good facts, and good footage--I'd only ask for a bit more seriousness and respect to the subject matter; it always helps to pull off the Nancy Drew hat if you want to keep people listening.

Sure makes ya proud to be a Merkin.