Project Artichoke (1951-1953, precursor to MKUltra) investigated whether an individual could be involuntarily made to perform an act of attempted assassination. The CIA administered morphine, mescaline, and LSD to unknowing CIA agents to produce amnesia. The program explored whether hypnosis combined with drugs could create unwitting assassins - a 'Manchurian Candidate' scenario that was dismissed as fiction until documents were declassified.
The CIA's Project Artichoke tested whether they could program unwitting people to become assassins using drugs and hypnosis
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