35. ⁠CIA Mind Control: The Next Frontier (Ep 1)

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🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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What if the government knew how to control your mind? Could a secret program unlock the secrets of the human psyche? And how far would the CIA go to win the Cold War? In the shadowy world of espionage, the line between science and sinister experiments blurs. As the Cold War gripped the globe, the CIA embarked on a desperate quest to weaponise the mind. Unwitting Americans became guinea pigs in a series of covert experiments, pushing the boundaries of ethics and legality. Listen as Gordon and David delve into the shocking truth behind MKUltra, the CIA's mind control program, and the chilling story of Sidney Gottlieb, the man at its centre. ------------------- Order a signed edition of David's latest book, The Seventh Floor, via this link. ------------------- Get our exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ www.nordvpn.com/restisclassified It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! Email: [email protected] Twitter: @triclassified Assistant Producer: Becki Hills Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by 20th Century Studios, The Amateur. Now, Gordon, we have seen the
0:09.6	trailer for the amateur and it looks brilliant. It does. It's a perfect film for us that the rest is
0:14.6	classified. It's about a CIA officer, Charlie Heller, who's a desk agent and he's on a high-risk mission to avenge his wife
0:22.3	who's killed in a terrorist attack. It looks like it's got everything that you want on a spy thriller.
0:27.2	It's got a bunch of wild action, and it stars Oscar winner Rami Malik and Oscar nominee,
0:33.3	Lawrence Fishburn. So make sure you see it on the big screen, the amateur only in cinemas and
0:39.2	IMAX from April 11th. It's like you've been on something already. 70 micrograms of LSD, man.
0:46.7	Gordon, you just look like a purple fuzzy-shaped being that I'm communing with. People who
0:52.5	only listen to this rather watch it, might think that's what I actually look
0:55.1	like.
0:55.4	Anyway, that's normal.
0:56.2	You look fuzzier than normal, Gordon.
0:58.2	Okay, great.
1:02.4	We might call it in its new form brain warfare.
1:10.1	The target of this warfare is the minds of men on a collective and on an individual basis.
1:14.6	Its aim is to condition the mind so that it no longer reacts on a free will or rational basis,
1:20.6	but a response to impulses implanted from outside.
1:25.6	The human mind is the most delicate of instruments. It's so finely
1:29.8	adjusted, so susceptible to the impact of outside influences that it is proving malleable in the hands
1:37.0	of sinister men. The Soviets are now using brain perversion as one of their main weapons in
1:43.5	prosecuting the Cold War.
1:45.5	Some of these techniques are so subtle and so abhorrent to our way of life that we have
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