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Morning Cup of Murder

The Government Experiment - January 8 2024

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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January 8th: Harold Blauer Killed (1953) Seeking help for your mental health struggles should never place you directly in harm's way. On January 8th 1953 a man lost his life in a case that was, though it took decades to find out, completely covered up by the government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Blauer#:~:text=Harold%20Blauer%20(1910%20%E2%80%93%20January%208,the%20Office%20of%20Scientific%20Intelligence., https://apnews.com/article/2e5220ecb195844edacfbffdb0a37a5a, https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Harold_Blauer, https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/06/nyregion/article-388687-no-title.html, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/05/06/settlement-eyed-in-drug-death-case/914f4d17-65c9-4f1c-aa38-cb8622009a97/, https://www.grunge.com/772402/the-government-experiment-that-led-to-a-mans-death/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrives, I found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:13.0

A cup of murder.

0:15.2

Seeking help for your mental health struggles should never place you directly into harm's way.

0:23.8

On January 8th, 1953,

0:30.6

a man lost his life in a case that was, though it took decades to find out, completely covered up by the government. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start

0:37.3

your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:40.9

Harold Blower, born in 1910, was an American tennis player who, in late 1952,

0:47.3

checked into the New York State Psychiatric Institute, seeking help for the depression that plagued him after his divorce.

0:57.9

Later diagnosed with pseudo-neurotic schizophrenia,

1:01.8

he began a treatment program that, according to the sources,

1:04.4

seemed to be helping him out tremendously.

1:08.5

However, despite the progress, Harold Blower,

1:13.8

who voluntarily checked into the NYSPI, never got the chance to leave the facility. What he didn't realize at the time was that, in looking for treatment, he placed himself

1:20.6

directly in the path of the Office of Scientific Intelligence, the CIA, and more dangerously,

1:29.7

members of Project MK Ultra.

1:36.2

While at the Institute, Harold was used as a test subject in experiments conducted by the Army Chemical Corps, a classified agreement between NYSPI that allowed them to study possible

1:42.6

chemical warfare compounds on their patients.

1:46.8

As part of this study, Harold was regularly injected with hallucinogenic drugs and monitored

1:52.4

for his reactions. Though he knew that the injections he received were experimental, he had no

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