[RummyChick]

"even the CIA professionals, myself included, were shocked and shamed to learn of the true circumstances around this CIA officer’s suicide, as revealed in the report, following his being administered LSD without his knowledge in 1953 in a joint CIA-Army test program

http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Statements/Colby-Honorable.html

[RummyChick]

"The documents reveal a paranoid web of domestic wiretapping and break-ins, and discuss the failed plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Most interesting to me, however, was the dearth of reports on some of the most unethical experiments ever conducted by the US government: the mind-control research programme known as MKULTRA, under which LSD and other drugs were given to unwitting subjects, including prison inmates and the patrons of brothels set up by the CIA."

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2007/06/cias-family-jewels-reveal-chilling-past.html

http://cryptome.org/mkultra-0003.htm

c. Advanced testing of MKULTRA materials: It is the firm doctrine in TSD that testing of materials under accepted scientific procedure fails to disclose the full pattern of reactions and attributions that may occur in operational situations. TSD initiated a program for covert testing of materials on unwitting U.S. citizens in 1955.