Description
Enter Sydney Gottlieb, the CIA’s resident mad scientist. He ran a program called Emkay Ultra — designed to master mind control, brainwashing, and memory erasure. They dosed people with LSD without warning, hypnotized them, tortured them, even ran tests on entire towns. “Expendables” — suspected spies, detainees — were locked away in black sites and experimented on. Many never came out alive. Olson attended a “retreat” run by Gottlieb that November. The setting? A cozy lakeside cabin. After dinner one night, the drinks come out — Cointreau for everyone. Twenty minutes later, Gottlieb smiles and asks, “Anyone feeling strange?” Some laugh. Then he tells them: they’ve just been hit with a heavy dose of LSD. For Olson, it was a tipping point. He’d known about Emkay Ultra’s darker corners. He’d seen what it did to people. But now he was on the receiving end — and his trust in the agency cracked. Within days, he handed in his resignation. The CIA said no.