Web Series Debuts on CIA’s LSD Interrogations
July 2nd, 2009 by RussRight out of the mind of a drug-thriller suspense screenwriter comes a reproduction of an actual historical practice of our own beloved CIA. Originally entitled Project MK-ULTRA, the super-secret project funneled tens of millions of dollars into a study on how to break human subjects with the use of hallucinogens.
Originally developed as a psychiatric drug, LSD was co-opted by intelligence agents with the intent of using it as a truth serum. The disorienting effects were thought to be useful to interrogators, who sometimes wished to extract information, and other times sought to brainwash and/or control the minds of targets.
This web series focuses on a branch of MK-ULTRA campily titled Operation Midnight Climax. Loosely speaking, the targets in this CIA human experiment got to unwittingly play Jim Morrison for a night. These lucky blokes were secretly dosed with LSD by a CIA-sponsored brothel. While hilarity could certainly ensue from such a thing, this series takes a serious, sobering look at the breaking of these mens’ minds. It’s some nice film-noir, complete with 50’s style dialogue and 50’s style hookers. Fun times.
