Psychoactives, War, and Covert Operations
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| summer, 1952 |
| CIA Operation CASTIGATE, directed by US Navy Project CHATTER personnel, conducts experiments on a truth serum in Germany. The operation is an embarrassing failure for the Navy, and Project CHATTER never recovers. The CIA now has primary ownership of mind control research. |
| The Navy's embarassment was primarily due to the incompetence of their favorite researcher, Professor G. Richard Wendt, who had assured his Navy handlers that he had developed a reliable truth serum. After flying Wendt and his mistress to Europe and setting a covert operation in motion, the CIA and Navy operatives were chagrined to learn that Wendt's truth serum consisted of a thoroughly-studied and unreliable cocktail of Seconal, Dexedrine, and THC. |
| References Marks J. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. W. W. Norton & Co, 1979. |
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