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Wednesday March 10 12:27 PM ET
Supervisor of CIA's LSD Tests Dies
WASHINGTON, Va. (AP) - Sidney Gottlieb, who oversaw CIA experiments during
the Cold War that included the use of LSD and other mind-altering drugs on
unwitting test subjects, has died at age 80.
Gottlieb died Sunday in this small town near the Blue Ridge Mountains where
he had spent his final years tending to dying people in a hospice. His
family withheld the cause of his death.
The CIA experiments with psychedelics, a project called MKUltra, began at a
time when the agency feared the Soviet Union might use LSD as a chemical
weapon or that China would perfect brainwashing techniques.
``We were in a World War II mode,'' John Gittinger, a CIA psychologist who
described Gottlieb as one of the most brilliant men he had ever known, told
The New York Times. ``The war never really ended for us.''
During the 1950s and early '60s, the CIA gave psychedelic drugs to hundreds
of Americans who were unaware that they were part of the agency's
experiments on mind control.
The subjects ranged from prisoners and mental patients to military officers
and college students. At least one subject died, others went insane and
others were damaged psychologically, according to firsthand testimony,
government documents and court records.
Shortly before his retirement in 1972, Gottlieb concluded that the
experiments had been useless.
Gottlieb was also involved in CIA assassination plots, the Times reported.
During the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations, he carried out orders to
develop a poison handkerchief to kill an Iraqi colonel, toxic gifts for
Fidel Castro and a poison dart to kill a leftist leader in the Congo. None
of the plots succeeded.
After leaving the CIA, Gottlieb and his wife, Margaret, ran a leprosy
hospital in India for 18 months. They bought a small farm near Boston, Va.,
about 10 miles northwest of Culpeper, and indulged in folk dancing and goat
herding, two lifelong hobbies.
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