“The Sopranos” creator David Chase is working on a thriller series at HBO titled “ Project: MKUltra .”

Should it move past development, the limited series would follow real-life chemist and spymaster Sidney Gottlieb, also known as the Black Sorcerer, who is credited as the unwitting godfather of the LSD counterculture. Per HBO, Gottlieb “headed the CIA’s MKUltra Psychedelic program, which conducted dangerous and deadly mind-control experiments on willing and unwilling subjects during the height of the Cold War.”

Based on “Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA” by John Lisle, the series is produced by Chase and Nicole Lambert through Riverain Pictures, where Lambert is the head of production and development.

Chase is a seven-time Emmy winner who r

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