Declassified MKUltra Transcripts Have Been Released. They Paint a Dark Portrait of America.

There aren't many American Cold War villains as stone evil as Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA chemist who oversaw the crimes and depredations of the Company's MKUltra program.

In 1975, Gottlieb appeared before Senator Frank Church's committee that was looking into the various crimes and depredations of the CIA. (Church's committee remains one of the most important episodes in recent history of the many we've chosen to forget about.) The folks at the National Security Archive have released the transcripts of Gottlieb's testimony to the Church committee, and they are every bit as bad as the country has tried so hard not to recall.

Among other things, the recently declassified transcripts from the closed-door hearings held on October 15–18, 1975, shed new light on the bizarre and abusive researc