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CIA Mind Control Experiments

In the 1950s the CIA started attempting to brainwash psychiatric patients. They wanted to develop methods which could be used against enemies in the Cold War.
Hear from one man whose father was experimented on in a Canadian psychiatric hospital.

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Mon 20 Jul 201507:50GMT
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