54. Brain Warfare: Bioweapons and MKULTRA in the Korean War

In 1952, American prisoners of war in Korea began to make public comments about war crimes being committed by the United States, up to and including the use of outlawed biological and chemical weapons. While they were written off in the press as being given under duress and through torture and brainwashing by the communists in China and North Korea, the American military and intelligence communities were eager to get the men home and subject them to their own new frontier in interrogation that would come to morph into the infamous MKULTRA program. The reason military intelligence was so eager to get the men home? The soldiers were telling the truth.

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