According to Olson, Gottlieb responded, “The former Gottlieb, who used to be me, did some things that I’m not proud of, but I’m not him. If a society’s fears can be glimpsed in its cultural products, why are we seeing an old CIA program as a recurring theme? Its spirit animates all five of the Jason Bourne movies, the series Blindspot, and the hit Netflix series Stranger Things. The actual MKULTRA program is dissected in detail in Wormwood, a six-part Netflix docu-drama from last year that was directed by Errol Morris. Some of the most extreme MKULTRA experiments were done at Montreal’s Allan Memorial Institute, a psychiatric hospital run by Dr. Ewen Cameron.

Source: National Post March 07, 2019 16:52 UTC