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This article contains further information about the MKULTRA project. The MKULTRA project was an operation by the CIA to try and create a form of mind control using various drugs and psychedelics. Unsuccessful and illegal, most of the records about the project were deliberately destroyed in 1973. As opposed to the tests performed, this article mostly talks about the legal ramifications of the testing.
Due to the fact that drugs were tested on unwitting participants, the government faced a lot of legal issues after everything was said and done. Unfortunately, the government is largely successful in manipulating the government, and therefore could avoid some of the lawsuits that seem like they should have gone through. Some participants even died as a result of the testing, most notably Frank Olsen. In some cases, because the performed tests on military personnel, the CIA was able to get by with calling it duty or service, and the Supreme Court even agreed. The MKULTRA tests were related by several people to the testing done by the Nazis, and how America blatantly ignored the results of the Nuremberg Trials. This leads to an interesting tie-in between the Nazis, America, and the events in Firefly. All three were trying to create something for warfare. The Nazis were trying to complete the perfect soldier by genetically engineering people to be Aryans, America was trying to develop mind control to help win the Cold War, and the Alliance was trying to build the perfect assassin, as well as create something that could pacify planets.
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