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How close did the U.S. government’s most notorious mind control program get to our own backyard?
In the latest episode of Mystery Hub Hunters, we are digging deep into the unsettling local ties of Project MKULTRA to the Hagerstown area.
MKULTRA was a highly covert, 1950s-era CIA research program that used drugs and behavioral modification techniques to manipulate human brain function. While many associate these dark experiments with distant, secret facilities, one of the program’s most tragic and infamous figures lived and worked just down the road.
Frank Olson, a US Army civilian biochemist and biological weapons researcher, worked right out of Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland.
Olson was a key player in these intelligence applications until November 1953, when he tragically plunged to his death from a New York City hotel room following a severe reaction to surreptitiously administered LSD.
With Fort Detrick sitting a mere stone’s throw from the Hub City area, we investigate:
- How did the ripples of Olson’s top-secret biological and mind-control research impact local communities?
- What other untold secrets did the CIA attempt to bury when they ordered the destruction of MKULTRA files in 1973?
Watch the latest episode now as the Mystery Hub Hunters map out the local geography of conspiracy, cover-ups, and the dark history hiding just outside Hagerstown. Have these experiments truly been abandoned, or is the official narrative just a cover story? You decide.
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