Gottlieb would be remembered most for what looked like a willful contempt of common decency. As the head of the Office of Technical Service, Gottlieb led a wing of the CIA whose failed innovations to assassinate the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, included poison pens and exploding seashells. He also worked on one of the agency’s most notorious projects, the use of LSD as a mind control drug. Under Gottlieb’s supervision, LSD beginning in the 1960s was tested on unwitting human guinea pigs including, among other unfortunate victims, the mentally ill, prostitutes, and even one unsuspecting army
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