The range of its other projects reflects Gottlieb’s unflagging imagination: studies of the Mongoloid skull, the effect of owning a fallout shelter on foreign policy views, and the emotional impact of circumcision on Turkish boys; tests to determine whether interrogators could use “isolation, anxiety, lack of sleep, uncomfortable temperatures, and chronic hunger” to produce “profound disturbances of mood [and] excruciating pain”; and research into trance states and “activation of the human organism by remote electronic means.” As MK-ULTRA reached its peak, the Society for the Investigation of
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