Posted on 03/12/2010 5:04:08 AM PST by Palter
A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment.
In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted.
For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War.
The mystery of Le Pain Maudit (Cursed Bread) still haunts the inhabitants of Pont-Saint-Esprit, in the Gard, southeast France.
On August 16, 1951, the inhabitants were suddenly racked with frightful hallucinations of terrifying beasts and fire.
One man tried to drown himself, screaming that his belly was being eaten by snakes. An 11-year-old tried to strangle his grandmother. Another man shouted: "I am a plane", before jumping out of a second-floor window, breaking his legs. He then got up and carried on for 50 yards. Another saw his heart escaping through his feet and begged a doctor to put it back. Many were taken to the local asylum in strait jackets.
Time magazine wrote at the time: "Among the stricken, delirium rose: patients thrashed wildly on their beds, screaming that red flowers were blossoming from their bodies, that their heads had turned to molten lead."
An American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
because the CIA had an intense strtegic interest in subject testing on french villagers?
the hallucinations may cause you to kill yourself or do something that causes accidental death, but the chemical itself won’t kill you.
Coffeed keyboard on that one.
True, the difference between alcohol poisoning and a DWI car wreck.
So THAT'S why the earthy-crunchy environ-vegan whack-jobs are the way they are ;)
There are many stories out there of CIA and Dept. of Defense experimenting with hallucinagenic drugs. I was even shown a film of the effects of LSD at a US Army Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Warfare school in the late 1960s. The guinea pigs were volunteers from the US federal prison system.
There was never any secret about these experiments. I suspect there may have some number of individual experiments that were never offically documented for one reason or another.
In this alleged French incident one has to ask why would the CIA pick that French town—or any French town—for a drug experiment. Can’t think of any reason that would make sense.
All your cheese are belong to us.
Indeed.
Our government dosed hundreds of unwitting people with LSD, intentionally moved welfare families into homes purposely coated with toxic levels of lead, and deceptively exposed terminally ill children to massive lethal doses of radiation under the pretense of offering free treatment.
Our government purposely did all of these things so that they could measure the effects on these people....these lab rats.
Now, our government wants control of our health care, and our medical records.
According to the feds, it is the Insurance Co.s that are evil.
The CIA has gotten up to all sorts of evil crap over the years.
But I'd like to see more evidence (or any) of their involvement in this episode. And why does this article speak of "at least five people dying" without giving any specifics on the deaths?
The whole article is very slapdash and speculative. A worthless journalistic effort that appears to just want to throw some fuzzy accusations out there without bothering to try to verify.
Bush did it.
“US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment...”
Hey, I recall that guy who would do a deal when he said “If you buy me a tube of Testers I will give you some bread”
I think that was it.
The Town That Went Mad
Yeah, that was The Burg in 1971.
whoa...Suzy Creamcheese, honey, what’s got into yah?
Do you have a monkey on your back?
Who said the CIA has done nothing?
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