French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment

Telegraph ^ | 11 Mar 2010 | Henry Samuel

[silverleaf]

because the CIA had an intense strtegic interest in subject testing on french villagers?

[absolootezer0]

the hallucinations may cause you to kill yourself or do something that causes accidental death, but the chemical itself won’t kill you.

[herewego]

This could explain the French infatuation with Jerry Lewis.

Coffeed keyboard on that one.

[gusopol3]

True, the difference between alcohol poisoning and a DWI car wreck.

[libertarian27]

Although we need not fear ergot in our food supply today, it is a good idea to inspect organically grown rolled or whole rye berries before you eat them. Fungicides are used to control ergot in commercially grown rye crops so these are more reliable.

So THAT'S why the earthy-crunchy environ-vegan whack-jobs are the way they are ;)

[dools007]

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.

[Mad Dawg]

why would the CIA pick that French town—or any French town—for a drug experiment.

All your cheese are belong to us.

[BraveMan]

In its quest to research LSD as an offensive weapon, Mr Albarelli claims, the US army also drugged over 5,700 unwitting American servicemen between 1953 and 1965.

Right out of the movie, "Jacob's Ladder".

[laotzu]

There is plenty of evidence for CIA experiments.

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.

[dead]

Amazing how many peopele here refuse to acknowledge that anything untoward may have ever been done by the CIA when there is plenty of evidence to the contrary.

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.

[agromination]

Bush did it.

[gathersnomoss]

“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.

[gathersnomoss]

“The Town That Went Mad”

Yeah, that was The Burg in 1971.

[gathersnomoss]

whoa...Suzy Creamcheese, honey, what’s got into yah?

[gathersnomoss]

Do you have a monkey on your back?

[Daffynition]

[Bogey78O]

Who said the CIA has done nothing?