In 1953, researchers at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) secretly gave LSD to people who did not know they were receiving it as part of Project MKUltra, a Cold War program investigating drugs and techniques that might influence human behavior.
Some experiments involved unwitting members of the public, including people in restaurants and other settings. The program was later exposed through U.S. congressional investigations, and many of its records had already been destroyed.

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