On This Day:  August 3

1977 -- U.S. Se­nate hear­ing be­gins on the se­cret mind-con­trol project MKUl­tra, which evolved from ear­li­er Nazi ex­per­i­ments. The mat­ter be­came awk­ward enough af­ter it was pub­li­cized, that reg­u­la­tions were put in place for sim­i­lar projects in the fu­ture.

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