[From Wikipedia.com]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRA
1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.
...Headed by Sidney Gottlieb, the MKULTRA project was started on the order of CIA director Allen Dulles on April 13, 1953,[12] largely in response to alleged Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean use of mind-control techniques on U.S. prisoners of war in Korea.[13] The CIA wanted to use similar methods on their own captives. The CIA was also interested in being able to manipulate foreign leaders with such techniques,[14] and would later invent several schemes to drug Fidel Castro...
