This chapter of our ongoing MK Ultra series is all about MK CHICKWIT!

Not only the most fun-named of the MK Ultra subprojects, but also what sounds like the most fun full stop. Spy games! Espionage! Gap year!

And did MK Chickwit change the 20th Century more than we might have thought?

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Owing to lots of stupid stuff, our MK Ultra series will be back next week with Part 7 but for this week please enjoy an excerpt from a recent Patreon-exclusive bonus episode. You can hear the full 97 minute bumper bonus episode over on our Patreon, where episodes drop a week early in extended, ad-free form. Which means, that's right, an extended version of next week's Part 7 of our MK Ultra series is already over there.

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When MK Ultra was given the greenlight, Sidney Gottlieb enlisted Donald Ewen Cameron (Part IV's hypocritical psychiatrist) and renowned pharmacologist Harris Isbell, director of research at Addiction Research Center.

Having already studied the effects of certain drugs, Isbell was clearly the right man for the MK Ultra job. But where his methods also questionable enough to qualify?

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An exclusive extended, ad-free version of this episode with almost 20 minutes of bonus extra chat about all manner of things, including snooker documentaries, the recent film Nuremberg and what the hell Jonathan Lipnicki is up to these days can be found over at our Patreon!

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Hosted by Masud Milas, Chris Stokes, and Sooz Kempner Mystery on the Rocks is a high concept comedy and true crime/unexplained phenomena podcast set in a fictional mystery-solving bar with real cocktails!. The focus of the show is to attempt to crack a real, unsolved mystery from history – true crime and bizarre occurrences, all with a whodunnit or WTF happened question hanging over them. The format's malleable though and occasionally we deep-dive into a One Hit Wonder or play a game we invented called VHGuess...

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