MK-Ultra: The Man Who Fell, and the Files That Were Never Destroyed: On November 28, 1953, a CIA biochemist named Frank Olson fell thirteen stories from a New York hotel window. The official story was suicide. Twenty-two years later, the agency admitted he'd been secretly dosed with LSD. In 1994, his son had his body exhumed — and a forensic pathologist from George Washington University found a hematoma on his forehead consistent with blunt-force trauma before the fall.

This week we walk through Project MK-Ultra: the CIA's 20-year program to break the human mind. Sidney Gottlieb. Donald Cameron's "depatterning" experiments on Canadian housewives. Operation Midnight Climax in San Francisco. And the 20,000 pages of files that survived destruction only because of a filing error.

We also cover what Tom O'Neill spent twent ...