A few decades ago, I started a website (now defunct) on nonconsensual human experimentation. It was mostly links to other sites; I read a number of books at the same time. Of course, MK-Ultra was one of the subjects. A number of sites I didn’t include were pretty dodgy (I also got email from the tin foil crowd: “they put a chip in my brain” etc.). I think I got pretty good at separating the unlikely from the likely.

There were a number of shady characters in the 1950’s and 1960’s who were also respected academic researchers. (Trivia: the Patrick Stewart character in the Mel Gibson film “Conspiracy Theory” is most likely based on a real Manchurian candidate-like researcher, Ewen Cameron from McGill University.) O’Neill’s assumptions and research seem pretty credible to me.

As you probably know, when MK-Ultra started to hit the fan, CIA Director Richard Helms destroyed a number of documents related to the project. I keep hoping a maverick photocopy or two will emerge.