Colin Ross

Are we controlled? This film reveals that much of what we believe to be truth has been deception, implanted in our consciousness by societal forces.

With roots deep in the history of military sciences, and largely beginning after WW2, the history of mind control studies is a rich and fascinating one. The quest to conquer the human mind was attempted by the Central Intelligence Agency shortly after the end of the Second World War, with the creation of the MKULTRA project. Comprised of 149 sub-projects, the goal of this program was to study the effects of drugs, and different types of radical procedures on unwitting civilians in order to better understand how to create and interrogate spies during the Cold War. The results and actions taken by numerous agencies, doctors and scientists over a 30-year period would come to light to Congress in the 1977 Church Committee hearings as some of the most shocking and bizarre studies ever perpetrated by a democratic government on its own people.

When he accidentally takes possession of a top-secret invisibility potion while en route to his wedding, government bureaucrat Sam Cooper finds himself engulfed in a madcap free-for-all as Russians and other bad guys try to get the substance. To elude the Reds, his own State Department bosses and his livid fiancée, Cooper takes the vanishing juice himself—which only makes matters worse.

Le 17 août 1951 à Pont-Saint-Esprit, dans le Gard, le village entier semble pris de folie, après ce qui ressemble à une banale intoxication collective. Pendant une semaine, les scènes surréalistes s'enchaînent, avec des habitants en proie au délire et à des hallucinations. À l'issue de cette semaine, on déplore cinq morts et 300 malades, dont une soixantaine internée dans des hôpitaux psychiatriques. En 2009, le journaliste américain Hank Albarelli assure dans un livre que le village aurait été victime d'une expérience sur les effets du LSD, menée conjointement par l'armée américaine et la CIA. Une théorie qui prend place aux côtés de l'empoisonnement par l'ergot de seigle ou les mycotoxines dans le catalogue des hypothèses.