Sidney Gottlieb

In a biography of Dostoyevskian proportions, Sidney Gottlieb emerges as a tortured soul, penned in by personal compunction and a twisted sense of patriotism.

Today, it’s a cutting-edge lab. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was the center of the U.S. government’s darkest experiments.

Agency sought drugs and behavior control techniques to use in “special interrogations” and offensive operations.

Frank Olson died in 1953, but it took decades for his family to get closer to the truth.

Research on psychedelics has been riddled with medical racism and exclusion but it hasn’t stopped Black people from finding creativity and solace through drugs.