{"id":4330,"date":"2013-03-25T01:28:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T23:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learning-mind.com\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2022-10-08T23:52:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T20:52:41","slug":"cia-secret-experiment-with-lsd-makes-french-village-go-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learning-mind.com\/cia-secret-experiment-with-lsd-makes-french-village-go-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Secret Experiment with LSD Made French Village Go Mad, Claims Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"

A U.S. journalist claims that the CIA conducted a secret experiment with LSD, <\/b>the well-known psychedelic drug, <\/b>on the residents of the small picturesque French town of Pont-Saint-Esprit, by putting the drug in bread flour.<\/h2>\n

The story played out<\/a> in the summer of 1951, when the “cursed bread” (as the inhabitants called it) led five people to death<\/b>, while 300 got ill <\/b>and 30 were taken to psychiatric clinics<\/b>. At least 120 people were locked up in mental asylums and have been taking psychiatric drugs for years.<\/p>\n

Now, a U.S. journalist, Hank Albarelli<\/b>, claims that the CIA was behind the poisoning. In his book entitled “A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments,”<\/i> published in 2009, Albarelli claims that the CIA conducted a large-scale chemical test<\/b> in Pont-Saint-Esprit.<\/p>\n

Then some people who evidenced the incident began telling stories.<\/h2>\n

Someone jumped from the balcony of the second floor shouting “I’m an airplane”<\/i> while a group of students showed everyone with pride “the red flowers that grew on their bodies<\/i>“.<\/p>\n

The first diagnosis of doctors was poisoning by a hallucinogenic fungus<\/b>, which was found in the rye flour which was used to prepare bread. However, Albarelli\u2019s research suggests that bread was really “poisoned” but not by a fungus and certainly not “accidentally”!<\/p>\n

It is known that scientists around the world were experimenting with LSD<\/b> in the early 1950s, at a time of conflict in Korea and of escalation of the Cold War.<\/p>\n

Albarelli argues that doctors made the diagnosis of fungal poisoning because they “were working for a Swiss drugmaker, who was the exclusive LSD supplier, as well as for the CIA and for the U.S. military.”<\/i><\/p>\n

The theory is based on secret documents of the CIA<\/b> that the author claims to have managed to find in an effort to investigate the strange suicide of a biochemist Olson<\/b> who worked in the service of the U.S. Army. The scientist had fallen from the 13th-floor window two years after the case of the “cursed bread”.<\/p>\n

According to the American journalist, he discovered a confidential letter of a CIA agent and an employee of the pharmaceutical industry, in which there was a reference to “the secret of Pont-Saint-Esprit”.<\/i> According to the evidence gathered so far, French secret services do not seem to be involved.<\/p>\n

Was it an experiment with LSD after all?<\/h2>\n

American academic Professor Steven Kaplan<\/b> in his book published in 2008 describes<\/a> the Pont-Saint-Esprit incident in detail, insisting that LSD could not have been responsible for all those tragic events that happened<\/b>.<\/p>\n

He claims that although the symptoms of the people who suffered from the incident were very similar to those of LSD, they are not perfectly matched to the drug.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, doctoral students in the laboratory of synthetic biology at Harvard found<\/a> that fungi found in bread flour could have been modified in such a way as to produce the Lysergic Acid Diethylamide<\/i> substance<\/b>, namely LSD!<\/b><\/p>\n

Approximately 20 tons of lysergic acid<\/b> (a component of LSD) are used annually for the production of various medicines. The substance is produced from the cultivation of fungus<\/b>, which is modified by using a special technology.<\/p>\n

However, synthetic biology can considerably simplify the procedure. Some fungi (ergot fungus<\/i>) have the ability to transform certain substances and compose new ones.<\/p>\n

These include the bread flour<\/b>, and the researchers estimate that one liter of the modified flour can produce a gram of lysergic acid!<\/p>\n

In any case, whether the Pont-Saint-Esprit poisoning was an experiment with LSD or not still remains unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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