‘CIA Experiment’ Sends French Village Mad

By on March 11, 2010 in News 3

From News.com.au:

A US writer has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA spiked a French village’s food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD.

The Sun online reports journalist H P Albarelli Jr came across CIA documents while investigating the suspicious suicide of a biochemist who fell from a 13th floor window two years after a mystery illness that caused an entire French village to go temporarily mad 50 years ago.

Hundreds of residents in picturesque Pont-Saint-Esprit were suddenly struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations on August 16, 1951.

At least five people in the southern French village died and dozens were locked up in asylums after witnessing terrifying hallucinations of dragons and fire.

In the horror scenes an 11-year-old tried to strangle his grandmother. Another man shouted: “I am a plane”, before jumping out of a second-floor window, breaking his legs.

[Read more at News.com.au]

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  • 5by5

    Wild. I'd chalked that up to the same rye mould (ergot) that effected the town of Salem Massachusetts prior to the witch trials. There was a fantastic episode about this on PBS:

    http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/previous_season…

    The reactions would be similar to both toxins.

    Without drawing any conclusions about evidence I haven't personally seen, I will say this — the connection between a big pharma company, the CIA, and yet another dead/”suicided” biochemist is interesting though, in terms of a rather persistent pattern repeating itself…..

    • Guest

      Why do Americans behave like this?

  • Greyman

    As I posted earlier…

    Guess it doesn't matter that LSD was developed from ergot, which is a natural fungus that grows on wheat and rye? Of course it's the CIA, it can't possibly be Mother Nature and uncaring or overlooking farmers that didn;t catch the infection, or just sold the wheat in the bread anyway to save their profits…

    5by5, I believe we think on the same lines.