Most conspiracy theories aren’t true — but this one is. Brainwashed tells the story of one of the world’s most notorious.

The new series from CBC Podcasts is a multi-part investigation into the CIA’s experiments in mind control – from the Cold War and MKULTRA to the so-called War on Terror. We learn about a psychiatrist who used his patients as human guinea pigs at a Montreal hospital and what happens in times of fear when the military and medicine collide. We discover the ripple effect that the devastating experiments have had — on the survivors, their families, and on thousands of other people around the world. And how they are fighting back.