CIA 'caused French village to go mad in the Fifties by spiking baguettes with LSD'

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[W]hen they were testing the MK effects of LSD in the 50's, MI6 did similar experiments (along with all other intelligence agencies working for the establishment) in the early days of understanding the drug's effective use in mind control, in typical unnecessarily brash CIA style. Why bother with this? It's not like they haven't got enough of their own soldiers and citizens which they happily test on with less likelihood of being caught. Probably the agency's "humor" at work, I'm sure the agents based in the village were entertained by the show.]
The CIA caused an entire French village to go mad nearly 60 years ago by spiking their baguettes with the mind-bending drug LSD, a new investigation claims.
Hundreds of residents in Pont-Saint-Esprit, southern France, were driven to mass hysteria and hallucinations in the 'cursed bread' incident in August 1951.
Five people died and dozens were sent to mental asylums in strait jackets in one of the most bizarre mysteries in France.

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