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TIL In 1973, with the government-wide panic caused by Watergate, the CIA Director ordered all MK-Ultra files destroyed… A cache of some 20,000 documents survived, as they had been incorrectly stored in a financial records building and were discovered following a FOIA request in 1977.

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