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  • Wow, that village is totally tripping

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    Pirate
    Posted on 12-03-2010 01:30 PM
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    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.
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    More on the incident here.

       
    Comments 5 Comments
    1. cranky's Avatar
      cranky - 12-03-2010, 02:04 PM
      Newsimg tastes like purple.
    1. Ruze's Avatar
      Ruze - 12-03-2010, 02:08 PM
      Reminds me of the movie "the man who stares at goats".

      I was kinda expecting a link to ninbin though.
    1. Scythe's Avatar
      Scythe - 12-03-2010, 02:41 PM
      Explanations abound, none of which Kaplan finds satisfying. The most popular one, poisoning by a form of ergot fungus, he finds unconvincing.
      Considering that this is the most likely explanation, and that ergot poisoning has been linked to outbreaks of mass hysteria in villages across Europe going back to at least the Dark Ages, a single throwaway line of dismissal smacks a bit too much of eagerness to stir up some controversy about the CIA.
    1. kerb's Avatar
      kerb - 12-03-2010, 02:41 PM
      I wish they still did this
    1. syzygy - 12-03-2010, 02:43 PM
      Thought I remember reading something a few years ago that this was "blamed" on grain mould...