early 1960sReputable sourceWell documented
Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA's Poison Lab
On the timeline · around early 1960s ·
What happened
Many of the plots' weapons came from one man: Sidney Gottlieb, the chemist who ran the CIA's Technical Services Division and its notorious MKULTRA mind-control program. His lab devised the botulinum toxins, treated cigars and disease-causing agents intended for Castro.
Why it matters
Gottlieb's shadowy laboratory was the technical heart of the campaign — where the CIA's strangest assassination weapons were actually created.