Article: LSD troop tests `had secret agenda'

CHRISTOPHER BELLAMY

Defence Correspondent

Parliament was seriously misled over the purpose and extent of secret experiments on British troops with the drug LSD in the 1950s and 1960s, claims a Channel 4 documentary to be shown tonight . The experiments took place at the top-secret chemical and biological warfare establishment at Porton Down. The programme includes newly released film, formerly secret, of servicemen given LSD without their knowledge. LSD was also used on about 50,000 civilian psychiatric patients during this period until it was classified as a dangerous, class A drug in 1966. On 21 November 1994, in reply to a question from Dr David Clark, the Labour defence spokesman, ...

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