Sidney Gottlieb
1918 – 1999 American CIA chemist
CIA chemist who ran the MKUltra program and prepared a Lumumba poison.
- Affiliations
- Headed the CIA's MKUltra mind control program; developed poisons intended for foreign leaders, including Patrice Lumumba.
Sidney Gottlieb was a chemist who led the CIA's MKUltra program, which experimented with drugs and mind control. He also developed poisons for use against foreign leaders and prepared a toxin intended to kill Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. He later destroyed most MKUltra records.
Connections
- rival of Patrice Lumumba — Prepared a poison intended to assassinate him.
In the timeline
- 1960 The CIA marks Lumumba for removal mentioned