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Originally Posted by Brutha  Or maybe it's just the bias to want to believe that the government is evil that produces the feeling that there is some element of truth. |
The whole government isn't evil, but there certainly are documented cases of mind control experiments by the CIA—for instance, Project MKULTRA.
This was an ambitious project to find out wonderfully humane things like how to use hypnosis to cause anxiety, what substances could cause illogical thinking and impulsiveness so that the person exhibiting them could be publicly discredited, surreptitious methods of producing shock and confusion over a long period of time, etc. etc.
Never mind similarly humane studies done with government knowledge and/or approval, like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
As for Andy Pero's memory lapses, this reminds me of someone I know who is a real genius, and worked with the military. It's probably coincidence, but he used to always joke about how his first memories only go back to high school! He doesn't remember anything beyond the age of 15.