Beware the baguette. Photo: Jeremy Keith/Flickr CC

Imagine what hundreds of Frenchmen went through in 1951, when they were reported to have eaten bread contaminated with ergot.

Several died in the incident, which unfolded over several days.

Now, imagine how their families are feeling today, now that a reporter has reveals that the CIA was behind the whole thing. Rather than being sickened by bread contaminated with the hallucinogenic fungus, it appears the CIA somehow introduced LSD into one town’s food supply:

“H P Albarelli Jr., an investigative journalist, claims the outbreak resulted from a covert experiment directed by the CIA and the US Army’s top-secret Special Operations Division (SOD) at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

The scientists who produced both alternative explanations, he writes, worked for the Swiss-based Sandoz Pharmaceutical Company, which was then secretly supplying both the Army and CIA with LSD.”

via French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment – Telegraph.

More: Read conspiracies historian Alan Watt’s remarks about government LSD mind control experiments (subtitled, “Why your parents are really screwed up”), here.