In an effort to get a handle on just exactly
what Dr. Sidney Gottlieb
did for a living, several of his obituaries referred to him as the real-life Q, as if the perpetually-annoyed-by-007 spy-gear supplier from the James Bond movies came close to describing the man who was also known as Joseph Scheider.
The fact is: we ll probably never know the whole truth about Gottlieb, the director of the CIA s Project MK-ULTRA from 1953 to 1972. EVERYTHING pertaining to his work on mind control, truth serums, poisons and their delivery systems, and chemical, biological, and radiological warfare was ordered destroyed in 1972 by his colleague and mentor, CIA Director Richard Helms.