The U.S. government had directed mind-control experiments since the 1950s under the direction of Sidney Gottlieb and by order of CIA director, Richard Helms, in response to alleged Chinese, Soviet, and North Korean torture and mind control tactics used against U.S. prisoners during the Korean War. Common knowledge suggests that millions of American victims of those experiments exist and one experiment in particular, MK-Ultra mind-control, has been of interest to the public. There is some concern that many American victims have not recovered from the useless abuses perpetrated by the CIA, and a real plan for recovery and an amends making process has mostly been swept under the rug.