Sopranos creator David Chase to write HBO limited series on CIA drug program

Return marks his first TV series since groundbreaking mob drama, and will examine covert mind-control program

David Chase is returning to television. The Sopranos creator will write MKUltra, a limited series on the CIA's secret cold war-era mind control program, for HBO.

The project, first reported by Deadline, will be Chase's first series since the era-defining HBO mob drama. The dramatic thriller, based on John Lisle's book Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKUltra, focuses on Gottlieb, a notorious scientist known as the black sorcerer" who led Project MKUltra, the CIA's covert psychedelic program that tested hallucinogenic drugs, hypnosis, and torture on willing and unwilling subjects from 1953 until it was halted in 1973.