That was my takeaway as well. But it's a good intellectual exercise to set aside the latter and entertain the idea of the former independently. A shocking number of people cannot do that.

TK was experimented upon in various ways while a teenage student at Harvard during the time that Leary and Alpert were getting into trouble.

There were several overlapping programs going on using Sandoz pharma at the same time, some connected to mind-control programs.

Naturally, the more pertinent records relating to MK-Ultra and TK were lost in mysterious circumstances

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/06/12/the-unabomber-the-ci...

There's a German documentary about TK's ordeals called The Net (2003), in which details are explored regarding TK history, his deteriorating state of mind and connections to his targets.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0434231/