From 1956 to 1977, freewheeling Norwegian psychiatrist Dr. Carl W. Sem-Jacobsen experimented on patients at Oslo’s Gaustad Hospital by implanting electrodes into their brains, without their consent. For the past six years, Martin White has combed through the archive of Dr. Sem-Jacobsen, building a story that bears witness to the dense entanglement of Gaustad Psychiatric Hospital, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the US Airforce, NASA and the comic book character Psycho Pirate.