-Caveat Lector-
Thank you for the informative post on MKULTRA.
Of course, in theory, all of these programs were shut down years ago; but
one wonders. Notice the rash of senseless murders in the United States...
and so many of the victims and perpetrators of the crimes are teenagers.
Is it possible that the government is waging a secret war on our kids to
undermine their sanity? Adolescence has always been a difficult time for
people--so many competing interests and demands. One has to make the
transition from childhood to adulthood...and with the media producing so
much mind-numbing entertainment...it's no wonder that so many kids are
"troubled."
Cultural critics argue that the American media is the culprit, and
there are excellent arguments supporting that point of view. But given
the government's propensity to toy with the mental health of its citizens,
the cause of our current malaise might be attributed to something far more
sinister.
Alienation-disconnection-despair....how many of our fellow citizens are
walking time-bombs just waiting to explode? And who are the ultimate
beneficiaries of our moral/cultural meltdown?
What's maddening about incidents like Columbine, Paducah, Jonesboro...
now Chicago (the list keeps getting longer and longer) is that there
are so many cultural factors that seem to contribute to them....
I think all of us want an end to the violence and the hate... but then
consider all of the active elements within our system that contribute to
the problem. We can blame the government--and it deserves to be blamed,
but I suspect that much of the American Nightmare is a result of the kind
of world we've created for ourselves. If our kids, Klebold and Harris,
and all of the other smooth-faced baby killers are monsters, then what are
we?
I think we need to become a country again......stay in our own
borders...take care of our kids... give up our feverish dream of global
markets, New World Orders...crackpot ideologies... What would it be
like to not feel the fiery breath of the "reptiles" on our necks?
Or is it too late for this country?
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Bard wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> MKULTRA is one of the
> most disturbing instances
> of intelligence community
> abuse on record.
>
>
> MKULTRA: CIA Mind Control
>
> by Jon Elliston
> Dossier Editor
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> For many Americans, the 1950s were a docile decade. In U.S. history books,
> the period is mostly portrayed as a mellow, orderly one, especially in light
> of the social upheavals that followed in the 1960s. But for the CIA, the "I
> Like Ike" years were packed with adventure and action, much of it conducted
> outside of the public's view. Few programs were sheltered with more secrecy
> than the Agency's mind control experiments, identified together with the
> code-name MKULTRA.
>
> Concerned about rumors of communist brainwashing of POWs during the Korean
> war, in April 1953 CIA Director Allen Dulles authorized the MKULTRA program,
> which would later become notorious for the unusual and sometimes inhumane
> tests that the CIA financed. Reviewing the experiments five years later, one
> secrecy-conscious CIA auditor wrote: "Precautions must be taken not only to
> protect operations from exposure to enemy forces but also to conceal these
> activities from the American public in general. The knowledge that the
> agency is engaging in unethical and illicit activities would have serious
> repercussions in political and diplomatic circles."
>
> Though many of the documents related to MKULTRA were destroyed by the CIA in
> 1972, some records relating to the program have made it into the public
> domain, and the work of historians, investigative reporters, and various
> congressional committees has resulted in the release of enough information
> to make MKULTRA one of the most disturbing instances of intelligence
> community abuse on record. As writer Mark Zepezauer puts it, "the surviving
> history is nasty enough."
>
> The most notorious MKULTRA experiments were the CIA's pioneering studies of
> the drug that would years later feed the heads of millions: lysergic acid
> diethylamide, or LSD. The CIA was intrigued by the drug, and harbored hopes
> that acid or a similar drug could be used to clandestinely disorient and
> manipulate target foreign leaders. (The Agency would consider several such
> schemes in its pursuit of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who they wanted to send
> into a drug-induced stupor or tirade during a public or live radio speech.)
> LSD was also viewed as a way to loosen tongues in CIA interrogations.
>
> In his thorough book on MKULTRA and similar projects, The Search for the
> "Manchurian Candidate," John Marks reports that most of the CIA researchers
> tried LSD themselves. In fact, an early phase of the experiments was
> probably the setting for the first acid trip in the United States --
> experienced by a courageous CIA man no less!
>
> The fact that these experiments took place is remarkable in and of itself,
> but the story of the CIA's LSD trips approaches the unbelievably bizarre
> when the cast of characters is considered. In his recent history of the
> early exploits of the CIA, The Very Best Men, Evan Thomas describes Sidney
> Gottlieb, the Stranglovian scientist who ran the MKULTRA project: "Born with
> a clubfoot and a stutter, he compensated by becoming an expert folk dancer
> and obtaining a Ph.D. from Cal Tech. A pleasant man who lived on a farm with
> his wife, Gottlieb drank only goat's milk and grew Christmas trees, which he
> sold at a roadside stand." When he wasn't busy on the farm, Dr. Gottlieb was
> dosing subjects with LSD-laced drinks, scrutinizing their reactions, and
> searching for qualities of the drug that would benefit CIA covert actions.
>
> The CIA's LSD experiments were conducted on many unwitting subjects, most
> often prisoners or patrons of brothels set up and run by the Agency, which
> had installed two-way mirrors in the establishments to allow for observation
> of the drug's effects (these studies were referred to as "Operation Midnight
> Climax"). Some of the MKULTRA subjects who were informed faced even more
> inhumane treatment: during one experiment in Kentucky, seven volunteers were
> given LSD for 77 days straight.
>
> One of the experiments probably proved fatal. On November 19, 1953, an Army
> scientist and germ warfare specialist named Frank Olson, who was working on
> an MKULTRA project, was slipped a solid dose of LSD in his drink. Then,
> after spending eight days stumbling about in what many observers described
> as a paranoid, depressed state, Olson jumped through his hotel window in New
> York and fell ten stories to his death.
>
> The Agency covered up its role in Olson's demise, and twenty-two years would
> pass before his family would learn of the events leading up to his death.
> When the CIA's acid exploits were made public in the mid-1970s, the Agency
> found itself facing heavy criticism. One Senate committee put it this way in
> 1975:
>
> "From its beginning in the early 1950s until its termination in 1963, the
> program of surreptitious administration of LSD to unwitting non-volunteer
> human subjects demonstrates a failure of the CIA's leadership to pay
> adequate attention to the rights of individuals and to provide effective
> guidance to CIA employees. Though it was known that the testing was
> dangerous, the lives of subjects were placed in jeopardy and were
> ignored.... Although it was clear that the laws of the United States were
> being violated, the testing continued."
>
> Though the most prominently discussed aspect of MKULTRA is the CIA's LSD
> work, the program included many other unusual investigations relating to the
> science of mind control. CIA researchers probed the potential of numerous
> parapsychological phenomena, including hypnosis, telepathy, precognition,
> photokinesis and "remote viewing."
>
> These studies weren't conducted merely to satisfy the CIA's scientific
> curiosity -- the Agency was looking for weapons that would give the United
> States the upper hand in the mind wars. Toward that objective, the Agency
> poured millions of dollars into studies probing literally dozens of methods
> of influencing and controlling the mind. One 1955 MKULTRA document gives an
> indication of the size and range of the effort; the memo refers to the study
> of an assortment of mind-altering substances which would:
>
>
> "promote illogical thinking and impulsiveness to the point where the
> recipient would be discredited in public"
>
>
> "increase the efficiency of mentation and perception"
>
>
> "prevent or counteract the intoxicating effect of alcohol"
>
>
> "promote the intoxicating effect of alcohol"
>
>
> "produce the signs and symptoms of recognized diseases in a reversible way
> so that they may be used for malingering, etc."
>
>
> "render the indication of hypnosis easier or otherwise enhance its
> usefulness"
>
>
> "enhance the ability of individuals to withstand privation, torture and
> coercion during interrogation and so-called 'brainwashing'"
>
>
> "produce amnesia for events preceding and during their use"
>
>
> "produc[e] shock and confusion over extended periods of time and capable of
> surreptitious use"
>
>
> "produce physical disablement such as paralysis of the legs, acute anemia,
> etc."
>
>
> "produce 'pure' euphoria with no subsequent let-down"
>
>
> "alter personality structure in such a way that the tendency of the
> recipient to become dependent upon another person is enhanced"
>
>
> "cause mental confusion of such a type that the individual under its
> influence will find it difficult to maintain a fabrication under
> questioning"
>
>
> "lower the ambition and general working efficiency of men when administered
> in undetectable amounts"
>
>
> "promote weakness or distortion of the eyesight or hearing faculties,
> preferably without permanent effects"
> Few of MKULTRA's objectives were realized, but the very conduct of these
> experiments caused many critics of the CIA to argue that successful or not,
> CIA scientists shouldn't pry at the doors of perception.
>
>
> View MKULTRA Documents
>
>
> Sources:
>
> Gross, Peter, Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles (Houghton Mifflin,
> 1994).
>
> Thomas, Evan, The Very Best Men (Simon & Schuster, 1995).
>
> Marks, John, The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and Mind
> Control (Times Books, 1979).
>
> Mark Zepezauer, The CIA's Greatest Hits (Odionan, 1994).
>
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