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>From counterpunch.org
> July 15, 1999
>
> Ted K., the CIA & LSD
>
> It turns out that Theodore Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber, was a
> volunteer in mind-control experiments sponsored by the CIA at
> Harvard in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
>
> Michael Mello, author of the recently published book, "The United
> States of America vs. Theodore John Kaczynski," notes that at
> some point in his Harvard years--1958 to 1962--Kaczynski agreed
> to be the subject of "a psychological experiment." Mello
> identifies the chief researcher for these only as a lieutenant
> colonel in World War II, working for the CIA's predecessor
> organization, the Office of Strategic Services. In fact, the man
> experimenting on the young Kaczynski was Dr. Henry Murray, who
> died in 1988.
>
> Murray became preoccupied by psychoanalysis in the 1920s, drawn
> to it through a fascination with Herman Melville's "Moby Dick,"
> which he gave to Sigmund Freud, who duly made the excited
> diagnosis that the whale was a father figure. After spending the
> 1930s developing personality theory, Murray was recruited to the
> OSS at the start of the war, applying his theories to the
> selection of agents and also presumably to interrogation.
>
> As chairman of the Department of Social Relations at Harvard,
> Murray zealously prosecuted the CIA's efforts to carry forward
> experiments in mind control conducted by Nazi doctors in the
> concentration camps. The overall program was under the control of
> the late Sidney Gottlieb, head of the CIA's technical services
> division. Just as Harvard students were fed doses of LSD,
> psilocybin and other potions, so too were prisoners and many
> unwitting guinea pigs.
>
> Sometimes the results were disastrous. A dram of LSD fed by
> Gottlieb himself to an unwitting U.S. army officer, Frank Olson,
> plunged Olson into escalating psychotic episodes, which
> culminated in Olson's fatal descent from an upper window in the
> Statler-Hilton in New York. Gottlieb was the object of a lawsuit
> not only by Olson's children but also by the sister of another
> man, Stanley Milton Glickman, whose life had disintegrated into
> psychosis after being unwittingly given a dose of LSD by
> Gottlieb.
>
> What did Murray give Kaczynski? Did the experiment's long-term
> effects help tilt him into the Unabomber's homicidal rampages?
> The CIA's mind experiment program was vast. How many other human
> time bombs were thus primed? How many of them have exploded?
>
> There are other human time bombs, primed in haste, ignorance or
> indifference to long-term consequences. Amid all the
> finger-pointing to causes prompting the recent wave of schoolyard
> killings, not nearly enough clamor has been raised about the fact
> that many of these teenagers suddenly exploding into mania were
> on a regimen of antidepressants. Eric Harris, one of the shooters
> at Columbine, was on Luvox. Kip Kinkel, who killed his parents
> and two students in Oregon, was on Prozac.
>
> There are a number of other instances. Apropos possible linkage,
> Dr. Peter Breggin, author of books on Prozac and Ritalin, has
> said, "I have no doubt that Prozac can contribute to violence and
> suicide. I've seen many cases. In the recent clinical trial, 6%
> of the children became psychotic on Prozac. And manic psychosis
> can lead to violence."
>
> A 15-year-old girl attending a ritzy liberal arts school in the
> Northeast told us that 80% of the kids in her class were on
> Prozac, Ritalin or Dexedrine. The pretext used by the school
> authorities is attention deficit disorder or attention deficit
> hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, with a diagnosis made on the
> basis of questions such as: "Do you find yourself daydreaming or
> looking out the window?"
>
> Ritalin is being given to about 2 million American
> schoolchildren. A 1986 article by Richard Scarnati in the
> International Journal of the Addictions lists more than a hundred
> adverse reactions to Ritalin, including paranoid delusions,
> paranoid psychosis, amphetamine-like psychosis and terror.
>
> Meanwhile, uncertainty reigns on the precise nature of the
> complaint that Ritalin is supposed to be treating. One panel
> reviewing the proceedings at a conference on ADHD last year even
> doubted whether the disorder is a "valid" diagnosis of a broad
> range of children's behavior, and said there was little evidence
> Ritalin did any good. In 1996, the Drug Enforcement
> Administration denounced the use of Ritalin and concluded that
> "the dramatic increase in the use of [Ritalin] in the 1990s
> should be viewed as a marker or warning to society."
>
> Indeed. Land mines now litter the terrain of our society, waiting
> to explode. CP
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