Uttering the phrase “government mind control” can make you seem like a total nutcase. But as numerous supreme court cases have shown, you’re probably not that nuts. Projects BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE were both official CIA operations whose entire purpose was to use biological and chemical means to bend a humans will. But the most famous CIA mind control project was the infamous Project MKULTRA. MKULTRA was formed on April 13, 1953, under CIA director Allen Dulles and was to be headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb. The CIA claimed two reasons for starting the project. The aggressive reason of being to be able to use techniques such as truth serams on enemies and the defensive reason of learning the techniques necessary to defend against communist countries’ mind control attacks on Americans. Experiments and sub-projects were contracted to at least 80 universities in the US. These experiments usually involved some hallucinogen being administered to an unwilling subject.
LSD was eventually dismissed by MKULTRA’s researchers as too unpredictable in its effects. Although useful information was sometimes obtained through questioning subjects on LSD, not uncommonly the most marked effect would be the subject’s absolute and utter certainty that they were able to withstand any form of interrogation attempt, even physical torture.
Another technique investigated was connecting a barbiturate IV into one arm and an amphetamine IV into the other. The barbiturates were released into the subject first, and as soon as the subject began to fall asleep, the amphetamines were released. The subject would begin babbling incoherently at this point, and it was sometimes possible to ask questions and get useful answers. Other experiments involved heroin, mescaline, psilocybin, scopolamine, marijuana, alcohol, and sodium pentothal.
There is no evidence that the CIA (or anyone else) has actually succeeded in controlling a person’s actions through the “mind control” techniques that are known to have been attempted in the MKULTRA projects. However, historians have learned that creating a “Manchurian Candidate“-style subject was undoubtedly a goal of MKULTRA and related CIA projects. -wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mkultra)
In the US Supreme Court case, United States vs Stanley, Master Sergeant James B. Stanley was unknowingly administered LSD in a MKULTRA experiment conducted by the Army. Due to the effects of the LSD Stanley had constant reoccurring hallucinations and even was divorced by his wife. After the Army told him about the LSD experiments 27 years later, Stanley brought the case against them. Stanley lost the case, as the court claimed the under the Feres Doctrine, the army is not liable for injuries to servicemen.
Check out this site for more cases:
http://members.aol.com/smartnews/fivecases.htm
I found Jaffee v. United States especially interesting.
…a former enlisted member of the Army sought damages arising from injuries received in 1953 at Camp Desert Rock, Nevada, where his commanding officers ordered him and thousands of other soldiers to stand unprotected from nuclear radiation while an atomic bomb was exploded nearby.
The CIA director Richard Helms order all record of MKULTRA destroyed in 1973. Though you can still get declassified documents on the project by going to this site: http://www.theblackvault.com/content-21.html, or sending the following letter to the CIA and demanding the document under the Freedom of Information Act:
Central Intelligence Agency
FOIA and privacy Act Coordinator
Washington, DC 20505
Re: Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act Request
This letter constitutes my formal request for information pursuant to the provisions of the Freedom of Information and privacy Acts, 5 USC552. I am requesting the three-volume CD set that includes a copy of a shareware viewer of the nearly 18,000 pages of MKULTRA and Bluebird/Artichoke records. Enclosed is a check for $30 make payable to the United States Treasurer.
Sincerely,
[Name, address, and date required]
Have Fun with that. Vale.
