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Mind Control & MK-ULTRA Mind Control & MK-ULTRA On 28 November 1953, a delusional and depressed Dr Frank
Olson threw himself out of the tenth floor window of his New York hotel.
Olson was a long-serving scientist for the US Army's secretive Chimical
Corps Special Operations Division, whose problems began at a meeting 9
days earlier. The meeting had been orchestrated by Sidnet Gottlieb, Head
of the CIA's Technical Services Staff. Unknown to those present at the
meeting, Gottlieb had aquired a quantity of LSD and secretly wanted to
test it. Spiking Olson's drink with the LSD, he passed the bottle around
and sat back waiting for results. Olson, an outgoing personality who loved
practical jokes, soon began to suffer jarring side effects. One of those
present at the meeting, Ben Wilson, later recalled that Olson 'was
psychotic'.
Gottlieb and his boss, the Director of Central
Intelligence, Allen Dulles, initiated a 20-year cover-up of the
circumstances surrounding Olson's death.
At stake was the CIA's super secret project, MK-ULTRA. The
project had grown out of an earlier secret programme, known as Bluebird,
that was officially formed to counter Soviet advances in brainwashing. In
reality the CIA had other objectives. An earlier aim was to study methods
'through which control of an individual may be attained'. The emphasis of
experimentation was 'narco-hypnosis', the blending of mind altering drugs
with careful hypnotic programming.
Ever evolving, project Bluebird was later renamed Project
Artichoke, after a vegetable that Dulles was particularly fond of.
Artichoke was an 'offensive' programme of mind control that gathered
together the intelligence divisions of the Army, Navy, Air Farce and FBI.
The scope of the project was outlined in a memorandum
dated January 1952 that ominously asked: "Can we get control of an
individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and
even against fundamental laws of nature such as self preservation?"
The race was on to create a programmable assassin!
A crack CIA team was formed that could travel, at a
moments notice, to anywhere in the world. Their task was to test the new
interrogation techniques, and ensure that victims would not remember being
interrogated and programmed. All manner of narcotics, from marijuana to
LSD, heroin and sodium pentathol (the so called 'truth drug') were
regularly used.
Despite poor initial results, CIA-sponsored mind control
programmes flourished. On 13 April 1953, the super-secret project MK-ULTRA
was born. Its scope was broader than ever before, and only those in the
top echelon of the CIA were privy to it. Official CIA documents describe
MK-ULTRA as an 'umbrella project' with 149 'sub-projects'. Many of these
sub-projects dealt with testing illegal drugs for potential field use.
Others dealt with electronics. One explored the possibility of activating
'the human organism by remote control'. Throughout, it remained a major
goal to brainwash individuals to become couriers and spies without their
knowledge.
When it was formed in 1947, the CIA was forbidden to have
any domestic police or internal security powers. In short, it was
authorized only to operate 'overseas'. From the very start MK-ULTRA staff
broke this Congressional stipulation and began testing on unwitting US
citizens.
Precisely how extensive illegal testing became will never
be known. Richard Helms, CIA Director and chief architect of the programme,
ordered the destruction of all MK-ULTRA records shortly before leaving
office in 1973. Despite these precautions some documents were misfiled and
came to light in the late 1970's. They laid bare the spy agency's
cynicism.
One particularly odious project was run by Dr Harris
Isabel, Director of the Public Service Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky - a
facility specializing in drug abuse. Asked by the CIA to discover a range
of 'synthetic' drugs, Isabel began experimenting on captive black inmates.
Anxious to please his CIA bosses he daily fed his guinea pigs large doses
of LSD, mescaline, marijuana, scopolamine and other substances. In
exchange for participating in the experiments, the inmates received
injections fo high quality morphine, sometimes getting 'shot-up' three
times a day, depending on their co-operation. Brought before the Senate
subcommittees in 1975, Isabel saw no contradiction in providing hard drugs
to the very addicts he was employed to cure.
Following public outrage, the CIA announced it had ceased
its mind manipulation programmes. Victor Marchetti, a CIA veteran of 14
years who turned 'whistle-blower', exposed this to be untrue.
In 1977, Marchetti said the CIA claims to have ceased were
a cover story. Under scrutiny, the agency were quick to downplay the
success of MK-ULTRA - claiming no real advances were achieved. Miles
Copeland, another long-serving CIA officer disputed this. Speaking to a
reporter, Copeland revealed that 'the congressional subcommittee which
went into this sort of thing only got the barest glimpse'. Another source
within the intelligence community says that after 1963, CIA efforts
increasingly focused on psychoelectronics. Narcohypnosis had been drained
dry.
Dr Jose Delgado, a neurophsiologist at Yale University
School, was especially interested in Electronic Stimulation of the Brain.
By implanting a small probe into the brain, Delgado discovered that he
could wield enormous power over his subject. Using a device he called the
'stimoceiver' which operated by FM radio waves, he was able to
electrically orchestrate a wide range of human emotions. These included
rage, lust and fatigue. (Note: Stimoceiver is a S.B.M.C.D. or/ Spherical
Biological Monitoring and Control Device. This ultra submicrominiaturized
unit is the offspring of alien technology. Much of this was continued on
the MK-Ultra Sub-Project 95 by Dr.Jose Delgado and Dr Louis Joylan West
who mastered a technology called "RHIC-EDOM." RHIC means
"Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral Control", and EDOM means
"Electronic Dissolution Of Memory." These implants are
stimulated to induce a post-hypnotic suggestion. EDOM is nothing more than
"Missing Time" or/ the erasure of memory from the consciousness.
The following Projects still use advanced RHIC-EDOM technology by CIA
Black Ops and the military............Col.)
Artichoke Project During 1966, Delgado announced that his findings supported
'the distasteful conclusion that motion, emotion and behaviour can be
directed by electrical forces'. He added that 'humans can be controlled
like robots by push buttons'. Funded by the Office of Naval Research,
Delgado looked forward to a future when society could be 'psychocivilised'.
Despite the miniturization of implants, the next major advance forward was
microwaves.
By placing a volunteer (???) in an electromagnetic field,
Dr Ross Adey of the University of California, made a startling discovery.
Using specific radio waves, Adey was able to influence his subjects'
brainwaves.
Another scientist, Allen Frey, took this research a step
further. Frey found he could remotely induce sleep in his subjects by
subjecting them to electromagnetic waves. He also learned he could produce
acoustic noises - booming, buzzing and hissing, directly inside a
volunteer's (????) head. Developing on Frey's earlier work, Joseph Sharp,
a doctor at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, was able to
transmit spoken words via pulsed microwaves. Sitting inside an
electromagnetic field, Sharp clearly heard and understood words
transmitted to him by a colleague. For the medical profession this was a
major breakthrough, and would be of immense benefit to the deaf.
However, the US military and interlligence community were
quick to capitalize on these new discoveries. Secret research programmes
on electromagnetics have never been made available under the Freedom of
Information Act.
In 1974, J. F. Scapitz, a scientist funded by the
Department of Defense, had a chilling vision. He sought to combine earlier
MK-ULTRA hypnosis studies with emerging microwave technologies. In an
outline to the DoD, Scapitz said "It will be shown the spoken word of
the hynotist my be conveyed by modulated electromagnetic energy directly
into the subconscious parts of the brain". He claimed this could be
achieved without emplying any technical devices for 'receiving or
transcoding messages'.
For the first time, US agents had the ability to remotely
tamper with an individual's mind. Scapitz went even further, claiming that
this could be achieved without the target even becoming aware of what was
happening.
Since then, little public information has been revealed in
scientific literature, following the imposition of the strict security
classification. Despite this, significant pieces of information - more
usually from non-US sources - continue to be published. What is available
paints a bleak picture.
Evidence exists that mind-control and behavious
modification technology is presently concealed behind Non Lethal Defense (NLD)
initiatives. In annoncement in 1995 that non-leathal weapons - including
high powered microwaves and radio frequency devices - are to be
'transited' to the law enforcement sector was met with dismay in some
quarters. This joint programme, known as 'Operations Other Than War',
opens the way for the military to move into the civilian domain - a move
precluded by the American constitution. The stated aim is to more
effectively tackle narcotics trafficking, terrorism and other criminal
activity.
Many citizens consider this to be a lame excuse. They fear
of widespread use of mind-altering technologies, and believe democracy is
under serious assault. In the light of past government evilness and abuse,
who could blame them???
Richard Gall
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