A series of CIA documents have recently been declassified, confirming that experiments with mind control, mind reading and behavior control were carried out in the US for many years. This often involved experiments that the test subjects had no idea about, and one can only wonder whether such experiments are still being carried out today. Many indications definitely suggest this.
The declassified documents can be found here:
A series of terrifying experiments related to mind control
Documents that shed light on the notorious CIA mind control program decades ago are being published by a transparency group.
Historical notes on the brainwashing of “Russian agents” and the drugging of American prisoners with LSD have already been published online, with more documents to be released gradually.
The National Security Archive, a non-governmental organization that uses Freedom of Information Act requests to uncover government secrets, released some of the records online on Monday to mark the 50th anniversary of the New York Times revelations about CIA activities.
The full collection of more than 1,200 documents is being gradually released by ProQuest, a scientific research company.
Beginning in the early 1950s, the CIA secretly sought ways to control human behavior through drugs, including the then-new hallucinogen LSD, hypnosis, and extreme mistreatment such as sensory deprivation.
The experiments, including those conducted on unconscious subjects, stemmed largely from a concern about the anti-war sentiment expressed by American soldiers who had fought in the Korean War and had been captured.
The media coined the term “brainwashing” to explain why soldiers sympathized with the communist enemy. The CIA hoped to replicate the effect, conducting research under the codenames BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, and MKULTRA.
CIA Director Richard Helms and MKULTRA chief Sidney Gottlieb destroyed most of the original records in 1973 in what the Archives called “perhaps the most infamous cover-up in the Agency’s history.”
Most of its documents come from author John Marks, who wrote a 1979 book about the controversial program.
One note, highlighted by the NGO, claims that “Russian agents” were successfully induced to lose their memory.
On another occasion, Gottlieb undertook to administer large doses of LSD to federal prisoners in Atlanta as part of his research. The Archives pointed the finger at pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Company as the supplier of vast quantities of LSD to the CIA.
“It is a history marked by almost complete impunity at both the institutional and individual levels for countless abuses committed over the decades,” the group said.
Some of the research was similar to that previously conducted by Nazi doctors who were tried at Nuremberg.
Source: X/RT/NSA Archives
