The CIA was running a research project that included
administering LSD and other drugs
to unwitting human subjects.
LSD A CIA PROJECT
MK-ULTRA was the brainchild of CIA Director Allen Dulles*,
who was intrigued by reports of mind-control techniques
conducted by Soviet, Chinese and North Korean agents
on U.S. prisoners of war during the Korean War.
Obituary of John Vance
CIA staffer uncovered agency's LSD work
National Post, Jun 21, 2005
John K. Vance, 89, a member of the Central Intelligence Agency inspector general's staff in the early 1960s who discovered that the agency was running a research project that included administering LSD and other drugs to unwitting human subjects, died May 27 of respiratory arrest, it was announced last week. The project had offshotts that extended into Canada.
Code-named MKULTRA (and pronounced m-k-ultra), the project Mr. Vance uncovered was the brainchild of CIA Director Allen Dulles, who was intrigued by reports of mind-control techniques allegedly conducted by Soviet, Chinese and North Korean agents on U.S. prisoners of war during the Korean War. The CIA wanted to use similar techniques on its own POWs and perhaps use LSD or other mind-bending substances on foreign leaders, including Cuba's Fidel Castro a few years after the project got underway in 1953.
Heading MKULTRA was a CIA chemist named Sidney Gottlieb. In congressional testimony, Gottlieb, who died in 1999, acknowledged that the agency had administered LSD to as many as 40 unwitting subjects, including prison inmates and patrons of brothels set up and run by the agency. At least one participant died when he jumped out of a 10th-floor window in a hotel; others claimed to have suffered serious psychological damage.
Among the doctors performing experiments for the project was Ewen Cameron, a deeply controversial psychiatrist at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital. Cameron, who died in 1965, used the CIA's money to finance work using LSD, which he believed had therapeutic value. His work has also been the subject of ongoing claims by former victims of his other treatments. Cameron, a psychiatrist with Montreal's Allan memorial Institute, used now-discredited methods including massive electroshock treatments and other brutal "de-patterning" techniques that all but ereased the personalities of some of his patients. His methods were said to have been aimed at easing depression and other mental illnesses, but it later emerged that the mind-control experiments were part of the CIA plan.
Vance learned about MKULTRA in the spring of 1963 during a wide-ranging inspector general survey of the agency's technical services division. The inspector general's report said: "The concepts involved in manipulating human behavior are found by many people both within and outside the agency to be distasteful and unethical." As a result of Mr. Vance's discovery and the inspector general's report, the CIA halted the testing and began scaling back the project. It was terminated in the late 1960s. MKULTRA came to public light in 1977 as a result of hearings conducted by a Senate committee on intelligence chaired by Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho). Vance gave several long phone interviews to committee staff members but never had to testify.
CANADA'S CIA MIND-CONTROLLED HERO
Ex-patient to tell of pills, shocks, brainwashing (woman seeks to launch class-action case against Ottawa for Cold War-era tests). Globe & Mail, Jan 8, 2007
LSD project at CIA uncovered (administered LSD & electric shock to unwitting human subjects; brainchild of Allen Dulles). Washington Post, Jun 16, 2005
Medical journal advocates LSD in labs (ecstasy & magic mushrooms too for stress disorder & headache). Guardian, Apr 14, 2006
BE LEERY OF LEARY ON JFK
THINKING INSIDE YOUR SKULL (mind manipulation & control technologies are being used today) & 20.Thought Police & 14.Experimentation
*JFK fired Allen Dulles (from the CIA in 1961 after discovering his role in the the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Allen Dulles served on the Warren Commission that investigated the assassination of JFK in 1963. Allen Dulles brother was Secretary of State under Eisenhower when the United States did nothing to support anti-communist uprisings in East Germany (1953) and Hungary (1956). See JFK VISITS BERLIN
CANADIAN AND AMERICAN SURVIVORS SEEK JUSTICE FROM MK-ULTRA PROGRAM. Probe Magazine, Mar/Apr 2000.
MOVIE CONSPIRACY THEORY and MOVIE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and DRUG WAR & PEACE
HUXLEY SUICIDED ON LSD (he chose November 22, 1963 as the day to die)
40.The Brotherhood and 40.Electric Shock Brainwashing
~ an independent researcher monitoring local, national and international events ~