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On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:38:59 -0500, "SeeingEyeDog"
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The most notorious MKULTRA experiments were the CIA's pioneering
studies of the drug that would years later feed the heads of millions:
lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. The CIA was intrigued by the drug,
and harbored hopes that acid or a similar drug could be used to
clandestinely disorient and manipulate target foreign leaders. (The
Agency would consider several such schemes in its pursuit of Cuban
leader Fidel Castro, who they wanted to send into a drug-induced
stupor or tirade during a public or live radio speech.) LSD was also
viewed as a way to loosen tongues in CIA interrogations.

In his thorough book on MKULTRA and similar projects, The Search for
the "Manchurian Candidate," John Marks reports that most of the CIA
researchers tried LSD themselves. In fact, an early phase of the
experiments was probably the setting for the first acid trip in the
United States -- experienced by a courageous CIA man no less!

The fact that these experiments took place is remarkable in and of
itself, but the story of the CIA's LSD trips approaches the
unbelievably bizarre when the cast of characters is considered. In his
recent history of the early exploits of the CIA, The Very Best Men,
Evan Thomas describes Sidney Gottlieb, the Stranglovian scientist who
ran the MKULTRA project: "Born with a clubfoot and a stutter, he
compensated by becoming an expert folk dancer and obtaining a Ph.D.
from Cal Tech. A pleasant man who lived on a farm with his wife,
Gottlieb drank only goat's milk and grew Christmas trees, which he
sold at a roadside stand." When he wasn't busy on the farm, Dr.
Gottlieb was dosing subjects with LSD-laced drinks, scrutinizing their
reactions, and searching for qualities of the drug that would benefit
CIA covert actions.

The CIA's LSD experiments were conducted on many unwitting subjects,
most often prisoners or patrons of brothels set up and run by the
Agency, which had installed two-way mirrors in the establishments to
allow for observation of the drug's effects (these studies were
referred to as "Operation Midnight Climax"). Some of the MKULTRA
subjects who were informed faced even more inhumane treatment: during
one experiment in Kentucky, seven volunteers were given LSD for 77
days straight.

One of the experiments probably proved fatal. On November 19, 1953, an
Army scientist and germ warfare specialist named Frank Olson, who was
working on an MKULTRA project, was slipped a solid dose of LSD in his
drink. Then, after spending eight days stumbling about in what many
observers described as a paranoid, depressed state, Olson jumped
through his hotel window in New York and fell ten stories to his
death.

The Agency covered up its role in Olson's demise, and twenty-two years
would pass before his family would learn of the events leading up to
his death. When the CIA's acid exploits were made public in the
mid-1970s, the Agency found itself facing heavy criticism. One Senate
committee put it this way in 1975:

"From its beginning in the early 1950s until its termination in 1963,
the program of surreptitious administration of LSD to unwitting
non-volunteer human subjects demonstrates a failure of the CIA's
leadership to pay adequate attention to the rights of individuals and
to provide effective guidance to CIA employees. Though it was known
that the testing was dangerous, the lives of subjects were placed in
jeopardy and were ignored.... Although it was clear that the laws of
the United States were being violated, the testing continued."

Though the most prominently discussed aspect of MKULTRA is the CIA's
LSD work, the program included many other unusual investigations
relating to the science of mind control. CIA researchers probed the
potential of numerous parapsychological phenomena, including hypnosis,
telepathy, precognition, photokinesis and "remote viewing."

These studies weren't conducted merely to satisfy the CIA's scientific
curiosity -- the Agency was looking for weapons that would give the
United States the upper hand in the mind wars. Toward that objective,
the Agency poured millions of dollars into studies probing literally
dozens of methods of influencing and controlling the mind. One 1955
MKULTRA document gives an indication of the size and range of the
effort; the memo refers to the study of an assortment of mind-altering
substances which would:


"promote illogical thinking and impulsiveness to the point where the
recipient would be discredited in public"


"increase the efficiency of mentation and perception"


"prevent or counteract the intoxicating effect of alcohol"


"promote the intoxicating effect of alcohol"


"produce the signs and symptoms of recognized diseases in a reversible
way so that they may be used for malingering, etc."


"render the indication of hypnosis easier or otherwise enhance its
usefulness"


"enhance the ability of individuals to withstand privation, torture
and coercion during interrogation and so-called 'brainwashing'"


"produce amnesia for events preceding and during their use"


"produc[e] shock and confusion over extended periods of time and
capable of surreptitious use"


"produce physical disablement such as paralysis of the legs, acute
anemia, etc."


"produce 'pure' euphoria with no subsequent let-down"


"alter personality structure in such a way that the tendency of the
recipient to become dependent upon another person is enhanced"


"cause mental confusion of such a type that the individual under its
influence will find it difficult to maintain a fabrication under
questioning"


"lower the ambition and general working efficiency of men when
administered in undetectable amounts"


"promote weakness or distortion of the eyesight or hearing faculties,
preferably without permanent effects"
Few of MKULTRA's objectives were realized, but the very conduct of
these experiments caused many critics of the CIA to argue that
successful or not, CIA scientists shouldn't pry at the doors of
perception.

Sources:

Gross, Peter, Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles (Houghton
Mifflin, 1994).

Thomas, Evan, The Very Best Men (Simon & Schuster, 1995).

Marks, John, The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and
Mind Control (Times Books, 1979).

Mark Zepezauer, The CIA's Greatest Hits (Odionan, 1994).


http://peyote.com/jonstef/mkultra.htm


I am so heart broken over all this. I knew about some it. Man is a animal
who does more harm then good. It's aways "weapons" "mind control of other
people", dominating other people, extermination of other people, classifying
of people. It's all disgusting and perverse no matter what country or who
does it.

Man is actually the lowest form of life on this planet cause HE KNOWS
BETTER.

I'm convinced we will end up destroying each other in the end. It's in our
blood...

Lucky