keskiviikko 7. lokakuuta 2020

THE CIA'S APPALLING HUMAN EXPERIMENTS WITH MIND CONTROL

 

  • Operation Midnight Climax was an operation carried out by the CIA as a sub-project of Project MKUltra, the mind-control research program that began in the 1950s.
  • It was initially established in 1954 by Sidney Gottlieb and placed under the direction of the Federal Narcotics Bureau in Boston, Massachusetts with the officer George Hunter White under the pseudonym of 'Morgan Hall'.
  • Every one of these acts was blatantly illegal and several significant operational techniques were developed in this theater, including extensive research into sexual blackmail, surveillance technology, and the possible use of mind-altering drugs in field operations.
  • The Operation Midnight Climax program was soon expanded, and CIA operatives began dosing people in restaurants, bars and beaches.
  • Before the programs were shut down, hundreds of scientists would work on them.


+ 5 Real CIA Experiments from Project MKULTRA - Video
+ Pedophile Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's Little Black Book


THE CIA'S APPALLING HUMAN EXPERIMENTS WITH MIND CONTROL

By Brianna Nofil

 
Distorted view of CIA Director Allen Dulles.
(Credit: Weegee(Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images)


ON APRIL 10, 1953, ALLEN DULLES, THE NEWLY APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE CIA, delivered a speech to a gathering of Princeton alumni. Though the event was mundane, global tensions were running high.

The Korean War was coming to an end, and earlier that week, The New York Times had published a startling story asserting that American POWs returning from the country may have been “converted” by “Communist brain-washers.”

Some GI’s were confessing to war crimes, like carrying out germ warfare against the Communists–a charge the U.S. categorically denied. Others were reportedly so brainwashed that they had refused to return to the United States at all. As if that weren’t enough, the U.S. was weeks away from secretly sponsoring the overthrow of a democratically elected leader in Iran.

Dulles had just become the first civilian director of an agency growing more powerful by the day, and the speech provided an early glimpse into his priorities for the CIA.
“In the past few years we have become accustomed to hearing much about the battle for men’s minds–the war of ideologies,” he told the attendees. “I wonder, however, whether we clearly perceive the magnitude of the problem, whether we realize how sinister the battle for men’s minds has become in Soviet hands,” he continued.
“We might call it, in its new form, ‘brain warfare.’”

Dulles proceeded to describe the “Soviet brain perversion techniques” as effective, but “abhorrent” and “nefarious.” He gestured to the American POWs returning from Korea, shells of the men they once were, parroting the Communist propaganda they
had heard cycled for weeks on end. He expressed fears and uncertainty–were they using chemical agents?
Hypnosis? Something else entirely? “We in the West,” the CIA Director conceded, “are somewhat handicapped in brain warfare.”

This sort of non-consensual experiment, even on one’s enemies, was antithetical to American values, Dulles insisted, as well as antithetical to what should be human values.



Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency at an executive session of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. (Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)


Fear of brainwashing and a new breed of “brain warfare” terrified and fascinated the American public throughout the 1950s, spurred both by the words of the CIA and the stories of “brainwashed” G.I.’s returning from China, Korea, and the Soviet Union.

Newspaper headlines like “New Evils Seen in Brainwashing” and “Brainwashing vs. Western Psychiatry” offered sensational accounts of new mind-control techniques and technologies that no man could fully resist.

The paranoia began to drift into American culture, with books like The Manchurian Candidate and The Naked Lunch playing on themes of unhinged scientists and vast political conspiracies.

The idea of brainwashing also provided many Americans with a compelling, almost comforting, explanation for communism’s swift rise–that Soviets used the tools of brainwashing not just on enemy combatants, but on their own people.
Why else would so many countries be embracing such an obviously backward ideology?
American freedom of the mind versus Soviet “mind control” became a dividing line as stark as the Iron Curtain.
How did a secret government mind control program inadvertently fuel the use of psychedelic drugs in the 1960s?

MK-ULTRA

Three days after his speech decrying Soviet tactics, Dulles approved the beginning of MK-Ultra, a top-secret CIA program for “covert use of biological and chemical materials.” “American values” made for good rhetoric, but Dulles had far grander plans for the agency’s Cold War agenda.

MK-Ultra’s “mind control” experiments generally centered around behavior modification via electro-shock therapy, hypnosis, polygraphs, radiation, and a variety of drugs, toxins, and chemicals.

These experiments relied on a range of test subjects:
some who freely volunteered, some who volunteered under coercion, and some who had absolutely no idea they were involved in a sweeping defense research program.

From mentally-impaired boys at a state school, to American soldiers, to “sexual psychopaths” at a state hospital, MK-Ultra’s programs often preyed on the most vulnerable members of society.

The CIA considered prisoners especially good subjects, as they were willing to give consent in exchange for extra recreation time or commuted sentences.

Whitey Bulger, a former organized crime boss, wrote of his experience as an inmate test subject in MK-Ultra. “Eight convicts in a panic and paranoid state,” Bulger said of the 1957 tests at the Atlanta penitentiary where he was serving time.
“Total loss of appetite. Hallucinating. The room would change shape. Hours of paranoia and feeling violent. We experienced horrible periods of living nightmares and even blood coming out of the walls. Guys turning to skeletons in front of me.

I saw a camera change into the head of a dog. I felt like I was going insane.”



Gangster James "Whitey" Bulger's 1959 mugshot.
(Credit: Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Bulger claimed he had been injected with LSD. Lysergic acid diethylamide, or acid,had become one of the CIA’s key interests for its “brain warfare” program, as the agency theorized it could be useful in interrogations.

In the late 1940s, the CIA received reports that the Soviet Union had engaged in “intensive efforts to produce LSD,” and that the Soviets had attempted to purchase the world’s supply of the chemical.
One CIA officer described the agency as “literally terrified” of the Soviets’ LSD program, largely because of the lack of knowledge about the drug in the United States.
“[This] was the one material that we had ever been able to locate that really had potential fantastic possibilities if used wrongly,” the officer testified.

With the advent of MK-Ultra, the government’s interest in LSD shifted from a defensiveto an offensive orientation.
Agency officials noted that LSD could be potentially usefulin “[gaining] control of bodies whether they were willing or not.” The CIA envisioned applications that ranged from removing people from Europe in the case of a Soviet attack to enabling assassinations of enemy leaders. On November 18, 1953, a group of ten scientists met at a cabin located deep in the forests of Maryland. After extended discussions, the participants agreed that to truly understand the value of the drug, “an unwitting experiment would be desirable.”



Doctors Harry Williams and Carl Pfeiffer conducting an LSD Experiment.
(Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)

CIA remained keenly aware of how the public would react to any discovery of MK-Ultra; even if they believed these programs to be essential to national security, they must remain a tightly guarded secret. How would the CIA possibly explain
dosing unassuming Americans with LSD?

“Precautions must be taken not only to protect operations from exposure to enemy forces but also to conceal these activities from the American public in general,” wrote the CIA’s Inspector General in 1957. “The knowledge that the Agency is engaging in unethical and illicit activities would have serious repercussions in political and diplomatic circles and would be detrimental to the accomplishment of its mission.”
 

OPERATION MIDNIGHT CLIMAX

The CIA’s initial experiments with LSD were fairly simple, if shockingly unethical.
The agency generally dosed single targets, finding volunteers when they could, sometimes slipping the drug into the drinks of fellow CIA employees. Over time these LSD experiments grew increasingly elaborate. Perhaps the most notorious of these projects was Operation Midnight Climax.



A view of the old CIA building. (Credit: Ed Clark/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

In 1955, on 225 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, the CIA was devoting substantial attention to decorating a bedroom. George White oversaw the interior renovations. Not much of a decorator, White had a storied career in the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. When the CIA moved into drug experiments, bringing White on board became a top priority.

White hung up pictures of French can-can dancers and flowers. He draped lush redbedroom curtains over the windows. He framed a series of Toulouse-Lautrec posterswith black silk mats. For a middle-aged drug bureaucrat, each item evoked sex andglamour.

George White wasn’t building a normal bedroom, he was building a trap.

White then hired a Berkeley engineering student to install bugging equipment and atwo-way mirror. White sat behind the mirror, martini in hand, and waited for the action to begin.

Prostitutes would lure unsuspecting johns to the bedroom, where the men would be dosed with LSD and their actions observed by White from beyond the mirror.

As payment for their services the sex workers receive small amounts of cash, as wellas a guarantee from White that he’d intercede when the women inevitably had run-inswith law enforcement in the future.



George Hunter White, supervisor for the New England area of the Federal Narcotics Bureau. (Credit: Evelyn Straus/NY Daily News via Getty Images)

Though the CIA piloted these safe houses as a stage for testing the effects of LSD, White’s interest shifted to another element of his observations: the sex.
The San Francisco house became the center of what one writer called “the CIA carnal operations,” as officials began asking new questions about how to work with prostitutes, how they could be trained, and how they would handle state secrets.

The agency also analyzed when in the course of a sexual encounter information could best be extracted from a source, eventually concluding that it was immediately after sex.

But perhaps unsurprisingly, much of White’s actions were driven by pure voyeurism:
“I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun,” White later said. “Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape, and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest?"

THE DEMISE OF MK-ULTRA

The CIA’s experiments with LSD persisted until 1963 before coming to a fairly anticlimactic end. In the spring of 1963, John Vance, a member of the CIA Inspector General’s staff, learned about the project’s “surreptitious administration to unwitting nonvoluntary human subjects.”
Though the MK-Ultra directors tried to convince the CIA’s independent audit board that the research should continue, the Inspector General insisted the agency follow new research ethics guidelines and bring all the programs on non-consenting volunteers to an end.


President Gerald Ford meeting with the family of Dr. Frank Olson in 1975.
(Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)

In 1977, Senator Edward Kennedy oversaw congressional hearings investigatingthe effects of MK-Ultra. Congress brought in a roster of ex-CIA employees for questioning, interrogating them about who oversaw these programs, how participants were identified, and if any of these programs had been continued.

The Hearings turned over a number of disturbing details, particularly about the 1953 suicide of Dr. Frank Olson, an Army scientist who jumped out of a hotel window several days after unwittingly consuming a drink spiked with LSD.

Amid growing criminalization of drug users, and just a few years after President Nixon declared drug abuse as “public enemy number one,” the ironies of the U.S.’s troubling experimentation with drugs appeared in sharp relief.

But throughout the hearings, Congress kept hitting roadblocks: CIA staffers claimed they “couldn’t remember” details about many of the human experimentation projects, or even the number of people involved. The obvious next step would be to consult the records, but that presented a small problem: in 1973, amid mounting inquiries, the director of MK-Ultra told workers “it would be a good idea if [the MK-Ultra] files were destroyed.” Citing vague concerns about the privacy and “embarrassment” of participants, the men who crafted MK-Ultra effectively eradicated the paper recordfor one of the United States’ most obviously illegal undertakings.

A program born in secrecy would hold onto many of its secrets forever.


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Operation Midnight Climax

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Operation Midnight Climax was an operation carried out by the CIA as a sub-project of Project MKUltra, the mind-control research program that began in the 1950s. It was initially established in 1954 by Sidney Gottlieb and placed under the direction of the Federal Narcotics Bureau in Boston, Massachusetts with the officer George Hunter White under the pseudonym of Morgan Hall.[1] Before the programs were shut down, hundreds of scientists would work on them.

History[edit]

The project that started in 1954 consisted of a web of CIA-run safehouses in San Francisco, Marin County, California, and New York City. It was established in order to study the effects of LSD on unconsenting individuals. Prostitutes on the CIA payroll were instructed to lure clients back to the safehouses, where they were surreptitiously plied with a wide range of substances, including LSD, and monitored behind one-way glass.

Every one of these acts was blatantly illegal and several significant operational techniques were developed in this theater, including extensive research into sexual blackmail, surveillance technology, and the possible use of mind-altering drugs in field operations.[2] The Operation Midnight Climax program was soon expanded, and CIA operatives began dosing people in restaurants, bars and beaches.[2] The safehouses were dramatically scaled back in 1963, following a report by CIA Inspector General John Earman which strongly recommended closing the facility. The San Francisco safehouses were closed in 1965, and the New York City safehouse soon followed in 1966.[citation needed]

In 1974, the journalist Seymour Hersh exposed the CIA's illegal spying on U.S. citizens and how the CIA had conducted non-consensual drug experiments. His report started the lengthy process of bringing long-suppressed details about MKUltra to light.[2] Project MKUltra came to light in the spring of 1977 during a wide-ranging survey of the CIA's Technical Services Division. John K. Vance, a member of the CIA inspector general's staff, discovered that the agency was running a research project that included administering LSD and other drugs to unwilling human subjects.[3]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ornes, Stephen (4 August 2008). "Whatever Happened to... Mind Control?". Discover. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b c Kamiya, Gary (1 April 2016). "When the CIA Ran a LSD Sex-house in San Francisco". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  3. ^ Holley, Joe (16 June 2005). "John K. Vance; Uncovered LSD Project at CIA". Obituaries. The Washington Post. Retrieved 23 October 2019.

External links[edit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Midnight_Climax


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Every one of these acts was blatantly illegal and several significant operational techniques were developed in this theater, including extensive research into sexual blackmail, surveillance technology, and the possible use of mind-altering drugs in field operations.


Angela Kasner, 18, with frieds at a New Year's Eve party in Berlin in 1972.
- None of these MKUltra / Operation Midnight Climax students trained as leaders, have children. They were sterilized because abortions would have delayed the execution of the program.
 

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Angela Dorothea Merkel

- She has no children, but Sauer has two adult sons from a previous marriage.

Theresa Mary May

May has expressed regret that she and her husband have not been able to have children.

Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of Lithuania

Grybauskaitė is unmarried and has no children.

More Than 4,000 New MKUltra Documents Requested From CIA After Crowdfunding Campaign



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5 Real CIA Experiments from Project MKULTRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ff24-xGrSI

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Here Is Pedophile Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's Little Black Book




Epstein diagram
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IcjxaTyuBnupUkFKlSSuPBUO2g6E2-bx/preview


Nick Bryant

Filed to: JEFFREY EPSTEIN




Donald Trump, Courtney Love, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak,
and uber-lawyer Alan Dershowitz may have been identified by a butler
as potential "material witnesses" to pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's crimes against young girls, according to a copy of Epstein's
little black book obtained by Gawker.



Flight Logs Put Clinton, Dershowitz on Pedophile Billionaire’s
Sex Jet

Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the " Lolita Express"—the private passenger jet owned …


An annotated copy of the address book, which also contains entries for
  • Alec Baldwin,
  • Ralph Fiennes,
  • Griffin Dunne,
  • New York Post gossip Richard Johnson,
  • Ted Kennedy,
  • David Koch,
  • filmmaker Andrew Jarecki,

and all manner of other people you might expect a billionaire to know, turned up in court proceedings after Epstein's former house manager Alfredo Rodriguez tried to sell it in 2009.

About 50 of the entries, including those of many of Epstein's suspected victims and accomplices as well as Trump, Love, Barak, Dershowitz, and others, were circled by Rodriguez. (The existence of the book has been previously reported by the Daily Mail.

Gawker is publishing it in full here for the first time; we have redacted addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and the last names of individuals who may have been underage victims.)









 

 

According to an FBI affidavit, Rodriguez described the address
book and the information contained within it as the "Holy Grail"
or "Golden Nugget" to unraveling Epstein's sprawling child-sex
network.

But despite having been subpoenaed for everything he
had on his former boss, Rodriguez didn't share it with the FBI
or Palm Beach Police Department detectives investigating Epstein.
Instead, he tried to make a $50,000 score by covertly peddling
the black book to one of the attorneys launching lawsuits at
Epstein on behalf of his victims.

Who is Jeffrey Epstein?
Click here for our primer about the billionaire pedophile.

he plot backfired when the attorney reported Rodriguez to the
FBI, and he was promptly charged with obstruction of justice.
But not before he had, according to the FBI affidavit laying out
the crime, marked up the book and an accompanying notepad
with "handwritten notes" that contained "information material
to the underlying investigation that would have been extremely
useful in investigating and prosecuting the case, including the
names and contact information of material witnesses and
additional victims."

Rodriguez, who spent 18 months in prison, died in December
after a long illness and never spoke out about the address book,
so the precise significance of the names he circled remains fuzzy.

But the FBI's case against him makes clear that Rodriguez
regarded the address book as crucial to understanding Epstein's
crimes; during a conversation with an undercover FBI agent
posing as a potential buyer, he "discussed in detail the information
contained in the book, and identified important information" to
the agent.


In addition to the names above, as well as scores of apparent
underage victims in Florida, New Mexico, California, Paris, and
the United Kingdom listed under the rubric of "massage," the
circled entries include:

  • Billionaire Leslie Wexner
  • Former New Mexico Governor Bruce King
  • Former New Mexico Governor and Democratic presidential hopeful
    Bill Richardson
  • Peter Soros, the nephew of George Soros
  • Former Miss Sweden and socialite New York City doctor Eva
    Andersson Dubin

Some of the circled entries include additional notes—one address
in New York City, for instance, is marked as an "apt. for models,"
and two names bear the marking "witness."

Asked why Rodriguez might have circled his name, Alan
Dershowitz told Gawker, "I've never seen the book and I have no
idea what it means. I was neither a victim nor a material witness—
I never witnessed any crimes or participated in any crimes, and I
can prove it."

Virginia Roberts, one of Epstein's alleged victims, has claimed in
repeated court filings that Epstein instructed her to have sex with
Dershowitz on several occasions, charges that Dershowitz
categorically denies.

Trump, through a spokesperson, said, "Mr. Trump only knew
Mr. Epstein as Mr. Trump owns the hottest and most luxurious
club in Palm Beach, [redacted], and Mr. Epstein would go there
on occasion."Although Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew have been mentioned
in connection with Epstein's sordid deeds, their names aren't circled
in the black book. But Epstein did have 21 contact numbers and
various email addresses for Clinton, as well as several contact
numbers for the prince.


Nick Bryant is the author of The Franklin Scandal, the true story of a nationwide
pedophile ring that pandered children to a cabal of the rich and powerful, and the
co-author of Confessions of a D.C. Madam: The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail,
which will be published in March.


Additional reporting by J.K. Trotter. If you have information to share about Epstein's activities,
please email tips@gawker.com

Top image by Jim Cooke, photos via AP.




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