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In 1954, a prison doctor in the southern US state of Kentucky isolatedseven black inmates and fed them “double, triple and quadruple” doses ofthe psychoactive drug LSD for 77 days straight.
“They may have died without knowing that they were part of the CIA’s highlysecretive program to develop ways to control minds — a program based out ofa little-known Army base with a dark past, 50 miles (80 kilometers) fromWashington in the Maryland town of Frederick,” writes author StephenKinzer, formerly based in Turkiye, who investigated this ultra-secretproject
Exactly 69 years ago, on April 13, 1953, then-CIA Director Allen Dulleslaunched the psychedelic mind-control program codenamed MKUltra tomanipulate the mental states and brain functions of an individual by covertinjection of high dosages of psychoactive substances and other chemicals.
Testifying before a joint US Senate committee in 1977, CIA DirectorStansfield Turner admitted that the project intended to study “the use ofbiological and chemical materials in altering human behavior.” MKUltra waspreceded by two drug-related experiments, Project Bluebird and ProjectArtichoke.
According to Kinzer, the CIA project “was a continuation of the work begunin WWII-era in Japanese facilities and Nazi concentration camps on subduingand controlling human minds.” He has documented that MKUltra’s use ofmescaline on unwitting subjects was a practice pioneered by Nazi doctors inthe Dachau concentration camp.
In a 1985 verdict, the US Supreme Court found that the CIA indirectlyfunded 162 different secret projects that were “contracted out to variousuniversities, research foundations, and similar institutions.” In total, atleast 80 institutions and 185 researchers participated, but many wereunaware they were dealing with the CIA.
Although the program was shut down in 1964, there is ample evidence thatintelligence agencies continued the project in their domains.
No longer science fiction
These mind-control methods are no longer limited to science fiction and arenow exploited by the intelligence agencies to control the minds of leaders.
In 2006, retired Gen. Boris Ratnikov, a former official of the KGB, theSoviet Union’s main security agency, told the government-controllednewspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta that in the mid-1980s, about 50 researchinstitutes in his country had studied remote mind control techniques withsubstantial government funding.
Experts say the concept of breaking and rebuilding the mind was firstscientifically introduced by German spy agencies around World War II.However, it was later perfected by the CIA and the KGB.
According to Ratnikov’s account, Russian President Boris Yeltsin planned tovisit Japan in 1992. But Ratnikov’s department detected attempts to”program” Yeltsin’s mind to make him give the Kuril Islands back to Japan.The move would have prompted China to demand its disputed areas from Russiaas well, potentially sparking a war between the countries. Yeltsin canceledthe trip for unknown reasons.
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Ratnikov also revealed that senior officials in Western Europe and the UShad “unwittingly provided information” to his department, “which was ableto read their minds, thanks to Soviet-era scientific achievements,”reported by Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
He also told the paper that in the early 1990s, he and his colleagues”scanned” the mind of new US Ambassador Robert Strauss to discover that theembassy building contained equipment capable of exerting “psychotronicinfluence” on Moscow residents, but it had been deactivated.
Controlling mind through remote control
According to a declassified CIA document, one significant mandate given tothe project was to determine whether the agency could seize a person byremote control in the span of an hour or two and direct him to crash anaeroplane or wreck a train, among other things.
Other mandates included experimenting with a subject and forcing them totravel long distances to execute specified acts such as subversion andespionage.
Carol Rutz, a former CIA researcher, describes an experiment on two women.”Without their consciousness, they were made to plant a bomb perfectly andwere fully amnesic,” she said in a paper. They hardly knew what they haddone.
Author of the book, A Nation Betrayed: Secret Cold War ExperimentsPerformed on our Children and Other Innocent People, she had alsoco-authored the “Extreme Abuse Survey” in which more than 2,000 personsfrom 40 countries participated to document ritual abuse and mind control.
In 1974, Stanford Research Institute developed a computer system capable ofreading a person’s mind by correlating the brain waves or inducing a heartattack from a distance. The latest development in the technology is thecloning of any targeted victim’s or group’s human electroencephalogram(EEG) or brain waves.
They are then placed on Silent Sound carrier frequencies, where they couldsilently trigger the occurrence of the same basic emotion in another humanbeing.
History has shown that radical rulers, riding anti-corruptions waves andthe promise of transforming a decrepit political system, often get co-optedinto conventional politics. The old cycle sets into motion leaving thegeneral public once again to await the arrival of a new messiah and a freshrevolution.
Is this because they are subjected to mind control programs? There are nosatisfactory answers to the complex question. – Anadolu Agency