WIRED: Pentagon's Cold War Mind Control Tests Included Chemical Concussions And Secret LSD

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Chemical Concussions and Secret LSD: Pentagon Details Cold War Mind Control Tests
By Katie Drummond May 11, 2010 | 10:20 am | Categories: Bizarro


More than 30 years after it was written, the Pentagon has released a memorandum detailing its involvement in the CIA’s infamous Cold War mind control experiments.

But a warning to conspiracy theorists on the lookout for new fodder: this isn’t quite “Men Who Stare at Goats II.”

The 17-page document, “Experimentation Programs conducted by the Department of Defense That Had CIA Sponsorship or Participation and That Involved the Administration to Human Subjects of Drugs Intended for Mind-Control or Behavior-Modification Purposes,” was prepared in 1977 by the General Counsel of the Department of Defense and released on May 6 after a Freedom of Information Act request. Most of the details have been revealed in earlier CIA papers. And if anything, the Pentagon’s recap is a reminder of how little the Department of Defense cops to knowing about the CIA projects.

Still, there are some tantalizing new details. Take the origins of MK-ULTRA, the notorious CIA program that dosed thousands of unwitting participants with hallucinogenic drugs.


Initially funded by the Navy, the project set out to study the effects of brain concussion. Soon after, scientists noted that a blow to the head prompted amnesia, leading to the pursuit of a drug-based technique to “induce brain concussion…without physical trauma.” Shortly thereafter, the project was transferred entirely to the CIA, because it involved “human experiments…not easily justifiable on medical-therapeutic grounds.”

Other programs, described briefly focused on mind-control. MK-NAOMI was after “severely incapacitating and lethal materials… gadgetry for their dissemination,” and MK-CHICKWIT was designed to “identify new drug developments in Europe and Asia,” and then “obtain samples.”

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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/05/chemical-concussions-and-secret-lsd-military-releases-cold-war-mind-control-report/

[Warpy]

1. Mengele lives.

[mod mom]

5. This article made me think of Lee Harvey Oswald.

[Scuba]

7. Exactly.

[malaise]

8. Naomi Klein

The Shock Doctrine....MUST READ!!!

[robdogbucky]

2. Limited to Cold War? Not Men Who Stare at Goats II?

think again. Still going on, was much more pervasive and for a longer period of time than most know.

Funny that all of it was approved by American Medical Boards, etc. No one in the medical profession has had the balls to call the government on their abuse and perversion of the medical profession, or the perversion of the rights of the unwitting patients used for these tests; prisoners, patients, soldiers, etc. In other words, all persons who had no choice and were not adequately informed about what was being done to them. Ethics? Are you kidding?

Want to make your hair stand on end? Research what went on at Edgewood:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood_Arsenal_experiments
http://rex84.ipbfree.com/index.php?showtopic=1201

Check out Dr. Colin Ross, leading advocate for medical ethics and patients' rights:

The CIA Mind Control Doctors: From Harvard to Guantanamo
by Colin A. Ross
Psychiatrist, Author,
The CIA Doctors, Military Mind Control
and Project Bluebird
September 3, 2009

http://www.cchrint.org/2009/09/03/cia-mind-control-doctors/



Just my dos centavos


robdogbucky

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4. I have read Bluebird

It is amazing what They get away with, and what people dream up to do to each other.

[Octafish]

9. Genocidal scientist Cornelius Rhodes injected Puerto Ricans with cancer.

He's the noted American physician from whom Dr. Mengele apparently drew inspiration.



Rhoads INJECTED Puerto Ricans with CANCER cells.

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3. .

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6. Ex-patient to tell of pills, shocks, brainwashing

And also the Canadian government and a prestigious, highly regarded Canadian university (McGill University in Montreal) played a role in the torture of innocents in the CIA's mind-fuck crimimals' torture program of the 1950s.

Ex-patient to tell of pills, shocks, brainwashing
Woman seeks to launch class-action case against Ottawa for Cold War-era tests
by Dene Moore, Globe & Mail, Jan 8, 2007

MONTREAL -- Janine Huard was a young mother of four with mild postpartum depression when she checked herself in for psychiatric treatment at a Montreal hospital more than five decades ago. What happened after that still haunts her today, Ms. Huard says, and she will be in a federal courtroom this week seeking to launch a class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government for brainwashing experiments carried out in the Cold War era on her and hundreds of other patients. "I was a guinea pig," Ms. Huard said.

On and off for more than a decade at McGill University's renowned Allan Memorial Institute, Ms. Huard said, she received massive electroshocks and was fed more than 40 experimental pills a day. The former patient, who will be 79 at the end of the month, said she was drugged and subjected to so-called "depatterning," during which repetitive recordings were played in her ear for weeks on end, one of them telling her she was of no use to her family.

"I came out of there so sick that my mother had to live with me for 10 years," Ms. Huard said. "I couldn't take care of my children any more." She said she lost memories and suffered from migraines as a result.

The ordeal came at the hands of Ewan Cameron. The Edinburgh-educated physician based in New York pioneered "psychic driving," by which he believed he could erase the memories of patients and rebuild their psyches without psychiatric defect.

The idea intrigued the Central Intelligence Agency, which recruited Dr. Cameron to experiment with mind-control techniques beginning in 1950. The McGill experiments were jointly funded by the CIA and Ottawa.

As director of the institute until 1964, Dr. Cameron conducted a range of experiments, often without the knowledge or permission of patients. He gave patients LSD and subjected them to massive and multiple electroshock treatments. Some underwent sleep deprivation or total sensory deprivation. Others were kept in drug-induced comas for months while speakers under their pillows broadcast messages for up to 16 hours a day. The experiments were part of a larger CIA program called MK-ULTRA, which also saw LSD administered to U.S. prison inmates and brothel patrons without their knowledge, according to testimony before a 1977 U.S. Senate committee.

http://www.orwelltoday.com/ciabrainwashing.shtml

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10. Shocking! Shocking more people didn't K&R the OP, too.

Thank you for the heads-up, mod mom. I'd've kicked all day long if I knew.

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What do the names Forrestal, Olsen, Kokal and Weiss have in common?

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Absolutely shocking.