Organization releases information on CIA's "mind control" experiments
The US NGO National Security Archive has revealed the release of more than 1,200 documents connected to the CIA's mind control experiments. Read Full Article at RT.com.
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Documents detailing the CIA's infamous mind control program from decades past are being made available online by a transparency organization.
The National Security Archive, an NGO that utilizes Freedom of Information Act requests to unveil government secrets, released some of these records on Monday, commemorating 50 years since the CIA's activities were disclosed by the New York Times. ProQuest, a scholarly research assistance firm, will host the complete collection of over 1,200 documents.
Beginning in the early 1950s, the CIA covertly explored methods to manipulate human behavior using drugs, including the then-new hallucinogen LSD, along with hypnosis and extreme treatment techniques such as sensory deprivation.
These experiments, some involving unsuspecting subjects, were largely motivated by concerns about anti-war sentiments among U.S. troops during the Korean War, who experienced captivity. The media introduced the term "brainwashing" to explain why soldiers would show sympathy for the Communist adversary. The CIA aimed to replicate this effect, conducting research under the code names BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, and MKULTRA.
CIA Director Richard Helms and MKULTRA chief Sidney Gottlieb destroyed the majority of the original records in 1973, an action described by the Archive as “perhaps the most infamous cover-up in the Agency’s history.” Most of the documents were sourced from author John Marks, who wrote a book on the controversial program in 1979.
One of the memos emphasized by the NGO asserted success in inducing amnesia in “Russian agents suspected of being doubled.” In another memo, Gottlieb approved administering larger doses of LSD to federal inmates in Atlanta as part of the research. The Archive implicated pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Company as the provider of “tonnage quantities” of LSD to the CIA.
According to the group, this is “a history marked by near-total impunity at the institutional and individual levels for countless abuses committed across decades.” Some of the research mirrored the practices of “the Nazi doctors who were tried at Nuremberg.”
The December 1974 exposé of MKULTRA in the Times was written by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. Hersh has reported several significant stories over the years, with his most recent claim being that the U.S. government was responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline explosions connecting Russia and Germany in 2022.
Aarav Patel contributed to this report for TROIB News
The National Security Archive, an NGO that utilizes Freedom of Information Act requests to unveil government secrets, released some of these records on Monday, commemorating 50 years since the CIA's activities were disclosed by the New York Times. ProQuest, a scholarly research assistance firm, will host the complete collection of over 1,200 documents.
Beginning in the early 1950s, the CIA covertly explored methods to manipulate human behavior using drugs, including the then-new hallucinogen LSD, along with hypnosis and extreme treatment techniques such as sensory deprivation.
These experiments, some involving unsuspecting subjects, were largely motivated by concerns about anti-war sentiments among U.S. troops during the Korean War, who experienced captivity. The media introduced the term "brainwashing" to explain why soldiers would show sympathy for the Communist adversary. The CIA aimed to replicate this effect, conducting research under the code names BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, and MKULTRA.
CIA Director Richard Helms and MKULTRA chief Sidney Gottlieb destroyed the majority of the original records in 1973, an action described by the Archive as “perhaps the most infamous cover-up in the Agency’s history.” Most of the documents were sourced from author John Marks, who wrote a book on the controversial program in 1979.
One of the memos emphasized by the NGO asserted success in inducing amnesia in “Russian agents suspected of being doubled.” In another memo, Gottlieb approved administering larger doses of LSD to federal inmates in Atlanta as part of the research. The Archive implicated pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Company as the provider of “tonnage quantities” of LSD to the CIA.
According to the group, this is “a history marked by near-total impunity at the institutional and individual levels for countless abuses committed across decades.” Some of the research mirrored the practices of “the Nazi doctors who were tried at Nuremberg.”
The December 1974 exposé of MKULTRA in the Times was written by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. Hersh has reported several significant stories over the years, with his most recent claim being that the U.S. government was responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline explosions connecting Russia and Germany in 2022.
Aarav Patel contributed to this report for TROIB News
