Mind Control & MK-ULTRA On 28 November 1953, a delusional and depressed Dr Frank
Olson threw himself out of the tenth floor window of his New York
hotel. Olson was a long-serving scientist for the US Army's secretive
Chimical Corps Special Operations Division, whose problems began at a
meeting 9 days earlier. The meeting had been orchestrated by Sidnet
Gottlieb, Head of the CIA's Technical Services Staff. Unknown to
those present at the meeting, Gottlieb had aquired a quantity of LSD
and secretly wanted to test it. Spiking Olson's drink with the LSD,
he passed the bottle around and sat back waiting for results. Olson,
an outgoing personality who loved practical jokes, soon began to
suffer jarring side effects. One of those present at the meeting, Ben
Wilson, later recalled that Olson 'was psychotic'.
Gottlieb and his boss, the Director of Central
Intelligence, Allen Dulles, initiated a 20-year cover-up of the
circumstances surrounding Olson's death.
At stake was the CIA's super secret project, MK-ULTRA.
The project had grown out of an earlier secret programme, known as
Bluebird, that was officially formed to counter Soviet advances in
brainwashing. In reality the CIA had other objectives. An earlier
aim was to study methods 'through which control of an individual may
be attained'. The emphasis of experimentation was 'narco-hypnosis',
the blending of mind
altering drugs with careful hypnotic programming.
Ever evolving, project Bluebird was later renamed
Project Artichoke, after a vegetable that Dulles was particularly fond
of. Artichoke was an 'offensive' programme of mind control that
gathered together the intelligence divisions of the Army, Navy, Air
Farce and FBI.
The scope of the project was outlined in a memorandum
dated January 1952 that ominously asked: "Can we get control of an
individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will
and even against fundamental laws of nature such as self
preservation?" The race was on to create a programmable assassin!
A crack CIA team was formed that could travel, at a
moments notice, to anywhere in the world. Their task was to test the
new interrogation techniques, and ensure that victims would not
remember being interrogated and programmed. All manner of narcotics,
from marijuana to LSD, heroin and sodium pentathol (the so called
'truth drug') were regularly used.
Despite poor initial results, CIA-sponsored mind control
programmes flourished. On 13 April 1953, the super-secret project
MK-ULTRA was born. Its scope was broader than ever before, and only
those in the top echelon of the CIA were privy to it. Official CIA
documents describe MK-ULTRA as an 'umbrella project' with 149
'sub-projects'. Many of these
sub-projects dealt with testing illegal drugs for potential field use.
Others dealt with electronics. One explored the possibility of
activating 'the human organism by remote control'. Throughout, it
remained a major goal to brainwash individuals to become couriers and
spies without their knowledge.
When it was formed in 1947, the CIA was forbidden to
have any domestic police or internal security powers. In short, it
was authorized only to operate 'overseas'. From the very start
MK-ULTRA staff broke this Congressional stipulation and began testing
on unwitting US citizens.
Precisely how extensive illegal testing became will
never be known. Richard Helms, CIA Director and chief architect of the
programme, ordered the destruction of all MK-ULTRA records shortly
before leaving office in 1973. Despite these precautions some
documents were misfiled and came to light in the late 1970's. They
laid bare the spy agency's cynicism.
One particularly odious project was run by Dr Harris
Isabel, Director of the Public Service Hospital in Lexington,
Kentucky - a facility specializing in drug abuse. Asked by the CIA to
discover a range of 'synthetic' drugs, Isabel began experimenting on
captive black inmates. Anxious to please his CIA bosses he daily fed
his guinea pigs large doses of LSD, mescaline, marijuana, scopolamine
and other substances. In
exchange for participating in the experiments, the inmates received
injections fo high quality morphine, sometimes getting 'shot-up' three
times a day, depending on their co-operation. Brought before the
Senate subcommittees in 1975, Isabel saw no contradiction in providing
hard drugs to the very addicts he was employed to cure.
Following public outrage, the CIA announced it had
ceased its mind manipulation programmes. Victor Marchetti, a CIA
veteran of 14 years who turned 'whistle-blower', exposed this to be
untrue.
In 1977, Marchetti said the CIA claims to have ceased
were a cover story. Under scrutiny, the agency were quick to downplay
the success of MK-ULTRA - claiming no real advances were achieved.
Miles Copeland, another long-serving CIA officer disputed this.
Speaking to a reporter, Copeland revealed that 'the congressional
subcommittee which went into this sort of thing only got the barest
glimpse'. Another source within
the intelligence community says that after 1963, CIA efforts
increasingly focused on psychoelectronics. Narcohypnosis had been
drained dry.
Dr Jose Delgado, a neurophsiologist at Yale University
School, was especially interested in Electronic Stimulation of the
Brain. By implanting a small probe into the brain, Delgado discovered
that he could wield enormous power over his subject. Using a device
he called the 'stimoceiver' which operated by FM radio waves, he was
able to electrically orchestrate a wide range of human emotions.
These included
rage, lust and fatigue. (Note: Stimoceiver is a S.B.M.C.D. or/
Spherical Biological Monitoring and Control Device. This ultra
submicrominiaturized unit is the offspring of alien technology. Much
of this was continued on the MK-Ultra Sub-Project 95 by Dr.Jose
Delgado and Dr Louis Joylan West who mastered a technology called
"RHIC-EDOM." RHIC means "Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral Control", and
EDOM means "Electronic Dissolution Of Memory." These implants are
stimulated to induce a post-hypnotic suggestion. EDOM is nothing more
than "Missing Time" or/ the erasure of memory from the consciousness.
The following Projects still use advanced RHIC-EDOM technology by
CIA Black Ops and the military............Col.)
Artichoke Project During 1966, Delgado announced that his findings
supported 'the distasteful conclusion that motion, emotion and
behaviour can be directed by electrical forces'. He added that
'humans can be controlled like robots by push buttons'. Funded by the
Office of Naval Research, Delgado looked forward to a future when
society could be 'psychocivilised'. Despite the miniturization of
implants, the next major advance forward was microwaves.
By placing a volunteer (???) in an electromagnetic
field, Dr Ross Adey of the University of California, made a startling
discovery. Using specific radio waves, Adey was able to influence his
subjects' brainwaves.
Another scientist, Allen Frey, took this research a step
further. Frey found he could remotely induce sleep in his subjects by
subjecting them to electromagnetic waves. He also learned he could
produce acoustic noises - booming, buzzing and hissing, directly
inside a volunteer's (????) head. Developing on Frey's earlier work,
Joseph Sharp, a doctor at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research,
was able to transmit spoken words via pulsed microwaves. Sitting
inside an electromagnetic field, Sharp clearly heard and understood
words transmitted to him by a
colleague. For the medical profession this was a major breakthrough,
and would be of immense benefit to the deaf.
However, the US military and interlligence community
were quick to capitalize on these new discoveries. Secret research
programmes on electromagnetics have never been made available under
the Freedom of Information Act.
In 1974, J. F. Scapitz, a scientist funded by the
Department of Defense, had a chilling vision. He sought to combine
earlier MK-ULTRA hypnosis studies with emerging microwave
technologies. In an outline to the DoD, Scapitz said "It will be
shown the spoken word of the hynotist my be conveyed by modulated
electromagnetic energy directly into the subconscious parts of the
brain". He claimed this could be achieved without emplying any
technical devices for 'receiving or transcoding messages'.
For the first time, US agents had the ability to
remotely tamper with an individual's mind. Scapitz went even further,
claiming that this could be achieved without the target even becoming
aware of what was happening.
Since then, little public information has been revealed
in scientific literature, following the imposition of the strict
security classification. Despite this, significant pieces of
information - more usually from non-US sources - continue to be
published. What is available paints a bleak picture.
Evidence exists that mind-control and behavious
modification technology is presently concealed behind Non Lethal
Defense (NLD) initiatives. In annoncement in 1995 that non-leathal
weapons - including high powered microwaves and radio frequency
devices - are to be 'transited' to the law enforcement sector was met
with dismay in some quarters. This joint
programme, known as 'Operations Other Than War', opens the way for the
military to move into the civilian domain - a move precluded by the
American constitution. The stated aim is to more effectively tackle
narcotics trafficking, terrorism and other criminal activity.
Many citizens consider this to be a lame excuse. They
fear of widespread use of mind-altering technologies, and believe
democracy is under serious assault. In the light of past government
evilness and abuse, who could blame them???
Richard Gall
by Richard G. Gall
Bluebird Project
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