Thomson, Mike (August 23, 2010). "Pont-Saint-Esprit poisoning: Did the CIA spread LSD?". BBC.com. BBC News. PROJECT MKULTRA, THE CIA's PROGRAM OF RESEARCH IN BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION (PDF). Joint Hearing Before The Select Committee On Intelligence And The Subcommittee On Health And Scientific Research of The Committee On Human Resources, United States Senate (Report). U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. August 3, 1977. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022. Outside of alien abductee circles, no one else is likely to believe the victim’s story, even though it’s really a false memory. [4] According to some conspiracy theorists, the CIA got the technology for implanting false memories from the reptilian race that supposedly lives in secret locations on Earth. 7 There’s A Connection Between Ear Candling And MK-ULTRA Kubark relies directly on Cameron's work at McGill University, which the Allen is part of, and his theory that to make a mind malleable, you need to break it down to an infantile state. Declassified MKUltra documents indicate they studied hypnosis in the early 1950s. Experimental goals included creating "hypnotically induced anxieties", "hypnotically increasing ability to learn and recall complex written matter", studying hypnosis and polygraph examinations, "hypnotically increasing ability to observe and recall complex arrangements of physical objects", and studying "relationship of personality to susceptibility to hypnosis". [69] They conducted experiments with drug-induced hypnosis and with anterograde and retrograde amnesia while under the influence of such drugs.

Kinzer spent several years on research into MK-Ultra; he described it as the "most sustained search in history for techniques of mind control". [7] Kinzer collected information by wide investigating, interviews, and unpublished reports that were released when Gottlieb died. Gottlieb did experiments on American citizens and used techniques of torture and testing that were applied by Nazi Germany. [11] See also [ edit ] MKUltra was preceded by Project ARTICHOKE. [8] [9] It was organized through the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence and coordinated with the United States Army Biological Warfare Laboratories. [10] The program engaged in illegal activities, [11] [12] [13] including the use of U.S. and Canadian citizens as unwitting test subjects. [11] :74 [14] [15] [16] MKUltra's scope was broad, with activities carried out under the guise of research at more than 80 institutions aside from the military, [17] including colleges and universities, hospitals, prisons, and pharmaceutical companies. [18] The CIA operated using front organizations, although some top officials at these institutions were aware of the CIA's involvement. [11] Ben: Kinzer connects the creation of the CIA itself to our government’s struggles to put up a fight against Hitler and the Third Reich in World War II. Many of the tests were conducted at universities, hospitals or prisons in the United States and Canada. Most of these took place between 1953 and 1964, but it’s not clear how many people were involved in the tests—the agency kept notoriously poor records and destroyed most MK-Ultra documents when the program was officially halted in 1973. LSD and Sidney GottliebKinzer: Allen Dulles, who was the CIA director during the 1950s, concluded, I think quite correctly, that any nation that could master the tools of mind control could control the whole world. And so not realizing or wanting to admit that that was an impossible goal, he set as a very top priority at the CIA to search for ways to control a human mind, and any intensity of experiments was going to be permitted because the urgency of the project was so overwhelming.

Lee, Martin A.; Shlain, Bruce (1992). Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: the CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond. Grove Weidenfeld. ISBN 978-0-8021-3062-4.a b Tim Weiner (March 10, 1999). "Sidney Gottlieb, 80, Dies; Took LSD to C.I.A." New York Times . Retrieved June 25, 2012. American interest in drug-related interrogation experiments began in 1943, when the Office of Strategic Services began developing a "truth drug" that would produce "uninhibited truthfulness" in an interrogated person. [23] [24] In 1947, the United States Navy initiated Project CHATTER, an interrogation program which saw the first testing of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25) on human subjects. [25] [26]

No judicially crafted rule should insulate from liability the involuntary and unknowing human experimentation alleged to have occurred in this case. Indeed, as Justice Brennan observes, the United States played an instrumental role in the criminal prosecution of Nazi officials who experimented with human subjects during the Second World War, and the standards that the Nuremberg Military Tribunals developed to judge the behavior of the defendants stated that the 'voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential [...] to satisfy moral, ethical, and legal concepts.' If this principle is violated, the very least that society can do is to see that the victims are compensated, as best they can be, by the perpetrators.

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Tallerico, Brian (December 19, 2017). "7 Key Questions to Help You Understand Wormwood". Vulture . Retrieved October 18, 2021. Storming Heaven: LSD and The American Dream, by Jay Stevens, New York: Grove Press, 1987, ISBN 0802135870 The family of Frank Olson decided to have a second autopsy performed in 1994. A forensics team found injuries on the body that had likely occurred before the fall. The findings sparked conspiracy theories that Olson might have been assassinated by the CIA. Amory Sivertson: And while the Nazis had been defeated by the allied powers in the West, there was a new threat on the horizon to the East: the Soviet Union. By the late 1940s, the US government was focused on the next war. A war that could include nuclear weapons.