May 6, 2016

In an unprecedented decision, senior federal Judge Justin Quackenbush of Spokane, Washington ruled that a lawsuit may

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Landmark Ruling Allows Torture Lawsuit against Psychologists Mitchell & Jessen to Proceed

January 18, 2015

The covert convergence between CIA and cognitive scientists — psychiatrists and psychologists — who provided the patina

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Introduction

January 18, 2015

The phrase “psychological warfare” is reported to have first entered English in 1941 as a translated mutation

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1941: The term, “psychological warfare” was a Nazi concept adapted and “Americanized”

January 18, 2015

Cameron was an internationally prominent psychiatrist who was invited as a consultant to the Nuremberg Tribunal. Allen

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1940s: Dr. Ewen Cameron Collaborated with the U.S. Office of Special Services (OSS)

January 18, 2015

The secret US Naval Technical Mission Report described the “interrogation” techniques and mescaline experiments at Dachau; they

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1945: U.S. Naval Technical Mission, the Genesis for U.S. Psychological Torture Experiments

January 18, 2015

The committee was headed by Winfred Overholser, MD, superintendent of St. Elizabeths Hospital for the mentally ill

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1945: “Wild Bill” Donovan set up a “truth drug” committee

January 18, 2015

The OSS (later CIA) first tested extreme interrogation — torture — techniques in Camp King where the

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1946: Extreme interrogation techniques — torture — were first tested at Camp King in Germany

January 18, 2015

The CIA was established by President Harry Truman in 1947 as an information gathering agency to apprise

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1947: The CIA, an elitist culture operating in secrecy violating legal and moral precepts

January 18, 2015

The Naval report about the Dachau mescaline experiments was the catalyst for Project CHATTER which focused on

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1947–1953: Navy’s Project CHATTER tested drugs for interrogation

January 18, 2015

Charles Loucks, Chief of U.S. Chemical Warfare in Europe learned about the hallucinogen LSD from Hitler’s former

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1948: Brigadier General Charles Loucks Learns about LSD

January 18, 2015

Dr. Rinkel, a research psychiatrist obtained LSD from its sole Swiss manufacturer, Sandoz Chemicals; his partner, Dr.

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1949: First LSD experiment in the U.S. Dr. Max Rinkel

January 18, 2015

In 1949, the Rand Corporation issued a report, “Are Communist Countries Using Hypnosis Techniques to Elicit Confession

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1949 — CIA’s Research in Covert Mind-Control Techniques i.e., Psychological Torture

January 18, 2015

BLUEBIRD was the first structured comprehensive, integrated CIA mind control project involving both domestic and overseas covert

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BLUEBIRD (1949–1951) the first integrated CIA mind-control project

January 18, 2015

Soviet doctors concluded that lobotomy was “contrary to the principles of humanity.” Furthermore, they concluded that “through

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1950: Soviet Union banned lobotomy