January 18

1953: Artichoke Conference

Artichoke Conference: “use of criminals and the criminally insane have been very successful.” CIA Security Research chief Paul Gaynor stated at an Artichoke Conference meeting at Fort Detrick,

All individuals can be broken under mental and physical assaults and by such techniques as denying sleep, exhaustion, persuasion, starvation, pain, humiliation, and sickness. . .The capacity to endure assaults of all kinds varies in individuals. We need to teach the Artichoke techniques to medical officers in the field . . . we also need to combine these techniques with the work carried on at Edgewood Arsenal and at Camp Dietrich [sic] . . . and the special use of ergots, as well as Lysergic Acid. Experiments with new ideas, for example the hypo-spray instrument (owned by the E.R. Squibb Company) using criminals and the criminally insane, have been very successful.


Subscribe To Our Newsletter!

Sign up and be the first to find out the latest news and articles about what's going on in the medical field.


You may also like

January 30, 2025

An audio message by Reiner Füllmich to RFK Jr, January 2025, about the situation in Palestine and

Read More
Message from Reiner Füllmich to RFK Jr about Gaza

October 18, 2024

Vera Sharav is a Holocaust survivor and founder of the Alliance for Human Research Protection. She’s spent

Read More
To Obey or Not Obey with Holocaust Survivor Vera Sharav