Behavioral research was transferred from Sid Gottlieb and his Technical Support Division to the Office of Research and Development (ORD). Dr. Stephen Aldrich took over the leadership role, and ORD continued to probe for ways to control human behavior until 1979; and they were doing so with space-age technology that…
KUBARK is a cryptonym for CIA itself. The top secret KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogatiom Manual codified extensively tested psychological torture methods which are the foundation for the CIA’s sinister counter-insurrectional tactics. The authors of the KUBARK Manual are anonymous; but were keen to take credit by emphasizing the debt to psychological…
MK-ULTRA LSD experiments were discovered during an internal survey of the CIA’s technical services division headed by Sid Gottlieb. In his report, JS Earman, the IG stated: The concepts involved in manipulating human behavior are found by many people both within and outside the Agency to be distasteful and unethical….
George Estabrooks, a Harvard University graduate, Rhodes Scholar and chairman of psychology at Colgate University, Canada, is the only mind control doctor who has publicly acknowledged conducting extensive hypnosis work on behalf of the CIA, FBI and military intelligence. In the 1940s he boasted: “I can hypnotize a man —…
The subjects in MK-SEARCH were deemed “expendables” — people whose death or disappearance would arouse no suspicion. The experiments were designed to destabilize human personality by creating behavior disturbances, altered sex patterns, aberrant behavior using sensory deprivation and various powerful stress-producing chemicals, and mind-altering substances. Some of the experiments were…
MK-OFTEN experiments were conducted at Holmesburg Prison and other state and federal prisons. These experiments sought to find “a compound that could simulate a heart attack or a stroke.” (Manchurian Candidate, Chapter 12) Alternately, they were designed to produce “irrational or irresponsible behavior” “create temporary psychotic states in subjects.” Secret…
“We do not target American citizens . . . The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we who lead the CIA are honorable men, devoted to the nation’s service.” (Acid Dreams—The Complete Social History of LSD, 1992) His statement was proven to be a lie when…
Sidney Gottlieb, CIA’s “Black Sorcerer” brought the infamous projects MK-ULTRA and MK-SEARCH to a halt, pronouncing the entire exercise had been a waste of time; he cited fatal scientific and operational flaws. Specifically, the biological and chemical techniques used to control human behavior were too unpredictable in their effect on…
Many of these “throwaways” of society had been secretly subjected to CIA-mind control experiments. Dr. Gary Hackney, a psychologist who conducted behavior modification experiments into how much pain a subject could withstand at VA Hospital in Minnesota on the homeless veterans, soon recognized that these vets were not “crazy” they…
In January 1973, as Helms was leaving the Agency and James Schlesinger was coming in, Project OFTEN was abruptly canceled. And he ordered all documents pertaining to the unconscionable behavior control experiments — ARTICHOKE, MONARCH, OFTEN, Operation Midnight Crisis (collectively referred to as MK-ULTRA) destroyed. The outgoing CIA director and…
A front-page banner headline in The New York Times came just months after CIA’s involvement in the Watergate scandal was exposed. The article prompted President Ford to appoint a Commission headed by Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller (Feb. 1975) to investigate CIA’s unlawful domestic activities. The Commission’s report attempted to downplay…
The Commission’s task was to investigate CIA’s unlawful domestic activities. The Commission report attempted to downplay the scope of MK-ULTRA and its offshoots, barely including two pages about these experiments. The section about an employee of the Army who jumped from a hotel window after CIA operatives slipped LSD into…
