On 28 November
1953, at 2 am, a man crashed through a closed window and fell to his
death from the 10th floor of the Statler Hotel in New York City. He was
identified as Frank Olson, a bacteriologist with the US Army Research
Center at Fort Detrick, Maryland. He had fallen from a room he shared
with another scientist, Robert Lashbrook. It was ruled a suicide.
Twenty-two years later, in 1975, William Colby, then CIA director,
declassified documents that changed the complexion of the case. It was
revealed that Olson had actually been an undercover CIA operative at
Fort Detrick, and that one week prior to his death, he had been drinking
Cointreau at a high-level meeting with scientists at Deep Creek Lodge
in rural Maryland. The Cointreau was laced with a large dose of LSD
administered by his CIA boss, Sidney Gottlieb. He was then sent to New
York with Lashbrook, also with the CIA, to see a psychiatrist because
the LSD had induced a psychosis.
It was also revealed that Olson had been part of the top secret CIA
program that was known as Project MK-ULTRA, exploring the use of
chemicals and drugs for purposes of mind control, and bacteriological
agents for covert assassination. Olson had been working on ways to
deliver anthrax in aerosol form, for use as a weapon. New evidence that
came to light, through the persistent efforts of Olson’s son Eric, made
the suicide ruling highly suspect.
It turned out that Olson had been labelled a security risk by British
intelligence after getting upset witnessing human experimentation on a
trip to Frankfurt, Germany the previous summer. Eric Olson now believes
that his father was drugged and then murdered to make sure that he
didn’t reveal the secrets of the MK-ULTRA project. Following the 1975
revelations, the government must have felt more than a little guilt
about the affair because Olson’s family was given a 17 minute audience
with US President Ford, who apologised to them, and they were awarded
damages in the amount of $750,000.
Controlling Human Behaviour
The MK-ULTRA program was instituted on 13 April 1953 by CIA Director
Allen Dulles, ostensibly to counter the brainwashing techniques of
American prisoners being held by the North Koreans during the Korean
War, and to duplicate those techniques on enemy prisoners, i.e. the
creation of “Manchurian Candidates.” This was the claim used to obtain
funding for the project. However, the Prisoner of War brainwashing
program was just the tip of the iceberg, and the CIA-sponsored
experiments ventured far and wide into areas of Mind Control under the
aegis of MK-ULTRA that had little or nothing to do with methods of
interrogation.
The Colby revelations were part of a sweeping investigation of the
CIA in January 1975 by the “Commission on CIA Activities Within the
United States,” chaired by Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller. The
subsequent June 1975 Report to the President said: “The drug program was
part of a much larger CIA program to study possible means for
controlling human behaviour. Other studies explored the effects of
radiation, electric-shock, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and
harassment substances.”
Even though the program got off to a rocky start with the Olson
affair, it recovered quickly and became an umbrella project with 149
sub-projects. The overall guiding principal was succinctly stated in an
internal CIA memo dated January 1952: “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 drug program came under the aegis of the Chemical Division of the
Technical Services Staff headed up by Sidney Gottlieb from 1951 to
1956. Gottlieb was a highly intelligent eccentric who drank goat’s milk,
enjoyed folk-dancing, and raised Christmas trees on his farm outside
Washington.
The Agency funded LSD research programs at major medical centres and
universities including Boston Psychopathic, Mt. Sinai Hospital at
Columbia University, University of Illinois Medical School, University
of Oklahoma and others. The funding was carried out secretly through the
Josiah Macy Foundation, and the Geschickter Fund for Medical Research
in Washington, D.C. The CIA claimed the secrecy was necessary to keep it
from the Russians, but we have already seen that it was part of much
larger project to learn how to control human behaviour in general, so
this is not credible.
Gottlieb told Dr. Harold Abramson at Mt. Sinai (who just happened to
be the psychiatrist that Olson was supposed to see!) that he wanted
“operationally pertinent materials [about]: a. Disturbance of Memory; b.
Discrediting by Aberrant Behaviour; c. Alteration of Sex Patterns; d.
Eliciting of Information; e. Suggestibility; f. Creation of Dependence.”
That sounds like pretty deep stuff for the spy game. They were really
afraid of public reaction and congressional condemnation, especially
since the CIA charter did not allow domestic operations, and certainly
prohibited experimentation on US citizens.
The callousness of the research is best exemplified by the CIA-funded
work of Dr. Harris Isbell, the Director of the Addiction Research
Center in Lexington, Kentucky. The drug addict hospital inmates, who
were mostly black, were encouraged to volunteer for LSD research in
return for hard drugs of their choice or time off their sentences. In
most cases, they were given pure morphine or heroin. At one point Isbell
kept seven men on LSD for 77 straight days. Many others were on it for
up to 42 days.
Concerning extended LSD usage, John Marks in his landmark book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control
says about writer Hunter S. Thompson (recently deceased) that he
“frightened his readers with accounts of drug (LSD) binges lasting a few
days, during which Thompson felt his brain boiling away in the sun, his
nerves wrapping around enormous barbed wire forts, and his remaining
faculties reduced to their reptilian antecedents.” The recent movie The Rum Diary, starring
Johnny Depp, based on the autobiographical book by Hunter S. Thompson,
presents an imaginative re-enactment of his LSD adventures.
The CIA Turns On the Counter-Culture
Not satisfied with university research, Gottlieb recruited New York
narcotics agent George White to distribute LSD surreptitiously to the
“borderline underworld.” Operating through safe houses in Greenwich
Village, Haight-Ashbury and Marin County, White gave doses to
prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts and other “marginal people” and then
observed the results and reported to Gottlieb.
John Marks says they were people “who would be powerless to seek any
sort of revenge if they ever found out what the CIA had done to them. In
addition to their being unlikely whistle-blowers, such people lived in a
world where an unwitting dose of some drug… was an occupational hazard
anyway.”
Eventually, White started using it randomly all over New York and San
Francisco. Regarding the results, Marks says, “The MKULTRA scientists
reaped little but disaster, mischief, and disappointment from their
efforts to use LSD as a miracle weapon against the minds of their
opponents.” Yet, they continued this program for 10 years until 1963.
Ironically, since the CIA had pretty much cornered the market on LSD
internationally, buying up all the product of Sandoz and Eli Lilly, the
spread of the drug to the counter-culture was through the Agency.
Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsburg and Tom Wolfe were first
“turned on” thanks to the CIA, and that’s how the “flower children”
became psychedelic.
But, the LSD experiments may have been more successful than Marks
realised. They were carefully noting the precise effects on brain
chemistry, and in the six areas that Gottlieb was concerned with: memory
disturbance, aberrant behaviour, altered sexual patterns, eliciting
information, suggestibility and creation of dependence. This became
evident when they started using LSD as an adjunct in hypnotic and
electronic experiments.
Re-Patterning the Brain
Perhaps the most notorious and nefarious MK-ULTRA sub-project was
carried out at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal, Canada under
the directorship of Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron, an American from Albany,
New York. Cameron had trained at the Royal Mental Hospital in Glasgow,
Scotland, under eugenicist Sir David Henderson, and founded the Canadian
branch of the World Federation for Mental Health. At various times, he
was elected president of the Canadian, American, and World psychiatric
associations. In other words, Cameron was no renegade but had the full
faith and endorsement of the world psychiatric establishment.
The CIA wanted Cameron to “depattern” the contents of the brain to make it receptive to new patterning. David Remnick in a Washington Post article
on 28 July 1985 said, “The…. heart of the laboratory was the Grid
Room…. The subject was strapped into a chair involuntarily, by force,
his head bristling with electrodes and transducers. Any resistance was
met with a paralysing dose of curare. The subject’s brainwaves were
beamed to a nearby reception room crammed with voice analysers, a wire
recorder and radio receivers cobbled together… The systematic
annihilation or ‘depatterning’ of a subject’s mind and memory was
accomplished with overdoses of LSD, barbiturate sleep for 65 days at a
stretch and ECT shocks at 75 times the recommended dosage. Psychic
driving, the repetition of a recorded message for 16 hours a day,
programmed the empty mind. Fragile patients referred to Allan Memorial
for help were thus turned into carbuncular jellyfish.”
Anton Chaitkin in his essay, ‘British Psychiatry: From Eugenics to
Assassination’, says: “Patients lost all or part of their memories, and
some lost the ability to control their bodily functions and to speak. At
least one patient was reduced almost to a vegetable; then Cameron had
the cognitive centres of her brain surgically cut apart, while keeping
her alive. Some subjects were deposited permanently in institutions for
the hopelessly insane.”
The CIA funded these horrors through a front called “The Society for
the Investigation of Human Ecology.” Other supporters of the Allan
Institute were the Rockefeller Foundation, the Geschickter Foundation,
and the Canadian government.
About Cameron’s work, Wikipedia says: “Naomi Klein states, in her book The Shock Doctrine,
that Cameron’s research and his contribution to the MKUltra project was
actually not about mind control and brainwashing, but ‘to design a
scientifically based system for extracting information from “resistant
sources.” In other words, torture’. And citing a book from Alfred W.
McCoy it further says that ‘Stripped of its bizarre excesses, Cameron’s
experiments, building upon Donald O. Hebb’s earlier breakthrough, laid
the scientific foundation for the CIA’s two-stage psychological torture
method’.” This method was codified in the infamous “KUBARK
Counterintelligence Interrogation Manual” published by the CIA in July
1963, and in the Human Resources Exploitation Training Manual – 1983 that
was used in CIA training courses in Latin American countries up until
1987. These manuals describe methods of psychological torture, far more
potent than physical torture, to elicit information from “resistant
sources.”
An Orwellian Nightmare
As one would expect, the technologies now available to the
mind-controllers have zoomed off the chart to the point where George
Orwell’s world of omni-surveillance now seems almost quaint. Of course,
it is true that 1984 was 28 years ago. But even as far back as 1970, US
congressman James Scheur was able to say, “As a result of spinoffs from
medical, military aerospace and industrial research, we are now in the
process of developing devices and products capable of controlling
violent mobs without injury. We can tranquillise, impede, immobilise,
harass, shock, upset, stupefy, nauseate, chill, temporarily blind,
deafen or just plain scare the wits out of anyone the police have a
proper need to control and restrain.”
A brief survey of some of the scariest products known to be in the
arsenal of the secretive alphabet agencies arrayed against John Q.
Public are such devices as the Neurophone, patented by Dr. Patrick
Flanagan in 1968. It converts sound to electrical impulses which can be
delivered from satellites. When aimed at individuals, the impulses
travel directly to the brain where the sounds are re-assembled and
appear to be voices inside the head, which can be perceived as coming
from God, or telepathic aliens, or whatever. Or the sounds can come out
of a turned-off TV or radio. Through software, the device can mimic
anyone’s voice and translate into any language.
It is believed that the CIA, DIA, NSA et al use the Neurophone to
deliver threats and propaganda to selected targets, or just to torment
someone they don’t like. One can imagine the possibilities. Could this
explain some of the killings by “psychopaths” who say they were
instructed by God, such as Mark David Chapman, David Berkowitz, or
Sirhan Sirhan? If they had been previously evaluated through
sophisticated personality assessments and groomed by LSD or hypnosis,
such voices could easily tip the balance and convince them to kill.
We’ve all heard about the “Thought Police” and laughed because it
seemed so implausible. Well, the joke is on us. Brain scanning
technology is now well-advanced. In 1974, Lawrence Pinneo, a
neurophysiologist and electronic engineer with the Stanford Research
Institute succeeded in correlating brain wave patterns from EEGs with
specific words. In 1994, the brain wave patterns of 40 subjects were
officially correlated with both spoken words and silent thought at the
University of Missouri. It is believed that US intelligence agencies now
have a brain wave vocabulary of over 60,000 words in most common
languages.
Brain waves constitute a magnetic field around the head (the aura),
each person having a unique, identifiable electromagnetic signature
which becomes visible through Kirlian photography, and these fields can
be monitored by satellites. The translated results are then fed back to
ground-side super computers at speeds of up to 20 gigabytes/second.
Neurophone messages can then be beamed to selected individuals based on
their thoughts. It is believed that about one million people around the
globe are now monitored on a regular basis. As these numbers increase,
as they certainly will, to include most educated and important people in
the world, the New World Order will definitely have arrived.
As Australian writer Paul Baird has observed, “no-one will ever be
able to even think about expressing an opinion contrary to those forced
on us by the New World Order. There will literally be no intellectual
property that cannot be stolen, no writing that cannot be censored, no
thought that cannot be suppressed (by the most oppressive/invasive
means).” Baird also claims that ex-military/intelligence whistle-blowers
have reported that experiments in controlling voters with these
techniques have been tried in several foreign countries. So much for
democracy.
Other technologies, such as microwave bombardment to confuse and
disorient field personnel, microchip implantation, silently delivered
acoustical subliminal messages, widespread population control through
psychiatric drugs, and extreme close-up satellite-based viewing able to
read documents indoors, are all well-developed and in use by military
and intelligence agencies. This doesn’t even address the monitoring of
overt spoken and written material. Under Project ECHELON, the NSA
monitors every call, fax, e-mail and computer data message in and out of
the US, Canada and several other countries. Their computers then search
for key words and phrases. Anything or anyone of interest draws the
attention of agency operatives, who can then commence surveillance
operations by the NSA or other intelligence agencies.
Novel Capabilities
We conclude with a chilling vision of the future from the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. It is from New World Vistas of Air and Space Power for the 21st Century.
“Prior to the mid-21st century, there will be a virtual explosion of
knowledge in the field of neuroscience. We will have achieved a clear
understanding of how the human brain works, how it really controls the
various functions of the body, and how it can be manipulated (both
positively and negatively). One can envision the development of
electromagnetic energy sources, the output of which can be pulsed,
shaped, and focused, that can couple with the human body in a fashion
that will allow one to prevent voluntary muscular movements, control
emotions (and thus actions), produce sleep, transmit suggestions,
interfere with both short-term and long-term memory, produce an
experience set, and delete an experience set. This will open the door
for the development of some novel capabilities that can be used in armed
conflict, in terrorist/hostage situations, and in training…”
And based on the past clandestine abuses of MK-ULTRA reviewed above,
one can predict with relative certainty that these capabilities will be
used on civilians, with or without their knowledge or acquiescence, in
the service of the New World Order.
Source: http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/mind-control-the-new-world-order
