Mind Control Research
During
the period 1975 through 1977 a series of events led to disclosure
that U.S. government agencies were funding various mind control
experiments which included the testing of LSD, brainwashing,
narco-hypnosis, electronic stimulation of the brain, and other
technologies designed to control human behavior.
These programs had been conducted since
at least World War II, and included the Central Intelligence
Agency, Office of Naval Investigation, Air Force Intelligence,
the Army Chemical Corps, Defense Intelligence Agency, the National
Institute of Health, the National Institute of Justice, and the
Atomic Energy Commission. The most notorious of these programs
was conducted under the CIA codename MKULTRA. Director of Central
Intelligence Richard Helms testified to Congress that he had
ordered the resulting files on 149 subprojects burned in 1973,
claiming that he did not want to "embarrass" the many
psychiatrists and universities which had participated, and that
they didn't learn very much anyway. Skepticism remains about
that and many other statements which the CIA has made about this
subject. What is certain is that Mind Control research did not
completely stop, but rather was continued under other codenames
like MKCHICKWIT, MKNAOMI, etc., and that some continued under
the nominal control of other agencies. In the 1990's, at least
some mind control research was still being conducted by the military's
"non-lethal weapons program" but all details are classified.
Congressional hearings into these projects
in 1975 and 1976 resulted in legislation intended to provide
more stringent oversight of the CIA. However, in the aftermath
of many very shocking revelations, no criminal indictments were
issued despite sometimes lethal experiments on subjects who included
prisoners and psychiatric patients. Meanwhile, rumors of similar
experiments on prisoners of war from the Vietnam and Korean eras
(alleging abuse by Soviet, U.S. and other intelligence agencies)
persisted.
Since the time of these disclosures
there has been no congressional oversight of this type of research
in America with the exception of a 1984 hearing of the Committee
on Science and Technology, which dealt primarily with subliminal
communication technology.
The publication of books and articles
on mind control research in recent times has drawn mostly from
declassified files from the late 1970's and earlier, testimony
of persons who say they are victims of government experiments,
and unverifiable "sources" within the intelligence
or scientific community. Therefore, data here is especially error
prone. Also, a penumbra of mentally ill people are attracted
to this subject as a possible explanation for their own very
real problems. This adds further to the general confusion. So
be cautious evaluating allegations in the mind control research
domain, but be not naive either. Systematic, well funded research
has been done in this area for decades, by governments, by advertisers,
and by cults among others.
It is reported that duplicate, dummy
programs are run by governments to confuse any investigations;
funding is dispersed through third party or "cut out"
organizations, and compartmentalization of projects insures that
only a very few people at the top know the overall scope and
results of this research. Modern research involves a number of
universities and private companies which are funded through the
university grant system or the awarding of lucrative government
contracts, then made to sign secrecy oaths.
Current mind control and exotic warfare
research is reported to include the use of brainwashing; hypnosis
and narco-hypnosis; electro-convulsive therapy; narcotics, psychedelics
and other behavioral altering drugs; high production behavior
and neuro-linguistics programming; remote telepathy including
"astral projection" and other psychic phenomena; computer
generated telepathy; biomedical engineering; low frequency sound;
microwaves; electromagnetic pulses; Radio Hypnotic Intercerebral
Control - Electronic Dissolution of Memory; very low frequency
sound; ultrasonics; high powered microwave pulses, oscillating
magnetic fields, and other lesser known technologies.
Other types of mind control cases include
the alleged Monarch Project, which was designed to take children
at a very early age and program them through brainwashing, narco-hypnosis,
torture, and fragmenting of the personality (creating multiple
personality disorder). This was reportedly done to create "sex-slaves,"
couriers, drug mules, assassins, and agents whose memories could
be erased after they completed their assigned missions. This
paradigm, called "trauma-based programming," has also
been alleged to occur in some satanic groups, which may have
been experimenting with such methods of mind control for many
generations.
The whole subject of cults becomes
relevant here, because they are often the masters of mind control,
without usually resorting to exotic technical aids. Space is
limited, so we will not enter that domain further here, but note
that it is important.
Another important sub-topic in the
quest to understand mind control research was the program to
import Nazi scientists into America's national security establishment
shortly after World War II. At the time, it seemed necessary,
because both Russians and Americans were scrambling to seize
the most valuable German scientific "assets" (both
technical and human) in preparation for what would become the
Cold War. In retrospect, the infusion of large numbers of very
highly skilled and sometimes dedicated Nazi's into both U.S.
and S.U. security systems appeared to damage the devotion to
higher ideals which each side at least occasionally maintained.
The most famous U.S. plan, which imported at least 1600 German
scientists and their families into America, and gave many of
them very top secret security clearances and full-time jobs in
our weapons and spy programs, was called operation "PAPERCLIP."
Two official quotes on MKULTRA and PAPERCLIP follow.
"Beginning in the early 1950's,
the CIA engaged in an extensive program of human experimentation,
using drugs, psychological, and other means in search of techniques
to control human behavior. The CIA claims it has found no evidence
that radiation experiments on humans were part of this program.
However, CIA documents and a 1963 CIA Inspector General report
state quite clearly that MKULTRA was a program "concerned
with research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological
materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to
control human behavior."
The program included unwitting experimentation
on humans with LSD, Brainwashing, and other interrogation methods."
"Project Paperclip was a postwar
and Cold War operation carried out by the Joint Intelligence
Objectives Agency. Paperclip had two aims: to exploit German
scientists for American research, and to deny intellectual resources
to the Soviet Union. At least 1600 scientists and their dependents
were recruited and brought to America by Paperclip and its successor
projects through the early 1970's. The most famous of these was
Wernher von Braun.
In recent years, it has been alleged
that many of these individuals were brought to the U.S.A. in
violation of American government policy not to permit the entrance
of "ardent Nazis" into the country, that many were
security risks, and that some were implicated in Holocaust-related
activities."
References Include:
Secret Agenda: The U.S. Government,
Nazi Scientists, and Project PAPERCLIP,
by Linda Hunt,
St. Martin's Press, NY, 1991.
The Church Committee Final Report
of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations
with respect to Intelligence Activities,
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976. (on MKULTRA and many related
problems).
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation
Experiments, Final Report.
U.S. Government Printing Office, October, 1995.
Operation Mind Control, by Walter H. Bowart, Dell Publishing,
1978. This has been reprinted by the Freedom of Thought Foundation,
cited below which Bowart runs, but the 1978 edition was one of
the first really detailed exposes on mind control research to
reach the public.
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, by John Marks, Bantam Books, NY, 1978.
Project MK ULTRA: Joint hearing
before the Select Committee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, U.S.
Senate. Government Printing Office, 1977.
Journey Into Madness: The True Story
of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse, by Gordon Thomas, Bantam Books, New York,
1989.
Remember that the most powerful mind
control instrument yet developed for mass audiences, is the simple
television. Those who control information broadcast on TV, and
that which is censored, have enormous influence over public discussion
and agendas. Also, note that a company whose board is a who's
who of spies purchased the firm which maintains all internet
domain names in 1996. These are professionals at controlling
information, and they are very highly resourced, so we should
simply recognize that they recognized the power of the internet
long before many people had heard of it.
One of our foreign intelligence sources
noted that information warfare is already substantial on the
internet, and there is no doubt that information warfare has
been a hot topic in security circles for at least a generation.
Information warfare includes basic propaganda, far more sophisticated
psychological warfare techniques, and a range of other, more
technical means for attempting destruction or confusion of targeted
"assets" (like inserting lethal viruses or covert trapdoors
into enemy computer systems, or merely blowing people's minds
by technical means). So, caveat emptor! as they say in the business
world.
The most significant error for contemporary
citizens is the illusion that research on mind control techniques
and technologies stopped in the 1970's. Instead, programs were
renamed, shifted to other, even more secretive agencies, or contracted
out to non-governmental organizations. Remember that in 1996,
for example, there were line items in the Pentagon's budget for
"Non-Lethal Weapons" for mind control research.
Organizations seeking to help mind
control victims have been identified including the:
Freedom of Thought Foundation
P.O. Box 35072 (Walter Bowart)
Tucson, AZ, 85740-5072
(520) 690-0911
The International Network Against Mind
Control,
c/o MEDIAECCO (Robert Naeslund)
Box 136, 114-79
Stockholm, Sweden. no webpage
A good internet node is the Mind Control
Forum at:
Finally, we found a site so rich in data on mind control research, biological weapons, and other exotic but important subjects that we don't quite know what to make of it yet. Whoever they are, they are highly resourced and appear dedicated to ideals we certainly agree with. So you might try out the:
Leading Edge International Research
Group, PO Box 7530, Yelm, WA 98597, USA; . For surveillance,
privacy, and biological weapons issues, try Menu 7.
Caution!!! Remember, All of these sources contain errors as well as verifiable facts.