Posted on 09/15/2019 4:04:07 PM PDT by Enlightened1
In 1954, a prison doctor in Kentucky isolated seven black inmates and fed them “double, triple and quadruple” doses of LSD for 77 days straight. No one knows what became of the victims. They may have died without knowing they were part of the CIA’s highly secretive program to develop ways to control minds—a program based out of a little-known Army base with a dark past, Fort Detrick.
Suburban sprawl has engulfed Fort Detrick, an Army base 50 miles from Washington in the Maryland town of Frederick. Seventy-six years ago, however, when the Army selected Detrick as the place to develop its super-secret plans to wage germ warfare, the area around the base looked much different. In fact, it was chosen for its isolation. That’s because Detrick, still thriving today as the Army’s principal base for biological research and now encompassing nearly 600 buildings on 13,000 acres, was for years the nerve center of the CIA’s hidden chemical and mind control empire.
Detrick is today one of the world’s cutting-edge laboratories for research into toxins and antitoxins, the place where defenses are developed against every plague, from crop fungus to Ebola. Its leading role in the field is widely recognized. For decades, though, much of what went on at the base was a closely held secret. Directors of the CIA mind control program MK-ULTRA, which used Detrick as a key base, destroyed most of their records in 1973. Some of its secrets have been revealed in declassified documents, through interviews and as a result of congressional investigations. Together, those sources reveal Detrick’s central role in MK-ULTRA and in the manufacture of poisons intended to kill foreign leaders.
In 1942, alarmed by reports that Japanese forces were waging germ warfare in China, the Army decided to launch a secret...
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Politico wants you to know that although mind control experiments by the CIA did exist, they were:
• Limited to the use of drugs
• Did not include torture, rape, or severe emotional trauma
• Were largely a failure
• Ended decades ago
Sure thing ….(sarcasm off)
More the US is irredeemably evil crap from the usual suspects.
Not that their LSD “experiments” weren’t crimes.
We beat the nazis, and then followed their template in too many places.
This is non-consensual human experimentation straight out of the Dr. Mengele mentality.
We used nazis in NASA and that’s fine with me. But we let nazism grow roots far too deep into the CIA.
Another place we did it is the Gun Control act of 1968. This was the law that introduced the concept of “Sporting Purpose” to gun sales. It was written by Senator Dodd, who had served in the Nuremberg trials and studied Nazi gun law. The 1968 law was nearly lifted verbatim from the 1938 nazi law.
Bad stuff.
When I studied the holocaust as a youth, I found it revolting beyond utterance but at least it wasn't done at the behest of the American government. This, OTOH, was perpetrated, at least ostensibly, for our protection.
I live a few blocks from Detrick.
I see Walking Dead zombies every day around the post.
Brains....brainsssss!!!
Kinzer writes some stuff that got me a bit peeved... but I watched him some on youtube. I honestly think he’s just doing straightforward reporting but it does come off as being anti-American, check other books he’s written.
Wrote “Brothers” about the Dulles brothers, John Foster and Allan and discusses it on CSPAN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxw0B8wgoQU
PsiCorps.
According to Kinzer, the problem mainly is that the Dulles brothers started to want to stage coups, maybe mainly Allen, so there goes Iran in ‘53, Guatemala, Congo and so on. I think he has a point too.
And I’m not talking about Chile, I don’t think we did Chile, we may have sent money to one of their newspapers to put out propaganda, that’s pretty mild.
Whitey Bulger, of later Robert Mueller fame, was subject to daily LSD treatments for an extended period
https://www.ozy.com/true-story/whitey-bulger-i-was-a-guinea-pig-for-cia-drug-experiments/76409
You know — the Whitey Bulger who, when he started talking to the press after Trump got elected, was transferred to a new prison where he was promptly beaten to death....
How about Fort Detric work to cure the Lyme disease complex they helped develop and accidentally released in America?
Freaking Morons. More like Fort Dumbass.
I started watching that last night. Hilarious. I actually remember the ‘First Earth Battalion’ from the Whole Earth Catalog in the early 70’s.
Bulger volunteered for reduced sentence. (Assuming it’s true in the first place).
Ken Kesey got turned on to these drugs in a similar manner as a civilian volunteer.
They were indeed crimes. But I wonder why are hearing all of this about MKUltra in the news lately. Something odd is happening.
There were a couple books on this that were published in the 80’s.
Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD, and the Sixties Rebellion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Dreams_(book)
The other’s name I forget.
Some of the worst was done in Canada.
“This, OTOH, was perpetrated, at least ostensibly, for our protection.”
Yes, the CIA was studying drugs for mind control, and released LSD into the country “for our protection”. /s
Other than hopes, how do you decide that the US government and CIA would only use a mind control technique for our protection only?
For bonus points, why was the prohibition on domestic use of propaganda removed in the NDAA recently?
Psychedelic drugs, CIA, mind control.
It’s evergreen.
Reminded me of that movie: "Jacob's Ladder" - pretty creepy in its day.
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