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Before he was the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski was a mind-control test subject
Washington Post ^

Posted on 06/11/2023 5:51:53 AM PDT by FarCenter

Ted Kaczynski, the anarchist and so-called Unabomber who died in a federal prison medical facility on Saturday, transformed from boy genius to terrorist, going from a star mathematics student to a feared assailant who targeted academics, scientists and industrialized society as a whole.

Kaczynski entered Harvard University as a 16-year-old on a scholarship, after skipping the sixth and 11th grades. It was there that he was subjected to an experiment run by Harvard psychologist Henry A. Murray that was backed by the Central Intelligence Agency. Though he graduated with a mathematics degree, later completing a doctorate in the field before becoming a professor, questions remain over whether — or to what extent — he was affected by the experiment, which reportedly involved mock interrogations in which participants’ beliefs were harshly disparaged.

Murray’s study was widely reported to be part of a CIA program code-named Project MK-Ultra, inspired by the use of mind-control techniques on U.S. prisoners of war in Korea by the Soviet Union, China and North Korea. The program sought to understand how to control subjects’ minds, sometimes using substances such as LSD, according to a document the CIA made publicly available in 2018. (There has not been evidence to suggest LSD or similar substances were used at Harvard on Kaczynski.)

“The project attempted to produce a perfect truth drug for use in interrogating suspected Soviet spies during the Cold War,” the document says. “And generally to explore any other possibilities of mind control.”

CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the destruction of many files related to MK-Ultra in 1973. Nevertheless, Kaczynski disclosed some of his apparent involvement in the study in correspondence from prison with the professor Alston Chase, who later wrote a book about the Unabomber.

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KEYWORDS: kaczynski; mkultra; unabomber
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1 posted on 06/11/2023 5:51:54 AM PDT by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter

Interesting.

The question is why so many of the files were destroyed.


2 posted on 06/11/2023 5:57:54 AM PDT by xenia ( “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell)
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To: FarCenter

There’s always been a fine line between genius and insanity.

Looks like Harvard and the CIA helped Kaczynski cross that line.


3 posted on 06/11/2023 5:58:22 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( )
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To: FarCenter

And we wonder where mass murderers come from.


4 posted on 06/11/2023 5:59:44 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: FarCenter

LSD was widely available on college campuses during the early 1970s. Why get a supply from the government when the neighborhood dope dealers could sell it to you for just a few dollars. The electric kool aid acid test book was sold at book stores. Maybe the kid was tripping in the wrong decade.


5 posted on 06/11/2023 6:03:43 AM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: FarCenter

Our clandestine and intelligence services are the biggest threat to our freedoms. They need to be dismantled.


6 posted on 06/11/2023 6:05:19 AM PDT by Republic_Venom (It's time for some Republic Venom!)
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To: xenia
The question is why so many of the files were destroyed.

The project was illegal and violated the Nuremberg Code. Nearly all the participants either did not know they were in the program or were in it against their will. The CIA was even kidnapping civilians in foreign counties and entering them into the program.

7 posted on 06/11/2023 6:07:18 AM PDT by dangermouse
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To: FarCenter

Back then, the CIA wanted a “truth drug”. Now, that’s the last thing the CIA wants. It could be used against them bigly.


8 posted on 06/11/2023 6:08:28 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: FarCenter

“Nevertheless, Kaczynski disclosed some of his apparent involvement in the study in correspondence from prison with the professor Alston Chase...”

Or Kaczynski told a convenient lie based on coincidental timing of the testing and his attendance at university. Kaczynski lived a lie, chose to avoid society - maiming and killing targets. His entire life was a lie. MK-Ultra certainly didn’t teach him bomb making. Opting to fabricate a story of experimental involvement with a known CIA project on campus was an attempt to gain parole for what he thought was an unfair sentencing.

He should have been well hanged immediately after sentencing. The old Saddam Hussein method. Real quick like.


9 posted on 06/11/2023 6:10:19 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: xenia

Because they were committing felonies. KGB, Nazis, CIA, MI6... all deeply into it. Mind control experimentation still goes on. Mass shooters. Drugs and hypnosis combined with ECT can turn most anyone into a human wreck.

The chronic homeless are victims of these techniques still in use by your friendly local mental health practitioner today. It’s big business. Your taxes pay for these atrocities. They purposefully create these human wrecks and then demand the money to “solve” the problem.


10 posted on 06/11/2023 6:13:12 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: FarCenter

Kaczynski’s problem was that he couldn’t get laid. In response, he created an elaborate worldview to cast the blame for his personal failures on human society, rather than his own social ineptitude.


11 posted on 06/11/2023 6:26:32 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: xenia

Wasn’t MK-Ultra research based on a Nazi/CIA mind meld...ugly stuff.


12 posted on 06/11/2023 6:27:35 AM PDT by GOPJ (Target, Busch and Disney support sexual mutilation and sterilization of children. Boycott )
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To: FarCenter

according to a 2021 study, Kaczynski’s manifesto “is a synthesis of ideas from three well-known academics: French philosopher Jacques Ellul, British zoologist Desmond Morris, and American psychologist Martin Seligman”


13 posted on 06/11/2023 6:31:02 AM PDT by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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To: FarCenter

Leonard Cohen was in the mkultra experience. He wrote some great songs.


14 posted on 06/11/2023 6:32:02 AM PDT by waterhill (Stop waiting for the right time, time is not waiting for you.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

the original incel.


15 posted on 06/11/2023 6:32:16 AM PDT by ronniesgal (friends don't let friends be Kardashians)
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To: xenia

I think if you listed out prominent nutcases (Sirhan-Sirhan, Oswald, Manson) and then 3,000 ‘others’...you’d find a lot of problems with people 10, 20 and 30 years later.

I also think a lot of the ‘wonder’ drugs (Zoloft, Prozac, etc) eventually were delivered to companies from the experiments.


16 posted on 06/11/2023 6:32:18 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice
Sidney Gottlieb , was behind MkUltra , just another . Nazi, I mean a fine Jewish fellow.
17 posted on 06/11/2023 6:36:30 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: FarCenter

Ted went to Harvard University as a 16 year old. This is long ago, back when Harvard was a university worthy of respect, before the age of Woke-ness.

Did Ted Ks parent provide permission for him to enroll in that CIA styled testing program? That sounds like a rough experience for any young person, especially one who is a latent schizophrenic.


18 posted on 06/11/2023 6:37:51 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Trumpet 1

Pure LSD was not easy to get after the late 1960s, by 1970 or so LSD was going downhill in quality.


19 posted on 06/11/2023 6:56:22 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: lee martell

In high school I had a brilliant roommate who was about 10 years older than me, when he was younger he had participated in government LSD experiments as a subject.


20 posted on 06/11/2023 7:00:24 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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