This article is written by RichardG. Gall and placed at PUFORI with permission. All rightsremain with Richard.

Mind Control &MK-ULTRA

by RichardG. Gall

On 28 November 1953, a delusionaland depressed Dr Frank Olson threw himself out of thetenth floor window of his New York hotel. Olson was along-serving scientist for the US Army's secretiveChimical Corps Special Operations Division, whoseproblems began at a meeting 9 days earlier. The meetinghad been orchestrated by Sidnet Gottlieb, Head of theCIA's Technical Services Staff. Unknown to those presentat the meeting, Gottlieb had aquired a quantity of LSDand secretly wanted to test it. Spiking Olson's drinkwith the LSD, he passed the bottle around and sat backwaiting for results. Olson, an outgoing personality wholoved practical jokes, soon began to suffer jarring sideeffects. One of those present at the meeting, Ben Wilson,later recalled that Olson 'was psychotic'.

Gottlieb and his boss, theDirector of Central Intelligence, Allen Dulles, initiateda 20-year cover-up of the circumstances surroundingOlson's death.

At stake was the CIA'ssuper secret project, MK-ULTRA. The project had grown out of anearlier secret programme, known as Bluebird, that was officially formed tocounter Soviet advances in brainwashing. In reality theCIA had other objectives. An earlier aim was to studymethods 'through which control of an individual may beattained'. The emphasis of experimentation was'narco-hypnosis', the blending of mind altering drugswith careful hypnotic programming.

Ever evolving, projectBluebird was later renamed Project Artichoke, after a vegetable that Dulles wasparticularly fond of. Artichoke was an 'offensive'programme of mind control that gathered together theintelligence divisions of the Army, Navy, Air Farce andFBI.

The scope of the projectwas outlined in a memorandum dated January 1952 thatominously asked: "Can we get control of anindividual to the point where he will do our biddingagainst his will and even against fundamental laws ofnature such as self preservation?" The race was on to create aprogrammable assassin!

A crack CIA team wasformed that could travel, at a moments notice, toanywhere in the world. Their task was to test the newinterrogation techniques, and ensure that victims wouldnot remember being interrogated and programmed. Allmanner of narcotics, from marijuana to LSD, heroin andsodium pentathol (the so called 'truth drug') wereregularly used.

Despite poor initialresults, CIA-sponsored mind control programmesflourished. On 13 April 1953, the super-secret projectMK-ULTRA was born. Its scope was broader than everbefore, and only those in the top echelon of the CIA wereprivy to it. Official CIA documents describe MK-ULTRA asan 'umbrella project' with 149 'sub-projects'.Many of these sub-projects dealt with testing illegaldrugs for potential field use. Others dealt withelectronics. One explored the possibility of activating'the human organism by remote control'. Throughout, itremained a major goal to brainwash individuals to becomecouriers and spies without their knowledge.

When it was formed in1947, the CIA was forbidden to have any domestic policeor internal security powers. In short, it was authorizedonly to operate 'overseas'. From the very start MK-ULTRAstaff broke this Congressional stipulation and begantesting on unwitting US citizens.

Precisely how extensiveillegal testing became will never be known. RichardHelms, CIA Director and chief architect of the programme,ordered the destruction of all MK-ULTRA records shortlybefore leaving office in 1973. Despite these precautionssome documents were misfiled and came to light in thelate 1970's. They laid bare the spy agency's cynicism.

One particularly odiousproject was run by Dr Harris Isabel, Director of thePublic Service Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky - afacility specializing in drug abuse. Asked by the CIA todiscover a range of 'synthetic' drugs, Isabel beganexperimenting on captive black inmates. Anxious to pleasehis CIA bosses he daily fed his guinea pigs large dosesof LSD, mescaline, marijuana, scopolamine and othersubstances. In exchange for participating in theexperiments, the inmates received injections fo highquality morphine, sometimes getting 'shot-up' three timesa day, depending on their co-operation. Brought beforethe Senate subcommittees in 1975, Isabel saw nocontradiction in providing hard drugs to the very addictshe was employed to cure.

Following public outrage,the CIA announced it had ceased its mind manipulationprogrammes. Victor Marchetti, a CIA veteran of 14 yearswho turned 'whistle-blower', exposed this to be untrue.

In 1977, Marchetti saidthe CIA claims to have ceased were a cover story. Underscrutiny, the agency were quick to downplay the successof MK-ULTRA - claiming no real advances were achieved.Miles Copeland, another long-serving CIA officer disputedthis. Speaking to a reporter, Copeland revealed that 'thecongressional subcommittee which went into this sort ofthing only got the barest glimpse'. Another source withinthe intelligence community says that after 1963, CIAefforts increasingly focused on psychoelectronics.Narcohypnosis had been drained dry.

Dr Jose Delgado, aneurophsiologist at Yale University School, wasespecially interested in Electronic Stimulation of theBrain. By implanting a small probe into the brain,Delgado discovered that he could wield enormous powerover his subject. Using a device he called the'stimoceiver' which operated by FM radio waves, he wasable to electrically orchestrate a wide range of humanemotions. These included rage, lust and fatigue.

ArtichokeProject
Bluebird Project
Pandora Project
Mk-Delta Project
Mk-Naomi Project
Mk-Action Project
Mk-Search Project
Mk-Ultra Project

During 1966, Delgadoannounced that his findings supported 'the distastefulconclusion that motion, emotion and behaviour can bedirected by electrical forces'. He added that 'humans canbe controlled like robots by push buttons'. Funded by theOffice of Naval Research, Delgado looked forward to afuture when society could be 'psychocivilised'. Despitethe miniturization of implants, the next major advanceforward was microwaves.

By placing a volunteer(???) in an electromagnetic field, Dr Ross Adey of theUniversity of California, made a startling discovery.Using specific radio waves, Adey was able to influencehis subjects' brainwaves.

Another scientist, AllenFrey, took this research a step further. Frey found hecould remotely induce sleep in his subjects by subjectingthem to electromagnetic waves. He also learned he couldproduce acoustic noises - booming, buzzing and hissing,directly inside a volunteer's (????) head. Developing onFrey's earlier work, Joseph Sharp, a doctor at the WalterReed Army Institute of Research, was able to transmitspoken words via pulsed microwaves. Sitting inside anelectromagnetic field, Sharp clearly heard and understoodwords transmitted to him by a colleague. For the medicalprofession this was a major breakthrough, and would be ofimmense benefit to the deaf.

[Could the buzzing andhissing got anything to do with what people hear inthe USA with regard to the HAARP project? Lots ofpeople told me that they were hearing humming soundsboth inside and outside their homes. We know thatHAARP uses EM waves, but still don't know for FACTwhat HAARP is capable of - Jeroen]

However, the US militaryand interlligence community were quick to capitalize onthese new discoveries. Secret research programmes onelectromagnetics have never been made available under theFreedom of Information Act.

In 1974, J. F. Scapitz, ascientist funded by the Department of Defense, had achilling vision. He sought to combine earlier MK-ULTRAhypnosis studies with emerging microwave technologies. Inan outline to the DoD, Scapitz said "It will beshown the spoken word of the hynotist my be conveyed bymodulated electromagnetic energy directly into thesubconscious parts of the brain". He claimed thiscould be achieved without emplying any technical devicesfor 'receiving or transcoding messages'.

For the first time, USagents had the ability to remotely tamper with anindividual's mind. Scapitz went even further, claimingthat this could be achieved without the target evenbecoming aware of what was happening.

Since then, little publicinformation has been revealed in scientific literature,following the imposition of the strict securityclassification. Despite this, significant pieces ofinformation - more usually from non-US sources - continueto be published. What is available paints a bleakpicture.

Evidence exists thatmind-control and behavious modification technology ispresently concealed behind Non Lethal Defense (NLD)initiatives. In annoncement in 1995 that non-leathalweapons - including high powered microwaves and radiofrequency devices - are to be 'transited' to the lawenforcement sector was met with dismay in some quarters.This joint programme, known as 'Operations Other ThanWar', opens the way for the military to move into thecivilian domain - a move precluded by the Americanconstitution. The stated aim is to more effectivelytackle narcotics trafficking, terrorism and othercriminal activity.

Many citizens considerthis to be a lame excuse. They fear of widespread use ofmind-altering technologies, and believe democracy isunder serious assault. In the light of past governmentevilness and abuse, who could blame them???

Richard Gall Scotland

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