MKULTRA Legacy: The Stain of Dishonor and the Prerequisites for Redemption
Gordon P. Erspamer - 18 October 2009
Despite the passage of four decades, America and its military have never come to grips with its own ghastly programs of using soldiers as guinea pigs to test chemical or biological weapons such as LSD, sarin, nerve gases, plague, mescaline, anthrax and hundreds of others. At the same time, they also conducted mind-control experiments, as soldiers and others were administered drugs, and septal implants were inserted in the sinus cavities a la “The Manchurian Candidate.” The secret research programs, originally code-named MKULTRA but continued under a long succession of other code names, were conducted mainly by the US Army from 1943 until at least 1975. However, the CIA provided planning, financial support and field testing. Participants in the experiments were recruited by the Army and lured by promises of no KP duty, a four-day workweek, the promise of medals and special recognition. At the same time, they were sworn to secrecy and forced to sign a general consent form without informed consent or even knowing the nature of the toxic substances that were sprayed in their faces, applied to their skin or injected into their veins. And the government continues to try to hide the fact that Nazi members were recruited to help devise these experiments as part of Operation Paperclip, and that many of the biological experiments were modeled after those conducted by the notorious Col. Shiro Ishi in Manchuria and Japan.
Tags: mind control, MKULTRA
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October 30th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Reading William Sargant’s Battle for the Mind at the moment. The section on psychotherapy is interesting, the choice of either a Freudian or a Jungian therapist engendered specifically Freudian dreams in the test patient when they were ‘under’ Freud, and “collective subconscious” dreams (as Sargant put it) when they were under the influence of a Jungian therapist.
Also, have you heard of this BBC Radio 4 programme on Sargant and the extreme experiments he conducted on patients on the British National Health Service who never gave consent? Quite a few died apparently.
Revealing the Mind Bender General
It seems that the military never employed Sargant ‘directly’. So they claim.
October 31st, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I haven’t read it myself … but thanks for the link. I guess that guy was friends with Cameron who did his MKULTRA experiments in Montreal. As far as I’m concerned these guys should have died in prison after being found guilty of crimes against humanity.
October 31st, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Yeah, it’s difficult to pin such relationships down I guess but the definite claim is that they collaborated on such things as MKULTRA, and more besides. I wouldn’t have even known about the book till I heard Aldous Huxley mention it in his infamous Berkely speech. I guess its not surprising that he thought so highly of Sargant and his work.
The book has a good, but short, entry from classicist Robert Graves called “Brain washing in ancient times” that goes into the techniques apparently used during initiations into Dionysian mystery cults and the like. This was the reason I moved onto it after seeing that section referenced in Stevenson’s “The Origins of Freemasonry.” Its a worthwhile book for sure.