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Project MKUltra

CIA’s Cold War Illegal Experiments to Secretly Control Human Mind
The CIA’s Top-Secret Cold War Research Program

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1. A Speech that should never have been made
ON APRIL 10, 1953, Allen Dulles, The Newly Appointed Director of the CIA, delivered a speech to a gathering of Princeton alumni.
"I wonder, however, whether we clearly perceive the magnitude of the problem, whether we realize how… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

2. In the 1950s in the USA, "Mind Control" was the buzzword
Fear of brainwashing and a new breed of "brain warfare" terrified and fascinated the American public throughout the 1950s, spurred both by the words of the CIA and the stories of "brainwashed" G.I.’s returning from… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

3. Birth of the project "MK Ultra"
Post the Princeton speech of CIA Director Allen Dulles in April 1953, The MK-Ultra program also operated under the cryptonyms MKNAOMI and MKDELTA. The “MK” indicated that the project was sponsored by the Technical Services Staff of the CIA and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

4. What was Project MK Ultra all about?
On April 13 of 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States took up an experiment named Project MKUltra with the help of 150 civilian Americans. Experiments on humans were intended to identify and develop drugs and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

5. A cold war legacy and typical US insecurity
As the Cold War moved into its peak era in the early 1950s, the American intelligence community grew increasingly obsessed with the growing technological advancements of the Soviet Union.
The U.S. government feared that it was… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

6. The 50s AND 60s craze of ACID (LSD) and CIA
Lysergic acid diethylamide, known as LSD, is a hallucinogenic drug. A Swiss scientist named Albert Hofmann was the first to synthesize the drug in the 1930s.CIA saw the popularity of LSD as Acid in rave circles and got interested in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

7. Project Never existed officially like so many other CIA crimes
The project had no executive sanction and as such, it was clandestine and hence illegal. In fact, the executive had no knowledge of the project until after 20 years. Experiments under Project MKUltra began in 1953… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

8. CIA and US Army Collusion for Mind Control program
Project MKUltra was designed and executed by the CIA’s Scientific Intelligence Division (SID), the experiments on civilians were to identify and create drugs for use in torture and interrogations. The idea was to weaken an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

9. Inhuman experiments on Humans
MK Ultra used numerous methodologies to manipulate people's mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

10. Arrival of the "Black Sorcerer"
When, on April 13, 1953, the then-director of the nascent CIA Allen Welsh Dulles sanctioned project MK-Ultra, the program was quickly headed by chemist and poison expert Sidney Gottlieb, who was known in covert circles as the “Black Sorcerer.”… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

11. Running in circles and playing with human life
But generating a truth serum proved difficult. Instead, researchers believed that a kind of mind control could be achieved by placing the subject in a heavily altered mental state typically with the help of wildly experimental… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

12. A shady experiment with shady logic
In Sidney Gottlieb the "Black Sorcerer's own words, project MK-Ultra’s mind experiments extensively researched extensively how drugs could “enhance the ability of individuals to withstand privation, torture and coercion,” as well as… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

13. Who were the subjects of MKULTRA experiments
Due to the classified nature of the program, many of the test subjects were unaware of their involvement and Gottlieb admitted that his team targeted “people who could not fight back.” These included drug-addicted prisoners,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

14. A web of dark secrecy to hide the crimes
For secrecy’s sake, the program’s 162 experiments were spread out across multiple cities, college campuses, prisons, and hospitals. In total, 185 researchers were involved and many of them didn’t even know that their work was meant for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

15. A drug-induced euphoria and search for the Eureka Moment
The primary experimental method often involved administering large quantities of various mind-altering substances in hopes of wiping the human mind in the way Gottlieb wanted to. Subjects were dosed with LSD, opioids,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

16. Till drugs do us apart, we keep injecting you
Aside from drugs, researchers also used hypnosis, often in an effort to create fear in subjects that could then be exploited to gain information. Researchers went on to investigate the effects of hypnosis on the results of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

17. Who were the butchers of the MKUltra?
Donald E. Cameron, who had been present at the Nuremberg Trials as a psychiatric evaluator for leading Nazi Rudolf Hess, was one of the lead researchers in MK-Ultra’s mind experiments.

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18. The Psychology of blind perusal
Experimenter Donald Cameron (the first chairman of the World Psychiatric Association and the president of the American and Canadian psychiatric associations) drugged patients and repeatedly played tapes of noises or suggestions while they were… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

19. Who were the butchers of the MK Ultra?
John C. Lilly, a noted animal behaviorist, was also involved in the experiments. For his research in human communication with dolphins, he created the first sensory deprivation flotation tank. MK Ultra scientists commissioned the tank to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

20. The web of research labs and glorified institutes to hide the blood stains
IA did not concentrate its Project MKUltra experiments in one place. The experiments were across 80 institutions, including 44 universities and colleges. Some of the other institutions where the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

21. Author Ken Kesey who wrote the famous "One who flew over cuckoo's Nest", Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Los Angeles serial Killer Charles Manson, and James “Whitey” Bulger, a notorious Boston mob boss were part of the MKUltra experiments.

(Ken Kessey openly promoted LSD and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

22. One world-famous personality who slammed the CIA experiments was John Lennon of the Beatles music group. In an interview, John mocked the CIA saying that people forget to thank the agency and the army for introducing LSD to Americans. He further said, to control people the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

23. Operation Midnight Climax
the CIA set up several brothels in San Francisco, California to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, the brothels were equipped with one-way mirrors, and the sessions were… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

24. The sleepy hollows of LSD
In some other experiments where people were given LSD without their knowledge, they were interrogated under bright lights with doctors in the background taking notes. The subjects were told that their "trips" would be extended indefinitely if they… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

25. Death is a toy and life is a ploy
One experimental subject was given LSD nonstop for 174 days. While In one case, seven volunteers in Kentucky were given LSD for 77 consecutive days. LSD was eventually dismissed by MK Ultra's researchers as too unpredictable in its results.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

26. A new death is better than the old death
By 1962 the CIA and the army had developed a series of super hallucinogens such as the highly touted BZ, which was thought to hold greater promise as a mind control weapon. This resulted in the withdrawal of support by many academics… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

27. Book of Death
CIA's  KUBARK interrogation manual refers to "studies at McGill University", and that most of the techniques
recommended in KUBARK are exactly those that
researcher Donald Ewen Cameron used on his test
subjects (sensory deprivation, drugs, isolation, etc.).… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

28. There were no records of the casualties of these experiments. For those who survived, the fallout of the experiments included things like depression, anterograde and retrograde amnesia, paralysis, withdrawal, confusion, disorientation, pain, insomnia, and schizophrenic-like… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

29. Every mouse has a cat somewhere
In 1963, a member of the CIA’s Inspector General’s staff, John Vance, chanced upon Project MKUltra. Following this the independent audit board of the agency insisted CIA should follow new research ethics guidelines.
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30. Time to clean the trash
In 1973, with the government-wide panic caused by Watergate, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MK-Ultra files destroyed. Pursuant to this order, most CIA documents regarding the project were destroyed, making a full investigation of MK-Ultra… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

31. The aftermath
These documents were fully investigated during the Senate Hearings of 1977. In December 1974, The New York Times alleged that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities, including experiments on U.S. citizens, during the 1960s. That report prompted… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

32. The trail
In December 1974, The New York Times alleged that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities, including experiments on U.S. citizens, during the 1960s. That report prompted investigations by the U.S. Congress, in the form of the Church Committee, and by a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

33. The Agony
When the remaining documents were made available to the public, the Senate launched a collection of hearings on the ethics of the project later that year. Survivors soon filed lawsuits against the CIA and the federal government regarding informed consent laws. In… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

34. The Retributions
In 2018, the families of a group of ex-patients filed a class-action lawsuit against the provincial and federal governments of Canada for the experiments Dr. Cameron ran on their loved ones in the 1960s.
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35. The stories
Since the documents were revealed, countless shows and movies have been inspired by project MK-Ultra’s mind-control experiments, most notably The Men Who Stare at Goats, the Jason Bourne series, and Stranger Things.
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36. The Half-hearted Denial of the Truth
The government does not deny that the MK-Ultra experiments took place but most of what transpired remains a mystery. The government does not deny that the MK-Ultra experiments took place but most of what transpired remains a mystery.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

37. The complete Story of MKUltra

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38. Selective Disclosures
CIA 2010 Classified document release"
(cia.gov/readingroom/do…)
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39. MKUltra Documents trove obtained under Freedom of Information Act
John Greenewald, the founder of "The Black Vault", a site specializing in declassified government records obtained via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, first uploaded MKUltra documents in 2004 tens… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…