DISTURBING
details of secret mind-control experiments carried out by the CIA have
been revealed in newly released documents - that officials have been
trying to hide for decades.
The new documents, released under the Freedom of Information Act,
reveal how the CIA experimented on both humans and animals using drugs,
hypnosis and electronic devices as part of the top secret - and illegal -
mind control project MKUltra.
Shockingly
the swathes of information still missing or redacted in the records
could mean the CIA is STILL carrying out the experiments to this day,
according to experts.
One document details how the CIA planned to drug “criminals awaiting
trial held in a prison hospital ward” in a bid to develop “improved
techniques in drug interrogation”.
Another document details the CIA’s interest in developing ways to
cause amnesia in humans using experiments “no matter how weird,
inconclusive or unusual”.
It goes on to detail how they were looking to find ways of developing
hypnotic speaking techniques which would control the minds of “large
audiences” and “heighten group susceptibility”.
Experiments which were “too dangerous, too shocking, too unusual for
routine testing would be of interest to us,” the memo from 1956 reads.
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They also researched electric fish who can zap each other with
electricity in a bit to create a super soldier who could do the same
thing.
The records were obtained by researcher John Greenewald Jr, who published them last week on his website The Black Vault.
John, 37, from Castaic, California, told Sun Online he has been
fighting since 1999 to get the CIA to hand over the documents and says
they “completely rewrite the history” of the controversial project.
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“They are trying to cover it up and that is evidenced not just by
what I went through to get the documents but the documents themselves.
“So you'll see through these records they were doing a lot of
different types of research with drugs on cats and dogs and other
animals.
“They were implanting electronic devices into animals to see whether electronic impulses can essentially control the brain.
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“There’s also one document that specifically breaks down multiple
project proposals but the majority of project names on the document are
redacted.
“That means that whatever these projects were, they won't even tell you the name of the project, let alone what they were doing.
“It shows that the entire story is not yet out - which is contrary to what the CIA wants us to believe.”
The aim of the project was to identify and develop mind-control drugs
and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture in a bid to
force confessions and control behaviour.
Although the CIA admitted to running the covert operation during
congressional hearings in the 70s, they claimed that all records
relating to it had been destroyed.
John’s battle for information started in 1999, when he requested the
only documents relating to MKUltra that the CIA said had not been
destroyed - 30,000 pages of financial records.
The CIA finally provided John with the 30,000 pages on CD-Rom in 2004
- which they claimed were a full and complete set of records related to
the project.
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Although the CIA initially claimed John was wrong and “fought him
hard”, he finally received two separate boxes of records in the past
month.
But most worrying, John says, is that there is still at least 1,245
pages missing - which could contain even more disturbing details.
He believes the missing information may relate to top secret mind control projects which are STILL taking place.
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“We've known for many years that MKUltra related material was
destroyed, but if you look at these documents, you realise that there
was a lot going on outside of MKUltra - still drug, mind-control and
manipulation-related.
“You begin to realise that MKUltra may ultimately just be the tip of
the iceberg. “If we know X what the heck is redacted under Y? We can't
know for sure, but it's certainly scary to think about
“They are redacting the information because it's absolutely a threat to national security to tell us.
“Could that threat be that they are still doing this research to this
day? Yes possibly - it makes sense. We know that the United States
government does things that go beyond the law that go beyond the norm of
what was approved.
“Edward Snowden has proven that phone tapping goes on which obviously
is a little bit different than mind control, but historically these
intelligence agencies have been proven to have been able to get away
with a lot that goes against the law.
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“If all this stuff was declassified, with not a whole lot of
redactions and just failure after failure, then there’s probably a
chance that they indeed cancel funding to the programme, but when you
read these materials you realise they were actually making leaps and
strides.
"I’m sure that they are using what they found in the fifties and the sixties - and beyond - probably today.”
John, who has made over 9,000 Freedom of Information requests and
posted over 2 million pages of documents online since 1996, believes the
CIA went out of their way to prevent him obtaining the documents and
has letters and written evidence that prove they lied and misled him
over the past 20 years.
He’s now determined to obtain the missing documents.
“There’s been multiple times that they just kept giving me bad
information and a lot of times in writing where they're telling me one
thing that isn't necessarily true,” he said.
“If there were just one instance of a frustrating moment, we can put
it down to a mistake - human error - but if you count up everything
they’ve put me through to get these documents that would be ridiculous.
"And you can only talk it up to the fact that they were not telling me the truth. There's really no other way around it.
“But my fight is still going for the missing documents or trying to get the CIA to say where those 1,245 pages went.”
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