CIA mind control morphed into psychiatry?
By Jon Rappoport
Here is a new introduction to a piece I wrote several years ago. Then I'll reprint the piece.
The famous CIA mind-control program, MKULTRA, always used
psychiatrists; often these professionals headed up projects; they
carried out the bulk of the research. But what I'm talking about here is
the "evolution" of MKULTRA into mainstream psychiatry that affects the
lives of millions of people every day.
I've demonstrated, on a number of occasions, that not one of
the 300 so-called official mental disorders has a lab test to back up
the diagnosis. No defining lab test. No blood test, no saliva test, no
brain scan, no genetic assay. All 300 "disorders" are described and
defined by committees of psychiatrists---and their non-scientific
decisions are published in the DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric
Association.
Unfortunately, the treatments for every one of these
arbitrary diagnoses are toxic drugs; drugs that addle the brain; drugs
that reduce people to a state of abject dependence; drugs that make
people think they're insane; drugs that cause violent behavior; drugs
that create life-threatening problems when patients try to withdraw from
them quickly; drugs whose effects mimic the very descriptions of mental
illness.
In other words, modern psychiatry, backed by drug makers, has an ideal formula for disabling populations.
So it's more than interesting that the CIA has pursued a mind
control program (MKULTRA) to achieve, in certain respects, the same
objectives.
---end of introduction---now here is my piece on a forgotten CIA document:
Drugs to transform individuals...and even, by implication, society.
Drug research going far beyond the usual brief descriptions of MKULTRA.
The intention is there, in the record:
A CIA document was included in the transcript of the 1977 US Senate Hearings on MKULTRA, the CIA's mind-control program.
The document is found in Appendix C, starting on page 166. It's simply labeled "Draft," dated 5 May 1955.
It states: "A portion of the Research and Development Program
of [CIA's] TSS/Chemical Division is devoted to the discovery of the
following materials and methods:"
What followed was a list of hoped-for drugs and their uses.
First, a bit of background: MKULTRA did not end in 1962, as
advertised. It was shifted over to the Agency's Office of Research and
Development.
John Marks is the author of the groundbreaking 1979 book, Search for the Manchurian Candidate,
which helped expose MKULTRA. Marks told me a CIA representative
informed him that the continuation of MKULTRA, after 1962, was carried
out with a greater degree of secrecy, and he, Marks, would never see a
scrap of paper about it.
I'm printing below, the list of the 1955 intentions of the
CIA regarding their own drug research. The range of those intentions is
stunning.
Some of my comments gleaned from studying the list:
The CIA wanted to find substances which would "promote
illogical thinking and impulsiveness." Serious consideration should be
given to the idea that psychiatric medications would eventually satisfy
that requirement.
The CIA wanted to find chemicals that "would produce the
signs and symptoms of recognized diseases in a reversible way." This
suggests many possibilities---among them the use of drugs to fabricate
diseases and thereby give the false impression of germ-caused epidemics.
The CIA wanted to find drugs that would "produce amnesia."
Ideal for discrediting whistleblowers, dissidents, certain political
candidates, and other investigators. (Scopolamine is such a drug.)
The CIA wanted to discover drugs which would produce
"paralysis of the legs, acute anemia, etc." A way to make people decline
in health as if from diseases.
The CIA wanted to develop drugs that would "alter personality
structure" and thus induce a person's dependence on another person. How
about dependence in general? For instance, dependence on institutions,
governments?
The CIA wanted to discover chemicals that would "lower the
ambition and general working efficiency of men." Sounds like a general
description of the devolution of society.
As you read the list yourself, you'll see more implications/possibilities.
Here, from 1955, are the types of drugs the MKULTRA men at
the CIA were looking for. The following statements are direct CIA
quotes:
A portion of the Research and Development Program of
TSS/Chemical Division is devoted to the discovery of the following
materials and methods:
1. Substances which will promote illogical thinking and
impulsiveness to the point where the recipient would be discredited in
public.
2. Substances which increase the efficiency of mentation and perception.
3. Materials which will prevent or counteract the intoxicating effect of alcohol.
4. Materials which will promote the intoxicating effect of alcohol.
5. Materials which will produce the signs and symptoms of
recognized diseases in a reversible way so that they may be used for
malingering, etc.
6. Materials which will render the induction of hypnosis easier or otherwise enhance its usefulness.
7. Substances which will enhance the ability of individuals
to withstand privation, torture and coercion during interrogation and
so-called "brain-washing".
8. Materials and physical methods which will produce amnesia for events preceding and during their use.
9. Physical methods of producing shock and confusion over extended periods of time and capable of surreptitious use.
10. Substances which produce physical disablement such as paralysis of the legs, acute anemia, etc.
11. Substances which will produce "pure" euphoria with no subsequent let-down.
12. Substances which alter personality structure in such a
way that the tendency of the recipient to become dependent upon another
person is enhanced.
13. A material which will cause mental confusion of such a
type that the individual under its influence will find it difficult to
maintain a fabrication under questioning.
14. Substances which will lower the ambition and general working efficiency of men when administered in undetectable amounts.
15. Substances which promote weakness or distortion of the eyesight or hearing faculties, preferably without permanent effects.
16. A knockout pill which can surreptitiously be administered
in drinks, food, cigarettes, as an aerosol, etc., which will be safe to
use, provide a maximum of amnesia, and be suitable for use by agent
types on an ad hoc basis.
17. A material which can be surreptitiously administered by
the above routes and which in very small amounts will make it impossible
for a man to perform any physical activity whatsoever.
---end of quoted section from the 1955 CIA document---
At the end of this 1955 CIA document, the author [unnamed]
makes these remarks: "In practice, it has been possible to use outside
cleared contractors for the preliminary phases of this [research] work.
However, that part which involves human testing at effective dose levels
presents security problems which cannot be handled by the ordinary
contactors."
"The proposed [human testing] facility [deletion] offers a
unique opportunity for the secure handling of such clinical testing in
addition to the many advantages outlined in the project proposal. The
security problems mentioned above are eliminated by the fact that the
responsibility for the testing will rest completely upon the physician
and the hospital. [one line deleted] will allow [CIA] TSS/CD personnel
to supervise the work very closely to make sure that all tests are
conducted according to the recognized practices and embody adequate
safeguards."
In other words, this was to be ultra-secret. No outside
contractors at universities for the core of the experiments, which by
the way could be carried forward for decades.
A secret in-house facility.
Over the years, more facilities could be created.
If you examine the full range of psychiatric drugs developed
since 1955, you'll see that a number of them fit the CIA's agenda.
Speed-type chemicals to addle the brain over the long term, to treat
so-called ADHD. Anti-psychotic drugs [Haldol, Risperdal, etc.], AKA
"major tranquilizers," to render patients more and more dependent on
others (and government) as they sink into profound disability and incur
motor brain damage. And of course, the SSRI antidepressants, like Prozac
and Paxil and Zoloft, which produce extreme and debilitating highs and
lows---and also push people over the edge into committing violence.
These drugs drag the whole society down into lower and lower levels of consciousness and action.
If that's the goal of a very powerful and clandestine government agency...it's succeeding. In mainstream psychiatry.
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