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CIA MIND CONTROL RESEARCH experimentation with the deadly combination. TSS were responsi- ble for producing the “James Bond” issue equipment, such as exploding coins, fountain pens that could fire bullets, and unde- tectable poisons. This new phase of mind control research would be placed under TSS control because it was decided they would have no reserva- - kee m1. Their own experiments had confirmed that “brainwashing” was a very powerful intelligence weapon indeed. Dr. James Monroe, the former head of the US Air force’s tectable poisons. Korean POW study group, was hired to set up a research founda- This new phase of mind control research would be placed under _tion to provide a cover for the clandestine work, and so the TSS control because it was decided they would have no reserva- ‘Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology’ was born. The tions about testing radical new ideas on unsuspecting subjects. The society would act as a safety barrier between the agency and the new CIA director Allen Dulles specifically requested that any doc- public, a body with an acceptable front, that could launder and dis- tors or scientists who were to be be recruited for the operation _ tribute money, and leave no trace. The initial funding to set up the must be “completely cooperative in any phase of our programme = Allan Memorial Institute was supplied by the Rockefeller regardless of how revolutionary it may be.” The Project was Foundation in 1934. They would later fund secret CIA mind-con- renamed Operation Artichoke and another step was taken into trol research projects via the Human Ecology Society. darkness. Meanwhile Dr. Cameron hired help in the form of Leonard Within a short space of time Dulles' team included Dr. Sidney —_ Rubenstein, an Englishman with no medical qualifications, who Gottlieb, the head of TSS, who scoured the jungles of Latin was to run a research and development behavioural laboratory, America for new poisons, and Dr. Ewen Cameron, who would — where Dr. Cameron would further his work on psychic driving. conduct inhumane research on patients on behalf of the CIA. Also hired to help with the work was Jan Zielinski, a Polish born Worried about committing such engineer who also lacked any previ- radical research on American soil, ous medical experience. Allen Dulles decided that it would be Although the staff of the Insti- safest if Dr Cameron was to conduct Soon the CIA was itself committing tute failed to understand why the experiments at his hospital in these men had been hired to deal Montreal, Canada, on unsuspecting acts every bit as shocking as those with patients who were often patients. That way, if the experiments they claimed to detest Their own deeply disturbed, Dr. Cameron ever became the focus of public atten- made it clear that they were at the tion, they would not be traced back to experiments had confirmed that hospital to stay. He no longer the CIA. fe . rae, required clearance from anybody, The Allan Memorial Institute had brainwashing was a very powerful and would soon have the ‘sleep become highly respected under the i i i room’, or “zombie room”, as leadership of Doctor Cameron. His intelligence weapon indeed. some nurses called it, running at support staff were becoming well full swing. renowned for their own individual work, Patients were made to wear foot- much of which was quite revolutionary, but none were quite so _ ball helmets fitted with internal speakers, forcing them to listen to radical with their techniques as Dr Cameron. He treated patients endlessly repeating tape loops, phrases edited from their taped with large doses of drugs, repeated courses of electroshock, senso- consultations with Dr. Cameron. This treatment lasted for periods ry de-pravation, long periods without sleep, isolation, and was __ of up to 22 hours a day, six or seven days a week, over a period of working on a process he called ‘psychic driving’, which involved — two months, Thoughts, related in confessions from their darkest repeatedly playing back selected words to a patient in order to} moments, spoken in their own voice, were drilled into their brains, break apart their psyche and allow total access to the subcon- until their minds literally shattered. Intensive electroshock treat- re oo wee bone o 2 ata tions about testing radical new ideas on unsuspecting subjects. The new CIA director Allen Dulles specifically requested that any doc- tors or scientists who were to be be recruited for the operation ee ee ors must be “completely cooperative in any phase of our programme regardless of how revolutionary it may be.” The Project was renamed Operation Artichoke and another step was taken into a darkness. acts every bit as shocking as those they claimed to detest. Their own experiments had confirmed that “brainwashing” was a very powerful intelligence weapon indeed. ball helmets fitted with internal speakers, forcing them to listen to endlessly repeating tape loops, phrases edited from their taped consultations with Dr. Cameron. This treatment lasted for periods of up to 22 hours a day, six or seven days a week, over a period of two months, Thoughts, related in confessions from their darkest moments, spoken in their own voice, were drilled into their brains, until their minds literally shattered. Intensive electroshock treat- ments accompanied the ‘depatterning’, or, ‘psychic driving’, as did sensory depravation, isolation, and injections of psychoactive scious. On April 3rd 1953 Operation Artichoke became MKUltra. The ‘MK’ prefix denoted TSS’s command over the operation. The Agency’s chemical-biological warfare project, MKDelta , was incorporated under the new banner, and a revised brief was issued. The order was ‘“To investigate how it was possible to modify an individuals behaviour by covert means.” The aim of the pro- gramme was to find out how the North Koreans had been able to brainwash American POW’s and turn them into pro-communist, anti-American, rabble rousers. Not only had the enemy managed to corrupt their minds, but they in turn were trying to infect their fellow Americans with the same virtues that had been so forceful- drugs. Earlier in his career, at the age of only twenty-eight , Dr. Cameron had come to have a free hand to probe the minds of unsuspecting patients while working at Manitoba’s Brandon Mental Hospital. His personal manifesto came straight from the principles laid out at the first ‘Conference of Race Betterment’, held in 1914 at Battle Creek, Michigan. “In the past man had been first, in the future the system must be first.” No doubt, the Nazis that he claimed to so strongly disapprove of, would have been ly implanted into their subconscious. Soon the CIA was itself com- mitting acts every bit as shocking as those they claimed to detest. proud of him. NEXUS - 25 CIA MIND CONTROL RESEARCH Soon the CIA was itself committing DR. DECEPTION JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1992 *- YEAR BOOK