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CIA MIND CONTROL RESEARCH MKSEARCH activities would have serious repercussions in political and diplo- matic circles and would be detrimental to the accomplishment of its An operation that included over a dozen sub-projects. The pro- jects were under the control of Dr Sydney Gottlieb. Most were a continuation of projects conducted under MKUltra that were renamed after Dr. Cameron’s time with the Agency had come to an end. Some were to be conducted in CIA safe houses set aside in a mission.” In this MKSearch sub-project the isolation chamber that had been constructed earlier by Dr. Cameron at the Allan Memorial Institute was rebuilt at a laboratory of the National Institutes of Mental Health. This time, instead of humans, apes were to be subjected to a cruel combination of treatments. After first being lobotomized, the animals were kept in total isolation. The radio telemetry tech- niques developed earlier by Leonard Rubenstein were adapted so that radio frequency energy could be beamed into the brains of the highly disturbed animals. Many were then decapitated and their heads would be transplanted onto another body to see if the RF energy would bring them back to life. The apes that were not killed in this way were later bombarded with radio waves until they fell unconscious. Autopsies revealed that their brain tissue had literally been fried. These experiments were conducted around 1965/66, so it is a frightening reality that it is around 25 years since intelligence agencies covertly started experimenting with the use of radiated energy to control behaviour. Around the same time the Agency set up the Amazon Natural Drug Company in Iquitos, Peru. It acted as a channel for the Agency to collect drugs for their operations. A small team of botanists gathered leaves, roots and barks from the jungle, which were then sent back to the TSS laboratories where they were pul- verised into dust and fed to more apes to see if they were driven mad or would kill each other. They did both. number of American cities including, Washington, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. The intention was to use them as loca- tions where “expendables”, (that is a subject who might die, but whose disappearance was unlikely to arouse suspicion), could be tested under full medical supervision. Other sub-projects concen- trated specifically on exploiting human weaknesses and destabiliz- ing personalities. One operation funded under MKSearch by Dr. Gottlieb was researching micro-organisms with the capacity to kill. The work was carried out by two separate laboratories who were unaware of each other’s activities. One was a private research facility in Baltimore, the other was at the Army Biological Laboratory at Fort Detrick, which had been running an operation since May 1952 known as MKNaomi. The civilian researchers in Baltimore were instructed to attempt to find chemicals that could induce anything from the desire for kinky sex, to simulating death by carbon diox- ide , that is, to produce a chemical that could be used to fake sui- cide. At Mount Sinai Hospital an immunologist by the name of Dr Harold Abramson was allocated $85,000 by Dr. Gottlieb and was told that the Agency wanted experiments done on disturbance of memory. They wanted disturbance by aberrant behaviour, changes of sex patterns, suggestibility and the creation of dependence, to be used in the obtaining of information. On June 30th, 1966, Richard Helms became Director of Central Intelligence. He was the first DCI since Dulles to push hard for results in the mind control field. Operation MKSearch went into overdrive. Old projects were resurrected, abandoned projects reac- tivated. The safe houses were told to expect a steady supply of Vietcong expendables to experiment on. One of the projects to be revived was the less than successful Operation Mindbender. Renamed Operation Spellbinder, the assignment was to create a sleeper killer, a real life “Manchurian Candidate.” A hypnotist was recruited from the American Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. He became known amongst the Agency staff as “Dr. Fingers” and was selected because his file stated that he would have no qualms about conducting potentially terminal experiments. The intended victim of the experiment was Fidel Castro. After attempts to program several would-be assassins, the operation was discon- tinued and written off as a complete failure. reversible non-toxic aberrant mental state, the specific nature of which could be reasonably well predicted for each individual’, Operation Big City was launched. A 1953 Mercury car was modified so that it’s exhaust pipe extended 18 inches beyond it’s normal length. The car was then dri- ven a total of eighty miles around New York emitting a gas to test it’s effect on passers-by. In another test operatives travelled on the New York subway with battery powered emission equipment fitted into suitcases, to see if LSD could be sprayed in confined areas and affect people. The operators wore nasal filters. In San Francisco a biological gas was released off the Golden Gate Bridge, with the intention of covering the city and monitoring the gases disorientat- ing effects. It blew away before it could cause any harm. In 1957, the CIA Inspector General, Lyman Kirkpatrick issued an internal memo which stated that “precautions must be taken not only to pro- tect the operations from exposure to enemy forces, but also to con- ceal these activities from the American public in general. The knowledge that the Agency is engaging in unethical and illicit What the Agency wanted more than anything was the capability to influence or control subjects remotely. This would open an entirely new set of operational possibilities to the world of covert NEXUS - 28 CIA MIND CONTROL RESEARCH OPERATION RESURRECTION OPERATION SPELLBINDER OPERATION BIG CITY In their search for a chemical material “which would cause a DIGGING DEEPER INTO THE BRAIN. YEAR BOOK - JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1992