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SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET - Part 2 SKELETONS Part This concludes our chilling look at just some techniques used by Government agencies for mind control. A History of Secret CIA Mind Control Research MKULTRA SUBPROJECT-68 his was Dr. Cameron's ongoing “attempts to establish lasting effects in a patient’s behaviour” using a combination of particularly intensive electroshock, intensive repetition of prearranged verbal signals, partial sensory isolation, and repression of the driving period carried out by inducing continuous sleep for seven to ten days at the end of the treatment period. During research on sensory deprivation, Cameron experimented with the use of Curare, (the deadly poison used by South American Indians to tip their arrow heads), to immobilise his patients. After one test he noted; “Although the patient was prepared by both prolonged sensory isolation (35 days) and by repeated depatterning, and although she received 101 days of positive driving, no favourable results were obtained.” Patients were regularly treated with hallucinogenic drugs, long periods in the “sleep room”, and testing in the Radio Telemetry Laboratory that was built by Rubenstein under Dr. Cameron’s direction. Here, patients were exposed to a range of RF and electromagnetic signals and monitored for changes in behaviour. It was later stated by other staff members who had worked at the Institute that not one patient sent to the Radio Telemetry Lab showed any signs of improvement afterwards. MKULTRA SUBPROJECT 3 A project designed to assess the use of sexual entrapment in covert operations. It became known unofficially as Operation Midnight Climax. Included in the operation were attempts by CIA agents to infiltrate public gatherings, such as cocktail parties, where unsuspecting guests were sprayed with LSD in canisters variously labelled as insect repellent, deodorant, and perfume. An operation conducted in an apartment in New York’s Greenwich Village focused specifically on drug testing. Another apartment was rented on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco and used for further drug testing. It was also set up as a brothel at which was used to discover more about the psychological aspects of sexual behaviour and prostitution, and to scout for potential CIA “assets.” (Moles, Informers, snoops, field agents). A report by a Senate investigating committee recorded in 1975 that, “ Prior consent was obviously not obtained from any of H H the subjects. There was, obviously, no medical pre-screening. In Written by Sid Taylor addition, the tests were conducted by individuals who were not qualified scientific observers. There was no medical personnel on Written by Sid Taylor NEXUSe21 APRIL-MAY 1992 MKULTRA SUBPROJECT-68 MKULTRA SUBPROJECT 3