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CIA MIND CONTROL RESEARCH hand to administer the drugs or to observe their effects and no follow up was wondacted on the aahject.” tested under full medical supervision. Other sub-projects concentrated specifically on exploiting human weaknesses and destabilizing 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 dioxide, that is, to produce a chemical that could be used to fake suicide. At Mount Sinai Hospital an immunologist by the name of Dr Harold Abramson was allocated $85,000 by Dr. Gottlicb and was told that the Agency wanted experiments done on disturbance of memory. There were an enormous number of MKUltra operations. The project farmed out work to eighty institutions, of which forty-four were colleges or universities, fifteen research facilities or private companies, twelve hospitals and three prisons. The estimated total cost of the operation was 10-25 million dollars. ' 7 ' w 7 VOUIVA, WILILIL HOU VOC LWUUY all UPCLaUUM SUILG May 1792 Prisoners were used in experiments conducted at the California known as MKNaomi. The civilian researchers in Baltimore were Medical Facility in Vacaville State Prison by Dr. James Hamilton. _ instructed to attempt to find chemicals that could induce anything Funded by another chain of front organisations, Dr. Hamilton —_ from the desire for kinky sex, to simulating death by carbon conducted “clinical testing of behavioural control materials.” In —_ioxide, that is, to produce a chemical that could be used to fake New Jersey, testing was conducted by Dr. Carl Pfieffer at the suicide. At Mount Sinai Hospital an immunologist by the name of Borden Reformatory, on similar materials. At Holmesburg State —_ Dr Harold Abramson was allocated $85,000 by Dr. Gottlicb and Prison in Philadelphia volunteers were used to test a particularly —_ wag told that the Agency wanted experiments done on disturbance violent incapacitating drug. Around the same time as these tests of memory, i down Lilead paras SO They wanted disturbance by CuAen and DERBY HAT They aberrant behaviour, changes of sex conducted experiments both home and ... involved the use of undercover | Patterns: suggestibility and the “ é = creation of dependence, to be used Snel, al on dan Gy Bey hypnotherapists to determine _| inthe obtaining of information. State Psychiatric Institute was conducting research under contract to jj} Whether an unsuspecting victim | OPERATION BIG CITY the Army. Between 1955 and 1958 the could be influenced ... into In their search for a chemical Army also tested LSD on 1,000 . ‘ sof ees poten US ia at Fort Bragg becoming an assassin who would teed ees and the Army's Chemical Warfare Carry out an order to kill after | suc, ine specitic nature of which a pr : being triggered into action by a_| could be reasonably Gann re-programmed signal. , This operation focused on the Pre“piOg 8 —— interrogation of people who were - a _A 1953 Mercury car wes suspected as being foreign agents spying upon US installations, or | ™odified so that it’s exhaust pipe extended 18 inches beyond it’s native Americans suspected of being foreign agents. Much of the Normal length. The car was then driven a total of eighty miles testing was conducted off the American mainland in CIA safe found New York emitting a gas to test it’s effect on passers-by. In houses and American occupied war zones. another test operatives travelled on the New York subway with aS ie batterv nowered emission eauinment fitted into suitcases. to see if MKDELTA | A 1953 Mercury car was modified so that it’s exhaust pipe extended 18 inches beyond it’s normal length. The car was then driven 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 disorientating 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 protect the operations from exposure to enemy forces, but also to conceal these activities from the American public in general. The knowledge that the Agency is engaging in unethical and illicit activities would have serious repercussions in political and diplomatic circles and would be detrimental to the accomplishment of its mission.” A covert operation conducted in Mexico City that involved the use of undercover hypnotherapists to determine whether an unsuspecting victim could be influenced, by a combination of drugs and hypnosis, into becoming an assassin who would carry out an order to kill after being triggered into action by a pre-programmed signal. MKSEARCH An operation that included over a dozen sub-projects. The projects 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 number of American cities including, Washington, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. The intention was to use them as locations where “expendables”, (that is a subject who might die, but whose disappearance was unlikely to arouse suspicion), could be 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 APRIL-MAY 1992 22¢NEXUS OTHER MKULTRA OPERATIONS OPERATION BIG CITY OPERATION MINDBENDER OPERATION RESURRECTION