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CIA MIND CONTROL RESEARCH _ brain stimulation involving some new approaches to the subject.“ The project would “engage in some very practical experiments at some point in the work that would present security problems if this effort were to be handled in the usual way. Some of the work proposed for these animals would involve possible delivery systems for direct executive type action operations as distinguished from the eaves dropping application.” The term “executive action” was the CIA’s euphemism for assassination. cruel combination of treatments. After first being lobotomized, the animals were kept in total isolation. The radio telemetry techniques 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. unconscious. Autopsies revealed that their brain tissue had literally Subproject 94 was similar, its purpose “to provide for a been fried. These experiments were conducted around 1965/66, © continuation of investigations on the remote directional control of itis a frightening reality that it is around 25 years since intelligence —_ activities in selected species of animals. Miniaturized stimulating agencies covertly started experimenting with the use of radiated electrode implants in specific brain center areas will be used.” shane to coca —- These projects were initially conducted on animals. Dogs, cats Around the same time the Agency set up the Amazon Natural and monkeys were tested as guided microphones and bombs. By Drug Company in Iquitos, Peru. It acted as a channel for the —_1 960, “the feasibility of remote control of several species‘ had been Agency to collect drugs for their operations. A small team of demonstrated. By April 1961, Sidney Gottlieb’s team had “ a aa gathered peg = _ from the jungle, which ‘production’ capability.” After successful testing of electrode were then sent back to the implants in animals brains, it was only pee Pung WY were a matter of time before human pulverised into dust an to more subjects were to be used. apes to see if they were driven mad or OPERATION ePEtteinDer | One cannot even begin to guess int Saigon to experiment onthe OPERATION SPELLBINDER Viet-Cong prisoners at Bien Hoa On June 30th, 1966, Richard Helms at the number of people who Hospital. Working in an enclosed became Director of Central compound, the team’s neurosurgeon Intelligence. He was the first DCI and neurologist inserted tiny have been subjected to brain since Dulles to push hard for results implants since these early electrodes into their brains. . Behaviorists then experimented on the experiments. men, arming them with knives and trying to induce violent behaviour in projects reactivated. The safe houses them using the direct electrical were told to expect a steady supply of : - ——! stimulation. After a week of Vict Cong expendables to experiment on. One of the projects to be ©XPerimentation which failed to incite the men to attack each other, revived was the less than successful Operation Mindbender. they were shot dead and their bodies were burned. One cannot Renamed Operation Spellbinder, the assignment was to create a ¢ven begin to guess at the number of people who have been sleeper killer, a real life “Manchurian Candidate.” A hypnotist was Subjected to brain implants since these early experiments. recruited from the American Society of Clinical and Experimental OPERATION OFTEN Hypnosis. He became known amongst the Agency staff as “Dr. : Fingers” and was selected because his file stated that he would have By 1362 ESS hed been replaced by the Office of research and no qualms about conducting potentially terminal experiments. The se ry (ORD) as the Agencies ree of the i § oti A 7 tro. After attempts Unort odox.” The most innovative and daring doctors were nent ete Oe peas we transferred to ORD and a number of bizarre and far-reaching to program several would-be assassins, the operation was qupaiennds Wenn pus ‘ote cotlen, The sven of tht new mama discontinued and written off as a complete failure. “ iy e could be traced back to the earlier work Dr. Cameron had approved in the mind control field. Operation | MKSearch went into overdrive. Old projects were resurrected, abandoned By 1969 TSS had been replaced by the Office of research and Development (ORD) as the Agencies “department of the unorthodox.” The most innovative and daring doctors were transferred to ORD and a number of bizarre and far-reaching experiments were put into action. The roots of the new research could be traced back to the earlier work Dr. Cameron had approved which tried to establish links between eye colouring and mental illness. 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 intelligence. Due to the obviously sensitive nature of any research in this area, special precautions were taken to isolate operations financially from other projects and the Agency. The ORD chemical and biological team started off trying to create a deadly virus by exposing a range of already deadly bacteria to ultraviolet light. While they continued with that line of research, the psychiatrists and behaviorists on the ORD team set off to explore an even stranger possibility. The world of the supernatural and black magic. Agents spread out across the country in search of fortune-tellers, palm readers, psychics and clairvoyants. The agents would introduce themselves as researchers from the Scientific NEXUS¢23 APRIL-MAY 1992 OPERATION OFTEN DIGGING DEEPER INTO THE BRAIN . MKULTRA SUBPROJECT 142 AND SUBPROJECT 94 Subproject 142 was “a small biological program of electrical