DRUGS affect nearly every aspect of global and social functioning...
...and the situation is far more complex than most will ever realize...
Ok, back to project coast research, and research and references to MKULTRA
(All sourced information was derived from either erowid or Wikipedia)
Psychochemical warfare involves the use of psychopharmacological agents (mind-altering drugs or chemicals) with the intention of incapacitating an adversary through the temporary induction of hallucinations or delirium.[1][2] These agents have generally been considered chemical weapons and, more narrowly, constitute a specific type of incapacitating agent. Although never developed into an effective weapons system, psychochemical warfare theory and research -- along with overlapping mind control drug research -- was secretly pursued in the mid-20th century by the US military and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the context of the Cold War. These research programs were ended when they came to light and generated controversy in the 1970s. The degree to which the Soviet Union developed or deployed similar agents during the same period remains largely unknown. -Wikipedia
Wouter Basson
Project coast
Wouter Basson (born 6 July 1950) is a South African cardiologist and former head of the country's secret chemical and biological warfare project, Project Coast, during the apartheid era.[1] Nicknamed "Dr. Death" by the press for his alleged actions in apartheid South Africa, Basson was acquitted in 2002 of 67 charges, after having been suspended from his military post with full pay in 1999.[2]
Among other charges, Basson was alleged to have supplied a "lethal triple cocktail of powerful muscle relaxants which were used during Operation Duel (the systematic elimination of SWAPO prisoners of war and South African Defence Force (SADF) members who posed a threat to South African covert operations).[3][4] The United Nations report [5] identifies the triple cocktail as ketamine, succinylcholine, and tubocurarine.
There have even been reports of Wouter Basson developing "bombs" which would release methaqualone tablets...
An aspect of illicit drugs which is obvious in project coast, but less obvious in MKULTRA, was distributing illicit drugs and creating addicts to decimate and neutralize threatening populations...
Some will speculate that the CIA used LSD and heroin to neutralize radical political movements, they would rather have people focused on LSD or heroin than beginning focused on being politically active...plus, you can't make it illegal to be black or anti-war, but you can take say cannabis and makes its use a crime in order to criminalize and imprison "undesirable" populations...well, if we look at project coast, we may gain further insight into what the American government was actually doing during MKULTRA...
Drugs are also kept illegal because the United states government exploits their contraband status to raise large sums of untraceable cash to fund foreign rebel armies who are fighting our enemies...these rebel.armies do not have hard currency or natural resources, but they always have drugs, which the CIA will happily sell to fund them...I could post 30 pages on this topic as well
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At least 86 universities or institutions were involved in MKULTRA projects in varying capacities Many MKULTRA researchers were highly regarded
R. Gordon Wasson's trip to participate in a second mushroom velada (ceremony) with María Sabina was underwritten by MKULTRA. Wasson was contacted "out of the blue" by James Moore, who had heard of Wasson's discovery of psychoactive mushrooms and asked to accompany him on his next expedition. Wasson accepted without knowing that Moore was a CIA agent, who would collect mushroom specimens for government analysis
(While not part of MKULTRA, related psychedelic research was funded by the U.S. Army in its investigation of chemical weapons.
George Aghajanian , a respected professor of Psychiatry at Yale, worked with LSD in the 1960s at the Edgewood Arsenal, where the Army looked into the use of LSD as an incapacitating agent. Aghajanian was involved with research investigating aerosolized administration of LSD, a technique previously explored by MUKLTRA.8 Current LSD research still prominently cites his work. Psychiatrist Sidney Cohen, author of important early papers on LSD's effects, also worked at Edgewood.9
It is difficult to find researchers of psychedelics in the 1950s and 1960s who were not funded by or involved with Cold War agendas in some capacity, either wittingly or unwittingly. This leads to an uncomfortable conclusion: the history of psychedelic drugs in the United States in the twentieth century is saturated with influence from the intelligence community and military. )
Donald Ewen Cameron
MKULTRA
Dr. Ewen Cameron of McGill University in Montreal developed experimental techniques to rebuild personalities in his clinic. Cameron became interested in altering the structure of personality as a possible treatment for psychological disorders such as schizophrenia. He believed that he could cure mental illness by replacing schizophrenic personalities with newly created ones. The CIA had no interest in treating schizophrenia, but it was very interested in the possibility of rebuilding personality; MKULTRA began covertly funding Cameron's experiments in 1957.
Cameron's "depatterning" process consisted of two stages. In the first stage, amnesia was induced through an extreme form of "sleep therapy", where subjects were heavily sedated and given daily electroshock treatments over a period of several weeks. Cameron would next attempt to construct a new personality through "psychic driving" during which subjects were forced to listen to repeating tape loops, designed to restructure their psyches, for as long as sixteen hours a day for another several weeks. They were sometimes restrained in beds, and frequently given doses of LSD.
Donald Ewen Cameron (24 December 1901 – 8 September 1967)[1] — known as D. Ewen Cameron or Ewen Cameron — was a Scottish-born psychiatrist who served as President of the American Psychiatric Association (1952–1953), Canadian Psychiatric Association (1958-1959),[2] American Psychopathological Association (1963),[3] Society of Biological Psychiatry (1965)[4] and World Psychiatric Association (1961-1966).[5] Notwithstanding his high professional reputation, he has been criticized for administering electroshock therapy and experimental drugs to patients without their informed consent. Some of this work took place in the context of the Project MKUltra mind control program.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Cameron became involved in what has later become known as the MKUltra mind control program, which was covertly sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)[6] and which eventually led to the publication of the KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation manual. Cameron's work was funded under MKUltra's subproject 68.[21][22] He is unrelated to another CIA psychiatrist, Alan S. Cameron, who helped pioneer psychological profiling of world leaders during the 1970s and was not associated with the behavioral modification research program.[23]
Cameron had been hoping to correct schizophrenia by erasing existing memories and reprogramming the psyche. He commuted from Albany to Montreal every week to work at McGill's Allan Memorial Institute and was paid $69,000 from 1957 to 1964 to carry out MKUltra experiments there. In addition to LSD, he experimented with various paralytic drugs and electroconvulsive therapy at thirty to forty times the normal power.[24] His "driving" experiments consisted of putting a subject into a drug-induced coma for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple statements. These experiments were typically carried out on patients who had entered the institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postnatal depression; many suffered permanent debilitation after these treatments. [25] Such consequences included incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators were their parents.[26] His work was inspired and paralleled by the psychiatrist William Sargant, who was also involved with the Intelligence Services and experimented extensively on his patients without their consent, causing similar long-term damage.[27]
Sid Taylor stated that Cameron used curare to immobilise his patients during his research. 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 tested in the Radio Telemetry Laboratory, which was built under Cameron's direction. Here, patients were exposed to a range of RF and electromagnetic signals and monitored for changes in behaviour. It was reported that none of the patients sent to the Radio Telemetry Lab showed any signs of improvement.[28]
In her book, In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada,[29] Anne Collins (author) explored the history of Cameron and Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute. This was made into a TV mini-series directed by Anne Wheeler in 1998.[30]
Naomi Klein states in her book The Shock Doctrine that Cameron's research and his contribution to MKUltra were not about mind control and brainwashing, but "to design a scientifically based system for extracting information from 'resistant sources." In other words, torture."[31] She then cites Alfred W. McCoy: "Stripped of its bizarre excesses, Cameron's experiments, building upon Donald O. Hebb's earlier breakthrough, laid the scientific foundation for the CIA's two-stage psychological torture method."-Wikipedia
Dr. Harris Isbell, director of the Addiction Research Center at the Public Health Service Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, was paid by MKULTRA to perform basic research on psychoactive drugs, including several psychedelics. He drew test subjects from his captive patient population of opiate addicts, offering them heroin in exchange for "volunteering" for his experiments. Subjects were administered LSD, DMT, mescaline, methamphetamine, psilocybin and other drugs, sometimes in very large doses.5 In one experiment, Isbell administered LSD to seven men for 77 consecutive days.
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Operation midnight climax; MKULTRA; CIA; USA
In 1955, on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project MKULTRA, former Federal Bureau of Narcotics officer
George White rented a three-story building on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco.
For the next ten years, the CIA paid prostitutes to lure men to this location and surreptitiously dose them with LSD or other psychoactive drugs. Known as "Operation Midnight Climax", this project was one of several exploring LSD's potential use as a mind control tool by the U.S. Intelligence Community.
In 1953 CIA Director
Allen Dulles warned the American public that the U.S.S.R. may have developed brainwashing technology. Using language similar to the 1945 report quoted above, Dulles warned that the Cold War was becoming "a battle for men's minds. [...] We might call it in its new form, brain warfare."2 That same month Dulles authorized Project MKULTRA as a counter-offensive to this perceived threat. The purpose of MKULTRA was "to investigate whether and how it was possible to modify an individual's behavior by covert means."3
Sidney Gottlieb , director of the CIA's Technical Services Staff, was placed in charge, and existing operations in mind and behavior control were transferred to MKULTRA.
Sub-projects investigated hypnosis, neurosurgery, electroshock, torture, sexual blackmail, stage magic, and poison, but their primary interest was psychoactive drugs.
When MKULTRA operative
Morse Allen studied hypnosis, he found that he could not persuade people to do things against their will. Subjects in a trance would refuse to shoot their friends. However, Allen found that he could circumvent resistance by convincing people that the friend was actually a deadly enemy.
He had to change their perception of reality—create what he called a "pseudo-reality"—and then let them act naturally. If he could create the right reality, he could manipulate people into doing almost anything.
Controlling perception facilitates control of actions, and the CIA developed projects designed to control perception on many scales.
Projects ranged from dosing individuals with LSD to influencing entire societies through planting false news stories or covertly shaping art and culture. The perception-altering properties of LSD and other psychoactive drugs fit well with the CIA's agenda.
In pursuit of these goals, MKULTRA scientists investigated dozens of psychoactive agents, including psilocybin, bufotenin, scopolamine, DMT, amphetamines, barbiturates, cannabis, and cocaine. They particularly focused on LSD, funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars through covert channels into LSD studies at clinics and hospitals. Much of the basic research into LSD's pharmacology conducted in the 1950s was funded by either the military or the CIA. By 1952 Boston Psychopathic Hospital alone was receiving $40,000 a year for such studies, overseen by LSD researcher
Dr. Robert Hyde.
MKULTRA operatives routinely violated ethical and legal guidelines. For at least a decade, the CIA gave many U.S. citizens LSD without their knowledge, with the most infamous case involving Army officer Frank Olson. After being dosed with LSD on the orders of MKULTRA director Sidney Gottlieb at a joint CIA/Army retreat in 1953, Olson plunged into a deep depression and, according to the official story, committed suicide. Yet in 1994 a forensic pathologist examined Olson's body and found compelling evidence that
Olson was murdered
Frank Olsen developed many nasty chemical weapons, and he knew of their secret testing on unsuspecting human beings... Frank Olsen also was involved in the The 1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning, which was proved by documentation, a whole town in France dosed with LSD, people freaked out, and got hurt...then when the tables are turned, and the government gave him LSD without his permission, he loses it, the CIA suspected that he could "spill the beans" on all their secret and often illegal research, and it seems they murdered him to prevent this...
...karma huh?
-eg
