CIA Director Richard Helms, who in 1973 tried to destroy all trace of MKULTRA.

CIA Director Richard Helms, who in 1973 tried to destroy all trace of MKULTRA.

Back during the Cold War, the government – worried about Soviet, Chinese and North Korean brainwashing – began experimenting with mind control techniques. One of the worst was MKULTRA. According to government records:  “Between 1953 and 1966,” said the Supreme Court, “the Central Intelligence Agency financed a wide-ranging project, code-named MKULTRA, concerned with ‘the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior.’ The program consisted of some 149 subprojects which the Agency contracted out to various universities, research foundations, and similar institutions. At least 80 institutions and 185 private researchers participated. Because the Agency funded MKULTRA indirectly, many of the participating individuals were unaware that they were dealing with the Agency.”

Unfortunately, in 1973, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKULTRA records destroyed. Fortunately, some 20,000 documents were later discovered, and in 2001 some surviving information was declassified and thus much of the impact of this program became public record.

What was discovered were horrific experiments – many conducted with unwitting subjects – using drugs such as LSD, electroshock, and unconsciousness to eliminate memories or to plant false ones. “Psychic driving” by Dr. Ewen Cameron, killing an elephant with LSD by Louis Jolyon West and electrical and chemical brain implants by Manuel Rodriguez Delgado.

Recently, Rodriguez Delgado’s work with implants that delivered electricity and chemicals directly to the brain (which he called stimoceivers and chemitrodes respectively) have returned with more advanced technology, disguised as help and healing. “Electroceuticals,” developed by GlaxoSmithKline and other drug firms, are electronic brain implants to replace the heavy hand of psychopharmaceuticals with their no-better-than-placebo results, skyrocketing costs, unpredictable and sometimes lethal side effects, and competition by generic drug equivalents.

Pharmaceutical companies, the military and psychiatry are again hard at work to recreate the same mind-control techniques supposedly abandoned almost 70 years ago. Consider that DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency predicts that within a few years, scientists will gain the ability to wipe out a PTSD-causing memory and replace it with something else. Flowers and sunny days, perhaps. DARPA’s “Electrical Prescriptions” program (ElectRx) seeks to develop “… real-time biosensors and novel neural interfaces using optical, acoustic, electromagnetic, or engineered biology strategies…” Like MKULTRA, mind control experiments are targeted on veterans – in World War II they were afflicted with “shell shock” or “battle fatigue,” and in recent times, it’s “PTSD.” It seems that veterans in trouble are convenient targets for experiments in mind control.

And Louis Jolyon West’s psychedelic druggings are back again as well. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) seeks to use MDMA, LSD, psilocybin, and similar drugs to “treat” PTSD and other conditions.

So can the government, big pharma and psychiatry be trusted with mind control? In the 1950s they secretly implemented a mind control agenda with MKULTRA using drugs, electrical stimulation and electroshock. Do they deserve a second chance with the latest and greatest technology? Have they reformed?

In 2013 Edward Snowden exposed a secret NSA surveillance program called Prism. Twenty years earlier, the Clinton Administration tried to implement the Clipper Chip that would put a government backdoor in all computers and networks. That flopped amid public outrage, but it seems now that the government went ahead anyway snooping into phone records, Internet, email and other communications.

The FDA just decided to lower the risk category of electroconvulsive “therapy” so children can receive it, and pharmaceuticals are now a $1.5 trillion dollar economic giant. So no, these psychedelic, electrode implanting, pill pushing electroshocking cretins cannot be trusted and must be stopped.