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Originally posted by Dieval,
The site mentioned also has a Mind Control section, if you're interested...
Mind Control
....I wonder if they tell you how to make tinfoil hats? |
Oh, tinfoil hats... so clever.
Let me guess, you have not looked into the CIA's mind control program, huh? Because if you had, you wouldn't think it was such a lark.
MK Ultra was the designation for this "research". MK for Mind Kontrol. Look it up, I am not joking. They dosed unsuspecting citizens with LSD and a lot of other chemicals to see what might happen. They also used hypnosis, electric and microwave brain stimulation. There were, I seem to remember, 149 sub-projects in this vast program that extended over many years. The US Senate looked into it in the 1970s(I hope they wore their tinfoil hats) and found some of the worst government abuses ever.
http://www.parascope.com/ds/mkultradocs.htm http://www.parascope.com/ds/mkultra0.htm Quote:
Concerned about rumors of communist brainwashing of POWs during the Korean war, in April 1953 CIA Director Allen Dulles authorized the MKULTRA program, which would later become notorious for the unusual and sometimes inhumane tests that the CIA financed. Reviewing the experiments five years later, one secrecy-conscious CIA auditor wrote: "Precautions must be taken not only to protect 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."
Though many of the documents related to MKULTRA were destroyed by the CIA in 1972, some records relating to the program have made it into the public domain, and the work of historians, investigative reporters, and various congressional committees has resulted in the release of enough information to make MKULTRA one of the most disturbing instances of intelligence community abuse on record. As writer Mark Zepezauer puts it, "the surviving history is nasty enough." |
So, HA HA, mind control. I forgot to laugh...