The Council on Foreign Relations and Mind Control On Sunday April 4, an article by Elaine Woo, titled "CIA's Gottlieb Ran LSD Mind Control Testing," was published in the LA Times. The article is about Central Intelligence Agent Sidney Gottlieb, who died on March 7th. The article connects Gottlieb to at least one assassination attempt. The article tells us Gottlieb was involved in MK-ULTRA, the code name for the Central Intelligence Agency's secret experiments to probe the effects of mind-altering drugs. The article tells us Gottlieb led the agency in 149 mind control experiments, of which about 25 were conducted on unwitting subjects. The article mentions that Gottlieb's mentor was CIA director Richard Helms. The article fails to mention Helms is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Woo writes, "One person--an Army germ warfare researcher--sank into dark depression and paranoia, leaping to his death from the 10th floor of a New York hotel several days after being slipped an LSD Mickey Finn at a CIA retreat." Woo doesn't mention that the germ warfare researcher was named Frank Olson. Woo doesn't mention that the government stonewalled Olson's family, then paid them some blood money after Congress's Church Committee blew part of the cover off the CIA's drug-driven mind-control programs. What the Church Committee did not uncover was the Council on Foreign Relations link to the mind-control programs. Was that because at least five Church Committee members and seven Church Committee staff members belonged to the Council on Foreign Relations? { see the article "A Nation Deceived --Proof the CFR Fixed the Church Committee Investigation at http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2807/emchurch.html ] The Senate Select Church Committee members were: Frank Church, Idaho, Chairman John G. Tower,Texas, Vice Chairman Philip A. Hart, Michigan Council on Foreign Relations member Walter Mondale, Minnesota Walter D. Huddleston, Kentucky Robert Morgan, North Carolina Gary Hart, Colorado Council on Foreign Relations member Howard H. Baker, Jr., Tennessee Barry Goldwater, Arizona Council on Foreign Relations member Charles McC. Mathais, Jr. Maryland Richard Schweiker, Pennsylvania Council on Foreign Relations member William G. Miller, Staff Director Council on Foreign Relations member Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr. Chief Counsel Curtis R. Smothers, Counsel to the Minority Audrey Hatry, Clerk of the Committee Church Committee Staff members included: Council on Foreign Relations member Karl Inderfurth, Council on Foreign Relations member Zbigniew Brzezinski special assistant Council on Foreign Relations member David L. Aaron, deputy to Council on Foreign Relations member Zbigniew Brzezinski, and CFR member Walter Mondale's personal designee to the Church committee. Council on Foreign Relations member Gregory Treverton, a staff specialist on Western Europe. Council on Foreign Relations member Richard K. Betts, NSC consultant. Council on Foreign Relations member Lynn Etheridge Davis, who authored the initial draft of the Church Committee's report dealing with the National Security Council. [1] Council on Foreign Relations member William B. Bader, professional staff member. All of the Church Committee Council on Foreign Relations Staff members would be chosen to work in Council on Foreign Relations member Jimmy Carter's presidential administration. At least two, Karl Inderfurth and Lynn Etheridge Davis work in Council on Foreign Relations member Bill Clinton's administration. When the investigators, and those investigated, are closely connected, and the investigators don't disqualify themselves because of prejudice or personal interest hasn't a crime called conspiracy to obstruct justice been committed? If the investigators are high-ranking public officials aren't the crimes high crimes, that call for impeachment and trial before Congress? The article is posted at [http://www.latimes.com:80/excite/990404/t000029926.html ]. The article, updated to show links to the Council on Foreign Relations, follows: > > Sunday, April 4, 1999 > > CIA's Gottlieb Ran LSD Mind Control Testing > Scientist, who died at 80, oversaw invention of >devices for assassination and gave > 'acid' to human guinea pigs. > > By ELAINE WOO, Times Staff Writer > > James Bond had Q, the scientific wizard who supplied 007 with >dazzling gadgets to deploy against enemy agents. The Central >Intelligence Agency had Sidney Gottlieb, a Bronx-born biochemist >with a PhD from Caltech whose job as head of the agency's technical >services division was to concoct the tools of espionage: disappearing >inks, poison darts, toxic handkerchiefs. > >Gottlieb once mailed a lethal handkerchief to an Iraqi colonel and >personally ferried deadly bacteria to the Congo to kill Prime Minister >Patrice Lamumba. It wasn't his potions that eventually did in the two >targets, but Gottlieb, once described by a colleague as the ultimate "good >soldier," soldiered on. > >Poisons and darts were not his sole preoccupation during 22 years with the >CIA. He labored for years on a project to unlock and control the >mysterious powers of lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. Could it be a >potent spy weapon to weaken the minds of unwilling targets? In the >1950s and 1960s, answering that question was one of Gottlieb's missions in >MKULTRA, the code name for the agency's secret experiments to probe the >effects of mind-altering drugs. Chief among them was LSD, discovered by >Dr. Albert Hofman, a Swiss chemist, in 1943. > >By the early 1950s, the CIA, fearful of LSD falling into Soviet hands, had >cornered the market on the drug, which in minute doses could produce >overwhelming sensations ranging from kaleidoscopic acuity to temporary >insanity. The agency also started to fund research, covertly funneling >hundreds of thousands of dollars to academics in prestigious institutions >around the country who tried the drug themselves and reported the results >to Gottlieb. > >Gottlieb and his associates in MKULTRA also took LSD "trips," although the >concept of tripping would not enter the American lexicon for another >decade. They laced coffee with LSD and served it to each other without >warning, then observed each other's reactions. Later Gottlieb expanded the >field tests to subjects outside the agency--drug addicts, prostitutes, >prisoners, mental patients--people who were unlikely to complain and even >less likely to be believed if they did. Among the dosed were hookers and >their clients in a CIA-sponsored brothel in San Francisco, later the >epicenter of the LSD explosion. > >One human guinea pig was subjected to an astounding 77-day trip. Some >subjects suffered chronic mental problems after being dosed. One >person--an Army germ warfare researcher--sank into dark depression and >paranoia, leaping to his death from the 10th floor of a New York hotel >several days after being slipped an LSD Mickey Finn at a CIA retreat. The >CIA covered up its role in his demise for two decades, and barely >reprimanded Gottlieb. > >In the early 1960s, Gottlieb was promoted to the highest deputy post in >the technical services operation. By 1967, he had risen to the top of the >division, guided by his longtime CIA mentor, [COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS >MEMBER] Director Richard Helms. At that time, LSD was not a secret >anymore. While the CIA was still examining the drug's possibilities as a >means of mind control, many young Americans were dropping the hallucinogen >as a vehicle of mind expansion and recreation. America was tuning in, >turning on and dropping out, thanks, in part, to the CIA's activism in the >'50s in the name of national security. > >It was not until 1972 that Gottlieb called a halt to the experiments with >psychedelics, concluding in a memo that they were "too unpredictable in >their effects on individual human beings . . . to be operationally useful." > >He retired the same year, spending the next few decades in eclectic >pursuits that defied the stereotype of the spy. He went to India with his >wife to volunteer at a hospital for lepers. A stutterer since childhood, >he got a master's degree in speech therapy. He raised goats on a Virginia >farm. And he practiced folk dancing, a lifelong passion despite the >handicap of a clubfoot. > >A malignant, real-life Q, or an eccentric genius whose intentions were >honorable and just? Gottlieb led the agency in 149 mind control >experiments, of which about 25 were conducted on unwitting subjects. >According to the survivor of one victim, the way Gottlieb duped American >citizens was nothing but despicable. > >Less black and white in his assessment is John Marks, author of the >definitive book on the CIA's mind control programs, "The Search for the >'Manchurian Candidate.' " Marks sees Gottlieb as an unabashed patriot who >nonetheless "crossed the same ethical lines we hanged German doctors in >World War II for." > >There is also the view of former CIA psychologist John Gittinger, who says >his close friend was a gentle man whose actions were widely misunderstood. >The agency's LSD experiments bloomed in the era of Josef Stalin and Sen. >Joseph McCarthy, and "during that time of Cold War," Gittinger said >recently from his home in Norman, Okla., "the attitude we had and the >agency had was we were still fighting a war. And when you are fighting a >war, you do things you might not ordinarily do." > >Gottlieb died on March 7 in Washington, Va. He was 80. His family did not >divulge the cause of his death. > > Copyright 1999 Los Angeles Times. All Rights Reserved ### Roundtable [1] John Prodos, Keepers of The Keys, A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush, William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York 1991 ____ Visit the Roundtable Web Page: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2807 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What two Council on Foreign Relations members edited the English Translation of Mein Kampf? See "The Council on Foreign Relations & Mein Kampf" [ http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2807/emhitler.html }
