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CIA Experiments with Mind Control on Children
by Jon Rappoport
Fri, 24 Nov 1995
The CIA mind-control apparatus has been well known since 1975,
when 10 large boxes of documents were released pursuant to
Freedom of Information Act requests.
Several good books were then written on the subject of the CIA
program known as MK-ULTRA. Officially spanning ten years from
1952-62, MK-ULTRA involved the use of LSD on unwitting military
and civilian subjects in the United States. LSD and more
powerful compounds were given under duress as brainwashing and
truth serum drugs. The program's aim was to find drugs which
would irresistibly bring out deep confessions or wipe a
subject's mind clean and program him or her as "a robot agent."
In experimental test situations, people were given acid without
their knowledge, then interrogated under bright lights with
doctors sitting in the background taking notes. Threats would
be made. The test subjects were told that their LSD "downer
trips" would be extended indefinitely if they refused to reveal
their closely-guarded military secrets. The people being
interrogated in this way were CIA employees, U.S. military
personnel and, abroad, agents suspected of working for the
other side in the Cold War. Long-term severe debilitation and
several documented deaths resulted. Much, much more could be
said about MK-ULTRA.
None of this prepared people for the explosive testimony made on
March 15, 1995, in Washington, D.C., before the President's
Committee on Radiation, however. In unpublicized sessions,
New Orleans therapist Valerie Wolf introduced two of her
patients who had uncovered memories of being part of extensive
CIA brainwashing programs as young children (in one case,
starting at age seven). Their brainwashing included torture,
rape, electroshock, powerful drugs, hypnosis and death threats.
According to their testimony, the CIA then induced amnesia to
prevent their recalling these terrifying sessions.
Both Wolf and her patients stated that they recovered the
memories of this CIA program without regression or hypnosis
techniques. In other words, these patients spontaneously
discovered this information about themselves and their pasts.
Although the committee was mainly concerned with radiation,
they permitted Valerie and her patients to testify because,
astonishingly, several doctors who had administered the
mind-control experiments had also been identified by other
Americans secretly exposed to radiation. Apparently there was
a crossover. Prominent names surfaced in the March 15
testimony: Richard Helms, former head of the CIA, Dr. Sidney
Gottlieb, who ran MK-ULTRA and Dr. John Gittinger, Gottlieb's
protege. These men and others were directly accused of
participating in grisly mind-control efforts on children.
Predictably, this testimony received no media attention.
I now have it all, including many pages submitted to the
committee that will likely never be released as part of their
final report. Only a small percentage of the pages were read
aloud at the hearing. Included are corroborating statements
from other therapists around the country and several of their
patients. I have now released all of this testimony as a book,
U.S. Government Mind-Control Experiments On Children.
When the sickening shock starts to wear off, deeply disturbing
questions flood one's mind: just what was this CIA program?
How extensive was it? What was its purpose?
From what I have been able to discover so far, many American
children, as well as children from Mexico and South America,
were used over a period of about 40 years, starting around 1948.
In fact, the program may still be going on. Doctors and agents
who administered it wanted to obtain control over the minds of
these children, ostensibly to create superagents who wouldn't
remember even what missions they carried out, because of
hypnotically induced amnesia (which could be removed by their
controllers and reinstalled at will). (1)
Children were trained as sex agents, for example, with the job
of blackmailing prominent Americans -- primarily politicians,
businessmen and educators. A great deal of filming was done for
this purpose. Eventually, people from the inner core of the
CIA program filmed each other, and some of the centers where
children were used as sex agents got out of control and turned
into CIA-operated sex rings.
Some children were considered expendable and simply murdered.
One person who states that he was in this program as a child
said, off the record:
"They tried out their brainwashing techniques on the kids from
Mexico and South America. They were considered expendable.
But on another echelon of the program, they went after the best
and the brightest American kids. Making perfect agents to
combat the Soviets wasn't, I don't think, their ultimate
objective. I can't remember what that was."
At this point, I made a suggestion:
"Well, if they were choosing the best and brightest, maybe they
figured these kids would one day rise to important positions in
the society, and they wanted to gain long-term control over
them, so they would be under their thumb, so they could tap them
at will -- a way of controlling the future society."
"Maybe," he said. "The Nazis gained control over the
intelligentsia in Germany. That was a very key step in their
dominance. That was the first thing they did".
"This smells very much like a Nazi program in the U.S.," I said.
"I don't mean all the controllers were German, but the style
of it, the insanity."
He said, "They brought over a lot of Nazi doctors after the war
and not just to build rockets -- for a lot of projects."
Other people who said that they had been used as children in
the program remember that doctors with German accents were
definitely present at the sessions. One therapist, who shared
this information informally with colleagues around the country,
states that, so far, the oldest person she has heard of who was
in the program is now 52; the youngest is now nine.
Since a number of people who were brainwashed, tortured and
drugged in these experiments try to resolve their experiences in
therapy, psychiatrists and other professional therapists are
hearing these stories. They are told, for example, that CIA
controllers sometimes dressed up in Satanic costumes to further
traumatize the children, also providing a cover that wouldn't be
believed if the children ever talked.
It is worth noting that there is a movement to discredit these
"recovered" memories, and the most prominent group, the False
Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF), has several board members
with CIA or military-intelligence connections -- including the
notorious Dr. Louis "Jolly" West of UCLA, who tried to establish
a center for "the study of violence" at the university in the
1970s. This center's specialty would have been psychosurgery,
a horrendous melting of brain connections, supposedly to curb
people's "violent tendencies."
FMSF maintains that a person always remembers abuse done to him
or her, and therefore any new recovery of it in therapy is false
and must have been fabricated through misleading suggestions by
the therapist. While it is certainly true that such inducement
happens in therapy, the blanket statement that all recovered
memory is invented is unsubstantiated.
In a written statement to Dr. Wolf that was included in her
testimony to the president's committee, well-known researcher
and psychiatrist, Colin Ross said,
"Published articles in my files include descriptions of
administration of 150 mcg of LSD to children age 5-10 years on
a daily basis for days, weeks, months, and in a few cases even
years. Neurosurgeons at Tulane, Yale, and Harvard did extensive
research on brain electrode implants with intelligence funding,
and combined brain implants with Large numbers of drugs
including hallucinogens."
Ross based his report on his more than 20 years of investigating
CIA mind control.
Chris De Nicola, one of Dr. Wolf's patients who testified before
the president's committee, named her controller as a Dr.
Greene, a name reported by several other mind-control subjects.
It may well be that this name was a cover used by various CIA
and military-contracted experimenter-torturers. Here is a quote
from her testimony:
"[Dr. Greene] used me in radiation experiments both for the
purpose of determining the effects of radiation on various
parts of my body and to terrorize me as an additional trauma
in the mind-control experiments. [She was eight years old.]
"The rest of the experiments took place in Tucson, Arizona, out
in the desert. I was taught how to pick locks, be secretive,
use my photographic memory to remember things and a technique to
withhold information by repeating numbers to myself. [She is
obviously talking about being trained as an agent.]
"Dr. Greene moved on to wanting me to kill dolls that looked
like real children. I stabbed a doll with a spear once after
being severely tortured, but the next time I refused. He used
many techniques but as I got older I resisted more and more.
He often tied me down in a cage, which was near his office.
Between 1972 and 1976 he and his assistants were sometimes
careless and left the cage unlocked. Whenever physically
possible, I snuck into his office and found files with reports
and memos addressed to CIA and military personnel. Included in
these files were project, subproject, subject and experiment
names with some code numbers for radiation mind-control
experiments which I have submitted in my written documentation.
I was caught twice and Dr. Greene tortured me ruthlessly with
electric shock, drugs, spinning on a table, putting shots in
my stomach, in my back, dislocating my joints and hypnotic
techniques to make me feel crazy and suicidal..."
Is there a precedent for this kind of sadistic treatment by CIA
and military personnel? Indeed there is. Here is a quote from
the introduction to my book, U.S. Government Mind-Control
Experiments On Children. It contains information from reliable
published sources; such as The Search for the Manchurian
Candidate, by John Marks (2), Acid Dreams, by Martin Lee (3) and
The Mind Manipulators, by Alan Scheflin (4). In part, these
authors derived their information on the CIA and MK-ULTRA from
the ten boxes of information released suddenly in 1975 by the
agency in response to Freedom of Information Act requests:
"Dr. Robert Heath of Tulane University, as early as 1955,
working for the Army, gave patients LSD while he had electrodes
implanted deep inside their brains.
"Canadian researcher, Dr. Ewan Cameron, under long-term CIA
contract, attempted to depattern, and reprogram his psychiatric
patients' personalities wholesale. He started with 15 to 65
days of 'sleep therapy,' during which a patient was kept under
nearly 24 hours a day, through the administration of cocktails
of Thorazine, Nembutal, Seconal, Veronal, and Phenergam.
Throughout this sleep period, the patient would be awakened two
or three times a day for electroshock treatments, given at an
intensity 20-40 times the 'normal' convulsion-producing strength.
"In the mid-1950's, Paul Hoch, M.D., a man who would become
Commissioner of Mental Hygiene for the State of New York, then
a laborer in the field for the CIA, gave a 'pseudoneurotic
schizophrenic' patient mescaline. The patient had a not-
unfamiliar heaven-and-hell journey on the compound. But Hoch
followed this up with a transorbital leucotomy... Hoch also gave
a patient LSD, and a local anesthetic, and then proceeded to
remove pieces of cerebral cortex, asking at various moments
whether the patient's perceptions were changing."
Claudia Mullin, the other of Dr. Wolf's patients who testified
before the President's Committee on Radiation, said her
experiences with CIA mind-control experiences began when she
was seven years old:
"In 1958, 1 was to be tested, they told me, by some important
doctors coming from a place called the 'Society' [the Human
Ecology Society, a CIA front]. I was told to cooperate; answer
any of their questions. Then, since the test 'might hurt,' I
would be given 'shots, x-rays, and a few jolts of electricity.'
I was instructed not to look at anyone's face too hard and to
ignore names,' as this was 'a very secret project' but to be
brave an all those things would help me forget...
"A Dr. John Gittinger tested me and Dr. Cameron gave me the
shocks and Dr. Greene the x-rays... By the time I left to go
home, just like every time from then on, I would recall nothing
of my tests or the different doctors. I would only remember
whatever explanations Dr. Robert G. Heath [of Tulane Medical
School] gave me for the odd bruises, needle marks, burns on my
head and fingers and even the genital soreness. I had no reason
to believe otherwise. Already, they had begun to control my
mind!
"The next year, I was sent to a place in Maryland called Deep
Creek Cabins to learn how to 'sexually please men.' Also,
I was taught how to coerce them into talking about themselves.
It was Richard Helms (Deputy Director of the CIA), Dr. Gottlieb,
Captain George White and Morse Allen, who all planned on filming
as many high government and agency officials and heads of
academic institutions and foundations as possible... I was to
become a regular little 'spy' for them, after that summer,
eventually entrapping many unwitting men, including themselves,
all with the use of a hidden camera. I was only nine when this
kind of sexual humiliation began."
Captain George White was a notorious agent for the CIA. He set
up a brothel in San Francisco in the 1960s and, using hidden
cameras, filmed men having sex with prostitutes. The men's
drinks were "spiked" with LSD. In 1950, Morse Allen, another
important CIA, man, was appointed head of Project BLUEBIRD,
another CIA mind-control program.
Ms. Mullin states that she was adopted when she was two years
old. By the time she reached seven she had already been abused
extensively by her mother. Her mother apparently turned her
over for "testing" to CIA-connected people and Claudia then
entered a 27-year period of what can only be called enslavement.
Claudia states that she has been monitored, that she is still
monitored and watched by agency related people, including a
medical doctor. Now living in New Orleans, she has given
information to local police authorities about her situation.
In her testimony to the president's committee, Claudia remarked,
"Although the process of recalling these atrocities is certainly
not an easy task, nor is it without some danger to myself and
my family... I feel the risk is worth taking."
Claudia's therapist, Dr. Wolf, has written to the president's
committee,
"To the best of my knowledge, [Claudia] has read nothing about
mind-control or CIA covert operations. Since she decided to
listen carefully and remember as much as she could about
conversations among the researchers, her memories are
extraordinarily complete. I have sent written copies of
memories to Dr. Alan Scheflin [author of The Mind Manipulators]
for validation and he has confirmed that she has knowledge of
events and people that are not published anywhere, that some of
her memories contain new information and that some are already
known and published. Some of her memories have been confirmed
by family members. She has also shown me old scrapbooks where
she wrote notes to remember what was happening to her and hid
the notes under pictures in the scrapbook."
I spoke with Alan Scheflin in May of this year. He said he had
found one piece of information Claudia had mentioned in her
recollections that had no precedent in published material.
It involved a connection between two government researchers.
This is just the tip of the iceberg on the 130 pages of
testimony given before the President's Committee on Radiation,
and it is also just the beginning of a history that will
undoubtedly widen in the coming months and years. Dr. Wolf told
me that when word got around she was going to testify before the
president's committee, she was contacted by about 40 therapists
"in just the 10 days leading up to my trip to Washington." The
therapists had heard similar CIA mind-control stories from their
own patients. Many of these professionals are afraid to go on
the record about their patients' stories, as censure from their
professional societies is a reality. The political mood these
days is not conducive to granting an aura of credibility to
revelations of CIA brainwashing.
So what else is new?
[Jon Rappoport is a distinguished investigative reporter and the
author of AIDS, INC. He can be found inhabiting the late night
airwaves of KPFK radio in Los Angeles and lecturing at the
Hardware Humanitarian House in Santa Monica, California.]
Notes:
1) See "From the Inside Out," Perceptions, March/April 1995, p.58
2) Paddington Press, New York, 1978
3) W.W. Norton, New York, 1979
4) Grove Press, New York, 1985
This article appeared in:
Perceptions Magazine -- September/October 1995
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