[CTRL] CIA Experiments with Mind Control on Children

[William Shannon]

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CIA Experiments with Mind Control on Children

by Jon Rappoport

The CIA mind-control apparatus has been well known since 1975,when 10 large
boxes of documents were released pursuant toFreedom of Information Act
requests.

Several good books were then written on the subject of the CIAprogram known
as MK-ULTRA.  Officially spanning ten years from 1952-62, MK-ULTRA involved
the use of LSD on unwitting militaryand civilian subjects in the United
States.  LSD and morepowerful compounds were given under duress as
brainwashing andtruth serum drugs.  The program's aim was to find drugs
whichwould 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 withouttheir
knowledge, then interrogated under bright lights withdoctors sitting in the
background taking notes.  Threats wouldbe made.  The test subjects were told
that their LSD "downertrips" would be extended indefinitely if they refused
to revealtheir closely-guarded military secrets.  The people
beinginterrogated in this way were CIA employees, U.S. militarypersonnel and,
abroad, agents suspected of working for the otherside in the Cold War.  
Long-term severe debilitation and severaldocumented deaths resulted.  Much,
much more could be said aboutMK-ULTRA.

None of this prepared people for the explosive testimony made onMarch 15,
1995, in Washington, D.C., before the President'sCommittee on Radiation,
however.  In unpublicized sessions, NewOrleans therapist Valerie Wolf
introduced two of her patientswho had uncovered memories of being part of
extensive CIA brainwashing programs as young children (in one case,
startingat age seven).  Their brainwashing included torture,
rape,electroshock, powerful drugs, hypnosis and death threats.According to
their testimony, the CIA then induced amnesia toprevent 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, theypermitted
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: RichardHelms, former head
of the CIA, Dr.  Sidney Gottlieb, who ran MK-ULTRA and Dr.  John Gittinger,
Gottlieb's protege.  These menand 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 thecommittee that will
likely never be released as part of theirfinal report.  Only a small
percentage of the pages were readaloud 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'tremember 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 fot 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 combatthe 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 inthe society, and they wanted
to gain long-term control over them,so they would be under their thumb, so
they could tap them atwill -- 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 memberswith CIA or military-intelligence
connections -- including thenotorious 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 ona daily basis for days, weeks,
months, and in a few cases evenyears.  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 undernearly 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 gavea 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 DeepCreek 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 herover for "testing" to CIA-connected people
and Claudia thenentered 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 ofher 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, a scensure 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.582)
Paddington Press, New York, 19783) W.W. Norton, New York, 19794) Grove Press,
New York, 1985This article appeared in:Perceptions MagazineSeptember/October
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