MKUltra PDF Cliff Notes
Took me a good 2 hours or so to read the PDF. Found some interesting things.
HISTORY
• Took place 1953-1964
• Conducted by CIA w/o President’s knowledge
• Intent was to counteract potential threats from foreign states using drugs against us (e.g., Russia w/ LSD)
• Defense became secondary and program shifted to offensive techniques to obtain info from or gain control over enemy agents
GOALS
• Research and development projects that studied the use of biological and chemical materials in altering human behavior
• Drug acquisition and testing
• Administering drugs surreptitiously w/o detection
NETWORK
• 44 colleges / universities
• 15 research foundations or chemical or pharma companies
• 12 hospitals or clinics (CIA bought an entire hospital wing for experiments)
• 3 penal institutions (jails)
• 185 non-government researchers / assistants
UNETHCIAL ACTIVITIES
• Drugs and chemicals tested covertly on unwitting American citizens, causing unknown damage
• Used university facilities and researchers to further program w/o their knowledge
• Original documentation on MKUltra intentionally destroyed, financial documents found later that revealed details of the program
• MKUltra funding concealed, intermediaries used to hide funding and look like private donations
PROCESS
• Pay researches and specialists in universities, pharma houses, hospitals to find suitable materials (drugs, chemicals, equipment)
• Use physicians, toxicologists, specialists in hospitals and prisons to conduct intensive tests on humans using the materials
PROGRAMS
• Research into the effects of behavioral drugs and/or alcohol
• Research on hypnosis and drugs in combination
• Acquisition of chemicals or drugs
• Aspects of magicians' art useful in covert operations
• Studies of human behavior, sleep research, and behavioral changes during psychotherapy
• Library searches and attendance at seminars and international conferences on behavioral modification
• Motivational studies, studies of defectors, assessment, and training techniques
• Polygraph research
• Funding mechanisms for MKULTRA external research activities
• Research on drugs, toxins, and biologicals in human tissue; provision of exotic pathogens and the capability to incorporate them in effective delivery system
• Effects of electro-shock, harassment techniques for offensive use
• “Blood Grouping" research, controlling the activity of animals, energy storage and transfer in organic systems
• laboratory drug screening, research on brain concussion, and research on biologically active materials to be tested through the skin
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
• Techniques to cause brain concussions and amnesia by using weapons or sound waves to strike individuals without giving warning and without leaving any clear physical marks (resonance cavitation device in WH?)
• SOD developed darts coated with biological agents and pills containing several different biological agents and special gun for firing darts (heart attack gun?)
• Three methods and systems for carrying out a covert attack against crops and causing severe crop loss
• Substances to promote illogical thinking and impulsiveness to discredit recipient in public
• Substances to increase mental capacities
• Substances to promote signs/symptoms of recognizable diseases that can later be reversed
• Substances that will produce amnesia or knockout
• Substances that will lessen or promote the effect of alcohol
• Substances that will produce physical disablement
• Substances that will aid interrogations
• Substances that will alter personality structure and make a person dependent