MkUltra Monarch Orion

LSD vs. SSRI

Psychedelics activate neuronal networks and the glutamate system that are implicated in the regulation of emotion," Vollenweider says, noting that their hallucinogenic effects can be impeded by

< blocking specific serotonin receptors in the brain (known as 5-HT2A).

Psychedelics typically boost serotonin and may also boost the release of glutamate, according to the review authors, another neurotransmitter that has been linked to short-term but long-lasting brain functions such as learning and memory.

The idea that disturbances in brain chemistry might be important to behavior was profound, and began to revolutionize thinking about the brain, and neuroscience in general, and we can see how LSD was the catalyst for that revolution. If neuroscience can be said to have a beginning, one could argue that it occurred in 1954, with the idea that the action of LSD might be related to its effects on the

brain serotonin system. And if we look at the published scientific literature, we see a steadily increasing number of studies on

the role of serotonin in the brain, which continues to the present day.

Drugs that affect the serotonin system such as fluoxetine (Prozac) and other SSRI type antidepressants, or the triptan class of drugs used to treat migraines, were certainly developed more quickly because

of the discovery of LSD.

>The newest generation of drugs to treat schizophrenia also binds to one class of serotonin receptor. Would these meds have been developed without the discovery of LSD?

< Nope

SSRI = LSD 2.0

The Clown LSD experiments were purportedly carried out because the U.S. believed that communist Russia, North Korea and China were using the drug to brainwash captured Americans. Consequently, the CIA didn’t want to fall behind in developing and responding to this potentially useful technology.

So they decided to slip acid secretly to Americans at the beach, in city bars, at restaurants. For a decade, the CIA conducted completely uncontrolled tests in which they drugged people unknowingly, then followed and watched them without intervening.

According to most accounts, the CIA's interest in mind control began with the Hungarian show trial of Cardinal Josef Mindszenty. One of the highest-ranking members of the Catholic clergy in Europe, Mindszenty was arrested by Hungarian police and tried for treason in 1949. Before stunned global television audiences, he confessed to crimes he had not committed while staring off into space and showing other signs of aberrant behavior. The CIA feared that he had been brainwashed.

Pseudo-reality

Controlling perception facilitates control of actions, and the CIA developed projects designed to control perception on many scales. Projects ranged from dosing individuals with LSD to influencing entire societies through planting false news stories or covertly shaping art and culture.The perception-altering properties of LSD and other psychoactive drugs fit well with the CIA's agenda.

Big Pharma

Sandoz manufactured about 40,000 doses in 1951. The United States bought them and with the LSD in their possession, military researchers and the CIA began conducting their own experiments. They were uncomfortable relying on a foreign company and so, in 1953, the CIA asked Eli Lilly to make them up a batch of LSD, which Lilly subsequently donated to the CIA

Eli Lily was the Clowns's provider of LSD [Patent] After the CIA was criticized for using LSD on Americans they stopped the production.

Eli Lily later brought SSRIs onto the market…

< Eli Lily = Clown Shell

>Forty-four American colleges or universities, 15 research foundations or chemical or pharmaceutical companies including Sandoz (now Novartis) and Eli Lilly and Company, 12 hospitals or clinics (in addition to those associated with universities), and three prisons are known to have participated in MKUltra.