Paracultural Calendar for April 13

[Mark Thibodeau]

On this day in the year *1953* - in a development that was a direct
outgrowth of the American Establishment’s disastrous decision to recruit
the elite of the Nazi scientific and intelligence communities in order to
prevent the Soviets from scooping them up to use against us in the
then-brewing Cold War - CIA director *Allen Dulles* launches the
mind-control program *MKULTRA*. According to a recently declassified CIA
document from May 5th, 1955, MKULTRA was devoted to the discovery of the
following materials and methods:

*1.* Substances which will promote illogical thinking and impulsiveness to
the point where the recipient would be discredited in public.

*2.* Substances which increase the efficiency of mentation and perception.

*3.* Materials which will prevent or counteract the intoxicating effect of
alcohol.

*4.* Materials which will promote the intoxicating effect of alcohol.

*5.* Materials which will produce the signs and symptoms of recognized
diseases in a reversible way so that they may be used for malingering, etc.

*6.* Materials which will render the indication of hypnosis easier or
otherwise enhance its usefulness.

*7.* Substances which will enhance the ability of individuals to withstand
privation, torture and coercion during interrogation and so-called
"brainwashing".

*8.* Materials and physical methods which will produce amnesia for events
preceding and during their use.

*9.* Physical methods of producing shock and confusion over extended
periods of time and capable of surreptitious use.

*10.* Substances which produce physical disablement such as paralysis of
the legs, acute anemia, etc.

*11.* Substances which will produce "pure" euphoria with no subsequent
let-down.

*12.* Substances which alter personality structure in such a way that the
tendency of the recipient to become dependent upon another person is
enhanced.

*13.* A material which will cause mental confusion of such a type that the
individual under its influence will find it difficult to maintain a
fabrication under questioning.

*14.* Substances which will lower the ambition and general working
efficiency of men when administered in undetectable amounts.

*15.* Substances which will promote weakness or distortion of the eyesight
or hearing faculties, preferably without permanent effects.

*16.* A knockout pill which can surreptitiously be administered in drinks,
food, cigarettes, as an aerosol, etc., which will be safe to use, provide a
maximum of amnesia, and be suitable for use by agent types on an ad hoc
basis.

*17.* A material which can be surreptitiously administered by the above
routes and which in very small amounts will make it impossible for a man to
perform any physical activity whatever.
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