Paracultural Calendar for April 13

[Monte Davis]

In what sense -- other than some continuity of top personnel from the
wartime OSS to the CIA -- was MKUltra a "direct outgrowth" of Paperclip?
Its guiding spirit was Bronx-born Sidney Gottlieb. Psychopharmacology
hadn't been among Paperclip's target disciplines (nor a big deal in German
wartime work). And of course LSD itself had come out of neutral Switzerland.

We should take pride in MKUltra as a home-grown, red-white-and-blue
initiative.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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