Paracultural Calendar for April 13

Mark Thibodeau jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 12:51:43 CDT 2015


Monte, it's pretty straightforward.

>From a rather uncontroversial source, the Wikipedia page on MKUltra:

Precursor experiments[edit
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Project_MKUltra&action=edit&section=2>
]

In 1945 the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Intelligence_Objectives_Agency> was
established and given direct responsibility for Operation Paperclip
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip>. The program recruited
former Nazi <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism> scientists,[15]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra#cite_note-15> some of whom
had been identified and prosecuted as war criminals
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime> during the Nuremberg Trials
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials>.[16]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra#cite_note-16>

Several secret U.S. government projects grew out of Operation Paperclip.
These projects included Project CHATTER
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_CHATTER> (established 1947), and Project
BLUEBIRD <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_BLUEBIRD> (established
1950), which was renamed Project ARTICHOKE
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_ARTICHOKE> in 1951. Their purpose was
to study mind control <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_control>,
interrogation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrogation>, behavior
modification <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_modification> and
related topics.
MKUltra[edit
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Project_MKUltra&action=edit&section=3>
]

The project's intentionally oblique CIA cryptonym
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_cryptonym> is made up of the digraph
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraph_(orthography)> *MK*, meaning that the
project was sponsored by the agency's Technical Services Staff
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_Services_Staff>, followed by the
word Ultra <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra> (which had previously been
used to designate the most secret classification of World War II
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II> intelligence). Other related
cryptonyms includeProject MKNAOMI
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKNAOMI> and Project MKDELTA
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKDELTA>.

Headed by Sidney Gottlieb <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb>,
the MKUltra project was started on the order of CIA director Allen Welsh
Dulles <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Welsh_Dulles> on April 13, 1953.
[17] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra#cite_note-17> Its aim
was to develop mind-controlling drugs for use against the Soviet bloc,
largely in response to alleged Soviet
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union>, Chinese
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China>, and North
Korean <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea> use of mind control
techniques on U.S. prisoners of war
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_war>in Korea.[18]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra#cite_note-18>

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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