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34 Project MKULTRA & Ewen Cameron 34 Project MKULTRA & Ewen Cameron Mind-Control Part 1: have any MC techniques or drugs "not available Mind-Control Part 1: Canadian and U.S. Canadian and U.S. in the West."17 However, neither Hoover nor the CIA told the Commission that the U.S. had Survivors Seek Justice an operational program of Manchurian Survivors Seek Justice Candidates up and running since World War Continued From Page 31 II!18 Continued From Page 31 The term "brainwashing" was first The MDA was not administered for any coined in 1950 by Edward Hunter, a CIA therapeutic reason. Blauer was scheduled to be employee operating undercover as a journalist, released from the hospital in a few weeks. His purportedly to explain how American POWs in objections to the series of injections, which Korea were being coerced into confessing they were causing him great pain and discomfort, used biological weapons.19 Newspapers played were overridden by manipulative hospital up fears that the Soviets, the Chinese and North personnel. Blauer was threatened before the Koreans were using a secret psychological fourth nonfatal dose that if he didn’t give his weapon against allied soldiers. This consent, he would be moved out of the Institute "brainwashing" scare was a successful CIA to hospital settings that displeased him. The disinformation strategy used to build support for fourth dose caused a violent reaction. The fifth an unpopular war.20 It also helped insulate killed him. The Army began its cover-up military and university researchers from immediately, the sordid details of which are accountability for violating medical ethics and recounted in the 1987 court decision awarding criminal laws. the Blauer estate $707,044. The court affixed The prevailing anticommunist hysteria blame for Blauer’s needless death totally on the that grew to justify the MKULTRA program U.S. government.12 and its unambiguous violations of the The Blauer case reveals a direct lineage Hippocratic Oath, the Nuremberg Code and between Nazi research projects and the many international human-rights covenants was Based on a true story about secret CIA funded MKULTRA program. Mescaline was tested on aptly summarized in 1954 by former President brainwashing experiments conducted on concentration camp inmates during the Third Herbert Hoover: psychiatric patients in Montreal's Allan Reich’s search for a "truth serum."13 These It is now clear we are facing an Memorial Hospital in the 50's. After 25 years and other Nazi experiments were intensively implacable enemy whose avowed objective is the aging survivors challenge the USA in a pursult of justice studied by U.S. military scientists in occupied world domination.... There are no rules in such Germany. Under the CIA’s Operation Paperclip, a game. Hitherto accepted norms of human Opening remarks by James C. Turner 1600 German and Austrian scientists were conduct do not apply.... If the United States is to The Sleep Room's Missing Memories. secretly brought to the U.S. Some had worked survive, long-standing American concepts of for I.G. Farben perfecting Zyclon-B gas for the fair play must be reconsidered... We must learn "...Cast and crew have been unanimous in their extermination of Jews and other doomed to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by praise of director Anne Wheeler..." prisoners. Many were being investigated for more clever, more sophisticated, more effective "...Cinematographer Thomas Vamos has war crimes when they were rescued by a methods than those used against us.21 similar praise for Wheeler (The Diviners, government intent on using their knowledge and The MKULTRA program began with a Loyalties, Cowboys Don't Cry). expertise in the Cold War against the proposal by Richard Helms, then the CIA’s "I think she is one of the best directors I have Communist Eastern Bloc. Hundreds of chemists Assistant Deputy Director for Plans, to fund worked with in my life," he says. "And not only on the level of craft but she has an and other scientists were given jobs at "highly sensitive" research and development extraordinary knowledge and sensitivity. She Edgewood Arsenal, which supplied the drugs, using chemical/ biological substances to alter has tremendous patience for the people, and for chemicals and poisons for the CIA’s human behavior. It was approved by CIA the production." counterespionage and assassination programs Director Allen Dulles on April 13, 1953 and was Playback Magazine during the Korean and Vietnam wars, as well as overseen by chemist Sidney Gottlieb, chief of covert interventions in the affairs of many Third the CIA’s Technical Services Division (TSD). Gemini Awards 1998: World nations.14 The first MC programs, called Bluebird and Though the Cold War is over, the U.S. Artichoke, were subsumed under the Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini- military/CIA bureaucracies still invoke MKULTRA umbrella. This program came to Series - Anne Wheeler "national security" and "plausible deniability" embrace an octopus-like network with names Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured to hide a vast arsenal of sophisticated mind- like MK-Search (1963-1973), MK-Delta and Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series - Diego Matamoros control and psychological warfare MK-Naomi (assassination programs carried out Best Sound in a Dramatic Program or Series technology.15 All of these weapons had to be by the Army 1953-1970).22 Between 1953 and Best TV Movie or Mini-Series perfected by means of human experimentation. 1963 the TSD operated 149 subprojects in 80 Special Award - Donald Mowat - For Psychiatrist Colin Ross found that many areas U.S. and Canadian universities and medical outstanding achievement in makeup. of brain research heading in the direction of MC centers, and three prisons, involving 185 private suddenly went "black" in the 1960s.16 His researchers, 15 foundations and numerous just get rid of the files as well, so that anybody long-awaited book, Building the Manchurian pharmaceutical companies.23 who assisted us in the past would not be subject Candidate: Deliberate Creation of Multiple In 1973, with the Watergate scandal to follow-up questions, embarrassment, if you Personality by Psychiatrists, will soon be looming, outgoing CIA Director Helms ordered will."24 published. all MKULTRA records destroyed. He testified Fortunately, 8,000 pages of mainly A hint about mind-control research first before the Senate’s Church Committee two financial data escaped the CIA shredder, and surfaced in the aftermath of the 1963 years later that Gottlieb: were declassified pursuant to a Freedom of assassination of President John F. Kennedy. "...came to me and said that he was Information lawsuit in the 1970s filed by the When J. Edgar Hoover testified before the retiring and I was retiring and he thought it Center for National Security Studies. Though Warren Commission in 1964, he raised the would be a good idea if these files were woefully incomplete, these documents possibility President Kennedy had been killed destroyed. And I also believe part of the reason nevertheless became the bedrock of John by a programmed assassin dispatched by the for our thinking this was advisable was there Marks’ groundbreaking 1978 book, The Search Soviet Union. Alarmed, the Commission had been relationships with outsiders in for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and requested the CIA to produce information on government agencies and other organizations Mind Control.25 Soviet brainwashing. The resultant CIA memo and these would be sensitive in this kind of (so controversial it wasn’t declassified until thing but that since the program was over and Continued on Page 35 1974) cryptically asserted the Soviets did not finished and done with, we thought we would