Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) held a hearing Tuesday shedding light on the CIA’s MKULTRA experimentation which sought to cultivate mind control methods.
Chairing the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on Tuesday, Luna heard from witnesses who detailed how the CIA during the 1950s secretly carried out illegal experiments on unwitting human subjects by inducing altered mental states through psychological torture and by administering drugs like LSD that would allow false memories to be implanted and, ultimately, their minds to be programmed, including to carry out murders.
“Project MKULTRA was not a policy failure or an overzealous program that got out of hand,” Luna stated. “It was a deliberate, systematic governmental operation that subjected American citizens, prisoners, hospital patients, veterans, ordinary people to LSD, electroshock, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, psychological torture without their knowledge or consent.”
Rep. Luna underscored the involvement of Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who one witness referred to as the “Black Sorcerer,” and highlighted how the CIA had later ordered MKULTRA documentation to be destroyed.
That is until an archivist in 1977 came across seven boxes of the program’s financial records which had survived a fire and had been misfiled.
“Those seven boxes included the names of institutions, the name of subprojects, the researchers who participated, the specific operation that the CIA had funded, and without them, the vast majority of MKULTRA would only be a rumor,” Luna stated.
“Let me be clear what I believe that we are dealing with here,” she continued. “Administering drugs to people without their knowledge or consent, subjecting humans to psychological torture, and using prisoners and hospital patients as non-consenting research subjects. These are crimes against humanity.”
Testifying before the Committee, Stephen Kinzer, who authored the book “Poisoner In Chief” about Gottlieb, noted the CIA had essentially granted him a license to kill, adding that the number of Americans sacrificed to MKULTRA may never be known.
In 1951 the CIA hired Gottlieb and directed him to launch what became MK-ULTRA. Gottlieb believed that in order to find a way to implant a new mind into someone’s brain, it would first be necessary to destroy the mind that was there already. In its search for ways to destroy a human mind and body, MKULTRA conducted the most extreme experiments on human beings that have ever been carried out by a US government agency. By any standard they qualify as medical torture. These experiments took place in prisons, clinics, and safe houses in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Officers of MK-ULTRA were authorized to travel to foreign countries, preferably those under formal or informal US occupation, and ask the local CIA station to provide them with “expendables”—human beings who would not be missed if they disappeared. Gottlieb had what amounted to a license to kill issued by the US government. Neither the number of MK-ULTRA victims nor the number of those who were experimented to death is known.
Investigator Tom O’Neill additionally testified about psychiatrist Louis Jolyon West’s involvement in perfecting MKULTRA’s mind control methods, outlining his ties to the Charles Manson murders in 1969 and also Jack Ruby, who murdered JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
Just three years after contracting with the CIA, West reported that by administering “LSD” and other “new drugs” which “speed the induction of the hypnotic state and deepen the trance that can be produced in given subjects,” he had developed the ability to replace “true memories” with “false ones” in a person without that person’s awareness.
“In other words,” he elaborated, “it has been found to be feasible to take the memory of a definite event in the life of an individual and, through hypnotic suggestion, bring about the subsequent conscious recall to the effect that this event never actually took place, but that a different (fictional) event actually did occur.”
O’Neill also highlighted a 1953 letter from West to Gottlieb where he “outlined the objectives, means and methods for the experiments West planned to conduct on unwitting human subjects at the Lackland Air Force Base outside San Antonio, Texas, where he was chief psychiatrist at the base hospital.”
O’Neill noted that less than a year after the letter, an Air Force sergeant at the base with no violent or criminal history abducted and murdered a three-year-old girl near the airbase.
“The airman, a decorated serviceman, husband and father of two named Jimmy Shaver, wandered up to the search party that had found the little girl and asked them where he was and how he had gotten there. Witnesses, including the military police who took him into custody, described Shaver as dazed and appearing to be in a trance. His wife reported that he didn’t recognize her when she visited him in jail that evening,” O’Neill described.
It was later revealed during Shaver’s trial that he “had been a patient at the base hospital, undergoing experimental treatment for debilitating migraine headaches,” and that West had been assigned as his psychiatric expert.
“Four years later [Shaver] was executed, insisting until the end that he had no memory of committing the crime for which he was convicted,” O’Neill stated.
Research scientist Dr. Elizabeth Ginexi, a former senior program opfficer at the National Institutes of Health, also appeared at the hearing arguing that recent NIH reforms were “a transfer of authority from scientists to political appointees.”
Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) explained to Dr. Ginexi that the public had lost trust in the NIH after its numerous failures during the Covid pandemic.
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4 Responses
But what they discovered was that even though drugging people was fun, it wasn’t necessarily for mind control. They could achieve mind control using regular television and these days, smart phomes.
Political theater
It’s all getting close. Close to being burned all the way to the ground.
Sooner the better, there is no fixing this totally evil, demonic system We The People have been living under for far too long
America was and is not supposed to be like this, the problem is as the population ages, the younger demographic thinks this is all normal.
Its not normal, moral or just