Project MK Ultra
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MK-ULTRA/Mind Control Experiments
Also known as Some of the projects exploring these areas were ARTICHOKE, BLUEBIRD, PANDORA, MKDELTA, MKSEARCH and the infamous MKULTRA.
It is, or was the code word for a secret CIA project, which took place between 1953 and 1964(officially) in which unsuspecting people were used in mind-control, experiments that left them emotionally crippled for life.
MK-ULTRA, consisted of more than 130 research programs which took place in prisons, hospitals and universities all over the United States. The CIA does not deny that the experiments took place. The rationale for all of this? Well, the memo doesn't say. But it's apparent that learning how to make people do things they normally wouldn't do by controlling their minds is valuable if you're in the espionage business.
It has roots as far back as World War II. This was the first conflict in which the human brain became a field of battle, where invading forces were led by the most notable names in psychology and pharmacology. On both sides, the war spurred furious efforts to create a "truth drug" for use in interrogating prisoners. General William "Wild Bill" Donovan, director of the OSS, tasked his crack team -- including Dr. Winifred Overhulser, Dr. Edward Strecker, Harry J. Anslinger and George White -- to modify human perception and behavior through chemical means; their "medicine cabinet" included scopolamine, peyote, barbiturates, mescaline, and marijuana.
