by Colin A. Ross
Psychiatrist, Author,
The CIA Doctors, Military Mind Control
and Project Bluebird
September 3, 2009
My book, The CIA Doctors,[i] is based on 15,000 pages of documents I received from the CIA through the Freedom of Information Act and dozens of papers published in medical journals. These papers report the results of research funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Department of the Army, the Office of Naval Research and the CIA. From 1950 to 1972, the CIA funded TOP SECRET research at many leading universities including Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Johns Hopkins and Stanford. There was a series of CIA mind control programs including BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, MKULTRA, MKSEARCH and MKNAOMI.
MKULTRA and related programs had several over-lapping purposes. One was to purchase mind control drugs from suppliers. Another was to form relationships with researchers who might later be used as consultants at the TOP SECRET level. The core purpose of these programs was to learn how to enhance interrogations, erase and insert memories, and create and run Manchurian Candidates. All of this is described clearly and explicitly in the declassified CIA documents, which provide a glimpse into the tip of the iceberg of CIA and military mind control.
The CIA mind control experiments were interwoven with radiation, chemical and biological weapons experiments conducted on children, comatose patients, pregnant women, the general population and other unwitting groups who had no idea they were subjects in secret experiments. Radiation, bacteria and funguses were released over urban areas. A large cloud of radiation was released over Spokane during OPERATION GREEN RUN; plutonium was injected into a comatose patient in Boston by Dr. William Sweet, a member of the Harvard brain electrode team; plutonium was placed in the cereal of mentally handicapped children at the Fernald School in New England; 751 pregnant women were injected with plutonium at Vanderbilt University; the bacteria serratia maracens was released into the air in San Francisco, resulting in a series of infections and plutonium was injected into an amputee at the University of Rochester. All these experiments were conducted without any informed consent or meaningful follow-up. Hallucinogens, marijuana, amphetamines and other drugs were administered to imprisoned narcotic addicts in Lexington, Kentucky, terminal cancer patients at Georgetown University Hospital, hospitalized sex offenders at Ionia State Hospital in Michigan and johns picked by prostitutes hired by the CIA in San Francisco and New York.
Most of these experiments were conducted by psychiatrists with TOP SECRET clearance. These included Louis Jolyon West, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma and later at UCLA; Dr. Robert Hyde in Boston; Dr. Carl Rogers at the University of Wisconsin; Dr. Martin Orne at Harvard; Dr. Charles Osgood at the University of Illinois; Dr. James Hamilton at Stanford; Dr. Charles Geschichter at the University of Richmond and Dr. Harold Abramson and Dr. Harold Wolff at Cornell. Other TOP SECRET-cleared MKULTRA contractors included Dr. Maitland Baldwin, a neurosurgeon at the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Carl Pfeiffer, a pharmacologist at Emory.
The CIA doctors violated all medical codes of ethics dating back to Hippocrates, including the Nuremberg Code. The experimental subjects were not told the real purpose of the experiments, did not give informed consent, were not afforded outside counsel and received no meaningful follow-up. As described by the psychiatrists in published papers, experiments with LSD and other hallucinogens, combined with sensory deprivation, electroshock and other interrogation techniques, resulted in psychosis and death among other “side effects.” The purpose of these experiments was to see how easily a person could be put into a psychotic state or controlled.
In a series of MKULTRA projects, the CIA paid a former Bureau of Narcotics officer, George White, to set up safe houses in San Francisco and New York that were decorated like brothels. George White then hired prostitutes to pick up johns at bars, bring them back to the safe house, give them LSD without their knowledge, and then have sex with them. The CIA officers watched the sex through one-way mirrors. The project documents state that the purpose of the experiments was to test the effects of LSD on unwitting subjects under field conditions that mimicked an interrogation of a foreign operative.
In one of the memos contained in the MKULTRA files for these projects, however, another purpose of the safe house operation is revealed. The CIA was actually testing the performance of “Jekyll-Hyde” identities they had created in the prostitutes. They wanted to see if they could make female spies or female agents with alternate controllable personalities. Another purpose of these experiments was to test the CIA’s Manchurian Candidate prostitutes under conditions that mimicked a field operation. The johns were given LSD as part of the cover for testing the CIA’s female Manchurian Candidates prior to their use in actual operations (the mission being to have sex with and extract information from targets). The recruitment of street prostitutes provided an additional layer of cover for the testing of the Manchurian Candidates, plus it provided free live pornography for the CIA officers.
In other experiments, conducted by Dr. Jose Delgado at Yale and Drs. Vernon Mark, Frank Ervin and William Sweet at Harvard, brain electrodes were implanted in people and their mental state and behavior was controlled from a remote radio transmitter box. These experiments were conducted with funding from the Office of Naval Research. In experiments at Tulane funded by the CIA and the Army, implantation of brain electrodes was combined with injecting mescaline and other substances directly into the experimental subjects’ brains.
BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE and MKULTRA were the precursors of present-day enhanced interrogation programs used by the CIA at secret prisons outside the United States. Water-boarding, electric shock, hooding, prolonged sleep deprivation, death threats and other techniques discussed in the Senate and Congress and in the media, are, in my opinion, elements of a limited hangout, a CIA strategy in which a little bit of the truth is revealed in order to cover up the greater part of the truth. None of these experiments or operational programs would be possible without the participation of doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists. The doctors are directly involved in testing the interrogation techniques and monitoring their effects.
The purpose of mind control experiments is controlling human behavior: making enemy combatants open up during interrogation; protecting secret information by erasing memories; making spies more resistant to interrogation because secret information is held by hidden identities and making people more prone to influence, social control and suggestion. It has nothing to do with medical treatment, easing suffering or curing disease. The mind control experiments and operational programs violate basic human rights and all codes of medical ethics.
Dr. Colin Ross is a psychiatrist, internationally renowned researcher, author and lecturer. In addition to The CIA Doctors and Military Mind Control, he is also author of Project Bluebird, in which he exposes unethical experiments conducted by psychiatrists to create amnesia, new identities, hypnotic access codes, and new memories in the minds of experimental subjects. His research is based on 15,000 pages of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Dr. Ross is a past president of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation. He is the founder and President of the Colin A. Ross Institute for Psychological Trauma.
[i] Colin A. Ross (2006). The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations By American Psychiatrists. Richardson, TX: Manitou Communications.
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The psyches continue to abuse the population of our fine planet and spread their distruction like a festering wound and need to blotted out perminantly. Well done on the work you are doing.
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It is time to rage against the machine.. This is your leader speaking.
Thank you SOOOOOO much for speaking out.
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Yes, I agree that the CIA and American psychiatrists have been involved in dangerous forms of mind control without the publics consent. In fact I am under obvious 24 hour a day intense satellite transmitted surveillance by the US government which is also using this technology in attempts at adversive mind control of me and my family with an interest in crushing the credibility of my reports dealing with intentional mental health care human rights abuses by the United States. This technology is similar to satellite TV technology with the electrochemical circuitry of the human brain dangerously being used as reception/transmission centers by the government. The CIA and other branches of the US government have clearly been concerned about the nature of my disclosures being taken seriously by the public due to the strong nature of my academic background. Therefore the US government has been using any and all manners possible in which to degrade and humiliate me in the eyes of the public and to ruin my entire family which has included harsh blacklists of my professional and vital business interests in association with false allegations of mental illness against me, And so I have had to fight being hit with the same type of brutal mental health care human rights abuses as I have spent a lifetime working to wipe out. My online story synposis dealing with this which will follow clears up brutal CIA involvement in the torture and other abuses which I have been terrorized by as seen when I was hit with these abuses over the years under the direction of the US government when I went overseas to such nations as China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Israel, Thailand, Vietnam, and elsewhere to seek out new professional opportunities. Now check out:
“US Government Cracking Down On Truth In Mental Health Care Human Rights Abuse Case”
The United States Department of Justice has been involved in a malicious and sadistic cover-up of one of the most shocking and brutal psychiatric human rights abuse cases in world history due to the collusion of the US government in the abuses associated with this case. What we see in this story is that all of the American psychiatrists are like-minded diabolically insane sadists whose only concern in dealing with the victims of “The Psychiatric Industry of Enslavement, Torture, and Death” is to cover-up for the incompetence and brutality of their associates and of a consistently unethical US Department of Justice which works with the American psychiatrists to crush the lives and interests of sane social activists and poor people. The mastermind of this case, Dr Theodore Pearlman, or “The Texas Butcher”, has earned recognition as “The Father of American Psychiatric Tyranny and Ignorance”. He drives around Houston, Texas in his $72,000 BMWs as his victims struggle to survive on a daily basis. Dr Pearlman is being protected by the filthy lies of an unusually brutal and corrupt Texas Justice Department and likewise brutal federal US Department of Justice which have shown hostile indifference to the bizarre nature of the human rights abuses associated with this case. An online story synopsis dealing with this case can be found under “A Physicians Story As Psychiatric Human Rights Abuse Victim Survivor” at: http://t1c.blogspot.com
Dr Harold Mandel
Dear All,
I have a testimony on the psychaitric abuse to which I have been subjected over decades on utube as well as a blog.
This includes coercive behaviour modoification organised and paid for by the British Foreign Office ‘Family Welfare Department’ in Geneva Switzerland in 1983 and torture by crashing between doctors to traumatise me in 1984.
This latter was conducted when I was only 18 and ironically when my father was working at the United Nations.
It was apparently organised by Dr Bernard Cramer at the university of Genveva – I have a sinister note saying I was ‘under investigation’ for ‘psychological problems’.
I actually have a physical problem and talking to Dr Rowntree, senior medical officer to the Foreign Office who gave my father the choice of allowing me to be a girl or ‘staving it off until my ideas changed hopefully’
Please comment on the videos on utube. This attocity must be exposed. They have blood on their hands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OozUZAb2BYs
“They Live”
…and “They” don’t give a hoot if we know…they WANT us to know. Their thinking is…”so you know, what are you going to do about it, and besides, now that you know, we have to kill you”
Better question is, how do you stop a speeding locomotive that has no breaks (or conscience).
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Features the CIA LSD Brothel in San Francisco (MK ULTRA), Groucho Marx’s LSD Trip….Doc Ellis pitches his no-hitter while high.
Tim Leary’s Miricle of Good friday Experiment is explored with one of the original PREACHERS who took part.
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Thanks for yet another revealing story.
I’ll share it as much as I can.
Very few people know what goes on “behind closed doors”. It is unbelievable what psychiatrists get away with.
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Thanks for the comments – I’m glad the blog is sparking some interest! I agree that mind control programs are not just “historical” – my main focus is on the participation of psychiatrists and psychologists, but this is also a broad human rights problem. I hope that one day the subject will get serious, sustained public attention. Non-lethal (energy) weapons have been a component of these programs going back to MKULTRA, in which projects were devoted to sound and electromagnetic weapons. No doubt everything is much more high tech now than it was in the 50s and 60s.
Do you think that lee harvey oswald received training mind control means to kill jfk? the reason i am saying this is because it would be one of the things that would explain lee harveys oswalds behavior. First he tries to shoot general walker, then he takes a rifle to work and just conveniently the building he works in exposes the street below to a tight curve that slows cars down. what luck! then they secret service never bothered to investigate before the assasination. then, after he shoots the prez lee harvey oswald does not attempt to flee the town instead he goes and kills a police officer and then either tries to hide in a movie theater or goes to watch a movie.
Review our websites we are advocates for our consumers.Our profession has a big problem relating to MEDICATION/S. Other form of Tx can work without Medications. Thanks
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The information you presented is helpful in making consumers understand this pervasive problem in the profession. Thanks
Information like this is crucial in waging your own self defense if you are the target of covert abuse of any type. Attempting to prove it will add more to your abuse, get witnesses if you can.Layman are also experts at “psychopolitcs”, the art of invalidating you as a psychotic. Yes, they can use drugs too, make you psychotic to cover their abuse.It’s not always the government behind the abuse, but government is the power behind getting away with it because there is this blanket defense, government always acts in good faith, even when people are being abused to death. BE A SURVIVOR, Big Brother operatives can be stopped only if you survive to fight them.
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The programs Dr. Ross speaks about are not extinct. Some have been continued on a covert level, others are being conducted in front of us and we do not notice. I have been the victim of ritual abuse torture for the past seven years in Massachusetts. The local, state and federal authorities are all aware and have stood back and not intervened. Positive forensic evidence has been withheld from a grand jury process due to a high level politician being implicated. My 33yr professional RN/NP license was removed via police complaint when I wrote an article about trauma based mind control and it’s history (very similar to Dr. Ross’s above article)and distributed it to state authorities so that they would be aware what was happening in their state. The police orchestrated an involuntary psychiatric evaluation in an attempt to discredit me. Psychiatric harrassment and commitment is frequently used as a tool to supress whistle blowers and ‘dissidents’. My son was hospitalized with no just cause; he said he was taken off during the night and experimented on. The government mind control projects and experiments are still being conducted. Their existence is denied. Their victims are labeled as ‘mentally ill’ so that the abuse can continue unfetted.I have fought back and attempted to expose a trauma based mind control programmer who is masqurading as a date rapist with male and female victims all ages. Sex slavery is alive and well. So isn’t political corruption, ritual abuse and mind control experimentation. The ‘Men Behind Hitler’ psychiatrists are marching us to chaos and a new order; unfortunately we and our children have become their unwitting victims.
Thank you CCHR for exposing these atrocities.
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Wow, what an amazing article!
Those programs are totally insane. I continually get amazed at how evil and dark some people can be in destroying our own kind.
Thanks for the article. I’ll pass it on.
-Andrew Degenhardt
There’s more going on here than people know; Josef Mengele still lives
http://www.theominousparallels.blogspot.com/
The Ominous Parallels Report
The Ominous Parallels is a web site that discusses how The United States government uses organized Harassment and Torture perpetrated by the National Security Agency [NSA], Science Application International Corporation [SAIC] and other government agency’s using Military grade Psychological Operations and Direct Energy Weapons against United States citizens, and other countries citizens from around the world.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/expose_2007/episode204/watch.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7238049
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=science_applications_international_corporation_(saic)
As a former Intelligence community worker working for Science Applications International Corporation I’ve come under covert-overt attack by the National Security Apparatus for whistle-blowing that the office I worked in located at Dulles, VA right beside the airport for Science Applications International Corporation was empty on the morning of the 11th of September 2001.
Since leaving Science Applications International Corporation I’ve been under constant surveillance, constant harassment by the U.S. Government, its agency’s and Science Application International Corporation.
The Ominous Parallels website discusses the specifics concerning these covert types of harassment – active measures that I’ve been exposed to and have experienced; moreover, the specifics of how these operations work.
For emphasis, this includes methodologies of psychological torture via direct energy weapons and covert operations. Philippe Sands book titled “The Torture Team” is profound as it speaks to these methodologies that I have experienced as a TI.
As a TI I know that the torture at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib are a “by-product” of something much more sinister that is going on in our world. My hope is that one day these programs will be exposed and to that end The Ominous Parallels website seeks to educate the public about these kinds of weapons, operations, players and the effect it is having on our world.
More important is how the inhumane actions of our government parallels that of Nazi Germany between 1933 – 1945.
This is REAL; TIs need some kind of safe haven!
Love “Light” and Energy
_Don
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13743356/CoVeR-lEtTeR-the-OmInOuS-Parallels
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13743550/The-OmInOuS-Parallels [Read with discernment]
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13743647/NeWs-SiNcE-rEpOrT-rElEaSe
George White had absolutely no qualms or pangs of conscience about what he did. Neither did the CIA; it even killed one of its own, Dr. Frank Olson, who threatened to blow the whistle on the whole damn thing.
Tim Fleming
http://www.eloquentbooks.com/MurderOfAnAmericanNazi.html
http://blazingtrailers.com/show.php?title=441
http://leftlooking.blogspot.com