Human Experiments

Project MKNAOMI - MKNAOMI focused on developing, stockpiling, and testing biological and chemical weapons, poisons, and specialized delivery systems like silent dart guns. It was green-lit by Allen Dulles while he was Deputy of Plans, without the knowledge of his supervisors. 

He gave permission to (((Dr. Sidney Gottlieb))) to use a fire boat to spray germs into the fog of San Fransisco Harbor, infecting 800,000 people, seeing how many would get sick. This resulted in 11 people getting identical urinary tract infections, causing them to piss blood and crystals, baffling doctors at the time.

Projet Bluebird - The goal of Project Bluebird, in the 1940s, was to train subjects through hypnosis and behavior modification, so that it would be impossible for enemies of the US to extract vital information.

Projet Artichoke - The goal of Project Artichoke was to examine whether or not a human is capable of attempting an assassination without hesitation. Methods included hypnosis, forced substance addiction, and forced substance withdrawal. Sidney Gottleib got a virtually unlimited budget and free reign over hospitals, where he used experimental drugs on mental patients, causing people to go insane, if they weren't already, including those who had only checked themselves in for anxiety or depression.

Professional tennis player, Harold Blauer, who checked into the NYSPI at Columbia University for depression following a divorce, died after being injected with 450 mg of 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine

Project MKUltra - MKUltra is a now declassified CIA program, green-lit by CIA Director Allen Dulles in 1953, which used often unwitting subjects to test the effects of drugs like LSD, sometimes under conditions of torture, to perfect hypnosis for the purposes of extracting information, as well as to create self-convinced spies and trigger-prompted assassins. MKUltra is a cryptonym, donating: MK = TSS (Technical Services Staff) and ULTRA, the highest classification of intelligence. While MKUltra focused broadly on research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials, MKDelta governed the practical use and operational deployment of those materials abroad, primarily for interrogation, harassment, or disabling targets.

After Watergate, newly appointed CIA director Richard Helms, ordering all MKUltra files destroyed. Later in 1976, the Church Committee, Pike Committee, and Rockefeller Commission led to Executive Order 11905, which revealed declassified documents failed to be destroyed in Helms' Purge. The CIA admitted to funding human behavior control research at 150 institutions, including 44 colleges or universities, including Stanford University. Drugs such as LSD were tested on unwitting citizens at bars, hospitals, prisons, pharmaceutical companies and even drug rehab clinics. Barbiturates amphetamines and hallucinogens put their subjects in a comatose state while also violently snapping them back to reality; this was carried out by injecting a barbiturate in a subject's arm and then an amphetamine in the other, often resulting in death.

One of the most famous testing sites was the Allen Memorial Institute, or the Ravenscrag, at McGill University in Montreal, where sensory deprivation was used as a stress inducer; graduate students would lie in isolation, wearing translucent goggles, U-shaped cardboard tubes over their arms, and headphones with a continuous buzzing noise; the study showed that minimal sensory input causes profound cognitive decline and hallucinations. These experiments were led by (((Sidney Gottlieb))), referred to by his colleagues as 'the black sorcerer' who financed and developed: "techniques that would crush the human psyche to the point that it would admit anything."

In 1953, while attending a CIA retreat, Frank Olson, a scientist working for the agency drank a cocktail that had been spiked with LSD. A few days later, he allegedly committed suicide by falling from the window of a New York City hotel room. 41 years later, Frank Olson's family decided to have a second autopsy performed; a forensics team discovered injuries on the body that were most likely caused before the fall. Following lengthy legal proceedings, Olson's family was awarded a $750K settlement and a personal apology from Gerald Ford and CIA Director William Colby. The person named for administering the LSD to Frank Olson was Sidney Gottlieb.

Dr. Donald Ewan Cameron had previously conducted experiments which amounted to torturing schizophrenics with high temperatures and food/water deprivation, resulting in numerous deaths. Later, when working under MKUltra, he invented two medical torture techniques that were repeated until the unwilling subject's mind was effectively broken. First, Cameron utilized a technique known as psychic driving, where patients were frequently exposed to hundreds of thousands of repeats of a single remark which would theoretically change their behavior. The next phase was depatterning, where they would undergo massive doses of electro-convulsive therapy combined with equally large doses of psychedelic drugs. Under the release of the US Freedom of Information Act, Cameron was discovered to have conducted the most extreme mind control trials, employing massive amounts of shock treatments and drugs such as PCP and LSD. According to journalist Sid Taylor in an article from 1992, Cameron used Curare, a toxin used by South American natives for poison arrows; when applied to the body, it shuts down the neuro-muscular system.

Author, Naomi Klein interviewed former patient Gail Katzner, who was barely mobile, as violent convulsions from electro-shocks had riddled her spine with small fractures. Gail was an 18-year-old nursing student when Dr. Cameron Experimented on her. Cameron noted that she was suffering from anxiety due to memories of her abusive father. After weeks of his regiment, Cameron wrote: ''The shock treatment turned the then 19 year-old honor student into a woman who sucked her thumb, talked like a baby, demanded to be fed from a bottle and urinated on the floor.''

While a college student at Stanford University, Ken Kesey, author of, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, volunteered for MKUltra LSD experiments. Kesey later went on to promote the drug by hosting acid tests in the form of LSD-fueled parties, which incorporated musical performances by The Grateful Dead. Robert Hunter, the band's lyricist, was also an MKUltra test subject at Stanford around 1961. 

(Another lyricist, John Barlow, was a childhood friend of Dick Cheney. Just putting it out there.) These parties influenced the early development of hippie culture and sparked the psychedelic drug scene in the 1960s. Allen Ginsburg, one of the most prominent voices of the psychedelic, was also an MKUltra test subject.

In 1975 Lieutenant Commander Dr. Thomas Narut, a psychologist working at the US Naval Hospital in Naples, gave a speech at a conference sponsored by NATO in Oslo, about the effect stress from combat has on soldiers. Afterwards, he let journalist Peter Watson sit down with him for a one-on-one in which he outlined a process of funneling men who had either killed or had the mental aptitude for killing without remorse into training programs. He describes fitting the head of the subjects into fixed positions and clamping their eyes open, forcing them to watch films in increasing brutality, specially designed to show people being killed and injured in violent ways to heighten their dissociative powers in regard to killing. When asked whether murderers were being released from prisons to become assassins, he replied that: ''it's happened more than once.''

George Estabrooks, an intelligence asset perched at the top of the projects concerning the creation of MPD soldiers: ''We know that dual and even multiple personality can be both caused and cured by hypnotism. Moreover, the Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hyde combination is a very real one once it is established. The key to creating an effective spy or assassin rests in splitting a man's personality or creating a multiple personality with the aid of hypnotism. This is not science fiction. I have done it...  During World War II, I worked this technique with a vulnerable Marine lieutenant I'll call Jones. Under the watchful eye of Marine intelligence, I split his personality into Jones A and Jones B. Jones A, once a normal working Marine, became entirely different. He talked communist doctrine and meant it.''

Project Midnight Climax - Midnight Climax, once again green-lit by Allen Dulles, was an project in which the government hired prostitutes to entice unsuspecting men to CIA safe houses across San Francisco, California and New York City. The CIA would administer LSD through drinks or aerosols to the men, then observe their behavior while crushing a couple of cold ones behind a two-way mirror. It is noted that the program had little oversight and leadership; the agents involved admitted to a loose, party-like atmosphere, where they themselves engaged with the prostitutes and used drugs. 

George White, a CIA agent working on the project, wrote to Sidney Gottlieb in 1971, stating: ''Of course, I was a very minor missionary, actually a heretic, but I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, and cheat, steal, deceive, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the all-highest?''

Project Third Chance - Project Third Chance was a covert US Army Intelligence program active from 1961-1963. Its goal was to operationally field test LSD as an aid for counterintelligence interrogations, primarily in Europe. The program involved secretly dosing unwitting, non-volunteer subjects, then interrogating them while under the influence of the drug. 

James Robert Thornwell is the only known test-subject under this program: ''The pain was so excruciating it felt like somebody was sticking me with a million pins...'' [Thornwell breaks down crying].

Famous test subjects/byproducts

Many victims suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) have shown early sexual or physical trauma to be the cause their psychological fracture. Fight-or-flight is a trauma response, but without the ability to do either, the mind splits to avoid greater dysfunction, thus creating a second personality which can be triggered without leaving a surface memory of itself once the subject snaps back. 

Jack Ruby - Dr. Louis Jolyon "Jolly" West, who worked on both MKUltra and Midnight Climax was appointed to evaluate (((Jack Ruby))) after he shot Lee Harvey Oswald.

Following West’s interactions with Ruby in jail, Ruby's mental state severely deteriorated as he started seeing demons and raving about a Jewish genocide across Ameria. During a cell visit from Rabbi Hillel Silverman, Ruby would frantically yell for the rabbi to "duck underneath the table", claiming guards were "pouring oil on Jews and setting them on fire" in the jail.

Radiation Experiments

AEC Radiation Experiments - Between 1944 and 1974, the US government sponsored thousands of human radiation experiments with additional funding from universities such as Vanderbilt University and UC Berkeley. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was largely the starting point to the various human radiation experiments completed to see the effects of radiation on the human body, performed most often on unwitting American citizens who had checked into hospitals. These experiments included directly injecting plutonium and other radioactive elements to mostly terminal patients without their consent; feeding radioactive traces to children; enlisting doctors to administer radioactive iron to impoverished pregnant women; exposing soldiers and prisoners to high levels of radiation; irradiating the testicles of prisoners, causing severe birth defects; and exhuming bodies from graveyards to test them for radiation without the consent of the families. Over 20,000 people were involved in these projects.

Karen Silkwood - Lab technician, Karen Silkwood testified to the AEC about having been contaminated at the Kerr-McGee. Later in 1974 she assembled documentation to back up her claims. Unfortunately, on her way to meet with a journalist, she was run off the road and killed. Even though her family confirmed that she had taken the binder with her to give to someone at the meeting, it was no where to be found at the site of the crash. Skid-marks from her car were present on the road, suggesting she was trying to get back onto the road after being pushed from behind; they also found damage on the rear of her vehicle which had not been present before the crash. According to author Richard Rashke, investigators who looked into Karen's death and the plant operations received constant anonymous death threats, some even being physically assaulted; one of her investigators disappeared and another allegedly committed suicide shortly before she was set to testify against the Kerr-McGee plant.

Dorothy Legarreta - Dorothy Legarreta was a lab technician at the Crocker laboratory, which was working on the Manhatten project. She was contaminated from having to smash glassware used to feed test animals fed radioactive materials. One of her children died of leukemia; she herself had to have a thyroid tumor removed. Because of this, she founded the National Association of Radiation Survivors in 1982, which later filed a FOIA request with the Department of Energy, obtaining documents which confirmed that the government had been experimenting on un-consenting humans with radiation for years. Like Karen Silkwood, Dorothy Legarreta's car ran off the road killing her. Her briefcase full of top secret government documents was missing from her vehicle, even though someone had written down the briefcase as having been found on the accident report; the tow truck driver said that it had been thrown away because it was badly damaged, which is evidence tampering and is illegal.

Tokaimura nuclear accidents - In 1999, Hisashi Ouchi was a Japanese nuclear technician who became the victim of the highest recorded dose of radiation exposure in history while working at the JCO nuclear fuel-processing plant in Tokaimura, Japan. Instead of letting him die, his co-workers kept alive for 83 days, subjecting him to aggressive and experimental medical treatments.

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By: Phillion, GDF, Colin Browen...

Raped by: Otto Heckel