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The people under this interrogation were CIA employees, U.S. military personnel, and agents suspected of working for the other side in the Cold War. No matter what you see or hear, don't believe it.". The following 99 pages are in this category, out of 99 total. With projects like the A-12 having proven just how valuable stealth could be for aircraft, and advancements in radar technology on the rise, the demand for an armed, stealth capable . It's free. Nov 10. [33] The agency poured millions of dollars into studies examining ways to influence and control the mind and to enhance its ability to extract information from resistant subjects during interrogation. MKDELTA was established to oversee the use of MKUltra materials abroad. The mission of the secret armies was simple: Prepare for a potential communist takeover and lead an armed resistance should such a takeover occur. In the film, soldiers were selected to be part of a military program examining whether it was possible to affect the physical world with thought forms. "Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government that originated within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the United States government in 1962. The MKSEARCH program was divided into two projects dubbed MKOFTEN and MKCHICKWIT. As the experimentation progressed, a point arrived where outsiders were drugged with no explanation whatsoever and surprise acid trips became something of an occupational hazard among CIA operatives. 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Materials which will produce the signs and symptoms of recognized diseases in a reversible way so they may be used for malingering, etc. [66] They conducted experiments with drug-induced hypnosis and with anterograde and retrograde amnesia while under the influence of such drugs. "[37], Several investigations led by the Church Committee, Rockefeller Commission and Pike Committee have been conducted about the CIA, and many documents have been declassified. The experiments continued even after Frank Olson, an army chemist who had never taken LSD, was covertly dosed by his CIA supervisor and nine days later plunged to his death from the window of a 13th-story New York City hotel room, supposedly as a result of deep depression induced by the drug. CIA Director Panetta had ordered an internal investigation to determine why Congress had not been informed about the covert program. The term "torture by proxy" is used by some critics to describe situations in which the CIA[7][8][9][10] and other US agencies have transferred suspected terrorists to countries known to employ torture, whether they meant to enable torture or not. This government research project was started in the 1970s, and the budget was over 20 million dollars. In addition, the inquiry is likely to look at the Bush administration's program of eavesdropping without warrants and its detention and interrogation program. [66] Mdecins Sans Frontires criticized the CIA for endangering and undermining trust in medical workers[67] and The New York Times reported that the CIA's action had increased resistance to vaccination programs in Pakistan. [59], The Office of Security used LSD in interrogations, but Sidney Gottlieb, the chemist who directed MKUltra, had other ideas: he thought it could be used in covert operations. Not declassified as yet, but the CIA documents for what Wikipedia quaintly calls the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66 is going to be a wild . These research funds were sent to Cameron by a CIA front organization, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, and as shown in internal CIA documents, Cameron did not know the money came from the CIA. Church Committee; "The congressional committee investigating the CIA research, chaired by Senator, 1977 Senate MKULTRA Hearing: Appendix C Documents Referring to subprojects. They maintain that Frank Olson was murdered because, especially in the aftermath of his LSD experience, he had become a security risk who might divulge state secrets associated with highly classified CIA programs, about many of which he had direct personal knowledge. Following the recommendations of the Church Committee, President Gerald Ford in 1976 issued the first Executive Order on Intelligence Activities which, among other things, prohibited "experimentation with drugs on human subjects, except with the informed consent, in writing and witnessed by a disinterested party, of each such human subject" and in accordance with the guidelines issued by the National Commission. And awesome. The accusations also crossed the Atlantic to the British intelligence services, which also were damaged by molehunts. The scheme, dreamed up in 1962 by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (uniformed members of the U.S. Department of Defense who advise the president and others), involved committing acts of violence against U.S. and Cuban civilians and then blaming those acts on the Cuban government, according to the NSA documents. 1. Horrock, Nicholas M. (August 4, 1977). (Of course, they didnt release the reason why they needed one, but well leave that up to your imagination.) The end of the Cold War also spurred interest in satellites and their possible use for environmental and other studies. On February 24, 1995, Vice President Gore visited CIA Headquarters to announce Executive Order 12951, signed by President Clinton, which released CORONA, ARGON, and LANYARD imagery to the public. (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1976), 394", "U.S. Senate: Joint Hearing before The Select Committee on Intelligence and The Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, 95th Cong., 1st Sess. [2] The proposals were rejected by John F. Kennedy. [87] A few days before his death, Frank Olson quit his position as acting chief of the Special Operations Division at Detrick, Maryland (later Fort Detrick) because of a severe moral crisis concerning the nature of his biological weapons research. Cameron died on September 8, 1967, after suffering a heart attack while he and his son were mountain climbing. Later admitting to the wiretapping, the CIA said 40,000 hours of telephone conversations were recorded. CIA spokesman George Little said that he could not confirm if CIA computers were used to make the changes, claiming that "the agency always expects its computer systems to be used responsibly. The operation was codenamed "Project Iceworm," but operated under a cover research project called "Camp Century.". [5], In 1973, amid a government-wide panic caused by Watergate, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed. The Institute on Medicine as a Profession and the non-profit organization Open Society Foundations reviewed public records into the medical professions alleging complicity in the abuse of prisoners suspected of terrorism who were held in U.S. custody during the years after 9/11. [74][unreliable source? Unidentified Vietnamese women and children before being killed in the My Lai Massacre. There was a decision under several directors of the CIA and administration not to tell the Congress. MKUltra was first brought to public attention in 1975 by the Church Committee of the United States Congress and Gerald Ford's United States President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States (also known as the Rockefeller Commission). Declassified MKUltra documents indicate they studied hypnosis in the early 1950s. "[3] The CIA itself has responded to the claims made in Weiner's book, and has described it as "a 600-page op-ed piece masquerading as serious history. In July 2013, declassified documents from the CIA acknowledged the existence of Area 51 for the first time, and confirmed that the top-secret site was used to test a variety of spy planes, including the well-known U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. The explosion created a mushroom cloud that stretched 40,000 feet (12,200 m), and the bomb's explosive power was equivalent to more than 15,000 tons of TNT. They told subjects they would extend their "trips" if they refused to reveal their secrets. These acts, which included faked terrorist attacks in U.S. cities, the hijacking of planes and the sinking of boats full of Cuban migrs en route to the U.S., would then be used to justify a war with Cuba, according to the documents. Stanley. The proposed purchase aimed to stop other countries from controlling the supply. The program was canceled in 1966 after shifting ice created unstable conditions. The project's. More than 800,000 photographs were sent over the following 18 months to the National Archives and the US Geological Survey. The CIA's own internal investigation concluded that the head of MKUltra, CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb, had conducted the LSD experiment with Olson's prior knowledge, although neither Olson nor the other men taking part in the experiment were informed as to the exact nature of the drug until some 20 minutes after its ingestion. ", "Under the guidelines, seven research projects involving chemical weapons and human subjects were submitted by the Chemical Corps for Secretary of the Army approval in August 1953. Declassified Army and CIA Manuals. On September 20, 1996, the Pentagon released to the public seven training manuals prepared by the U.S. military and used between 1987 and 1991 for intelligence training courses in Latin America and at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA). It often conducted experiments without the subjects' knowledge or consent. The trove contains files covering a wide range of secrets, from the mundane to the mind-blowing and, yes, even UFOS. [69], In the 1980s, several of Cameron's former patients sued the CIA for damages, which the Canadian news program The Fifth Estate documented. Its hard to imagine a world without Google maps or satellite imagery, but when CORONA was developed in the 1950s, satellite photo-reconnaissance didnt exist. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. The operation was detailed in a partially declassified U.S. Army report in 1981. [32][37][84][85], Several known deaths have been associated with Project MKUltra, most notably that of Frank Olson. The declassified documents reveal plans for the plane to reach a top speed of Mach 4 (four times the speed of sound), and reach an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,480 meters). Officials at the Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor to the CIA) recruited German scientists to America to aid the country's postwar efforts, which would also ensure that valuable scientific knowledge would not end up in the hands of the Soviet Union or the divided East and West Germany. [58] "The agency has not discussed publicly the nature of the effort, which remains classified," said agency spokesman Paul Gimigliano. Research Aid: Cryptonyms and Terms in Declassified CIA Files Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Disclosure Acts 1 June 2007 Term Definition A-287 Cryptonym for Josef Stigler. [24], Other related cryptonyms include Project MKNAOMI and Project MKDELTA. These documents, which describe secret writing techniques and are housed at the National Archives, are believed to be the only remaining classified documents from the World War I era. [58] The project studied the effects of psychoactive drugs, particularly LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, cocaine, AMT and DMT on people. [34][35] Some historians assert that one goal of MKUltra and related CIA projects was to create a Manchurian Candidate-style subject. As Aeby later said, "It was there so I shot it.". Flying with Sharks: A Plan for Every Outcome. He commuted from Albany, New York to Montreal every week to work at the Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University, and was paid $69,000 from 1957 to 1964 (US$579,480 in 2021, adjusted for inflation) to carry out MKUltra experiments there, the Montreal experiments. B Black sites (18 P) C Central Intelligence Agency domestic surveillance operations (10 P) E Extraordinary rendition program (2 C, 13 P) M CIA Crime and Narcotics Center[44] researches information on international narcotics trafficking and organized crime for policymakers and the law enforcement community. [47], Documents obtained from the CIA by John D. Marks under Freedom of Information in 1976 showed that, in 1953, the CIA considered purchasing 10 kilograms of LSD, enough for 100 million doses. CORONA also had sister programs: ARGON for mapping imagery and LANYARD, a short-lived program designed for higher-quality imagery. ", "Ken Kesey, Author of 'Cuckoo's Nest,' Who Defined the Psychedelic Era, Dies at 66", "I'm Whitey Bulger. [89] In 1975, Olson's family received a $750,000 settlement from the U.S. government and formal apologies from President Gerald Ford and CIA Director William Colby, though their apologies were limited to informed consent issues concerning Olson's ingestion of LSD. [53] The House is expected to support the 2010 Intelligence Authorization Bill including a provision that would require the President to inform more than 40 members of Congress about covert operations. 13 million CIA records were declassified and posted online a few weeks agothe result of a 2014 lawsuit filed by journalists seeking access to documents of historic value. ", "Operation Paperclip was a secret program of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) largely carried out by Special Agents of Army CIC, in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians, such as Wernher von Braun and his V-2 rocket team, were taken from Germany to America for U.S. government employment, primarily between 1945 and 1959. At the beginning of the 2009 comedy, The Men who Stare at Goats, there is a disclaimer that some of the plot elements are based on real events.It doesn't say which but some new information about a secret CIA program was declassified last year. [49] They also administered LSD to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, and members of the general public to study their reactions. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). Materials and physical methods which will produce amnesia for events preceding and during their use. Throughout its history, the CIA has been the subject of a number of controversies, both at home and abroad. The documents will be available on CIA.gov and in the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. [54] On July 16, 2008, the fiscal 2009 Intelligence Authorization Bill was approved by House majority containing stipulations that 75% of money sought for covert actions would be held until all members of the House Intelligence panel were briefed on sensitive covert actions. These tests showed that mosquitoes could be spread by means of various devices. [1] Chemical Corps personnel participating in the tests were not volunteers and were not informed of the tests. Adverse reactions often occurred, such as an operative who received the drug in his morning coffee, became psychotic and ran across Washington, seeing a monster in every car passing him. Plan", "The CIA's Appalling Human Experiments With Mind Control", "Buying a Piece of Anthropology: Human Ecology and unwitting anthropological research for the CIA", "Senate MKUltra Hearing: Appendix C Documents Referring to Subprojects, (p. 167, in PDF document page numbering)", "Data shows 50s projects: Germ Testing by the CIA", "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate Chapter 4", "Sidney Gottlieb, 80, Dies; Took LSD to C.I.A. [85] On 28 November 2012, the Olson family filed suit against the U.S. federal government for the wrongful death of Frank Olson. [11], Whilst the Obama administration has tried to distance itself from some of the harshest counterterrorism techniques, it has also said that at least some forms of renditions will continue. Evidence indicates that SNOWDEN had access to the classified documents in question; accessed those documents; and, subsequently, provided those documents to media outlets without authorization and in violation of U.S. Italian Prime Minister at the time, the late Giulio Andreotti divulged information about Italy's secret Cold War army (known as Gladio) in 1990, becoming the first leader of a NATO country to publicly acknowledge one of these forces. CORONA: Between the Sun and the Earth [1] Jeffrey T. Richelson of the National Security Archive has been critical of its claims. The project's estimated cost was more than $3 million, which in today's dollars would be more than $26 million. The damage incurred on these survivors was so severe that mind control was thought to be the culprit. RELATED: . Many were former members, and some were former leaders, of the Nazi Party. NPR Fresh Air. Abramtchik, Mikola "When historical information is no longer sensitive, we take seriously our responsibility to share it with the American people.". Before it was called the CIA, it was. [3] E23s malfunctioned during testing and the fleas were released into the aircraft where they bit the pilot, bombardier and an observer. (Keystone/Getty Images) By Will Levith And these clandestine armies weren't just kept secret from the Soviet Union. A material which can be surreptitiously administered by the above routes and which in very small amounts will make it impossible for a person to perform physical activity. During the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, developed a classified plan for keeping Europe "safe" in the event of a Soviet invasion. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the governments ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show. Dr. Wernher von Braun (center) describes the Saturn Launch System to President John F. Kennedy (right, pointing). A June 2006 report from the Council of Europe estimated 100 people had been kidnapped by the CIA on EU territory (with the cooperation of Council of Europe members), and rendered to other countries, often after having transited through secret detention centres ("black sites") used by the CIA, some located in Europe. "[27][28] The reports found that health professionals "Aided cruel and degrading interrogations; Helped devise and implement practices designed to maximize disorientation and anxiety so as to make detainees more malleable for interrogation; and Participated in the application of excruciatingly painful methods of force-feeding of mentally competent detainees carrying out hunger strikes" are not all that surprising. The CIA Agent Quit Because Of The Trump Administration", "National Security Council spokesman quits CIA, writes scathing editorial in Washington Post", "CIA analyst quits after 11 years because of Donald Trump's 'disturbing' behaviour", "Senior CIA analyst resigns because of President Trump's 'disturbing' actions in office", "Un alto esponente della Cia si dimette: "Non posso servire l'amministrazione Trump", "Disgusted By Trump, A CIA Officer Quits. These declassified documents include a system designed to teach people how to focus their . In the 1970s, Congressional investigations and reports also revealed Agency connections with journalists and civic groups. [30], The project attempted to produce a perfect truth drug for interrogating suspected Soviet spies during the Cold War, and to explore other possibilities of mind control. [36] American historian Alfred W. McCoy has claimed that the CIA attempted to focus media attention on these sorts of "ridiculous" programs so that the public would not look at the research's primary goal, which was effective methods of interrogation.

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