Mission Mind Control (1979)

[Music] this is the story of a 30-year search by us intelligence agencies to perfect mind control some of those engaged in that search have agreed to talk about it for the first time one said I think every last one of us felt sorry to attempt this kind of thing we knew we were crossing the line the search would be endless from brothel an agent says we learned a lot about human nature in the bedroom to the mystical rights of a magical mushroom ceremony performed by an Indian Shaman to a Spanish Bullring the bullas had electrodes implanted in the brain and is controlled by a scientist there would be victims just one intelligence agency try to peel this man's mind back to reveal its deepest Secrets I live through it I live through it this man worked on some of these programs he would write of his work it was fun fun fun this is the story of the search for mind control ABC News close close up Mission mind control with ABC News correspondent Paul [Music] altm Mark it's been ages can I bu allow me two Michelob lights Michelob makes a light beer Perfect The Good Taste of Michelob Light don't just compare it to other light beers compare it to your regular beer it's that good you always did go first class your ticket to San Francisco thank you San Francisco you too family Mrs Cooper I need help with all these different dog foods I don't know what kind to feed him Dry soft honey it's not the form it's the formula those are for any dog young old whatever but cycle 2 dog food is especially for dogs ages 1 to S like mine the cycle 2 formula has just what dogs in their active yours need to help stay healthy and happy with cycle I know what to feed him now get cycle 2 in 25 lb bags we are not professing to tell you the complete story of these activities we are professing to tell you the complete story that we know but these records that we've uncovered don't tell the story they tell pieces of it this is a story that has been told in bits and pieces this is an attack attempt to pull most of it together we know we don't have the full story we do however have some striking New Revelations and insights The Story begins here just off the nation's front yard the mall the buildings behind me were the headquarters for the World War II office of strategic Services it was here that the first halting steps toward mind control began the shaper and Moulder of OSS was General Wild Bill Donovan he said of his group's work we may have made mistakes but we were not afraid to try things that were never done before in this anything goes atmosphere Donovan appointed this man Stanley Lovel a Boston industrialist to break new ground in many scientific and Technical Fields Donovan called level his Dr Mori arti after the fish professor in Sherlock Holmes level liked the name and posed for this Saturday evening Post photo he later wrote of his OSS job that it was quote to stimulate the PEC bad boy beneath the surface of every American scientist and to say to him throw all of your normal law-abiding Concepts out of the window here's a chance to raise merry hell it was in this atmosphere that the search for mind control began this bizarre man would be an active participant in that search over the next two decades his name is George White an OSS Captain who had formerly been with the Bureau of Narcotics in his diary seen here publicly for the first time white left a legacy of the darker side of American intelligence work he received his early OSS training at the British run school at oshaa Canada the same school where Ian Fleming the creator of James Bond was trained white referred to the school in his Diaries as the oshaa school of Mayhem and murder Mike Burke former OSS colleague of whites and now president of Madison Square Garden Center very compelling fell uh mysterious fell almost mystical fell he was fascinating because you didn't you know something about him but not all not enough about him to really get a fix on him uh he also knew a great deal about the swifter elements of society the gamier side of life and U and he was very impressive in his technical knowledge of of the underworld so to speak he said one of one of our men gets beat up he says you have to act real fast and teach these guys a lesson Charles Siragusa a former narcotics officer and friend of whites he all come around he says and break your kneecaps and with that one guy laughed and George would always had a little little Billy with him and this one guy sort a sned George White turned around and wied him across the neck with it then he picked up a pool steak and start beating everybody up he made his point and he made his point George White was not a man of understatement or subtleties his boss at OSS Stanley level referred to him as deadly and dedicated in this note from White's Diaries it says call level regarding TD TD was a rather transparent cover for truth drug George White worked with the truth drug committee here at St Elizabeth's Hospital in the nation's capital they experimented with mesculin scapel and marijuana on Unwin victims the committee soon learned there was no easy Panacea no truth drug at this stage but white and later colleagues would not stop trying the goal remained the same as this 1952 CIA memo says the aim is controlling an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against such fundamental laws of nature as self-preservation but it was a discovery here in b Switzerland at Sando Laboratories by Dr Albert Hoffman that led the intelligence agencies of America to believe that they had found the Panacea the discovery was lysergic acid dialami LSD the film that you see is considered by many experts to be the closest illustration of the effects of a hallucinogenic it was one of the first times that anybody had run into a powerful drug that was different than anything else that they knew anything about John Ginger recently retired Chief psychologist for the CIA this is the first time gettinger has been interviewed publicly you could disable a whole city by putting a very small amount in a water supply after all of these years of us those of us who involved in looking for this secret drug uh this was the only thing that began to look for the first time like it might be something like that cia's interest in LSD was intense the worry was that the Russians would get hold of it were the Soviets into LSD I going to have to say I'm sure they were but if you ask me to prove it I I've never seen any direct proof of it but at one point in intelligence information received from Switzerland said that s's Laboratories was about to put 100 million doses of LSD on the open market and it caused enough concern within the agency that the United States was prepared to buy the entire Supply however a slight mistake had been made the mistake is made public for the first time I just found out on a new CIA document that there were no such um large quantities of LSD on the market John Marks has filed numerous Freedom of Information suits against the CIA and has unearth much new material he is the author of the search for the mansurian candidate a history of intelligence agency work with mind control he is a consultant for this report what happened is that there was a military attache in Switzerland an American officer who got milligrams and kilograms mixed up in other words he made a mistake of thinking one 1000th of a gram was the same as 1,000 G which is a mistake of a million times so when the CIA got the intelligence that there were 100 million doses on the market in fact there were hundred doses The Man Who Would oversee the cia's research into drugs and most of the agency's behavior programs is this man Dr Sydney gutle a chemist Dr gutle declined ABC News request for an interview in their NeverEnding search for the miral weapons CIA operative searched here in the remote Mountain areas of southern Mexico for what up to then had been considered a myth magic mushrooms they used this man a part-time chemist for the CIA to dup this man a vice president of a bank and an amateur myologist or mushroom expert to try to get to the magic mushrooms and turn them into a drug but it would be the amateur R Gordon wson and his colleagues who would win the race and develop the drug siloc cyon from the magic mushrooms we went into the maitech area far from the highways remote from Mexico City there we found that rotten Bas as it's called baso covered with mushrooms these mushrooms I didn't know didn't never had never seen they were the sacred mushrooms wson would also discover and record the ancient mystical rights of the mushrooms from a local Shaman or magical Priestess Maria Sabina and we we're seeing incredible sights they would go slowly or they would go fast as I ordained all your senses are rendered acute we say that you see Visions you see hallucinations but that doesn't begin to tell the story The hallucinations are only part of it you hear sounds you smell things the the the night was thrilling word of wasson's Discovery reached the CIA quickly Dr James Moore a University of Delaware chemist secretly served the CIA preparing deadly chemicals on short notice Moore was instructed to get close to wson and accompany him on another trip to Mexico to get the magic mushrooms internal documents show the CIA felt a drug derived from the mushrooms could remain an agency secret what in the world were they looking for with the magic mushrooms I think the best answer to that is is that they were looking for fundamental information on compounds that were would be capable of causing changes in in Behavior changes in mental attitude did you ever consider what would have happened if any of these substances were given to say unwitting people oh I don't remember having considered that specifically I what if you I I trust perhaps you've thought about it uh well I haven't worried about it uh I you what your question again what would I have thought had I known that the any of these substances were would have been given to unwitting persons uh you mean a a hostile agent in of another government I think that was probably one of the things they had in testing and out on an American citizen I I guess I must seem very very coldblooded about this but I don't recall ever having been very much preoccupied with that with that issue but many drugs were tested in this way a decision was made at the highest levels of the CIA to do testing on unwitting Americans as one CIA document says such testing would be operationally realistic a former CIA official who worked on these programs describes for the first time how the decision was made he did not wish to be filmed or recorded thus his remarks are read by someone else I think every last one of us felt sorry to attempt this kind of thing we knew we were crossing a line every decent kid knows he shouldn't steal but he does it sometimes we knew damn well we didn't want anyone else to know what we were doing the decision was made to do testing on unwitting victims it was decided they should be on the fringes of society because they were most vulnerable it was the borderline underworld prostitutes drug addicts and other small timers who would be powerless to seek any kind of Revenge in case they found out and as their predecessors had a decade earlier the CIA turned to George White for help white was now a high ranking narcotics official and by this time the stories about George White were legendary so the way this says you may help you m and George M was busy talking with me paid no attention to the waiter so the waiter tapped him on his shoulders say may help you uh mure George might turned around whipped his gun out and stuck it in the guy's face like this in this crowded restaurant George White did not mind bending the law and he knew the street well he was the ideal choice for what the CIA had in mind we were ivy league white middle class we were naive totally naive about this and he felt pretty expert he knew the [ __ ] The Pimps the people who brought in the drugs white set up so-call safe houses for the in New York here in Greenwich Village and later in San Francisco in this hotel and in an apartment a top Telegraph Hill with a commanding view of San Francisco Bay while the existence of these safe houses was disclosed last year details of what took place within them has not been told a former CIA official who worked in the safe houses reveals that they were used not only for drug testing but to study sexual behavior and and how it could be used to manipulate people we did quite a study of prostitutes and their behavior how do you take a woman who is willing to use her body to get money out of a guy to get him to talk about things which are much more important like State [Music] secrets we learned a lot about human nature in the bedroom we started to pick up knowledge that could be used in operations there would be victims in all of this but as the agency knew they couldn't fight back some entries from George White's Diaries Clarice gets Horrors Janet Sky High as one agency memo says we have no answer to the moral question the safe houses were not the only testing grounds millions of dollars would be spent on LSD research at universities throughout the country and word would begin to spread on campus about this so-called mindblowing drug and suddenly there was the counterculture of the 60s I give the CIA a total credit for sponsoring and initiating the entire Consciousness movement counterculture events of the 1960s Dr Timothy lirry the 1960s Johnny apple seed of LSD the CIA funded and supported and uh encouraged hundreds of young psychiatrist to experiment with this drug The Fallout from that was that the young psychologists began taking it themselves discovering that it wasn't elligence enhancing Consciousness raising experience I know that some of the studies in which the CIA had uh supported used as subjects people who later became strong prizers of LSD so in know in that sense yes I think it did sustain the uh the uh perpetuation of the of the use of the drug and it's rather ironic isn't it the counter case that I would make in relationship to this is to remember that the people who were doing the research were people who would be doing the research regardless of who uh uh was the sponsor I don't I don't think anybody working in that time in the remotest ever thought that it would blow up into the kind of thing that it did history will judge the role of the CIA and other intell Ence agencies in unwittingly contributing to the counterculture of the 60s through their intense interest in LSD and other hallucinogenics but for the moment at least the argument can be made that the CIA helped usher in the age of Aquarius ABC News closeup will continue in a moment being careful about my body doesn't just mean major things like regular breast exams I'm even careful about pain relievers plain aspirin 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1953 was slipped LSD unknowingly at a meeting with CIA officials shortly after that olssen went into severe depression he ended his life at this New York hotel by diving through a shaded closed window in his 10th floor room Frank Olsen was the first known fatality in the CIA LSD program Olsen left behind a widow Alice and three children but it would be years before they learned the real story of his death shortly after his suicide Alice Olen was visited by Dr Sydney gutle the man who had administered the drug and by Robert Lashbrook his Deputy who was the last person with Frank Olsen the night of his death it was probably to check me out and see uh whether I was handling myself and handling the situation whether I was hysterical and I'm sure they left the house feeling ever so much better because I had been uh gracious and hospitable to them so that I must have played right into their hand and made them feel fine 23 years later did you how did you feel about that meeting my anger was unbelievable at how I had been duped for this length of time and the anguish which was unnecessary anyone who knew dur during all of those years never told Alice olssen the real story of her husband's death she would discover it by accident more than two decades later in essence it was a 22-year Long coverup Lyman Kirkpatrick was Inspector General of the CIA at the time of Frank Olsen's death but had not the Olsen case occurred within the secret confines of the CIA would not this case have been a prosecutable case perhaps I would think definitely PR executable and certainly from the point of view of the of Mr Olsen why it should probably have been actionable Frank Olsen suicide slowed down the cia's testing of LSD and Other Drugs but only momentarily the CIA was not the only government agency interested in the possibilities LSD and Other Drugs presented for mind control the Army chemical Corps first started working with the CIA and then branched off on its own it too tested drugs on Unwin victims and a death would result the case of this man Harold blauer a tennis pro seen here with his daughter Elizabeth is well known in 1953 blower was a private patient at the New York State psychiatric Institute he was given five injections of a mesculin derivative that was being tested secretly for the Army chemical Corps with the fifth injection Harold blow died as with the Olsen case a 22-year cover up followed until finally the Army admitted the real details of blau's death since the initial news stories of Harold blau's death close to 5,000 documents previously classified have been released by the Army and obtained by ABC news they provide valuable insight into Army activities at the time of blau's death and where the Army went from there with their own drug testing program from a previously classified deposition of Dr James catel who had administered the masculine derivative on the purpose of the drug testing to produce symptoms similar to those that you see in schizophrenia on how much the patient knew about all this we didn't delineate all the possibilities of what might happen because then you contaminate your experiment catel then relates that he never even knew what drug he had given Harold Blau because of the secrecy of the army experiments we didn't know whether it was dog piss this was secret this was a secret we weren't in on it we asked blau's daughter Elizabeth for her reaction what how can anybody react to that I mean that is so far from from what you'd expect from a human being never mind a doctor never mind a professional specialist who's supposed to care about people's minds it's it's unbelievable a suit filed by Elizabeth Barrett against the Army chemical Corps is now pending in federal court other Army experiments continued on metal patients around the country work done at the Tain Medical Center in New Orleans involves several drugs hallucinogenics and electrodes implanted in the brain the chief researcher was Dr Russell Monroe now head of the Psychiatry department at the University of Maryland these are various progress reports written by Dr Monroe and recently obtained by ABC news from one of the progress reports a report of a woman who had electrodes implanted in the brain and was then given LSD and Other Drugs she became agitated cried lapsed into a trans-like [Applause] state felt as if she were about to have a convulsion experienced waves of Darkness and Light had bizarre sensation in her neck and legs said somebody was trying to manipulate her body at this point Dr Monroe wrote that the woman was obviously having paranoid ideas as a as a lay person uh perhaps you can enlighten me what therapeutic effect would the type of experiment that I just described have on a patient well the therapeutic effect would be indirect was this patient aware that she was being given LSD yes I mean they they uh were told that they would be given some medication uh and they specifically LSD uh well we told them uh I don't think that they would have even known what LSD was then at the time they were told that they were going to give they would be given some medications which might make them feel worse Dr man what what do you think the Army chemical Corps was looking for in all of this testing they were looking for an incapacitating agent uh an agent that would not harm the person permanently but would incapacitate them temporarily that seemed like a a humanistic way to to wage a war if war is necessary when James thornwell was given LSD by Army intelligence in 1961 this time it was no experiment this time time the express purpose was to peel back thornwell brain to Bear any secret within it this time the Army had gone operational thornwell as reported on ABC last January was an Army private stationed in oron France classified documents were missing from his unit thornwell became a suspect his 2 and a half month interrogation included administration of sodium penthol hypnosis isolation and deprivation of sleep Army documents obtained by ABC News refer to this interrogation as conventional despite this severe questioning Army intelligence was getting nowhere with thornwell and it was decided to slip him LSD for 16 years thornwell never knew what had hit him tell me about the asset I'd rather not it's a bad trip it's a bad trip that was a bad trip the pain was so excruciating felt like somebody was sticking me with a million pins you know just everywhere oh it just you want to start for me oh I walked around oh I can talk I live through it I live through it I live through it no charges were ever brought by the Army against thornwell he was discharged for psychological disorders but an army psychiatric evaluation of thornwell obtained by ABC News one which was done prior to thornwell having been given LSD says of him fairly cooperative oriented alert and gave no evidence of psychosis or depression from the Army's point of view this type of LSD interrogation was a success other documents refer to the exploitability of interrogation subjects cracking them keeping them off balance mentally in providing an economical speedy and productive Aid to interrogation from James thornwell point of you it was no success thornwell still has serious problems he's run through two marriages he maintains he can't hold a job can't concentrate has nightmares and feels socially and emotionally isolated last fall thornwell filed suit against the government in federal court in a moment we will examine the closest experimentation to brainwashing that we have uncovered oh for crying out loud something wrong will you pick up a paper these days you learn life isn't as simple as it used to be and neither's food is that why you eat grape nut cereal yep you couldn't ask for a simpler cereal wheat and barley vitamins added no preservatives sure looks simple has got a natural nutty taste what's good for breakfast guys how about something nice and simple grape nuts the simple cereal 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he must put on a thousand hours of concerts for Charities and we'll be talking with a local teenager who won a gold medal at the PanAm games join us at 11: [Music] for for the sun nothing else tastes or feels quite like Mountain Dew or goes down as smooth like a soft breeze on a lazy afternoon [Music] by far the most chilling experiments we have uncovered took place at this Gothic estate called Ravens Craig halfway up Mount Royal in Montreal it houses the Allen Memorial Institute of Psychiatry of McGill University it was here that the CIA funded a series of experiments severe experiments the work was done by the institute's then director Dr Yuan Cameron it is the closest experimentation to brainwashing yet disclosed his work unprecedented in Psychiatry consisted of three areas which he called Sleep Therapy psychic driving and the ultimate dep patterning Dr Maurice donier current head of the Allen Memorial Institute in his psychic driving so-called uh type of of therapy he would give the patient intensive uh electric treatment in order to make the patient uh Grace deeply uh become forgetful and then he would attempt to implant new ideas uh in the mind of the patient now to a Layman it would appear that Dr Cameron was trying to take the slate and wipe it clean the Slate being the mind in other words brainwashing exactly that's a very good comparison brainwashing yes Val or of Winnipeg Canada the wife of a member of the Canadian Parliament was a patient of Dr Cameron's she entered the Allen Memorial Institute because of severe depression she describes for the first time publicly the LSD therapy and psychic driving treatment that she was given by Dr Cameron and then the drug began to take hold very rapidly because it was an IV injection and um things became very furry and uh very frightening and uh had a lot of Sensations that it's very difficult to recall nobody explained it to me nobody ever asked me if I was willing to do it or anything he had this feeling that he would be able to get through the resistance of illness and and and to reach uh deep changes very quickly did he I don't think that when you look at that in retrospect the hopes that he had had been has have been in any way fulfilled but Cameron would plunge on the next step was what he called psychic driving this involved almost endless tape recorded messages and more drugs for the patient Cameron wrote that this was the way to make Direct Control changes in personality I thought this was the coldest in most impersonal treatment that anybody could give to anybody in the world and I became more and more despondent and more and more angry I just became so despondent that I thought I can't I can't live like this any longer and I thought I will just go out and throw myself underneath the cars on McGregor I stood on the curb of that street and I stood there and I thought Okay Go Okay go and and then I thought what if you're not killed what if you're just maimed what if you don't die and you live and you can't even talk anymore and I couldn't do it the most severe technique Cameron used was de patterning he described it as breaking up the existing patterns of behavior by means of intensive electroshock therapy with prolonged periods of sleep he carried out these experiments in something he called the Sleep rooms people in there were like babies they cried and they were very disoriented and we were very afraid of the Sleep room we used to walk very carefully against the side of the quter that was opposite the Sleep room with our backs to the wall when we'd go by Cameron used this combined sleep electroshock treatment on patients as long as 30 days one patient he kept asleep for 65 days Cameron retired and his successor Dr Robert clayhorn ordered a follow-up study on the patients treated with Cameron's de patterning method it showed that it was no more beneficial in its result than the use of more conservative methods but the follow-up study showed that 60% of those who had been de patterned still had amnesia for periods of anywhere from 6 months to 10 years that's quite a memory loss isn't it that is a memory loss indeed it is it's more I think more than desirable in retrospect does Dr Dr Cameron's experimentation and his treatment appear harsh uh I would say yes I mean this forceful type of approach that I was describing to you uh is definitely it can be said that it's harsh I wouldn't call it harsh I would say it was harder on the staff that was on the patients because these people had to be fed and they had to be cared for and they had to be uh given sufficient fluid and food and toileted and so on and so forth it was a a very difficult uh uh thing for uh the staff to u to uh to follow these patients properly and see that they they did well well I'm glad he was concerned for the staff but damn it all I I wouldn't I I I could have maybe had a different kind of life and that makes me angry and sad and I don't know what how to explain how I feel really I just I just how did you feel when you learned that Dr Cameron's experimentation was financed by the CIA well I thought oh I can't even use the word that I thought because I thought that bastard and he was too smart to he knew he knew who he was working for and um excuse me but um I just you know I just can't sometimes I can't believe it and yet I know it's true if you had the opportunity to say something to the people at the Central Intelligence Agency who financed the study what would you say I I realize the CIA is a very important organization and they have a very important job to do but God it surely doesn't have to be done on people who are totally incapable of knowing what's happening or having any defense against it and I I I can't imagine the mentality of people who would do this I just can't as for Dr Cameron he died in 1966 while mountain climbing a colleague wrote of Cameron for him the ends justifi the means and when one is dealing with a waste of human potential it is easy to adopt The Stance Dr Cameron seemed ideally suited for what the CIA had in mind America is adapting to the shape of things to come Triumph TR7 with 5-speed transmission or optional automatic wide steel belted radials front disc brakes frontend spoiler rack and pinion steering Triumph TR7 no other sports car looks like it no other sports car drives like it Triumph TR7 the shape hey don't worry they just got lucky I'm sorry I let us down forget it we'll beat him next week no I really let us down come on how about a m AO blade huh Michelob makes a light beer sure the Good Taste of Michelob Light don't just compare it to other light beers compare it to your regular beer it's that good the smic of light is great hey you know what our real problem was today yeah you were terrible runs family the many roles I play call for many hair starts so I use hot curlers blow dryers things that can be brutal to hair I switched from one conditioner to another looking for help then came Alberto V5 hot 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took place on the that would spark intense interest in intelligence circles about brainwashing the CIA secretly commissioned a study of communist brainwashing Methods at the Cornell University Medical Center communist brain leader of that study was Dr Lawrence HL he explains first the Russian method of controlling and breaking a person absolutely isolated from everyone else with one man whose job it is to get you to write the extent to which you are a criminal in this setting you can get people to do most anything do you see because you don't have to lay a hand on them and by the time you get through and you go up before the judge the fellow says were you a spy he says yes I was a spy the the the Chinese never really had this kind of a state police system they would get him in and all this fell does is ask you write rewrite rewrite and talk to him about your whole life graduated from Pilot training in 1949 while the purpose of the study was to find out about communist brainwashing techniques CIA documents show that the agency was interested in developing mind control methods of its own to precondition and control Chinese living in this country to be sent back to their Homeland as CIA agents what do you think they were looking for well I think they no they weren't looking for they weren't looking for agents or anything like that yet the agency's perception of the work you were doing in CIA documents uh we have examined it says that the the project that was being done here uh they intended to use everything learned about the new agents to induce them to quote to perform acts of a complex purposeful nature yeah but that was the effects of which may be out of keeping with the individual's previous thing was never those people were not uh that that was when they first came here the first people they sent up to see us do you see were uh were operational type people from the CIA with some rather rather wild ideas okay this is their perception of it if if I could it wasn't their perception of it either no it wasn't dangerous to his being contrary to any previous consciously expressed intentions and interests contrary to the good of the individual and subversive to the goals for which he isly understand all this talk but the situation wise you see those things were never done because of wise people on both sides we not able to do this nor interested in it they were though uh some of the lowlevel people were but the high level people were not tell you the truth the but documents clearly show that the CIA was attempting to develop agents over whom they had as much control as possible agents who would perform tasks contrary to their own good normally conditioned American who's been trained to kill and then to have no memory of having killed his brain is not only been washed as they say it has been dry cleaned is a mansurian candidate controlled by others to do things against his will possible it was a remarkable film because as far as I'm concerned it made something totally impossible seem absolutely credible I would say the answer is yes but there are many qualifications to that Dr Milton Klein a psychologist a clinical and experimental hypnotist and unpaid consultant to the CIA the qualifications would be the subject selected to produce the kind of behavior that you wish the amount of time the procedures that are utilized and the motivations of the people who are designing executing and administering the procedure procedures you're asking whether an individual can be under hypnosis influenced coerced persuaded shaped to perform an antisocial act or a destructive act or an act of violence my answer would be yes Captain Marco will you be good enough to lend Raymond your pistol please yes ma'am thanks B sure okay shoot Bobby Raymond through the forehead yes ma'am how valuable a tool can hypnosis be in the intelligence field none whatsoever it has absolutely no use because nobody's ever been able to do that that I know of do it in an operationally feasable way I'm not in any way saying that hypnosis uh doesn't place I'm not saying there's nothing to it I would say that most government agencies concerned with intelligence operations have been looking to hypnosis as a tool for a variety of purposes one of which is to carry out and to execute certain intelligence operations on a basis where they would not have to rely completely on some of their own emotional reactions actually there tail murder it could if you consider that an act of killing someone under a circumstances of war is murder I think one has to Define uh what that means under circumstances of Peace under circumstances of Peace it would be murder another former CIA agent says that Fidel Castro at one time was considered as a possible Target for a Manan candidate Castro was naturally our discussion Point could you get somebody Gung ho enough that they would go in and get him but if you have 100% control of a guy you have 100% dependency if something happens and you haven't programmed it in you've got a problem so in the end it was decided that a Manchurian Candidate was not feasible but the search for mind control continued but could the mind be controlled perhaps not but is human behavior predictable in this area the CIA did make a significant breakthrough a personality assessment system designed by the agency's chief psychologist John Ginger it comes close to being able to predict how humans will behave it's really a descriptive system an attempt to try to describe personality in a relatively systematic way so that hopefully you can get some kind of an idea to predict what the behavior between different kinds of individuals getting her system had many uses in intelligence work one was to draw personality portraits of world leaders using Ginger system the agency concluded the Sha of Iran is a brilliant but dangerous megalomaniac whose basic problems resulted from an overbearing father and there were other applications your assessment staff played a key role in helping other governments pick their police intelligence agencies including we've learned the Korean CIA Uruguayan National Police can you tell us about this no author John Marx the former number two CI man in Uruguay told me how in 1966 John Ginger and an assistant traveled down to Uruguay and gave the tests in order to select U members of the Uruguayan intelligence service a psychologist who used to work for the CIA told me in 1961 he personally traveled to South Korea as part of an American CIA effort to set up the Korean CIA and to give the the personality test to candidates for the Korean CIA to choose the best man for their secret police but one of the basic functions of getting your system was finding the vulnerabilities of an agent a double agent or a potential agent in its applicability to intelligence work isn't the Pas system looking for person's soft spot well of course the answer to that is yes but I I I hasten to say soft spot this is what I consider a negative word of the hundreds of Behavioral projects undertaken by the CIA gingers appears to have been one of the more successful and more conventional other experiments were not as conventional neurophysicist Dr Jose Delgado was financed by the Office of Naval Research in this experiment the bull is sedated electrod are implanted in its brain Delgado transmits an electronic impulse to the center of the Bull's brain Delgado has remote control of the animal recently released CIA documents refer to the feasibility of remote control of animals and that special investigations will be conducted toward the application of selected elements of these techniques to man other areas were examined through the 60s and' 70s brain surgery psycho surgery creation of Amnesia parasyn present CIA officials have indicated this kind of work ended in 1963 truth and what of those who took part in these programs thank you sir in 1977 the Senate subcommittee heard testimony from many of them but the testimony was not that revealing according to one of them they agreed amongst themselves to keep the inquiry within bounds that would satisfy the committee former narcotics officer Charles Siragusa says that he was asked to limit his testimony by the man he reported to at the CIA he wanted me not to say anything to purer yourself that's right well either that I'd have to Pure myself I take the Fifth Amendment and I'm not about to take the Fifth Amendment for anybody okay former CIA chemist Robert Lashbrook test ified he had no firsthand knowledge of the agency runs safe houses when in fact he supervised one of them and according to George White's Diaries was at a safe house when white conducted what he called an LSD surprise experiment Dr Sydney gutle whom we recently filmed near his California home oversaw many of the CIA behavioral programs he retired in 1973 and destroyed the records of this work in sort of a valedictory letter Dr gutle wrote that he and his colleagues had been able to maintain contact with the Leading Edge of developments in the field of biological and chemical control of human behavior Dr gutle also testified before the Senate subcommittee but from an anti- room where he could not be filmed because of what his lawyer termed health and cardiac problems Dr gutle declined ABC News request for an interview and what of George White the man who helped the agency in so many of its programs he would retire here to Stinson Beach California and shortly before his death he wrote to his boss at the CIA Dr Sydney gutle and summed up his career by saying it was fun fun fun where else could a red-blooded American Boy lie kill and cheat steal deceive rape and pillage with a sanction and blessing of the all highest has mind control been achieved from all of the available evidence it appears doubtful the human will has prevailed up to this point but as we have seen work is continuing in this field work that we still don't know very much about how deeply are the 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Length: 59min 41sec (3581 seconds)

Published: Wed May 30 2012