DISTURBING details of secret mind-control experiments carried out by the CIA have been revealed in newly released documents - that officials have been trying to hide for decades.
The new documents, released under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal how the CIA experimented on both humans and animals using drugs, hypnosis and electronic devices as part of the top secret - and illegal - mind control project MKUltra.
Shockingly the swathes of information still missing or redacted in the records could mean the CIA is STILL carrying out the experiments to this day, according to experts.
One document details how the CIA planned to drug “criminals awaiting trial held in a prison hospital ward” in a bid to develop “improved techniques in drug interrogation”.
Another document details the CIA’s interest in developing ways to cause amnesia in humans using experiments “no matter how weird, inconclusive or unusual”.
It goes on to detail how they were looking to find ways of developing hypnotic speaking techniques which would control the minds of “large audiences” and “heighten group susceptibility”.
Experiments which were “too dangerous, too shocking, too unusual for routine testing would be of interest to us,” the memo from 1956 reads.
I'm alwas surprised when people say they trust the CIA or defend it. The CIA has always been about putting one over on the American citizen. They wanted to trick us, at best, they wanted to control us, at worst.
People have been laced with LSD and other drugs and killed -- and I'm thinking of the CIA's own Frank Olson, for example:
Frank Rudolph Olson (July 17, 1910 – November 28, 1953) was an American bacteriologist, biological warfare scientist, and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who worked at Camp Detrick (now Fort Detrick) in Maryland. At a meeting in rural Maryland, he was covertly dosed with LSD by his CIA supervisor and, nine days later, plunged to his death from the window of a 13th-story New York City hotel room. The U.S. government first described his death as a suicide, and then as misadventure, while others allege murder.[1]The Rockefeller Commission report on the CIA in 1975 acknowledged their having conducted drug studies.
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1975[edit]
Although Olson's family told friends that Olson had suffered "a fatal nervous breakdown" which resulted in the fall,[4] the family had no knowledge of the specific details surrounding the tragedy until the Rockefeller Commission uncovered some of the CIA's MKULTRA activities in 1975. That year, the government admitted that Olson had been dosed with LSD, without his knowledge, nine days before his death. After the family announced they planned to sue the Agency over Olson's "wrongful death," the government offered them an out-of-court settlement of $1,250,000, later reduced to $750,000, which they accepted.[9] The family received apologies from President Gerald Ford and then-CIA director William Colby.[10]
1994–1996[edit]
In 1994, Eric Olson had his father's body exhumed to be buried with his mother. The family decided to have a second autopsy performed. The 1953 medical report done immediately after Dr. Olson's death indicated that there were cuts and abrasions on the body.[11] Theories sparked about Olson having been assassinated by the CIA. When the second autopsy was performed by James Starrs, Professor of Law and Forensic Science at the George Washington University National Law Center, his team searched the body for any cuts and abrasions and found none. Starrs found a large hematoma on the left side of Olson's head and a large injury on his chest. Most of the team concluded that the blunt-force trauma to the head and the injury to the chest had not occurred during the fall, but most likely in the room before the fall (one team member dissented[4]). Starrs called the evidence "rankly and starkly suggestive of homicide."[10]
In 1996, Eric approached the U.S. District Attorney in Manhattan, Robert Morgenthau, to see if his office would open a new investigation. Stephen Saracco and Daniel Bibb of the office's "cold case" unit collected preliminary information, including a deposition of Lashbrook, but concluded that there was no compelling case to send to a grand jury.[4] In 2001, Canadian historian and former politician Michael Ignatieff wrote an account of Eric's decades-long campaign to clear his father's name for The New York Times Magazine.[12][13][14][15]
Eric Olson said the forensic evidence of death is suggestive of a method used by the CIA found in the first manual of assassination that says "The most efficient accident, in simple assassination, is a fall of 75 feet or more onto a hard surface."[16]
2012–2013[edit]
On November 28, 2012, sons Eric and Nils Olson filed suit in the US District Court in Washington, D.C.,[17] seeking unspecified compensatory damages as well as access to documents related to their father's death and other matters that they claimed the CIA had withheld from them.[18][19] The case was dismissed in July 2013, due in part to the 1976 settlement between the family and government.[20] In the decision dismissing the suit, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote, "While the court must limit its analysis to the four corners of the complaint, the skeptical reader may wish to know that the public record supports many of the allegations [in the family's suit], farfetched as they may sound."[21]
2017-2018[edit]
Netflix released a documentary miniseries, entitled Wormwood (2017), based on the mystery of Olson's death; it was directed by Errol Morris.[22] In the miniseries, journalist Seymour Hersh says the government had a security process to identify and execute domestic dissidents (perceived to pose a risk). He said that Frank Olson was a victim of this and an ongoing cover-up after his death. If this is correct, then the U.S. government in this case considered an accidental death as a result of illegal human experimentation to be an appropriate, effective, and less-damning cover story than the truth. However, Hersh explained that he cannot elaborate or publish on the facts because it would compromise his source.[16]
This should have resulted in the CIA being shut down. Instead, they continue to break the law.
"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
Friday, December 7, 2018.
Let's start with a bad singer (and a worse actress), Reba.
Let's start with a bad singer (and a worse actress), Reba.
Reba McEntire sings "The Lord's Prayer" at a funeral service honoring former Pres. George H.W. Bush. abcn.ws/2RCHe1m #Remembering41
1. She's honoring using brutal racism aka Willie Horton hysteria ads to win the 88 election
2. She's honoring giving the butchers of Tiananmen a free pass to slaughter their own young people. Then sell out the entire US working class to them so we could all buy cheap stuff at Walmart.
3. She's honoring orders to shoot an Iranian civilian airliner out of the sky killing.over 200 innocent people including dozens of children. The refusing to apologise under any circumstances.
4. She's honoring orders to invade Panama killing over 20,000 civilians by the US military in order to capture a foreign head of state, abduct him and incarcerate him in a US prison.
5. She's honoring straight up lying to Congress by Nayira in order to make a pathetic excuse to invade Iraq, killing tens of thousands of civilians, dropping 10,000 year half life uranium across the country causing death & birth defects for thousands more years.
6. She's honoring using the grotesque psychotic attack on Iraq as an openly declared method to "kill the Vietnam Syndrome"...syndrome meaning disease... thereby dehumanizing 1970s successful US anti war protesters. All in service to unaccountable military violence & terror.
He and his son are responsible for so much. In Iraq? Deaths, creating orphans and widows, birth defects.
So many are so quick to ignore that.
George W. Bush has about two or three more times to hand Michelle Obama a piece of candy before y’all completely forget about the Iraq invasion and the 2008 financial crisis altogether.
Exactly.
Here's another cute Bush moment. In the Iraq war, the US military used depleted uranium rounds meant for armor over civilian areas giving rise to a host of birth defects and deformities. THIS CANDY STORY IS GOOD TOO THO!
When you praise George H. W. Bush for his service, remember the took the US into Iraq, destroyed its infrastructure, killed 100s thousands civilians w/sanctions, used chemical weapons leading to widespread birth defects & Gulf War Syndrome among US veterans, & sowed seeds of ISIS
We've frequently covered the use of Depleted Uranium in Iraq under Bully Boy Bush. Let's note this from Barbara Koepel (WASHINGTON SPECTATOR) about Poppy Bush:
The weapons were first used in
1991 during Desert Storm, when the U.S. military fired guided bombs and
missiles containing depleted uranium (DU), a waste product from nuclear
reactors. The Department of Defense (DOD) particularly prized them
because, with dramatic density, speed, and heat, they blasted through
tanks and bunkers.
Within one or two years,
grotesque birth defects spiraled—such as babies with two heads. Or
missing eyes, hands, and legs. Or stomachs and brains inside out.
Keith Baverstock, who headed the
radiological section of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Center of
Environment and Health in the 1990s, explained why: When uranium weapons
explode, their massive blasts produce gray or black clouds of uranium
oxide dust particles. These float for miles, people breathe them, and
the dust lodges in their lungs. From there, they seep into the lymph
system and blood, flow throughout the body, and bind to the genes and
chromosomes, causing them to mutate. First, they trigger birth defects.
Within five or more years, cancer. Organs, often the kidneys, fail.
At one Basra hospital, leukemia
cases in children up to age 14 doubled from 1992 to 1999, says Amy
Hagopian, a University of Washington School of Public Health professor.
Birth defects also surged, from 37 in 1990 to 254 in 2001, according to a
2005 article in Environmental Health.
Leukemia—cancer of the
blood—develops quickly. Chris Busby, a British chemical physicist,
explains: “Blood cells are the most easily damaged by radiation and
duplicate rapidly. We’ve known this since Hiroshima.”
Dai Williams, an independent weapons researcher in Britain, says the dust emits alpha radiation—20 times more damaging than the gamma radiation
from nuclear weapons. The military insists the dust is harmless because
it can’t penetrate the skin. They ignore that it can be inhaled.
Father and son ensured that birth defects and they both should have been held accountable. Poppy Bush is dead so we can consider that both a win and a blessing. But Bully Boy Bush is alive and he should be held accountable. He paints cute pictures! Michelle Obama loves him! He paints hollow bulls**t that will never pass for art and Michelle Obama was greedy and corrupt long before she became First Lady so find a better testimonial for him.
While I'm grateful that one less War Criminal walks the earth, that gratitude does not -- and should not -- translate into silence. Lie after lie has been broadcast non-stop for six or so days now to sell the notion that Poppy Bush was some kind of wonderful.
Bruce A. Dixon (BLACK AGENDA REPORT) points out:
George HW Bush was a one term president who committed committed the usual quota of domestic and foreign atrocities. He put the bloodthirsty Dick Cheney, who’d been Gerald Ford’s chief of staff in charge at the Pentagon, and named Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. He invaded Panama, where US forces commanded by Colin Powell obliterated an entire black neighborhood killing tens of thousands of civilians to prevent inconvenient protests against the occupation. Jimmy Carter had negotiated US bases in Saudi Arabia, and Bush filled them with hundreds of thousands of troops, artillery, armor and aircraft for a planned invasion of Iraq.
Millions of Iraqis have died since the Bush invasion, millions more have become refugees. Hardly a week has passed from then till now the the US hasn’t bombed some place in that unhappy country. One of Bush’s last acts as a lame duck president in December 1992 was to land a contingent of US Marines in Somalia to keep that country from forming a unified government that might not be to Uncle Sam’s liking. A quarter century later US forces are still in Somalia, backing this or that warlord faction, or the Somali central government whose reach most days doesn’t extend past the capital’s suburbs, sometimes with Rwandan or Ugandan proxies, sometimes with US paid mercenaries, complimented with US special ops forces and drones.
On NPR's MORNING EDITION today, Rachel Martin speaks with Feisal Istrabadi and it may be the closest to honesty that the corporate media has offered.
Imagine that, outside the KRG, there's no real love for Poppy Bush. Maybe next time the US media wants to do one of their 'the world mourns' b.s. stunts, they speak to some of the people in the world.
On the KRG, HURRIYET reports, "Authorities in Iraq's Kurdish-controlled region have dismissed dozens of police officers alleged involvement in human trafficking, local media reported on Dec. 6." One hundred is the number being reported, one hundred police officers fired for human trafficking.
KRG to establish committee to follow up on police involvement in #HumanTrafficking of Syrian Arabs to Turkey
#TwitterKurds
KRG dismisses 100 police officers over alleged human trafficking in Soran #iraq #corruption #crime hozint.com/?utm_source=tw…
A year ago this month, Iraq's then-prime minister Hayder al-Abadi announced that ISIS was defeated and vanquished. No. See yesterday's snapshot. Today, the Norwegian Refugee Council notes:
More than 1.8
million Iraqis are today still displaced across the country. A
staggering 8 million require some form of humanitarian aid. Thousands of
children born under IS rule are still unrecognized by the state. In the
last three months a third of the displaced people who returned home
from just one camp in Anbar were rejected by their local communities and
had to relocate again elsewhere.
“If this is what ‘victory’ looks like, then there is little to celebrate for millions of Iraqis still haunted by the crimes of the IS and the long war to eliminate it. They have largely been forgotten by their own government and the international community,” said Norwegian Refugee Council Secretary General Jan Egeland. “We work with thousands of ordinary Iraqi women, children and men for whom untold suffering continues, and yet the world seems to act as if Iraq is back to normal. In reality, besides the abject poverty the displaced are living in, thousands face collective punishment for having been at the wrong place at the wrong time, even if they’re just children.”
While violence and fighting have decreased considerably over the last year, nearly two thirds of displaced people have said they are unwilling or unable to return home in the next year. More than half of them had their homes damaged or destroyed. Entire cities like Mosul and Sinjar are still in rubble.
The Iraqi government, together with the international community, particularly members of the coalition, has a responsibility to ensure that Iraq is on a path towards inclusive recovery and reconstruction. This means the rights of displaced people—like all Iraqi citizens—must be respected, for them to be able to rebuild their lives where they choose.
“If this is what ‘victory’ looks like, then there is little to celebrate for millions of Iraqis still haunted by the crimes of the IS and the long war to eliminate it. They have largely been forgotten by their own government and the international community,” said Norwegian Refugee Council Secretary General Jan Egeland. “We work with thousands of ordinary Iraqi women, children and men for whom untold suffering continues, and yet the world seems to act as if Iraq is back to normal. In reality, besides the abject poverty the displaced are living in, thousands face collective punishment for having been at the wrong place at the wrong time, even if they’re just children.”
While violence and fighting have decreased considerably over the last year, nearly two thirds of displaced people have said they are unwilling or unable to return home in the next year. More than half of them had their homes damaged or destroyed. Entire cities like Mosul and Sinjar are still in rubble.
The Iraqi government, together with the international community, particularly members of the coalition, has a responsibility to ensure that Iraq is on a path towards inclusive recovery and reconstruction. This means the rights of displaced people—like all Iraqi citizens—must be respected, for them to be able to rebuild their lives where they choose.
In Basra, the protests continue.
Iraqi MP from Basra says protests have resumed in Basra Province because government has not kept its promises. Still no clean water to drink & residents will not remain silent.
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Friday's Morning Star:: Basra considering autonomy move after protests ignite again
Demonstrators in Basra don yellow vests like those worn in French protests.
Autonomy? Steve Sweeny (MORNING STAR) reports:
Protesters want to see political and economic autonomy which would allow them a greater share of lucrative oil revenues, enabling the region to invest in jobs, public services and access to clean drinking water.
Iraq’s post-occupation
constitution allows provincial councils to submit a petition which shows
support for autonomy with Baghdad then being responsible for holding a
referendum on the issue.
In other news, ALSUMARIA reports a rumor being denied: that Ayad Allawi was plotting a military coup against Iraq's new prime minister Adil Abdul al-Mahdi
The following community sites -- plus Jody Watley, BLACK AGENDA REPORT, DISSIDENT VOICE -- updated:
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