Jared Emry

After World War II, the USA initiated Project Paperclip in order to keep Nazi scientists out of Soviet hands, so that America could maintain a technological advantage.  Project Paperclip is known for bringing over about six hundred rocket scientists to America, but what is not as well known is that several hundred scientists that worked in the Nazis’ mind control program were also brought over.  These mind control scientists were recruited by the CIA for a top-secret program called MK-Ultra in the early 1950s.

The semi-synthetic drug LSD had been invented in 1938, and it would later attract the attention of several major superpowers for its strange properties.  In the early 1950s, the CIA came to believe the Soviet Union was developing a truth serum.  In response to the perceived threat, the CIA decided to hire scientists to search for and experiment with psycho-active drugs.  Originally the program only experimented on people with their consent.  The CIA finally had MK-Ultra officially established in 1953 and started broadening its scope of research.  MK-Ultra grew and had operations in about 80 universities that served as fronts for the project.  Unfortunately, the CIA decided they didn’t have enough test subjects and began to experiment on American and Canadian citizens without their consent.

Shortly after its official sanctioning and establishment in 1953, MK-Ultra began to pick subjects for unwilling experimentation.  The project began to choose citizens in situations where they could be drugged, tortured, observed, and would be unwilling to tell the tale.  The project would even hire prostitutes to drug their clients who would be embarrassed by their actions.  The victims would often illegally go through several kinds of tortures.  These tortures could be physical, verbal, sexual, or emotional.  The tortures were severe enough to cause permanent damage to the victim’s psyche.  The person was damaged in an attempt to see if it was possible for someone to become like a Manchurian Candidate.  These weren’t terrorists or traitors.  These were ordinary people who were often just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The project took a darker turn when a Canadian psychologist named Donald Ewen Cameron was hired to practice concepts like “psychic driving.”  In psychic driving, first he would talk with the patients and find out their fears and what they felt guilty over.  Later, he would lock his victims in isolation, often on a psychoactive drug and have the worst parts of the confession replayed to them extremely loudly.  These experiments of his were the basis for the invention of the two-stage torture.  Dr. Cameron often would take his patients, some of whom suffered from nothing more than a mild depression, label them as schizophrenic, and then hospitalize them so he could perform his government sanctioned experiments.  Dr. Cameron would take normal shock therapy and increase the shock by up to fifty percent.  The doctor would also occasionally put his patients into drug-induced comas.  Some of his victims forgot everything, including how to eat or speak.  Dr. Cameron was paid to develop methods designed to destroy a person’s mind, and he was very good at it.

The entire project was about six percent of the CIA’s budget but remained a secret until 1975, when Congress informed the people of the project after the Church Committee’s investigation.  MK-Ultra was not the only illegal experimentation the United States Federal Government has committed against its own citizens.  It is also known the U.S. Army during the MK-Ultra time period experimented with biological weapons on the citizens of Savannah, Georgia and caused serious medical conditions across the city, including stillbirths, encephalitis, respiratory problems, and typhoid.  The U.S. Government has a record of illegal experimentation on its own citizens.

MK-Ultra has often been cited in many conspiracy theories since it is such an obvious show of government powers being abused.  Many conspiracy theorists of today believe the government has continued illegal mind control experiments under another name.  One of these supposed projects is thought to be called Project Monarch, but the only support for its existence is the word of a psychic.  That fact rightly causes Project Monarch’s existence to be doubted.  But is it really unimaginable the government is conducting some nightmarish experiment now?  It is very possible.  In this day and age, with new technologies and with information being carried around the world in a faster and easily accessible way, many postulate that such a project’s existence would be found on the ’nets.  It would only be found if people happened to be looking for it.  About 91,000 terabytes of information exist on the Internet, but Google, Yahoo, and other major search engines only retrieve the same 167 terabytes of the Internet.  The remaining leftover information is called the Deep Web.  Most people will only check the first ten or twenty results on the search engine of their choice.  However, despite that, a new mind control conspiracy theory arose from the primordial depths of the Deep Web.  The conspiracy theory dragged up something that might have been a long-forgotten operation of MK-Ultra.

The new theory stems from an experiment from the same time period, but instead of illegal experimentation of drugs on people, this other line of research dealt with electromagnetic low frequency (E.L.F.) microwave radiation.  The concept first reached public attention on March 21, 1979, in the Los Angeles Times article entitled “Man Hallucinates, Says Microwaves Are Murdering Him.”  The story was about a man named Kille who previously had brain surgery (without his consent) that involved him getting 20 electrodes implanted in his head for experimentation, and later was known to wear an aluminum foil hat to try to stop the signal reaching the electrodes and shocking him.  The psychologists who said he was hallucinating had not been told about the electrodes in his head.  The story had been brought back up when people started to report they were being gang stalked with the addition of several types of technological harassment including the use of E.L.F. microwave to torture them from a distance.  The FBI has stated they have begun a search for these gang stalkers but still haven’t made any progress in the investigation.  The E.L.F. is supposedly used on the targeted individuals from a distance and can supposedly torture them by causing involuntary movement, electroshock, and just plain old pain.  Although these claims are disputed, it should be noted that E.L.F. microwaves have been studied and have been shown able to drastically change people’s moods.  Depending on the frequency, the person under the influence of the E.L.F. can be made to hallucinate and show signs of a major psychotic breakdown, simply feel depressed, or act like someone with a mania.  The E.L.F.s have also been shown able to have an effect on weather if it is broadcasted into the sky.  One targeted family used common scientific instruments to search for the microwave radiation and found it came from their neighbors’ house.  In an attempt to block the radiation, they put sheets of aluminum between the two houses and found an immediate improvement to both their mental and physical health.

The FBI’s inability to track down the supposed gang stalkers has sparked some more controversy.  Some people have begun to think maybe the FBI isn’t really investigating the source of these reports and is actually just covering up for another MK-Ultra-type project.  There is always the possibility that might be the case.  MK-Ultra sets up a perfect example of how the government has done similar things in the past.  Also, to support the idea of a modern-day government conspiracy to control people’s minds is the fact there is never any trail left behind by the gang stalking.  One instance of gang stalking reported and investigated by Federal agents involved a break-in at the targeted individual’s house.  Inside the house, the dishwasher had been reduced to its core pieces, the safe was drilled into and opened, all the clothes were out of the drawers, and the doorknobs were taken apart.  Several witnesses claimed it could not have been a hoax because the house was untouched just before the victim left to go to the grocery store.  No one saw anyone enter or exit the house.  Even with all of that, there were no fingerprints, nothing was stolen, and law enforcement officers remained baffled.  Another family daily experienced threatening calls on their phones that would tell the victims what every single member of the family was doing at the moment, even after they moved and changed all their phone numbers.  Again, the gang stalkers still haven’t been found.  Maybe that is because the government does not want them to be found.  The family histories of targeted individuals have been studied, and in many cases their families have all had grandfathers who were openly against programs like the Manhattan Project.  Although the correlation does not necessarily indicate a similar cause for the targeting, it should be noted coincidences tend to be just pieces of a bigger picture left behind because they either conflict with one’s beliefs or because one is simply too lazy to try to look at the bigger picture.  Pawns in the game are not victims of chance.  The evidence in these cases lacks a trail, but that in itself just points back to the Federal Government.  Prior to the hearings that exposed MK-Ultra to the Congress, the director of the CIA ordered the destruction of all MK-Ultra documents in an attempt to destroy the trail.  Even though he failed, almost 90% of the MK-Ultra data was destroyed.  The CIA had made the mistake of holding on to most of the paper trail until the last minute … would they make the same mistake twice?  Probably not.  The almost perfect lack of evidence seems to point to experience and power.

Overall, it is known the United States Federal Government does have a criminal record when it comes to human experimentation.  It is always a good idea to be cautious and pray you won’t be added to the list of victims.  And if MK-Ultra could stay a secret for so long and after being declassified still is widely unknown….  The atrocities of another nation are an outrage, but the atrocities of “our” side often go unheard of and are dismissed by many who hear of them.  The history surrounding MK-Ultra should cause one to pause and consider that maybe your government is not as benevolent as it seems.  Although the theories are not “proven,” maybe it would be best to be on the safe side and make oneself a nice sturdy aluminum foil hat, because tin foil doesn’t work.