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"Mind
Control Experiments on Children"
By Jon Rappoport
The CIA mind-control apparatus has been
well known since 1975, when 10 large boxes of documents were released pursuant
to Freedom of Information Act requests.
Several good books were
then written on the subject of the CIA program known as MK-ULTRA. Officially
spanning ten years from 1952-62, MK-ULTRA involved the use of LSD on unwitting
military and civilian subjects in the
In experimental test
situations, people were given acid without their knowledge, then interrogated
under bright lights with doctors sitting in the background taking notes.
Threats would be made. The test subjects were told that their LSD “downer
trips” would be extended indefinitely if they refused to reveal their
closely-guarded military secrets. The people being interrogated in this way
were CIA employees,
None of this prepared
people for the explosive testimony made on
Both Wolf and her patients
stated that they recovered the memories of this CIA program without regression
or hypnosis techniques. In other words, these patients spontaneously discovered
this information about themselves and their pasts.
Although the committee
was mainly concerned with radiation, they permitted Valerie and her patients to
testify because, astonishingly, several doctors who had administered the
mind-control experiments had also been identified by other Americans secretly
exposed to radiation. Apparently there was a crossover.
Prominent names surfaced
in the March 15 testimony: Richard Helms, former head of the CIA, Dr. Sidney
Gottlieb, who ran MK-ULTRA and Dr. John Gittinger,
Gottlieb’s protege. These men and others were
directly accused of participating in grisly mind-control efforts on children.
Predictably, this
testimony received no media attention.
I now have it all,
including many pages submitted to the committee that will likely never be
released as part of their final report. Only a small percentage of the pages
were read aloud at the hearing. Included are corroborating statements from
other therapists around the country and several of their patients. I have now
released all of this testimony as a book, U.S. Government Mind-Control Experiments
On Children.
When the sickening shock
starts to wear off, deeply disturbing questions flood one’s mind: just what was
this CIA program? How extensive was it? What was its purpose?
From what I have been
able to discover so far, many American children, as well as children from
Children were trained as
sex agents, for example, with the job of blackmailing prominent Americans -
primarily politicians, businessmen and educators. A great deal of filming was
done for this purpose. Eventually, people from the inner core of the CIA
program filmed each other, and some of the centres where children were used as
sex agents got out of control and turned into CIA-operated sex rings.
Some children were
considered expendable and simply murdered.
One person who states
that he was in this program as a child said, off the record:
“They tried out their
brainwashing techniques on the kids from
At this point, I made a
suggestion:
“Well, if they were
choosing the best and brightest, maybe they figured these kids would one day
rise to important positions in the society, and they wanted to gain long-term
control over them, so they would be under their thumb, so they could tap them
at will - a way of controlling the future society.”
“Maybe,” he said. “The
Nazis gained control over the intelligentsia in
“This smells very much
like a Nazi program in the
He said, “They brought
over a lot of Nazi doctors after the war and not just to build rockets - for a
lot of projects.”
Other people who said
that they had been used as children in the program remember that doctors with
German accents were definitely present at the sessions. One therapist, who shared
this information informally with colleagues around the country, states that, so
far, the oldest person she has heard of who was in the program is now 52; the
youngest is now nine.
Since a number of people
who were brainwashed, tortured and drugged in these experiments try to resolve
their experiences in therapy, psychiatrists and other professional therapists
are hearing these stories. They are told, for example, that CIA controllers
sometimes dressed up in Satanic costumes to further
traumatize the children, also providing a cover that wouldn’t be believed if
the children ever talked.
It is worth noting that
there is a movement to discredit these “recovered” memories, and the most
prominent group, the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF), has several board
members with CIA or military-intelligence connections - including the notorious
Dr. Louis “Jolly” West of UCLA, who tried to establish a center
for “the study of violence” at the university in the 1970s. This center’s specialty would have been psychosurgery, a
horrendous melting of brain connections, supposedly to curb people’s “violent
tendencies.”
FMSF maintains that a
person always remembers abuse done to him or her, and therefore any new
recovery of it in therapy is false and must have been fabricated through
misleading suggestions by the therapist. While it is certainly true that such
inducement happens in therapy, the blanket statement that all recovered memory
is invented is unsubstantiated.
In a written statement
to Dr. Wolf that was included in her testimony to the president’s committee,
well-known researcher and psychiatrist, Colin Ross said,
“Published articles in
my files include descriptions of administration of 150 mcg of LSD to children
age 5-10 years on a daily basis for days, weeks, months, and in a few cases
even years. Neurosurgeons at Tulane, Yale, and Harvard did extensive research
on brain electrode implants with intelligence funding, and combined brain
implants with large numbers of drugs including hallucinogens.”
Ross based his report on
his more than 20 years of investigating CIA mind control.
Chris De Nicola, one of
Dr. Wolf’s patients who testified before the president’s committee, named her
controller as a Dr. Greene, a name reported by several other mind-control
subjects. It may well be that this name was a cover used by various CIA and
military-contracted experimenter-torturers. Here is a quote from her testimony:
“[Dr. Greene] used me in
radiation experiments both for the purpose of determining the effects of
radiation on various parts of my body and to terrorize me as an additional
trauma in the mind-control experiments. [She was eight years old.]
“The rest of the
experiments took place in
“Dr. Greene moved on to
wanting me to kill dolls that looked like real children. I stabbed a doll with
a spear once after being severely tortured, but the next time I refused. He
used many techniques but as I got older I resisted more and more.
“He often tied me down
in a cage, which was near his office. Between 1972 and 1976 he and his
assistants were sometimes careless and left the cage unlocked. Whenever
physically possible, I snuck into his office and found files with reports and
memos addressed to CIA and military personnel. Included in these files were
project, subproject, subject and experiment names with some code numbers for
radiation mind-control experiments which I have submitted in my written
documentation. I was caught twice and Dr. Greene tortured me ruthlessly with
electric shock, drugs, spinning on a table, putting shots in my stomach, in my
back, dislocating my joints and hypnotic techniques to make me feel crazy and
suicidal...”
Is there a precedent for
this kind of sadistic treatment by CIA and military personnel? Indeed there is.
Here is a quote from the introduction to my book,
“Dr. Robert Heath of
“Canadian researcher,
Dr. Ewan Cameron, under long-term CIA contract,
attempted to depattern, and reprogram his psychiatric
patients’ personalities wholesale. He started with 15 to 65 days of ‘sleep
therapy,’ during which a patient was kept under nearly 24 hours a day, through
the administration of cocktails of Thorazine, Nembutal, Seconal, Veronal, and Phenergam. Throughout this sleep period, the patient would
be awakened two or three times a day for electroshock treatments, given at an intensity 20-40 times the ‘normal’ convulsion-producing
strength.
“In the mid-1950’s, Paul
Hoch, M.D., a man who would become Commissioner of
Mental Hygiene for the State of New York, then a laborer
in the field for the CIA, gave a ‘pseudoneurotic
schizophrenic’ patient mescaline. The patient had a not-unfamiliar
heaven-and-hell journey on the compound. But Hoch
followed this up with a transorbital leucotomy... Hoch
also gave a patient LSD, and a local anesthetic, and
then proceeded to remove pieces of cerebral cortex, asking at various moments
whether the patient’s perceptions were changing.”
Claudia Mullin, the
other of Dr. Wolf’s patients who testified before the President’s Committee on
Radiation, said her experiences with CIA mind-control experiences began when
she was seven years old:
“In 1958, I was to be
tested, they told me, by some important doctors coming from a place called the
‘Society’ [the Human Ecology Society, a CIA front]. I was told to cooperate;
answer any of their questions. Then, since the test ‘might hurt,’ I would be
given ‘shots, x-rays, and a few jolts of electricity.’ I was instructed not to
look at anyone’s face too hard and to ignore names,’ as this was ‘a very secret
project’ but to be brave and all those things would help me forget...
“A Dr. John Gittinger tested me and Dr. Cameron gave me the shocks and
Dr. Greene the x-rays... By the time I left to go home, just like every time
from then on, I would recall nothing of my tests or the different doctors. I
would only remember whatever explanations Dr. Robert G. Heath [of
“The next year, I was
sent to a place in
Captain George White was
a notorious agent for the CIA. He set up a brothel in
Ms. Mullin states that
she was adopted when she was two years old. By the time she reached seven she
had already been abused extensively by her mother. Her mother apparently turned
her over for “testing” to CIA-connected people and Claudia then entered a
27-year period of what can only be called enslavement. Claudia states that she
has been monitored, that she is still monitored and watched by agency related
people, including a medical doctor. Now living in
“Although the process of
recalling these atrocities is certainly not an easy task, nor is it without
some danger to myself and my family... I feel the risk is worth taking.”
Claudia’s therapist, Dr.
Wolf, has written to the president’s committee,
“To the best of my
knowledge, [Claudia] has read nothing about mind-control or CIA covert
operations. Since she decided to listen carefully and remember as much as she
could about conversations among the researchers, her memories are
extraordinarily complete. I have sent written copies of memories to Dr. Alan Scheflin [author of The Mind Manipulators] for
validation and he has confirmed that she has knowledge of events and people
that are not published anywhere, that some of her
memories contain new information and that some are already known and published.
Some of her memories have been confirmed by family members. She has also shown
me old scrapbooks where she wrote notes to remember what was happening to her
and hid the notes under pictures in the scrapbook.”
I spoke with Alan Scheflin in May [1995] of this year. He said he had found
one piece of information Claudia had mentioned in her recollections that had no
precedent in published material. It involved a connection between two
government researchers.
This is just the tip of
the iceberg on the 130 pages of testimony given before the President’s
Committee on Radiation, and it is also just the beginning of a history that
will undoubtedly widen in the coming months and years. Dr. Wolf told me that
when word got around she was going to testify before the president’s committee,
she was contacted by about 40 therapists “in just the 10 days leading up to my
trip to
So what else is new?
NOTES:
1. See “From the
Inside Out,” Perceptions,
March/April 1995, p.58
2. Paddington Press, New
York, 1978
3. W.W. Norton, New
York, 1979
4. Grove Press, New
York, 1985
Jon
Rappoport is a distinguished investigative reporter
and the author of AIDS, INC. He can be found inhabiting the late night airwaves
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