Essay
Author: Pedro Martínez
PROYECT MK-ULTRA
MKUltra was concerned with the research and development of chemical biological and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior. One of the experiments was to develop mind-controlling drugs to use against soviets, they use mind control techniques on U.S war prisoners. The scope of MKUltra effort, Subproject 54, was the Navy’s top secret “Perfect Concussion” program, which was supposed to use sub-aural frequencies, blasts to erase memory. However, the program was never carried out. Some of the tortures were sensory deprivation, drugs, isolation, etc; this made the human body to get at max resistance, they used physical methods to create harm, shocks, confusion, paralysis and mental confusion, they used a lot of substances to knockout the body; the objective was develop effective methods of torture and interrogation for information. Project MKUltra sometimes referred to as CIA’s mind control program; they made human The early effort of MKUltra involved the testing of Lysergic acid experiments, they tortured and created problems with foreigner people, U.S.A civilians and diethylamide (LSD), first synthesized in 1938. CIA Russian spies, some of the problems were diseases and violations of human rights, the operatives wanted to know if foreign intelligence agents could defect goal was search of techniques for Cold War. Before this project, some precursor’s against their will. Subjects the least likely to “put up a fight” were experiments were made by the Nazi’s Scientifics. As a result, they began MKUltra; a chosen; LSD would also be administered to doctors, military small amount of members of the government knew its existence. The CIA made this personnel, CIA agents, and members of the general public, most program for Cold War causing and making experiments and tortures; they cases without their knowledge. On the other hand, there were made goals for this project, they thought this would be a good excuse for allegations that scientists, hire and then druggingAuthor: to prostitutes; the mind control experiments but they don’t imagined the damages and the Pedro few subjects who did volunteer were usually singled outMartínez for the more consequences they would create, abusing civilians and making experiments extreme experiment. The Watergate scandal in 1972 would start to with LSD. bring major government impropriety to the public’s attention; The program began in the early 1950’s, wasHelms officially sanctioned in 1953, Richard ordered the cancellation of MKUltra and the the meaning of MKUltra; MK is a cryptonym immediate for secret destruction of all documentsprograms, and files. followed by the word Ultra which had previously been used to designate From my perspective MKUltra was a huge project from CIA with the goal the most secret classification of WWII intelligence, the project was of search of interrogation techniques in Cold War, causing a lot of sponsored by the agency’s Technical Services Staff. In 1945 the Joint consequences to third persons and violations of human’s rights. At the end Intelligence Objectives Agency was established and given direct of project the director of CIA, made the call to destroy all documents linked responsibility for Operation a precursor program to all Paperclip MKUltra projects, but nevertheless theexperiment, damage was the already done. recruited former Nazi scientists after several programs, they created MKUltra. Tortures and experiments were made with a lot of people, a lot of programs Headed by Sidney Gottlieb, The project started on themost order CIA by were created, approximately more than was 150 sub-projects, of of this were director Allen Welshfunded Dullesby oninstitutions, April 13, 1953. Its aim This wasproject to develop colleges and universities. made amindlot of controlling drugs, as well as, use thissome against the to soviet bloc in killed Cold humans War. Most damages, of this irreversible people, they for MKUltra records were deliberately destroyed in were1973 order offor Richard Helms, of then research, those persons U.S.Abycivilians; this experiments they with sometomembers of the this CIA director; it has been created difficult,problems if not impossible, investigate andgovernment understandcausing of the more to shut Alland secrets andprograms. evil projects have an end, it doesn’t than 150 sub-projectsproject sponsored by down. MKUltra related matter if you don’t say the truth or try to cover up something, experiments, tortures and other inhuman things, at the end this will be known by someone and my opinion this project is a crime against humanity not 11 recognized around12 the world.