Project MK Ultra and Other Shocking CIA Programs

Published on December 15, 2015 at 4:10 am by Gabriela Vatu in Lists

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1. MKUltra

Out of all the programs the CIA is known to have run, MKUltra is one of the worst. The purpose of this program was to see whether or not, with the right tools, the CIA could control the minds of people.

The program was illegal, as you would expect given its purpose and, more importantly, its methods. MKUltra involved experimenting on humans who had no idea what they were getting themselves into, which is something that is obviously wrong for anyone that has any kind of morals. Alas, when it comes to this type of things, it seems government agencies believe that the end justifies the means and everything else doesn’t matter, that human rights are optional and ethics is just a word in the dictionary.

MKUltra began in the early 1950s and was stopped two decades later. In this time, numerous individuals were used as test subjects in experiments where the CIA used various methods to try to manipulate their mental states; basically, they were trying to find ways to make mind control a possibility. Some were dosed with LSD and other drugs and chemicals, others were hypnotized, some were sent in isolation or subjected to sensory deprivation, others were abused verbally or sexually, while some were tortured. Whether mind control was possible in the end, it’s certain that the vast majority of these innocent people were left with permanent mental scars.

It was all revealed to the world in 1975 when the CIA’s activities were investigated. What’s worse is that this is what we know happened, but it’s only a part of it all. CIA Director Richard Helms had ordered in 1973 to have all MKUltra files destroyed. Only a few documents survived.

This is the worst program the CIA worked on back in the 50s and 70s, or at least the worst that we know of. After all, if these are programs that we’ve found out about, what other skeletons do they have in their closets? The Cold War and fear seemed to throw their morals out the window.

Project MKUltra and other shocking CIA programs are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to unethical human experimentation in the United States.