Steve Lynch: The CIA and the Military's Mind Control Research

John Lennon made the world "Imagine" a household world, but that's not where I'm going with this post. Imagine a world where all privacy has been eliminated, where none of your personal thoughts can be protected, and where "Big Brother" (Obama?) can modify your thinking electronically without your realization. That nightmarish future would be much worse than the surveillance society described by George Orwell's book 1984. If this should become a reality, there would be no place to run, and also no place to hide. More than fifty years ago, the CIA started working on "covert mind technology". One of the earliest CIA secret behavioral control programs was known as "Project Artichoke", probably meaning that the CIA would choke you, if you don't become a bone fide, government controlled communist. According to The New York Times, on August 2, 1977, the scope of this project was summarized in a CIA memo dated January 25, 1952. The CIA wanted "the evaluation and development of any method by which we can get information from a person against their will, and without their knowledge." The memo also asked if they could get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will, and even against such fundamental laws of nature as self-preservation." On April 13, 1953, Project Artichoke grew into a super-secret project called MK-ULTRA, that was overseen by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, whom Counterpunch called "a pusher, assassin, pimp, and US official poisoner". In his well-known book: "The search for the Manchurian Candidate", author John Marks wrote, "The agency's brainwashing experts gravitated to to people more in the mold of the of the brilliant, and sometimes mad scientist, obsessed by the wonders of the brain." Gottlieb's boss at the CIA was the notorious Christian Zionist James Angleton.