Even today, Nazi experiments with human beings make us “stand up. “Many of them aimed to find mechanisms to control people’s minds. What not everyone knows is that similar and even scarier experiments have been conducted in the United States. they were the MK Ultra project.
World War II marked a change in military strategy; until then, espionage had never been very important. In fact, countries have realized the value of contrasting information when planning their attack tactics.
- Similarly.
- Hitler himself demonstrated that it was possible to control the human spirit and manipulate millions of people to perform actions that they would otherwise have rejected.
That’s why, at the end of the confrontation, the idea of gaining information and manipulating the mind was one of the main concerns in the United States, so the MK Ultra project was born.
“Just the idea that something cruel can be useful is already immoral. ” Cicero
In fact, it is very difficult to know exactly what the MK Ultra project was about. When the press discovered it in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the CIA, which ran the program, gave the order to destroy all of its files.
The only thing that could be saved was a small group of documents, from this small database, the researchers began to reconstruct what happened.
A lot of casualties were added to the project, however, in rigor, we will never know how the MK Ultra, which contained 150 lines of action and only two or three are known.
However, what little is known about experiments with psychoactive and neurological drugs, as well as other methods, that have been applied to thousands of human beings without their consent.
The goal was to observe the effect of these drugs on people; whether, in this way, they had to reveal what they knew or determine whether it was possible to change the human spirit as they wished.
According to the available data, the? Researchers from the MK Ultra project administered drugs, such as LSD, in different ways and in different doses to determine how “infected people” behaved.
Methods such as electric shocks and hypnotic therapies have also been used. In the 1950s, when the project began, much was talked about “brainwashing. “I mean, some kind of reprogramming of the mind based on these “treatments”?Special.
It is also known that the CIA has tested the effects of various torture techniques. Sometimes they abandoned him? Volunteers – several days without sleep while they kept repeating subliminal messages. At other times, they systematically applied electroshocks or synthetic drugs in large quantities.
The most horrible thing about the MK Ultra project is that they brought thousands of people to participate, basically they took their guinea pigs using two methods.
The first was for psychiatric hospitals. Patients were informed that new therapies were being tested. None of the detainees at these hospitals were reported to be a CIA-led experiment and that among the “specialists” were several former Nazis.
In fact, one of the most active contributors to the MK Ultra project was psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron, who ended up being the first president of the World Psychiatric Association, as well as the president of the American and Canadian Psychiatric Association.
The experiments were conducted not only with people “with mental illnesses”, but also with thousands of citizens considered “normal”. They were recruited into the army, universities, public hospitals, brothels, hospices and everywhere.
In exchange for a few dollars they agreed to participate in these tests, however, they were never informed of the actual objective.
Many of them did not survive the cruel experiments; others were left with permanent sequels; the most prominent case is that of Frank Olson in the United States; in Canada, for its part, the government ended up compensating hundreds of people. to quell the scandal.
What happened was made public through a press investigation, it was then that the United States Congress established a commission to investigate the facts, and an independent commission was also created.
In the end, they managed to find the documents in 1973, so the CIA gave the order to destroy all the files.
The MK Ultra project shows how far power agencies can go to achieve what they want, this did not happen in a dictatorship, but in a country that prides itself on being the defender of democracy in the world.
Now, a disturbing question: will there be similar experiences elsewhere we don’t know yet?