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Follow me on a few twists and turns down the rabbit hole.
Start with this untitled June 27, 1994, document, stored at the National Security Archive at The George Washington University.
It was written by a CIA advisory committee, and
forwarded to the Presidential Committee on Human Radiation Experiments,
which was preparing public hearings in 1994.
Here is a key quote:
“In the 1950s and 60s, the CIA engaged in an
extensive program of human experimentation [MKULTRA], using drugs,
psychological, and other means, in search of techniques to control human
behavior for counterintelligence and covert action purposes… Most of
the MKULTRA records were deliberately destroyed in 1973 by the order of
then DCI Richard Helms…Helms testified that he agreed to destroy the
records because ‘there had been relationships with outsiders in
government agencies and other organizations and that these would be
sensitive in this kind of a thing but that since the [mind-control]
program was over and finished and done with, we thought we would just
get rid of files as well, so that anybody who assisted us in the past
would not be subject to follow-up questions, embarrassment, if you
will.’”
Helms was not only admitting he destroyed the
records, he was stating that the MKULTRA program deployed, through
contracts, “outsiders” to carry out mind control experiments. He was
determined to protect the outsiders, to keep their identity and work
secret. He was also dedicated to preventing these people from exposing
the nature of their mind-control work.
Subsequently, some of these “outsiders” have
been revealed. But no one really knows how deep, far, and wide the CIA
penetrated into academic and research communities to enable MKULTRA.
Helms also stated that MKULTRA was ended. There
is no reason to believe this. Therefore, his justification for
destroying huge numbers of documents was absurd.
For example: Back in the early 1990s, I
interviewed John Marks, author of Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
This was the book that exposed the existence of the infamous CIA MKULTRA
program.
John Marks related the following facts to me. He had filed many Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests to the CIA for documents relating to their mind-control program. He got nothing back.
Finally, as if to play a joke on him, someone at
the CIA sent him 10 boxes of financial and accounting records. The
attitude was, “Here, see what you can do with this.”
I’ve seen some of those records. They’re very boring reading.
But Marks went through them, and lo and behold, he found he could piece together MKULTRA projects, based on the funding data.
Eventually, he assembled enough information to
begin naming names. He conducted interviews. The shape of MKULTRA swam
into view. And so he wrote his book, Search for the Manchurian
Candidate.
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