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the mesangial cerebellum is deeply
touching defenders in Arizona the first
bite off a piece between fossa display
until about the summer inexplicable
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integrity the position of a pigeon I
knew struggled it
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August 16th 1951 madness spreads through
the village of Paul sent Esprit in the
guard region in France
dozens of villagers have been victim of
these bouts of madness the press
describes men terrorized by snakes
swirling in their stomachs a doctor
recounts the evening of the 24th of
August where dozens of locals were
seized by convulsions like in a night of
the apocalypse reports from the victims
are terrifying
exactement inventions rondônia sir even
impossible to film le marais truly calm
on a salmon affair with Senator Byrd
ministry ROI dividend compromise to
veterinary Sandow Mia Zespri provide
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decision is also given a redeemer a
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cosa de Ajo finishes work in La Paz
modern in palm centers pre they call it
the cursed bread drama because all of
those who fell ill ate the bread from
the bloom bakery it's the first time in
France that a whole village has gone mad
it made headlines in the press who
wondered what could have caused this
collective hallucination important
display the locals panic and nobody will
touch the bread the hearses quickly
arrived in the village in total seven
deaths three hundred people
and around 50 admitted to psychiatric
wards
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somehow passed the operand place Iranian
place to a twist twist the Jungian
temper with is the diplom all set aside
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awful at eleven bombers hey hey what
being settler power to Canada same
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is it miserable at Annette the indelible
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is it agreement fool if we could use
even he could you forget it said you're
lucky sir
but they see somebody different such as
much intensity say Segovia
he said D but yet I did thank you prove
a tree ornaments see to know where sting
over the first dead were buried the
investigators initially thought it was a
return of st. Anthony's fire a disease
that killed many thousands in the Middle
Ages caused by a parasitic ergo fungus
that attacks cereals
the Baker was accused of poisoning than
the Miller arrested and incarcerated
they were released after several months
they say that their confessions were
made under duress and above all the
evidence proved their innocence
it was then thought to be water
poisoning mercury fertilizers or a
nearby gas factory but the evidence
disapproved these theories one by one
since then important his play more
far-fetched theories have surfaced
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this is Philippa the super clear
but nothing is clear and for decades the
incident goes unexplained but against
all expectations 60 years later a new
theory is proposed not from France but
from the United States
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an American researcher in the Secret
Service's Hank Alber le is investigating
the suspicious death of a biochemist
from the CIA frank olson a specialist in
chemical weapons he carried out
experiments on hard drugs like LSD he
was also in France a few months before
the poll sent his pre-incident
afterwards he kept sinking into
depression telling his wife that he'd
made a terrible mistake
Hank Alber le then made the link with
the poll sent his pre-incident
could it have been the CIA and the
American army spraying LSD onto the
bread
I have no doubt at all that that policy
esprit was a US Army covert experiment
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initially I had doubts and and I think
initially my doubts were were motivated
by by wishful thinking on my part where
where I didn't want it to be an
experiment I did you know I just it was
hard to fathom the government doing that
although at the same time there were a
number of research tracks that were
being conducted for the book at the same
time so my my my being naive about what
the government the US Army was capable
of doing was the threshold for that was
becoming was dwindling is it possible
that the American has drugged an entire
village in an ally country causing no
doubt accidentally the death of seven
people
improbable however
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to understand what happened in pol cent
history we need to look back at the end
of the Second World War when the level
of atrocities committed by the Nazis was
discovered in the camps notably horrific
experiments carried out on thousands of
prisoners by chemists or doctors men
lacerated poisoned burnt alive exposed
to radiation
the Allies hunted the war criminals from
Hitler's regime
in 1946 in Nuremberg
the doctors are put on trial 22 men and
one woman who experimented on human
beings were they transformed into lab
rats stand accused the trial sets a
precedent seven of the accused are
sentenced to death eleven given prison
sentences and five are acquitted as a
result the Americans draft the Nuremberg
code a model which gives strict rules
for experimenting on humans notably the
voluntary consent of the human subject
is absolutely essential
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the experiment must be designed to avoid
all unnecessary suffering physical and
mental harm with the Nuremberg trial
barely over the winners remain cynical
the American Secret Service begins
Operation Paperclip
nearly 1500 German scientists including
war criminals are expatriated to America
they are offered a new life in exchange
for their knowledge and cooperation it
was a very serious game of propaganda
that we were playing it was almost a
Isle we're putting the Nazis on trial
but in fact behind the curtain we're
doing some very nasty things ourselves
to basically incarcerated people poor
people individuals who at the time were
called feeble-minded had locked up in
institutions and and if you were and in
one of those institutions whether you
were indigent or an unwed mother or had
some sort of mental incapacity there's a
good chance that you may have been
incorporated in some sort of medical
study possibly for the government or not
where you would have been used and
abused
assisted by the German scientists the
Americans begin pursuing their goal of
the ultimate weapon and everything is
allowed in the name of the cold war on
the one side was the army whose priority
is to win the nuclear arms race at the
time to test the effects of radiation on
a large scale they used their own
soldiers between 1946 and 1962 between
250,000 and 500,000 men were exposed to
radiation on Bikini Atoll or in the
Nevada desert they were exposed with no
protection unaware of the risks involved
and afterwards the radiated particles
were cleaned up with brooms these images
served as propaganda for an army wanting
to show off its technological power
how about radiation you think is much
danger from radiation all radiation is
the least of the worries that the little
thinking about I think most people who
thought that radiation was the greatest
danger didn't they what did they learn
different prior to our intentions here
we received a very thorough briefing
before we even came in disclosed to
contact with on the other side was the
CIA who was above all interested in
psychological manipulation their goal
was to create an infallible truth serum
wipe memories turn humans into robots
and programmed them to kill
conveniently in 1948 a researcher in the
Sandoz laboratories albert hofmann
discovers a molecule that ignites the
secret service
lysergic acid diethylamide or LSD it's
derived from the same rod fungus long
held responsible for the incident at
Paul Santa's plane it was believed that
the hallucinogenic properties of this
drug were key to psychological
manipulation fearing that the Russians
would get their hands on sandoz's
samples the Americans bought all of
their stock the discovery of LSD was a
godsend for the arm who on the brink of
nuclear weapons were looking for a
weapon that could defeat an enemy
without firing any weapons the man who
has headed this program longest was
James Ketchum shown here in uniform he
was a psychiatrist who was working for
the military as a patriot he was
prepared to push the boundaries in his
research he tested around 30 drugs but
especially LSD and the dangerous benzo
late
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he treated 7,000 soldiers hundreds of
whom later sued the army because of the
side effects that they still experience
and attribute to these drugs
however when questioned James Ketchum
sees things differently I think they're
very patriotic have not been given
credit they've been called innocent
guinea pigs which they certainly were
not they knew what they were doing and
we told on us much as we could about it
we had to limit the names of the drugs
because some of them were artificially
made and if we were to give out the name
of course that would also reveal the
structure and that we were afraid the
Russian hood would get that they're
apparently following our work we thought
they were ahead of us but actually they
weren't and so they were watching what
we did to see what they could learn and
use and they developed a similar drug
leader themselves
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James Ketchum doesn't like this type of
video as he believes they lead to
confusion he claims the products were
more festive than dangerous and prefers
images like this of a soldier on LSD he
also highlights this video volunteers
who received minimal doses of LSD a few
minutes later they were incapable of
responding to simple orders
or even doing basic exercises in
parallel with the army the CIA was also
developing its own programs codenamed
Bluebird artichoke and later MKULTRA but
to carry out these programs on a large
scale they needed funds in 1950 the
Korean War gave them the ideal pretext
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some American soldiers were captured
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during their detention pilots admitted
having dropped chemical weapons on to
Korea which was forbidden
the Americans claimed this was due to
psychological manipulation and the CIA
took advantage of this godsend to obtain
budgets that allowed them to work on
brainwashing during the Korean War the
American pilots who were captured
started making apparently false
confessions of germ warfare
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the first question is was it really
false confessions but then when they
were brought back to the United States
the military and the military
psychiatrists studied them and decided
that there's mind-control operations
being run against Americans
so for defensive purposes we had to
study this figured out therefore we
created MKULTRA and before MKULTRA was
Bluebird and artichoke so the whole
rationale is its defensive it's because
of what the Communists are doing problem
is the Korean War started in June 1950
Bluebird was signed into operation by
the head of the CIA in April 1950 the
race is on and there are no limits
devastating drugs are given to animals
but it's mainly human subjects who
interest the scientists
in the edgewood camp where James Ketchum
worked soldiers are called upon more and
more they think they're testing gas
masks in reality the canisters are
filled with a toxic chemical and we're
testing a whole assortment of different
hallucinogens like LSD and marijuana and
things like that and they explored other
drugs very high levels of atropine
scopolamine Wenzel aids very powerful
and a lot of these soldiers ended up
incapacitated it took them a long time
to recover and while they're in recovery
the doctors cannot do any more
experiments because it's basically a
very small base and testing operation in
other words they needed a new site it's
in this context of the Cold War and
secret agents that on the 16th of August
1951 the tragedy at Pole sent us flee
unfolded France was suffering
economically and the Americans
distrusted this ally they couldn't
control the village was under the
control of socialists at the time in the
eyes of America they were Reds the
epitome of the Soviet danger but the
mayor
bojay Castillo doesn't believe in a
foreign conspiracy
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secrecy dimeric municipal police whistle
aw to tell what the experiment Angela
saying yeah you can configure kozyrev
people we know a song called donkey
suckers and that's what honey don't kill
papa bien phu quoc I see a survey that a
yellow city been warmed up yet American
experts like Colin Ross are much more
down-to-earth
obviously that compound didn't just come
in the rain
or just wasn't sitting around naturally
it was obviously organized controlled
distributed so whether it was actually
LSD or some other compound it doesn't
make that much difference
pont-saint-esprit is actually not just
this happened once in the world and a
village in France it's consistent with
all the other experiments on the public
that have done in the United States and
done for a documented fact
to achieve their goals with the
Americans be prepared to use a whole
village as a laboratory after all these
are civilians not trained soldiers
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however in September 1950 nearly one
year before point sent us plea this is
exactly what they did
and in their own country off the coast
of San Francisco the American marines
were carrying on military maneuvers a
ship approached the coast am bombarded
the city with the bacteria causing
nakusoo mia sera Tia Marcos anse the
military were testing the effects of
spraying this through the air this
classified secret defense map shows the
scale of the targeted area at least 11
people were hospitalized one of whom
died of pneumonia
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these are proven facts the official
documents on this have been Declassified
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but at Paul said his plea the population
remains skeptical after so many
different theories a plot by the
Americans just seems fanciful Haleh I
don't lie I was a cop deaf son and I as
I said no no Morrow is sleep apnea
khadiyah kudo upon sent this way
Metron prison you see he said no
possibility of insanity onlys American
law see Tom say Mohammed Rafi see Gina
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the villagers wonder why is supposedly
festive drug that is loved by hippies
would have had such terrifying effects
at poles had to scream James Ketchum the
military psychiatrist who specialized in
LSD a little reluctantly admits that the
drug is scary for those who take it
unknowingly some individuals could have
a bad trip if someone gave them a list
II and didn't tell them about it
that's very anxiety-producing or if they
were inexperienced and not particularly
well balanced themselves took a fairly
large dose of LSD they could have a bad
trip how would you feel if you had a cup
of coffee and started to see things
going like this or like this brilliant
colors appear in the ceiling or suddenly
he felt her out of your body and looking
down on herself these are all things
that can happen with LSD but can these
effects have a delayed onset impulse
entity the older generation will
remember the night of the apocalypse
where dozens of men went mad and were
sectioned in a psychiatric unit because
of terrifying visions this night took
place more than two weeks after the
curse of bread was consumed but again
James Ketchum admits that it's possible
some individuals had flashbacks later in
which they would go into a situation
that where they had been when they were
taking LSD and have a flood of the same
emotions and some anxiety producing
in 1951 French investigators also
consider LSD and call upon Albert
Hofmann inventor of the drug on the spot
he tells the investigators that he has
no doubt that the hallucinations were
due to LSD but after returning to
Switzerland he backtracks claiming he
was mistaken the French want
explanations but Public Health documents
from 1951 show that the expert became
suddenly unreachable we are sorry that
the eminent professor has not been able
to get back in touch with us I would
think if the Santos scientists are
saying it doesn't seem to be LSD they're
just trying to cover up the fact that
it's 100% for sure that LSD must have
come from Santos because they were the
only suppliers that's nothing more than
a cover-up
after months of inquiry the French
investigators were so disoriented by the
number of fruitless leads that the
incident at Pole sent Esprit falls
victim to its own mystery
during this time the experiments
continued in the United States and they
reached a level never seen before in any
country including the Soviet bloc
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entire populations for the concepts of
large-scale tests here are some examples
again uncontested cases that are
recognized by the American government
in 1953 radioactive iodine was injected
into newborns and pregnant women and
Iowa University and also in Nebraska in
1955 the CIA sprayed whooping cough
bacteria off the coast of Tampa two died
and dozens fell ill also in 1955 the CIA
enlisted prostitutes in San Francisco
opened two brothels and tested drugs on
the clients the sex was then filmed
through a one-way mirror in 1956 the
army released millions of mosquitoes
carrying yellow fever and dengue on the
towns of Savannah and Avon there were
several deaths and hundreds of people
infected
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in 1960 in Cincinnati the army financed
a radiation program on 90 destitute or
ill inhabitants of the city's university
hospital some died after several weeks
in 1966 the army tested a virus in the
New York metro then in Chicago the
bacteria was concealed in electric bulbs
the aim was to study the spread of
chemical agents on a large scale for
these experiments the army or the CIA
funded laboratories in the most
prestigious universities Yale Stanford
Harvard or Columbia they all took part
glorified by the idea of working for the
nation's defense the researchers went
crazy dr. Kligman in Philadelphia
increases a dosage 468 times which
actually frightened Dow Chemical they
couldn't believe that a respected doctor
would do that in Washington DC you had
walter freeman who was a very very well
known phlebotomist who traveled around
the country doing lobotomies in his car
and he would use an ice pick he could do
15 to 20 in a day
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it was just incredible what some doctors
did and very few if any people in the
hospital or the medical community blew
the whistle on it it really wasn't an
egregious act and it showed that the
medical community was more interested in
protecting its ass than in protecting
the test subject and the patients
because a lot of doctors went off the
deep end and started doing things that
are just inconceivable to help to
express his indignation alan horne blue
wrote half a dozen books a former prison
guard at Holmesburg in pennsylvania from
his first day at work over 40 years ago
he had a horrible shock I was stunned to
see scores of inmates with their shirts
off strapped and wrapped in bandages and
gauze tape and I couldn't imagine that I
was going into an atmosphere that was
that violent because all of the men
looked like they had just walked of
cellblock my fight
they explained that it's not because of
any violence but experiments that are
carried out there Allen was the first to
denounce this scandal and would lose his
job as a result it was probably the
largest human experimentation factory in
America possibly the world
from 51 until 1974
more people were probably incorporated
in more experiments than any other place
in the world
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drugs viruses cancerous cells lutonium
sarin gas the most toxic products were
tested in homes burned but also in
dozens of prisons throughout the country
to condemn these experiments alan horne
bloom found former inmates like Youssef
in 1961 this man was imprisoned for
selling marijuana he was poor with
limited education he was offered a
chance to take part in tests for $1 a
day since then Youssef has had his
digestive tract operated on he has liver
and skin problems and can no longer work
his first test was for a bath foam from
the company Johnson & Johnson they took
tape and they stuck it on your back and
pulled it off stuck it on and pull it
off until the first layer of skin came
off your back
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and he puts six seconds six seconds on
my back like that and then they took a
bottle with the Johnson and Johnson
bubble bath and put it on a patch and
put the patch over the wrong area then
they took a can I recognize that Candice
being from the Army and I was like what
Johnson but Johnson Johnson's got to do
with this so he took the can and he
sprayed it on my back and when it hit my
back it was cold but it was so toxic and
like fumes I could taste it in my mouth
and as I'm walking down I'm getting
dizzy and dizzier dizzier and dizzier by
the time I step into my cell I passed
out
oh well my back was inflamed and by the
time I woke up that morning I had great
big blisters on my back full of pus this
rash just gets worse and worse and it
looks like when the moon come out at
night it's just it flames up and I'm
being moaning and crying and moaning and
crying myself artists couldn't sleep
there was a second test which would lead
to an operation on his intestines then a
third where he had to do simple sums
while drinking a colorless liquid we
goes over there a little shot cup and it
could look like water we drink sit
everything became magnified and sent
like that loud speaker and his sister
the walls look like they turned in the
water you know to me and I I spent the
whole time like looking around I said
instead of doing the doing the test so I
goes back to the block in that condition
and man I mean I was tripping and it was
like a slow-acting drug that was in that
cup it last for weeks the inmates start
naming me out of the limits I had no
conversation for nobody I was scared of
the inmates and the inmates act like
they was afraid of me
what you had were hundreds and hundreds
of uneducated minorities overwhelmingly
black and Puerto Rican and then you had
white doctors with white lab coats with
PhD or MD after their name and it it was
a recipe for abuse if not disaster and
those prison walls are an ideal spot to
do controversial experiments because
just as those walls keep the inmates in
they also keep the public out so no one
finds out about it
prisoners were used but also patients in
certain hospitals patients were steered
towards the services financed by the CIA
these services carried out limitless
experiments on psychological
manipulation in 1965 karin Wetmore was
only 13 when she was admitted to a
hospital in Vermont
she stayed there several times in her
childhood she suffered from severe
depression after falling victim to a
pedophile neighbor admitted against her
will
she was not allowed any contact with her
family being told that it was for her
own good the CIA was specifically
looking for children between the ages of
13 and 18 to further dissociate they
wanted the associative children their
sense of absolute and total helplessness
you're there you're bound up you're
locked in this room no matter how you
scream no matter what you say no one is
gonna call me
it does something to you something you
don't get over
the doctors went to work on Karen they
wanted to erase her memory and create a
robot at their command it took 30 years
of legal battles for Karen to obtain her
medical records and discover the
violence of the treatments she was
subjected to this is seclusion full cam
cam is a straitjacket and toys which
means they tied my arms and they tied my
feet
this goes on uninterrupted day after day
week after week February March April
right up until June 21st 1971 you sleep
on the floor on the floor no blanket no
nothing and my arms were secured like
this behind my back I read do remember
that it's extremely painful because it
pulls on your neck pulls on your show
you can't get away from it it is it's
maddening is what it is maddening and I
was naked and I think that was part of
the effort of that experiment to break
me down everything they did was to break
me down months in a confined room with
no bearings while her captors
administered all kinds of drugs and
sometimes electric shocks at inhuman
levels number of shocks and the seconds
that they held the shocks they 30 30 35
35 35 and they held it for sustain for
40 seconds a normal shock would be a
second not certainly not and certainly
not 30 and 35 of them one not that many
which probably is what obliterated my
memory right there and I think that's
why they did it that's why they did it
they also said this treatment right here
no seizure shock restarted so they gave
me a second one because they couldn't
produce a seizure so we must have done
it over again muster
Peter then it's unforgivable and I'm
sure I wasn't the only one they did this
to I'm sure I survived to be able to
talk about it
how many suffered similar experiments in
Montreal Canada the CIA used a world
renowned psychiatrist to set up a
factory of guinea pigs in the Allen
memorial psychiatric Department in
McGill University this psychiatrist was
Ewen Cameron one of the all-powerful
presidents of the world psychiatric
association in 1945
Ewen Cameron made the acquaintance of
Rudolf Hess one of the Nazis accused in
the Nuremberg trial in 1957 the CIA
recruited him for their MKULTRA program
the Americans want to perfect their
interrogation techniques and program a
human to kill UN Cameron became the mad
dog of psychiatry
he put his patients in vegetative States
for several weeks
and while bombarding them with
pre-recorded orders some would become
incontinent amnezia for hitting even who
their parents were and how they speak
the Vermont hospital were caring what
more was confined was working on the
same program in the hands of the CIA
doctors she was like a rag doll
there's drugs like LSD they used
electric shock they used chemical shock
agent mattress all which I was given in
in 1971 and I found that out in my
medical records which is a very brutal
drug very brutal drug CIA said it was
excruciating physically and emotionally
excruciating drug they I have a quote
from the CIA that said that the Soviet
youth Soviets used it in the gulag and
that APO W would say or do anything to
avoid a second dose a nice drug
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they gave me 1,800 milligrams which
apparently is a huge dose and that night
I was complaining of hearing men inside
my head which was bothering me and
upsetting me and I tried to set myself
on fire the imagination of the
scientists is limitless in these images
the bold charges at a Cape shaken in
front of him a few moments later an
implant is placed in his brain and he's
released back into the ring at each
charge he receives a shot that stops him
in his tracks documents that are now
Declassified show that more
sophisticated implants were tested on
human subjects there's all kinds of
people who believe that people who don't
believe and that's a debate about do you
believe or don't believe I'm always
interested in what are in the documents
saying so the documents clearly describe
implanting electrodes in people's brains
activating the electrode from a remote
transmitter and changing the person's
behavior from angry pounding the wall
sitting there to steering
behind Karen's ear is a scar and she
doesn't know what it's from
what's my therapist really understood
that I hadn't really been experimented
on by the CIA she said to me you know
just for the heck of it let me look
because we'd heard about we'd read about
there there's been information about
these implants and I'm like okay and it
was there actually there this is I
showed you I went to a plastic surgeon
who told me it was a surgical scar but
there's nothing in my medical history
nothing in a medical record that that
shows any kind of problem ever oh behind
my right ear or any incision or any
surgery or anything else but there it is
karen has been compensated by the
American government for her ordeal but
like many rare victims who speak up for
a long time she was considered crazy
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what stopped the journey down this
destructive path
in 1973 while Watergate is rattling all
the institutions Richard Helms director
of the CIA feels the winds of change he
works as a lone wolf and hasn't informed
the president of these experiments he
knows he's crossed the line to protect
himself he orders the destruction of all
documents relating to the MKULTRA
program and its abandonment two years
later in 1975 the President Gerald Ford
orders an inquiry into the CIA the
Rockefeller Commission is sworn in the
task isn't simple because at the heart
of the CIA even Richard Helms close
lieutenants know nothing about the
brainwashing programs it's not like
goofy things go on in a big agency like
that was all that secrecy things can go
on that you don't know about that the
people who are working for the director
well so don't know about or that the
director doesn't know about it I think
they're keeping it quiet down there
don't tell anybody if it works then
we'll tell them but in the meantime
don't get into any any difficulties I
remember when they wanted to take a
kitty cat and stick a microphone up its
rear end and and put an antenna on its
ear and have him walk in with a spy in
the you know park with another one walk
over it walk around and listen in on it
yeah they tried it one time in an
experiment the taxi came by and ran over
the cat you know
in reality nothing is funny and it's
haste to get rid of evidence
the CIA forgets 20 thousand documents a
drop of water compared to the amount
that was destroyed but they reveal that
it financed 149 programs implicating 80
institutions including the most
respected called on to justify
themselves the heads of the CIA like dr.
lashbrooke lie and downplay the facts
the curse claims or thoughts of many
great things could be done with hypnosis
one small project in which we had a
hypnotist I do some experiments
primarily to see what the limitations of
hypnosis might be can you make a person
do something under hypnosis that he
would not ordinarily do even if the head
of the CIA Richard Helms tried to
minimize the scale of the experiments
the victims testimonies contradict him
the Inquiry Commission's follow each
reaching more and more witnesses like
this woman Chris de Nicola the father
put her in the hands of a reputed CIA
doctor dr. green when she was 12 years
old his objective was to gain control of
my mind and trained me to be a spy
assassin doctor brain had electrodes on
my body including my head he used what
looked like an overhead projector and
repeatedly said he was burning different
images into my brain while a red light
flashed aimed at my forehead in between
each sequence he used electric shock on
my body and told me to go deeper and
deeper deeper while repeating each image
would go deeper into my brain and I
would do whatever he told me to do dr.
green moved on wanted me to kill dolls
that look like real children then there
was Claudia Mullen admitted at age 7
57 1982 I became a part in the
government scheme his health and the
goal was mind control and to create the
perfect spy
all through the use of chemicals
radiation drugs hypnosis electric shock
isolation in terms of water sleep
deprivation
brainwashing verbal physical emotional
and sexual abuse
I was exploited I'm we're doing for
nearly three decades in my life and the
only explanations given to me with that
quote the end justifies the means and
quote I was serving my country in their
bold effort to fight communism enquiry
reports that resulted from these
terrifying testimonies revealed one
thing for certain the experiments ended
in disaster in its insane quest for a
robot human or a truth serum the CIA
failed on August 3rd 1995 with the
revelations mounting up then President
Bill Clinton makes a public apology
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thousands of government-sponsored
experiments did take place at hospitals
universities and military bases around
our nation in too many cases informed
consent was withheld Americans were kept
in the dark about the effects of what
was being done to them the deception
extended beyond the test subjects
themselves to encompass their families
and the American people as a whole for
these experiments were kept secret and
they were shrouded not for a compelling
reason of national security but for the
simple fear of embarrassment and that
was wrong so today on behalf of another
generation of American leaders and
another generation of American citizens
the United States of America offers a
sincere apology to those of our citizens
who were subjected to these experiments
to their families and to their
communities
since then a great number of secret
archives have been released to the
public domain researchers would take an
interest in this troubled period notably
Hank Alber Ellie who worked on the
suspicious death of Frank Olson the
biochemist
who worked at the heart of the CIA since
1951 the year of the pole sent his
pre-incident Frank Olson called into
question the ethics of the experiments
being carried out and became depressed
as a result in November 1953 the CIA put
LSD into his glass without him knowing
nine days later he threw himself off the
13th floor of a New York hotel murder or
suicide we'll never know at the time of
the investigation
Henning Cal barely found a surprising
document coming from the White House
it's surprisingly linked the name of
Frank Olson to Paul sent his plea why in
the middle of the Korean War where the
White House be interested in this small
French village even better pink also
came across a study carried out by the
CIA on LSD the document itself was a
comprehensive overview or history if you
will of LSD specifically yes not on your
gut had nothing to do with ergo there
was a section or a chapter if you will
had an incident at Po st. Esprit and the
first two paragraphs of that describe
essentially what we've all read you know
many times over in terms of what
happened that at pulsator spree but the
remainder of that section the the rest
of that page which was about half the
page in the two pages of fog were
completely blacked out above all was
this damning document from the CIA it
dates from 1953 and has no doubt and
declassified by mistake
a director at Sandoz laboratories
confirmed to a secret agent that the
poll sent Esprit incident was caused by
LSD
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Sandoz laboratories was where albert
hofmann worked the man who discovered
LSD it even claimed the drug was
responsible for the polenta spree
tragedy before recanting
when I saw the document detailing the
meeting between the CIA Informer and the
sandals official corporate official who
was not Hoffman I still haven't been
able to identify that person it became
moral and clear that sandals of course
was was part and parcel of the
experiment probably you know provided
the drug to the to the camp Dietrich
personnel that were on site and and well
knew about what had actually occurred at
at Paul st. Esprit this same document
states that in 1952 the source of the
CIA had already explained that the
cursive bread was caused by LSD
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did French authorities try to silence
the affair several years after the drama
ahead of the victims Association was
shocked at how disinterested the
investigators were sure I do also well
oh well having done a picture of
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Auckland Eric team that gets on the
first to Baku ridiculously than the epic
to the P Liepaja Linda principal
victimizer of the venkatrama ma shumou
de all the Mandy oh she's not too sure
diffict redevelopment miss a earth
record all of this a you know positive
isn't exactly what the institutional
policies loperamide mr. Odisha a perfect
record emissaries on a periodic team to
serve on madness I can without me to get
before it company respect equality to
the French have something to hide
we've interrogated former members of the
Secret Service's investigated national
and regional archives as well as those
from the police and the Justice
Department the files are hard to find
and many important pieces such as
reports for main hearings have
disappeared
if America revealed unwillingly some of
its secrets about its participation in
the poisoning the uncertainties over the
involvement of the French authorities
may yet go on for some years longer it
takes 75 years for some sensitive
documents to be made public
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hidden in its small streets and stone
buildings LuPone sent us free drama has
yet to reveal all its secrets
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