Rappoport, J. (Keystone/Getty Images) By Will Levith It's free. Materials which will promote the intoxicating effect of alcohol. [53] The House is expected to support the 2010 Intelligence Authorization Bill including a provision that would require the President to inform more than 40 members of Congress about covert operations. The prisoners were interrogated while being administered psychoactive drugs, electroshocked and subjected to extremes of temperature, sensory isolation and the like to develop a better understanding of how to destroy and to control human minds. [13][23] Some surviving information about MKUltra was declassified in July 2001. Some historians suggest the program was designed to develop a mind-control system that could be used to "program" the brains of potential assassins. The officers conducting the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers. ", "Under the guidelines, seven research projects involving chemical weapons and human subjects were submitted by the Chemical Corps for Secretary of the Army approval in August 1953. Recruited Over 1,000 ex-Nazis as anti-Communist Spies, NY Times Reports", "In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis", "Panetta Tells Lawmakers CIA Misled Congress Post-2001", "House Dems: Panetta testified CIA has misled Congress repeatedly", "CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits", "Lawmaker: Panetta terminated secret program", "US CODE: Title 50,413b. How Many More Could Follow? Later, From left: William Picketing, James Van Allen, and German scientist Wernher von Braun brandish a model of the first American satellite Explorer 1, on January 31, 1958. DECLASSIFIED: CIA Explains Consciousness, The Matrix, Meditation, Holograms, Telepathy In5D March 28, 2020 Awareness, Enlightening Articles, Science 3 Comments Tweet Share DOWNLOAD: CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY A cache of some 20,000 documents survived Helms's purge, as they had been incorrectly stored in a financial records building and were discovered following a FOIA request in 1977. "[85], External investigations and document releases, Influencing public opinion and law enforcement, Use of vaccination program in hunt for Osama bin Laden, Improper search of computers used by Senate investigators, Resignation of officials and agents who would not work for Donald Trump, WikiLeaks' disclosure of CIA's cyber tools. [21], The congressional committee investigating the CIA research, chaired by Senator Frank Church, concluded that "prior consent was obviously not obtained from any of the subjects." Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Revised Edition (2000): EBSCO. [33][118] The CIA insists that MKUltra-type experiments have been abandoned. [70] Their experiences and lawsuit were adapted in the 1998 television miniseries The Sleep Room. Since he realized there was a difference in testing the drug in a laboratory and using it in clandestine operations, he initiated a series of experiments where LSD was given to people in "normal" settings without warning. [4] The E14 bomb and E23 bomb, which could be clustered into the E86 cluster bomb and E77 bomb, respectively. (AFP/Getty Images), (Jean-Erick Pasquier/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images). The project's. The CIA exported experiments to Canada when they recruited British psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron, creator of the "psychic driving" concept, which the CIA found interesting. According to the Church Committee, "such materials were used on a number of occasions". Church Committee; "The congressional committee investigating the CIA research, chaired by Senator, 1977 Senate MKULTRA Hearing: Appendix C Documents Referring to subprojects. This category contains the known or alleged operations of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. Since its effects were temporary, he believed it could be given to high-ranking officials and in this way affect the course of important meetings, speeches, etc. [36] American historian Alfred W. McCoy has claimed that the CIA attempted to focus media attention on these sorts of "ridiculous" programs so that the public would not look at the research's primary goal, which was effective methods of interrogation. Live Science is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. [1] The second goal of the operation was to determine whether the mosquitoes would survive their dispersion and seek meals on the ground. [1][2] Operation Top Hat, however, was not among the projects submitted to the Secretary of the Army for approval. While the government admitted it was, at that time, drugging people without their consent, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel found Ritchie could not prove he was one of the victims of MKUltra or that LSD caused his robbery attempt and dismissed the case in 2005. [70][71][72], In February 2017, reports emerged that key experts within the CIA were resigning because they would not work for U.S. President Donald Trump. These and other declassified documents regarding Vietnam War crimes can be accessed through the National Archives. They told subjects they would extend their "trips" if they refused to reveal their secrets. It is unknown whether any useful DNA was acquired from the program, but it was deemed not successful. Project Grudge was a short-lived program launched in 1949 to study unidentified flying objects. ], In areas under American control in the early 1950s in Europe and East Asia, mostly Japan, Germany and the Philippines, the CIA created secret detention centers so that the U.S. could avoid criminal prosecution. If you think the government has too much power these days, just see what the CIA was up to in the 50s and 60s. Washington, D.C., February 12, 2010 - For the first time, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has declassified substantive information on one of its most secret and sensitive schemes, "Project Azorian," the Agency codename for its ambitious plan to raise a sunken Soviet submarine from the floor of the Pacific Ocean in order to retrieve its secrets. In late 2012, the U.S. Air Force declassified a trove of documents, including records of a secret program to build a flying saucer-type aircraft designed to shoot down Soviet bombers. "[4], In 1969, at the height of the antiwar movement in the US, CIA Director Helms received a message from Henry Kissinger ordering him to spy on the leaders of the groups requesting a moratorium on Vietnam. [32], The project began during a period of what English journalist Rupert Cornwell described as "paranoia" at the CIA, when the U.S. had lost its nuclear monopoly and fear of communism was at its height. "[51], On July 10, 2009, House Intelligence subcommittee Chairwoman Representative Jan Schakowsky (D, IL) announced the termination of an unnamed CIA covert program described as "very serious" in nature which had been kept secret from Congress for eight years.[52]. The plan, known as Operation Gladio, called for the formation of secret armies or "stay-behind" organizations in many NATO countries, including Italy, Belgium and France, according to declassified documents. Since 1995, the Agency has released over 30 million pages as a result of Executive Orders, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Privacy Act, and mandatory declassification reviews. Flying with Sharks: A Plan for Every Outcome. The possibilities detailed in the document included the possible assassination of Cuban migrs, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. The mosquitoes were released from ground level in Savannah, Georgia and then recovered using traps baited with dry ice. Just what kinds is still classified. Washington D.C., September 13, 2022 - On the 5th anniversary of the CIA's September 13, 2017, decision to pull its agents out of Cuba, after several operatives were stricken with what has become known as the "Havana Syndrome," the National Security Archive today posted the first of a declassified documentation series on the "Moscow Signals"a decades-long chapter of the Cold War . [67]:141, His work was inspired and paralleled by the British psychiatrist William Sargant at St Thomas' Hospital, London, and Belmont Hospital, Sutton, who was also involved in the Secret Intelligence Service and who experimented on his patients without their consent, causing similar long-term damage. Declassified documents associated with the inquiry are available from the Library of Congress. While the goal of most of these covert operations (such as Operation Mongoose) was to assassinate Fidel Castro himself, other plans aimed to incite an all-out war between the U.S. and Cuba, experts have said. The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives to commit acts of terrorism against American civilians and military targets, blaming them on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. Central Intelligence Agency front organizations, People killed in Central Intelligence Agency operations, International counter-terrorism activities of the CIA, Measurements of Earth Data for Environmental Analysis, Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, United States and state-sponsored terrorism, United States Joint Publications Research Service, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Central_Intelligence_Agency_operations&oldid=711930997, This page was last edited on 25 March 2016, at 20:06. [47], Documents obtained from the CIA by John D. Marks under Freedom of Information in 1976 showed that, in 1953, the CIA considered purchasing 10 kilograms of LSD, enough for 100 million doses. Detailed Assessment of the Gateway Process From cia.gov. A declassified document from 1955 added that MK-Ultra sought to observe "materials which will cause the victim to age faster/slower in maturity" and "substances which will promote illogical . 13 million CIA records were declassified and posted online a few weeks agothe result of a 2014 lawsuit filed by journalists seeking access to documents of historic value. [5], In 1973, amid a government-wide panic caused by Watergate, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed. From a secret U.S Air Force project to build a flying saucer to a now-famous World War II-era research program that produced the first atomic bombs, below are 10 declassified military and CIA secrets. [93][94] However, academic sources attribute the incident to ergot poisoning through a local bakery.[95][96][97]. [28] The CIA wanted to use similar methods on their own captives, and was interested in manipulating foreign leaders with such techniques,[25] devising several schemes to drug Fidel Castro. [68], In July 2014 CIA Director John O. Brennan had to apologize to lawmakers because five CIA employees (two lawyers and three computer specialists) had surreptitiously searched Senate Intelligence Committee files and reviewed some committee staff members' e-mail on computers that were supposed to be exclusively for congressional investigators. Officials at the Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor to the CIA) recruited German scientists to America to aid the country's postwar efforts, which would also ensure that valuable scientific knowledge would not end up in the hands of the Soviet Union or the divided East and West Germany. CORONA: The First Recovery of Film from Space [13][54], At the invitation of Stanford psychology graduate student Vik Lovell, an acquaintance of Richard Alpert and Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey volunteered to take part in what turned out to be a CIA-financed study under the aegis of MKUltra,[55] at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital[56][57] where he worked as a night aide. The United States Military Tribunal established the Nuremberg Code as a standard against which to judge German scientists who experimented with human subjects. [I]n defiance of this principle, military intelligence officials began surreptitiously testing chemical and biological materials, including LSD. NASA Deputy Administrator Robert Seamans stands to the left of von Braun. [11], Whilst the Obama administration has tried to distance itself from some of the harshest counterterrorism techniques, it has also said that at least some forms of renditions will continue. [1] Those mosquitoes that were air-dispersed were dropped from airplanes 300 feet (91 m) above the ground, spreading out on their own and due to the wind. Studies in Intelligence, March 2010 [76 Pages, 3.28MB] - The Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) was founded in 1974 in response to Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger's desire to create within CIA an organization that could "think through the functions of intelligence and bring the best intellects available to bear . "Sure, there are some people who are happy to let intelligence agencies go about their business unexamined. First, the bad news: we found that over 20 of the NID excerpts about Eastern Europe in the most recent CIA project had been previously released, some as early as 1999 and others in 2011 and 2013. The CIA Agent Quit Because Of The Trump Administration", "National Security Council spokesman quits CIA, writes scathing editorial in Washington Post", "CIA analyst quits after 11 years because of Donald Trump's 'disturbing' behaviour", "Senior CIA analyst resigns because of President Trump's 'disturbing' actions in office", "Un alto esponente della Cia si dimette: "Non posso servire l'amministrazione Trump", "Disgusted By Trump, A CIA Officer Quits. Long-term debilitation and several deaths resulted from this. "[5], Extraordinary rendition is the apprehension and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one country to another.[6]. [90] The case was dismissed in July 2013, due in part to the 1976 settlement between the family and government. The declassified documents reveal plans for the plane to reach a top speed of Mach 4 (four times the speed of sound), and reach an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,480 meters). [49] In one case, they administered LSD to a mental patient in Kentucky for 174 days. Army officials managed to cover up the massacre for a year before an investigative journalist with the Associated Press (AP) brought the atrocity to the attention of the American people in November 1969. [1][2][3][4] It began in 1953 and was halted in 1973. Not declassified as yet, but the CIA documents for what Wikipedia quaintly calls the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66 is going to be a wild . Brennan ordered the creation of an internal personnel board, led by former senator Evan Bayh, to review the agency employees' conduct and determine "potential disciplinary measures. If only Sarah Palin had been around in the 50s, she wouldve been all over this top-secret program. In dissent, Justice William Brennan argued that the need to preserve military discipline should not protect the government from liability and punishment for serious violations of constitutional rights: The medical trials at Nuremberg in 1947 deeply impressed upon the world that experimentation with unknowing human subjects is morally and legally unacceptable. ", "Operation Big Itch was a September 1954 series of tests at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Some of you have read this before. [49], In the early 1990s Richard Barlow asked his managers to correct the record when blatantly false statements had been made to Congress. Substances which will lower the ambition and general working efficiency of men when administered in undetectable amounts. [1][6] To this end, Operation Northwoods proposals recommended hijackings and bombings followed by the introduction of phony evidence that would implicate the Cuban government. [27] Medical professionals were sometimes used at black sites to monitor detainee health. "[27][28] The reports found that health professionals "Aided cruel and degrading interrogations; Helped devise and implement practices designed to maximize disorientation and anxiety so as to make detainees more malleable for interrogation; and Participated in the application of excruciatingly painful methods of force-feeding of mentally competent detainees carrying out hunger strikes" are not all that surprising. Materials which will produce the signs and symptoms of recognized diseases in a reversible way so they may be used for malingering, etc. [29] In some cases, academic researchers were funded through grants from CIA front organizations but were unaware that the CIA was using their work for these purposes. 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