http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKULTRAProject MKULTRA, or MK-ULTRA, was the code name for a CIA mind-control research program that began in 1950, ... first brought to wide public attention by the U.S. Congress (in the form of the Church Committee) and a presidential commission (known as the Rockefeller Commission) and also to the U.S. Senate.
Although the CIA insists that MKULTRA-type experiments have been abandoned, 14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti has stated in various interviews that the CIA routinely conducts disinformation campaigns and that CIA mind control research continued. In a 1977 interview, Marchetti specifically called the CIA claim that MKULTRA was abandoned a 'cover story.'.
On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy said:
The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an 'extensive testing and experimentation' program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens 'at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign.' Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to 'unwitting subjects in social situations.' At least one death, that of Dr. (Frank) Olson, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers.
I have always suspected that Ted Kennedy was a target (I should not have to tell you when), and I wonder if he realizes this? It is a real catch-22 situation to be the subject of these attacks. Most targets never realize their "accident" isn't their fault. If anyone realizes and comes forward, they are branded as mentally unstable, or worse. All you can do is keep silent, or risk making your life even worse.
I discovered this book during Iran-Contra, shortly after returning from Central America.
For a time, I was the subject of significant and diverse harassment, some of it daily.
This followed an attempt on my life? in Central America, foiled by locals quickly stopping
my profuse bleeding. I was stabbed nine times in an "apparent" mugging by
two persons who stole my notes and my contact list, but not my money or billfold.
I was investigating the La Penca bombing, the murder of Linda Frazier, and the cocaine trade.
Lee, Martin; Shlain, Bruce (1985). Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond. New York: Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-3062-3.
This capability has advanced significantly, I'm certain. The thing that is most disconcerting today is the capability to alter an individual's mental capabilities surreptitiously slowly and in an undetectable manner, such that political activists are fully deterred from actions, and they never even realize what has happened. One direction this can take is psychotomimetic, producing psychotic symptoms which will result in medication and treatment accomplishing the final objective and, additionally, leaving the subject with a permanent stigma and a belief that they are mentally ill.
Some of the materials employed are gases that dissipate quickly and difficult to detect. They can even be released from an automobile in front of the subject.
If you try to investigate this use of gas, all you have is air.
If you investigate this subject generally, all you will find is darkness.