Thanks for the information. For more on the details mentioned, check
out for example the US News article, "The Cold War Experiments," at
http://www.datafilter.com/mc/coldWarExperiments.html
or some of the many other articles and sites at
http://www.datafilter.com/mc
mike henley wrote:
>> This is not to confirm all the details you mentioned, but only to say
> that i have seen credible evidence that those "mind control"
> experiments, as you call them, actually happened, in one case even
> giving a young girl 62 ECT sessions over a period of just 5 days. The
> experiments started during the 1950s in response to a korean war POWs
> issue; some good american boys appearing on communist TV criticising
> their own country and their own society and embracing communist
> propaganda. To politicians it seemed such a perplexing thing and as a
> result psychology and psychiatry were mobilized in the war effort. Now
> in those days many experiments were carried out without any ethical
> consideration, such as in the case of the many black people, nothing
> to do with the CIA, during the 1930s, who were deliberately
> innoculated with syphilis in the name of science. Of note is that, the
> hallucinogens craze of the 1960s was argued to have been a result of
> those military research programs that led to their development.