", "Ken Kesey, Author of 'Cuckoo's Nest,' Who Defined the Psychedelic Era, Dies at 66", "I'm Whitey Bulger. [64] The barbiturates were released into the person first, and as soon as the person began to fall asleep, the amphetamines were released. Church Committee; "The congressional committee investigating the CIA research, chaired by Senator, 1977 Senate MKULTRA Hearing: Appendix C Documents Referring to subprojects. "Director Panetta did brief us two weeks agoI believe it was on the 24th of June and, as had been reported, did tell us that he was told that the vice president had ordered that the program not be briefed to the Congress. 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. . ", "Operation Big Itch was a September 1954 series of tests at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. As the experimentation progressed, a point arrived where outsiders were drugged with no explanation whatsoever and surprise acid trips became something of an occupational hazard among CIA operatives. 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. The CIA has been called into question for, at times, using torture, funding and training of groups and organizations that would later participate in killing of civilians and other non-combatants and would try or succeed in overthrowing democratically elected governments, human experimentation, and targeted killings and assassinations. The explosion created a mushroom cloud that stretched 40,000 feet (12,200 m), and the bomb's explosive power was equivalent to more than 15,000 tons of TNT. [90] The case was dismissed in July 2013, due in part to the 1976 settlement between the family and government. Avro Canada VZ-9AV Avrocar at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Rare green comet not seen since the Stone Age will zoom overhead tonight. Today, the crushed remains of Project Iceworm are buried beneath Arctic snow. To learn more about the CORONA project, please see the following publications and video: but as the declassified CIA documents we'll examine here make clear, mind control programs are a real thing in which the U.S government took an active interest, dedicating . At first, everyone in Technical Services tried it; a typical experiment involved two people in a room where they observed each other for hours and took notes. None of these reports, however, mentions by name an Operation Mockingbird coordinating or supporting these activities.". The Central Intelligence Agency today declassified the United States Government's six oldest classified documents, dating from 1917 and 1918. [citation needed] The CIA itself subsequently acknowledged that these tests had little scientific rationale. Arrival ceremony for Giulio Andreotti, President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic, April 17, 1973. [1] Chemical Corps personnel participating in the tests were not volunteers and were not informed of the tests. Ned Price, a CIA official since 2006, stirred controversy when he published an op-ed in The Washington Post, explaining why he surprised himself by resigning, after he perceived Trump using his visit to CIA HQ for partisan political posturing. The tense relationship between the United States and Cuba during the Cold War led the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to hatch a slew of bizarre schemes aimed at taking down the Castro regime. Where appropriate, the United States seeks assurances that transferred persons will not be tortured. No matter what you see or hear, don't believe it.". They maintain that Frank Olson was murdered because, especially in the aftermath of his LSD experience, he had become a security risk who might divulge state secrets associated with highly classified CIA programs, about many of which he had direct personal knowledge. Known to the public as the U.S. Air Forces Discoverer program, the classified CORONA project operated during the height of the Cold War to collect pictures over the denied areas of eastern Europe and Asia. From a secret U.S. Air Force project to build a supersonic flying saucer to a now-famous World War II-era research program that produced the first atomic bombs to a plan to train domesticated cats to spy on the Soviet Union, here are 22 declassified military and CIA secrets. This category contains the known or alleged operations of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. [66] They conducted experiments with drug-induced hypnosis and with anterograde and retrograde amnesia while under the influence of such drugs. [21], Edward Lee Howard, David Henry Barnett, both field operations officers sold secrets to Russia. [48] Some Members of Congress believe that these lies to Congress are similar to CIA lies to Congress from earlier periods. Cameron had been hoping to correct schizophrenia by erasing existing memories and reprogramming the psyche. "The CIA recognizes the importance of opening these historical documents to the public," said Joseph Lambert, the Agency's Director of Information Management Services. "[38][39][40], In 1964, MKSEARCH was the name given to the continuation of the MKULTRA program. DCIs Address to CSI CORONA Symposium NPR Fresh Air. "[37], Several investigations led by the Church Committee, Rockefeller Commission and Pike Committee have been conducted about the CIA, and many documents have been declassified. [91] In the decision dismissing the suit, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote, "While the court must limit its analysis to the four corners of the complaint, the skeptical reader may wish to know that the public record supports many of the allegations [in the family's suit], farfetched as they may sound. "[65], The agency attracted widespread criticism after it used a local doctor in Pakistan to set up a hepatitis B vaccination program in Abbottabad in 2011 to obtain DNA samples from the occupants of a compound where it was suspected bin Laden was living, hoping to obtain samples from bin Laden or his children in order to confirm his presence. The CIA captured people suspected of being enemy agents and other people it deemed "expendable" to undertake various types of torture and human experimentation on them. Substances which produce physical disablement such as paralysis of the legs, acute anemia, etc. The end of the Cold War also spurred interest in satellites and their possible use for environmental and other studies. The U.S. General Accounting Office issued a report on September 28, 1994, which stated that between 1940 and 1974, Department of Defense and other national security agencies studied thousands of human subjects in tests and experiments involving hazardous substances. Materials which will promote the intoxicating effect of alcohol. CIA Crime and Narcotics Center[44] researches information on international narcotics trafficking and organized crime for policymakers and the law enforcement community. The term "torture by proxy" is used by some critics to describe situations in which the CIA[7][8][9][10] and other US agencies have transferred suspected terrorists to countries known to employ torture, whether they meant to enable torture or not. Project AERODYNAMIC (formerly CARTEL, ANDROGEN, AECARTHAGE), which operated 1949-1970 before being reclassified under Project named QRDYNAMIC in 1970 and finally QRDYNAMIC/QRPLUMB until 1991. Its purpose was to develop, test, and evaluate capabilities in the covert use of biological, chemical, and radioactive material systems and techniques of producing predictable human behavioral and/or physiological changes in support of highly sensitive operational requirements. [4] The fleas were loaded into two types of munitions and dropped from the air. CORONA and the Intelligence Community Substances which promote weakness or distortion of the eyesight or hearing faculties, preferably without permanent effects. That group compiled more than 9,000 pages of documents detailing crimes by U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, many of which were declassified during the 1990s. From September 20 to 27, 1950, the U.S. Navy released the pathogens off the shore of San Francisco. The Soviet Union was more aggressive in forcibly recruiting more than 2,200 German specialistsa total of more than 6,000 people including family memberswith Operation Osoaviakhim during one night on October 22, 1946.". "In fiscal year 2010 alone, the Agency declassified and released over 1.1 million pages of documents.". The CIA wanted to verse itself in this type of "mind control" to be able to recognize and use it in case of a conflict with the USSR. The operation proposed creating public support for a war against Cuba by blaming it for terrorist acts that would actually be perpetrated by the U.S. The doctor was later arrested and sentenced to a lengthy prison term on allegedly unrelated charges. Just what kinds is still classified. [98] The majority argued that "a test for liability that depends on the extent to which particular suits would call into question military discipline and decision making would itself require judicial inquiry into, and hence intrusion upon, military matters." The damage incurred on these survivors was so severe that mind control was thought to be the culprit. [1], According to writer Deborah Davis, Operation Mockingbird recruited leading American journalists into a propaganda network and oversaw the operations of front groups. [119], "MKULTRA" redirects here. "Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against the Cuban government that originated within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) of the United States government in 1962. This accusation was based on the CIA Director's earlier denials of Senator Dianne Feinstein's claims that the surreptitious CIA search of the SSCI computers occurred, was inappropriate, or "violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution, including the Speech and Debate clause" or other laws. Thanks to the Intelligence Communitys persistence, CORONA resulted in one of the largest declassification projects in American history. Throughout its history, the CIA has been the subject of a number of controversies, both at home and abroad. . ", Dianne Feinstein, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, As mandated by Title 50 of the United States Code Chapter 15, Subchapter III, when it becomes necessary to limit access to covert operations findings that could affect vital interests of the U.S., as soon as possible the President must report at a minimum to the Gang of Eight (the leaders of each of the two parties from both the Senate and House of Representatives, and the chairs and ranking members of both the Senate Committee and House Committee for intelligence). 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[74][75][76][77][78][79][80], In March 2017, WikiLeaks has published more than 8,000 documents on the CIA. Olson, a United States Army biochemist and biological weapons researcher, was given LSD without his knowledge or consent in November 1953, as part of a CIA experiment, and died by suicide by jumping out of a 13th-story window a week later. "These documents remained classified for nearly a century until recent advancements in technology made it possible to release them," CIA Director Leon E. Panetta said. 25-Year, $25 Million Program. [41], By March 1971 over 26,000 potential agents had been acquired for future screening. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, Under this guise, engineers built a network of underground buildings and tunnels, including living quarters, a kitchen, a recreation hall, infirmary, laboratories, supply rooms, a communications center and a nuclear power plant. "[41], According to Timothy Naftali, "The CIAs central concern [in recruiting former Nazi collaborators] was not so much the extent of the criminals guilt as the likelihood that the agents criminal past could remain a secret. Substances which alter personality structure in such a way the tendency of the recipient to become dependent upon another person is enhanced. Previously, the CIA and the army had actively and successfully sought to withhold incriminating information, even as they secretly provided compensation to the families. Lord George Robertson, British defence secretary and later NATO's secretary-general, would later explain that NATO members agree to provide "blanket overflight clearances for the United States and other allies' aircraft for military flights related to operations against terrorism. law. The people under this interrogation were CIA employees, U.S. military personnel, and agents suspected of working for the other side in the Cold War. 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. It stated: The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an international image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere. "U.S. vets say there were human guinea pigs | ABC7 San Francisco | abc7news.com". It is not as if this was an oversight and over the years it just got buried. To date, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain the only uses of nuclear weapons in war. [61], Some subjects' participation was consensual, and in these cases they appeared to be singled out for even more extreme experiments. The Washington Post and The Guardian later revealed that SNOWDEN was the principal source for the classified information on or about June 9, 2013, in a videotaped interview with The Guardian, admitted that he was the person who illegally provided those documents to reporters. [13]:74[16][17][18] Over 7,000 American veterans took part in these experiments non-consensually during the 1950s through 1970s, many of them suing later on. and other United States agencies employed at least a thousand Nazis as Cold War spies and informants and, as recently as the 1990s, concealed the governments ties to some still living in America, newly disclosed records and interviews show. These declassified documents include a system designed to teach people how to focus their . Documents describing secret writing fall under the CIA's purview to declassify. 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. These acts, which included faked terrorist attacks in U.S. cities, the hijacking of planes and the sinking of boats full of Cuban migrs en route to the U.S., would then be used to justify a war with Cuba, according to the documents. In 1953, Olson's death was described as a suicide that had occurred during a severe psychotic episode. [12] The administration continued to allow rendition only "to a country with jurisdiction over that individual (for prosecution of that individual)" when there is a diplomatic assurance "that they will not be treated inhumanely. In the 1970s, Congressional investigations and reports also revealed Agency connections with journalists and civic groups. [38], The CIA sometimes finds itself in conflict with other parts of the government when there is disagreement over the legality of specific covert programs. It has been claimed, though, that torture has been employed with the knowledge or acquiescence of US agencies (a transfer of anyone to anywhere for the purpose of torture is a violation of US law), although Condoleezza Rice (then the United States Secretary of State) stated that: the United States has not transported anyone, and will not transport anyone, to a country when we believe he will be tortured. [22] In 1977, a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered a cache of 20,000 documents relating to MKUltra, which led to Senate hearings. The CIA's own internal investigation concluded that the head of MKUltra, CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb, had conducted the LSD experiment with Olson's prior knowledge, although neither Olson nor the other men taking part in the experiment were informed as to the exact nature of the drug until some 20 minutes after its ingestion. The mission of the secret armies was simple: Prepare for a potential communist takeover and lead an armed resistance should such a takeover occur. While Area 51, which operates as a detachment of Edwards Air Force Base in neighboring California, has never been declared a covert base, the research and activities conducted there were some of the nation's most closely guarded secrets. For more on the program, read this declassified document here. The Institute on Medicine as a Profession and the non-profit organization Open Society Foundations reviewed public records into the medical professions alleging complicity in the abuse of prisoners suspected of terrorism who were held in U.S. custody during the years after 9/11. One subject of army drug experimentation, James Stanley, an army sergeant, brought an important, albeit unsuccessful, suit. Before it was called the CIA, it was. 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. The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG), in implementing the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act and the Japanese Imperial Government Records Act, has taken the broadest view in identifying records that may be responsive to the Acts. (Keystone/Getty Images), A Soviet soldier inside the 350 yard tunnel extending from the American Sector of Berlin into the Soviet Sector on April 26, 1956. [67]:140150 His treatments resulted in victims' urinary incontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents and thinking their interrogators were their parents. In December 1974, The New York Times alleged that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities, including experiments on U.S. citizens, during the 1960s. The National Intelligence Daily for December 29, 1989, was first declassified by the CIA on June 3, 1999. Adverse reactions often occurred, such as an operative who received the drug in his morning coffee, became psychotic and ran across Washington, seeing a monster in every car passing him. [59], The Wall Street Journal reported, citing former intelligence officials familiar with the matter, that the program was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al-Qaeda operatives.[60]. Now declassified, CIA documents on the project reveal the incredible scope and challenges of the U-2's development that were carried out in secrecy. [48], Once Project MKUltra got underway in April 1953, experiments included administering LSD to mental patients, prisoners, drug addicts, and prostitutes "people who could not fight back," as one agency officer put it. One of the most well-known secret research programs is the Manhattan Project, which eventually produced the world's first atomic bombs. The committee noted that the "experiments sponsored by these researchers call into question the decision by the agencies not to fix guidelines for experiments.". The project began in 1939, and was cloaked in secrecy as physicists investigated the potential power of atomic weapons. [39], In 2014, The New York Times reported that "In the decades after World War II, the C.I.A. The proposed purchase aimed to stop other countries from controlling the supply. . According to the Church Committee, "such materials were used on a number of occasions". Project Grudge was a short-lived program launched in 1949 to study unidentified flying objects. CIA spokesman George Little said that he could not confirm if CIA computers were used to make the changes, claiming that "the agency always expects its computer systems to be used responsibly. Unidentified Vietnamese women and children before being killed in the My Lai Massacre. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). [45][37], Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has stated that the CIA repeatedly misled Congress since 2001 about waterboarding and other torture, though Pelosi admitted to being told about the programs. [49], In the early 1990s Richard Barlow asked his managers to correct the record when blatantly false statements had been made to Congress. Ancient bird with T. rex-like skull discovered in China, Extinct giant tortoise was the 'mammoth' of Madagascar 1,000 years ago, Utah's Great Salt Lake is on the verge of collapse, and could expose millions to arsenic laced dust. Many veterans who were subjected to experimentation are now seeking legal and monetary reparations. "The Snowden leaks have generated broad public debate over issues of security, privacy, and legality inherent in the NSA's surveillance of communications by American citizens. Snowden released a significant amount of information on the U.S. government's surveillance program of its citizens[33][34][35][36] to The Washington Post as well as foreign news reporters. A month after the Trinity test, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in the waning stages of World War II. The objective was to house medium-range missiles close enough to strike targets within the Soviet Union. Research by Dr. Alfred W. McCoy, Gary Webb, and others has pointed to CIA involvement in narcotics trafficking across the globe, although the CIA officially denies such allegations. (Image credit: National Archives and Records Administration). 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. Some historians suggest the program was designed to develop a mind-control system that could be used to "program" the brains of potential assassins. "[17], On December 30, 2009, a suicide attack occurred in the Forward Operating Base Chapman attack in the province of Khost, Afghanistan. Materials which will render the induction of hypnosis easier or otherwise enhance its usefulness. This resulted in the withdrawal of support by many academics and private researchers, and LSD research became less of a priority altogether. These documents, which describe secret writing techniques and are housed at the National Archives, are believed to be the only remaining classified documents from the World War I era. [93][94] However, academic sources attribute the incident to ergot poisoning through a local bakery.[95][96][97]. [74][unreliable source? 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. Rather, the human rights associated with the Snowden leaks are regarding the types of document Snowden released. 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. 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." [15], Following the September 11 attacks the United States, in particular the CIA, has been accused of rendering hundreds of people suspected by the government of being terroristsor of aiding and abetting terrorist organisationsto third-party states such as Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Uzbekistan. The tests were designed to reveal information about the dispersal of yellow fever mosquitoes in an urban area. These research funds were sent to Cameron by a CIA front organization, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, and as shown in internal CIA documents, Cameron did not know the money came from the CIA. Other experiments involved heroin, morphine, temazepam (used under code name MKSEARCH), mescaline, psilocybin, scopolamine, alcohol and sodium pentothal.[65]. [12] The program engaged in illegal activities,[13][14][15] including the use of U.S. and Canadian citizens as unwitting test subjects. The mosquitoes were released from ground level in Savannah, Georgia and then recovered using traps baited with dry ice. [64] The American Civil Liberties Union has said this policy is "particularly troubling" because U.S. citizens "retain their constitutional right to due process even when abroad." [50] Heroin addicts were bribed into taking LSD with offers of more heroin. Allegations by Director Panetta indicate that details of a secret counterterrorism program were withheld from Congress under orders from former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. [86] The medical examiner termed Olson's death a "homicide". [2], Operation Top Hat was termed a "local field exercise" by the Army and took place from September 1519, 1953 at the Army Chemical School at Fort McClellan, Alabama. Wernher von Braun, who helped get us on the moon in 1969. The intense secrecy surrounding the base sparked peoples' imaginations, and Area 51 was commonly linked to paranormal activities, including pervasive theories that suggested Area 51 hid aliens and UFOs. Working with the CIA, the Department of Defense gave hallucinogenic drugs to thousands of "volunteer" soldiers in the 1950s and 1960s. Substances which will enhance the ability of individuals to withstand privation, torture, and coercion during interrogation and so-called "brain-washing". Get InsideHook in your inbox. It is unknown whether any useful DNA was acquired from the program, but it was deemed not successful. In some countries, "preparing" for Soviet invasion included espionage and the hoarding of ammunitions. Declassified CIA File - Project AERODYNAMIC (15 Feb 1967) Original Title: Declassified CIA file - Project AERODYNAMIC (15 Feb 1967) Uploaded by Operation Gladio Description: Source: http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/1705143/AERODYNAMIC%20%20%20VOL.%205%20%20 (DEVELOPMENT%20AND%20PLANS)_0004.pdf Copyright: Many were former members, and some were former leaders, of the Nazi Party. In the film, soldiers were selected to be part of a military program examining whether it was possible to affect the physical world with thought forms. It refers to the study of an assortment of mind-altering substances described as follows:[37], The 1976 Church Committee report found that, in the MKDELTA program, "Drugs were used primarily as an aid to interrogations, but MKULTRA/MKDELTA materials were also used for harassment, discrediting or disabling purposes. The trove contains files covering a wide range of secrets, from the mundane to the mind-blowing and, yes, even UFOS. 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