MKULTRA: a CIA/LSD Mind Control Project in the USA during the 1950's and 1960's. They were looking for a way to use drugs as weapons of war. For example: as a truth serum to aid in interrogation. They used US citizens as test subjects without consent. The end result was that subjects Ken Kesey, Robert Hunter and Stewart Brand took the experiment out of the laboratory and onto the dance floor... Millions of people tripped and the history of the world was changed forever. THANKS, CIA! 
Would the knowledge learned by years of research be useful in our present day war in the Middle East? Could we use psychedelics to reduce the will of the enemy to fight? Change a whole culture into Pacifists? What would happen if ten million muslims ate LSD and MDMA? Would they put down their guns and pick up a guitar? Write some POETRY? Become HIPPIES? READ MORE...
 Supposedly MKULTRA ended, but we hear rumors of it being continued in 2007. Amy Goodman interview on Democracy NOW with Jose Padilla's psychotherapist makes the claim that during his 3 1/2 years in solitary confinement, he was dosed with LSD as part of the interrogation... no proof, because the hallucinations of sensory deprivation are indistinguisable from those caused by eating psychedelics. The victim would not be able to tell the difference... http://www.alternet.org/story/59958/ 
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MKULTRA: an extention of the NAZI Aviation experiments of WW2 using mescaline at DACHAU prison. Many people died there because the experiments wanted to find out exactly how far a human body can be stressed before death. That required many test subjects being tortured fatally... and that's one of the reasons we had trials at Nuremburg. Just to provide some relief from sad thoughts, College kids dancing to trippy music... FUN, FUN, FUN... FunKy.... 
Dancing girls at Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, USA, Dr. John Lilly did experiments involving electrodes being inserted into the brains of monkeys and letting them push a button that caused a feeling of pleasure. He also invented the Isolation tank. The Movie "Altered States" is quasi-biographical. The Movie "The Day of the Dolphin" was about his research into man-dolphin communication. 
BRAINSPLICE: Center of the Cyclone by John C Lilly. http://www.johnclilly.com MKULTRA: The Leary personality test was developed for the CIA by Dr. Timothy Leary years before he became famous for being the "ACID GURU" The title of Leary's Ph.D. dissertation was, "The Social Dimensions of Personality: Group Structure and Process." http://www.markriebling.com/leary.html MKULTRA: Man taking picture of Hallucination. 
MKULTRA: One theory is that after the CIA sponsored LSD tests were completed in Palo Alto on Ken Kesey, Robert Hunter (lyricist for the Grateful Dead) and Stewart Brand (Whole Earth Catalog), the CIA allowed them to create the traveling ACID TEST that featured the musical performances of The Grateful Dead. The agency just wanted to see what would happen if millions of people took LSD in uncontrolled situations... It always amazed me that we were able to trip in public in crowds up to 80,000 people without adult supervision or mass arrests. Just co-incidence? I don't think so. I think the CIA was just curious... They wanted to see how effective it would be to dose millions of people. Would they become docile and easily controllable? Now, we find that Bob Wier and Mickey Hart have joined the "Bohemian Grove" club... known as a men's summercamp visited by republican political leaders and the super-rich... Did they get invited because they could perform well at campfire sing-alongs? I hope so... 
MKULTRA: The mystery of Mary Pinchot Meyer. She was a friend of John Kennedy and supposedly gave him Marijuana and LSD while at the White House as a guest. Then, a few days after his assasination, she was killed and the crime has never been solved. Her family gave the CIA her diary to help them figure out what happened, and they claim to have burned the diary-unread... She was a friend of Timothy Leary. A group of women were turning on the top 1% of the men in society: political leaders, movie stars, artists, scientists and business leaders. The idea was to change the whole world by changing the minds of the leaders... http://www.serendipity.li/cia/cia_lsd.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pinchot_Meyer 
MKULTRA: In Canada, Dr Ewan Cameron had a hospital where he tried to help mentally ill people by months in sensory deprivation and endless LSD trips. The victims had to listen to tape recordings of their own voice expressing their deepest fears. This "psychic driving" technique was supposed to destroy the victims ego and create a clean slate to build a brand new person... Eventually, the country paid $700,000 to the survivors of the experiments. A movie called "The Sleep Room" was made about his hospital. In a bizarre twist, the head of the World Psychiatric Association (Dr. Cameron) did unspeakable torture to his patients... as if he was the MOST mentally ill of all. All funded by the CIA. 
hallucinations documented by greg vanderlaan. I just paint what I see... 
Heart of Golden Glass. MKULTRA: The mysterious death of Dr. Frank Olson. He was a US ARMY employee that was dosed with LSD without his knowledge and then got upset. He sought psychiatric help and then a couple of days later died after he went out a window of a hotel on the 13th story. Fell, jumped or was pushed? no one knows. President Gerald Ford gave the widow $750,000 for settling out of court. http://www.frankolsonproject.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Olson http://maebrussell.com/Frank%20Olson/Frank%20Olson%208-8-02.html
This is the conspiracy theory... The CIA wanted to test what would happen if large numbers of people were dosed simultaniously. The did an experiment with an exploding lightbulb filled with LSD in the New York City subway system. This delivery method was a failure... a few people were dosed heavily and the mass were not dosed at all... An alternative delivery technique was to dissolve LSD into a beverage and give it away free to a large crowd of people. This technique is errily similar to what happened at the Acid Tests... Just co-incidence??? I believe that the CIA felt that people who had had the LSD experience were less likely to protest the War in Vietnam... Those people would have a tendency to drop out and go practice subsistence farming in rural communities instead of participation in the violent overthrow of the US government. This belief seems accurate... Hey, I live in Humboldt County, California... I'm not really that interested in revolution... more interested in ART, MUSIC and webpage design... To furthur add to the mystery, it seems to me that there was very little law enforcement in the parking lots of the concerts. Obviously, everyone knew that it was easy to find and purchase illegal drugs there. Somehow, the police simply decided to not enforce the law at the shows... Sure, some people were busted and that was a tragedy, but, for years a triving illegal business community followed the Dead around... or did the Dead follow the community around?
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