LSD Party Favors: MKULTA Essay
LSD party favors: MKULTRA
It was Wednesday August 3, 1977; the CIA went to court for being accused of forming a mind control research project called MKULTRA. The United States government started the MKULTRA project to teach CIA agents how to avoid the use of mind control in other countries. “Convinced that German scientists could help America’s postwar efforts, President Harry Truman agreed in September 1946 to authorize “Project Paperclip,” a program to bring selected German scientists to work on America’s behalf during to “Clod War””(Laura Knight-Jadczyk). President Truman was collecting scientists to help start Project MKULTRA. “I was sick – sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted …show more content…
In the book, “The Control of Candy Jones” the author reviewed hours of tape made by Candy Jones and her husband revealed as systematic program to create and manipulate alter personalities as the foundation for programmed couriers resistant to torture, where the primary personality would not even be aware of the secret information being carried. The information could be summoned fourth via post-hypnotic command or response to a pre- programmed cue” (MindSpring). Some famous people made their careers after they unwillingly practiced in MKULTRA. They use their experience as an outlet to help them get over the experiment. “Ken Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and a source of inspiration in the counterculture movement, was first exposed to LSD and other psychedelic drugs as a part of the MKULTRA project while still a graduate student at Stanford university” (J. Francis Wolfe). “Robert Hunter, a lyricist and longtime collaborator with the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia, was exposed to the same testing as Kesey, though he had no idea that it was a part of the MKULTRA project until many years later” (J. Francis
It was Wednesday August 3, 1977; the CIA went to court for being accused of forming a mind control research project called MKULTRA. The United States government started the MKULTRA project to teach CIA agents how to avoid the use of mind control in other countries. “Convinced that German scientists could help America’s postwar efforts, President Harry Truman agreed in September 1946 to authorize “Project Paperclip,” a program to bring selected German scientists to work on America’s behalf during to “Clod War””(Laura Knight-Jadczyk). President Truman was collecting scientists to help start Project MKULTRA. “I was sick – sick unto death with that long agony; and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted …show more content…
In the book, “The Control of Candy Jones” the author reviewed hours of tape made by Candy Jones and her husband revealed as systematic program to create and manipulate alter personalities as the foundation for programmed couriers resistant to torture, where the primary personality would not even be aware of the secret information being carried. The information could be summoned fourth via post-hypnotic command or response to a pre- programmed cue” (MindSpring). Some famous people made their careers after they unwillingly practiced in MKULTRA. They use their experience as an outlet to help them get over the experiment. “Ken Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and a source of inspiration in the counterculture movement, was first exposed to LSD and other psychedelic drugs as a part of the MKULTRA project while still a graduate student at Stanford university” (J. Francis Wolfe). “Robert Hunter, a lyricist and longtime collaborator with the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia, was exposed to the same testing as Kesey, though he had no idea that it was a part of the MKULTRA project until many years later” (J. Francis