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Source: [1976] OPERATION CHAOS The CIA's War Against the Sixties Counter-Culture by Mae Brussell

Department Of Army Report On The Use Of Chemical Agent Research, Intelligence Corps Experimentation With Hallucinogenic Drugs.
Summary Of CIA Testing Of LSD, Chemicals For Altering Human Behavior With A Wide Variety Of Methods.
Summary Of FBI Counter Intelligence Operations As Applied To Stated "Apostles Of Non-Violence," "New Left," "Advocates Of New Lifestyles"

DEPARTMENT OF ARMY REPORT ON THE USE OF CHEMICAL AGENT RESEARCH, INTELLIGENCE CORPS EXPERIMENTATION WITH HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS.
Dept. of the Army, Office of the Inspector General and Auditor General, Released March     1976.
Chronology of U.S. Army Intelligence, U.S. Chemical Corps Experiments on LSD, Code name EA 1729.

1950

LSD considered by Army as method for interrogation, and also for defense against enemy interrogation

May 1956

CHEMICAL WARFARE LABORATORIES, EDGEWOOD ARSENAL, MD. Started tests on human volunteers

 

Page 136, Army Report. "All beverages served to volunteers had included sufficient LSD, EA 1729, for effective dosage, or additional dosage administering before volunteering."

1956-1957

ARMY INTELLIGENCE, FT. HOLABIRD, combined with ARMY CHEMICAL CORPS, edgewood Arsenal, FOR LSD TESTS

 

Tests included many other chemicals. Also included LSD on electrode implants. Doses as high as 1600 micrograms, normal LSD, street level, 160 micrograms.

March 1958

THE HEIGHT OF LSD TESTING

 

Used on memory impairment, motor reactions, affects upon isolation, stress under LSD.

 

READY TO BE USED FOR "OPERATIONAL ADVANTAGE"

Jan. 21, 1959

CONCLUSIONS: LSD TESTS REWARDING

 

"IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT ACTUAL APPLICATION OF LSD BE UTILIZED IN REAL SITUATIONS ON AN EXPERIMENTAL BASIS."

Jan. 8, 1960

ARMY FIELD INSTRUCTIONS FOR G-2, ADMINISTRATION OF LSD. TOLD TO COORDINATE WITH FBI, CIA.

Dec. 1960

CIA, ARMY INTELLIGENCE, U.S. CHEMICAL CORPS WORKING TOGETHER on LSD TESTS.

April 28, 1961

OPERATION THIRD CHANCE

 

Overseas "testing," LSD. Causing mental diseases, not recognized by physicians, to get diagnosis to discredit.

July 1961

LSD READY FOR OPERATIONAL PURPOSES.

Feb. 1962

OPERATION DERBY HAT

 

Hawaii military bases, LSD experiments

April 19, 1963

LSD TESTING CONTINUED

 

No records of "volunteers"
Existing records "incomplete"
Most records "totally inadequate"

THE SENATE FOUND THIS REPORT AND MINIMIZED THE FINDINGS.

U.S. ARMY, U.S. CHEMICAL CORPS. SPENT $26,501,446

TESTS WERE FROM 1951 TO 1971

48 INSTITUTIONS WERE USED AS COVER: HOSPITAL, PRISONS, COLLEGES, MENTAL HOSPITALS, ARMY PERSONNEL

SUMMARY OF CIA TESTING OF LSD, CHEMICALS FOR ALTERING HUMAN BEHAVIOR WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF METHODS.

Foreign and Military Intelligence
Book I. April 26, 1976
Senate Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities.

1947

CIA EXPERIMENTS BEGIN FOR ALTERING HUMAN BEHAVIOR

 

1947, same year Nazi doctors brought to USA, continued their tests and experiments. 

1947-1953

OPERATION CHATTER

 

For the purpose of interrogation. 

1953-57

OPERATION BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE

 

Sodium Pentathol Injections, hypnosis Purpose; erase memory, create double, triple personalities, resist torture, conduct covert operations without memory later. 

 1/8/53

Death of Dr. Harold Blauer

 

Injections of Synthetic Mescaline Derivative. U.S. Chemical Corp. NY State Psychiatric Inst. 

1967-70

OPERATIONS MKNAOMI

 

Provide stockpile of INCAPACITATING, LETHAL MATERIAL. 

 

To be used by Technical Services Division. Make sure complete predictability of results. Toxins, shellfish, poison darts, pills, Biological weapons. Drugs to silence animals. Worked with the Army from 1952. 

1953-1963

MKULTRA, CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL AGENTS

 

Radiation 

 

Electroshock   electrode implants 

 

Psychology   LSD + electrodes 

 

psychiatry 

 

"10 years of tests," then operational. Tested all social levels of society. Native Americans, wide variety of persons used. Army Hospitals. Vacaville Prison, Calif. Lexington, Ky. National Institute of Mental Health. 

1961-1971

MKULTRA BECAME MKDELTA: OPERATIONAL USE

 

Allen Dulles 100,000,000 LSD 

 

Millions of Dollars 

 

Universities, pharmaceutical houses, hospitals. State, Federal institutions. 

 

Special and unique items for dissemination. Combined MKULTRA with Army, Projects Derby Hat, Project Third Chance. 

 

Purpose: TO CONTROL BODIES, WILLING OR NOT, WHERE DRUGS COULD BE USED TO HARASS, DISABLE, OR KILL. 

 Dec. 1963

MKULTRA, MKDELTA

 

Used as an OPERATIONAL WEAPON 

 

PRESIDENT, CONGRESS NEVER KNEW 

 

Purpose "DISCREDIT, IMPLANT SUGGESTIONS, MENTAL CONTROL, ELICIT INFORMATION. 

 

CAN PRODUCE A PSYCHOSIS IN CHRONIC FORM PARTICULARLY IN LATENT SCHIZOPHRENIA. 

 

CAN CAUSE PERMANENT CONDITION OF INSANITY. 

 

 
SUMMARY OF FBI COUNTER INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS AS APPLIED TO STATED "APOSTLES OF NON-VIOLENCE," "NEW LEFT," "ADVOCATES OF NEW LIFESTYLES"
Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans
Book II, April 26, 1976

Senate Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities

1964-1970

THE FBI JOINED WITH THE CIA, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY IN ILLEGAL, DOMESTIC ACTIVITIES.

1964, May

COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM STARTED

July 1968

ORDERS FROM FBI HEADQUARTERS: INSTRUCTIONS FOR OPERATIONS Selected "enemy" were to be 1) exposed 2) disrupted
3) neutralized.

 

METHODS SUGGESTED BY SUPERIORS FOR THESE OPERATIONS, PUT INTO WRITING, AS GUIDELINES.

 

Gather information on their immorality.

 

Show them as scurrilous and depraved.

 

Call attention to their habits and living conditions.

 

Explore every possible embarrassment.

 

Investigate personal conflicts or animosities between them.

 

Send articles to newspapers showing their depravity.

 

Use narcotics and free sex for entrapment.

 

Have members arrested on marijuana charges.

 

Exploit the hostilities between various persons.

 

Use cartoons and photographs to ridicule them.

 

Use misinformation to confuse and disrupt.

 

Get records of their bank accounts.

 

Obtain specimens of handwriting.

 

Provoke target groups into rivalries that resulted in deaths.

1969 

SSS, SPECIAL SERVICES STAFF

 

Started targeting groups, individuals
(After Woodstock, just prior to Manson Family and Altamont.)

 

FBI, NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, COMBINED INTO A LARGER OPERATION, INTER-DIVISIONAL INFORMATION UNIT, IDIU, JUSTICE DEPT.

Aug. 1969

FBI, PLUS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, PLUS NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY, COMBINED WITH CIA'S OPERATIONAL CHAOS.

 

FBI and Justice Dept. knew CIA operations in USA were illegal.

 

They agreed to work together, keep it highly secret, not put CIA names on meeting memos, and give concealed names to keep CIA FROM BEING OBSERVED.