Before there was WikiLeaks, there was Cryptome. (And it’s probably a safe bet that after WikiLeaks is long gone, there will still be a Cryptome.) Via Spencer Ackerman at Wired’s Danger Room, here’s a pair of memos, posted to the intelligence-secrets website, that show the CIA was all up in that Inception-type business in the Cold War: using deep hypnosis to create unwitting double agents and implant secret communications in their brains, where they can’t be intercepted! Cue evil laugh! “I assure you, it will work,” the agency’s mesmerism cheerleader writes. Full docs are here.
No surprises here to those who are well-acquainted both with science fiction and the CIA’s fondness for far-out mind experiments. Ackerman reminds us about Project MKULTRA and the crazy acid tests that comprised America’s war on commies until the ’70s, when Congress’ Church Commission put the kibosh on all that cloak-and-doctor intrigue. Even so, these two docs, dated from 1954 and 1955, are worth a good read. And they remind us that digital leak sites can do more than publicize the lifestyles of the Kazakhstani leadership.
That was the ’50s. Imagine what they’re able to do now. Or not. If these tactics really worked well to get people to do what you want, why would we need waterboarding, etc. to torture confessions and info from the Gitmotized?
ECA–the desert is one issue, drought is worse. Has the USA CONSCIOUSLY USED FOOD AS A WEAPON to keep the third world down? Well, I hope not. Beyond that, reality says if you are starving to death and you don’t want to take food, that is your right. Heh, heh. A real LIEberTARD argument.
Fun hypothetical: the Ethiopian government says are people are starving. Yes, we’ll take the food but “demand” that you also send us experts and the capital to allow us to provide our own food. Estimate a 10 year program at a minimum. We have nothing to give you in return, not even our thanks.
The family of man. I hate both my sisters.
And thats why shit is coming our way. No reason for anyone else to love us regardless of what we did or didn’t do once long ago.
#20,
My question was WHY they attacked us.
Japan was waring with China, we had the flying tigers helping out the chinese, AND to curb their expansion, we CUT OFF THEIR OIL.
Japan and China tend to be ALIKE.
Japan needed RESOURCES and tried to spread out, gain land. It was already CROWDED on their islands, and they had NO real resources or trade.
#21
Bo,
The USA supplies 30% of the worlds food supply. NOT counting FREE food to World charities.
You should look up links to FOOD as a weapon. I wont send you to any as there are a few. decide for yourself, What the power of food can do.
deowll…did you hear those O’keefe videos were A href=”http://mediamatters.org/research/201006010001″>thoroughly debunked as highly edited and misleading, right? The “progressive filters” of several prosecutors determined it was all a publicity stunt, a hoax. No related prosecutions of Acorn or their people took place. Didn’t hear that on Fox, did you? Too bad you get your news so heavily filtered, eh? lol
BTW, there are lots of sources for this, the link is simply a nice compilation of the entire hoax and the fraudsters who committed it.
Crap.
http://mediamatters.org/research/201006010001
A good read, and 1 of many.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article19775.htm
ECA–I disagree==not a good read. Perhaps I skimmed too fast but there was not a single statement adressing food used as a weapon. The closest came right at the start:
“Using food as a weapon is as old as the siege but today’s barbarians have upped the anté by several orders of magnitude.” /// I’m sorry but starving people into submission is not “using food as a weapon.”
Food and any other resource and its distribution has effects. You think we should have supported Ethiopia more by giving them something more than just immediate food relief? Thats debatable. Tax me to provide good to starving people==ok, I’ll probably grit my teeth and go along thinking of the kiddies. Tax me to provide infrastructure or more likely just graft to crooked politicians in a country 7000 miles away? I don’t think so. Thats not using food as a weapon, thats me not wanting to share my toys.
“The poor countries of the world have been ‘persuaded’ that growing food for export so as to earn foreign currency which they then have to use to buy imported food (guess where from?), is better than growing food in their back yard. And to make sure they live up to their end of the ‘bargain’, under WTO ‘rules’ they get punished if they try to control imports.
Countries grew their own food which not only fed them but also created employment, now grow food and things like flowers, for export in order to ‘earn’ the precious dollar which obviously they have to spend on importing the food they once grew. Worse, the subsidized food imports wipe out what remains of indigenous agriculture, it simply can’t compete. What an insane setup! It only makes sense when you realize that the managers who setup this ‘deal’ work for BIg Business, they call the shots. If it were a ‘Mafia’ deal it would be called criminal extortion.”
So, to starving countries we give little. Insted of walking in and redeveloping the farming, we Expect EXPORTS.
Another point in this, is that we COULD re-teach them about Farming. We have done it in parts of africa, along the edges of the Deserts.
rebuild the soils, gathering water, Proper irrigation, re-Claiming raw nutrients from the cities that are going to WASTE..Even in the USA we have forgotten much, and now require chemicals.
For all the BS floating around we could have abundant crops. But, because of politics, greed, envy, and other problems… we instigate MORE problems then needed.
I thought the broad conclusion out of these experiments is that you can destroy people’s minds fairly easily, but putting something in place of the old personality is impossible.
The first document that the Mother Jones article mentions misspelled hypnotism. Look at the spelling in the title: “HYPNTISM”.
The documents describe electrodes placed into childrens’ brains.
#15 msbpodcast – Dr. Cameron’s experimental work on “psychic driving” was horrible.
Does this remind anyone of the case of Candy Jones?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Jones