New documents detailing the CIA's Cold War "behavior change" research experiments have been published by the Black Vault under the US Freedom of Information Act. (FOIA).
To date, the site has published many government documents on mind control experiments, the paranormal, and UFOs. While at first glance the portal may seem like a marginal conspiracy community on the web, it is also the largest repository of information of its kind outside of the US government itself, with over two million pages of information. The site's founder, John Greenwald, Jr., has been collecting and meticulously cataloging government-backed documents made available through the FOIA for over 20 years.
800 pages of classified information were taken from previously published documents, which were made public at the request of the FOIA in 2004 and 2016.
According to the most recent documents, some of the unprecedented results of the CIA's attempts to develop mind control methods and truth serum were carried out as part of the MK-Ultra project, which the agency admits remained secret until 1973. Published archives include documents on a "successful" attempt in the late 1960s to create six dogs that could be "controlled" from a distance to perform simple tasks. There are even designs for surgical implants used during "electrical brain stimulation" to create controlled responses.
A 1956 paper states that behavior modification experiments, which are generally considered "too dangerous, too shocking, too unusual for classical tests," are the most interesting.
One such file is a plan for testing experimental drugs designed to induce passivity in prisoners in prison hospitals and then subject them to “interrogation”. However, what is described in the declassified information as “interrogations” may in fact be “physical”, “psychological” and “mechanical” torture, forcing to say “non-cooperating persons”.
Some of the experiments carried out had nothing to do with scientific. Such, for example, was an experiment with the military use of hypnosis, which seems to be a priority for some researchers working on the project.
