Kaczynski, the Harvard Experiments and MK- ULTRA

[AK Wilks]

For discussion of this topic.

For discussion of Ted and the Harvard experiments he participated in and the MK-ULTRA program in general.

in thus video Ted's brother David talks about what the defense team found out about the experiments Ted participated in at Harvard, done by Dr. Murray, who formerly worked for the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA. As most of the evidence has been destroyed, there is not conclusive proof that these Murray experiments at Harvard were part of the larger CIA MK-ULTRA program of mind control and drug experiments, but it seems very likely that they were.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2vUaTKntzY

[AK Wilks]

DARLA JONES: Here was a chance to ask David Kaczynski about his brilliant, eccentric, loving older brother, and what the U.S. government may have done to him and with him.

Since our brief interview with David Kaczynski (July 26, 2005), we’ve looked a trace deeper into MKULTRA. Hence the footnotes and the seemingly forced images in the 10 min. video of this interview (conducted at Chautauqua Institution, Hall of Missions, Department of Religion).

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At what point did you experience with Ted any sign of serious psychological abnormality? At what point did that appear?

David Kaczynski: That’s a long story. I remember being maybe nine or ten years old and asking my father one day, ‘Dad, what’s wrong with Ted?’ So even at a very young age I had some sense that he was different. I remember my father saying at that time saying, ‘David, you have to understand. Your brother is very, very brilliant. He doesn’t have a lot of…. a lot in common with other kids his age, but you’ll see; he’ll grow up and mature. Some day he’ll have a family of his own and he’ll find himself.’ [#1]

At one point, I remember my mother sharing with me this story of Ted being in the hospital as a tiny baby. I don’t think that story would have been developed if it wasn’t developed in order to explain something. There’s a kind of accommodation that a family makes over many, many years. You don’t think, ‘Well, that’s a mentally ill person…’ You think, ‘Well, that’s Ted. That’s the way he is.’

I think I really began to get alarmed in the 1980s when some of Ted’s letters to our parents seemed so bizarre. He’d say that they never loved him and cite evidence and seemed to ignore all the nice and loving things all their lives long and I realized at that point that he was looking at the world through a very, very different lens.

Approximately how old was he at that time?

David Kaczynski: Probably around 30 years old. Somewhere in there. Looking back…. Actually, having read some of Ted’s diaries while he was in college I think, he probably was having psychotic breaks as early as his early 20s. He believed, for instance, that he’d been visited by people in his apartment at the University of Michigan who couldn’t possibly have been there. [# 2 ] He would have delusions that other people were talking about him, kind of paranoid delusions. It’s odd because it was really at this point that his brilliance as a mathematician began to blossom. Right around this time….

We later found out that he wouldn’t go to class maybe for an entire semester but then he’d show up on the last day and hand in some piece of original research that blew the professor away and ended up being published. So in some…. because of his academic and his extraordinary success – and absence of any kind of obvious violence in him – you know, I think our family thought he was different, but not necessarily in a bad way.

The reason we pose the question is that since we last spoke with you in Dunkirk, we ran across in Dave McGowan’s book Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder. He writes that your brother was a victim of MKULTRA at Harvard.

David Kaczynski: Yes. Something I didn’t know about at all until it was kind of discovered by his defense team [1]and then they began to question our mother about it.

Would you say what it is?

David Kaczynski: Yeah. Well, the MKULTRA program was actually a CIA covert operation within the United States where unwitting suspects [subjects] were made guinea pigs in research about psychotropic drugs, various kinds of psychological pressure. I think there’s pretty clear evidence that was a program at Harvard.

Ted was in a psychological research study run by a psychologist by the name of Henry Murray. Now there’s no clear, unequivocal link that connects that to the MKULTRA program, but it was a fairly abusive research project. It would certainly not pass ethical muster today. [#3]. 

Ted would meet once a week for a conversation with someone about philosophy with someone he thought – was led to believe – was another subject within the research project but actually was a plant. It was a graduate student, and they were actually trying to study how ‘alienated youth’ – and Ted was identified as an alienated youth at Harvard – would respond to having their philosophy of life and their values challenged. 

So for three years, beginning at the age of 17, Ted was in this study…. I’ve read some of the transcripts and they were pretty awful. I mean, they included personal attacks….

So as my brother is trying to make, you know, some kind of philosophical point, his adversary in this debate is making disparaging comments about his appearance, about his maturity, so, you know, an interesting possible connection is that had actually been in the OSS which was the forerunner of the CIA during World War II and the projects he did had to do with debriefing prisoners of war. So we wonder if he used some of the same tactics in sort of probing and poking young, unwitting college students, and don’t know if the CIA was directly involved but it’s certainly not outside the bounds of possibility. 

I don’t think that necessarily created Ted’s mental illness. It might have been a triggering factor. It might have sort of given shape to his belief that there were, you know, conspiracies against him and that, you know, there was something sinister about the technology of psychology and mind manipulation, and so forth. In a sense, he wasn’t paranoid. He was…. He was, in a sense, conspired against.

Did you ever talk to him about his experience in that ‘psychology’ program?



David Kaczynski: No. You know, Mom had remembered it because since Ted was only 17* when he went into this research project, parental consent was needed, and Mom remembered getting a form, you know, Harvard College, asking for her permission for Ted to be in this study and Mom said, ‘Gee, I thought Ted’s…. You know, he’s socially awkward, he doesn’t fit in very well. Maybe being exposed to psychologists could be very helpful to him. Well, little did she know that this study wasn’t conducted with his benefit in mind.

How knowledgeable was Ted’s defense team about MKULTRA?

David Kaczynski: The defense apparently put a lot of research into this. It was going to be at least one of their arguments for mitigation that Ted had been seriously abused in this…. this research program that might have even been funded by the federal government. It was hard to get research, hard to make the connection fully. They [Ted Kaczynski’s legal team] found that numbers of the records had actually been destroyed – not for confidentiality reasons, or something. It was destroyed because there was a congressional investigation of the MKULTRA program and the then director really, uh, in contempt of Congress, destroyed many of the records of that program. They did eventually get to look at some of Murray’s private research papers. That was where some of these transcripts were found. They also were able to track down just a couple of other participants in the study, one of which was, by the way, working at Las Alamos making big bombs. A weird irony of the whole thing.

But as far as we know – and we don’t know much – Ted was the only one who ended up with real serious problems. (6 minutes)

This is amazing. I just quickly searched "MKULTRA" as I want to see if I can find out which schools were involved in this and any names of participants, if possible. It looks like this will be impossible as the records were destroyed but if there is any way to at least find out which schools/institutions were involved, please let us know.

DARLA JONES: Here is the book referenced:

http://www.amazon.com/Programmed-Kill-P ... 0595326404


More information:
https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve ... ULTRA.html

The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations." At least one death, that of Dr. Olson, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers.

DARLA JONES: MkUltra Involved Hospitals, Universities and Government Facilities Leaked List
NOVEMBER 10, 2012 BY LISSAKRHUMANELIFE
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Involved Hospitals, Universities and Government Facilities

The following list is of hospitals, universities, and other facilities and organizations that were, in some way, involved in the hosting, funding, and/or enactment of government-sanctioned human experimentation in the past. This list is not intended to implicate any organizations or individuals connected to them, who neither condoned nor participated in harmful human research.

http://216.104.189.209/MKULTRA%20Research.htm

Aero Medical Laboratory, Directorate of Research, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
Air Force 657 1st Aeromedical Research Laboratory
Allan Memorial Institute, Canada
American Psychological Association
Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts
Army Chemical Corps
Canada’s Defense Research Board
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Children’s International Summer Villages, Inc., Maine
Clifton Hospital, York, England
Columbia University
Commission on Viral Infections, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board,
Office of the Surgeon General
Cornell University, Cornell Medical Human Ecology Program
Creedmore State Hospital, Children’s Unit, Queen’s Village, New York
Dugway Proving Ground, Utah
Edgeware Arsenal
Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, Maryland
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Florida State University
Fort Benning, Georgia
Fort Sam Houston
Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC
George Washington University
Geschickter Foundation
Geschickter Fund for Medical Research
Hanford Nuclear Facility, Richmond, Washington
Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts
Hollywood Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
House of the Good Shepherd, New York
Human Ecology Foundation
Ionia State Hospital
Johns Hopkins University
Leler University of Georgia
Los Alamos
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Marlborough day hospital, Wiltshire, England
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
McGill University, Department of Psychiatry, Canada
J. P. Morgan and Co., Inc.
Montana State University
Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada
NASA
New Jersey Neuropsychiatric Institute, Bureau of Neurology and Psychiatry
New Jersey Neuropsychiatric Institute, Clinical Investigative Unit of the Bureau of Research
New Jersey Reformatory at Bordentown
New York State Department of Mental Hygiene
New York State Psychiatric Institute
New York University, New York
New York University School of Medicine Committee on Human Experimentation
Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee Office of Naval Research
Ohio State Penitentiary at Columbus
Penetang Psychiatric Hospital, Oak Ridge Division, Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada
Powick Hospital, Malvern, Worcestershire, England Public Health Service
Rand Corporation
Roffey Park, Lincolnshire, England
Rome State School, Rome, New York
Scottish Rite Foundation
Scottish Rite Foundation Schizophrenia Research Foundation
Scottish Rite Research Committee
Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
Stanford University
St. John’s Orphan Asylum, New York
Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences (TRIMS), Houston, Texas
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
UCLA Violence Project
University of Denver, Colorado
University of Illinois
University of Indiana
University of Maryland
University of Minnesota, Department of Psychiatry
University of Oklahoma, Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester, New York
University of Texas
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Army
U.S. Army Chemical Research and Development Laboratory, Edgeware Arsenal
U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Fredrick, Maryland
U.S. Army Special Operations Division, Fort Detrick, Maryland
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. Federal Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia
U.S. Navy
Utica Community Chest, Utica, New York
Vacaville State Prison
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Wayne State University College of Medicine, Lafayette Clinic, Detroit, Michigan
Willowbrook State School, New York
Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
Worcester State Hospital
Yale University

Also:
[page 19] University of California at Berkeley
[page 58] Sandoz, Swiss pharmaceutical firm, source for CIA LSD and for Prozac
[page 60] City College of New York
[page 63] Boston Psychopathic Hospital (Dr. Robert Hyde)
[page 63] Mt. Sinai Hospital NY (Dr. Harold Abramson)
[page 63] Columbia University NY
[page 63] University of Illinois Medical School (Carl Pfeiffer)
[page 63] NIMH-sponsored Addiction Researh Center, Lexington KY
[page 63] University of Rochester NY (Harold Hodge)
[page 63] University of Oklahoma (Dr. Louis Jolyon-West)
[page 63] Josia Macy, Jr. Foundation
[page 63] Geschickter Fund for Medical Research, Washington DC
[page 72] Missouri Institute of Psychiatry
[page 72] Harvard University (Henry Beecher)
[page 72] Massachusetts General Hospital
[page 72] University of Maryland Medical School
[page 72] Baylor University (Neil Burch)
[page 72] New York State Psychiatric Institute (Paul Hoch and James Cattell) [page 72] University of Washington (James Dille)
[page 83] University of Wisconsin (Frank Olson)
[page 118] University of Delaware
[page 129] Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto CA
[page 141] Rockefeller Foundation
[page 142] Allan Memorial Institute – McGill U., Montreal
[page 151] National Institutes of Health, Washington DC
[page 159] Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology
[page 164] University of Nijmegen, Netherlands
[page 165] Ionia State Hospital MI
[page 170] University of London
[page 199] University of Minnesota (Alden Sears)
[page 212] University of Houston TX
[page 215] California [Prison] Medical Facility, Vacaville
[page 215] Emory University
[page 216] Bordentown NJ Reformatory

and Lincoln Technical Institute, East Windsor CT

Holmesburg Prison, Holmesburg, PA

Karen Coleman Wiltshire

Karen Coleman Wiltshire–
John Hopkins Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children-1961 through 1970

UCLA

California [Prison] Medical Facility, Vacaville
This is right next to Travis Air Force Base. (That is one of the military bases, McClellan AFB is the other, that LE was convinced that EAR/ONS must be stationed. Also, it is really near Vallejo.

Much of the web literature talks about how Ted got abused at Harvard, but from what I have read, Ted voluntarily stayed in the study for three years. There was never an indication from Ted that these did any lasting damage. He talked about his Harvard years in the autobiography and this portion does not mention the experiments at all. If was so terrible, he might have mentioned it early on.Plus, he was writing to himself, I doubt he would leave out something so traumatizing as that.

"At age 16, in Fall of 1958, I went to Harvard. I had had a particular enthusiasm for going there, but once I got there it was a tremendous thing for me. I got something that I had been needing all along without knowing it, mainly, hard work requiring self discipline and strenuous (??) of my abilities. I threw myself into this with great enthusiasm. Not that it was fun, you understand - It was under tremendous pressure and tension. But I thrived on it. I spend most of my time studying, and almost no time on recreation. I forced myself to keep studying long after I should have gone to sleep. I considered myself negligent if I went to bed before 2 AM, and I often stayed up until 3.
I would get by for a month on 6 hours of sleep a night, then overcome by sleepiness, I would flop down and sleep for, maybe, 10 solid hours. I never felt homesick at all. Feeling the strength of my own will, I became enthusiastic about will power. Besides the original physical training sessions, I began doing push ups and other exercises on my own.
Unlike my high school math courses, the calculus courses I took at Harvard paid a good deal of attention to the fine points of the logic underlying calculus. I learned a good deal about (?) thinking in general from these courses, and I became enthusiastic about careful analytic thinking. In high school, getting an A in a course didn't mean much to me. It was just a matter of grinding out all the busy work. At Harvard, I really has to (?) myself to get an A and that grade gave me a real sense of achievement. There was an atmosphere of excellence at Harvard. Of Course, I had no respect..."

I think that he mentions the experiments here, "Besides the original physical training sessions,". Doesn't that sound out of place? To me, it sounds like his sessions involve extreme physical exercise.

"I began doing push ups and other exercises on my own." As opposed to not on my own? I don't think he did any sports in college so he must be referring to these sessions.

Is it possible that Ted actually worked for the CIA long after leaving Harvard? I read the thread and articles about the Judi Bari bombing in Oakland in 1990. That really looks like a Unabomber attack. Apparently, the FBI initially blamed the victims and said that a bomb they were building exploded as they were transporting it. (It was under her car seat. As a side note: That would be a terrible place to put a live bomb to drive it to it's final location)

Then after they arrested TK they found something that made the FBI contact EarthFirst and tell them they thought that the Unabomber was connected to the 1990 bombing. Earthfirst thought that they were linking the Unabomber to their organization and did not understand that they were saying Ted did it. Judi was not killed in the bombing, but died a few years later 1997 from cancer.

I am going to assume that TK knew who Judi was (and there is some evidence to suggest that Ted was in Oakland at the time of the bombing). There is speculation in the articles that Ted was upset that Judi was having EarthFirst go nonviolent. However, another website claims that it was a hit, and that after Harvard, Ted never lost contact with the CIA and may have been an assassin for them! It's pretty far fetched, considering how much TK hates LE. The author of the article explains that the Montana hermit thing was just an "act" and he justifies this statement with the evidence that the bus driver from Lincoln to Helena said that when Ted went to the hotel in Helena, before his "missions" in other states, he brought a suit and dress pants. Apparently he cleaned up at the hotel before traveling to Sacramento and Utah.

AK Wilks:

I have seen this theory that TK was a gov agent and its a nonstarter.

Ted had a ball trigger in his cabin. Same type as in Bari bombing. I did research on the Bari case with Ted as a suspect. I will post it in a thread. It may also be related to the Vance case which I am taking a new look at very seriously.

Ted hated Bari who he said was "emasculating" the radical environmental movement.

snooter: if there is any truth to TK emplyeed by the cia than this is lights out for TK going forward..no way will the fbi ever investigate him,,TK may sqeal and we cant risk having him expose us..lets just let him sit in jail and drop any nonsense about him being the Z..

DARLA JONES:
Ted, in the letter to Live Wild or Die (LWOD), mentions COINTELPRO by name.

"CONFIDENTIAL NOTE
Enclosed is a letter that presumably will require general discussion by the LWOD staff. But this confidential note contains material that should be known to as few people as possible. So whichever LWOD person opens this envelope, he or she should hide this note and reveal its existence to no one, except when absolutely necessary. Read the other material in this envelope before reading the rest of this confidential[crossed out] note.

The material in this envelope constitutes evidence in a felony case, so LWOD might get in trouble if it doesn’t [crossed out] turn this stuff over to the FBI. It is always possible that your group may contain an FBI infiltrator who will report our letter to his bosses. And if you do publish our manuscript the FBI will know about it. So LWOD may want to give these documents to the FBI (except this confidential note, which can safely be kept secret).

This creates a possible problem, because the FBI will be able to confuse you or us by sending LWOD a fake manuscript or placing a fake ad in the SF Chronicle or some such COINTELPRO trick. Or the FBI may ask the Chronicle not to print your ad on the grounds that it would contribute to “criminal” activity. To get around that, we should have some completely confidential way of communicating. This can be established as follows.

Place an ad in the classified section of the Los Angeles Times, classification #1660, “Personal messages.” The ad should preferably appear on May 9, 1995, but in any case leave a few days between the time when the Chronicle ad appears and the time when the LA Times ad appears. This ad should begin, “Dear Stargazer, the mystic numbers that control your fate are ...” and it should be signed “Numerologist.” In between there will be a sequences of numbers conveying a coded message.

The code works this way. It will be random number code and therefore unbreakable. Use the series of random numbers that we have given on another sheet. Begin by encoding your message according to the following system: For A put 1, for B put 2, for C [crossed out] put 3, etc. up to 26 for Z. For space between two words put 27, for period put 28, for comma put 29, for question mark put 30. When you have your message coded by this system you will have a series of numbers that we can call the basic sequence. You then change the basic sequence by adding to it the numbers of the random sequence. To the first number of the basic sequence add the first number of the random sequence, to the second number of the basic sequence add the second number of the random sequence and so forth. Whenever the sum is greater that 30, subtract 30 from it. The resulting sequence of numbers is what you publish in the LA Times. See example on other sheet.

In your coded ad please give us an address to which we can send you messages with assurance that they will be [crossed out] completely safe and confidential. (We won’t send you any uncoded message that could get you in trouble if it got into the wrong hands.) Also please tell us in your coded ad whether your open ad in SF Chronicle is authentic and can be taken at face value.

Your coded ad probably won’t use up all the numbers of the random sequence. Have the rest of the sequence in case we want it for future use. NEVER USE ANY PART OF THE RANDOM SEQUENCE TWICE. To do so would enable the FBI to decode the message.

We give a separate, confidential identifying number for verification of any messages we may send you: 82771

Legally the FBI can’t open first class mail without a warrant, but there’s always a chance they might have opened the present envelope anyway, so this system of passing confidential messages isn’t 100% secure.

DARLA JONES: Some more connections between CIA and universities:

Kaczynski graduated from Harvard University in 1962, at age 20, and subsequently enrolled at the University of Michigan, where he earned a PhD in mathematics.[16] Kaczynski's specialty was a branch of complex analysis known as geometric function theory. His professors at Michigan were impressed with his intellect and drive. "He was an unusual person. He was not like the other graduate students", said Dr. Peter Duren, one of Kaczynski's math professors at Michigan. "He was much more focused about his work. He had a drive to discover mathematical truth." "It is not enough to say he was smart", said Dr. George Piranian, another of his Michigan math professors. Kaczynski earned his PhD with his thesis entitled "Boundary Functions" by solving a problem[20] so difficult that Piranian could not figure it out.[21] Maxwell Reade, a retired math professor who served on Kaczynski's dissertation committee, also commented on his thesis by noting, "I would guess that maybe 10 or 12 men in the country understood or appreciated it."[22] In 1967, Kaczynski won the University of Michigan's $100 Sumner B. Myers Prize, which recognized his dissertation as the school's best in mathematics that year.[22] While a graduate student at Michigan, he held a National Science Foundation fellowship and taught undergraduates for three years. He also published two articles related to his dissertation in mathematical journals, and four more after leaving Michigan.[23]


https://www.si.umich.edu/careers/centra ... cy-library

https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/nsa-w ... ummies-ii/

"Ramparts"’ problems with the CIA started in spring 1966, when a whistleblower named Stanley Sheinbaum gave Hinckle and Scheer a bombshell story on how the CIA had been paying Michigan State University to act as the Agency’s front in South Vietnam. There had never been an investigative article quite like this, at least not since the start of the Cold War — exposing a top secret program in America’s war zone, implicating the American intelligentsia in serving the empire (MSU "advisors" trained and armed South Vietnam’s internal security forces, helped write South Vietnam’s Constitution, and provided cover for CIA officers posing as MSU academics, all in violation of UN agreements signed by the United States).

The whistleblower, an MSU Economics professor named Stanley Sheinbaum, first joined the Vietnam Project to advise South Vietnam's corrupt president Diem in 1955. In 1957, Sheinbaum was promoted to coordinator for the Vietnam Project, where he soon learned the real scope of his work there. One story Sheinbaum told: He and four top Saigon police officials came to the US for a training junket. While in the US, one of the four, the nephew of Diem, pulled Sheinbaum aside and let him in on a secret: They were planning to bump off the eldest of the four Vietnamese guests while in the US, since it would be easier to pull off in the US. Sheinbaum was horrified; he managed to create a diversion and get the intended victim sent to a hospital. A few years later, the target was executed in Vietnam anyway.

Sheinbaum soon learned about all the CIA officers under Michigan State University academic cover. In 1959, feeling used and drawn deeper into an increasingly violent and corrupt situation in Vietnam, Sheinbaum and another professor both quit the program. In the 1960s, Sheinbaum watched the US get sucked deeper and deeper into the war, and it weighed on his conscience. If academics were taking funds from the CIA to do work like keeping inventories on grenade launcher ammo, Browning automatics and .50 caliber machine guns — as MSU had been doing in Vietnam — then "where is the source of serious intellectual criticism that would help us avoid future Vietnams?" Sheinbaum asked.

In early 1966, he went to "Ramparts" and told them what he knew. Right down to the names of CIA agents he provided cover for:

Central Intelligence Agency men were hidden within the ranks of the Michigan State University professors. They were all listed as members of the MSU Project staff and were formally appointed by the University Board of Trustees. Several of the CIA men were given academic rank and were paid by the University Project. The CIA agents' instructions were to engage in counter-espionage and counter-intelligence.

The head of the "Internal Security Section" ... under the Michigan State operation was Raymond Babineau who was in Saigon from the outset of the MSU Project. The other men were hired later by the University and listed on its staff chart as "Police Administration Specialists." All four — Douglas Deed, William Jones, Daniel Smith, and Arthur Stein — gave their previous employment as either "investigator" or "records specialist" in the Department of the Army.
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http://www.namebase.org/campus/witanek.html
The CIA on Campus

by Robert Witanek

Copyright © 1989 by Covert Action Publications, Inc., Washington DC,
and Institute for Media Analysis, Inc., New York NY. All rights reserved.
Professors and CIA operatives with academic cover have worked extensively on campuses around the world. As we will see in this article, they have written books, articles, and reports for U.S. consumption with secret CIA sponsorship and censorship; they have spied on foreign nationals at home and abroad; they have regularly recruited foreign and U.S. students and faculty for the CIA; they have hosted conferences with secret CIA backing under scholarly cover, promoting disinformation; and they have collected data, under the rubric of research, on Third World liberation and other movements opposed to U.S. intervention.1
The nature of the relationship between the CIA and the academic community is best seen in a 1968 memo from Dr. Earl C. Bolton who, while serving as Vice President of the University of California at Berkeley, was secretly consulting for the CIA. The memo, widely circulated among U.S. universities, advises the use of duplicity and deception to hide CIA connection to the campuses. It also suggests lying about CIA involvement in university projects stating, "The real initiative might be with the Agency but the apparent or record launching of the research should, wherever possible, emanate from the campus." The memo continues:

Follow a plan of emphasizing that CIA is a member of the national security community and stress the great number of other agencies with which the agency is allied [and] ... stress in recruiting articles and speeches that the agency is really a university without students and not a school for spies. There is as much academic freedom within the walls of the building and among those competent on the subject as on any campus I know. (I haven't detected the slightest tendency on the part of anyone to resist saying what he thinks.)2
Bolton's memo also recommended setting up programs with CIA funds "to establish the study of intelligence as a legitimate and important field of inquiry for the academic scholar." Under Bolton's plan the CIA was to fund one-year post doctoral programs for selected scholars.

Ironically, the memo also stated that doctoral students spending a year at the CIA working on their dissertations "would of course have to recognize the agency's right to review the finished document for accidental leaks." The contradiction between CIA secrecy and the academic ideal of encouraging the open exchange of information seems to have posed no dilemma for the vice president of one of the country's most prestigious universities.


A Few Examples

The CIA has a long and sordid history of activity on U.S. university campuses. The examples below list just a few of what are doubtlessly hundreds of CIA operations on college campuses.

From 1955-59, Michigan State University had a $25 million contract with the CIA to provide academic cover to five CIA agents stationed in South Vietnam who performed such jobs as drafting the government's constitution, and providing police training and weapons to the repressive Diem regime. The constitution included a provision requiring the South Vietnamese to carry voter identification cards. Citizens without such cards were assumed to be supporters of the Vietcong, and faced arrest or worse by the regime's police.3
In 1956, while the MSU operation was in full swing, the CIA established the Asia Foundation, providing it with approximately $88 million in funding each year. The foundation sponsored research, supported conferences, ran academic exchange programs, funded anti-communist academics in various Asian countries, and recruited foreign agents and new case officers.4 Large numbers of American academics participated in the program.
The CIA started the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies (MIT-CIS) in 1950. By 1952, former Director of the CIA's Office of National Estimates Max Millikan became director of the center.5 In 1955, the CIA contracted "Project Brushfire" with Millikan to study the political, psychological, economic, and sociological factors leading to "peripheral wars."6
In the mid 1950s, professors at MIT and Cornell launched field projects in Indonesia to train an elite of Indonesian military and economic leaders who later became the impetus behind the coup that brought Suharto to power and left over one million people dead. The elites were trained at the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley by Guy Pauker who had moved there from MIT-Center for International Studies.7

Academics and Africa

The CIA is especially interested in inspiring university African affairs programs. Again, MIT played an important role in promoting CIA interests. In 1956, when former CIA official Max Millikan was director of MIT's Center for International Studies, he appointed Arnold Rivkin from the State Department to head MIT's Africa Research Program. Together, the two supervised studies for CIA use.8

That the CIA had a keen interest in academics with expertise in African Studies was evidenced in a Ford Foundation study. In 1958, the Ford Foundation's Committee of Africanists commenced to "survey the current condition and future prospects of African studies." According to its report, the CIA said it would need "a constant level of ... seventy people specializing in the African area; they particularly desire those who have training in economics, geography, or political science."9 Other examples of the CIA's "academic" interest in Africa include:

In 1965, Rene Lemarchand, a nontenure professor at the University of Florida, returned from a trip to Burundi. Shortly thereafter, Justin Gleischauf, the Miami CIA station chief contacted Lemarchand, asking him for an interview. Manny Dauer, Lemarchand's department chair, advised him to cooperate fully in answering the questions the CIA had for him. Lemarchand, however, turned down the invitation.10
In 1968, George Rawick, a sociology professor at Oakland University was approached by James R. Hooker, of Michigan State University's African Studies Center for recruitment into the CIA. Hooker, a professor with a liberal-left reputation, used an interesting argument. Hooker's rationale for working with the CIA was, "None of us are ever going to get an intelligent approach unless we get trained intelligent people in there to tell us what's going on. If we rely on yahoos, look what we're going to get."11

Democracy: Rutgers Style

In 1968, the CIA used the Eagleton Institute for Research at Rutgers University in a plan to influence the outcome of the presidential election in Guyana. Through the Eagleton Institute, the CIA helped amend the Guyanese constitution to allow Guyanese and relatives of Guyanese living abroad to vote by absentee ballot. Then 16,000 votes were manufactured in New York City, giving the CIA's candidate, Forbes Burnham, a narrow margin over socialist Cheddi Jagan.12

Another operation involving Rutgers University was run by Political Science Department Chair, Professor Richard Mansbach, who used an undergraduate class (without the students' knowledge) as cover for a CIA project entitled the "European Non-State Actors Project" (ENSAP) in 1984.13

When Europeans were up in arms over U.S. deployment of Pershing II and Cruise missiles in Western Europe, Mansbach assigned his students to each focus on one component of West Europe's political culture including disarmament, religious, labor, media, left, environmental, and various other groups. They were to produce data-intensive reports to Mansbach who would in turn, and in secret, incorporate the data into a report to the CIA. While the study was initially to result in a book, it is believed to have been abandoned after it was exposed.14


CIA "Scholars" on Campus

The CIA recently initiated an "Officer in Residence" program to increase their presence and prestige in the U.S. academic community. According to a CIA official, "about ten" major universities across the country host CIA "Officers in Residence."15 Stanley M. Moskowitz, chair of the CIA Training Selection Board, wrote that the Resident Officers program, "allows senior-level officers to disengage from their normal duties by fully participating in the academic life, including research and teaching." He also stated that the CIA officer,

will demonstrate the quality of CIA people and [the CIA's] commitment to providing U.S. leaders with the very best intelligence we can. The program also serves to strengthen our professional ties to a fertile and indispensable source of ideas and technical expertise and to enhance CIA's recruiting efforts by providing an opportunity for experienced officers to serve as role models, to counsel interested students on career opportunities with the CIA, and to respond to concerns students may have about the agency and the intelligence profession.16
The letter makes no bones about the fact that the CIA is on campus to recruit the "fertile and indispensable source of ideas," namely university professors, and to look for recruits among students as well.

An October 9, 1987 memo from the Office of the Associate Dean at the University of Texas to the faculty shows how eager university officials are to cooperate with the CIA's Officer in Residence program. The memo describes Resident Officer James McInnis as having "extensive experience in national security policy and international affairs, especially Latin America and the Middle East" and states that "He [McInnis] might prove a valuable resource to you in your teaching and research. I invite and encourage you to seek him out and explore mutual interests [author's emphasis]."


Recruiting on Campus

Campus recruitment by the CIA is as old as the Agency itself. In the late 1940s, Frank Wisner was director of the CIA's Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), which was then the CIA's operational component. He used 500 OSS World War II veterans who had returned to their careers as academicians after the war, as well as other faculty members, to form "selection committees" which became the OPC's unofficial recruitment arm.17 Known as the OPC's "P-source," or professor source, these committees provided ideal means for screening potential recruits because they could observe the students over periods of time in a classroom setting.

By early 1950, the program had been expanded to include the recruitment of foreign students attending college in the U.S. to serve as CIA agents in place or moles when they returned to their respective countries.18 The recruitment of foreign students had its roots in earlier programs in the late 1930s and through the 1940s when students of countries friendly to the U.S. were admitted to U.S. military academies. Their services were especially desired by the U.S. as they would return to their countries to become part of the nation's military elite. Through them, the U.S. hoped to influence events in these countries and to gain information on the inner workings of their governments.

By the late 1970s about 5000 academicians were doing the bidding of the CIA: identifying and recruiting American students and providing fulltime screening committees designed to select 200-300 future CIA operatives from among the 250,000 foreign students who come to the U.S. to be educated each year.19 Around 60 percent of these professors, researchers, and administrators were fully aware of and received direct compensation from the CIA as contract employees or from research grants for their role as covert CIA recruiters.20

In 1975, the CIA attempted to secretly recruit Ahmad Jabbari, an Iranian student working on his Ph.D. in economics at Washington University in St. Louis. At his interview with the CIA agent, which he taped, the recruiter asked him to spy on other Iranian students, offering an immediate $750 payment, and American citizenship, if he proved reliable. Jabbari refused all offers.21

After recruiting a foreign student, the CIA often uses coercion by threatening to expose the student as a CIA agent while demanding his/her continued cooperation. Since 1948, more than 40 foreign agents recruited on American campuses have committed suicide out of fear of exposure.22

In 1977, a federal appeals court ruled that the CIA had no right to secretly investigate Gary Weissman, a former student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, "for recruitment purposes." Weissman sued the CIA after learning of the investigation.23

In June of 1986, David Wise reported that the CIA had made recruiting of new personnel a key priority. The effort has included the opening of 11 recruiting centers around the U.S. Wise wrote that the effort involved a major advertising campaign and that student inquiries have been steadily rising. John P. Littlejohn, the CIA's deputy director of personnel, described the recruitment procedure as follows: The recruiter receives resumes in advance, courtesy of the campus placement offices, and selects candidates for a screening interview. The interview usually takes place on campus but some colleges, like Harvard University, require that the interviews occur off campus.24

Potential CIA recruits must complete a 12-page personal history, undergo a lie detector test, and be subject to physical, psychological, and sometimes psychiatric testing, and a background clearance test of at least four months in duration. According to Littlejohn, approximately 150,000 people inquire about jobs each year, 10,000 submit applications, and 1000 employees are hired. Littlejohn estimates that two to three hundred of these become clandestine officers.25


The CIA at Harvard

While information about CIA campus recruitment is a closely guarded secret, these programs are obviously known by college administrators. Details about the CIA's covert campus recruitment program were presented to eight presidents of America's most prestigious colleges at a secret meeting in Washington, DC's Mayflower Hotel in the spring of 1976. The administrators were told that the Senate would not expose these programs but that information would be provided to assist the college administrators in cleaning up their respective colleges. Ironically, none of the presidents requested the additional information.26

Harvard President Derek Bok convened a committee to draft a report on CIA operations at the college and guidelines regulating such activity. In return, the CIA launched a massive campus lobbying effort against the adoption of similar measures. During this effort, from June 1978 through 1979, the CIA held a series of "special briefings" with various University presidents in an attempt to work out secret arrangements for campus recruiting.27

The CIA promised that Harvard's rules would be ineffective, as the Agency would simply ignore them. To that effect, CIA Director Turner sent a letter to Bok proclaiming the right of every American to assist the CIA as they chose. He also said that "all recruitment for CIA staff employment on campus is overt" conveniently avoiding the topic of its recruitment of "agents" and other CIA "assets" not considered as CIA staff.28

The CIA has kept its promise to violate Harvard's guidelines, with at least two known cases being recently brought to light. In 1986, professor Nadav Safran resigned as head of Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Affairs after revealing that he secretly received payment from the CIA to write a book about Saudi Arabia and to stage a conference about the Middle East at the University.29

In 1985, an official of the Harvard Center for International Affairs was embroiled in a similar controversy when he conducted research secretly funded by the CIA.30

The Bok report documented CIA use of campus "spotters" to provide names to the CIA of prospective CIA recruits. When a spotter finds a potential recruit, the CIA conducts a background investigation of the student. If the CIA decides to approach the student, the spotter is often called upon to make the introduction. Otherwise, the results of the background inquiry go into a permanent dossier on the student without his/her knowledge.


Conclusion

It's never easy to discover what the CIA is up to, even on our own college campuses. However, many CIA covert academic operations have come to light (usually years after the fact) because of unauthorized leaks, building takeovers resulting in the seizure of documents, or Freedom of Information Act requests.

As it has become clear that university administrators will not keep the CIA off campus, students have once again taken to mass protest to stop CIA activities. All across the country, CIA recruiters have been confronted with angry students and faculty demanding their ouster and an end to university recruiting. At the University of Colorado over 500 students were arrested during several days of anti-CIA recruiting protests.

As more covert CIA academic operations are exposed, the CIA will develop more effective means of protecting its secrecy when it goes to college. Regardless, many dedicated students are seeing to it that the CIA must operate in a campus environment that is less than ideal for the maximum exploitation of its university assets.31 This is a hopeful sign.

AK WILKS:
I think what Murray did to Ted in the Harvard experiments was horrible. It no doubt contributed to his already growing social alienation and mental health issues. The CIA was probably the sponsor of t hose experiments as part of MK-ULTRA. Though we don't know that for sure since most of the evidence has been destroyed. The whole record of MK- ULTRA is shameful and includes the murder of Frank Olson. I will star a seperate thread for it.

But IMO it is another matter entirely to say Ted was an agent of the CIA. I just don't see the evidence for that but people are fres to explore it if they wish.

Ted's code name in the Harvard experiment was, irony of ironies, LAWFUL.

note to self..add DJ to the "do not argue with these persons list" very good write up and background info DJ..
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DARLA JONES: I find this idea that TK worked for the CIA as a hit man fascinating. It also ties into a ton of research I did in the past year on CIA's connections to the ONS murders in Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara was a hot bed of CIA activity and COINTELPRO as well (aka the Burning of the Bank of America building incident).

There is some evidence that the ONS Smith murders in Ventura were a hit. Lyman Smith was partial owner of Maverick Airlines. One of the pilots who flew for Maverick was Morgan Hetrick famous for being a drug/Gun runner for the CIA and being busted with DeLorian. ONS was defiantly the Killer as known through DNA evidence, but was this one a hit or another random murder?

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N4430U.html

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Look what this paranoia website talks about. The Symbionese Liberation Army, like the People’s Temple, was a creation of the CIA. It mentions the Vacaville site, which we just learned was the home of the MK ULTRA experiments. Why does the Zodiac mention the SLA? This information, seemingly connects TK to Zodiac via MK-ULTRA.

STANFORD, SCIENTOLOGY AND THE CIA

Interestingly, other information about the connection of certain Scientology members to some of the secret government’s "unusual" experimental research activities comes from premiere mind control researcher and author Alex Constantine, who has authored a wealth of excellent books and articles on the general topic of government sponsored, administered and operated mind control projects, including certain of those based on electromagnetic/radio frequency transmissions.

I quote below a section called "Psychic Spying at the Stanford Research Institute Or CIA Mind Control?" from Constantine’s Virtual Government.
"Concrete evidence that electronic mind control was the true object of study at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) was exposed by the Washington Post in 1977. When the Navy awarded a contract to the Institute, "the scientific assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, Dr. Sam Koslov, received a routine briefing on various research projects, including SRI’s. As the briefer flashed his chart onto the screen and began to speak, Koslov stormily interrupted, ’What the hell is that about?’ Among the glowing words on the projected chart, the section describing SRI’s work was labeled, ’ELF and Mind Control.’

" ’ELF’ stands for ’extremely long frequency’ electromagnetic waves, from the very slow brain frequencies up to about 100 cycles per second.... But the ’Mind Control’ label really upset Koslov. He ordered the SRI investigations for the Navy stopped, and canceled another $35,000 in Navy funds slated for more remote viewing work. Contrary to Koslov’s attempt to kill the research, the Navy quietly continued to fork out $100,000 for a two-year project directed by a bionics specialist. The "remote viewing" team at SRI was really engaged in projecting words and images directly to the cranium. It was not a humanitarian pastime: the project was military and test subjects are subjected to a lifetime of EM torture plied with the same thorough disregard for human rights as the radiation tests conducted at the height of the Cold War. To be sure, the treatment subjects have received at the hands of their own government would be considered atrocities if practiced in wartime.

Mind control was also used in domestic covert operations designed to further the CIA’s heady ambitions, and during the Vietnam War period SRI was a hive of covert political subterfuge. The Symbionese Liberation Army, like the People’s Temple, was a creation of the CIA. The SLA had at its core a clique of black ex-convicts from Vacaville Prison. Donald DeFreeze, otherwise known as "Cinque", led the SLA. He was formerly an informant for the LAPD’s Criminal Conspiracy Section and the director of Vacaville’s Black Cultural Association (BCA), a covert mind control unit with funding from the CIA channeled through SRI.

The Menlo Park behavior modification specialists experimented with psychoactive drugs administered to members of the BCA. Black prisoners were programmed to murder selected black leaders once on the outside. The CIA/SRI zombie killer hit list included Oakland school superintendent Dr. Marcus Foster, and Panthers Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, among others. DeFreeze stated that at Vacaville in 1971-72, he was the subject of a CIA mind control experiment. He described his incarceration on the prison’s third floor, where he was corralled by CIA agents who drugged him and said he would become the leader of a radical movement and kidnap a wealthy person. After his escape from Vacaville (an exit door was left unlocked for him), that’s exactly what he did.

"EM mind control machines were championed at SRI by Dr. Karl Pribram, director of the Neuropsychology Research Laboratory: "I certainly could educate a child by putting an electrode in the lateral hypothalamus and then selecting the situations at which I stimulate it. In this was I can grossly change his behavior." Psychology Today touted Pribram as "The Magellan of Brain Science." He obtained his B.S. and M.D. degrees at the University of Chicago, and at SRI studied how the brain processes and stores sensory imagery. He is credited with discovering that mental imaging bears a close resemblance to hologram projection (the basis for transmitting images to the brains of test subjects under the misnomer "remote viewing"?).

"The SRI/SAIC psi experiments were supervised at Langley by John McMahon, second in command under William Casey, succeeding Bobby Ray Inman, the SAIC director. McMahon has, according to Philip Agee, the CIA whistle-blowing exile, an affinity for "technological exotics for CIA covert actions." He was recruited by the Agency after his graduation from Holy Cross College. He is a former director of the Technical Services Division, deputy director for Operations, and in 1982 McMahon was appointed deputy director of Central Intelligence. He left the Agency six years later to take the position of president of the Lockheed Missiles and Space Systems Group. In 1994 he moved on the Draper Laboratories. He is a director of the Defense Enterprise Fund and an adviser to congressional committees.

"Many of the SRI "empaths" were mustered from L. Ron Hubbard’s Church of Scientology, Harold Puthoff, the Institute’s senior researcher, is a leading Scientologist. Two "remote viewers" from SRI have also held rank in the Church: Ingo Swann, a Class VII Operating Thetan, a founder of the Scientology Center in Los Angeles, and the late Pat Price. Puthoff and Targ’s lab assistant was a Scientologist married to a minister of the church. When Swann joined SRI, he stated openly that fourteen "Clears" participated in the experiments, "more than I would suspect." At the time he denied CIA involvement, but now acknowledges, "it was rather common knowledge all along who the sponsor was, although in documents the identity of the Agency was concealed behind the sobriquet of ’an east-coast scientist.’ The Agency’s interest was quite extensive. A number of agents of the CIA came themselves ultimately to SRI to act as subjects in "remote viewing" experiments, as did some members of Congress."


AK WILKS: IMO Ted was a VICTIM of the Murray experiments, which means that like Frank Olson he very likely was a victim of the CIA MK-ULTRA program. But it is a major leap to go from that to the idea that he was a an agent for the CIA. I just don't see any evidence for that at all. In fact the CIA, the Defense Dept. and other federal agencies were investors and allies of the Silicon valley computer revolution. So I don't see why the CIA would want Ted or anyone to kill computer scientists, genetic scientists and lumber industry officials.

[Darla Jones]

I have spent the last few hours reading about the MK ULTRA program. It is shockingly horrific! Especially what went on in Canada.
I'm going to have to agree with AK. Ted was most likely a unwitting victim of the program, and if the results of the training was to "split his personality to turn him into a killing machine", like the literature suggests, they might have just succeeded.

[Darla Jones]

http://books.google.com/books?id=g19YFu ... 22&f=false

This book names names.

[Darla Jones]

About Harvard experiments

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2000/ ... on-buried/

[Darla Jones]

I just found an MK-ULTRA article that quotes one of Kaczynski's bombing victims.

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http://www.whale.to/b/caul.html
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In mans quest to control the behavior of humans, there was a great breakthrough established by Pavlov, who devised a way to make dogs salivate on cue. He perfected his conditioning response technique by cutting holes in the cheeks of dogs and measured the amount they salivated in response to different stimuli. Pavlov verified that "quality, rate and frequency of the salivation changed depending upon the quality, rate and frequency of the stimuli."

Though Pavlov's work falls far short of human mind control, it did lay the groundwork for future studies in mind and behavior control of humans. John B. Watson conducted experiments in the United States on an 11-month-old infant. After allowing the infant to establish a rapport with a white rat, Watson began to beat on the floor with an iron bar every time the infant came in contact with the rat. After a time, the infant made the association between the appearance of the rat and the frightening sound, and began to cry every time the rat came into view. Eventually, the infant developed a fear of any type of small animal. Watson was the founder of the behaviorist school of psychology.

"Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings or stone or wood. I'll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any direction are almost endless. Even gross differences in anatomical structure limits are far less than you may think. Make him a deaf mute, and I will build you a Helen Keller. Men are built, not born," Watson proclaimed. His psychology did not recognize inner feelings and thoughts as legitimate objects of scientific study, he was only interested in overt behavior.

Though Watson's work was the beginning of mans attempts to control human actions, the real work was done by B.F. Skinner, the high priest of the behaviorists movement. The key to Skinner's work was the concept of operant conditioning, which relied on the notion of reinforcement, all behavior which is learned is rooted in either a positive or negative response to that action. There are two corollaries of operant conditioning" Aversion therapy and desensitization.

Aversion therapy uses unpleasant reinforcement to a response which is undesirable. This can take the form of electric shock, exposing the subject to fear producing situations, and the infliction of pain in general. It has been used as a way of "curing" homosexuality, alcoholism and stuttering. Desensitization involves forcing the subject to view disturbing images over and over again until they no longer produce any anxiety, then moving on to more extreme images, and repeating the process over again until no anxiety is produced. Eventually, the subject becomes immune to even the most extreme images. This technique is typically used to treat people's phobias. Thus, the violence shown on T.V. could be said to have the unsystematic and unintended effect of desensitization.

Skinnerian behaviorism has been accused of attempting to deprive man of his free will, his dignity and his autonomy. It is said to be intolerant of uncertainty in human behavior, and refuses to recognize the private, the ineffable, and the unpredictable. It sees the individual merely as a medical, chemical and mechanistic entity which has no comprehension of its real interests.

Skinner believed that people are going to be manipulated. "I just want them to be manipulated effectively," he said. He measured his success by the absence of resistance and counter control on the part of the person he was manipulating. He thought that his techniques could be perfected to the point that the subject would not even suspect that he was being manipulated.

Dr. James V. McConnel, head of the Department of Mental Health Research at the University of Michigan, said, "The day has come when we can combine sensory deprivation with the use of drugs, hypnosis, and the astute manipulation of reward and punishment to gain almost absolute control over an individual's behavior. We want to reshape our society drastically."

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James V. McConnell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James V. McConnell (October 26, 1925 – April 9, 1990) was an American biologist and animal psychologist. He is most known for his research on learning and memory transfer in planarians conducted in the 1950s and 1960s.

Most of McConnell's academic career was spent in the psychology department at the University of Michigan, where he was a professor from 1963 through his retirement in 1988. He was an unconventional scientist, setting up his own refereed journal, the Journal of Biological Psychology, which was published in tandem with the Worm Runner's Digest, a planarian-themed humor magazine. His paper Memory transfer through cannibalism in planarians, published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry, reported that when planarians conditioned to respond to a stimulus were ground up and fed to other planarians, the recipients learned to respond to the stimulus faster than a control group did. McConnell believed that this was evidence of a chemical basis for memory, which he identified as memory RNA. Although well publicized, his findings were not completely reproducible by other scientists and were therefore at the time completely discredited (for review, see Chapouthier, 1973).

However, recently, his research has begun to be seen in a new light in view of independent research with RNA interference, with at least one scientist speculating that McConnell may have been on the right track (Smallheiser, 2001).

He originally published satirical articles and serious scientific articles in the Journal of Biological Psychology but received complaints that it was difficult if not impossible to tell which was which. He decided to publish the satirical Worm Runner's Digest upside down with its cover as the back of the Journal of Biological Psychology to make it clear which articles were satire. This, he said, created problems with librarians returning the Journal to the publisher with the complaint that it was improperly bound. He was amused by this. He spent many of his evening hours in the 1960s in informal rap sessions with students in their dorms. He was prone to making provocative statements, believed that memory was chemically based and that in the future humanity would be programmed by drugs. He once commented that he would rather be "a programmer than a programmee".

McConnell was one of the targets of Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber. In 1985, he suffered a hearing loss when a bomb, disguised as a manuscript, was opened at his house by his research assistant Nicklaus Suino.

[AK Wilks]

Yes and I think it was those types of comments from McConnell and his experiments that made him a target for Ted. Perhaps in part because of his own victimization in the Harvard experiments, his beliefs in primitivist individualism and his mental illness, Ted reacted strongly to the line of thinking that McConnell represented. Consciously or subconsciously I think the Harvard experiments affected Ted's philosophy.

Ted once wrote in his journal in the early 1970's:

"What makes a situation intolerable is the fact that in all probability, the values that I detest, will soon be achieved through science, an utterly complete and permanent victory throughout the whole world, with a total extrication of everything I value. Through super human computers and mind control there simply will be no place for a rebellious person to hide and my kind of people will vanish forever from the earth. It's not merely the fact that I cannot fit into society that has induced me to rebel, as violently as I have, it is the fact that I can see society made possible by science inexorably imposing on-me."

[Darla Jones]

Here is another article that puts him in close with the MK-Ultra doctors.
http://www.forejustice.org/write/mental ... soners.htm

The Mental Torture of American Prisoners

Cheaper Than Lab Rats, Part II

by Hans Sherrer

written in March 1999
Prison Legal News cover article April 1999

The use of prisoners in medical experiments didn't begin or end with the radiation experiments conducted on them from the 1940's to the 1970's. [See: Part I - Can Prisoner’s Glow in the Dark?, PLN, March 1999]. As thinly dis­guised psychological laboratories, supermax prisons and other forms of iso­lating prisoners from the outside world continue the tradition of using prison­ers as "lab rats."
Psychological experimentation on prisoners raises serious cultural, legal, political, and ethical questions for the same reasons that human radiation and biochemical experiments on them did. Also, just as the radiation experiments conducted on prisoners was for the pur­pose of understanding the effects of radiation on military personnel and the general population, psychological experi­ments conducted on prisoners have a larger purpose than finding more effective ways to torment them. One of those pur­poses is to determine how political authorities can affect, manipulate, and/or control the behavior and responses of people in the general population under various conditions.
One of the fathers of today's mental experimentation on prisoners is M.I.T. psy­chology professor Dr. Edgar Schein. He became one of the western world's fore­most authorities on psychological coercion by studying the methods used by the Communist Chinese and North Koreans on American prisoners during the Korean War. 1
At a 1962 M.I.T. seminar attended by psychologists and prison wardens from around the country, Dr, Schein explained how physical, psychological, and chemi­cal techniques of coercion inflicted on American prisoners of war, could be used on prisoners of law in American prisons. 2 Dr. Schein told his audience that they shouldn't be squeamish about using mind control techniques on American prison­ers perfected by the Russians and Communist Chinese because:

“These same techniques in the service of different goals may be quite acceptable to us. ... I would like to have you think of brainwashing not in terms of politics, ethics, and morals, but in terms of the deliberate changing of human behavior and attitudes by a group of men who have relatively complete control over the environment in which the captive population lives.” 3

The centerpiece of Dr. Schein's techniques of coercive manipulation is the psychological isolation of prisoners by the fraying or outright destruction of social bonds and their emotional support structure. This includes relationships between prisoners on the inside, as well as their family and friends on the outside. The reason he keyed on this as a powerful coercive mechanism, is that to varying degrees we all perceive our existence as human beings from what is reflected back to us by those living beings we come into contact with. Psychologist Nathaniel Branden named this phenomenon the Muttnik Principle. 4 In the 1960's he realized from his response to his dog Muttnik, that all living beings contribute to our mental health who make us feel real by accurately reflecting our treatment of them back to us.
Dr. Schein learned from studying the successful techniques of totalitarian regimes, that isolation and other forms of sensory deprivation, psychological disorientation, and pervasive surveillance have a significantly negative effect on the human psyche. By reducing the sensory feedback that Dr. Branden identified as vital to someone's well-being, they can be used as a weapon to induce cracks in that person's mental defense system. Dr. Schein believed this predictable human response to sensory deprivation could be utilized for purposes of affecting the behavior of men and women in American prisons. He thought these mental cracks could be filled with ideas of the government's choosing.
Some of Dr. Schein's colleagues went beyond him by identifying the use of powerful psychoactive drugs as a practi­cal way to biochemically isolate prisoners from their normal influences, without the expense of physically isolating them. 5
Beginning in the late 1960s, Dr. Schein's ideas on human experimentation were put into action and overseen by fed­eral prison psychiatrist Dr. Martin Groder. He was instrumental in the transfer of "agitators, suspected militants, writ-writ­ers, and other troublemakers" to remote prisons in an effort to sever family ties by making visits difficult. 6 After being moved, these prisoners were put in isola­tion and deprived of mail and other sensory stimulations. Every effort was made to weaken their internal defenses and heighten their susceptibility to influ­ences controlled by prison authorities. If a prisoner responded by abandoning his attitude of individuality, he was granted privileges. If not, his psychological tor­ture continued indefinitely.
University of Michigan psychologist Dr. James V McConnell was an enthusi­astic supporter of Dr. Groder's work. In an April 1970 Psychology Today article entitled: Criminals Can Be Brainwashed - Now, Dr. McConnell favorably com­pared the human psyche to that of rats and flatworms. 7 He even thought people could be manipulated with behavioral techniques he perfected while training flatworms to navigate a maze.
Harvard psychologist B. F. Skinner tried to resolve the ethical concerns that arose from the scientific treatment of the human mind like a pliable blob of Play-­Doh in his 1971 book -Beyond Freedom and Dignity. However, he chose to do so in a book with a title that neatly sums up the twisted Orwellian attitude of every­one involved in experimenting on prisoners and other human beings.
Make no mistake about it, the millions of prisoners who have been subject in various ways to sensory deprivation and isolation techniques are viewed by the scientific and correctional community as human guinea pigs. They are “lab rats” who only differ in the type of experiments they are subjected to, from the inmates poked, prodded, and zapped during the radiation and hormone experiments that occurred from the 1940's until the 1970's.
Dr. James V Bennett, who was then the director of the U. S. Bureau of Pris­ons, made this crystal clear at the same 1962 conference where Dr. Schein made his presentation. He made the observation that the federal prison system presented “a tremendous opportunity to carry on some of the experimenting to which the various panelists have alluded.” 8 He wasn't idly talking. In July 1972, prisoners at Marion Federal Penitentiary smuggled out details to U. N. emissaries of psychological experiments that were being conducted on them. 9 The use of psychological torture techniques in prisons was already widesspread enough in the early 1970's, that Jessica Mitford wrote about them in a remarkable August 1973, Harper's magazine article entitled: The Torture Cure: In Some, American Prisons, It Is Already 1984. Among other things, the revelations in that article are credited with contributing to the end of the radiation and hormone experiments on prisoners in Oregon. 10 However, Ms. Mitford's main thrust was exposing the use of prisoners as “lab rats” testing the effectiveness of sophisticated forms of mental coercion and powerful psychoactive drugs. In her article she wrote about the results of a laboratory experiment designed to test the effects of isolation on the human mind:

“The exciting potential of sensory deprivation as a behavior modifier was revealed through an experiment in which students were paid $20 a day to live in tiny, solitary cubicles with nothing to do. The experiment was supposed to last at least six weeks, but none of the stu­dents could take it for more than a few days: Many experienced vivid hallucinations - one student in particular insisted that a tiny spaceship had got into the chamber and was buzzing around shooting pellets at him. While they were in this condition, the experimenter fed the students propaganda messages: No matter how poorly it was presented or how illogical it sounded, the propaganda had a marked effect on the students' attitudes - an effect that lasted for at least a year after they came out of the deprivation chambers.” 11

Ms. Mitford expanded on her Harper's article in Kind and Usual Pun­ishment: the Prison Business (1973). In the chapter detailing psychological ex­periments on prisoners, she quotes a 1970 prophecy Dr. Bennett made about prisons in the year 2000 AD: “In my judgment the prison system will increasingly be valued, and used, as a laboratory and workshop of social change.” 12
Supermax prisons and other experi­mental forms of mind control exercised on prisoners are a part of today's reality that Dr. Bennett envisioned almost thirty years ago.
Remarkably, authorities in the federal government recently let the cat out of the bag they are aware of their potential li­ability for conducting psychological experiments on prisoners. This was re­vealed in The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) enacted in 1996. Its provi­sions contribute to the legal disenfranchisement of prisoners by effec­tively limiting their ability to redress wrongs and grievances through the fed­eral court system. One of its provisions specifically prevents prisoners from suc­cessfully suing prison officials for “mental or emotional harm unless they can also prove physical injury.” 13 Almost diabolical in its design, this provision of the PLRA effectively prohibits lawsuits stemming from the psychological torture rampant in America's prisons.
It is significant that isolation experi­ments involving prisoners at Dachau were among the vivisection experiments conducted by Nazi doctors. 14 Needless to say, the work of these discredited Nazi doctors is being continued daily in the laboratories of physical and mental tor­ture masquerading as American prisons.
Non-consenting prisoners are experi­mented on in many dehumanizing ways. Yet their systematic mistreatment is openly condoned by political, judicial, and bureaucratic authorities in the United States who view them in the same way the Nazis viewed the inmates at Dachau and Auschwitz. They don't believe they are really people.

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Endnotes for: The Mental Torture of American Prisoners - Cheaper Than Lab Rats, Part 11. This essay was originally published in Prison Legal News, April 1999, Vol. 10, No. 4., pp. 1-3.

1 “Coercive Persuasion: a Socio-psychological Analysis of the “Brainwashing” of American Civilian Prisoners by the Chinese Communists,” Edgar H. Schein with Inge Schneier and Curtis H. Barker, W. W. Norton, New York, 1961.
2 “The Torture Cure: In some American pris­ons, it is already 1984,” Jessica Mitford, Harper's, August, 1973, pp. 16-30, 18.
3 Ibid., p. 18 (emphasis added).
4 “The Psychology of Self-Esteem: a new concept of man's psychological nature,” Nathaniel Branden, Ph.D., Nash Publishing, Los Angeles, 1969, pp. 184-188. Dr. Branden also refers to this principle as psychological visibil­ity.
5 “The Torture Cure,” p. 18.
6 “Kind and Usual Punishment: the Prison Business,” Jessica Mitford, Alfred A Knopf, N. Y. 1973, pp. 123-125.
7 “Criminals Can Be Brainwashed - Now,” Dr. James V. McConnell, Psychology Today, April, 1970, pp. 14-16.
8 “The Torture Cure,” p. 18 [9] ibid., p. 18.
9 Ibid., p. 18.
10 “Psychologist pays price to stop experi­ments,” Karen Dorn Steele, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA, June 19, 1994, p. A8.
11 “The Torture Cure,” p. 25. (emphasis added).
12 “Kind and Usual Punishment,” p. 130, quot­ing Bennett's book, I Chose Prison (1970).
13 “Criminal Injustice: Confronting the Prison Crisis,” Ed. Elihu Rosenblatt, South End Press,
Boston, 1996, p. 83.
14 Ibid., p. 325. Vivisection is the scientific ritual of experimenting on animals in ways that are known to be painful to them. When human beings are involved, an important part of this ritual is redefining them as a form of non-hu­man animal so they can be mistreated with a clear conscience. For example, the Nazis re­ferred to Jews as lice and rats, because ruthlessly rooting out and exterminating disease carrying vermin is considered to benefit society as a whole. (See: “Dominating Knowledge,” ed. Frederique Apffel Marglin and Stephen A. Marglin, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990, pp. 163-169.) Similarly, the criminal justice pro­cess in the U.S. is a ritualistic procedure that among other things, serves the function of re­defining someone convicted of a crime as something less than a whole human being. Once officially dehumanized and accorded the legal status approaching that of a 19th century plan­tation slave, men and women labeled as criminals are “legally” permitted to be treated with con­scienceless disregard.

[Darla Jones]

Here is the Joint hearing before select committee on Intelligence, 1977 document that has detailed information on MK-ULTRA.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nat ... KULTRA.pdf

[Darla Jones]

http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/49385779/

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