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The CIA Mind Control
Experiment
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The CIA mind control experiment was an experiment
introduced by the CIA in various efforts to control the minds of human
beings. The ways that this experiment was conducted was through
many inhumane ways such as administering LSD for extended periods
of time, hypnosis, implanting brain electrodes all in attempt to control
the mind of the individual. The individuals involved range from
children as young as 5 years old to adulthood. Many doctors,
psychologists, and psychiatrists conducted these studies at major
medical hospitals. Most of these individuals were unaware of the things
the CIA were doing. Most documents are marked as classified. Most
survivors affected never received compensation or even an apology for
the CIA's actions and the harm that they caused them.
Description of the study
 The primary researcher was Evangeline Wright
 The time period was1950s-1970s in the United State
 The number of people subjected to LSD testing under the
MKULTRA unknown. Hundreds of people have been using
the mina secret American program without their knowledge
Method
The various potential chemical, biological and
radiological was harnessed for the purpose of achieving certain
objectives and allocated millions of dollars for research on
them. Through two decades, hundreds of American citizens
were injected with various types of medical drugs for these
experiments without their knowledge to study the impact on
them in an operation dubbed "the peak of the night". The
Central Intelligence Agency opened several brothels and
supplied with cameras and mirrors and cutters glass to allow
the vision of one party. Then it initiated the selection of certain
persons of visitors to this brothel. It used multiple ways to get
them to take drug LSD without their knowledge and then
photographed in detail what happens to them of the symptoms
and reaction to eating that chemical.
Method
There are other places offered patrons of the experiments
and tests without their knowledge and such as mental health
facilities, psychological, because it is easy to inject patients
with drugs to test their effects without any suspicion or
murmurs. Also, there are other places conducted
experiments like hospitals, universities, military camps and
prisons. Many doctors and scientists had cooperated to do
these experiments, which included tests on drugs, medical
use electric shocks, hypnosis, memory scanning,
brainwashing and psychological studies on diseases such
as phobias and schizophrenia.
Result
Drug (Lysergic acid diethylamide) is one of the most powerful hallucinogenic
drugs, so it was banned in most countries of the world. it was attended without a
prescription. the drug is very strong . In 1962, adult elephant died because it ate less
than a third of grams of this chemical. Eating this chemical leads to the symptoms and
the effects for several hours. the symptom usually called the trip. it is different from one
person to another. a person often feels that the colors move and glow. They feel the
appearances and forms are moved on the walls .they distorts the sense of time. it
seems like a Empty and repeats itself and it change its speed and sometimes it stops
completely. they feel the appearances and forms are moved on the walls .they distorts
the sense of time. it seems like a Empty and repeats itself and it change its speed and
sometimes it stops completely. other symptoms are sweating, drying mouth, rising in
blood pressure and increasing heart rate. These symptoms are not fixed, it varies from
person to person; also, the duration of the trip and hallucination are varied by the
amount of human's usage. For this reason, the CIA has abandoned the use of this
material because it is very difficult to predict the behavior of people when they are
under the influence
Ethical Problems
Identify the ethical problems in the study and discuss
them completely.
- Participants were aware they were apart of the
experiment. Unsuspecting citizens were hypnotized,
drugged, and electric shocked into becoming
assassins and terrorist, without their common
knowledge.
- Children were used for sexual exploitation and also
impregnated. Government officials allegedly obtained
sexual favors from the children and many of the
children were forced to have sex with each other.
- There were also accusations that participants were
directed to kill other participants, all while being
unaware of their actions.
- The government deliberately lied to willing
participants about the purpose of the studies, such as
the medications being distributed were for dietary
research.
Effects of Current Research
The effect of the CIA mind control
experiment had a lasting effect on those
involved. Rather it is the actual experimenter or
those who were experimented on, it will forever
be our history. The effect of current research
that needs to be discussed is how do the
study’s ethical problems affect researchers now,
what were the results of exposing the study’s
problems, and could this study be revised to be
conducted ethically.
Effects of Current Research
How do the study’s ethical problems affect researchers now? It is hard
to discuss the affect that the ethical problems have on researchers now because
a lot of the research is deemed classified information or the evidenced have
been destroyed. Program information before 1972 is still classified (Ross 2007).
One way that researchers are affected is that they have to disclose financial
relationships. If at a conference, a person(s) wanted to be awarded Continuing
Medical Education credits or publish an article in a medical journal, financial
relationships must be disclosed when the products are the subject (Ross 2007).
In the CIA mind control experiment, children were one of the subjects of LSD
experiments and were experimented on intensively. At Creedmore State
Hospital, a child psychiatrist, named Dr. Lauretta Bender administered lethal
doses of mescaline and LSD to children ranging from ages 5 to 10 years old
(Bender, 1970; Bender, Faretra, & Cobronik, 1962). Now, children are considered
minors and have very little rights which requires parental consent for studies
done on this population.
Effects of Current Research
What were the results of exposing the study’s
problems? In their published writings and meetings, the CIA
psychiatrists criticized the actions of the Food and Drug
Administration when they made LSD illegal in the 1960s
(Fremont-Smith 1967). LSD had mentally lasting effects on
individuals affected. Justice never really prevailed for those
individuals. “The CIA’s program of human experimentation
violated [the] trust [of the American people]”, stated Senator
Edward Kennedy. Sadly, no effort was made to identify the
experimental subjects or to compensate them (Wright
2005). If the survivors of the mind-control experimentation
wanted to seek justice by the civil law, they can by the
Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), the United States
Constitution, and the Nuremburg Code (Wright 2005).
Effects of Current Research
Could this study be revised to be conducted
ethically? The only possible ways that this study
could be done ethically is through the correct
procedures such as informed consent of adults as
well as children and definitely by less invasive ways
to control the mind. The ways that this study went
by conducting the experiment was very inhumane.
A researcher should always first do no harm to the
participants and disclose all pertinent information
that the experiment involves.
Video
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References
Bender, L. (1970). Children’s reactions to psychotomimetic drugs. In D.H. Efron
(Ed.), Psychotomimetic
drugs (pp. 265- 271). New York: Raven Press
Bender, L., Faretra, G., & Cobronik, L. (1962). LSD and UML treatment of
hospitalized disturbed children.
Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry, 5, 84-92
Fremont-Smith, F. (1967). Preface. In H. Abramson (Ed.), The use of LSD in
psychotherapy and alcoholism
(pp. xv-xvi). New York: Bobbs-Merrill
References
Lee, H. (1988). Victims of 1950s' mind-control experiments settle with
CIA. The Washington Post (Pre-1997 Fulltext)
Ross, C. A. (2007). Ethics of CIA and Military Contracting by Psychiatrists
and Psychologists. Ethical
Human Psychology & Psychiatry, 9(1), 25-34
Winter, A. (2011, Fall). Manchurian Candidates: Forensic Hypnosis in the
Cold War. Grey Room(45), 115
Wright, E. (2005). Mind-control experimentation: a travesty of human
rights in the United States.
Journal of Gender, Race And Justice, (1), 211