h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A bit of very old news:

'At the conclusion of the laboratory test phase of Material Testing Program EA 1729 in 1960, the Army Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) authorized operational field testing of LSD. The first field tests were conducted in Europe by an Army Special Purpose Team (SPT) during the period from May to August of 1961. These tests were known as Project THIRD CHANCE and involved eleven separate interrogations of ten subjects. None of the subjects were volunteers and none were aware that they were to receive LSD. All but one subject, a U.S. soldier implicated in the theft of classified documents, were alleged to be foreign intelligence sources or agents. While interrogations of these individuals were only moderately successful, at least one subject (the U.S. soldier) exhibited symptoms of severe paranoia while under the influence of the drug.

The second series of field tests, Project DERBY HAT, were conducted by an Army SPT in the Far East during the period from August to November of 1962. Seven subjects were interrogated under DERBY HAT, all of whom were foreign nationals either suspected of dealing in narcotics or implicated in foreign intelligence operations. The purpose of this second set of experiments was to collect additional data on the utility of LSD in field interrogations, and to evaluate any different effects the drug might have on "Orientals."'

http://www.parascope.com/ds/documentslibrary/MKULTRAappendixA.htm


let's just hear that again: "None of the subjects were volunteers and none were aware that they were to receive LSD."

I don't know. I find it interesting.

"Inmates were returned to their cells at the prison at the end of the day on which they received LSD and they were heavily sedated because there were no personnel available to provide overnight surveillance, support and, if needed, intervention. This action contravened the scientific and ethical research standards of the time; http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/releases/98-10-30_e.shtml

"Dr. Ewen Cameron conducted some of the most horrific experiments funded by the CIA. Cameron tested 53 patients at Allan Memorial Institute in Canada. Treatment started with "sleep therapy", where subjects were knocked out for months, then he would "depattern" them, which included massive electroshock and LSD dosage. Depatterning was supposed to wipe out past behavior patterns so new patterns could be installed. Finally, Cameron put the subjects through "psychic driving", where the patients would be heavily drugged and confined to "sleep rooms". In the sleep rooms, speakers would be placed under the subject's pillow, and a tape recorded message would play over and over again for 16 to 24 hours a day. Some subjects heard the same message 250,000 times. This treatment did not work, it only succeeded in messing up several of the patients for the rest of their lives, and his theory was discredited." http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/lsd-mc-cia.htm ("After the war, the Nuremberg trials tried and convicted a small number of those responsible for the Nazi "medical" horrors. Among the Nuremberg tribunal was a Dr. Ewen Cameron")

I find this (LSD research) shocking, but somehow not surprising...