By Dr. Colin Ross, 1997
Global Intelligence News


Good morning, welcome to International Connection. It's a very special show this
morning. This is the beginning of a journey we are about to take on this
programme. A journey into a gruesome world of mind control experiments by
government-financed doctors in Canada and the United States. Inhuman experiments
performed on humans, children for the most part. For the next 8 months on the
show we will be airing interviews with survivors of mind control experiments and
ritual abuse, lectures and interviews with therapists, researchers, and writers
who are dealing with the legacy of mind control.

Specifically we'll be looking at the documented history of U.S. CIA and military
mind control experimental programs. Also the struggles of survivors to get
compensation from the CIA and the Canadian government in particular govt-funded
mind control experiments at McGill University under Dr. Ewen Cameron. We'll be
hearing the accounts of survivors of horrific experiments involving
electroshock, drugs, brain implants, sensory deprivation, psychic driving,
forced sleep, ritual and sexual abuse. We'll also be discussing the military and
intelligence uses of mind control including theft, assassination, and sexual
blackmail using child victims. We'll be talking about the uses of creating MPD
in people for mind control programming and its links to the MP effects of ritual
abuse. We'll be discussing with therapists to talk about the effects of severe
trauma, sexual abuse, recovered memories and the 'False Memory Syndrome'
Many people listening may be aware of Dr. Cameron's projects at the Allan
Memorial Institute in Montreal but this wasn't the only location. The
experimental projects were carried out all across Canada and of course in the
United States.

The first segment of this radio series Mind Control in Canada features a lecture
by Dr. Colin Ross to colleagues about the history of the U.S. CIA and military
mind control programs. Dr. Ross is a Canadian psychiatrist specializing in MPD
currently practicing in Texas. He has researched this subject for many years and
is currently writing a book about mind control. He has obtained thousands of CIA
documents through the Freedom of Information Act and through these documents,
Dr. Ross is able to prove the US government has been using MPD and Manchurian
Candidates operationally since WWII.. and it doesn't stop there.

When I systematically started looking into CIA military mind control, the more I
looked, the more solid the reality of Mind Control became. Today I will prove to
you, completely locked down, documented, proven, beyond dispute discussion that
intelligence agencies have been creating Manchurian candidates and MPD for
operational use since the Second World War. This is not a conspiracy theory.

This is a fact. Now that's very amazing because if you took an opinion poll of
all the psychiatrists in the American Psychiatric Association today-or you took
the same poll five years ago -- 99.999% ... over 99% of the psychiatrists would
say "it's fiction - well it’s not, it is 100% not!

I am going to talk about not just creating Manchurian candidates, but the whole
network of mind control doctors that is involved in this and supports this-this
kind of old boys' network that maintains all of this.

So there is something real peculiar about the whole story. It's a very strange
story. It tells us that there is something going on in our culture and in the
mental health field that is hidden and secret. This is another kind of incest
secret in the field of psychiatry that all of these people who have been running
psychiatry in the latter half of the 20th century are either directly or loosely
connected to a whole huge universe of covert hidden secretly funded mind control
research, and as I emphasized, that's a fact. Now why should we be talking about
that at this conference? Well it's obvious. If in fact experimental MPD has been
created and has been tight and hard and real enough for operational use by
intelligence agencies for the last 50 years, then it is something of interest to
the dissociative disorders field. When I combine the expert witness experience
that I have had at clinically created iatrogenic DID using the techniques of
destructive psychotherapy cults in the course of persuasion, when I take that
expert witness evidence and see those cases created out of a base of no
pre-existing DID and then I go to this CIA military mind control literature, my
only possible conclusion is yes, you can create full tilt DID artificially from
ground zero.

Also I have to conclude that you can create any degree of complexity,
permutations of false memory that you want. There is absolutely no limit on the
quantity, complexity, reality, congruence, plausibility of false memories that
you can insert in somebody's mind-wittingly or unwittingly. So-they didn't tell
me that in medical school. This is a little sub paradigm revolution in the DID
field. There is a huge wealth of information, experimental information, clinical
anecdotal information, and operational street smarts knowledge of DID that's
been up and running and full tilt in the mental health field for 50 years now.
This did not spring out of nowhere in 1980, and we are missing a ton of
experimental research data that's still classified that bears directly on this
false memory debate that is going on in our society now. And you will see some
of the players in this whole scenario of interesting people.

The first point is that there are a lot of documented declassified mind control
research programs that are completely objectively proven beyond a shadow of a
doubt. I have a lot of this material and some I have on order. This is CIA now.

Bluebird and Artichoke were two programs that ran from 1951-53 and I will read
you some stuff from Artichoke in a minute. These were then rolled over into
MKULTRA which ran from 1953 to 1963 and then there are 149 sub-projects. That
was then administratively rolled over into MKSEARCH which ran until 1973.
Contiguously with that, and in collaboration with Edgeware Arsenal, MKNAOMI
which involved MKULTRA, ARTICHOKE and BLUEBIRD type research done abroad and
nationally ran from 1953 to 1970.

This involves all kinds of hallucinogens, hypnosis and so on that I will go into
in detail. STARGATE just recently declassified E.S.P., paranormal, remote
viewing military uses of telekinesis type research that was done from an
uncertain start date up until 1984. Bill Gates, former Director of the CIA on
ABC's Dateline in December of 1995 said that it ran up until 1984. They had one
of the academic contractors to STARGATE on the show and they had the man whose
job was CIA oversight of military experimentation under STARGATE. So this really
went on, they really used psychics operationally and they believed in it enough
to keep spending millions of dollars on it for several decades probably. Now
when you read all the Senate materials from the 1970's and you read all the
existing literature, the claim of the intelligence community was that all this
mind control research was stopped in 1973 due to Senate oversight and so on. One
of the MKULTRA sub-projects is on the paranormal, esp and using esp for covert
operations purposes. That element of MKULTRA didn't stop in 1973. We now know
from the CIA itself that it ran on until 1984. So we know for a fact that at
least that element of this mind control research program that was said to have
stopped in 1973, continued to 1984. My position is that it is simply implausible
that this stuff isn't ongoing up to the present.

Now we are going to give you a run-through of the institutions that were sites
for MKULTRA research. In MKULTRA there were 149 different sub-projects and these
were not in obscure little corners of the world. This is the American
Psychological Association, this is the Butler Hospital Health Centre which is
part of Harvard, Children's International Summer Village ... this is a charming
place ... this is a project involving a study of children at an international
summer camp aged 11 and the study of how children who don't share a common
language communicate and in the CIA report it states that the investigator was
unwitting of the fact that it was CIA funding and the purpose of the CIA in
these 11 year olds was that they might possibly identify promising young foreign
nationals for future use by the Agency. Columbia University, Cornell, Denver,
Emory, Florida, George Washington, Harvard. This will give you a feel for who is
involved in this stuff. Houston, Illinois, Indiana Universities, Johns Hopkins,
Eli Lilly was the big supplier of LSD to the CIA. Those of you who can remember
the sixties might remember the "House of the Rising Sun" by the British rock
group, The Animals. They had a song called "The Girl Named Sandoz". Sandoz was
the employer of Hoffman who discovered LSD in the forties, and Sandoz was the
original supplier of LSD to the CIA and the military in the 1950's and they
wanted a secure American supplier so they contracted with Eli Lilly to become
the developer. University of Minnesota, New Jersey Reformatory, Bordentown in
Tennessee ... Ohio, University of Pennsylvania, Penn State, Princeton, Stanford,
a couple of universities in Texas, Wisconsin, the Bureau of Narcotics, a prison,
a narcotics farm. So these contracts ... McGill, NIH, NIMH, National
Philosophical Society ... everything and everybody gets in on the act a little.

So these were all of the major players in North American psychiatry and
psychology who were receiving this kind of funding. Office of Naval Research.
Worcester Foundation for experimental Biology ... all kinds of different
agencies and groups. MKSEARCH was the one that MKULTRA was rolled into. It ran
from 1963 to 1973. Again Bureau of Narcotics, New Jersey Neuropsychiatric which
is also an MKULTRA site which I will talk about in more detail. Vacaville State
Prison which you are going to hear a whole bunch about. Now BLUEBIRD and
ARTICHOKE which were 1951-53 ... institutions there include the Bureau of
Narcotics, Cornell, Eli Lilly again, NIH, Public Health Service, University of
Minnesota ... you get the idea. Now what about the proven identity of some of
the actual contractors? The terminology here is we've got the contractor and
we've got the sub-project number and I have most of the sub contract files.
Security status ... TS means Top Secret cleared, UW means unwitting because this
money was usually put through a funding front . They would just think it was
another foundation. Most of the people you haven't heard of like James Hamilton,
Harold Abramson, Carl Pfeiffer, but you will hear more about them later today.
Some of these people might sound a little familiar ... Louis Jolyon West at
UCLA, Ewen Cameron who was at McGill, he's been written about a lot, and yes
this is Carl Rogers of Rogerian psychotherapy fame. He was actually a spook
psychiatrist with top secret clearance who was on the Advisory Board of one of
the funding fronts and received funding for psychotherapeutic research on
schizophrenia. It's a very funny thing that Mr. Friendly Carl was in the
network. Martin Orne, you will hear a lot about him.

These people were at University of Oklahoma. They were doing research on street
gangs. Four of the MKULTRA sub-projects were on children and all of the
investigators for those were UW unwitting. Martin Orne's top secret clearance
status. Maitland Baldwin who did stuff on monkey brains. George White was a CIA
career officer who constructed safe houses in San Francisco and New York where
people were recruited in off the streets to have sex with prostitutes and were
given LSD and other drugs without their knowing it. The rationale for this was
that they were attempting to study reaction of unwitting subjects in civilian
settings to mind control drugs. An alternative hypothesis to this was that they
were actually testing Manchurian candidate prostitute performance.

Harold Wolff was at Cornell. Raymond Prince I have corresponded with. He was UW
unwitting. He did research among the Aruba in Nigeria on their folk healing
practices. R. Gordon Watson-I was a little bit unhappy to see him on the list,
but relieved to see he was unwitting because I read a book of his called "SOMA:
Divine Mushrooms of Immortality" ... a very interesting book on Fly Agrate which
is the little red toadstool with the white flakes on it. The use of that by
circumpolar shamans has a very interesting history. John Mulholland is actually
a magician. When you go through these documents, all these names are whited out.
You have to piece it together from here and there. It's a great big story trying
to track it all down. Except they goofed it up. John Mulholland was not whited
out once. When you get a file on one of these sub-projects, there is usually a
page in there that has standardized wording about no individuals associated with
this project are witting or so and so whose name is whited out has top secret
clearance and is aware of agency involvement. There's somebody you have probably
heard of. His name is B.F. Skinner. I am still doing some of the archival
research to find out what his sub-project number is, and what his security
status is but I would suspect it will turn out to be top secret.

Now I am going to jump to proving to you that MPD has been created by the CIA
and the military since WWII. The first stop off point is at the back of your
series of handouts there. It's a publication called "Science Digest, April
1971", the author is G.H. Estabrooks. The article is called "Hypnosis Comes of
Age". When you go to page 48, I am going to read this out loud for the benefit
of people listening to this on tape. He's now writing, in 1971, and says the
following:

"One of the most fascinating but dangerous applications of hypnosis is its use
in military intelligence. This is a field with which I am familiar through
formulating guidelines for the techniques used by the United States in two world
wars." (Ross: For those of you who are not history buffs, that means at least
back to 1914.) "Communication in war is always a headache. Codes can be broken.
A professional spy may or may not stay bought. Your own man may have
unquestionable loyalty but his judgment is always open to question. The
"hypnotic courier" on the other hand, provides a unique solution. I was involved
in preparing many subjects for this work during World War II. One successful
case involved an Army Service Corps Captain whom we'll call George Smith.
Captain Smith had undergone months of training. He was an excellent subject but
did not realize it. I had removed from him, by post-hypnotic suggestion, all
recollection of ever having been hypnotized. First I had the Service Corps call
the captain to Washington and tell him they needed a report on the mechanical
equipment of Division X headquartered in Tokyo. Smith was ordered to leave by
jet next morning, pick up the report and return at once. These orders were given
him in the waking state. Consciously, that was all he knew, and it was the story
he gave his wife and friends. Then I put him under deep hypnosis, and gave
him-orally-a vital message to be delivered directly on his arrival in Japan to a
certain colonel-let's say his name was Brown-of military intelligence. Outside
of myself, Colonel Brown was the only person who could hypnotize Captain Smith.
This is "locking". I performed it by saying to the hypnotized Captain: 'Until
further orders from me, only Colonel Brown and I can hypnotize you. We will use
a signal phrase 'the moon is clear'. Whenever you hear this phrase from Brown or
myself you will pass instantly into deep hypnosis.'

When Captain Smith re-awakened, he had no conscious memory of what happened in
trance. All that he was aware of was that he must head for Tokyo to pick up a
division report. On arrival there, Smith reported to Brown, who hypnotized him
with the signal phrase. Under hypnosis, Smith delivered my message and received
one to bring back. Awakened, he was given the division report and returned home
by jet. There I hypnotized him once more with the signal phrase, and he spieled
off Brown's answer that had been dutifully tucked away in his unconscious mind.
The system is virtually foolproof. As exemplified by this case, the information
literally was "locked" in Smith's unconscious for retrieval by the only two
people who knew the combination. The subject had no conscious memory of what
happened, so couldn't spill the beans. No one else could hypnotize him even if
they might know the signal phrase. Not all applications of hypnotism to military
intelligence are as tidy as that. Perhaps you have read 'The Three Faces of
Eve'.

Operation Artichoke and Bluebird, CIA Mind Control research from 1951-53. I am
going to read you some Artichoke and Bluebird documents that were obtained
through the Freedom of Information Act. A lot of stuff is whited out, so I will
just say blank whenever it is necessary to do so. To the Files. On 6th April,
1954, Tuesday, SI&H (Ross: I haven't figured out what SI is, H is hypnosis)
Experimentation and Research was carried on in Building 13 with the following
subjects present: Mrs. __ , in addition to Misses ______. ______ attended in a
consultant capacity. The session opened with slow induction for all hands, and
then a subsequent induction for Miss ____ to enable her to reconstruct a strange
dream she had had the previous week. This was successful, although in the wake
state she could remember no details. The major experiment of this evening was
then conducted as follows.

Miss ____ was taken to Room 23 under full hypnosis and she was instructed by the
writer that she would find a secret document in or on Mr. X at desk in his room.
She was told that she was to conceal this document next to her person and then
she was to return to Room 21, Operations Room, pour herself a drink of water
which she would find on a bookcase, and then stretch out on the sofa, face down
and go into a deep sleep. She was instructed she would not awaken under any
circumstances. She was told she would only awaken if somebody whispered to her a
specific code word and would recall nothing except sleeping on the couch. Miss
____ performed the entire test in exact as detail outlined above and had no
subsequent memory whatsoever of any of this activity. During the experiment Miss
____ was taken to the same room and she was told that a person whom she had
never seen had taken a secret document from the Agency. She was told that this
person or suspected person had been given a drug and was unconscious on the sofa
in Room 21. She was told she was to enter the room and find the document which
would probably be on the person on the sofa. She was given specific instructions
that she must locate the document.

She was told that if she found the document, she was to conceal it on her person
and return to Room 23, sit in the chair, and go at once into a deep sleep. She
was further told that she would have no memory other than falling asleep. Miss
____ complied in specific detail and immediately discovered the document in
____'s sweater sleeve. Miss ____ concealed the document on her person, returned
to Room 23 and at once went into a deep sleep. Subsequently she was brought back
into the Operations Room and she and _____ were awakened. The experiment was
carried off successfully, particularly by _______ with entire amnesia of the
work, and cannot even recall it under hypnosis. ____ however was able to
remember a certain part, though some of her details seemed vague."

It's clearly creation of Manchurian candidates, there is no question whatsoever.
This is now in operational use in the United States.

Now the following is not Manchurian candidates, but it's the use of sodium
amytal and hypnosis for the creation of amnesia barriers and deliberate
insertion of false memories. "To Director of Security Via Deputy Director of
Security Via Chief Security Research Staff from _____. Subject: Report of
Artichoke Operations 20-23 January 1955. Between Thursday 20 January and Sunday
23 January 1955, the Security Office Artichoke Team conducted a special
operations _____. In the opinion of Team Members, in this case Officers of the
_____, the Artichoke operation was successful. Details follow. It should be
noted at this point that because these operations were the first Artichoke
Operations undertaken in the USA, which is a violation of the CIA's Charter, the
full names of those participating are omitted from this report and will not be
revealed without consent of the Security Office. First names, titles, or
pseudonyms will be used throughout this report. In view of the highly sensitive
nature of the Artichoke techniques and in view of the fact that this was the
first Artichoke operation carried out in the USA, the operation was conducted
_______. This Safe House is far removed from surrounding neighbours, it is a
large tract of land, and is thoroughly isolated. A limited, and security-cleared
household staff maintain functions of the House and ____ by unwitting ______
Actual Artichoke operations as usual were carried out in a special area on the
second floor of the House, and neither the household staff nor the _____ were
permitted in the area during any of the processing.

SSD Division furnished one security officer during the entire period of the
operation to act as special guard and to handle any unusual situations which
arose during the operation. This guard is hereinafter referred to as ____ in
this report. For a matter of record, it should be noted that the subject was not
a confinement problem, and has been at all times fully cooperative. Guard detail
was not present in connection with the subject, except in a general sense.
Technical matters in the case were handled entirely by the TBPSD under the
personal supervision of _____. Full tape recordings were made of the entire
case, and tapes are to be turned over to the participating Division in the
immediate future. It should be noted that during this particular operation, a
special device was used in conjunction with the recording. This device, which is
easily concealable, worked with remarkable efficiency and at no time during the
entire recording was there any break due to technical failure. It should al so
be noted that a complex two-way transmitting/receiving unit was again used in
this Artichoke operation. Cover for the actual operation followed standard
procedure. The subject was informed in general terms that before being sent for
further work it was necessary that certain tests be made on him physically and
psychologically as well as his. Hence a complete physical and sychological,
psychiatric examination was acquired. Subject readily accepted this medical
cover and the Artichoke technique was introduced easily and with the full
consent of the subject.

The Case: Prior to the commencement of the actual Artichoke operation, a number
of conferences had been held with the various participating personnel involved.
All hands had been briefed and procedures had been worked out. A general time
schedule was prepared and operating instructions for Artichoke were issued. On
the afternoon of the 20th of January the subject and _______ They were met by
________ of the interested Division. Under a covert car subject was taken to the
_____, arriving there at approximately 9:30 pm. Prior to this, that is during
the day of 20th of January, the technical equipment had been checked out and
installed, and _____ had arrived at the covert area at approximately 8 pm for
operational purposes. By previous arrangement the _____ was picked up by _____
at approximately 9:30 pm. _____ was brought to the Safe House at 10:50 pm.
Shortly after the arrival of ____, a preliminary conference began at
approximately 11:10 pm with the subject.

Interrogation lasted until 12:25 am when all except the subject ____ left the
Operations Room. Tape recording was cut off at this time. As a result of this
interview _____ stated that subject's mental and physical condition was good and
noted that the pulse (Ross: which is actually the blood pressure) at 12:25 am
was 120/80 (Ross: so these guys are not total wizards). The doctor also
commented he had noticed an increased amount of talk after a drink of whiskey
and although there was some nervousness present, it was not excessive. _____
stated he had given subject two grams of anibarbitol to the subject to assist
him to sleep and it was later confirmed the subject had taken this prior to
going to sleep.

Because of the successful penetration and because of the extremely high quality
of information which the subject was obtaining, the case is regarded as most
sensitive and important by the participating Division. Since the subject's
information had been checked and cross-checked many times by the Operating
Division's Case Officers, and the Division was of the uniform opinion that the
subject was fully legitimate and fully cooperating with our efforts; they
however desired Artichoke to give added assurance to the subject's story and to
help them determine absolute suitability for further use of the subject in his
work. For the record, it should be noted that no polygraph techniques had been
applied in this case, since a physical examination by _____ apparently a cleared
physician had indicated too much nervousness for successful polygraph testing.
Following established patterns using medical cover as explained above, the ____
began a physical and psychological examination at 10 am on the morning of Friday
21 January. This examination continued until l pm when an hour was taken for
lunch. At 2 pm _____ again continued the general examination of the subject with
_____ being used, as before lunch, as interpreter. This examination lasted until
3 pm when the ____ concluded the first medical session and a portable polygraph
was taken in by ____ for the purpose of polygraph testing. On Saturday 22
January 1955 subject had breakfast with ____. At 9:35 am ____ arrived at the
Safe House and at 9:45 am ____ arrived. At 10:35 am the subject again, with ____
acting as interpreter, was examined briefly by Dr. ______. At 10:50 am _____
left the operations area and began polygraph testing. This examination lasted
until 12:37 pm when it was concluded.

Subject was taken into the Special Operations Room with only the ____ present
and at 2:36 pm the first intravenous infusion began. Slow injections were
continued until 2:46 pm when the ____ signaled that the subject was fully
affected by the chemicals and at this time special recording and transmitting
equipment was brought into the Operations Room. Also at this time ____ left the
room and ____ entered. From this point until approximately 4:15 pm when the
interrogations ended, Artichoke techniques were applied. These techniques, which
followed a previously agreed-upon plan, were in three stages:
A. A fantasy which ______. Results during this phase were good and subject had
no control. Time approximately 15-20 minutes. B. A fantasy in which _____.
Results were again very good. Time approximately 40-45 minutes. C. Following
development of the fantasies as noted above, the subject was more or less
directly interrogated by _____, and ____ introduced as _____. Results only fair,
although subject had little control. Time approximately 15 minutes. Immediately
following the conclusion of the Artichoke treatments, a general conference was
held with all hands present. It was agreed at this time that further Artichoke
treatments were unnecessary, that results were as conclusive .. that in view of
the subject's importance, additional work with chemicals or with the H technique
might possibly antagonize the subject, hence would be unwarranted and unwise.
Following the conclusion of the general discussion all technical apparatus was
removed from the premises, and all participating personnel with the exception of
_____ left the area after the ____ had checked the subject. On Sunday 23 January
between approximately twelve noon and l:30 pm, the _____ returned to the Safe
House and again re-examined the physical and mental condition of the subject. At
this time the subject reported he had slept fairly well but he had a persistent
headache. The _____ pointed out that the headache was a natural consequence of
the "examination" and it would gradually disappear. In addition the ____ wrote a
prescription which was to be picked up in another name for future use by the
subject as a general sedative. At 1:50 pm approximately _____ left the Safe
House and the subject was turned over for handling to Case Officers of his
participating Division.