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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1/..... The Last Station: Surging Into the Savage
Past in Afghanistan</DIV>
<DIV>2/..... MK-ULTRA: The CIA's Mind Control Program</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><STRONG>The Last Station: Surging Into the Savage Past in
Afghanistan</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><!-- <h1 style="margin-bottom: 0px;padding-bottom: 2px;"></h1><h2><em></em></h2> -->
<DIV class=author>by Chris Floyd</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 90%">First published in <A
href="http://www.chris-floyd.com/" target=external>Empire Burlesque</A>
yesterday, 13 February 2010</DIV>
<DIV class=lift style="WIDTH: 516px; HEIGHT: 75px">If one is attempting to
galvanize public support for a long and bloody war of domination and occupation
that has no discernible purpose, why then, a nice guaranteed, low-cost "victory"
will demonstrate that the "new and improved" strategy of your "new and improved"
president is "working," and that we are "winning" -- so we can't quit now!
</DIV><!-- <span class="dateopen"></span><span class="firstchar"></span> -->
<P>The current Nobel Peace laureate is continuing his noble and inspiring work
of war this week in <A title=""
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/world/asia/14afghan.html"
target=external>the latest PR blitz in Afghanistan</A>: "Operation Moshtarak,"
the much-ballyhooed, extravagantly telegraphed "attack" on the city of Marja. Is
it even worth discussing this monstrous sham? The perpetrators of the attack
know full well that there will be no "battle." Even the American commanders
cannot be so sealed in their arrogant ignorance that they do not know their
insurgent opponents will do what every guerrilla army does when facing
concentrations of conventional military force: disperse into the countryside,
and into the urban populace, biding their time until the occupiers draw down
their forces -- and in the meantime launching small ambushes with sniper fire
and roadside bombs aimed at the sitting-duck cannon fodder placed in harm's way
by their publicity-driven commanders.</P>
<DIV class=lift305>And yet, the Western media has fully bought into the
hackneyed, transparently false narrative of "the largest military operation of
its kind since the American-backed war began eight years ago," with a plucky
band of Marines and their faithful Afghan allies facing down "hundreds" of
hardened fighters in the "largest Taliban sanctuary inside Afghanistan." The
embedded media tracked the countdown to the attack as if they were hunkered down
in the landing craft on their way to Omaha Beach. Except, of course, when one is
genuinely planning an actual major attack on a strong, entrenched enemy -- as at
Omaha Beach -- one does not normally advertise it around the clock for weeks on
end beforehand. </DIV>
<P>If, however, one is attempting to galvanize public support for a long,
grinding, bloody war of domination and occupation that has no discernible
purpose (none that can be stated in public, anyway), why then, a nice set-piece
"battle" which will end in a guaranteed, low-cost "victory" is just the ticket.
It will demonstrate that the "new and improved" strategy of your "new and
improved" president is "working," and that we are "winning" -- so we can't quit
now! </P>
<P>This is of course the same message conveyed many years -- and many thousands
of lives -- ago by the fall of Kabul, the "conquest" of Kandahar, and other
great triumphs that "cleaned out" the various "largest Taliban sanctuar[ies]
inside Afghanistan." But as any ad man can tell you, a commercial brand needs to
be refreshed periodically in order to keep pulling in the profits. And the
Afghan War brand has been a veritable bonanza, a cornucopia of contracts,
corruption, profiteering and political pull for all of the interested parties
involved: the various militaries and security apparats (and their contractors),
the political elites, the many insurgent factions (loosely and falsely given the
single rubric "Taliban"), the warlords, the druglords, organized crime, violent
religious extremists -- in short, all those who traffic in hate, death, conflict
and fear. </P>
<P>Or as "retired American military officer working in security in
Afghanistan"<A title=""
href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/obama-afghanistan-stoner-cops"
target=external> put it to Nir Rosen in Mother Jones</A>: </P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>"Every time our boys face them, we win," he told me grimly. "We're winning
every day. Are we going to keep winning for 20 years?"</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Yes, mister retired American military officer, that is indeed the plan -- if
they can swing it: </P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb. 17, 2017 -- President David Petraeus' "New Way
Forward" in the Af-Pak War got off to a rousing start today as a combined
force of U.S. Marines and Frontier paramilitaries launched a new
'warfighter/nationbuilder' offensive against this stonghold of Taliban
insurgency. The attack is seen as a vital test of what the president has
called his "Counterinsurgency 2.0" strategy, an updating of the highly
successful approach that President Petraeus implemented in Iraq, where the
75,000 remaining U.S. advisors and trainers recently marked the 10th
anniversary of his victorious surge.....</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV class=subhead>II.</DIV>
<P>The true context of the present operation, and the many that preceded it, and
the many that will follow it, was put in stark relief by <A title=""
href="http://harpers.org/archive/2010/02/hbc-90006460" target=external>Scott
Horton at Harper's last week</A>, when he did us the great service of posting an
excerpt <A title=""
href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Correspondence_between_Tolstoy_and_Gandhi"
target=external>from the correspondence</A> between Lev Tolstoy and Mohandas
Gandhi. The exchanges between the young Hindu lawyer and the aging Russian
writer burn with a moral fervor and compassion that in our day seem to have come
from another planet, not just another century. Here is an excerpt from that
excerpt, taken from a letter that Tolstoy wrote (in his strong if imperfect
English) just weeks before his death in 1910:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>The longer I live – especially now when I clearly feel the approach of
death – the more I feel moved to express what I feel more strongly than
anything else, and what in my opinion is of immense importance, namely, what
we call the renunciation of all opposition by force, which really simply means
the doctrine of the law of love unperverted by sophistries....</P>
<P>This law was announced by all the philosophies – Indian as well as Chinese,
and Jewish, Greek and Roman. Most clearly, I think, was it announced by
Christ, who said explicitly that on it hang all the Law and the Prophets. More
than that, foreseeing the distortion that has hindered its recognition and may
always hinder it, he specially indicated the danger of a misrepresentation
that presents itself to men living by worldly interests – namely, that they
may claim a right to defend their interests by force or, as he expressed it,
to repay blow by blow and recover stolen property by force, etc., etc. He
knew, as all reasonable men must do, that any employment of force is
incompatible with love as the highest law of life, and that as soon as the use
of force appears permissible even in a single case, the law itself is
immediately negatived. </P>
<P>The whole of Christian civilization, outwardly so splendid, has grown up on
this strange and flagrant–partly intentional but chiefly
unconscious–misunderstanding and contradiction. At bottom, however, the law of
love is, and can be, no longer valid if defence by force is set up beside it.
And if once the law of love is not valid, then there remains no law except the
right of might. In that state Christendom has lived for 1,900 years. Certainly
men have always let themselves be guided by force as the main principle of
their social order....</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>The clear-eyed idealism -- the belief in constant, relentless, non-violent
resistance to evil -- that drove Tolstoy, Gandhi and their many spiritual
descendants, such as Martin Luther King Jr., are now openly mocked, or else
condescendingly discarded as quaint relics, unsuitable for our own tough, savvy
times. We saw a prime example of this derision only a few months ago, when
Barack Obama, the loudly self-proclaimed Christian, accepted his Nobel Peace
Prize with a ringing endorsement of state violence on a massive, savage,
overwhelming scale, and an explicit renunciation of non-violence. (For more, see
"<A title=""
href="http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1886-miraculous-organ-blair-obama-and-the-narcissists-defense.html"
target=external>Miraculous Organ: Blair, Obama and the Narcissists'
Defense</A>")</P>
<P>How far we have travelled in the wretched century since Tolstoy's last letter
to Gandhi -- a journey into the past, back to the caves, back to the dark
forests, where "there remains no law except the right of might."</P>
<DIV class=close>Chris Floyd has been a writer and editor for more than 25
years, working in the United States, Great Britain and Russia for various
newspapers, magazines, the U.S. government and Oxford University. Floyd
co-founded the blog <A
href="http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1"
target=external>Empire Burlesque</A>, and is also chief editor of <A
href="http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/" target=external>Atlantic Free
Press</A>. He can be reached at <A
href="mailto:cfloyd72@gmail.com">cfloyd72@gmail.com</A>.
<P>This column is republished here with the permission of the author.</P></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=4>MK-ULTRA: The CIA's Mind Control Program</FONT></P><!-- <h1 style="margin-bottom: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;"></h1><h2></h2> -->
<DIV class=author>by Stephen Lendman </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 90%">Tuesday, 16 February 2010</DIV><!-- <div class="editor" ></div> -->
<DIV class=lift style="WIDTH: 487px; HEIGHT: 69px"><BR>Conducting human mind
control experiments are clearly illegal and unethical. They're more
sophisticated than ever today, and claims that MK-ULTRA experiments were halted
in the 1970s were false. Renamed they continue... </DIV>
<P><!-- <span class="dateopen"></span> --><SPAN class=firstchar>MK-ULTRA</SPAN>
was the code name for a secret CIA mind control program, begun in 1953, under
Director Allen Dulles. Its purpose was multifold, including to perfect a truth
drug for interrogating suspected Soviet spies during the Cold War. It followed
earlier WW II hypnosis, primitive drugs research, and the US Navy's Project
Chatter, explained by its Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in response to a
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request as follows:</P>
<P>It began "in the fall of 1947 focusing on the identification and testing of
drugs (LSD and others) in interrogations and the recruitment of agents. The
research included laboratory experiments on both animal and human subjects. The
program ended shortly after the Korean War in 1953." </P>
<P>It was run under the direction of Dr. Charles Savage of the Naval Medical
Research Institute, Bethesda, MD from 1947 - 1953, after which CIA's Office of
Scientific Intelligence continued it under the name Project Bluebird, its first
mind control program to:</P>
<UL>
<LI>learn how to condition subjects to withstand information from being
extracted from them by known means;
<LI>develop interrogation methods to exert control;
<LI>develop memory enhancement techniques; and
<LI>establish ways to prevent hostile control of Agency personnel.</LI></UL>
<P>In 1951, it was renamed Project Artichoke, then MK-ULTRA under Deputy CIA
Director Richard Helms in 1953. It aimed to control human behavior through
psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs, electroshock, radiation, graphology,
paramilitary techniques, and psychological/sociological/anthropological methods,
among others - a vast open-field of mind experimentation trying anything that
might work, legal or otherwise on willing and unwitting subjects.</P>
<DIV class=lift>Ongoing at different times were 149 sub-projects in 80 US and
Canadian universities, medical centers and three prisons, involving 185
researchers, 15 foundations and numerous drug companies. Everything was top
secret.</DIV>
<P>Ongoing at different times were 149 sub-projects in 80 US and Canadian
universities, medical centers and three prisons, involving 185 researchers, 15
foundations and numerous drug companies. Everything was top secret, and most
records later destroyed, yet FOIA suits salvaged thousands of pages with
documented evidence of the horrific experiments and their effects on human
subjects.</P>
<P>Most were unwitting guinea pigs, and those consenting were misinformed of the
dangers. James Stanley was a career soldier when given LSD in 1958 along with
1,000 other military "volunteers." They suffered hallucinations, memory loss,
incoherence, and severe personality changes. Stanley exhibited uncontrollable
violence. It destroyed his family, impeded his working ability, and he never
knew why until the Army asked him to participate in a follow-up study. </P>
<P>He sued for damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), his case
reaching the Supreme Court in United States v. Stanley. Argued and decided in
1987, the Court dismissed his claim (5 - 4), ruling his injuries occurred during
military service. Justices Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan and Sandra Day
O'Conner wrote dissenting opinions, saying the Nuremberg Code applies to
soldiers as well as civilians. In 1996, Stanley got $400,000 in compensation,
but no apology from the government.</P>
<P>Perhaps MK-ULTRA's most publicized victim was Frank Olsen, a biochemist
working for the Army Chemical Corps' Special Operations Division at Ft. Detrick,
MD. On November 18, 1953, he was administered LSD. Immediately, he became
agitated and severely paranoid. Nine days later, he reportedly committed suicide
by jumping 13 stories to his death through a New York hotel's closed window. His
family members didn't know he was drugged until MK-ULTRA was exposed in 1975.
</P>
<P>President Gerald Ford apologized, granted a $750,000 settlement, but Olson's
son discovered documents suggesting his father was killed. In 1994, he exhumed
the body, had it forensically evaluated, and the conclusion was homicide based
on a previously undetected skull fracture suggesting a blow on the head and
other disturbing evidence.</P>
<P>Stanley Glickman was another MK-ULTRA tragedy, an unwitting victim of
hallucinogenic drugs and electroshock treatment. He became traumatized, couldn't
work, barely ate, suffered a psychological breakdown and never fully recovered.
After learning about the CIA's LSD experiments, he sued in 1983. The trial was
delayed 16 years, he died, but his sister Gloria Kronisch pursued the case.</P>
<P>MK-ULTRA chief Stanley Gottleib was at issue, hired to run its Technical
Service Staff (TSS) to develop poisons to assassinate political opponents, truth
serum drugs for interrogating spies, and mind control techniques to create robot
assassins or unwitting double agents. He used Nazi scientists and their state of
the art methods, perfected on concentration camp victims. Some were known as
programmers, skilled professionals in the art of breaking down and controlling
the human mind.</P>
<DIV class=lift>Joseph Mengele was so successful with the trauma bonding
techniques that survivors expressed strong affection for him.</DIV>
<P>Joseph Mengele did similar work, experimenting extensively with children and
adults using mescaline, electroshock therapy, hypnosis, sensory deprivation,
torture, rape, starvation, and trauma bonding. He was so successful with the
latter technique that survivors expressed strong affection for him.</P>
<P>The CIA and US military copied the Nazi methodology through numerous
programs, including MK-ULTRA, MK being an abbreviation for words "mind control"
in German. According to obtained documents, it works best when severe trauma
(such as rape) occurs by age three, the result often causing the personality to
split or dissociate (called dissociative identity disorder or DID) to repress
painful memories.</P>
<P>Therapists can cause multiple personality disorder (MPD) by mind
manipulation, but early in life trauma makes victims especially vulnerable.
Gottlieb focused on LSD for mind control and exotic poisons and drugs for
political assassinations.</P>
<P>Under Operation Paperclip, 9,000 Nazi scientists and technicians were
recruited to help undermine the Soviet Union.</P>
<P>In 1952, Gottlieb met Glickman in a Paris cafe, bought him a drink and laced
it with LSD. After finally being held to account, he became ill. The trial was
postponed, and on the eve of its resumption he died unexpectedly. At the time,
New York Times and Los Angeles Times obituaries reported that his family refused
to disclose the cause. The online WorldNet Daily explained it was after a
"month-long bout with pneumonia," saying that after being admitted to the
University of Virginia Medical Center, he lapsed into a coma, never recovered,
but foul play couldn't be determined. </P>
<P>At trial against his estate, the judge died of a heart attack while
exercising. The question again arose. Was it natural or was he killed,
especially since his replacement was prejudicial to the plaintiff having thrown
out his case two years earlier. Perhaps so after the jury ruled against
Glickman's family, denying them justice.</P>
<P>On December 22, 1974, Seymour Hersh exposed MK-ULTRA in a New York Times
article. Headlined, "Huge CIA Operation Reported in US Against Antiwar Forces,
Other Dissidents in Nixon Years," it documented illegal activities, including
secret experiments on US citizens during the 1960s and earlier. Church Committee
Congressional investigations followed, headed by Senator Frank Church, on
abusive intelligence practices, replaced by the Pike Committee five months
later. The Rockefeller Commission, under vice president Nelson Rockefeller, also
examined the domestic activities of the CIA, FBI, and military intelligence
agencies.</P>
<P>By summer 1975, it was learned that CIA and Department of Defense had
conducted illegal experiments on willing and unwitting subjects as part of an
exhaustive program to influence human behavior through psychoactive drugs
(including LSD and mescaline) and other chemical, biological, psychological, and
other methods.</P>
<DIV class=subhead>Origins of CIA Mind Manipulation Practices</DIV>
<P>CIA became interested in Montreal Dr. Ewen Cameron's work at McGill
University's Allan Memorial Institute. With full knowledge of the Canadian
government, he was funded to perform bizarre experiments on his psychiatric
patients, including keeping them asleep and isolated for weeks, then
administering large doses of electroshock and experimental drug cocktails, LSD
and PCP angel dust among them.</P>
<P>Though clearly unethical, Cameron believed by blasting the human brain with
an array of shocks, he could unmake impaired minds, rebuilding them with new
personalities cleansed of their previous state. It was voodoo science and
failed, but CIA gained a wealth of knowledge it's used to this day.</P>
<P>In 1951, the Agency engaged McGill's director of psychology, Dr. Donald Hebb,
and others to conduct sensory-deprivation experiments on volunteer students.
They showed intense isolation disrupts clear thinking enough to make subjects
receptive to suggestion. They were also formidable interrogation techniques
amounting to torture when forcibly administered.</P>
<P>These early experiments laid the foundation for CIA's two-stage torture
process - sensory deprivation followed by overload. University of Wisconsin
historian Alfred McCoy documented them in his book, "A Question of Torture: CIA
Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror," calling them "the first
real revolution in the cruel science of pain in more than three centuries."</P>
<P>CIA developed and codified them in manuals, used extensively in Southeast
Asia, Central America, Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and at secret black sites
globally. McCoy referred to an offshore information extraction mini-gulag during
the Cold War and War on Terror. Out of sight, nothing is banned, including
physical harshness and psychologically crippling mind control methods that turn
human beings into mush. </P>
<P>MK-ULTRA was one of them, even though Gerald Ford's 1976 Executive Order (EO
11905) "establish(ed) policies to improve the quality of intelligence needed for
national security (and) establish(ed) effective oversight to assure compliance
with law in the management and direction of intelligence agencies and
departments of the national government."</P>
<P>The EO prohibited "experimentation with drugs on human subjects, except with
their informed consent, in writing and witnessed by a disinterested party, of
each such human subject," according to guidelines issued by the National
Commission. Subsequent Carter and Reagan directives banned all human
experimentation. Nonetheless, they continue, in violation of the Nuremberg Code
that prohibits:</P>
<UL>
<LI>medical experiments without the voluntary consent of human subjects -
"without coercion, fraud, deceit, and the full disclosure of known risks;"
<LI>those "where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or
disabling injury will occur;" and
<LI>only ones expected "to yield fruitful results for the good of society,
unprocurable by other methods or means of study...."</LI></UL>
<P>Conducting human mind control experiments are clearly illegal and unethical.
They're more sophisticated than ever today, and claims that MK-ULTRA experiments
were halted in the 1970s were false. Renamed they continue and much more.</P>
<DIV class=subhead>America's Long History of Human Experimentation</DIV>
<P>Prior examples include:</P>
<UL>
<LI>In 1931, Dr. Cornelius Rhoads infected human subjects with cancer cells
under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations;
Rhoads later conducted radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and
civilian hospital patients;
<LI>In 1932, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study began on 200 black men; they're
weren't told of their illness, were denied treatment, and were used as human
guinea pigs to follow their disease symptoms and progression; they all
subsequently died;
<LI>in 1940, 400 Chicago prisoners were infected with malaria to study the
effects of new and experimental drugs;
<LI>from 1942 - 1945, the US Navy used human subjects (locked in chambers) to
test gas masks and clothing;
<LI>since the 1940s, human radiation experiments were conducted to test its
effects and determine how much can kill; unwitting subjects were used in
prisons, hospitals, orphanages, and mental institutions, including men, women,
children, and the unborn of all races, mostly people from lower socio-economic
brackets; in addition, more than 200,000 US soldiers were exposed to above
ground nuclear tests; many later became ill and died;
<LI>in 1945, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) implemented "Program F,"
the most exhaustive American study of fluoride's health effects - a key
component in atomic bomb production and one of the most toxic chemicals known;
it causes marked adverse central nervous system effects; in the interest of
national security, the information was suppressed;
<LI>in 1945, VA hospital patients became guinea pigs for medical experiments;
<LI>in 1947, the AEC's Colonel EE Kirkpatrich issued secret document
#07075001, stating that the agency will begin administering intravenous doses
of radioactive substances to human subjects;
<LI>in 1949, the US Army released biological agents in US cities to study the
effects of a real germ warfare attack; tests continued secretly through at
least the 1960s in San Francisco, New York, Washington, DC, Panama City and
Key West, FL, Minnesota, other midwest locations, along the Pennsylvania
turnpike and elsewhere;
<LI>in 1950, the Defense Department (DOD) began open-air testing of nuclear
weapons in desert areas, then monitored downwind residents for medical
problems and mortality rates;
<LI>in 1951, African-Americans were exposed to potentially fatal stimulants as
part of a race-specific fungal weapons test in Virginia;
<LI>in 1953, DOD released zinc cadmium sulfide gas over Winnipeg, Canada, St.
Louis, Minneapolis, Fort Wayne, the Monocacy River Valley, MD, and Leesburg,
VA - to determine how efficiently chemical agents can be dispersed;
<LI>in 1953, joint Army-Navy-CIA experiments were conducted in New York and
San Francisco, exposing tens of thousands of people to the airborne agents
Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii;
<LI>in 1955, the CIA released bacteria from the Army's Tampa, FL biological
warfare arsenal to test its ability to infect human populations;
<LI>in 1956, the US military released mosquitoes infected with Yellow Fever
over Savannah, GA and Avon Park, FL to test the health effects on humans;
<LI>in 1965, Homesburg State Prison, Philadelphia prisoners were subjected to
dioxin, the highly toxic Agent Orange agent, to study their carcinogenic
effects;
<LI>in 1966, the New York subway system was used for a germ warfare
experiment;
<LI>in 1969, an apparent nerve agent killed thousands of sheep in Utah;
<LI>in 1970, the Military Review reported that "ethnic weapons" development
was intensified to be able to target specific ethnic groups thought
susceptible to genetic differences and DNA variations;
<LI>in 1976, Americans were warned about an earlier Swine Flu scare, urging
everyone to be vaccinated; millions complied, many of whom were harmed; 500
Guillan-Barre Syndrome (GBS - the deadly nerve disorder) resulted; people died
from respiratory failure after severe paralysis, and experts said the vaccine
increased the GBS risk level eight-fold;
<LI>in 1985 and 1986, open-air biological agents testing was done in populated
areas;
<LI>in 1990, over 1,500 six-month old Los Angeles black and hispanic babies
were given an experimental measles vaccine, never informing parents of the
potential harm
<LI>in 1990 and 1991 before deploying to the Persian Gulf, all US troops were
inoculated with experimental anthrax and botulinum toxoid vaccines, even
though concerns were raised about their adverse long-term effects; over 12,000
died and over 30% became ill from non-combat-related factors in what
subsequently was called Gulf War Syndrome, the result of exposure to a variety
of toxins;
<LI>in 1994, Senator Jay Rockefeller issued a report revealing that for the
past 50 or more years, DOD used hundreds of thousands of US military
personnel, exposing them to dangerous substances experimentally; materials
included mustard and nerve gas, ionizing radiation, psychochemicals,
hallucinogens, and other drugs;
<LI>in 1995, Dr. Garth Nicolson discovered that toxic agents used during the
Gulf War were pre-tested on Texas Department of Corrections prisoners;
<LI>in 1996, DOD admitted that Gulf War troops were exposed to chemical
agents; and
<LI>in 2009, experimental vaccines were again used to inoculate people
globally in response to another hyped Swine Flu scare; scattered reports of
illnesses and deaths followed.</LI></UL>
<DIV class=subhead>MK-ULTRA Victim Maryam Ruhullah</DIV>
<P>This writer will interview Ruhullah and Dr. James Randall Noblitt, a licensed
psychologist, on The Progressive Radio News Hour (on The Progressive Radio
Network), February 18 at 10AM US Central time to discuss MK-ULTRA, Ruhullah's
experience and Noblitt's work with survivors of extreme abuse and individuals
afflicted with identity dissociation. Noblitt is a Professor at the California
School of Professional Psychology and Chair of the International Society of
Trauma and Dissociation Ritual Abuse/Mind Control Interest Group.</P>
<P>The program will be archived for later listening.</P>
<P>As an MK-ULTRA victim, Ruhullah's memory was impaired and somewhat still is
because of what she experienced. She explained it as follows.</P>
<P>In the early 1970s, she lived in Boston, MA, was married with a six-year old
son, and as a lawyer worked for a prestigious firm, its name she can't remember.
"One day, two federal agents came to (her) home unannounced," asking her to be a
federal witness against an alleged organized crime figure. For her safety, they
explained, she'd be placed in protective custody for a period not exceeding six
months. She was asked to leave her family and job immediately, and say nothing
to her husband and employer.</P>
<P>She "was forced to leave (her) home with the agents that day." She got no
choice, and "was treated more like a prisoner than a witness." She couldn't use
the phone or communicate with anyone, was transfered frequently, and held in
"very low budget places," during which time her life "became a succession of
abuses and exploitations."</P>
<P>"To this day," she says, she doesn't know precisely "when or why the
government decided to use" her for MK-ULTRA experimentation, "but one day (she)
was a mother, wife, and attorney, then, (later) had no memory of (her)
past."</P>
<P>Having partly recovered it, she recalls "being given non-medically necessary
electro-shock treatments. This was done to create amnesia (to block her) core
personality and replac(e) it with" only need-to-know information.</P>
<P>She remembers "that the shock treatment given (her) was so severe and often
that one day something happened and" she wasn't returned to her room. She now
speaks of "an unbelievable long list of horrid exploitations and inhumane
abuses" done to her.</P>
<P>In the late 1980s, fragments of her memory returned. She sought information
on her case through an FOIA request, but was told no records were found. From
1992 - 1996, no one helped her until a member of B'nai Brith, Stephanie
Suleiman, offered to do so but needed a few weeks to complete other work.</P>
<P>When Ruhullah recontacted her, she learned that "this thirty-two year old
mother of two died of a heart attack," very suspicious given her age.</P>
<P>Ruhullah also explains that federal agents stopped communicating with her.
Her experiences were "totally removed from the public record," and she went from
"being a missing person to becoming a person erased." She's now divorced and
unable to contact her children and former friends. "The US government does not
want (her) story told."</P>
<P>She adds that the "only way (she) can measure (her) length of time held (is)
by her son's age. (He) was six when (agents) entered (her) home, and he is (now)
in his late thirties." She considers herself to have been continuously separated
from her children, grandchildren, family, friends, assets, memories, and
educated skills.</P>
<P>She calls each day "an experience of being held against (her) will while
living in a vat of bureaucratic arrogance which refuses to acknowledge what was
done (made worse by stopping (her) from getting (her) life back." Each day she's
"being more injured and having more of (her) life robbed from" her.</P>
<P>She says she "was not released from custody." After being used for medical
experiments, she was "given an implanted false identity, then left penniless and
without proof of (her) true identity or lineage." She still considers herself a
prisoner, a body with no persona, with little knowledge of her former self,
stripped of everything important in her life.</P>
<P>MK-ULTRA and Ruhullah's story will be featured on the Progressive Radio News
Hour on February 18 at 10AM US Central time on The Progressive Radio Network.
Listen live or later through archives.</P>
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href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php">Centre for Research on
Globalization</A>. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at <A
href="mailto:lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net">lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net</A>.</P>
<P>Also visit his blog site at <A
href="http://www.sjlendman.blogspot.com/">sjlendman.blogspot.com</A> and listen
to <STRONG><EM>The Global Research News Hour</EM></STRONG> on <A
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from 11AM to 1PM US Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished
guests on world and national topics. All programs are archived for easy
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<P>Mr. Lendman's stories are republished in the <I>Baltimore Chronicle</I> with
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