TAVISTOCK –Part Two
- The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations was set up in London in 1921 to study the “breaking point” of humans. Kurt Lewin, a German psychologist, became the director of the Tavistock Institute in 1932, about the same time Nazi Germany was increasing its research into neuropsychology, parapsychology and multi-generational occultism.
- Some of whom later committed suicide. This program, MK-Ultra, supervised by Dr. Gottlieb, resulted in huge lawsuits against the United States Government by the families of the victims.The English Tavistock Institute has not restricted its activities to left-wing groups, but has also directed the programs of such supposedly conservative American.
Formed in 1947, the Tavistock Institute is an independent not-for-profit organization which seeks to combine research in the social sciences with professional practice.
I hope everyone enjoyed Part one last week. This part two should at least generate some interest. We the people own this country, not Congress, the Executive or the Judicial Systems. If the people give up they deserve losing their freedoms.
Rather than try to sift through millions of words, books and articles to try to summarize more information, I will select some specific exerts from the source I primarily used to introduce you to Tavistock. If I have stirred up your interest, I accomplished my mission. If we continue to lose our rights as American citizens, willingly, we deserve a future of doing exactly what the government tells us to do. I am working on an article to help prepare you for the next thing our government will take away, our right to vote. Laugh if you desire but this day is coming faster than you will believe. Why, because of so many people have decided to avoid voting as they believe it is a waste of time. C Brewer
TAVISTOCK = Mind Control Professionals.
“A single common denominator identifies the common Tavistock strategy — *the use of drugs*. The infamous MK Ultra program of the CIA, in which unsuspecting CIA officials were given LSD, and their reaction studied like “guinea pigs”, resulted in several deaths. The U.S. Government had to pay millions in damages to the families of the victims, but no one was ever indicted. The program originated when Sandoz AG, a Swiss drug firm, owned by S.G. Warburg Co. of London, developed Lysergic Acid. Roosevelt’s adviser, James Paul Warburg, son of Paul Warburg who wrote the Federal Reserve Act, and nephew of Max Warburg, who had financed Hitler, set up the *Institute for Policy Studies* to “promote the drug”. The result was the LSD “counter-culture” of the 1960s, the “student revolution”, financed with $25 million dollars from the CIA! Still think “being a hippie” was cool.”
“One part of MK Ultra was the Human Ecology Fund. The CIA also paid Dr. Herbert Kelman of Harvard to carry out further experiments on mind control. In the 1950s, the CIA financed extensive LSD experiments in Canada. Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, president of the Canadian Psychological Association, and director of Royal Victorian Hospital, Montreal, received large payments from the CIA to give 53 patients large doses of LSD and record their reactions. The patients were drugged into weeks of sleep and then given electric shock treatments. One victim, the wife of a member of the Canadian Parliament, is now suing the U.S. companies who provided the drug for the CIA. All the records of the CIA’s drug testing program were ordered destroyed by the head of MK Ultra.”
“Because *all efforts of the Tavistock Institute are directed toward producing cyclical collapse*, the effect of the CIA programs are tragically apparent. R. Emmett Tyrell Jr., writing in the Washington Post, August 20, 1984, cites the “squalid consequences of the 60s radicals in SDS”, as resulting in “the growing rate of illegitimacy, petty lawlessness, drug addiction, welfare, VD, and mental illness” in this country and throughout the world.”
“This is the “legacy” of the Warburgs and the CIA. Their principal agency, the *Institute for Policy Studies*, was funded by James Paul Warburg; its co-founder was Marcus Raskin, protege of McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation. Bundy had Raskin appointed to the post of President Kennedy’s personal representative on the National Security Council, and in 1963, funded Students for Democratic Society, through which the CIA operated the drug culture.”
“The “tax exempt” Tavistock Institute currently operates a staggering *$6 Billion Dollar* per year network of foundations within the United States – ALL of it funded by taxpayer money.”
“Ten major institutions are under Tavistock’s direct control – with 400 subsidiaries and 3,000 study groups and a variety of private think tanks, which conceive many of the psychological programs to exert even more control of the New World Order over the American populace.
“The Stanford Research Institute, which adjoins the Hoover Institution, is a $150 Million Dollar a year operation with 3,300 employees. It conducts program surveillance for Bechtel, Kaiser, and 400 other companies, and extensive intelligence operations for the CIA. SRI is the largest institution on the West Coast promoting “mind control” and the “behavioral” sciences.”
“One of the key agencies as a conduit for secret instructions from Tavistock is The Ditchley Foundation, founded in 1957. The American branch of the Ditchley Foundation is run by Cyrus Vance (former Secretary of State and director of the Rockefeller Foundation) and Winston Lord, president of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).”
“One of the principal but little known operations of the Rockefeller Foundation has been its techniques for ‘controlling world agriculture’. Its director, Kenneth Wernimont, set up Rockefeller-controlled agricultural “programs” throughout Mexico and Latin America. The independent farmer is a great threat to the New World Order, because he produces for himself and because his produce can be converted into capital, which gives him independence.”
“In the United States, the foundations are presently engaged in the same type of “war of extermination” against the American farmer.”
“The traditional formula of land plus labor for the farmer has been altered, due to the farmer’s need for purchasing power, to buy industrial goods needed in his farming operations. Because of this need for capital, the farmer is especially vulnerable to the New World Order’s manipulation of interest rates, which is bankrupting him. Just as in the Soviet Union, in the early 1930s, when Stalin ordered the Kulaks to give up their small plots of land to live and work on the collective farms, the American small farmer faces the same type of extermination, being forced to give up his small plot of land to become a hired hand for the big agricultural trusts. The ‘Brookings Institution’ and other foundations originated the monetary programs implemented by the Federal Reserve System to destroy the American farmer, a replay of the Soviet tragedy in Russia, with one difference – the farmer will be allowed to survive *if* he becomes a slave worker of the giant trusts!”
“Once the citizen becomes aware of the true role of the foundations, he can understand the high interest rates, high taxes, destruction of the family, degradation of the churches into forums for revolution, the subversion of the universities into CIA cesspools of drug addiction, and the halls of government into sewers of international espionage and intrigue. The American citizen can now understand why *every agent of the federal government is against him*. The “alphabet” agencies (FBI, IRS, CIA, BATF, et al) must make war on the citizen in order to carry out the programs of the foundations.”
“The foundations are in direct violation of their charters, which commit them to do “charitable” work, because they make *no grants*, which are not part of a political goal. The charge has been made, and never denied, that the Heritage-AEI network has at least two KGB moles on its staff. The employment of professional intelligence operatives as “charitable” workers, as was done in the Red Cross Mission to Russia in 1917, exposes the sinister political economic and social goals which the New World Order requires the foundations to achieve through their “bequests”.
“Not only is this tax fraud, because the foundations are granted tax exemption solely to do charitable work, but it is *criminal syndicalism*, conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States of America, Constitutional Law 213, Corpus Juris Secundum 16. For the first time, the close interlocking of the foundation “syndicate” has been revealed by the names of its principle incorporators — Daniel Coit Gilman, who incorporated the Peabody Fund and the John Slater Fund, and became an incorporator of the General Education Board (now the Rockefeller Foundation); Gilman, who also incorporated the Russell Trust in 1856, later became an incorporator of the Carnegie Institution with Andrew Dickson White (Russell Trust) and Frederic A. Delano.”
“Delano was an original incorporator of the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Daniel Coit Gilman incorporated the Russell Sage Foundation with Cleveland H. Dodge of the National City Bank. These foundation incorporators have been closely linked with the Federal Reserve System, the War Industries Board of World War I, the OSS of World War II and the CIA. They have also been closely linked with the American International Corporation, which was formed to instigate the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Delano, an uncle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was on the original Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1914. His brother-in-law founded the influential Washington law firm of Covington and Burling. The Delanos and other ruling families of the New World Order trace their lineage directly back to William of Orange and the regime which granted the charter of the Bank of England.”
The following is a partial list institutions that fund the Uniform Law Foundation, whose function is to make certain that the Uniform Commercial Code remains the “sole” instrument for conducting business within the United States.
Tavistock Institutions of the United States
Flow Laboratories, Merle Thomas Corporation, Walden Research, Arthur D. Little, G.E. TEMPO, Planning Research Corporation, Brookings Institution, Esalen Institute, Hudson Institute and the National Training Laboratories (NTL).
“National Training Laboratories (NTL). Founded in 1947 by members of the Tavistock network in the United States and located originally on an estate in Bethel, Maine, NTL had as its explicit purpose the brainwashing of leaders of the government, educational institutions, and corporate bureaucracies in the Tavistock method, and then using these “leaders” to either themselves run Tavistock group sessions in their organizations or to hire other similarly trained group leaders to do the job. The “nuts and bolts” of the NTL operation revolves around the particular form of Tavistock degenerate psychology known as “group dynamics,” developed by German Tavistock operative Kurt Lewin, who immigrated to the United States in the 1930s and whose students founded NTL.”
“In a Lewinite brainwashing group, a number of individuals from varying backgrounds and personalities are manipulated by a “group leader”, to form a “consensus” of opinion, achieving a new “group identity.” The key to the process is the creation of a controlled environment, in which stress is introduced (sometimes called dissonance) to crack an individual’s belief structure. Using the peer pressure of other group members, the individual is “cracked,” and a new personality emerges with new values. The degrading experience causes the person to deny that any change has taken place. In that way, an individual is brainwashed without the victim knowing what has taken place.”
“This method is the same, with some minor modification, used in all so-called “sensitivity groups” or “T-groups,” or in the more extreme rock’n-roll-drugs-sex counter-culture form, “touchy-feely groups,” such as the kind popularized from the 1960s onward by the Esalen Institute, which was set up with the help of NTL.”
“From the mid-1950s onward, NTL put the majority of the nation’s corporate leaderships through such brainwashing programs, while running similar programs for the State Department, the Navy, the Department of Education, and other sections of the federal bureaucracy. There is no firm estimate of the number of Americans who have been put through this process in last 40 years at either NTL, or as it is now known the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences, which is based in Rosslyn, Virginia, or its West Coast base of operations, the Western Training Laboratories in Group Development, or in various satellite institutions. The most reliable estimate is in the several millions.”
“One of the groups that went through the NTL mill in the 1950s was the leadership of the National Education Association, the largest organization of teachers in the United States. Thus, the NEA’s outlook has been “shaped” by Tavistock, through the NTL. In 1964, the NTL Institute became a direct part of the NEA, with the NTL setting up “group sessions” for all of its affiliates. With funding from the Department of Education, the NTL Institute drafted the programs for the training of the nation’s primary and secondary school teachers, and has a hand as well in developing the content of educational “reforms,” including OBE.”
“Also known as the “International Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences”, this institute is a brainwashing center in artificial stress training, whereby participants suddenly find themselves immersed in defending themselves against vicious accusations. NTL takes in the National Education Association, the largest teacher group in the United States.”
“While officially denouncing “racism”, it is interesting to note that NTL, working with NEA, produced a paper proposing education vouchers which would separate the hard-to-teach children from the brighter ones, and funding would be allocated according to the number of difficult children who would be separated from those who progressed at a normal rate. The proposal was not taken up.”
Let me stop now as this is a never ending saga that will blow your mind. I encourage you to get on Google and type in Tavistock and you will get a lifetime of knowledge. We don’t like to believe things like this are possible but they still thrive as you will see. If you wish to get deeper into what has happened in America, search some of the following places and review the actual things they did.
University of Pennsylvania – Wharton School of Finance and Commerce; Institute for Social Research; Institute For Policy Studies (IPS); Stanford Research Institute (SRI); and the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT), Alfred P. Sloan School Of Management.
Research specific from the list above will curl your hair but one last recognizable entity is the RAND Research And Development Corporation.
RAND is THE think tank most beholden to Tavistock and certainly the most prestigious vehicle for control of United States policies at every level. Specific RAND policies that became operative include our ICBM program, prime analyses for U.S. foreign policy making, instigator of space programs, U.S. nuclear policies, corporate analyses, hundreds of projects for the military, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in relation to the use of mind altering drugs like peyote, LSD (the covert MK-ULTRA operation which lasted for 20 years).
There are thousands of highly important companies, government institutions and organizations that make use of RANDS’s services. To list them all would be impossible. RAND was once accused of being commissioned by the USSR to work out terms of surrender of the United States Government, an accusation that went all the way to the United States Senate, where it was taken up by Senator Symington and subsequently fell victim to scorn poured out by the establishment press. “Brainwashing” remains the primary function of RAND.
History is filled with knowledge hidden by the media for money. I hope you push yourself to learn and share with me.
GOD SAVE AMERICA C Brewer
by Carol White and Brian Lantz (from Executive Intelligence Review October 6, 1989)
(ETK note: This article and the article I just posted (“Creation of Zombies”) are summaries, published by EIR, of the nefarious, top-secret mind-control programs that our national and international intelligence agencies have conducted on unwitting American citizens. These articles encapsulate and extend the information that I compiled in Parts 6 through 9 of my series: “Is Crestone/Baca the “Vatican City” of the New World Order: an Expose of the New World Religion,” which are also on this website. It is both reassuring and revealing, but also disappointing to me that although articles such as this were written over a quarter century ago, the public is still mostly ignorant about these top-secret programs. I post this article on my site because it highlights the connections between MK-ULTRA mind-control programs, the occult, and the counter-culture of the 1960’s.
I entered college in 1967 and graduated in 1971. So I am all-too familiar with the 60’s counterculture from my own personal experiences at the “street-level.” Some of my friends lost their lives and/or their minds to drugs. Some of my friends and relatives lost their lives in the Vietnam War. Now I have learned that the Vietnam War and the counter-culture were both instigated and managed by the CIA, under its director, Allen Dulles. Allen Dulles also played a pivotal role in creating/founding the Council on Foreign Relations, Hitler, World War II, the importation to the U.S. of Nazi “scientists” under Operation Paperclip after WWII, the MK-ULTRA mind control programs, innumerable coups, assassinations and foreign and domestic de-stablization operations, and the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and its subsequent cover-up. Dulles, who acted on behalf of the international power elite (“the cult”), will surely go down in history as one of the most influential of all Illuminati agentur and America’s greatest traitor.
But when I was back in college, I only knew that something was terribly wrong. Despite the chaos that surrounded my generation, I became a physical geography professor, and was subsequently kept extremely busy, trying to meet demands of that profession. With my focus in other areas, I remained mostly ignorant of our (and the British) government’s role in conjuring and managing the 60’s counterculture, occult, mind-control operation. That is, until, I too ventured down one of the darkest of all “rabbit holes” and did the research for my article; Part 6: “Mind Control: History and Applications,” which is posted on this website.
I find the title is of this short piece, “Satan’s Helpers; Nazi Doctors in America” to be very appropriate. Our intelligence services clearly sold their souls to Satan in their lust/quest for power and control. And of course, these intelligence services work for the international power elite rather than the American people; and it is they, I have gleaned, who control the U.S. Presidency and American policies. Unfortunately, this “secret government” has also covertly (of course) and de facto, sold all of our souls to Satan. Will we Americans allow our government, acting on behalf of the Satanically-energized international power elite and its many minions, to plunge our country into a “new Satanic Dark Age?” To avoid this fate and maintain our country as a decent place for future generations to live in, a critical number of brave Americans will have to face the horrific realities outlined on this website and in this 1989 article. In short, it is time to wake up. Clearly, America has been stolen by very dark, occult forces. These forces have conjured a false-reality matrix for the masses through propaganda, false cover stories, and the techniques of media and mind control.
And yet our Constitution still legally guarantees that the American citizens owns the United States of America. Thus, it is up to us, the American citizenry, to discover the truth about our history and our leaders, and to hold our psychopathic leaders accountable; which is to say, prosecute them to the full extent of the law. We must begin with the truth…. and educate each other. This short article presents these truths again, with a slightly different spin.)
Salient quotes from “Satan’s Helpers: Nazi Doctors in America”
“The role of the Allen Dulles wing of the U.S. intelligence community in fostering the spread of Tavistock methods throughout the United States, and in the creation of the counter-culture, should be told and retold.”
“The rock-drug-counterculture was not an accidental creation spun off from the MK-Ultra project…. It WAS the MK-Ultra project. All else was either a pretext or a sideline… Nor did the CIA act alone. British intelligence was a full participant through the Tavistock Institute, which ran social profiles on the Nazis and on various national cultures during and after the war…”
“Aldous Huxley’s vision of a drug-sodden New Age, in which the population is completely manipulated by social-science controllers, was laid out in his book Brave New World.” (ETK note: Is this what we have today in America, and in higly-controlled towns such as Crestone/Baca, Colorado, in particular?!) Wrong number bollywood movie.
“By the 1970s, LSD was a fixed part of Western “youth culture” and the CIA was ready to move onto the formation of Satanic cults.”
Article
While U.S. Central Intelligence Agency involvement in experiments with mind¬altering drugs in the 1950s and early 1960s was made public in the Rockefeller Commission hearings in 1975, public knowledge of the CIA’s MK-Ultra program has remained superficial. If a new Satanic Dark Age is to be prevented, every citizen has a right-and duty-to know the full scope of the secret government’s effort to “blow their minds. ” The problem is that not only was the Rockefeller Commission’s report itself a cover-up, but its emphasis upon abuses by U. S. intelligence agencies, by its very nature, eliminated the crucial role of Britain’s Tavistock Institute. The paradigm shift which has occurred in the West-to introduce the “Aquarian” values of the “New Age”-was manufactured by the social engineers of Tavistock, at the behest of an Anglo-Saxon oligarchical grouping which not only set itself above nations, but against the Judeo-Christian traditions of Western civilization as well.
Tavistock played a crucial role during the Second World War in Anglo-Soviet intelligence operations which ran out of a secret group sometimes called the British Occult Bureau. The Bureau included occultists-such as Aleister Crowley and Dennis Wheatley – astrologers, along with intelligence professionals. They maintained contact with Heinrich Himmler’s astrologer, as well as with occultists in Hitler’s immediate circle.
In the postwar period, Tavistock ran a number of psychological profiles not only of political leaders and would-be leaders, but of entire populations. It was also involved in intensive studies of brainwashing. A leader in this field was the psychiatrist R. D. Laing, who worked out of Tavistock. It was he who first stated the doctrine that insanity was a form of social revolt of a higher consciousness than so-called normal behavior; this formed the basis for recruitment to the terrorist Baader-Meinhof Gang in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s, and similar groups elsewhere, from among patients in mental institutions.
This notwithstanding, the role of the Allen Dulles wing of the U. S. intelligence community in fostering the spread of Tavistock methods throughout the United States, and in the creation of the counterculture, should be told and retold. Three new books offer a chilling account of the ability of the “secret government” to utilize the services of psychiatrists and other social scientists, as well as members of the medical profession in general, in the service of aims that can best be described as violations of the Nuremberg War Crimes Statutes. The first, “Search for a Manchurian Candidate,” by John Marks, is actually a re¬ issue; the second, “A Father, a Son and the CIA” by Harvey Weinstein, was released in 1988, as was “Journey Into Madness, Medical Torture and the Mind Controllers” by Gordon Thomas.
Marks’s account appeared first and is the broadest in scope. He details the prehistory of the MK-Ultra project¬ best known for disseminating the hallucinogenic drug LSD to an unwitting population of young people-and traces the attempts by the wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and then by the CIA, to find the “philosopher’s stone” of brainwashing, the magic elixir which would give them total control over an unwitting subject. LSD was only one of the drugs in their pharmacopoeia, which included amphetamines, truth serums, standard narcotics, cocaine, and barbiturates.
The effort to create a “Manchurian candidate” who could be made to act at the behest of his CIA controllers, encompassed more than merely experimentation with drugs or hypnosis, and included the use of various psychological techniques to make the victim malleable. Weinstein and Thomas focus more particularly on the activities of one of the most evil of the CIA brainwashers, a Dr. Ewen Cameron, but they also provide the broader context. Dr. Cameron’s specialty was to reduce his victims to a state of infantile regression as a prelude to the attempt to reprogram the hapless individual. Weinstein’s book has an additional merit, because it is the poignant story of how his own family was grievously injured by Cameron and the CIA.
The story which these books tell is given a historical setting, but as the authors indicate, while the particular proj¬cts which they describe are no longer ongoing, there is every reason to believe that they have been replaced by others equally evil, if different. When President Nixon fired CIA chief Richard Helms at the beginning of his second administration, one phase of the CIA’s mind-control project came to an end as well. While many of the files were deliberately destroyed, author John Marks was given 16,000 pages of documents released by the CIA according to the mandate of the Freedom of Information Act. Names and other information were blacked out, but despite this, through cross-referencing and interviews with some of the participants in the project, he was able to piece together a part of the story.
What was MK-Ultra?
The CIA-sponsored LSD experiments of the 1950s and 1960s did not “go out of control.” Nor were the likes of Allen Dulles and Richard Helms waging a patriotic war against the
brainwashing tools of communism.
Where all three books fall short is in their treatment of MK-Ultra and associated programs as creations of the spy community itself, in their attribution of self-motivation and self-direction to the CIA. In this sense, despite the excellent detailed accounts in each of the books, they amount to disinformation, perhaps despite the best efforts of their authors. The CIA’s first defense of its various projects to develop the art of brainwashing, was the claim that the devices which they were exploring-the drugs, shock treatment, etc.¬ were already known and used by the Soviets and Chinese, and were being studied by the Nazis before them. Marks, however, shows that early on, Western intelligence had learned through debriefings, that the Soviets and Chinese were using brutal, but relatively standard and unsophisticated, interrogation techniques, which involved placing prisoners in solitary confinement, preventing them from sleeping, humiliating them and so on. The rationale for continuing MK-Ultra became: Suppose in the future the communists develop these tools, we must be prepared to defend our¬ selves. Obviously, the appeal of having one’s own Manchurian candidate was great!
In the three books, there are accounts of how members of the intelligence community-from the Second World War on-were involved in the search for ways to play the spy game more effectively: how to force information from the enemy, how to control one’s own agent, and how to prevent one’s own agent from spilling the beans if he or she is caught by the enemy. All of these goals made the possibilities of psychological control attractive to the intelligence community; but it is a serious distortion to view such projects narrowly as “CIA” activities.
The truth is that figures such as Allen Dulles, W. Averell Harriman, Victor Rothschild, Margaret Mead, her husband Gregory Bateson, and Aldous Huxley were at the center of deception operations’ run by the British, with American cooperation, from the Second World War on. Ostensibly, the wartime black operations were intended to lower enemy morale; in reality they were directed against the underground operations of Gen. Charles de Gaulle and resistance fighters in the occupied countries, and in Germany itself. Anglo¬ American intelligence operations were intended to sow the seeds which would shape the postwar world in a direction which would be agreeable to a certain section of the European and American oligarchies.
Winston Churchill was determined that any republican sentiments expressed by Franklin Roosevelt- as quoted by his son Elliot Roosevelt- or represented by some of the “wildmen” in the OSS, would “die a-borning.” His aim, which was all too well realized, was to preserve the British Empire, even if in the form of a Commonwealth, and sup¬press republican tendencies wherever.
The rock-drug-counterculture was not an accidental creation spun off from the MK-Ultra project, as these three books contend: It was the MK-Ultra project. All else was either a pretext or a sideline. This is documented in the mate¬rial cited by Weinstein, Thomas, and Marks. Nor did the CIA act alone. British intelligence was a full participant through the Tavistock Institute, which ran social profiles on the Nazis and on various national cultures during and after the war, and which supplied the personnel who in all probability brainwashed Rudolph Hess.
Allen Dulles and MK-Ultra
MK-Ultra, practically understood, may be said to have had its beginning when Allen W. Dulles met with Carl Jung at the Harvard University Tercentenary Conference in 1936. Jung at that time was president of the International Medical Society of Psychotherapy, headquartered in Zurich. This was the beginning of a close collaboration between spymaster Dulles and Jung, whose occultist theories of racial memory were the psychiatric equivalent of Nazi ideology.
During World War II, Allen Dulles was deployed to Berne, Switzerland as part of the American Legation. Dulles was chief of the OSS mission there, and made no secret about it. During those war years, Dulles was shaping policy for the postwar era. Among his preoccupations, according to favorable biographers, were the methods used in what later became known as “brainwashing,” an interest said to have been piqued by the 1937 and 1938 forced confessions in the Moscow purge trials.
During the war years in Switzerland, Dulles renewed his contact with Carl Jung. He also maintained contact with a group of American psychiatrists including the later infamous mind butcher Dr. Ewen Cameron of McGill University. Allen Dulles also made the friendship of leading chemists of the Sandoz drug and chemical company, including Dr. Albett Hoffman, the creator of LSD.
Dulles’s contact with American psychiatrists was through the Military Mobilization Committee of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Cameron, whom Dulles would meet personally after the war, joined the committee shortly after Pearl Harbor. Thompson describes Dulles role in Journey into Madness, as follows:
“While Allen Dulles brilliantly manipulated first the German generals and then Admiral Canaris’s Abwehr from his office in Switzerland, he had received invaluable insights into the… enemy’s mentality from Dr. Cameron and other psychiatrists who were members of an ultra-secret committee meeting regularly in the offices of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington to assess the changing attitudes of Germany and its leaders. Dr. Cameron’s insights into the German mentality made it easier for Dulles to have manipulated Himmler’s Gestapo toward overthrowing Hitler, and helped him to use German liberals to spread hysteria among the population. Dr. Cameron had synthesized the techniques in documents like Mass Hysteria in a War Situation. Some of Dr. Cameron’s suggestions had struck Dulles as original and far-reaching-such as his proposal that after the war each surviving German over the age of 12 should receive a short course of electroshock treatment to burn out any remaining vestige of Nazism.”
LSD
Tavistock Institute Mk Ultra Lite
LSD was discovered by Dr. Albert Hoffman, the Swiss chemist, on April 16, 1943. He was making a witch’s brew of the fungus ergot, which attacks rye. For centuries, the power of its toxic by-products to drive men mad was well known. Reportedly he was studying ergot’s effects on blood circulation. In any event he accidentally ingested the d-lyser¬gic acid diethlylamide (LSD) which he had refined and found that with a dose as small as 11100,000 of an ounce he was thrown into a quasi-psychotic state.
By 1953, the drug was in circulation among the intelligence and psychiatric community, all of whom were them¬ selves “tripping.” It was also being administered to unwitting victims, in order to study how they would react. At Lexington, Kentucky, prisoners were given the drugs of their choice if they allowed themselves to be used as test subjects in the psychedelic experiments. Seven men were kept on LSD for a continuous 77 days. No follow-up studies exist about the effects upon them, but counterculture writer Hunter Thompson described a three-day “trip” as creating a feeling that one’s brain was boiling away in the sun, with ones nerves wrapping around enormous barbed wire forts, and the remaining faculties reduced to their reptilian antecedents. John Lennon of the Beatles took a three-week LSD “trip” which reduced him to walking on all fours. His brain was so “fried” that he lost the capacity to hallucinate while on the drug.
According to Barbara Honegger, in her 1989 book “October Surprise,” the Bureau of Prisons Federal Medical Center in Rochester Minnesota has done “rehabilitation” research, using a drug called haloperidol, reportedly used by the KGB to destroy memory. In November 1953, CIA experimenters decided to test LSD on scientists who were working at the Army Chemical Corps’ Special Operations Division (SOD) at Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Maryland. Presumably the choice of subject was dictated by the fact that the Army scientists were working in a related field, and had a high security clearance. On Nov. 18, 1953 a group was invited to a log cabin mountain retreat in western Maryland, ostensibly for a three-day seminar to brainstorm together on biological weapons. One LSD subject, Dr. Frank Olson became seriously deranged as a result of the experience and committed suicide. The affair was covered up for two decades and the testing went on.
A similar case occurred in 1953, when Harold Blauer, a professional tennis player who was suffering from depres¬sion, was asked to volunteer for a new “treatment.” This “treatment” was underwritten by the Army’s Chemical Cen¬ter, which supplied hired psychiatrists working at the New York State Psychiatric Institute to test various derivatives of the hallucinogen mescaline for toxicity. Blauer was coerced into continuing with the project, despite his objections that the tests were making him ill. He died of convulsions during the last test to which he was subjected.
CIA money was conduited through the Geschichte Foundation and the Josiah Macy Foundation for various of these research projects. Student volunteers were “turned on” to drugs through their teachers. Harvard University, from which Timothy Leary came, was a leader in the effort, and the Veterans Hospital at Palo Alto, California recruited counterculture hero Ken Kesey in 1960. In 1963, John len¬ non was slipped LSD several times. Finally, he began to use it deliberately, and modeled his trips according to a script written by Leary. By 1965, it was impossible to function as a rock star without being high on LSD, as John Phillips, founder of the Mamas and Papas, wrote in his autobiography.
Dr. Ewen Cameron
While many psychiatrists were involved in aspects of the CIA’s brainwashing program, Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron was one of those who actually anticipated the practices of Nazi doctors in Germany and CIA doctors in the postwar period. While Huxley, Mead, and Bateson were responsible for creating the policies that gave birth to the rock-drug counterculture’ Cameron was a hard-core brainwasher.
He was simultaneously president of the World, American, and Canadian psychiatric societies, and he created the prestigious Allan Institute in Montreal-financed by the Rockefellers-where he pioneered in using combinations of drugs, sleep therapy and electroshock in experiments on his unwitting patients. Ironically, many of his victims paid for their “treatment.” They were in most cases not psychotic to begin with, although many ended up hopelessly so after undergoing Cameron’s “treatment. ” Despite his fascist views on eugenics and racial purification, Cameron did not discriminate in his choice of victim, such that one was the wife of a Canadian parliamentarian, another a successful businessman and so on.
Donald Ewen Cameron was born in Bridge of Allan, Scotland, in 190 I. He was the son of a Presbyterian minister, and received a diploma in psychological medicine in 1925. He trained at the Royal Mental Hospital in Glasgow, under Sir David Henderson, who had himself been taught by Adolph Meyer. While he is not identified with the Tavistock Institute, a number of articles that he wrote, particularly those profiling the German population, fall directly within the orbit of work sponsored by Tavistock. In 1926, he left for America to work with Meyer at the Phipps Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where Cameron held the Henderson research scholarship in psychiatry. He then moved on to the Burghoelzli Clinic in Switzerland, where he studied under Hans W. Meier, the successor of Eugen Bleuler. Also in Switzerland was A. T. Mathers, from Manitoba, Canada who attracted Cameron to emigrate to Manitoba, in the 1920s. It is questionable why Cameron would have chosen such an out-of-the-way location, unless he wished freedom to do human experimentation on the immigrant population of Manitoba. One would assume that he had some contact with the Jung circle in Switzerland, but this is not documented.
In 1936, he moved to Massachusetts, where he became director of the research division at Worcester State Hospital, and from 1939 to 1943 he was a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Albany Medical College in Albany, New York and at the Russell Sage School of Nursing, which was also in the Albany area. In 1943, he was invited to McGill University in Montreal, and received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and other sources of funding to found the Allan Memorial Institute.
The Nuremberg trials
Ironically-since he violated every one of the humanitarian precepts established there-Cameron was directly involved in giving testimony at the Nuremberg trials. He was one of three North American psychiatrists invited in 1945, to evaluate the sanity of Rudolph Hess. The choice of Cameron for such a prestigious assignment was obviously not fortuitous, because he was already involved in the Anglo-Soviet project to destroy German classical culture, by pretending that Hitler and the Nazi Party were an outgrowth of the Prussian republican tradition, rather than an attack against it. It was the operation by the Tavistock Institute and its American counterparts to destroy German culture-as typified by Friedrich Schiller and Ludwig van Beethoven-which prepared the way for the more ambitious “New Age” project of the counterculture.
Cameron participated in a team effort which included leading Tavistock profiler and brainwasher, John Rawlings Rees, as well as three Soviet psychologists and Britain’s Lord Moran, Winston Churchill’s private physician. Allen Dulles had his own slant on ·the matter. He wanted Cameron to physically examine Hess, because he believed the man standing trial was a substitute provided by the British.
Seven months before he went to Nuremberg, Cameron wrote a paper which established his credentials: It was entitled, “The Social Reorganization of Germany. ” In it, he examined the interaction between the culture of Germany and the character patterns of individuals. His thesis focused on the need for a major “transformation of the existing cultural organization in the postwar period. ” He talked about the need for status, worship of order, regimentation, authoritarian leadership, and fear of other countries which typified, according to him, German culture.
Cameron particularly targeted German youth for attack. He speculated that 30 years thence, those who had been adolescents during the Third Reich, would represent the greatest threat to world peace. In later papers he suggested that all adolescents be given a sample of his shock-regression therapy as a way of reprogramming them.
The counterculture in embryo
Six weeks after returning from Nuremberg he wrote a paper, “Nuremberg and Its Significance,” in which he con¬cluded: “It is not simply against future conspiracies of evil men which we have to guard ourselves but it is against our¬selves, against weaknesses and faults in our own social order, in our own ways of living against which we have to be on continual guard. ”
At this time he began the development of a series of concepts which would become more familiar in the writings of Dr. Benjamin Spock and in the development of the new idea of the validity of a youth culture, which would-be immune to the values and guidance of the adult world.
In a 1946 paper, “Frontiers of Social Psychiatry,” Cameron concluded that social psychiatry must contribute to developing methods of social control over its citizens in order to direct “the transmission of attitudes, beliefs, and ways of managing life.” He wrote: “We now recognize that the transmission to children, and also to people at all ages of beliefs, attitudes, and customs which produce unnecessary anxiety, guilt, feelings of inadequacy and hostility, must come to an end as a matter of public health and individual well-being. We have recognized that many of these damaging ways of being are transmitted by parents who themselves suffer from them. We also recognize the part played by social institutions interested in perpetuating themselves.” In this paper he noted that children have “certain psychological rights” which include the right “to protection against indoctrination with damaging, outmoded attitudes, against the implantation of taboos and inhibitions” by their parents. ”
“All of us have seen the transmission down the generations of insecurity, chronic anxiety, frigidity, feelings of inadequacy. We have at present no means whatsoever of stopping this. It could be stopped, however, by re-modelling and expanding our present concepts of suitability for marriage, of quarantine of individuals suffering from diseases likely to spread to others. ” In “Life is for the Living,” published in 1948, Cameron wrote about those influenced by the Nazis: “If we can succeed in inventing means of changing their attitudes and beliefs, we shall find ourselves in possession of measures which, if wisely used, may be employed in freeing ourselves from attitudes and beliefs in other fields which have greatly contributed to the instability of our period by their propensity for holding up progress. “
Cameron became an American citizen in 1942. In 1964, he left Montreal and returned to Albany, where he became the director of the Psychiatry and Aging Research Laboratory at the Veterans Administration Hospital and at Albany Medical College.
Cameron’s method
Electro-convulsive shock therapy was developed in Italy under the fascist Mussolini regime. In 1938 Dr. Ugo Cerletti applied the first electroshock treatment to a mentally ill patient, Umberto Castelli. It was used extensively in the post¬ war period, before the development of tranquilizers, but normally shocks would be given only a few times per week at 110 volts. Cameron used a method developed in England, the Page¬ Russell method, which called for the daily administering of a series of shocks to a patient: an initial one-second shock, followed by five to nine additional shocks, administered while the patient was in seizure. Cameron upped the voltage to 150 volts and increased the number of applications of the shock treatment from one to two or three times per day. He coupled the administration of the shocks with sleep therapy, induced by forcing the patient to ingest heavy doses of drugs. Typically, patients suffered amnesia (sometimes permanently) and at least for a while would lose the ability to control their bodily functions. In some cases, he induced so great a regression in the patient that the ability to speak was lost. One patient was finally lobotomized, and others were so damaged that they ended their lives in state institutions for the hopelessly insane.
Cameron also used sensory deprivation by isolating patients, generally for a 35-day period, but once for as long as 65 days. Normally, an individual could only sustain sensory deprivation for a one-to-two day period, and student volunteers were never kept against their will or for longer than six days, for fear of doing them irreparable psychic damage. Cameron described this as “depatterning,” which was to be followed by reprogramming when Cameron felt that his patient had sufficiently regressed. This was done by playing a tape with one message repetitively for up to 16 hours a day. He would first play a negative message, and then after several weeks, he would substitute a “positive” command. He kept one person in what he called “psychic-driving” for as long as 101 days. This work was contracted and paid for by the CIA, which was interested in its application in reprogramming individuals.
Applications to the counterculture
Cameron’s studies of the use of taped messages, combined with sensory deprivation, the use of drugs and so on, on his patient-victims occurred in the 1950s. Patients were forced to hear these messages, which were played to them through earphones which they could not remove. Cameron further refined his technique by introducing headphones so that the voices would appear to be coming from inside the patient’s head. He then developed filtered recordings which would emphasize ultra high or low sounds at extremes in volume. He would space the sounds, repeat them, use echoes, and ultimately multiply a voice, to add weight to the message. Cameron experimented with echo effects, and different use of sound-tracks which certainly predated modem recording techniques. It is not a great stretch of the imagination to suppose that the use of subliminal messages now found on rock-music records is a technique adapted from Cameron’s work. It should be noted here that Cameron was all too successful in reducing his victims to a regressed state.
Aldous Huxley and MK-Ultra
The Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California, was built up during the 1960s by Michael Murphy, on a property owned by his family. Esalen has been a center for the dissemination of psychedelics, New Age philosophy, and “humanist” psychology into the general culture. Author Murphy credits Aldous Huxley with being a prime catalyst in encouraging him to launch the institute. Gregory Bateson, Huxley, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, Allen Ginzburg, Fritz Peris, Abraham Maslow, and other gurus were frequent lecturers there. Charles Manson was known to have visited Esalen, which was also frequented by his victims Sharon Tate and Abigail Folger. Aldous Huxley’s vision of a drug-sodden New Age, in which the population is completely manipulated by social-science controllers, was laid out in his book Brave New World.
Despite the worrying degree to which that vision has been realized, Huxley’s role in MK-Ultra has generally been hidden behind a cultivated academic and religious patina, even though his advocacy of hallucinogenic drugs is acknowledged. Huxley was closely connected to Capt. Albert Hubbard, who was an important operative for the OSS during the Second World War.
Captain Alfred Hubbard
Alfred Hubbard in fact was the person who made the mescaline available to Huxley for his second mescaline “trip.” Prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hubbard was responsible for an extremely sensitive covert operation that involved smuggling weapons and war materiel to Great Britain via Vancouver, British Columbia, including destroyers and airplanes. While living in Vancouver, Hubbard be¬ came a Canadian citizen as part of his cover for the OSS, and according to his own report, he personally handled several million dollars, filtered by the OSS through the American consulate to finance covert operations in Europe.
By 1951, Hubbard was a millionaire, having invested in uranium mines. That same year, Captain Hubbard was reportedly introduced to LSD by Dr. Ronald Sandison of Great Britain. Dr. Sandison would establish the first LSD clinic open to the public in 1953, using low-dose techniques. Sandison’s approach would be replicated throughout Europe in the next few years. Hubbard became an enthusiast for LSD, writing about his mystical experiences. In 1951, he began buying vast quantities of LSD, which he introduced into the elite social circles in which he traveled. He maintained close contact with the CIA, which closely monitored all LSD supplies.
Hubbard become deputy chief of security at the Los Vegas Tropicana Hotel. He was a close friend of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and engaged in undercover work for a number of government agencies, including the Federal Narcotics Bureau and the Food and Drug Administration, both of which were assisting the CIA’s drug programs.
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Dr. Humphrey Osmondd
In the 1950s, Dr. Humphrey Osmond was a young British psychiatrist working with mescaline at Weyburn Hospital in Saskatchewan, Canada. Osmond’s work in Saskatchewan ran parallel to Dr. Cameron’s in Montreal and Hubbard’s in Vancouver. While Osmond denied CIA sponsorship, he did not deny that the CIA closely monitored his work with the mentally ill. In 1952 Osmond had drawn attention to the structural similarity between the mescaline and adrenaline molecules, implying that schizophrenia might be a form of self-intoxication caused by the body mistakenly producing its own hallucinogenic compounds. That work had attracted the attention of Huxley, and in 1953, Osmond flew to Los Angeles with a supply of mescaline. It was from him that Huxley first sampled the drug. In the 1950s, Dr. Osmond worked with Alfred Hubbard to set up alcoholism programs using high-dose LSD therapy, an approach Hubbard “pioneered.’ The same idea was then applied to juvenile delinquents, narcotics addicts, and the mentally ill.
Osmond left Canada in 1963 and joined a group of re¬searchers at the Princeton Neuropsychiatric Institute. There Osmond worked with Bernard Aaranson, whose studies were funded through a CIA cut-out, the Society for the Study of Human Ecology, the same society funding Dr. Cameron’s brain butchery and electroshock therapy-often combined with drugs-at McGill University. It was Osmond who in 1957 coined the term “psychedelics,” meaning “mind manifesting.” His purpose, shared with Huxley, was to replace the term psychotomimetic, which implied experimentally induced psychosis. Osmond and Aaranson co-authored an anthology entitled Psychedelics.
After MK-Ultra
By the 1970s, LSD was a fixed part of Western “youth culture” and the CIA was ready to move onto the formation of Satanic cults. This was run out of the CIA Office of Re¬search and Development (ORD), but the CIA men introduced themselves as researchers from the Scientific Engineering Institute. Clairvoyants and astrologers were hired. In May of 1971 there were three astrologers on the payroll. Among other things their job was forecasting. At the same time, Operation OFTEN was launched to go deeper into demonology. The CIA behaviorists hired Sybil Leek, a Houston sorceress, and they gave a grant to the University of South Carolina to establish a course in sorcery. Two hundred and fifty students enrolled. The scientists of Operation Often studied carefully the results of classes devoted to “fertility rites and initiation rites and raising the dead.”
At Harvard, students and faculty concentrated their attention on the Process Church of the Final Judgment, a Satanic group to which was connected former Boston U.S. Attorney John Markham, prosecutor in two trials against Lyndon La Rouche. In an earlier phase, the CIA had studied the susceptibility of students who were undergoing sensory deprivation, to occultist propaganda, and they found that some became occultists and remained so. By the end of the decade, the emphasis shifted to deprogramming. By this time a proliferation of occult groups and kook groups had sprung up. Some used drugs, others preyed upon young people who had been through the drug culture and were looking for moorings.
The same psychiatrists who had pioneered the MK-Ultra project, and their students, now became employed by groups such as the American Family Foundation (AFF). A case in point is Dr. Louis Jolyon West, who participated in MK¬ Ultra-funded research at the University of Oklahoma, ac¬ cording to Senate testimony.
Dr. Jolly West
West is sometimes laughed off as an MK-Ultra researcher who couldn’t shoot straight. Attempting to chemically produce the state of a bull elephant in rut, Jolly injected it with a huge dose of LSD-25. The poor beast fell into a stupor and died. Huxley’s friend, Dr. West was the head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma during the 1950s and early 19608, doing research on LSD hypnosis and “the psychology of dissociated states” for the CIA. Huxley was quite helpful to him. Huxley suggested to Dr. West during an MK-Ultra experiment that West hypnotize his subjects prior to administering LSD in order to give them “post-hypnotic suggestions aimed at orienting the drug-induced experience in some desired direction. ”
Such work is of particular interest given that in 1964 Dr. West took part in the cover-up of the Kennedy assassination. West was called upon by the government to examine Jack Ruby, whom West declared to be in a “paranoid state manifested by delusions, visual and auditory hallucinations, and suicidal impulses.” West said that Ruby wasn’t faking be¬ cause a faker would have asserted that he was indeed mentally ill, while Ruby insisted that he was healthy.
During the “summer of love” in 1967, West rented an apartment in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco to study the “hippies,” certainly a by-product of his work.
After moving to Los Angeles, Dr. West became chairman of the department of psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles and director of its Neuropsychiatric Institute. In the 1970s West became infamous for his plans to create a “Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence. ” Backed to the hilt by Gov. Ronald Reagan, he proposed a Brave New World monitoring system for criminals and those predicted to engage in violent behavior, including “pre-delinquent children. ”
Today he is a leading member of the American Family Foundation. Most recently, these same psychiatrists and social scientists have been running cover for Satanists by denying the existence of Satanic child abuse. The FBI’s “expert” on cults, Kenneth Lanning, is notorious in this regard for his statement that “more people have been killed in the name of Christ than in the name of Satan. “
Satanists
The ideology of these brainwashers is truly Satanic. They believe themselves to be above good and evil. They would reduce every man, woman, and child to the condition of a beast to be conditioned. It is not that they reject the truth that every human being has an immortal soul, but they would knowingly destroy that soul. Surely, whether or not they consciously submit their being to Satan, these men are truly his instruments.
Dr. William Sargant, a British psychiatrist with Tavistock, was an associate of Cameron. He claimed to disagree with some of the more brutal aspects of Cameron’s treatment of patients, yet he himself had pioneered during and after the Second World War, a series of seminal studies on brainwashing. His first work involved shell-shocked troops. He would give them “truth serums” and then force them to relive traumatic experiences. He found that if they were sufficiently agitated, a period of calm would follow, during which they would be in a suggestible state. This process, which he called abreaction, frequently resulted in shaking the soldiers free from obsessions which they had developed as a result of battle strain. He sought a theoretical basis for this in the work of the Soviet behaviorist psychologist Ivan Pavlov. ‘
Pavlov had observed that when dogs were severely stressed they would frequently forget recently learned skills, but they would easily pick up new habits. Sargant generalized that sensory overload of the brain would similarly render a human highly suggestible. This led him to study primitive ceremonies such as voodoo, which would place participants in a trance-like state.
His studies of brainwashing techniques involved travels to Haiti and Africa, where he developed parallels between primitive witchcraft ceremonies and rock music festivals, which he described in his books. He also looked at fundamentalist religious ceremonies from the same perspective. In his book “Battle for the Mind,” he developed various examples. Underscoring the message with a picture of the Beatles bearing the caption “Beatle Possession,” he writes: “Any method which induces states of excitement leading to a suitable degree of exhaustion and consequent alteration in brain function can work miracles on its own.”
Sargant concluded his book with an honest admission of his repudiation of the truth of Christianity (or Judaism). For him there is no natural law; all truth is relative, and the gods (not God) are the creation of man. He writes: “Perhaps we must therefore conclude that it is man who has created the gods and made them in his image, reflecting his varying imaginings, aspirations and fears, just as he, and not some mysterious fate or necessity or abstract historical dynamic, has created his varying political creeds and moral codes. And yet we need faith.
“Without faith of some sort living becomes extraordinarily difficult. We do not live by reason alone and we have to take all sorts of people and assumptions on trust. We need confidence in ourselves, in the value of the work we do, in certain people and standards. We cannot, or most of us can¬not, forever be doubting and questioning and withholding final judgment on everything and everyone. Most of us quite evidently need the support of some general religious, political or social framework of faith, however bizarre or dangerous a particular belief-system may be. . . .
“In the future, the conquest and control of man’s mind is going to be a far more important matter for us than all the development of bigger and better nuclear weapons, and it is essential that we learn all we can about how the brain works and how human beings can be psychologically coerced. . . .”
The exposure of how the secret government has and continues to dabble in mind control is extremely valuable, and each of the three books should be read. They are painful but they are informative, bearing in mind the limitations in viewpoint mentioned above.
Books reviewed in this article
Marks, J., 1979, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, the CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences, Dell Publishing Company, New York, 1979.
Thomas, G., 1989, Journey Into Madness, Medical Torture and the Mind Controllers, Bantam Press, New York.
Weinstein, H., 1988, A Father, a Son and the CIA, James Lorimer & Company, Toronto.