God Damn Them
Posted on | June 29, 2007
From the CIA “Family Jewels” files:
Of all the heinous acts committed by the CIA in the name of national security, these experiments, done on the agency’s behalf by prominent psychiatrists on innocent victims - including children as young as four - may be the darkest.
“We have no answer to the moral issue,” former director Richard Helms infamously said when asked about the nature of the projects…
“The CIA bought my services from my grandfather in 1952 starting at the tender age of four,” wrote Carol Rutz of her experiences. “Over the next 12 years, I was tested, trained, and used in various ways. Electroshock, drugs, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and other types of trauma were used to make me complain and split my personality (to create multiple personalities for specific tasks). Each alter or personality was created to respond to a post-hypnotic trigger, then perform an act and (I would) not remember it later. This Manchurian Candidate program was just one of the operational uses of the mind-control scenario by the CIA…”
No answer to the moral issue? Surely today’s fans of unfettered governmental power have come up with some rationale.
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