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Operation MK-ULTRA Jacob Brown

As with every thing else in the world science is guided by rules, laws and regulations. However when these rules are thrown out the window horrifying things usually result. For example Mengele ran around Auschwitz doing so many unspeakable things that he earned the nickname the “Angel of Death.” One doesn’t need to look to Nazi Germany to find examples of science gone wrong. One American example is the odyssey of Dr. Sidney Gottlieb in the CIA project MK-ULTRA. Gottlieb was brought to America as the result of Operation Paperclip, where America glossed over the war crimes of several high ranking Nazi scientist so the Soviets couldn’t access the juicy science within their evil brains. At the height of the Cold War the CIA was getting reports of Soviet brainwashing expirments among other things. In a pseudo science arms race the CIA set up a flurry of projects to catch up and surpass the USSR’s “science.” This led to the creation of project MK-ULTRA, operation STARGATE, and project CHATTER. The most unethical, heinous, and right ignoring of these was MK-ULTRA. ULTRA was started with the noble goals of finding the perfect “truth drug”, the correct lethal dose of sarin, and the perfect method of making a perfect brain washed solider. The participants in these project were Britian, the US, and Canada. Each expiramented separately but collaborated the results. Not much is know about the project as all record were ordered to be destroyed in the 70’s and Gottlieb himself passed in 1999. What we do know is that the participants were unwilling, the expirements definetly crossing some lines. There were even deaths from these expirements. At first LSD was the truth drug but it was later found to be to “unpredictable.” Later methods were injecting an amphetamine in one arm and barbiturates in the other sadly the subject would begin babbling gibberish but you could sometimes get useful answers. Hypnosis was always an area of research they wanted to induce anxiety and give people the ability to learn complex things. They always wanted to make a solider that would follow any order no matter how grisly or illegal. They also got involved in an frenzy of assassination attempts almost all on Castro. Ranging from making his beard fall out to a poisioned wetsuit.