If you like horror games, you will probably not be unfamiliar with the work "Escape". The most impressive thing in this work is human experiments, but have you ever thought it really existed? This time we will talk about the real events behind "Escape" and the reference prototype - the infamous and inhumane "MKULTRA" plan of the American CIA.
After World War II, the CIA, the CIA, began the "paperclip operation", with the purpose of the operation being to secretly extradite former Nazi German scientists to the United States for their service. Although these people have complex backgrounds, and many of them are war criminals, Germany was very obsessed with scientific research at that time and frequently conducted inhumane experiments before and during the war. Therefore, the extraditioned scientists can be said to be highly qualified. Putting aside crime, they can be said to be very advanced scientists, which also laid the experimental foundation of "MKULTRA".
After this, in order to improve the efficiency of interrogation, the CIA started the BlueBird experiment in 1950. The project was to improve the interrogation ability and use people's thoughts, spirits or fears to improve the success rate and efficiency of interrogation. In 1951, it was renamed the "Artichoke" program. In this plan, in order to achieve greater efficiency, CIA began to use drugs during the interrogation process, which is commonly known as the ventilator. We have all heard of this drug. The injected person will bring back all the problems when he is confused.
The CIA was afraid of the former Soviet Union's brainwashing ability, and then upgraded the "Artichoke" plan to "MKULTRA". MK is the name of the project, and ULTRA is the confidential level of the project, which is the highest secret, and is an illegal human experimental plan. This "MKULTRA" is not just a simple experiment. There are as many as 150 sub-experiments under your name. They are all studying mental and brain control. At first, they were brainwashing and psychological torture to let the prisoners tell the truth, but later they began to add chemicals, electric shocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and even many tortures.
There is one of the drugs called LSD (LSD), which is a very strong hallucinogen. With only one hundred micrograms, it can cause very strong changes and changes in the user's senses, feelings, memory, spirit, and self-consciousness, and basically there will be no real or hallucination at all. Also because LSD is colorless and tasteless, the CIA began to attack ordinary civilians. The most famous in the record is the "psychological control" experiment led by British psychologist Donald Evan Cameron.
Cameron is one of the authorities in the psychiatric field. His reputation can be said to be very high, but in fact he is also a madman. Cameron has always wanted to delete and reorganize the memoryTo treat schizophrenia patients, this was favored by the CIA, so the CIA provided him with funds, venues, equipment, etc. to allow him to conduct illegal research freely. During this period, Cameron's salary was as high as 500,000 US dollars.
The experiment location is at Allen Mental Hospital. Patients who come to see the clinic will become experimental subjects without their knowledge. Even if you just come to see insomnia, Cameron will ask the subject to secretly take a large amount of LSD. When the subject enters a strong hallucination or coma, he will use thirty or even forty times the normal power to be shocked from time to time. And this will take several weeks, and even three months of cases are recorded. At the same time, noise or repetitive sentences are played next to the experiment subject in an infinite paragraph, and the person who was tested will have a great impact on the brain, such as incontinence, amnesia, aphasia, and even forgetting who his parents and himself are, which will lead to death in severe cases. Many innocent civilians have become experimental subjects.
There is also a relatively famous experiment called "Operation Midnight Climax". The project is led by chemist Sidney Gottlieb, who is also the leader of the entire "MKULTRA" program, and each experiment is carried out under his plan. The program is aimed at citizen experiments, and the CIA plays an observer in this program. The CIA will ask fallen women to lure civilians on the road, and after taking the bait, it will bring the experiment to a hotel specially built by the CIA. There, the fallen woman would secretly put LSD in the wine, and then let the subject and the fallen woman let themselves go, and asked the women to see if they could find out their private secrets, or instill in the subconscious of the experiment, such involuntary illegal behaviors such as robbery, attack, and assassination, and then observe whether he would do it. The CIA would observe all this through a single-sided mirror in the darkroom in the room.
The purpose of this experiment is to collect information from former Soviet spies, and even brainwash them and return to China to carry out sabotage. "Midnight Climax Operation" became more and more excessive later. The CIA began to launch LSDs in restaurants, bars, beaches, and other normal business places. Such rampant behavior will also lead to a countercultural movement in the future. CIA really wants the "MKULTRA" program to be fruitful, and even doesn't let it go. The most famous of them is Frank Olsen. Researchers at "MKULTRA" will hold meetings to discuss the progress at a certain time. The location is a villa in rural Maryland, and Sidney Gottlieb is the initiator of each meeting.
But this time he decided to throw LSD into his friends and colleagues. Nearly twenty scientists present had their wine poisoned, only Gottlieb and his assistant did not, because they both wanted to record this, Gottlieb wanted to see how a group of high-level intellectuals reacted after taking LSD. The result was hallucination, sleeping, everyone woke up to normal after waking up the next day. Except for Olson, his mental state began to be very unstable. He went home alone that day, but he refused to have dinner with his family and began to be alienated from his family. He did not discuss this trip.Okay, even interacting with the child, he only said one thing to his wife.
It may be because he experienced the great pain caused by LSD and was uneasy. A few days later, his colleague who went to work said that Olson was very excited and had an unstable mood, and told his superior that you either fired me or I would leave myself. Although the supervisor successfully calmed him down and kept Olson, he did not expect the situation to worsen the next day. The superior said that Olson believed that he had lost his direction in this professional field and thought he was very incompetent. At this time, he agreed to go to New York for mental therapy and have a good rest. The "MKULTRA" plan has been implemented for half a year, and there are no more than twenty people who know about it. It can be said to be one of the highest secrets of the US government, so this is not an experimental project that can join if you want to join or leave if you want to.
Olson fell on the sidewalk of the Pennsylvania Hotel on November 28, 1953, and the night shift manager witnessed it with his own eyes. He rushed towards the alive Olson and found that Olson was desperately trying to say something, but his injuries were too serious. The sound from his throat had turned into a dying low sound, and Olson passed away before the medical staff arrived.
When everyone felt that Olson could no longer bear the pressure and chose to jump off the building to commit suicide, this "suicide case" became more and more strange. The next morning, Robert, a colleague who lived in the same room with Olson, went to his home to tell their family that although his family was very sad and reluctant, he still accepted his statement of suicide. However, when Olson's family asked to see the remains, they were strongly rejected by the CIA. They said that the deceased fell from a tall building face to the ground, and now the body is incomplete and his face is not as human as it is. The CIA means that you will never want to see him like this. Olson's family had to maintain a half-believing and half-doubted funeral.
The matter came to an end until the United States promulgated the Freedom of Information Act in 1967, which means that the U.S. federal government has the obligation to disclose any intelligence to U.S. citizens, and U.S. citizens have the right to request review, copy, and obtain intelligence documents from governments at all levels. If the department refuses, U.S. citizens can sue the judicial department directly, and the court will upgrade the case to the highest level. Only nine types of intelligence information are exempt from this legal restrictions, such as relevant national security, commercial secrets, legal military secrets, financial agency reports, etc.
Since "MKULTRA" is an illegal experimental project and is not included in these nine categories, it is within the scope of Freedom of Information Law. Although the CIA director ordered the destruction of documents about "MKULTRA" before his retirement, the shameful plan thought it would disappear, a 1975 report pointed out the CIA's horror experiment, which stated that the CIA poisoned many uninformed civilians and also drugged its colleagues' murder.
As soon as this article is published, all majorMedia reporters began to attack CIA frantically, and finally, due to public opinion pressure and the Freedom of Information Law, this inhumane experiment was finally revealed. Many civilians have come forward to say that they are victims, and many have begun to sue the CIA with the Ministry of Justice, and Olson's death has also been brought to the headlines of major media. According to the hotel night shift manager at that time, during his work, he had never seen anyone wearing a pair of boxers and could jump out of the windows where the curtains and hoods were pulled up and locked.
The operator at that time said that shortly after the incident, a strange phone call was called out from Olson's room. Because all the telephones of the hotel in those days had to be transferred by the operator, they could hear the conversation between the two parties. The person who called was Robert, who was in the same room, said, and the other end of the phone answered, and the person was most likely Sidney Gotlieb. As more and more things were exposed, the CIA had to admit that it was their fault that led to Olson's death, and his family also sued the CIA, and the two sides finally settled with compensation of more than $3 million.
It was not until 1994 that Olson's child wanted to dig out his body again and buried him with his mother. At this time, they decided to open the coffin and have another autopsy. However, the report once again slapped the CIA in the face. The autopsy report pointed out that Olson was not what the CIA said was beyond recognition and the body was seriously damaged. On the contrary, there were only a few scratches on his body, and there were fatal injuries attacked by blunt objects on his head and chest. Therefore, the CIA was directly accused by the society and the media of the society as a murderer. Although Olson was not very mentally stable, he did not want to commit suicide. He just wanted to leave.
As mentioned just now, "MKULTRA" is the highest secret that less than twenty people know, and it is not something you can leave as soon as you want. The CIA was afraid of Olsen's leak, so he took this bad move. At that time, everyone knew that the United States and the Soviet Union were on the verge of war. If this experiment was leaked to the former Soviet Union, it would be a huge attack on the United States. After the autopsy report came out, Olson's son sued the CIA again with the Ministry of Justice, but the case was rejected by the court because the two parties had reached a settlement in 1976 and could not appeal again. Although the Olsons' family could no longer let the CIA learn the lesson they deserved, the full exposure of "MKULTRA" was a huge blow to the CIA.
As the Olson case was exposed, more and more people bravely stood up and told how they were treated cruelly by the CIA. Ms. Olikoff went to Allen Mental Hospital for treatment due to depression, but the hospital was conducting the "MKULTRA" program at the time and was a "psychological control" experiment led by Cameron, but she had no idea. A few years later, the backyard said that Olikov had recovered and could ask his family to pick her up, but the family found that she had completely changed.
She, who was originally very gentle, has becomeHe was extremely sensitive and very irritable, was in an excited state all day, often yelling for hours, and would say some strange things, his memory was sometimes good and sometimes bad, sometimes like a normal adult, and sometimes like a three-year-old who couldn't take care of himself. Only when she was awake can Ms. Olikoff recall her horror experience in the hospital. She was injected with LSD before going to bed for several consecutive months, allowing herself to fall asleep with strong hallucinations. She was completely unable to distinguish between reality and illusion, and was often shocked, and her power was thirty to forty times that of normal medical power. Once, she was injected with LSD nearly fourteen times during the electric shock.
Cameron will also customize a special helmet, and let the experimenter wear and lock it when the LSD is injected, spreading terrible remarks and strongly offensive insults. The experimental subjects will also be deprived of their ability to take care of themselves, and they will be asked to live in strange ways, such as wearing clothes, shoes, eating, and even going to the toilet. The family also noticed Ms. Olikov's strange behavior, and often had twisted physical expressions and strange expressions. What's even more terrifying is that this kind of experiment that life is worse than death was not only Ms. Olikov experienced, but hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens were used as experimental subjects.
Ms. Olikoff's sequelae are already a blessing in disgrace, and many people have completely dysfunctional or even died. So Ms. Olikoff's family gathered the victims and filed a lawsuit with the CIA for compensation, but they only received compensation of 100,000 US dollars per person. Many people were even told that they were not eligible for compensation because of insufficient evidence and less harm. No one knows how many people were sacrificed in this experiment, and no one knows how many people spent the rest of their life with great pain in the aftermath.
This experiment lasted for twenty years, and tens of thousands of people were even forced to become experimental subjects without knowing it. What's even more terrifying is that none of the people who participated in the "MKULTRA" from beginning to end were subject to legal sanctions. Sidney retired and died in 1999. He even called this experiment a glory in his obituary. It was not until 1995 that President Clinton publicly apologized to the public for the first time, calling "MKULTRA" an extraordinary means in extraordinary times.
Since Sidney retired in 1972, the CIA has insisted that the "MKULTRA" has been completely abolished and has not been carried out in any form or project. But the families of the victims still said that the "MKULTRA" plan has never ended, and it is still under the table in a very mysterious posture. When we look at the CIA, which insists that the experiment has not continued, is the "MKULTRA" plan really continuing? Who knows?
