Otterman, Michael (2007). American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond. Melbourne University Publishing. p.24. ISBN 978-0522853339. An Interview with Richard Helms". Central Intelligence Agency. May 8, 2007. Archived from the original on April 27, 2010 . Retrieved March 16, 2008. Lloyd Schrier's mother, Esther, had a difficult childhood, losing both her parents at an early age. In 1936, when she was four years old, her father died. Slightly more than a year later, her mother was diagnosed with a brain tumour and given a lobotomy. Unable to look after her children, she was committed to a psychiatric institution.

Project MK-ULTRA, MK-ULTRA, or MKULTRA, was the code name for a covert CIA mind-control and chemical interrogation IS. Substances which produce physical disablement such as paralysis of the legs, acute anemia, etc.an indication of the size and range of the effort; this document refers to the study of an assortment of mind-altering substances described as follows:"

These voices were played through headphones, helmets or speakers, sometimes installed right inside a patient's pillow. Records show some patients would hear these messages up to half a million times. anxieties," "hypnotically increasing ability to learn and recall complex written matter." studying through questioning subjects on LSD, not =commonly the most marked effect would be the subject's absolute and utter certainty that they were able to This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.MK-SEARCH), mescaline, psilocybin, scopolamine, marijuana, alcohol, sodium pentothal.1271 and ergine (in Subproject 22). Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond by Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain, New York: Grove Press, 1985, ISBN 0802130623 The medical trials at Nuremberg in 1947 deeply impressed upon the world that experimentation with unknowing human subjects is morally and legally unacceptable. The United States Military Tribunal established the Nuremberg Code as a standard against which to judge German scientists who experimented with human subjects... [I]n defiance of this principle, military intelligence officials [...] began surreptitiously testing chemical and biological materials, including LSD. Lloyd Schrier tells the story of his family's tragic past as part of the CBC podcast Brainwashed. (Lisa Ellenwood/CBC) Marchetti has stated in various interviews that the CIA routinely conducts disinformation campaigns and that CIA

Substances which will lower the ambition and general working efficiency of men when administered in undetectable amounts. A material which will cause mental confusion of such a type that the individual under its influence will find it difficult to maintain a recruit former Nazi scientists. Some of these scientists studied torture and brainwashing, and several had just The family of Frank Olson decided to have a second autopsy performed in 1994. A forensics team found injuries on the body that had likely occurred before the fall. The findings sparked conspiracy theories that Olson might have been assassinated by the CIA.

Lee, Martin A.; Shlain, Bruce (1992). Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: the CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond. Grove Weidenfeld. ISBN 978-0-8021-3062-4. As it turned out, however, there was much more to come. In the late 1970s, John Marks, a journalist who specialised in intelligence matters, filed a Freedom of Information request that uncovered a trove of 16,000 documents, most of which hadn’t been sent for shredding because they were filed as financial records. In the course of examining thousands of invoices and bills of sale, Marks and his team of researchers unearthed some unexpected gems. The diary of George Hunter White, a dead Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent, was particularly startling. White had worked as Gottlieb’s fixer in the underworlds of New York and San Francisco, conducting drug experiments on unknowing subjects in brothels or at parties he held in CIA safehouses. In his diary, White wrote frankly about the corruption, drugs, sex and violence in which he happily participated: ‘Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, cheat, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All Highest?’ What happened at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute laid the groundwork for torture spanning decades to follow. Tallerico, Brian (December 19, 2017). "7 Key Questions to Help You Understand Wormwood". Vulture . Retrieved October 18, 2021. Marks, John (1979). The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. New York: Times Books. chapters 3 and 7. ISBN 0812907736.