From caption: "...un-identified white female between the age of 8 and 10 years old. Subject underwent 6 months of treatment using heavy doses of LSD, electroshock and sensery [sic] deprivation. Experiments under codename: MKULTRA about early 60s. Subjects [sic] memory was erased and her brain is that of a newborn baby."
At the direction of an accompanying psychologist, the team planned to conduct a psychic demolition in which they'd get Zubaydah to reveal everything by severing his sense of personality and scaring him almost to death.Presumably his brain was then like that of a "newborn baby."
Project MK-ULTRA was a breathtakingly inhuman top-secret exercise of our government. It "evolved" from Operation Paperclip, a morally dubious enterprise designed to co-opt the brain trust of Nazi scientists. It seems that in our exposure to all of that brilliance some of the nasty leaked in, and we began to explore not just Nazi rocket science but Nazi "medicine" as well.
Was a time that bringing up "CIA mind control experiments" was eye-rolling tin-foil-hat territory, and indeed even today it retains the ability to marginalize a speaker.
I'm sure the brain-baking techniques have grown more, ah, sophisticated than they were back in the '60's (not), but to have this sort of monstrous behaviour revealed as being used, today, on Zubaydah (and we all know what happened to Jose Padilla - subsequently described as "a piece of furniture") contributes to my Holy Crap! feeling...
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Did you see this image in the Vanity Fair or did you just add this image as a reference? Do you know anything about the origin of this image of the young girl?
Hi Anonymous (thank you for commenting).
I believe (if I remember correctly) I got it from www.outlawjournalism.com. Google "MK ULTRA" and it'll show up...
I've done extensive reading (legit & non-legit) on the CIA mind control program(s), and I found that this image is emblematic of what I've discovered.
Thanks for the quick response. I have been trying to trace the origin of this image for a number of months now.... with no success. It would appear that is was documented in a book published on the subject after it was pulled from the file it was contained within. I would very much appreciate any help in finding ANY information on this image.
I hear you. It's so over-the-top it looks like it could have been mocked up to send tinfoil-hatters round the bend...
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