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I'm sure most people in power weren't taking this research seriously even 60 years ago, when it was running.
by mcurtis 7y ago
I'm sure most people in power weren't taking this research seriously even 60 years ago, when it was running.
- rmilejczz 7y agoIdk how you can be so sure of then when we were actively researching little green men from space as a threat to national security around the same time. The US govt has engaged in some pretty outlandish “research”
- cf141q5325 7y agoThe criminals doing it took it serious, the atrocities were real and the list of victims whos lives they ruined is rather long. Once people hear MK ULTRA they think about staring at goats and LSD but the darker story behind it is the research on sensory deprivation, on torture to break involuntary subjects more reliably. From the school of Americas to Guantanamo to by now most regimes across the world, they all have to thank those "pioneers" of modern torture. The Canadian Dr Cameron who got the funding for his work on psychic driving through MKUltra isnt mentioned in the article but his work on the subject cant be described as anything but monstrous. edit: "A Question of Torture" by Alfred W. McCoy is a good book on the subject.
- Synaesthesia 7y agoThat's correct. The CIA have actually learned the best form of torture is psychological torture and mastered that.