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>the whole "mind-breaking people with LSD and trauma" genre of conspiracy theory probably isn't real. Though there isn't anything showing the continued use of
by boomboomsubban 3y ago
>the whole "mind-breaking people with LSD and trauma" genre of conspiracy theory probably isn't real.
Though there isn't anything showing the continued use of LSD, the use of trauma to mind-break people continued until at least 2008 under the guise of "enhanced interrogation.". Black sites still seem to exist, so it's unclear if it really stopped.
- krapp 3y ago>the use of trauma to mind-break people continued until at least 2008 under the guise of "enhanced interrogation.". That isn't a continuation of MKULTRA though, it's just torturing prisoners, and torture is notorious for not being an effective means of interrogation (which is why I'm convinced the only reason it was being pushed by the Bush administration post 9/11 was simply pandering to American bloodlust.) People will just as easily lie to make the pain stop as tell the truth.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoYou see both as attempts to get people to say/do what the CIA wants and that they're both based on a faulty understanding of how the mind works. That's enough for me to view them as a continuation, even if some of the details differ.