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Project MKULTRA

2 points by S4M 12y ago

api 12y ago
Of possibly more contemporary relevance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO I suspect that the heavy duty "Clockwork Orange" stuff was abandoned as low-tech, expensive, cumbersome, politically dangerous, and difficult to deploy, and psychedelics abandoned as too unpredictable. Instead most research likely shifted into more subtile forms of psychological manipulation, both on an individual level using cult indoctrination techniques and on a mass scale using disinformation and media manipulation. When they say MKULTRA was a failure and was abandoned, they're probably telling a half-truth. The speculations about the Peoples' Temple at the end of this article aren't particularly crazy at all. There's no proof so they're only speculations, but there's enough circumstantially there to give them a certain amount of credibility as worthy of investigation (if we had a press with a pulse). I've suspected for many years that the rash of weird cults that descended on the scene in the early 70s might have been, in at least a few cases, laboratories for the continuation of group mind control experiments. The Peoples' Temple may have been an experiment to see just how far you can take a willing group of "volunteers," and in the end it went so far... possibly threatening to escape control... that the entire group needed to be disposed of. I also see the recent Facebook study on crowd manipulation as being evidence that these techniques are likely trickling into the private sector, as technologies usually do. The Facebook study showed only a very tiny effect, but Facebook is a medium permitting only limited interaction with the subject. You could probably gain significantly better results if you controlled or could influence much wider swaths of the media, as intelligence agencies can. Unfortunately the conspiracy theory tag keeps anyone serious from looking into it, and the field is full of obvious nonsense about space aliens working with the CIA to mind control alien abductees on behalf of the global new world order chemtrail conspiracy or whatever the latest du jour is. Could all that stuff be disinformation designed to render the entire subject beyond serious inquiry? Naaah.

2 points by S4M 12y ago

api 12y ago

Of possibly more contemporary relevance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO I suspect that the heavy duty "Clockwork Orange" stuff was abandoned as low-tech, expensive, cumbersome, politically dangerous, and difficult to deploy, and psychedelics abandoned as too unpredictable. Instead most research likely shifted into more subtile forms of psychological manipulation, both on an individual level using cult indoctrination techniques and on a mass scale using disinformation and media manipulation. When they say MKULTRA was a failure and was abandoned, they're probably telling a half-truth. The speculations about the Peoples' Temple at the end of this article aren't particularly crazy at all. There's no proof so they're only speculations, but there's enough circumstantially there to give them a certain amount of credibility as worthy of investigation (if we had a press with a pulse). I've suspected for many years that the rash of weird cults that descended on the scene in the early 70s might have been, in at least a few cases, laboratories for the continuation of group mind control experiments. The Peoples' Temple may have been an experiment to see just how far you can take a willing group of "volunteers," and in the end it went so far... possibly threatening to escape control... that the entire group needed to be disposed of. I also see the recent Facebook study on crowd manipulation as being evidence that these techniques are likely trickling into the private sector, as technologies usually do. The Facebook study showed only a very tiny effect, but Facebook is a medium permitting only limited interaction with the subject. You could probably gain significantly better results if you controlled or could influence much wider swaths of the media, as intelligence agencies can. Unfortunately the conspiracy theory tag keeps anyone serious from looking into it, and the field is full of obvious nonsense about space aliens working with the CIA to mind control alien abductees on behalf of the global new world order chemtrail conspiracy or whatever the latest du jour is. Could all that stuff be disinformation designed to render the entire subject beyond serious inquiry? Naaah.