The CIA came into being in 1947 with the National Security Act. Known as the OSS during WW2, it was decided to make them a separate more powerful agency to spy on our new cold war enemy, the former Soviet Union. Most people know about that part of CIA history. What most do not know is that the CIA smuggled former Nazi scientists into this country right after WW2. The agency wanted to scoop them up before the Soviets could, although some ended up in Russia anyway. What did the CIA want with these scientists? Nazi secret weapons development for one and Nazi mind control experimental data for another. This article will attempt to describe that dark history and the reasons behind them. Make no mistake about it, the CIA is still using these techniques today and probably have made advancements in them. It’s no secret that President Bush Jr. authorized torture of terror suspects when the “war on terror” began in 2001. To think that the CIA has abandoned these techniques would be naïve at best. It all began with Operation Paperclip at the end of WW2.
Here is a description of Operation Paperclip from Wikipedia which sums it up pretty well.
Operation Paperclip was the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) program used to recruit the scientists of Nazi Germany for employment by the United States in the aftermath of World War II (1939–45). It was conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), and in the context of the burgeoning Soviet–American Cold War (1945–91); one purpose of Operation Paperclip was to deny German scientific knowledge and expertise to the USSR[1] and the UK.[2]
Although the JIOA’s recruitment of German scientists began after the European Allied victory (8 May 1945), US President Harry Truman did not formally order the execution of Operation Paperclip until August 1945. Truman's order expressly excluded anyone found “to have been a member of the Nazi Party, and more than a nominal participant in its activities, or an active supporter of Nazi militarism.” Said restrictions would have rendered ineligible most of the scientists the JIOA had identified for recruitment, among them rocket scientists Wernher von Braun and Arthur Rudolph, and the physician Hubertus Strughold, each earlier classified as a “menace to the security of the Allied Forces”.
To circumvent President Truman’s anti-Nazi order, and the Allied Potsdam and Yalta agreements, the JIOA worked independently to create false employment and political biographies for the scientists. The JIOA also expunged from the public record the scientists' Nazi Party memberships and régime affiliations. Once “bleached” of their Nazism, the US Government granted the scientists security clearance to work in the United States. Paperclip, the project’s operational name, derived from the paperclips used to attach the scientists’ new political personae to their “US Government Scientist” JIOA personnel files.[3]
This is just a brief but accurate summary of what and why the CIA did what they did. While it was completely understandable that we didn’t want German scientists to assist the Soviets, we were still harboring war criminals. Yet the worst was yet to come. Soon the CIA would begin a new operation called MK Ultra. This program was and probably still is (although under a different name now) one of the most evil things our agency did/does. In fact a recent appeals court ruling said that the CIA wouldn’t be held in contempt of court even though they had been ordered NOT to destroy over 90 video tapes of torture sessions conducted in Afghanistan and other places. This ruling in effect puts the CIA above the law. Have you ever wondered why other countries despise us so much? Some if not all of it has to do with the shit the CIA is allowed to get away with. If you think they commit crimes here at home, imagine what they get away with overseas. In fact the CIA isn’t supposed to be allowed to operate within US borders, they are supposed to spy overseas only. Yet more news of them spying on American citizens comes out every day. The CIA is covering up their mind control experiments once again by destroying the evidence. Water boarding, sensory deprivation, isolation are just a few of the techniques used. Yet almost 100% of professional interrogators state that torture doesn’t work. All you get are false confessions. Torture someone long enough and they will say and do anything to make it stop. Everyone has a breaking point. MK Ultra started shortly after the Nazi scientists came into this country. The Nazis had used these mind control techniques in their concentration camps, experimenting on the Jews they were exterminating anyway. Here is a brief look at the program from Wikipedia.
Project MKULTRA, or MK-ULTRA, was the code name for a covert, illegal CIA human experimentation program, run by the CIA's Office of Scientific Intelligence. This official U.S. government program began in the early 1950s, continuing at least through the late 1960s, and it used U.S. and Canadian citizens as its test subjects.[1][2][3][4]
The published evidence indicates that Project MKULTRA involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate individual mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs and other chemicals, hypnosis,[5] sensory deprivation, isolation, and verbal and sexual abuse.
Project MKULTRA was first brought to wide public attention in 1975 by the U.S. Congress, through investigations by the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission. Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKULTRA files destroyed in 1973; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms' destruction order.[6]
In 1977, a Freedom of Information Act request uncovered a cache of 20,000 documents[7] relating to project MKULTRA, which led to Senate hearings later that same year.[2] In recent times most information regarding MKULTRA has been officially declassified.
Although the CIA insists that MKULTRA-type experiments have been abandoned, 14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti has stated in various interviews that the CIA routinely conducts disinformation campaigns and that CIA mind control research continued. In a 1977 interview, Marchetti specifically called the CIA claim that MKULTRA was abandoned a "cover story."[8][9]
Sound familiar? Remember the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prison scandal that broke back in 2005? There were pictures of our troops and CIA interrogators torturing Iraqi prisoners and those pictures weren’t even the worst of them. Senators have gone on record stating that many are far too graphic and disgusting to EVER be released to the American public. I for one wish they would release them. Maybe that would wake people up to what’s being done in our name overseas. It’s not just illegal but immoral. Even Toronto Canada is considering putting out arrest warrants for Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush Jr. for war crimes. In fact Rumsfeld does have an arrest warrant out for him in Boston MA! He had to make a detour on his recent book tour. Those three men are some of the most evil the world has ever seen and need to be held accountable for their crimes. Google Rumsfeld torture memos and you’ll see his signature and notes on them saying things like “they are only forced to stand for 8 hours? I’m on my feet 12 hours a day.” This was in regard to chaining someone’s wrists to the ceiling with only the toes touching the ground.
I love my country but I can’t stand what my government has become. Now there are those in DC who want to start bombing Iran. If $10.00 or more for a gallon of gas is ok with you and possibly WW3 then go ahead and bomb Iran. Thankfully those who want this new war with Iran are being fiercely resisted by Generals in the military. They know what a war in Iran could cost this country in terms of life and of course the collapse of our economy. Let’s all pray that the order is not given.
In summary the CIA and all levels of our government need to be held accountable to the laws of this land just like the rest of us. Yet time and again they’re allowed to get away with it which just encourages more of the same. We will NEVER be respected around the world when we can’t even control our own agencies and have pre-emptive war as our foreign policy. Now Obama has us in Uganda Africa. WTF? Now we have a new command called AFRICACOM. We are once again putting our noses in other people’s business and it will cost us blood and more money. It’s time for this to stop but until we demand our lawmakers hold these rogue government officials accountable the wars and torture will continue. Remember you are the resistance!
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