August 11, 2012 
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- Theme from Gilligan’s Island -
“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip…”
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The year is 1969, and undercover CIA agent Jerry McDonald is working with his compatriot Terry Milner, the Deputy Guardian Intelligence for the US (DGI US), and directly with L. Ron Hubbard as to Operations – Black Operations that is.
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Jerry, our jack-of-all-trades intelligence agent, had appeared on board Hubbard’s ships in 1968, just in time to help carry out Operation Sheepskin [underneath Operation Gladio] for the CIA, in Greece.
1969 was a busy time for Terry and Jerry. Jerry has been made the Commander of the Pacific Fleet (of Sea Organization ships) by L. Ron Hubbard personally. Scientologists are part of, and working with The Brotherhood of Eternal Love – a major drug smuggling ring that imports marijuana from the biggest drug dealer in Mexico, “Papa”, Pedro Aviles and his right hand man Quintero. Jerry McDonald’s ship the Blue Fin had just been raided in 1968, the Ares, Neptune (Mary Sue Hubbard’s ship), and the Bolivar were all raided for drug smuggling and suspected gun running in 1969; the rock group People! had just joined the Sea Org to be the “band” for Jerry and Terry’s 3-ring circus of smugglers, and were reporting to Jerry for “Sea Org training”; Geoff Levin (of the People!) had a history with Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter (real name Burns) going back to 1961;
Hunter was a scientologist, also with connections to the Brotherhood, and had been an MKULTRA volunteer test subject at the Palo Alto, California VA Hospital under Gregory Bateson, and in concert with Stanford Research Institute LSD studies Willis Harman (who would later support the MKULTRA spin-off “A Course in Miracles” as well as help produce Changing Images of Man); the Grateful Dead is the official house band of MKULTRA LSD producer “bear” owsley (who doubles as sound engineer for the Dead); Ken Kesey and Ron Stark of CIA fame, are “good friends” with scientologists DeGrimstons (the Process Church) and Charles Manson – Kesey and Stark had previously (1965) been joyfully spreading LSD around the country while driving in a psychadelic bus called “Further”, and The Grateful Dead’s Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia do a benefit for Church of Scientology San Francisco june 11 1969 – and that’s only the half of it!
Jerry McDonald, with Scientologists and Brotherhood members was merrily making drug runs between LA, San Francisco, to South of the Border, where the Church had a “ranch” conveniently located just across the bay from the stomping grounds of Drug Lord Aviles. A historically unnamed boat was held off the coast of Mexico, carrying members of the Brotherhood coming from Hawaii and loaded with drugs, and was busted by U.S. and Mexico customs.
Jerry, aboard the Makaira, was arrested on November 13, 1969, along with Brotherhood members, but was given immunity from prosecution as an informant, by U.S. Customs agents (who likely had no idea he was CIA).
Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead are also getting busted for drugs, but for some odd reason Garcia always gets set free….
Jerry McDonald would go on to play undercover agent between Terry Milner and his “people” doing remote-viewing experiments at SRI, it is believed that it was HE that showed up just in time for Scientologist Pat Price to die….
Welcome to the REAL Scientology –
a Scientology few people know about, and even fewer (if any) have ever brought out into the public eye.
That was just one year, that I covered in extreme shorthand form above, (and only part of).
This Series I am embarking on will go into much, much more detail on this seedy cast of characters.
But first? Let’s review a little history – a Tale of LSD and mind-control experimentation to accomplish social-engineering goals.
Hubbard, LSD, and Mind-Control experimentation, in brief.
THE FORMATIVE YEARS
My series Alternate History of Dianetics, will contain the entire documentation that I have on all of what you are about to read, this is just a small part of it.
Pay close attention to the points in time here, that I label with the LOCKSTEP image, as these pertain particularly to L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology.
It is a detailing of actions by L. Ron Hubbard that are literally in lockstep with these mind-control obsessed men and women.
We will be starting our review in the 1946/1947 time period, as this is the time LSD is discovered by Albert Hoffman at a Sandoz Pharameceuticals lab.
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Two British-originated intelligence and mind-control umbrella organizations were formed in the U.S., immediately after World War II ended.
The Tavistock Institute, U.S. version, was formed in 1946 by a group of key figures of the original Tavistock Clinic including Elliott Jaques, Henry Dicks, Leonard Browne, Ronald Hargreaves, John Rawlings Rees, Mary Luff and Wilfred Bion, with Tommy Wilson as chairman, funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Other well-known names that joined the group later were John D. Sutherland, John Bowlby, Eric Trist, and Fred Emery and Kurt Lewin, a member of the Frankfurt school in America.
John Rawlings Rees, was a British military psychiatrist with direct ties to MI6 (British Intelligence), he resigned almost immediately and traveled to New York to meet with the International Committee for Mental Hygiene (ICMH). What came out of this meeting was the formation of the WFMH – World Federation for Mental Health.
The ICMH agreed to change their name and accept a new purpose. In what I consider the height of hypocrisy, the lead architects of this new purpose happened to also be many of the men and women who partook in mind-control and drug experimentation on U.S. and British citizens – not to mention what went on in more uncharted (as in not seen on the nightly news) areas of the world.
The new purpose was stated thus:
“to promote among all peoples and nations the highest possible level of mental health in its broadest biological, medical, educational, and social aspects“.
The lead architects were Rees and Chisholm, together with psychiatrists George Stevenson, Clarence Hincks, Arthur Ruggles and Harry Stack Sullivan, and noted anthropologist Margaret Mead.
Singling just one out for now, Margaret Mead.
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Margaret Mead was involved with Harold Wolff (head of several MKULTRA projects under Sydney Gottlieb), as well as having her own MKUltra projects she was partaking in or supporting in one capacity or another.
For example, in the early 1970’s, Margaret is listed as part of the Advisory Panel to the “project” summarized in the book Changing Images of Man.
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That project (culminating in the book) was headed up by Joseph Campbell and Willis Harman underneath the sobriquet of Stanford Research Insitutute. Willis Harman also happens to have held an executive position over the MKULTRA LSD testing on college students and psychiatric patients program in the 60’s – along with Ken Kesey, and Scientologist Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead.
That’s just ONE example.
Essentially the same year as the official formation of the U.S. Tavistock Institute, in September 1947, the American version of British MI6 (which was the OSS) is now restructured and renamed the CIA – Central Intelligence Agency.
Mind-Control research begun by Tavistock in World War II and imported to the OSS in the U.S., was already well underway at this time, but was not “authorized”.
Once some of the basic infrastructure is in place organizationally, destined to carry out all manner of mind-control experimentation over the next 50 years, now a “product” is needed.
Sandoz (now Novartis), a drug/chemical manufacturing company began “clinical trials” of LSD and marketed it under the name Delysid as a psychiatric drug, from 1947 through the mid 1960s. Essentially, this meant that psychiatric patients were being used as the first guinea pigs for this new “wonder drug”. It was touted as curing a wide range of psychiatric ailments, anwhere from alcoholism to “sexual deviancy” – which at the time, included homosexuals. However, it’s true purpose was much, much darker.
“We were very interested in anything that could make someone schizophrenic,” said Milton Greenblatt of Massuchusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC). 1
MMHC was originally called Boston Psychopathic, it is referred to as a “pioneering” mental-health institution affiliated with Harvard Medical School.
A show trial then took place in 1949, featuring Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. With a glazed look in his eyes, Mindszenty confessed to crimes of treason he apparently did not commit – demonstrating what “could happen” to foreign agents or anyone who could be “mind controlled” into talking.
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This presented the “problem” to American Congress and British Parliament (and the public) that “needed solving”.
Enter ……..mind-control experimentation in the name of “national security”.
LSD.
Shortly after the show trial, a workgroup was set up by Fred Williams of the U.S. Air Force. It was called the Air Force Psychological Warfare Division and was located at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. The group was a clearing house for a larger network, some of the members of which were Colonel James Monroe (who later joined the CIA); Albert Biderman, a sociologist; air force psychiatrists Herman Sander and Robert J. Lifton; Harold Wolff and Lawrence Hinkle at Cornell; and CIA psychologist John Gittinger. 10
Wolff had met Allen Dulles, head of the CIA, when he treated his son for injuries from the Korean War. 10
We’ll be discussing him more in just a bit.
This same year, 1949, after the field has been primed with “fear of turning men’s minds”, a Viennese doctor named Otto Kauders traveled to the United States in search of research funds. He gave a conference at Boston Psychopathic Hospital concerning the new drug. Kauder described how an infinitesimally small dose had rendered Dr. Albert Hofmann (who discovered it) temporarily “crazy.”
Robert W. Hyde’s colleague, Max Rinkel, an Army neuropsychiatrist and refugee from Hitler’s Germany, was so intrigued by Kauders’ presentation that he quickly contacted Sandoz Pharmaceuticals in Switzerland, where Albert Hofmann (who discovered it) worked. Sandoz officials arranged to ship some LSD across the Atlantic, and the “experiments” – read clinical trials – began.
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Robert W. Hyde, the deputysuper-intendent at Boston Psychopathic in 1949, experimented on himself with the new drug.
Jay Stevens wrote about what happened with Robert in “Storming Heaven,”:
“What followed was fascinating. Right before their eyes, Hyde, the even-keeled Vermonter, turned into a paranoiac, as a swarm of little suspicions — why are those people smiling? Was that a door closing? — began eating away at his composure.”
Dr. Max Rinkel, was particularly interested in using LSD to induce a schizophrenia-like state in mentally healthy people.
Rinkel and Hyde, then went on to organize an LSD study at the facility in which they tested the drug on 100 volunteers, reporting their initial findings in May 1950 at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. 1
They tested it on far more people than was put on paper, and not all of them were “volunteers” – not by a long shot. This was a OSS/CIA sanctioned experiment, as you will shortly see.
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LOCKSTEP – On the heels of the formation of the WFMH and the new U.S. Tavistock Institute, L. Ron Hubbard is right there promoting a new “cure” for mental ills – a more “humane” treatment that applies to anyone! – that’s not as good as it sounds on the surface. Think about it – that means we are all characterized as mentally impaired!
“to promote among all peoples and nations the highest possible level of mental health in its broadest biological, medical, educational, and social aspects“.
See? Mental Health “treatments” of whatever kind are for EVERYONE now.
So, in January of 1949, Hubbard informed his literary agent, Forrest J. Ackerman, that he was writing a book on the “cause and cure of nervous tension”, which he was going to call either The Dark Sword or Excalibur or Science of the Mind, and assured Ackerman that the book had “more selling and publicity angles than any book of which I have ever heard.” In the same month, he told Writers’ Markets and Methods magazine that he was working on a “book of psychology”. 2
A little over six months later, John Campbell, Hubbard’s partner-in-MC (Mind Control) wrote to another contributor to the Astounding Science Fiction magazine, Dr. Joseph A. Winter (was a physician from Michigan) concerning Hubbard’s “discovery”. Dr. Winter later wrote a glowing recommendation, and as you can see, it too, is right in line with WFMH’s purpose:
With cooperation from some institutions, some psychiatrists, he [Hubbard] has worked on all types of cases. Institutionalized schizophrenics, apathies, manics, depressives, perverts, stuttering, neuroses - in all, nearly 1000 cases. But just a brief sampling of each type; he doesn’t have proper statistics in the usual sense. But he has one statistic. He has cured every patient he worked with. He has cured ulcers, arthritis, asthma…
Source: Winter, Dianetics: A Doctor’s Report, p. 5
Dianetics was a Tavistock baby. Tavistock, from it’s earliest days in Britain back in 1934, had as it’s primary focus Freudian “talking therapy”.
Excerpt from Alternate History of Dianetics – The Roaring 40′s, 1940-41, second part :
Geoffrey Gorer wrote an essay in 1956, which illustrates quite clearly the goals of Tavistock and Yales’ Institute of Human Relations, The US Psychology Division (OSS) just formed under Donavan, and even the later MK-Ultra. The Title alone, again, gives you your first clue.
The essay was entitled, appropriately enough, The Remaking of Man.
“One of the most urgent problems – perhaps the most urgent problem – facing the world today is how to change the character and behavior of adult human beings within a single generation. This problem of rapid transformation has underlaid every revolution (as opposed to coups d’etat) at least from the time of the English Revolution in the seventeenth century….”
You can also see the relevance of L. Ron Hubbard and Dianetics/Scientology in their plans despite his propaganda of that he is “trying to free man”. He wanted to remake Man in one generation to Homo Novis. He did not succeed. No wonder, what with all the mind-control tactics that were built into “his” teachings (which I don’t believe they really were his).
Interestingly enough, Gorer had just moved to America in 1941, just in time to “analyze” us, and other countries.
“Geoffrey Gorer, a young British cultural anthropologist, has lived in the United States for seven years, has studied with Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and John Dollard, has worked on projects of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Yale Institute of Human Relations, and has served as liaison in Washington for one of his country’s wartime missions. –”
Book Review of The American People, by Geoffrey Gorer – David T. Bazelon , August 1948
There’s Margaret Mead again…
The timing of Tavistock’s Gorer arrival to the U.S. was also in tandem with a particular project of the OSS. From what I understand, Gorer also had MI6/Intelligence status of some kind.
For more about Tavistock’s Geoffrey Gorer, see above linked article.
In 1941, Tavistock had only just begun the first broad foothold into the area of controlling the psyche’s of the rest of us.
1941 – late June – L. Ron Hubbard – The United States Navy commissions him as lieutenant (jg) in the Navy Reserve.
1941 – The Tavistock method of Rees begins
Wikipedia has the following regarding Rees:
John Rawlings Rees OBE MD RAMC (also known as ‘Jack’) (25 June 1890 – 11 April 1969) was a wartime and civilian psychiatrist. He was a member of the group of key figures at the original Tavistock Clinic (more correctly called the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology) and became its medical director from 1934. This group specialised in the new ‘dynamic psychologies’ of Sigmund Freud and his followers, and in particular the Object relations theory of Ronald Fairbairn and others. Recruited to the British Army during the second world war, he became an army Brigadier. According to Eric Trist, another key member of the original Tavistock group:
In 1941 a group of psychiatrists at the Tavistock Clinic saw that the right questions were asked in Parliament in order to secure the means to try new measures. As a result they were asked to join the Directorate of Army Psychiatry, and did so as a group.[1]
The source for the above [1] is Eric Trist and Hugh Murray, The Foundation and Development of the Tavistock Institute to 1989, Tavistock Institute, further relevant quotes follow.
Their primary interest was in HOW TO MAKE PEOPLE FIGHT basically, but especially how to choose men to lead/influence others to fight.
From these beginnings, it grew into all manner of how to influence others to do what they “should”, as well as being the origin for the push to create a “personality test”.
You can read more about that here: The Transformation of Selection Procedures, The War Office Selection Boards by Hugh Murray for Tavistock.
This period of time, was also when there was the birth of the somewhat innocuous sounding (it wasn’t really) “Social Psychiatry”. You can read more about that here: A New Social Psychiatry – A World II Legacy – Eric Trist Tavistock
Eric Trist writings:
A relationship of critical importance was formed between the Clinic’s Ronald Hargreaves, as command psychiatrist, and Sir Ronald Adam, the Army Commander in Northern Command. When Adam became Adjutant General, the second highest post in the army, he was able to implement policies that Hargreaves and he had adumbrated. New military institutions had to be created to carry them out. The institution-building process entailed:
Earning the right to be consulted on emergent problems for which there was no solution in traditional military procedures, e.g., the problem of officer selection.
- Making preliminary studies to identify a path of solution – the investigation of morale in Officer Cadet Training Units.
- Designing a pilot model in collaboration with military personnel which embodied the required remedial measures – the Experimental War Office Selection Board.
- Handing over the developed model to military control with the psychiatric and psychological staff falling back into advisory roles or where possible removing themselves entirely – the War Office Selection Boards (WOSBs) and Civil Resettlement Units (CRUs) for repatriated prisoners of war.
- Disseminating the developed model, securing broad acceptance for it and training large numbers of soldiers to occupy the required roles, e.g., CRUs.
… The innovations introduced during the war years consisted of a series of “inventions:”
- Command psychiatry as a reconnaissance activity leading to the identification of critical problems.
- Social psychiatry as a policy science permitting preventive intervention in large scale problems.
- The co-creation with the military of new institutions to implement these policies.
- The therapeutic community as a new mode of treatment.
- Cultural psychiatry for the analysis of the enemy mentality.
By the end of the war a considerable number of psychiatrists and social scientists had become involved in this comprehensive set of innovative applications of concepts of social psychiatry. They saw in these approaches a significance which did not seem to be limited by the condition of war, and were determined to explore their relevance for the civilian society. Obviously, individual programs could not be transferred without considerable modification; entirely new lines of development would have to be worked out. Nevertheless, a new action-oriented philosophy of relating psychiatry and the social sciences to society had become a reality in practice. This event signified the social engagement of social science.
Source: Eric Trist and Hugh Murray, The Foundation and Development of the Tavistock Institute to 1989, Tavistock Institute
Per another source, John Rawlings Rees was the Director of British Army Psychiatry, and brought with him from Tavistock:
Psychiatrists
Ronald Hargreaves
Tommy Wilson
Wilfred Bion
John Rickman
Jock Sutherland
John Bowlby and psychologists Eric Trist, Ben Morris, and Harold Bridger.
Formerly, British Army personnel department psychology was conventional but J. R. Rees, the Director of the Tavistock Clinic,became Director of British Army psychiatry and brought the Tavistock group with him. This included the psychiatrists Ronald Hargreaves, Tommy Wilson, Wilfred Bion, John Rickman, Jock Sutherland, and John Bowlby and also the psychologists Eric Trist, Ben Morris, and Harold Bridger. They came together for the psychological studies of the ‘Northfield Experiment’, designed by Bion as an experiment in taking soldiers with emotional breakdowns and using a therapeutic community model to help bring them back into service. This provided the first experiences in groups as well as the basis of Bion’s developments about groups, and was then adopted by the Tavistock group for the WOSBs. What became the Tavistock Institute group had its roots inside the [British] army.
- THE INTELLECTUAL ODYSSEY OF ELLIOTT JAQUES: FROM ALCHEMY TO SCIENCE by Douglas Kirsner
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The first prong of this “devils fork” of “mental health” research, dealt with trying to get “assessments” of people and how to control them. Along those lines, 1941 – December 20th – Four Anthropologists are brought in (through John Rees British MI6/Tavistock and OSS head General Donavan) to begin assessing the social psychological characteristics of “a people”. (Margaret Mead was one of them.)
From CIA Declassified document Summary of the Activities of the Psychology Division, Jan. 24, 1942 – Declassified in 2003.
Heading of the document:
The other prong of this devil’s fork of “mental health” research, is rather more strenuous on humanity. The same year as Tavistock’s baby, Dianetics, gets released (in fact, just one month before it) on a Thursday in April 1950, British MI6 bastard child – the CIA – starts up Project BLUEBIRD.
CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter approved BLUEBIRD and authorized the use of unvouchered funds to pay for its most sensitive areas. The CIA’s behavior-control program now had a bureaucratic structure to really focus on in on this “research”. “Unvouchered funds” – what a euphemism!
CIA-contracted psychiatrists begin (or in some cases continue) secret (but now organizationally official) -
Experiments with ice-pick lobotomies, electroshock, hypnosis, pain, and drugs, including cocaine, heroin, and LSD.
In coordination with the Veteran’s Administration, U.S. military veterans are used as unwitting subjects for many of the experiments.
At the time, the Office of Security was responsible for BLUEBIRD, but a lot of fighting for control went on between 1950 and 1952.
Responsibility for mind control went from the Office of Security to the Scientific Intelligence unit and back to Security again. In the process, BLUEBIRD was rechristened ARTICHOKE on August 20, 1951.
In general, the Office of Security was full of pragmatists who were anxious to weed out communists (and homosexuals) everywhere. They believed the intellectuals from Scientific Intelligence had failed to produce “one new, usable paper, suggestion, drug, instrument, name of an individual, etc., etc.,” as one document puts it. The learned gentlemen from Scientific Intelligence felt that the former cops, military men, and investigators in Security lacked the technical background to handle so awesome a task as controlling the human mind. 1
Rinkel and Hyde’s LSD experiments at Boston Psychopathic on psychiatric patients (without their permission) now came under BLUEBIRD.
Remember, they KNEW that LSD caused mental troubles, and they were doing this to people on purpose! I do not believe the shore story that they thought it could be a cure – noone is that naïve.
Hyde became director of Research at the Vermont State Hospital, still under the rubrick of his tasks for the CIA.
Finally, official documents Wetmore has uncovered show that the Vermont State Hospital had a history of experimenting with drug treatments on its patients. At least one of those experiments, which predated Hyde’s tenure at the hospital, was financed by the federal agencies identified by researchers as a conduit for money for the CIA “black-ops” experimentation. In addition, the Vermont State Hospital doctors were corresponding about that grant work with Dr. John Gittinger, a CIA scientist in Washington, D.C. 3
Dr. John Gittinger started working for the CIA at Maxwell in 1950, along with CIA agent Monroe and Hinkle – specifically to do brainwashing. He recommends Ewen Cameron, an infamous Psychiatrist out of Canada, to Monroe, who then funds Ewan’s work later on. Gittinger, in particular, sat at the crossroads and supported both prongs of the “devils” fork – the strenuous brainwashing techniques and the more palatable “personality testing”, psychological assessment angle.
1979, July 10 documentary on Brainwashing. ABC News, Mission Mind Control series. Paul Altmeyer.
You can watch Gittinger lie about what MKULTRA was doing, live, in this video.
Lieing through his teeth “that sort of thing was never done” [working to mind-control agents] .
“The first people that were sent up to see us, were..uh…operational types from the CIA…”
“…them low level people (CIA) were interested in it (mind-controlled agents) but the high level people were not.”
That last quote in particular, is a point-blank lie – you can’t get much higher than Allen Dulles, head of the CIA.
Gittinger was a former Navy Lt. Commander during World Word II.
He started working on his system for Personality Testing at the Center Hospital in Norman, Oklahoma – just before he joined the CIA in 1950.
Gittingers focus was on personality traits, and that behavior is determined by an interacting system of traits. He also underscored the fact that only relative scores for the person were of any real use.
His Personality Assessment System provided a psychological road map for exploiting an individual’s weaknesses.
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LOCKSTEP – Hubbard also puts together a personality test for the same reason.
L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard began using Personality Testing in Dianetics just after Gittinger began working for the CIA.
Hubbard had the exact same intent and focus on establishing the mental traits of his students/auditing subjects, for the exact same purposes as Gittinger.
He wanted to establish what the persons weaknesses were, utilize those, and also use experimental procedures to see if these traits could be strengthened/weakened, as well as whether they could be controlled and redirected.
A couple of his later lectures, show this interest in methods of “steering” the fractious little people who aren’t going along with the Great Plan for Humanity.
- ANATOMY of GAMES given on 21 December 1954.
“The way to stop any mutiny is the traditional way to stop it. This is the traditional way. And that’s simply have everybody come in and say what he’s mad about. Listen to him and give him an answer of one kind or another. People won’t mutiny. They went into communication.
“Now, we call this blowing the engram or doing almost anything. We could call it a lot of things. But the truth of the matter is that the barriers are built up by various cuts of communication. And they are destroyed by the setup of communication lines. Barriers cease to exist the moment you set it up.”
- Wisdom as an Auditor (April 28, 1964)
“Now, that’s the wrong way to handle a revolutionary, is to de-revolutionize him. That would also apply to a conquered people. A conquered people really never gives up. “
“Now here is the other way: Take a revolutionary-take a revolutionary and the very least, or the very most, you can do is to simply directionalize, to some slight veering, his revolution.
You maybe can slightly alter the direction of his revolutionary tendency. See, you could maybe persuade him not to revolt against the king but to revolt against the prime minister, see? Change his vector a little bit, see? You could say, “Well, don’t revolt against the-why revolt against the state because you can’t win; they’ve all got machine guns. A very much better activity at the present moment is revolt against its educational system and eventually overthrow it thereby.”
By 1951, he had introduced Scientology and officially recommended Personality Testing [he called them psychometric exams] in the book Science of Survival.
One such recommendation, was the California Test for Mental Maturity - which was introduced in 1936 under the umbrella of the Eugenics program of the time; identifying “mental defectives”.
Sidney Gottlieb
(real name Joseph Scheider)
Sidney Gottlieb headed up the CIA project MKULTRA in 1953.
Even prior to the official start-up of this project, steps had already been taken to establish various front-groups to funnel CIA money – one of which later became the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology.
Gittinger and his Personality Testing research were brought directly under this Society and as such his work was fully classified until 1962 when Sidney split him off into his own proprietary company. This would mark the point his work began to be a bit more public, but make no mistake, it was still a covert operation under the control of Syndey and the TSS division of the CIA.
A 1963 statement by the CIA’s Inspector General shows what the real point of Personality Testing was and how it fit into “operations”:
The [Clandestine Services] case officer is first and foremost, perhaps, a practitioner of the art of assessing and exploiting human personality and motivations for ulterior purposes. The ingredients of advanced skill in this art are highly individualistic in nature, including such qualities as perceptiveness and imagination. [The PAS] seeks to enhance the case officer’s skill by bringing the methods and disciplines of psychology to bear…. The prime objectives are control, exploitation, or neutralization. These objectives are innately anti-ethical rather than therapeutic in their intent.
Same as Hubbard.
Hubbard the Agent, and Gottlieb the Senior Case Officer
“The prime objectives are control, exploitation, or neutralization…”
L. Ron Hubbard’s insistence on using Personality Testing clearly illustrates his personal knowledge of the inner-CIA agenda prevalent at that exact same time period. His intent and what he wanted to know from such tests followed along perfectly in line with the Gottlieb agenda. He knew that Gittinger’s tests were superior for their (Hubbard and the CIA’s) purposes in Dianetics and later Scientology.
You see, Hubbard could not very well actually USE Gittinger’s work directly – it was classified.
The Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology (where Gittinger’s Personality Testing work would be umbrella’d) was officially incorporated in 1955, with Harold Wolff as President. (more on that later)
Wolff’s own research work carried directly over into this pet-organization, and was labeled as MKULTRA subproject 61, a $74,000 project approved by Gottlieb in early 1956. However, this was his SECOND project, his first was something far darker than “personality testing”.
The focus of the Society was narrowly on the goal of influencing and manipulating their subjects.
Gittinger’s Personality Tests fell neatly in line with this goal.
Wolff declared the purpose of the research was to assess defectors’ social and cultural background, their life experience, and their personality structure, in order to understand their motivations, value systems, and probable future reactions.
Sources: Wolfs proposals to the Agency are in document #A/B, II, 10/68, undated “Proposed Plan for Implementing [deleted]” and in two documents included in document set 48-29, March 5, 1956, “General Principles Upon Which these Proposals Are Based.”
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The same year, Hubbard’s frustration with being unable to overtly use Gittinger’s work came to a head, and in order to stay on task with his particular research project assignment with the CIA, his only remaining option was to commission someone within his following. He had first commissioned longtime follower, Julia Salman Lewis, to produce one, but her first effort, the American Personality Analysis (APA), failed to give Hubbard the Personality Trait results he wanted to see for British people.
Julia’s 1955 edition of the APA test was copyrighted by the Library of Congress December 16, 1955.
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One evening in 1955/56 approx., Ray Kemp (along with with Herbie and Jack Parkhouse) were discussing Human Engineering studies with Hubbard. Ray was involved in these studies while on tour with the Royal Navy. By the way, Ray also considered himself something of a Magician – another point of concurrent interests with Hubbard.
Ray Kemp and L. Ron Hubbard – March 1956
Ray describes what happened next in the conversation:
Ron brought up the matter of the APA, stating that the test results did not seem to fit the observed results on students and pcs in London. I pointed out that a personality test is only as valid as the testee’s personality meets the original stand entered into the test set up. Put very simply, an American personality is not the same as a British, German, French, or any other cultural group’s personality.
Ron asked me whether it would be possible to write a test that was more general in nature, and would enable him to see in the test what he was looking for. He also wanted it to be in the same general format as the APA and if possible to have both tests interchangeable in the matter of what he wanted to see as information. Quite a task. As a result of quite a few months works, I eventually devised the Oxford Capacity Analysis (OCA). Note that it did not test personality, but rather the capacity of any person with respect to various traits and syndromes.
Ray Kemp, in “Kemp’s Column — Putting it to the test“, International Viewpoints (IVy) Magazine #22, 1995
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“…[OCA] tested…the capacity of any person with respect to various traits and syndromes.”
Exactly in line with what Hubbard’s senior Case Officer Gottlieb wanted, and with what Wolff and Gittinger were also tasked to figure out how to identify and manipulate.
It was announced in the HASI (Hubbard Association of Scientologists International) magazine “Certainty” vol. 3 no. 4, 1956, Let’s Test It,” by Ray Kemp.
Hubbard himself filed the copyright in Raymond’s name, making Ray a cut-out* for Hubbard at the time (which was a common practice utilized by his Case Officer, Gottlieb) – thereby protecting Hubbard’s real connections.
*cut-out – a go-between used to preserve the safety or anonymity of the principals (agents, case officers, etc.)
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1976: July-December By Library of Congress Copyright Office
The OCA was copyrighted in my name by Ron and was by agreement released to the HASI [Hubbard Association of Scientologists International] and HCO [Hubbard Communications Office], (Ron’s organizations), for use.
Ray Kemp, in “Kemp’s Column — Putting it to the test“, International Viewpoints (IVy) Magazine #22, 1995
The OCA test was revamped in 1959, to address Hubbards question to Ray of “How do you test a Clear?”. That’s the 1959 copyrighted version that you see in the above image. It had questions that it was felt that a clear would answer differently.
December 31, 1958 – At the request of his Case Officer, Hubbard implemented an administrative procedure that gave him copies of EVERY OCA/APA test taken. These were reviewed by Hubbard for his own purposes and then copied and forwarded on to Gittinger at the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, prior to returning the original copy back to the originating Director of Processing.
You will note that in the above, it mentions that in areas of the world where the monetary system is “sterling” the OCA test was used, and in areas of the world it’s “dollars” the APA test was used.
Hubbard had also taken to calling this “profiling” procedure involving the OCA/APA plus IQ test - Scientometric Testing.
Same volume as above, p. 229.
Per information in an article on scribd called The Real Reason for Security Checks in Scientology – Welcome to the Vault – a case can easily be made that Hubbard further extended this “profile” data gathering for his Case Officer Gottlieb, to include Security Check worksheets. A security check is just what it sounds like. A series of questions given to a person while they are on an e-meter, trying to find out their “secrets” or in Scientology parlance – their withholds.
As you already may know, this was an extremely hot area for the Intelligence Community in those days, Gottlieb (and others) were obsessed with finding ways to “break” foreign agents into revealing their secrets – theoretically to help figure out how it worked so he could protect the CIA’s own agents.
Without getting into the whole article, I’ll just touch on the main points. Hubbard had stated in a 1961 lecture that he wanted Security Check reports sent to him, especially where the person resisted giving up his “withholds” (secrets).
“But those that are very resistive would be of great interest to me.” -L. Ron Hubbard
The article posits:
Why?
“…you’d probably find a hidden button that we didn’t know much about before.”[quoting Hubbard]
To be put under a project heading of:
“The human race most closely withholds the following:. . .” [quoting Hubbard]
Mary Sue Hubbard is also mentioned in this article, as being right there in 1961 already helping out to gather what was very important to these two intelligence operatives.Mary Sue would just a few years later, head the infamous Guardian’s Office. The new Intelligence arm of the Church of Scientology.
That same year (1961) the CIA-funded book, The Manipulation of Human Behavior was published. It can be found at the Internet Archive, and a pdf of it here.
It was published by John Wiley & Sons, and was edited by psychologists Albert D. Biderman and Herbert Zimmer.
As I mentioned earlier, He has been working to assist the CIA (OSS) and MI6 in mind-control techniques since the late 1940′s:
Shortly after the show trial, a workgroup was set up by Fred Williams of the U.S. Air Force. It was called the Air Force Psychological Warfare Division and was located at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. The group was a clearing house for a larger network, some of the members of which were Colonel James Monroe (who later joined the CIA); Albert Biderman, a sociologist; air force psychiatrists Herman Sander and Robert J. Lifton; Harold Wolff and Lawrence Hinkle at Cornell; and CIA psychologist John Gittinger. 10
Albert D. Biderman (died June 16, 2003) later worked as Principal Investigator of an Air Force Office of Scientific Research contract and his association with the Air Force’s Human Resources Research Institute at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, 1952-57. One of the things that he did, was that he “engaged” former prisoners of war in interviews. This resulted in two publications, March to Calumny: The Story of American POW’S in the Korean War (1963), and, as co-editor, Mass Behavior in Battle and Captivity: The Communist Soldier in the Korean War (1958)studying stresses associated with captivity. 15, 16 Biderman was also Senior Research Associate at the Bureau of Social Science Research in Washington, DC starting in 1957, where he remained until his retirement.
Herbert Zimmer, was an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, and also worked at times as a consultant for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The various essays in the book include statements crediting research to grants from the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology and the Office of Naval Research.
As you can see, when it came to researching the Manipulation of Human Behavior, Hubbard was lock-stepping along right on par with other CIA researchers.
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The following year, 1962, Gittinger and his Personality Testing go a bit more public. Gottlieb had Gittinger and his co-workers move their operations from the Human Ecology headquarters in New York to a CIA proprietary company, set up especially for them in Washington and called Psychological Assessment Associates.
Gittinger served as president of the company, his public cover was to provide psychological services to American firms overseas.
Gittinger personally opened a branch office in Tokyo (but he later moved to Hong Kong) in order to service CIA stations that were in the Far East.
TONS of money in Society for Investigation of Human Ecology grants and then even more money in the new Psychological Assessment contracts—all of it was CIA funds—flowed like a river to support the verification and expansion further attempts to CONTROL PERSONALITY.
It seems perhaps Ray Kemp may have had British Intelligence connections, because his Human Engineering work; specifically his point to Hubbard about cultural differences affecting Personality Testing, was too coincidentally right in line with Gottlieb’s Human Ecology Society conclusions.
The Human Ecology Society had given 140,000 dollars to David Saunders of the Educational Testing Service, the company that prepares the College Board exams.
He found a correlation between brain (EEG) patterns and results on the digit-span test. Gittinger then realized that the Wechsler battery of subtests had a cultural bias and that a Japanese “E” had a very different personality from, say, a Russian “E”. To compensate, they worked out localized versions of the PAS for various nations around the world.
That’s way too eerily similar to what Ray worked out for Hubbard, as to a different Personality Test for the British than the Americans – to be mere coincidence.
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LOCKSTEP – While the CIA is experimenting on effecting mental states with Drugs, so is L. Ron Hubbard. In the earliest days of Dianetics Hubbard quite freely dispensed strange drugs to be taken during “auditing”.
Literally right on top of OSS/CIA sponsored doctors Rinkel and Hyde’s release of their study on LSD for creating mental illness, Hubbard releases the Book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, and less than two months later, he begins doing the exact same type of CIA research through the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, formed in May of 1950.
Rinkel and Hyde went on to organize an LSD study at the facility in which they tested the drug on 100 volunteers, reporting their initial findings in May 1950 at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association.
… Soon after the Rinkel-Hyde report appeared in the APA journal, the CIA became interested in the researchers’ work, according to Stevens and others who have researched the subject. 3
LRH Definition notes lecture:
Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation was the first organization of Dianetics. This organization was first put together by myself in Elizabeth, New Jersey in May 1950.
The Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation has two appendant groups. One is a civil defense group. The other is the Freudian Foundation of America. [TAVISTOCK CONNECTION] It is the only authorized agency of any kind in the United States authorized to use the name and works of Sigmund Freud. All other Freudian Foundations have no charter or franchise from the old Master. But we have one from the Freudian Institute of Vienna, which makes us the only legal Freudian Foundation. This organization knows that as a sequence to the great work of Sigmund Freud, Dianetics is the solution to psychoanalysis and it freely says so. So we have the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation being ably supported by the Freudian Foundation of America and by the American Society of Civilian Defense.
In his lectures from that time period, L. Ron Hubbard talks about him using drugs and hypnotism in his research into the mind.
In the lecture Case Factors 15 June 1950, he says he has used nitrous oxide, phenobarbital, and Benzedrine.
In the lecture Institutional Cases 23 June 1950 he talks about administering sodium amytal, sodium pentothal, and many other drugs.
These are not exactly over the counter drugs, especially sodium pentothal in particular. That drug was restricted to CIA/OSS studies in psychiatric hospitals. A rhetorical question then surfaces, WHERE IS HE GETTING THESE DRUGS FROM? The answer is obvious – CIA doctors.
In August and September of 1950, Hubbard was experimenting with what he called GUK, a cocktail of benzedrine, vitamins and glutamic acid. He named it after the rifle cleaning fluid used by the US Marine Corps, which he believed would provide a chemical alternative to auditing.
That, is also exactly like what the CIA is doing with LSD at Boston Psychopathic at the same time here. They are saying they are “seeing” if it will “cure insanity”!
Hubbard’s Foundation even purchased a 110-room building in Los Angeles just for the project.
Shortly after this, large sums of money began to go missing, a pattern which now established, would continue throughout the next 36 years of Hubbard’s life in Dianetics and Scientology.
Dianeticist Helen O’Brien has said that one member of the Elizabeth Foundation resigned because in a month [October, 1950] when $90,000 income was received, only $20,000 could be accounted for. 5
THAT is a HELL of a lot of money in 1950 – where did the CIA route it to?
Ewen Cameron perhaps? Here’s some of those “unvouchered funds” that have no government records of where they came from. In through the Dianetics Foundation, and then right back out into a CIA project.
Later on, in his book, Science of Survival (1951), L. Ron Hubbard reveals his first-hand knowledge of the techniques of pain-drug-hypnosis.
“This form of hypnotism has been a carefully guarded secret of certain military and intelligence organizations. It is a vicious war weapon and may be of more use in conquering a society than the atom bomb. Pain-drug-hypnosis is a wicked extension of narco-synthesis, the drug hypnosis used in America only during and since the last war. But pain-drug-hypnosis, due mainly to the intent of the operator, is a much more vicious procedure. The Foundation undertook some tests with regard to the effectiveness of pain-drug-hypnosis and found it so appallingly destructive to the personality… Pain-drug-hypnosis is so effectively destructive that the Foundation hasceased experimentation along this line, having already learned enough and refusing to endanger the sanity of individuals. “
This part:
….and found it so appallingly destructive to the personality
Is also right in line with the shore story of CIA “concerns about their agents” as being the reason for their horrific methods of mind-control research.
“We were very interested in anything that could make someone schizophrenic,” said Milton Greenblatt of Massuchusetts Mental Health Center (MMHC). 1
“Dr. Max Rinkel, was particularly interested in using LSD to induce a schizophrenia-like state in mentally healthy people.” 3
Remember – they also wanted a CURE, and that’s where Hubbard was also in Lockstep with the CIA in 1949, as documented earlier.
So, the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation did pain-drug-hypnosis experiments, and worked on trying to find CURES for PDH and “mental ills” – in complete LOCKSTEP with what the CIA mind control programme was researching at the time.
Scientologists out there, need to face up to what this means and get the hell out while they still can – Scientology in ANY form, is dangerous to your health as a independent, non-mind controlled person.
It is important to understand, that The CIA and military primarily used civilians to do discreditable research, which gives the government maximum deniability for atrocious actions taken by these researchers. In fact, most of the really bad experimentation was funded and overseen through cut-out organizations such as the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, and other organizations. This practice of utilizing private organizations has continued right on up through today. The mercenary firm Blackwater (now Academi), the British firm BAE, the “teaching and security” company of Mitchell, Jessen & associations were all utilized in the deliberate violation of human rights of prisoners at Guantanamo – See Spokane, Washington – It’s a HOTBED of Political Mind-Control for more information.
I believe the actual reason for L. Ron Hubbard resigning the Navy (and not his shore story about it) was that the government did not want him doing mind research in an official capacity, they wanted him to be a civilian to put some distance between him and the official government. He did exactly what they wanted – he resigned the Navy, became a civilian, then immediately established the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation, which then begins carrying out pain-drug-hypnosis experiments.
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Picking up on our story here again -
Meanwhile, over at Cornell in New York City (on east 52nd street I believe..) Harold Wolff – Margaret Mead’s good buddy – was to become the head of the CIA front group, the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology.
Check out those eyes…so cold.
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Wolff had been previously well-indoctrinated in slavemaster fantasy control theories. Besides having done part of his clinical training at Bellevue hospital, he had also worked abroad with such Slavemaster luminaries as Ivan Pavlov in Leningrad. 1
Two of the names of the men involved in slavering interest of “causing mental illness in healthy people”, discussed thus far, were Rinkel and Hinkle – that strikes me as a pairing just begging for a play on words.
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Underneath the cover of the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, Harold Wolff and Lawrence Hinkle headed up an extremely harsh “research” study into mind control (often called “brainwashing” in those days) at the request of Allen Dulles, (the then head of the CIA). They presented their findings in 1956.
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Originally written as a report for the Technical Services Division of the CIA in 1956, it was published in a major psychiatric journal, the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, in the same year under the title, Communist Interrogation and Indoctrination of “Enemies of the State”: Analysis of Methods Used by the Communist State Police (A Special Report). 10 Hinkle and Wolff revealed that it was not drugs or bizarre tortures that resulted in confession; it was psychological warfare techniques that produced ANXIETY to such an extreme degree that “normal coping devices” could not prevail. Then, Wolff and Hinkle the torturers, would present themselves as “friend and saviour.”
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Now isn’t that interesting. The only time a Slavemaster looks even vaguely good, is when he is the alternative to torture, sensory deprivation and extreme fear! I wonder sometimes, if these men have ANY idea how absolutely pathetic and completely incompetent as people, completely preposterous behavior like this reveals them to be – and just how bad they’re insulting themselves in the process.Now pay close attention kids, because here comes the number one methods to “produce the desired outcome” – which is a euphemism for:
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Solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, and lack of information combined with skillful interrogation.
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Note that the “lack of information” part is referring to sensory deprivation, which has been said to be the most horrible form of torture by many who have experienced it.
Another, far more subtle way “lack of information” was done, was in a more pure form of psychological warfare. Deny the person any form of truth, and feed them lies and twisted truths instead. The first to develop this lovely technique (with the elements above) were the Russians (under Stalin), and the Chinese then modified it by adding the element of group pressure, which was discovered by Tavistock men between the end of World War I and the beginning of World War II. We are told by various medical journals of the time period, that adding Conformity to a peer group’s attitudes(the formal term for it) was allegedly eminently successful with the American POWs.
Hinkle and Wolff’s “revelations” of 1956, inspired the military and intelligence services to greatly expand their plans for the study of mind control.
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Conformity to a peer group’s attitudes would become a mainstay tool of the Slavemasters, with ongoing experimentation and refinement of the techniques. One of the places where this technique shows up is on the internet. Two methods are utilized that have slang names, Astro-turfing and “sock-puppets”. I went into these techniques in-depth in my article An Alternate History of Dianetics – The Roaring 40′s, 1940-1941, if you’d like to learn more about that. For a real life example of Conformity to a peer group’s attitudes – Marty Rathbun’s blog of “recovering Church Scientologists” (particularly the comments) is an excellent case-in-point. It also offers a window into the exact same behavior modification principles that go on in the Church. Don’t let the alleged “we’re different” propaganda line fool you – the Conformity to a peer group’s attitudes is alive and well in any form of Scientology, including the so-called Independents.
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As to the actual formation of the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, Dr. Wolff’s personal papers, although lacking some of the earliest years of the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, do contain annual reports from 1957-1961, correspondence, and proposals for funding. 8
MKULTRA subprojects 48 and 60 also provided the basic documents on the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology.
Details of the logistics of renting the Human Ecology headquarters and bugging it are in #A/B, II, 10/23, 30 August, 1954, Subject: Meeting of Working Committee of [deleted], No. 5 and #A/B, II, 10/92, 8 December, 1954, Subject: Technical Installation
In 1954, Harold G. Wolff organized the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology. It started out small at first, but as it’s umbrella of “interested parties” grew, so did the organization. It moved back “uptown” (New York city) later, and re-organized under the name Human Ecology Fund.With the death of Wolff in 1962, new blood was utilized, and by 1966 Preston S. Abbott became the director of research programs, and ran things from the Washington D.C. Office of the Fund at 1834 Connecticut Ave., N.W. – Barnaby C. Keeney was President, running things from 201 East Fifty-seventh St., New York, N.Y. 9
Hinkle, (Wolff’s erstwhile partner in crimes against humanity), retired in 1988. At that time, Dr. Hinkle was serving as a Professor of Medicine, Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry, and Head of the Division of Human Ecology of the Department of Medicine, at Cornell University Medical College, and as an Attending Physician at New York Hospital, in New York, NY.
I would like to call your attention to an excellent example of a whitewashing of what these two men were really doing there at Cornell underneath MKULTRA. The following is from Hinkle’s New York Times obituary.
Dr. Hinkle was a practicing Physician at New York Medical Hospital for over 40 years. During the period from 1962 to 1988, Dr. Hinkle pursued research at Cornell University Medical College focusing on investigations into the ways in which peoples’ interactions with the world around them affect their bodily functions and health. Among other projects, he developed methods for obtaining clinically meaningful data from continuous recordings of the electrocardiograms of men under conditions of ordinary activities…12
This guy was so out-to-lunch it is beyond imagining. When interviewed in July of 1979, in this video, he might as well have lit fields on fire in testament to his guilt in doing exactly what he tried to deny he was.
How The Society got it’s name, and what Wolff was proposing to “research”.
Wolff was personally recruited by Allen Dulles to direct the Society’s covertly funded programmes to identify effective methods of persuasion and interrogation. Harold was considered a “leading authority” on stress, migraine and the bio-physiological mechanisms of human pain. 11
“the bio-physiological mechanisms of human pain”
Sounds like a perfect resume point for our up-and-coming CIA torturer –
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John Marks details the origin of the term “human ecology” and what Wolff planned to do, in his book THE SEARCH FOR THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE by John Marks
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‘Wolff pressed upon the CIA his idea that to understand human behavior—and how governments might manipulate it—one had to study man in relationship to his total environment. Calling this field “human ecology,” Wolff drew into it the disciplines of psychology, medicine, sociology, and anthropology. … Wolff carved out vast tracts of human knowledge, some only freshly discovered, and proposed a partnership with the Agency for the task of mastering that knowledge for operational use. It was a time when knowledge itself seemed bountiful and promising, and Wolff was expansive about how the CIA could harness it. Once he figured out how the human mind really worked, he wrote, he would tell the Agency “how a man can be made to think, ‘feel,’ and behave according to the wishes of other men, and, conversely, how a man can avoid being influenced in this manner.” 1
“Wolff’s specialized neurological practice led him to believe that brain maladies, like migraine headaches, occurred because of disharmony between man and his environment. In this case, he wrote to the Agency, “The problem faced by the physician is quite similar to that faced by the Communist interrogator.” Both would be trying to put their subject back in harmony with his environment whether the problem was headache or ideological dissent. Wolff believed that the beneficial effects of any new interrogation technique would naturally spill over into the treatment of his patients, and vice versa. Following the Soviet model, he felt he could help his patients by putting them into an isolated, disoriented state—from which it would be easier to create new behavior patterns. Although Russian-style isolation cells were impractical at Cornell, Wolff hoped to get the same effect more quickly through sensory deprivation. 1
“He told the Agency that sensory-deprivation chambers had “valid medical reason” as part of a treatment that relieved migraine symptoms and made the patient “more receptive to the suggestions of the psychotherapist.” He proposed keeping his patients in sensory deprivation until they “show an increased desire to talk and to escape from the procedure.”1
The image above is from a 1963 film called The Mind Benders based in truth on the mind-control experiments that Wolff (and others) were undertaking.
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“Then, he [Wolff] said, doctors could “utilize material from their own past experience in order to create psychological reactions within them.” This procedure drew heavily on the Stalinist method. It cannot be said what success, if any, Wolff had with it to the benefit of his patients at Cornell.” 1
“show an increased desire to talk and to escape from the procedure.”
This is utterly horrifying – there are no words.
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And if you think this sort of thing isn’t done any more – think again. Not only did it continue, but it got worse! In a recent Wikileaks (2011) – a blogger details what has gone on at Guantanamo Bay (one of the islands off the coast of Cuba) right up until modern times.
Note: I go into this in far more detail in my post Spokane, Washington – It’s a HOTBED of Political Mind-Control .
“There’s long been controversy over the interrogation techniques used inside the detainment camp at Guantanamo Bay, but thanks to documents published on Wikileaks web-site yesterday, we have news of a perverse torture tactic that makes the Nazis look like a bunch of hippes.
It’s no secret that the United States military are in bed with Big Oil. What’s come to light is the existence of a threesome: the military, Big Oil and a major multinational pharmaceutical corporation. Anyone hear of Gepetto Pharmaceuticals? Us neither, but it turns out they’re a major player in the War on Terror, turns out they’re instrumental in developing a brand new psychological weapon: Trauma #1”
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As it turns out, this type of sensory deprivation research was already underway prior to the official start of MKULTRA.
Father, Son and CIA, Chapter 9 by Harvey Weinstein.
“…Even prior to the formation of the [Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology; front group for MKULTRA], the [CIA] had been interested in work done at McGill. Donald Hebb [colleague of Dr. Ewen Cameron] was chairman of the Human Relations and Research Committee of the Canadian Defence Research Board in 1950-51. As such, he was invited to attend a meeting of representatives of the British, Canadian and American governments who at that time were concerned about the ability of the Soviet Union to elicit confessions from its own citizens. They conjectured that the Soviets were using some new psychological techniques. Shortly thereafter, Hebb began to wonder about the use of sensory deprivation as a tool for breaking people down. He subsequently received about $10,000 a year from the Canadian Defence Research Board to develop his work on sensory deprivation. Carried on by Hebb’s students, the results were, as previously noted, quite startling: volunteer students placed in sensory isolation for over two to three days became depersonalized and unable to think, and they experienced hallucinations; they were then receptive to attitudinal change. 10
Excellent site for the above: http://ericsquire.com/tour/tour.htm
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LOCKSTEP – RPF and Dianetics.
“…utilize material from their own past experience in order to create psychological reactions within them.”
L. Ron Hubbard, just a few years earlier, [in 1950] had presented a “therapy” called Dianetics that specifically went after logging (in the form of “preclear” worksheets) and detailing past traumatic experiences that “effect” the life of a person. In his rudimentary theory, a person had “engrams” which needed to be recounted in a specific way until they “erased” and supposedly no longer had any influence on the person.
A moment here, to more fully explore the logical conclusion of this activity.
Hubbard has said, in other references (lectures, books and such) that “the reactive mind” (which contains these recordings of experience called engrams) is the sole source of aberration in man. He also said that “the body” is the reactive mind.
When Jeff Hawkins, along with Foster Tompkins (my former senior when I was in the Sea Organization at Clearwater, Fla), were trying to breathe new life into the flagging income and “fresh meat” scarcity for Scientology proper in the early 80’s, he interviewed a man named Len Foreman. Len Foreman was a colorful character with connections to the Mafia, but he also had another interesting conflagration of concurrent interests – Canter’s restaurant.
Per Jeff:
…“If you want to learn about marketing books to the trade,” Jim told Don, “talk to Len Foreman.”
Don, Foster and I went out to see Foreman at his office in Brentwood. Len was a handsome, white-haired gentleman, friendly and courteous. He combined polished East Coast manners with a West Coast tan and smile, to great effect. The women in my unit would later refer to him as “the silver fox.”
…He laid out for us in detail how one got books into bookstores as a publisher. He told us about the large book chains, at that time B. Dalton and Waldenbooks, and who their national buyers were. And he knew them all personally. He knew all of the major distributors who kept the independent bookstores supplied, and the “IDs” – independent distributors – who got books into drugstores, supermarkets and all the other “non-book outlets.” He told us that we must never bypass the IDs and try to get books directly into drugstores and supermarkets, as some of the Orgs had tried to do. “These guys are Mafia,” he casually explained. “They’ll just throw your books out.” He advised schmoozing the IDs, buying pizza for their delivery guys and so forth.
One day Len and Jeff were discussing the marketing ad campaign idea that Hubbard had wanted to be done, positioning the “reactive mind” as Get Rid of Your Reactive Mind, said in some sort of commanding Voice of God way.
“The ad included the phrase “Get rid of your Reactive Mind,” which Hubbard claimed was a very deep, pervasive “button” and would cause people to buy the book on a stimulus-response basis. Foster and I were discussing this ad once in a meeting with Len Foreman.
“Sounds like a good thing,” he said.
“What does?” I asked.
“The Reactive Mind. It sounds like something valuable, you know, it allows you to quickly react to situations…”
Foster and I looked at each other, dumbfounded. We were so used to the insider terminology that we hadn’t even thought about the impression that phrase might have on someone in the public, someone not familiar with Scientology’s lingo. I organized some fast surveys.The surveys were very revealing. People did think that the “Reactive Mind” would be something valuable, and thought that if you “got rid of it” you would be a zombie. I went over the results with Frannie at ASI, and she asked me to do up a report right away.
A few days later, Hubbard wrote back that he was very pleased with the surveys, and said that they confirmed “something he already knew since 1950,” that people find the Reactive Mind very valuable. He called for a few more surveys to be done, which we rapidly carried out, and he determined at the end of this that the button should be “Learn to control your reactive mind.” He commended me for the surveys, and I thought nothing further about it. Little did I know that this minor incident would play a major part in my eventual demise, twenty years later.”13
So, now have a look at this again, from John Marks book:
“Then, he said, doctors could “utilize material from their own past experience in order to create psychological reactions within them.” This procedure drew heavily on the Stalinist method.” 1
Since, in truth, you cannot “get rid of” the body, or the being breathing life into it – short of DEATH, we know at once that this is not what Hubbard was really up to here with Dianetics “therapy”. He did not want to “get rid of the Reactive Mind” – he knew that you CAN’T. That was just a MARKETING campaign to try and draw people in for what this “therapy” was really about.
I would say, that wouldn’t a “talking therapy” that specifically focused on PAINFUL AND TRAUMATIC INCIDENTS in a person’s life, be just a fine way of gathering up information for:
…utilizing material from their own past experience in order to create psychological reactions within them…?
Welcome to The Vaults of Scientology.
Not to mention that in this PROCESS of “running” these incidents a’la Dianetic commands, you are most certainly “creating psychological reactions” in so doing.
Taking this point a little further, as Len said, “it allows you to quickly react to situations.”
So now, I think that’s true, with some pretty big caveats that I won’t get into right now, but the point is, here’s a being with a categorical record of EVERY bad thing that one human has done to another. Which would include, every bad thing every slavemaster has ever done.
A COMPLETE RECORD.
And, this being would INSTANTLY REACT whenever they (correctly) knew that they were in the presence of a slavemaster, or a potentially bad situation of any kind.
That seems like something a slavemaster would absolutely hate the presence of.
Someone they cannot lie to and have it ever be believed.
Someone who sees through their “white mask” INSTANTLY.
[this is an image that I created for Portrait of a Sociopath]
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Canter’s Restaurant was a favorite haunt for Len Foreman, and they would often stop there for lunch. It just so happens, that Canter’s had what some might call, a double life.
The Canter brothers moved their delicatessen business from New Jersey to L.A.’s Boyle Heights in 1931. At that time, Boyle Heights, which is now primarily Latino, was the main Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles. In 1948, another Canter’s Deli .location opened in the Fairfax district..
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Canter’s restaurant was attached to The Kibbitz Room.
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It was where the Brotherhood of Eternal Love drug dealers conducted business.
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“By day, Canter’s Delicatessen was a meeting place for the elders of the orthodox Jewish community living in the streets around Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles. Canter’s, close to the junction of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, held a monopoly as the only eating place around the area which kept to the complex food regulations of the Jewish faith.”
“By night, when the old men had gone, their seats were taken over by hundreds of young people drawn from all over Los Angeles. There were other late opening delicatessens in Los Angeles, but the special attraction of Canter’s was the booths where conversation could not be overheard.
“It was there the dealers sat and waited for business, passing a capsule of LSD or an ounce of marijuana under the table in exchange for a handful of dollars. Between two and four in the morning, a steady procession of cars stopped outside as customers arrived.for the booths. Rich and poor congregated at Canter’s, at ‘Capsule Corner’.” 14
This is not the first time that we have a convergence of L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology, Drugs, and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.
- To be continued –
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By Virginia McClaughry
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Series: The Brotherhood – Welcome To The REAL Scientology
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- Welcome To The Real Scientology – The Brotherhood (Part 1)
- Sneers, Queers?, and Puppy-Dog Tears – The Brotherhood Part 2 (Part 2)
- The CORFU Caper: Operation Sheepskin and Operation Gladio – Welcome to the REAL Scientology (Part 3)
- PEOPLE! Rock Group – The Brotherhood Part 4 – Welcome to the REAL Scientology (Part 4)
- The Grateful Dead: Hunter, Garcia, and Grace-Marie Haddy 1961: The Brotherhood Part 5a – Welcome to the REAL Scientology
(Part 5a)
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References
- THE SEARCH FOR THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE by John Marks
- Miller, Russell (1987). “8. The Mystery Of The Missing Research”. Bare-faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (First American Edition ed.). New York: Henry Holt & Co. p. 144. ISBN 0-8050-0654-0.
- News article: Vermont State Hospital and Dr. Robert W. Hyde, By LOUIS PORTER Vermont Press Bureau – Published: November 30, 2008
- Winter book – A Doctor’s Report on Dianetics
- A Piece of Blue Sky by Jon Atack
- 2007 websiteFrom The National Security Archive:
The National Security Archive
Gelman Library, The George Washington University
2130 H Street, N.W., Suite 701
Washington, D.C. 20037
Phone: 202/994-7000
Fax: 202/994-7005
nsarchiv@gwis2.circ.gwu.eduA semi Complete listing of some of the 149+ Subprojects.INVENTORY: CIA Behavior Experiments Collection (John Marks Donation)
Date Range: 1940s-1970s…Box #1 – Artichoke Documents–MKULTRA DOCS 1-57
…Subproject 8: MKULTRA: Boston Psychopathic Hospital
- Doc image original from Wikipedia
- Cornell archives of Wolff papers
- Anthropology NewsVolume 7, Issue 2
- Father, Son and CIA, by Harvey Weinstein.
- Buying a piece of anthropology Part 1: Human Ecology and unwitting anthropological research for the CIA , by David Price
- New York Times Obituary – Lawrence Hinkle
- Jeff Hawkins – Counterfeit Dreams: Chapter Nine
- The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Chapter Six: Outlaw Days, by Stewart Tendler and David May
- Biderman – “Communist attempts to elicit false confessions from Air Force prisoners of war,” Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, Vol. 33, No. 9, September 1957.
- Biderman Obituary
This is *excellent* work. Thank you.