DOD and CIA Research with Psychoactive Substances
MKULTRA, MKNAOMI, MKSEARCH, MKCHICKWIT, and MKOFTEN
by Krystle Cole – 1/26/2008
When
Wray Forrest volunteered for the military research study at the
Edgewood Arsenal, all they told him was that he would be testing
medications that would help the troops. He volunteered because he wanted
to do something to help his country; little did he know, he was about
to be subjected to oral administrations and injections of several
different psychedelic substances. “After weeks of psychological
evaluations, they led us into a room where a doctor handed us each a
little paper cup with a tablet in it. We were told to take our
medication, and then we were each locked into a padded room so the
doctors could observe us. I started to see bugs crawling all around me
and I tried to walk down stairs that weren’t there.”
Video of a Test Subject Testifying Before the 1977 Senate Hearings on CIA and DOD Human Drug Testing:
Wray is one of the thousands of soldiers
that were military test subjects during the 1950’s through early
1970’s. They were either part of the research project code named
MKULTRA, or one of its many successor programs, like MKNAOMI, MKSEARCH,
MKCHICKWIT, or MKOFTEN. These research programs were funded by the
Department of Defense (DOD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
largely in response to alleged North Korean use of mind-control
techniques on United States prisoners of war in Korea. They hoped to
discover a set of psychoactive drugs and/or other methods, like
electroshock and hypnosis, which could be used to brainwash and control
opposing forces. They also attempted to create a truth serum that would
make interrogations easier. Many different psychoactive substances, like
BZ, scopolamine, LSD, and PCP, were tested, just to name a few.
Wray was only paid $2 per day for his 60
day stay at the facility and was given no follow up treatment or
counseling. To this day, he still has long lasting side effects,
flashbacks and cardiovascular problems, from the medications his
doctors instructed him to take. And since he was active duty military,
he cannot sue for damages. “I go into a psychiatrist’s office and start
to tell them about MKULTRA and what I was subjected to, and they think I
am making it all up. Most people have never even heard about what they
did to us.”
They made the test subjects wear medical
wrist bands (to the left) or carry medical identification cards if they
went off the facility grounds. This way, if they acted strange or if
someone saw all the injection marks on their arms and reported them to
the police, they could easily be identified and returned to the
facility.
List of Drugs Wray was Given:
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