Project BLUEBIRD

The Nazis were developing it.

These are some other projects, Project Bluebird, Project Artichoke, that we're also working with MKUltra Technologies.

And the goal, the aim was to develop drug-induced interrogation, brainwashing, and mind control methods, which were tested at over 80 institutions, including universities, hospitals, and prisons, often without the subject's knowledge.

And then this was what's interesting, destruction of the records.

The Nazis were developing it.

These are some other projects, Project Bluebird, Project Artichoke, that we're also working with MKUltra Technologies.

And the goal, the aim was to develop drug-induced interrogation, brainwashing, and mind control methods, which were tested at over 80 institutions, including universities, hospitals, and prisons, often without the subject's knowledge.

And then this was what's interesting, destruction of the records.

He had some interesting things to say about MKUltra, MyLab, and other mind control subjects.

MKUltra started around 1953, I believe, but prior to that, they had something called Project Bluebird, which they were examining various types of behavioral conditioning through interrogation because they were concerned with the Soviet Union and China and their interrogation.

techniques and creating what was referred to as Manchurian candidates.

Individuals that were hypnotized and drugged could be like spies, right? There was a big to-do about that.

He joined the CIA in 1951 on the recommendation of a bioweapon scientist named Ira Baldwin, who had founded Fort Detrick's biological warfare program during the war.

When Gottlieb arrived at the CIA's technical services staff, a program called Project Bluebird was already running.

Dulles considered it scientifically thin.

On August 20th, 1951, Dulles renamed and expanded it as Project Artichoke.

Um, so s- some of these, uh, doctors that would conduct the human experimentation, such as, uh, Dr., uh, Herbert, Her- Herbert Stronghold, uh, who oversaw freezing and oxygen deprivation experiments at Dachau, and, uh, Dr. Kurt Blohm or Bloom, not sure, Blohm, Bloom, uh, the chief of biological weapons development for the Nazis.

Uh, the experimental protocols developed in these camps, specifically the use of mescaline, hypnosis, and sensory deprivation to break the human will, became the foundation of the CIA's Project Bluebird, Artichoke, and eventually MKUltra.

Uh, sources state, "To achieve absolute behavioral control, the US national security establishment intentionally bypassed the ethical constraints of the Nuremberg Code to utilize war criminals who had already pioneered the extremes of human torture." Now, the second question that needs to be asked and also answered is that by what bureaucratic mechanisms did the CIA conceal the massive scope of its mind control research, and how were prominent academic and medical institutions made complicit? So sources state that Project MKUltra was a highly compartmentalized umbrella program encompassing one hundred forty-nine sub-projects, uh, contracted out to at least eighty institutions, including forty-four colleges and universities, fifteen research foundations or pharmaceutical companies, twelve hospitals, and three penal institutions.

[laughs] Penal.

One of the most famous testing sites was the Allan Memorial Institute or the Ravenscrag at McGill University in Montreal.

There we go.

These top secret experiments and procedures were led by Sidney Gottlieb, the United States spy master and mad chemist who financed and developed, quote, "techniques that would crush the human psyche to the point that it would admit anything." MKUltra was preceded by Project Bluebird and Project Artichoke, two projects originating in the 1940s.

The goal of Project Bluebird was to train subjects through hypnosis and behavior modification so that it would be impossible for enemies of the United States to extract vital information.

Uh, the Nazis were developing it.

These are some, uh, you know, some other projects, Project Bluebird, Project Artichoke, um, that were also working with MKUltra Technologies.

And the goal, the aim was to develop drug-induced interrogation, brainwashing, and mind control methods which were tested at over 80 institutions, including universities, hospitals, and prisons, often without the subjects' knowledge.

And then this was what's interesting, destruction of the records.