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OSS Morale Operations led by American in Burma for psychological warfare to demoralize the Japanese troops.

OSS (Office of Strategic Services) film on Project Gold Dust gives details of the psychological warfare techniques used by OSS Morale Operations (MO) Unit and Kachin guerrillas in Burma during World War II to demoralize Japanese troops obstructing linkage to Burma and the Ledo Road. Kachin guerrillas including North Burmese killer tribesmen prepare for an operation. They are recruited, trained and led by an American officer. MO Detachment 101 troops. Burmese load shells, guns and artillery. 1st Field team of MO OSS personnel joins Detachment 101. An aircraft lands. The guerrillas board the aircraft and are transported all over Burma. Development of MO. A message from an American officer commanding a company of Kachin comes for Major Boldt. The message is dispatched to the Major and a distribution officer delivers it to the chief. A Production and Intelligence officer works. They discuss strategy about MO material best suited to reach the Japanese. The MO intelligence officer contacts Detachment 101 research and analysis branch. They discuss the accuracy and details of the operation. They go to interrogate a Japanese 18th Division soldier held prisoner. MO and the distribution officer discuss the strategy. Radio Major Haan consults Kachin. A detailed report is prepared and given to a pilot for dispatch. The message is given to Major Boldt. The MO staff at work. A lieutenant interrogates Japanese prisoners and gains their cooperation. The MO discusses Project Gold Dust. A forged surrender order to be given to Japanese. Production of the leaflets of forged order. Press prints the leaflets in the mobile production van. The leaflets are cut, dispatched and packaged. Burmese plant the forged order in a town. A lieutenant reads a report on the spread rumor. He talks to an Anglo Burmese woman. The rumor is spread in the town. Burma Jungle 101 patrol distributes the leaflets. A carrier pigeon for Major Boldt is sent. An aircraft arrives to pick up the prisoners who have surrendered.

Date: 1944
Duration: 17 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047213
Psychedelic drug Lysergic acid diethylamide discovered by Dr. Albert Hofmann is used for mind control in the United states.

Documentary depicts development and administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) as a tool for mind control (Project MKUltra). Scenes of swirling colors and lights meant to simulate the experience of someone being under influence of a hallucinogen. Prostitutes and late night city street scenes. A bull in a bull fighting ring that narrator says has electrodes implanted in its head to control it. A man sitting in a chair while under the influence of a drug speaks emotionally and cries. A close up of George White who worked on the CIA program. On September 21, 1977, Stansfield Turner, Director CIA, speaks about Mission Mind Control. Members are seated in a hall. News correspondent Paul Altmeyer stands in front of the Headquarters of OSS (Office of Strategic Services, and precursor to the CIA) in its original World War 2 era location in Washington DC. The first mind control work began from this Headquarters. The members who are the part of this mission are the shapers and molders of the OSS. Still photos of U.S. General, William Joseph Donovan, nicknamed 'Wild Bill', and Boston industrialist Stanley Lovell, who is the Head of OSS Research and Development efforts into mind control. Still images of OSS Captain George H. White, formerly of the Bureau of Narcotics. Correspondent shows and reads from the diary of George White and talks about his training and schooling. J. Michael Burke, President of Madison Square Garden Center is seen walking across the basketball court in the Center. He was a former colleague of Mr. White, and Burke talks about George White and his technical knowledge. Another colleague of White who is a narcotics officer talks about him. A close up of George White. A note written in White's diary. George White worked on a truth drug at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington DC where experiments were conducted. View of exterior of Saint Elizabeth's psychiatric hospital in Washington DC. A 1952 CIA memo says the aim is "controlling an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will." Exterior views of the Sandoz Laboratory buildings in Basel, Switzerland where doctor Albert Hofmann believed that they had discovered and found a psychedelic drug and the discovery was LSD. Retired Chief Psychologist for CIA, John Gittinger, talks about the powerful drug and is being interviewed publicly. CIA's interest in LSD was intense but they were worried that the Russians would get hold of it. Commentator notes that mistaken intelligence reported that Sandoz Laboratory was going to put 100 million doses of LSD on the open market. Concerned, the United States was prepared to buy the entire supply. However, through information learned from Freedom of Information Act filings, John Marks, author of The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, tells the interviewer that this was mistaken information caused by a mixup when an American military attache confused milligrams versus kilograms, so there were in fact only 100 doses on the market. Brief footage of CIA chemist, Dr. Sydney Gottlieb.

Date: 1979, July 10
Duration: 8 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047225
Japan denounces Washington Naval Treaty of 1922; Also: Helen Richey becomes the first woman to fly mail in the U.S.

Japanese Ambassador to the United States Hiroshi Saito calls on U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull In December 1934 to inform that Japan will denounce the Washington Naval Treaty on 1922 which limited the size of the Japanese fleet. A close up of the ambassador Saito. He exits the State, War, and Navy Building (later the Executive Office Building) and gets in a car. Next segment: A female pilot Helen Richey becomes the first woman to fly mail in the United States. Richey stands in front of an aircraft and shakes hand with an official. Richey in the cockpit and the aircraft takes off. From a December 14, 1959 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.

Date: 1934, December
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047259
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks to the Reichstag in Germany and predicts the annihilation of the Jewish race.

Two months after the ant-semitic Kristallnacht events, speaking to the Reichstag in a meeting at the Kroll Opera House, Hitler predicts the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe if a war occurs. The insignia of the Nazi Party in the background. People cheer and applaud Hitler's anti-Jewish speech.

Date: 1939, January 30
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675047339
Nazis complete occupation of Czechoslovakia and Adolf Hitler visits Prague

The occupation of the remainder of Czechoslovakia on 15th March, 1939 by Nazi German forces in World War 2. Newspaper headlines announcing the occupation. Nazi soldiers on motorcycles and bicycles on a village road in a late Winter snowstorm. Officers converse. They arrive in Prague with military vehicles. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's car exits the Prague Castle gates. The car moves through a crowded street. Hitler walks and talks with Nazi officials on the street and reviews wounded men. German military forces goose step in parade with flags and a band. German goosestepping troops march past equestrian statue of St. Wenceslas, in Wenceslas Square. Civilians watch. German Luftwaffe aircraft fly overhead in formation. German tanks parade through city streets.

Date: 1939, March 15
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675047341
German troops attack defenders in Polish Post Office Building at Heveliunsplatz during the occupation of Danzig

Invasion of Danzig by the Germans on 1st September, 1939 during World War II. Citizens of Danzig read poster proclaiming Danzig a part of the Greater German Realm. People crowd outside a building. Nazi troops use field artillery and Steyr ADGZ M35 Armored car to attack Polish defenders housed in the Post Office Building at Heveliunsplatz. Sudetenland written on an armored vehicle. The building is severely damaged from German shelling. Hitler arrives at the Kroll Opera House, where the Reichstag is meeting. He steps from his car and walks very rapidly into the building. Some members of his entourage stumble to keep up with him. View of Hitler addressing the Reichstag about Danzig and Poland. German troops driving into Danzig in SD Kfz 7 half-tracks are greeted enthusiastically by the crowds.

Date: 1939, September 1
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675047347