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LSD tests conducted on unwitting victims including prostitutes and drug addicts by the CIA in the United States.
A documentary depicts research and administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the late 1950s and into the 1960s (part of project MKUltra). A remote mountain area in Southern Mexico. A view of a hand holding a mushroom. View of a part time chemist for the CIA, Dr. James Moore, who narrator says duped amateur mycologist and mushroom science enthusiast R. Gordon Wasson into providing information that led to the development of LSD. Mr. R. Gordon Wasson is asked about a magic mushroom leading to the drug psilocybin. He talks about how they found the mushroom in Mexico and ingested it as administered by a local shaman or magical priestess, Maria Sabina, in a Mazatec mushroom ritual. Wasson describes his own experience of what it was like to be under the influence of psilocybin. He describes visions and his sensory experience. Narrator relates how Dr. Moore was instructed by the CIA to get close to Mr. Wasson and obtain the magic mushrooms on a trip to Mexico, and that internal memos revealed plans to derive a drug from the mushrooms that would remain an agency secret. Dr. Moore discusses his work in helping the CIA to produce a new drug. Anonymous speaker relates information from CIA operative of plans by the CIA to test the drug on unwitting American citizens. People drinking and sitting at a bar. Charles Siragusa, a former narcotics officer, tells about discussions with Mr. George White. Scenes with swirling colors and lights meant to simulate the experience of someone taking LSD drug. CIA operative says that George White helped the CIA locate unwitting persons on which to test the drugs, including prostitutes and illegal drug addicts. Traffic on city streets. Narrator states that Mr. White set up safe houses for CIA in Greenwich Village, New York. Night time views of neon signs for cocktail lounges and night clubs. Exterior neon sign of Plantation Inn Motel in San Francisco, another safe house. View of an apartment building atop Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, with a view of San Francisco Bay from the safe house apartment. Former CIA official relates how they used the safe houses to administer drugs to prostitutes and determine if the drug could be useful in getting people such as prostitution customers to reveal secrets. Cars and prostitutes on a street. Views of a college campus green. Narrator states that millions of dollars were spent on LSD research at universities throughout the United States. Narrator states that word spread on college campuses about the drug, and ushered in the counter-culture movement of the 1960s. Dr. Timothy Leary is interviewed and states that he gives the CIA credit for launching the consciousness movement and counter-culture events of the 1960s. Scenes of Dr. Leary in 1967, depicting him while using the drug. Dr. Leary states that the CIA funded and encouraged use of the drug by hundreds of psychologists to advance research and understanding of it, and that psychologists found it to be an intelligence enhancing and consciousness raising experience.
Dr. Sidney Cohen, an LSD expert, talks about the studies done by the CIA and the uses of drugs in the United States.
Latter part of a documentary, Mission Mind Control, about administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) on persons in the United States to advance its research (Project MKUltra). Dr. Sidney Cohen, an LSD expert, talks about the studies done by the CIA on LSD, and other hallucinogens, and how persons serving as drug test subjects for the CIA became some of the main advocates for the use of LSD in the 1960s. Ex Chief Psychologist CIA, John Gittinger, speaks about people doing the research. The role of the CIA in unwillingly contributing to the illegal drug and drug abuse counter culture of the 1960s. View of hippies on streets under the influence of drugs. Hippies at a protest demonstration and police dragging a man away by force. Hippies holding hands dancing near a group of densely packed camping tents. Hippie family in an encampment and hippie families swimming in a lake, unclothed. Narrator states that an argument can be made that the CIA helped usher in the Age of Aquarius.
Stories of LSD victims Frank Olson, Harold Blauer and James Thornwell in the United States.
Administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) as part of Project MKUltra. News reporter Paul Altmeyer talks about harmful effects of LSD. Best known case is of Frank Olson, chemist employed by the Army Chemical Corp who ended his life by diving through the10th floor window of Statler Hilton Hotel in New York. Frank Olson with his wife Alice Olson. She visits Dr. Sidney Gottieb, the man who administered the drug. Robert V. Lashbrook, Assistant Chief of the Chemical Branch, was in the room when the incident occurred. Alice Olson talks about the incident. Inspector General Lyman B. Kirkpatrick talks about Olson case, which slowed down the testings of CIA LSD drug. Harold Blauer, a tennis player, with his daughter. The Psychiatric Institute and Hospital in New York where he was admitted and died after being given five mescaline derivatives which were injected and tested secretly by the Army Chemical Corps. Paul Altmeyer looks at 5000 documents released by the army. Dr. James Cattail who administered the mescaline derivatives was unaware of his actions due to the secrecy of the army experiments. Blauer's daughter Elizabeth talks about the death. Test conducted at Tulane Medical Center. Chief researcher Dr. Russell Monroe talks about experiment. A project report written by Dr. Monroe. One of the reports in which electrodes were implanted in the brain of a woman and she was given LSD. She became agitated and cried. Paul Altmeyer questions Dr. Monroe about LSD. James Thornwell, a African American soldier in France, given LSD in 1961 when he came under suspicion of having stolen documents. He was secretly given LSD for several days by his interrogators during which time he was forced to undergo aggressive questioning, replete with racial slurs and threats.
Brainwashing experiment done on Manchurian candidates and ultimated resulted in failure in the United States.
Film describes administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) during Project MKUltra. A trial of Dr. Joseph. Cornell University Medical Center where CIA secret commissioned study of communist brainwashing took place. Dr. Lawrence Hinkle explains the Russian methods of controlling and breaking a person. The purpose of the study is to find out the communist brainwashing techniques. The CIA documentary shows that they were interested in making mind control techniques on their own and to pre condition and control the Chinese in their homeland. News correspondent Paul Altmeyter questions Dr. Lawrence about the project and he answers. Documents show that the CIA was interested in developing more agents on whom they may have control, agents who were to perform test contrary to their own good. A Manchurian candidate who is been brainwashed is on a bed and is controlled by others. John Gittinger, Ex Chief Psychologist CIA, speaks about the brainwashing technique. Dr. Milton Kline , a psychologist ; a clinical and experimental hypnotist and a consultant to the CIA talks about the candidate under hypnotism. A Manchurian candidate is hypnotized and forced to perform a destructive act. John Gittinger says that there is no use of hypnotism and Dr. Kline gives his views. Another target for the Manchurian candidate was Casro. In the end it was decided that the Manchurian candidate is not feasible and research on mind control continued. A personality assessment system designed by John Gittinger to check how a human will behave. John talks about the system he designed. His system had many uses in the intelligence work.
Children from various embassies dressed in native dresses sing a song and deliver their greetings in Washington DC.
Young children of embassy diplomats of various countries give Yule greetings in Washington DC. The children dressed in their native dresses are seated on chairs. They sing a song on a stage and deliver their message of goodwill and friendship.
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.
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