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.
In 1964, Professor Jose M.R. Delgado, of Yale University's School of Medicine, invented a device he called a stimoceiver. It was a chip that could alter the brain’s electrical impulses via radio signal. In tests sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, he implanted the device in the brain of a bull. This film opens shows that experiment and its results. A man in Cordova, Spain, opens a bull ring door to allow a fighting bull to enter. It charges a man holding a cape. Another man fires a dart to sedate the bull. Several men plant electrodes for a stimoceiver in the bull's brain. Next, the bull charges a man holding a cape, but pulls up short before hurting him. The bull chases the cape but never attacks the man as the man uses remote control to influence the animal's behavior. The bull charges around in a circle. Scene shifts to Dolley Madison Parkway (Route 123 in Mclean, Virginia, where sign points toward the CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia. Narrator lists various techniques examined in the 60s and 70s, including brain surgery; psychosurgery; creation of amnesia; parapsychology; and manipulation of genes. Glimpse of some facilities at CIA headquarters. Change of scene to hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research on September 20, 1977. Chaired by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Committee sought information about these activities by the CIA. Narrator says witnesses had agreed to limit information they would provide the Subcommittee. Former narcotics officer Charles Siragusa is seen on camera admitting that the man he reported to at the CIA wanted him not to say anything. Former CIA chemist Robert V. Lashbrook is seen testifying that he has no knowledge about the CIA running safe houses. (Narrator states he ran one of them and that a "surprise LSD experiment" was conducted there.) Scene shifts to a California tennis court, where Dr. Sidney Gottlieb is playing doubles tennis, Narrator says he oversaw those activities at the CIA but destroyed all his records when he retired in 1973. View of a letter he wrote at that time, in which he states he and his colleagues had been able to maintain contact with the leading edge of chemical and biological developments in the field of biological and chemical control of human behavior. View of Dr. Gottlieb entering an ante room where he testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research without being filmed because of what his lawyer claimed were health and cardiac problems. View of him on the tennis courts as Narrator states he declined ABC News requests for an interview. Change of scene to George White who retired from the CIA and lives in Stinson Beach, California. View of Stinson Beach from high overlooking vantage point. People jogging on the beach. Narrator states that White wrote to Dr. Gottlieb summing up his career saying, "it was fun fun fun, and where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, and cheat, steal, deceive, rape, and pillage, with the sanction and blessing of the All Highest." Narrator strolls on lawn near the U.S. Capitol building and says it appears doubtful that mind control has been achieved. But work, that we don't know very much about, is continuing in this field. He asks how deeply are the Russians and other dictatorships into this. He notes that the CIA is reluctant to give information about it (such as Project MKUltra) and he questions where such a program fits in a democracy. He notes that one person working on these projects told him there are capable, conscientious, and very capable scientists working for our country, and "their work speaks for itself."
India give U.S. President Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower the greatest acclaim. People crowd at an airport. Ike climbs down a ladder. Indian President Dr. Rajendra Prasad and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru greet him. Flags of the United States and India. Indian soldiers stand in a squad. U.S. President escorted by an Indian officer reviews the soldiers. Men with cameras at the podium. People around the podium at New Delhi airport. U.S. President gets into a car. On the third day of his visit he opens an agricultural fair. Both the Presidents seated at a podium. An elephant garlands Ike's daughter- in- law Barbara Jean Thompson and son John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower. They take an elephant ride. Young children look at them and wave. They attend a party at the Mughal Gardens in which Ike scores a brilliant triumph.
The contribution of the franchise system in the United States. Franchises of Pizza Hut, A&W Root Beer, McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Holiday Inn which helped in earning profitability and image. Traditional businesses which play a major part in America's franchise system are soft drinks (view of Coca Cola bottle packs being stocked), automobile and truck dealers (view of new or used cars at a car dealership outdoor lot), and gasoline service stations (view of man working at a gasoline station). Traffic on streets.
The contribution of franchise system in the United States. Kemmons Wilson, the founder of Holiday Inn. Flags where Holiday Inn franchises are located. The home of Holiday Inn in Memphis, Tennessee where people work on computers and book reservations. These reservations are then possessed to other franchise in the world. Wilson talks about the Holiday Inn system. The company which supplies the inventory, equipment and furniture to the hotel. Franchises from all over the world come to select the styles they want for their new Inn. Wilson talks about the total franchises in the world. View of some of the Holiday Inn franchise in the world.
Opening slate quotes a news story of dateline 22 August, 1927 about the Nazi party holding a consecration rally in a park in Nuremberg named "Luitpoldhain" (named after Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria). A huge gathering of the Nazi party is seen in an open field. Closeup of Adolf Hitler standing with Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, Commander of the Sturmabteilung (Storm troopers). Rudolf Hess, and Ulrich Graf, Camera pans across the massed gathering and shows a formation of drummers marching and massed flags. Closeup of Adolf Hitler, now dressed in black uniform, giving an impassioned speech to the assembly about restoring Germany's freedom and strength. Attendees all raise the Nazi salute. Change of view to different setting in a motorcade, where Hitler and Franz Pfeffer von Salomon, both give Nazi salute to cheering crowd surrounding their open car. Next, Storm troopers are seen marching in the street, as spectators cheer. Another view of Hitler saluting in the town.
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