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The CIA Mind Control Experiment Home page The CIA mind control experiment was an experiment introduced by the CIA in various efforts to control the minds of human beings. The ways that this experiment was conducted was through many inhumane ways such as administering LSD for extended periods of time, hypnosis, implanting brain electrodes all in attempt to control the mind of the individual. The individuals involved range from children as young as 5 years old to adulthood. Many doctors, psychologists, and psychiatrists conducted these studies at major medical hospitals. Most of these individuals were unaware of the things the CIA were doing. Most documents are marked as classified. Most survivors affected never received compensation or even an apology for the CIA's actions and the harm that they caused them. Description of the study The primary researcher was Evangeline Wright The time period was1950s-1970s in the United State The number of people subjected to LSD testing under the MKULTRA unknown. Hundreds of people have been using the mina secret American program without their knowledge Method The various potential chemical, biological and radiological was harnessed for the purpose of achieving certain objectives and allocated millions of dollars for research on them. Through two decades, hundreds of American citizens were injected with various types of medical drugs for these experiments without their knowledge to study the impact on them in an operation dubbed "the peak of the night". The Central Intelligence Agency opened several brothels and supplied with cameras and mirrors and cutters glass to allow the vision of one party. Then it initiated the selection of certain persons of visitors to this brothel. It used multiple ways to get them to take drug LSD without their knowledge and then photographed in detail what happens to them of the symptoms and reaction to eating that chemical. Method There are other places offered patrons of the experiments and tests without their knowledge and such as mental health facilities, psychological, because it is easy to inject patients with drugs to test their effects without any suspicion or murmurs. Also, there are other places conducted experiments like hospitals, universities, military camps and prisons. Many doctors and scientists had cooperated to do these experiments, which included tests on drugs, medical use electric shocks, hypnosis, memory scanning, brainwashing and psychological studies on diseases such as phobias and schizophrenia. Result Drug (Lysergic acid diethylamide) is one of the most powerful hallucinogenic drugs, so it was banned in most countries of the world. it was attended without a prescription. the drug is very strong . In 1962, adult elephant died because it ate less than a third of grams of this chemical. Eating this chemical leads to the symptoms and the effects for several hours. the symptom usually called the trip. it is different from one person to another. a person often feels that the colors move and glow. They feel the appearances and forms are moved on the walls .they distorts the sense of time. it seems like a Empty and repeats itself and it change its speed and sometimes it stops completely. they feel the appearances and forms are moved on the walls .they distorts the sense of time. it seems like a Empty and repeats itself and it change its speed and sometimes it stops completely. other symptoms are sweating, drying mouth, rising in blood pressure and increasing heart rate. These symptoms are not fixed, it varies from person to person; also, the duration of the trip and hallucination are varied by the amount of human's usage. For this reason, the CIA has abandoned the use of this material because it is very difficult to predict the behavior of people when they are under the influence Ethical Problems Identify the ethical problems in the study and discuss them completely. - Participants were aware they were apart of the experiment. Unsuspecting citizens were hypnotized, drugged, and electric shocked into becoming assassins and terrorist, without their common knowledge. - Children were used for sexual exploitation and also impregnated. Government officials allegedly obtained sexual favors from the children and many of the children were forced to have sex with each other. - There were also accusations that participants were directed to kill other participants, all while being unaware of their actions. - The government deliberately lied to willing participants about the purpose of the studies, such as the medications being distributed were for dietary research. Effects of Current Research The effect of the CIA mind control experiment had a lasting effect on those involved. Rather it is the actual experimenter or those who were experimented on, it will forever be our history. The effect of current research that needs to be discussed is how do the study’s ethical problems affect researchers now, what were the results of exposing the study’s problems, and could this study be revised to be conducted ethically. Effects of Current Research How do the study’s ethical problems affect researchers now? It is hard to discuss the affect that the ethical problems have on researchers now because a lot of the research is deemed classified information or the evidenced have been destroyed. Program information before 1972 is still classified (Ross 2007). One way that researchers are affected is that they have to disclose financial relationships. If at a conference, a person(s) wanted to be awarded Continuing Medical Education credits or publish an article in a medical journal, financial relationships must be disclosed when the products are the subject (Ross 2007). In the CIA mind control experiment, children were one of the subjects of LSD experiments and were experimented on intensively. At Creedmore State Hospital, a child psychiatrist, named Dr. Lauretta Bender administered lethal doses of mescaline and LSD to children ranging from ages 5 to 10 years old (Bender, 1970; Bender, Faretra, & Cobronik, 1962). Now, children are considered minors and have very little rights which requires parental consent for studies done on this population. Effects of Current Research What were the results of exposing the study’s problems? In their published writings and meetings, the CIA psychiatrists criticized the actions of the Food and Drug Administration when they made LSD illegal in the 1960s (Fremont-Smith 1967). LSD had mentally lasting effects on individuals affected. Justice never really prevailed for those individuals. “The CIA’s program of human experimentation violated [the] trust [of the American people]”, stated Senator Edward Kennedy. Sadly, no effort was made to identify the experimental subjects or to compensate them (Wright 2005). If the survivors of the mind-control experimentation wanted to seek justice by the civil law, they can by the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), the United States Constitution, and the Nuremburg Code (Wright 2005). Effects of Current Research Could this study be revised to be conducted ethically? The only possible ways that this study could be done ethically is through the correct procedures such as informed consent of adults as well as children and definitely by less invasive ways to control the mind. The ways that this study went by conducting the experiment was very inhumane. A researcher should always first do no harm to the participants and disclose all pertinent information that the experiment involves. Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSOOK3tocTk References Bender, L. (1970). Children’s reactions to psychotomimetic drugs. In D.H. Efron (Ed.), Psychotomimetic drugs (pp. 265- 271). New York: Raven Press Bender, L., Faretra, G., & Cobronik, L. (1962). LSD and UML treatment of hospitalized disturbed children. Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry, 5, 84-92 Fremont-Smith, F. (1967). Preface. In H. Abramson (Ed.), The use of LSD in psychotherapy and alcoholism (pp. xv-xvi). New York: Bobbs-Merrill References Lee, H. (1988). Victims of 1950s' mind-control experiments settle with CIA. The Washington Post (Pre-1997 Fulltext) Ross, C. A. (2007). Ethics of CIA and Military Contracting by Psychiatrists and Psychologists. Ethical Human Psychology & Psychiatry, 9(1), 25-34 Winter, A. (2011, Fall). Manchurian Candidates: Forensic Hypnosis in the Cold War. Grey Room(45), 115 Wright, E. (2005). Mind-control experimentation: a travesty of human rights in the United States. Journal of Gender, Race And Justice, (1), 211