DEPARTMENT OF ARMY REPORT ON THE USE OF CHEMICAL AGENT RESEARCH, INTELLIGENCE CORPS EXPERIMENTATION WITH HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS. Dept. of the Army, Office of the Inspector General and Auditor General, Released March 1976. Chronology of U.S. Army Intelligence, U.S. Chemical Corps Experiments on LSD, Code name EA 1729. |
1950 | LSD considered by Army as method for interrogation, and also for defense against enemy interrogation |
May 1956 | CHEMICAL WARFARE LABORATORIES, EDGEWOOD ARSENAL, MD. Started tests on human volunteers |
| Page 136, Army Report. "All beverages served to volunteers had included sufficient LSD, EA 1729, for effective dosage, or additional dosage administering before volunteering." |
1956-1957 | ARMY INTELLIGENCE, FT. HOLABIRD, combined with ARMY CHEMICAL CORPS, edgewood Arsenal, FOR LSD TESTS |
| Tests included many other chemicals. Also included LSD on electrode implants. Doses as high as 1600 micrograms, normal LSD, street level, 160 micrograms. |
March 1958 | THE HEIGHT OF LSD TESTING |
| Used on memory impairment, motor reactions, affects upon isolation, stress under LSD. |
| READY TO BE USED FOR "OPERATIONAL ADVANTAGE" |
Jan. 21, 1959 | CONCLUSIONS: LSD TESTS REWARDING |
| "IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT ACTUAL APPLICATION OF LSD BE UTILIZED IN REAL SITUATIONS ON AN EXPERIMENTAL BASIS." |
Jan. 8, 1960 | ARMY FIELD INSTRUCTIONS FOR G-2, ADMINISTRATION OF LSD. TOLD TO COORDINATE WITH FBI, CIA. |
Dec. 1960 | CIA, ARMY INTELLIGENCE, U.S. CHEMICAL CORPS WORKING TOGETHER on LSD TESTS. |
April 28, 1961 | OPERATION THIRD CHANCE |
| Overseas "testing," LSD. Causing mental diseases, not recognized by physicians, to get diagnosis to discredit. |
July 1961 | LSD READY FOR OPERATIONAL PURPOSES. |
Feb. 1962 | OPERATION DERBY HAT |
| Hawaii military bases, LSD experiments |
April 19, 1963 | LSD TESTING CONTINUED |
| No records of "volunteers" Existing records "incomplete" Most records "totally inadequate" |
THE SENATE FOUND THIS REPORT AND MINIMIZED THE FINDINGS. |
U.S. ARMY, U.S. CHEMICAL CORPS. SPENT $26,501,446 |
TESTS WERE FROM 1951 TO 1971 |
48 INSTITUTIONS WERE USED AS COVER: HOSPITAL, PRISONS, COLLEGES, MENTAL HOSPITALS, ARMY PERSONNEL |
SUMMARY OF CIA TESTING OF LSD, CHEMICALS FOR ALTERING HUMAN BEHAVIOR WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF METHODS. |
Foreign and Military Intelligence Book I. April 26, 1976 Senate Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities. |
1947 | CIA EXPERIMENTS BEGIN FOR ALTERING HUMAN BEHAVIOR |
| 1947, same year Nazi doctors brought to USA, continued their tests and experiments. |
1947-1953 | OPERATION CHATTER |
| For the purpose of interrogation. |
1953-57 | OPERATION BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE |
| Sodium Pentathol Injections, hypnosis Purpose; erase memory, create double, triple personalities, resist torture, conduct covert operations without memory later. |
1/8/53 | Death of Dr. Harold Blauer |
| Injections of Synthetic Mescaline Derivative. U.S. Chemical Corp. NY State Psychiatric Inst. |
1967-70 | OPERATIONS MKNAOMI |
| Provide stockpile of INCAPACITATING, LETHAL MATERIAL. |
| To be used by Technical Services Division. Make sure complete predictability of results. Toxins, shellfish, poison darts, pills, Biological weapons. Drugs to silence animals. Worked with the Army from 1952. |
1953-1963 | MKULTRA, CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL AGENTS |
| Radiation |
| Electroshock electrode implants |
| Psychology LSD + electrodes |
| psychiatry |
| "10 years of tests," then operational. Tested all social levels of society. Native Americans, wide variety of persons used. Army Hospitals. Vacaville Prison, Calif. Lexington, Ky. National Institute of Mental Health. |
1961-1971 | MKULTRA BECAME MKDELTA: OPERATIONAL USE |
| Allen Dulles 100,000,000 LSD |
| Millions of Dollars |
| Universities, pharmaceutical houses, hospitals. State, Federal institutions. |
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| Special and unique items for dissemination. Combined MKULTRA with Army, Projects Derby Hat, Project Third Chance. |
| Purpose: TO CONTROL BODIES, WILLING OR NOT, WHERE DRUGS COULD BE USED TO HARASS, DISABLE, OR KILL. |
Dec. 1963 | MKULTRA, MKDELTA |
| Used as an OPERATIONAL WEAPON |
| PRESIDENT, CONGRESS NEVER KNEW |
| Purpose "DISCREDIT, IMPLANT SUGGESTIONS, MENTAL CONTROL, ELICIT INFORMATION. |
| CAN PRODUCE A PSYCHOSIS IN CHRONIC FORM PARTICULARLY IN LATENT SCHIZOPHRENIA. |
| CAN CAUSE PERMANENT CONDITION OF INSANITY. |