Case Study #1: Project MKUltra
What?
Project MKUltra is the code name for a clandestine US government operation that tested the behavioral engineering of humans. That is, mind control.
Who?
The Chief Intelligence Agency (Scientific Intelligence Division) was the main operator. Both US and Canadian citizens were affected by this operation.
When?
The program began in the early 1950s, but was officially halted in 1973, despite several cutbacks to the program in the 1960s.
Where?
The United States of America.
Why?
The US, fearful of communism, other countries and other races, developed this program in response to alleged North Korean, Chinese and Soviet use of mind control on US POWs in Korea. The CIA wanted to use this technology for themselves for use in their own interrogation techniques, with captives and foreign leaders (aka Castro).
How?
Drugs (LSD), chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, and torture. (Remind you of something? Like...post- 9/11 Guantanamo Bay, The Dirty War in Argentina).
This IS domestic terrorism. The fact that it occurred in America, the beacon of freedom and liberty and human rights, on unwitting citizens, despite it manifesting during paranoid times, shows our propensity for promoting terrible actions in the name of preserving democracy.
Something to think about.