Agency's Strangeloves altered mind of a girl aged 4

We forget so quickly, even when the facts are revealed, the Unbelievable Truth! Is it because we wouldn't know how to begin to take responsibility for the lies
and the outright cold-blooded self-serving nature of some of the people
who have been assigned to "watch over" us!
How can a former director of he CIA get away with saying,
"We have no answer to the moral issue," ...more to the point, how can he live with himself!


The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,21980496,00.html


Agency's Strangeloves altered mind of a girl aged 4
Robert Lusetich, Los Angeles correspondent

28jun07



EASILY lost, on page 425, in the mass of the CIA's notorious "Family
Jewels" files is a short paragraph outlining "potentially embarrassing
Agency activities".



"Experiments in influencing human behaviour through the administration
of mind- or personality-altering drugs to unwitting subjects."



Of all the heinous acts committed by the CIA in the name of national
security, these experiments, done on the agency's behalf by prominent
psychiatrists on innocent victims - including children as young as four
- may be the darkest.



"We have no answer to the moral issue," former director Richard Helms
infamously said when asked about the nature of the projects.



The release of the Family Jewels documents revealed the CIA handsomely
funded these real-life Dr Strangeloves and engaged pharmaceutical
companies to help its experiments.



The agency appealed to Big Pharma to pass on any drugs that could not
be marketed because of "unfavourable side effects" to be tested on mice
and monkeys. Any drugs that passed muster would then be used, according
to an internal memo, on volunteer US soldiers.



The Family Jewels files do not provide further detail into the numerous
mind-control programs, such as MKULTRA, covertly propped up by the
agency. In 1953, MKULTRA was given 6per cent of the total CIA budget
without any oversight.