A behavior control research
project was begun in the 1950s, coordinated by the British psychological
warfare unit called the Tavistock Institute, with the Scottish Rite
Masons, the Central Intelligence Agency, and other British, U.S.,
Canadian, and United Nations agencies. The project became famous in
the 1970s under a CIA code name, "MK-Ultra.'' Its notoriety for brainwashing
by drugs, hypnosis, electroshock, and other tortures caused many books
to be written about the project, and the U.S. Senate conducted hearings
which exposed many of its abusive features. President Gerald Ford
appointed a commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller,
to correct the CIA's misconduct. There was a widespread anti-establishment
view at the time, that here was the fox appointed to guard the hen
house.
The intelligence agencies offered a public rationale for the project:
the need to counteract and compete with the mind-control capabilities
of the communists. This was largely based on the fact that U.S.
personnel held prisoner by the enemy in the Korean War had signed
false confessions of crimes, and some had defected to North Korea,
the apparent result of brainwashing. The Manchurian Candidate, a
1959 book which was made into a popular movie in 1962, reflected
this rationale. It told the story of a communist plot to use a U.S.
soldier brainwashed in Manchuria as a zombie-assassin, to kill the
leading U.S. presidential candidate. A central theme of MK-Ultra
was to attempt to control the human mind in a similar way.
Threatened and accomplished assassination of political leaders
has become increasingly frequent in public life since the 1960s.
Just since the 1992 election campaign, for example, President Bill
Clinton has been the target of at least 15 assassination threats.
Many of these would-be killers, and many of the assassins of past
years, had been in destructive psychiatric programs, or were members
of psychiatrically manipulated cults. The present threats are the
more meaningful, in the context of the British-led Whitewater scandal
directed against the presidency. It is long past time for a thorough
public inquiry into the assassination epidemic, whereby its relationship
to the official project to create assassins would be fully explored.
A great obstacle to clear thinking in this area has been the assumption
that the U.S. government would not sponsor programs for the murder
of American leaders. This logical assumption misses the point, that
the overall project, including "MK-Ultra,'' has been foreign-sponsored
and anti-American in its purposes. We shall outline here the British
background of this deeply criminal enterprise, with its roots in
the political and psychiatric movement called eugenics.
1909-13: the buildup to World War I
John D. Rockefeller created the family-run Rockefeller Foundation,
in parallel with the birth of the British-inspired Federal Reserve,
the Internal Revenue Service, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In 1909-13 and subsequent years, Rockefeller transferred blocs of
the family-owned Standard Oil Co. worth more than $300 million to
the account of the foundation under its trustees who were family
members, and their employees. Thus was established a global instrument
for radical social change, using American money and British strategy.
John D. Rockefeller had begun his oil business in the 1860s with
British capital. The family's relationship to the British Empire
a half-century later was centered in the person of John D.'s brother
William Rockefeller, the president of Standard Oil of New York (later
Mobil) and the founder of National City Bank (later Citibank). In
1911, brother William employed, in a private capacity through his
elite social club, a high-ranking British secret intelligence service
officer named Claude Dansey. As the United States prepared to ally
itself in World War I with its old enemy Britain, Dansey personally
reorganized the U.S. Army intelligence service into an adjunct of
the British secret service. Dansey's loyal U.S. follower, Gen. Marlborough
Churchill (a distant relative of Britain's Winston Churchill) soon
became director of U.S. military intelligence. After World War I,
General Churchill headed up the "Black Chamber,'' a New York-based
espionage group serving the State Department, the U.S. Army, and
private New York financiers loyal to Great Britain. This same General
Churchill would soon launch a medical research organization, the
Macy Foundation, for the Rockefellers and British intelligence.
1920s: the pre-Hitler era in Germany
The Rockefeller Foundation poured money into the occupied German
republic for a medical specialty known as "psychiatric genetics."
This field applied to psychiatry the concepts of eugenics (otherwise
known as race purification, race hygiene, or race betterment) developed
in London's Galton Laboratory and its offshoot Eugenics Societies
in England and America. The Rockefeller Foundation created, and
foundation executives thenceforth continuously directed, the Kaiser
Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry in Munich (before Rockefeller sponsorship
it was known as the Kraepelin Institute), and the Kaiser Wilhelm
Institute for Anthropology, Eugenics, and Human Heredity. The Rockefellers'
chief in both these institutions was the fascist Swiss psychiatrist
Ernst Rudin, assisted by his proteges, Rockefeller functionaries
Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer and Franz J. Kallmann. A British medical
historian friendly to the Rockefellers recently explained how the
family was introduced into this field in Germany [1]: The foundation's
"German centers combined the search for organic signs of mental
illness with eugenic projects.... The [Kraepelin] institute had
initially been endowed with 11 million marks, contributed by Gustav
Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach [head of the Krupp steel and arms family]
and James Loeb [Paul Warburg's brother-in-law], an expatriate American
of the Kuhn- Loeb banking family. Loeb mobilized his American-Jewish
friends to support the institute,'' and they invited the foundation
to reorganize and expand the Munich enterprise. Loeb also continued
financing the institute.
Loeb's relatives, the Warburgs, owners of Kuhn Loeb bank, were
the intimate banking partners of William Rockefeller. Together with
him they had set up the Harriman family in big business, using capital
supplied by the British royal family's personal banker, Sir Ernst
Cassell. The three families, Rockefeller, Warburg, and Harriman,
together with British Crown agencies, jointly sponsored much of
the social engineering enterprise we shall describe here. The Rockefeller
Foundation made an initial grant of $2.5 million in 1925 to the
Psychiatric Institute in Munich, gave it $325,000 for a new building
in 1928, and continuously sponsored the institute and its Nazi chief
Rudin through the Hitler era. The foundation paid for a 1930-35
anthropological survey of the "eugenically worthwhile population''
by Nazi eugenicists Rudin, Verschuer, Eugen Fischer, and others.
1930: a New Age in psychiatry
Rockefeller family psychologists and race purification experts
created a medical research financing conduit, the Josiah Macy, Jr.
Foundation, directed by former Black Chamber and military intelligence
chief Gen. Marlborough Churchill. The Macy group would manage London's
most advanced experiments in mind-control and social engineering.
1932: Rudin heads Eugenics Federation
The British-led eugenics movement met at the American Museum of
Natural History in New York City, and designated the Rockefellers'
Dr. Ernst Rudin as the president of the worldwide Eugenics Federation.
The eugenics movement at the time called for the killing or sterilization
of people whose heredity made them a public burden or a national
scapegoat.
Mid-1930s: Nazi eugenics in practice
Adolf Hitler was given Germany's chancellorship in 1933, and was
soon absolute dictator. Montagu Norman, the occultist governor of
the Bank of England, propped up Hitler's credit, arranged the armament
of Nazi Germany, and guided the strategies of Hitler's powerful
supporters--the Rockefellers, Warburgs, and Harrimans. Only a few
months after the meeting at the American Museum of Natural History,
the Rockefeller-Rudin apparatus became a section of the Nazi state.
The regime appointed Rudin head of the Racial Hygiene Society. Rudin
and his staff, as part of the Task Force of Heredity Experts chaired
by SS chief Heinrich Himmler, drew up the sterilization law. Described
as an American model law, it was adopted in July 1933 and proudly
printed in the September 1933 "Eugenical News" (U.S.A.), with Hitler's
signature. The Rockefeller group drew up other race laws, based,
as was the sterilization law, on existing statutes from the Commonwealth
of Virginia. Otmar Verschuer and his assistant Dr. Josef Mengele
together wrote reports for special courts which enforced Rudin's
racial purity law against the illegal cohabitation of Aryans and
non-Aryans. The "T4'' unit of the Hitler Chancery, based on psychiatrists
led by Rudin and his staff, cooperated in creating propaganda films
to sell mercy-killing (euthanasia) to German citizens. The public
reacted antagonistically: Hitler had to withdraw a tear-jerker right-to-die
film from the movie theaters. The proper groundwork had not yet
been laid.
1934: The Freemasons study madness
The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry joined the Rockefellers in sponsoring
psychiatric genetics beginning in 1934, under the rubric of research
into dementia praecox (schizophrenia). The highest level of U.S.
masonry, the Scottish Rite was the instrument through which the
British Crown had reestablished the loyalty of American masons after
the American Revolution. The northern section of the Rite had rallied
the Copperheads against Abraham Lincoln's Civil War efforts, aiding
the Rite's southern chief Albert Pike in secession and in other
British white supremacy projects, such as the Ku Klux Klan.
For eugenics, the British royal family itself was the Rite's point
of reference. The Duke of Connaught, son of Queen Victoria and brother
of King Edward VII, had been grand master of the United Grand Lodge
of England since 1901. American masonic leaders referred to the
duke as "grand master of the Mother Grand Lodge of Masons of the
World.'' The son of a German father (Victoria's husband, the Coburg
Prince Albert), the Duke of Connaught was deeply involved in German
affairs and was a patron of Britain's "New Dark Ages'' ultra-racialist
elite group based in South Africa. Late in 1932, negotiations for
Hitler's takeover of Germany took place at the home of Joachim von
Ribbentrop, who, as a traveling teenager, had been adopted into
the household of the Duke of Connaught. Ribbentrop then became the
head of Hitler's foreign intelligence service. As Hitler's ambassador
to England, Ribbentrop worked in tandem with the leadership of the
clique which employed Hitler as a British surrogate to smash up
Europe: the masonic grand master duke and his nephew, the openly
Nazi Edward VIII; Bank of England Governor Montagu Norman; and Lord
Halifax, Neville Chamberlain's foreign minister.
1936-38: Columbia University's chamber of horrors
In 1936, the Scottish Rite's Field Representative of Research on
Dementia Praecox, Dr. Nolan D.C. Lewis, director of the New York
State Psychiatric Institute, reported to the Scottish Rite Northern
Supreme Council "on the progress of the fourteen research projects
being financed by the Supreme Council.'' Scottish Rite strategist
Winfred Overholser, the superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital,
a federal mental hospital in Washington D.C., provided overall leadership
for the Rite's psychiatric research. Though these projects are shrouded
in mystery, one of them with particularly gruesome results has come
to light.
The study of hereditary degeneracy was proceeding in the Rockefeller
Foundation's German enclaves when it hit a snag. Psychiatrist Franz
J. Kallmann, protege of Nazi race science chief Ernst Rudin, was
forced to leave his job-- Kallmann was "half-Jewish.'' This was
a big blow for Kallmann, who had proved his Nazi credentials at
the International Congress for Population Science in Berlin in 1935.
At that British-led meeting hosted by Hitler's Interior Ministry,
Kallmann had argued for the sterilization of "even the apparently
healthy relatives" of schizophrenics, along with the schizophrenics
themselves, to securely eliminate all the defective germ plasm.
Without missing a step, Kallmann emigrated to America and became
director of research in the New York State Psychiatric Institute,
attached to Columbia University in Manhattan. The Scottish Rite's
Dr. Lewis was the director of the institute. Kallmann simply continued
in New York the Nazi propaganda work he had been doing for Rockefeller
in Germany. The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry paid Kallmann to conduct
a study of over 1, 000 cases of schizophrenia, in order to assert
the claim that the mental disorder was inherited.
Kallmann's study was published simultaneously in the United States
and Nazi Germany in 1938. In the preface, Kallmann thanked the Scottish
Rite and his mentor Rudin. He called schizophrenics a "source of
maladjusted crooks ... and the lowest types of criminal offenders.
Even the faithful believer in liberty ... would be happier without
those.'' He declared sarcastically, "I am reluctant to admit the
necessity of different eugenic programs for democratic and fascistic
communities.... There are neither biological nor sociological differences
between a democratic and a totalitarian schizophrenic.'' Kallmann's
scholarly American study was used by the Nazi government's T4 unit
as a part of its pretext to begin in 1939 the murder of mental patients
and various other "defective'' people, many or most of them children.
Lethal gas and lethal injections were used to kill 200-250,000 under
this program, in which the staffs for a broader program of mass
murder were desensitized and trained.
1939-40: the deal for Auschwitz
The German chemical company IG Farben and Rockefeller's Standard
Oil of New Jersey were effectively a single firm, merged in hundreds
of cartel arrangements. IG Farben was led, up until 1937 by the
Warburg family, Rockefeller's partners in banking and in the design
of Nazi German eugenics. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland in
September 1939, Britain and Germany declared war on each other and
World War II began. But later that month, Standard Oil executives
flew to the Netherlands on a British Royal Air Force bomber and
met with IG Farben executives. Standard Oil pledged to keep the
merger with IG Farben going even if the United States entered the
war. This was exposed in 1942 by Sen. Harry Truman's investigating
committee, and President Franklin Roosevelt took hundreds of legal
measures during the war to counter the Standard Oil-IG Farben cartel's
supply operation for the enemy war machine. In 1940-41, IG Farben
built a gigantic factory at Auschwitz in Poland, to utilize the
Standard Oil-IG Farben patents with concentration camp slave labor
to make gasoline from coal. The SS guarded the Jewish and other
inmates and selected for killing those who were unfit for IG Farben
slave labor. Standard-Germany President Emil Helfferich testified
after the war that Standard Oil funds helped pay for the SS guards
at Auschwitz. On March 26, 1940, six months after the Standard Oil-IG
Farben meeting, European Rockefeller Foundation official Daniel
O'Brian wrote to the foundation's chief medical officer Alan Gregg
that "it would be unfortunate if it was chosen to stop research
which has no relation to war issues.'' The "non-war- related'' research
continued. The Rockefeller Foundation defends its record by claiming
that its funding of Nazi German programs during World War II was
limited to psychiatric research.
1943: research in Nazi-occupied Poland
In 1943, Otmar Verschuer's assistant Josef Mengele was made medical
commandant of Auschwitz. As wartime director of Rockefeller's Kaiser
Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Eugenics, and Human Heredity
in Berlin, Verschuer secured funds for Mengele's experiments at
Auschwitz from the German Research council. Verschuer wrote a progress
report to the Council: "My co-researcher in this research is my
assistant, the anthropologist and physician Mengele. He is serving
as Hauptsturmfuhrer and camp doctor in the concentration camp Auschwitz....
With the permission of the Reichsfuhrer SS Himmler, anthropological
research is being undertaken on the various racial groups in the
concentration camps and blood samples will be sent to my laboratory
for investigation.'' Mengele prowled the railroad cars coming into
Auschwitz, looking for twin children--a favorite research subject
of Frankenstein-type psychiatric geneticists. On arrival at Mengele's
experimental station, twins filled out "a detailed questionnaire
from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.'' There were daily drawings of
blood for Verschuer's "specific protein'' research. Needles were
injected into eyes for work on eye color. There were experimental
blood transfusions and experimental infections. Organs and limbs
were removed, sometimes without anesthetics. Sex changes were attempted.
Females were sterilized, males were castrated. Thousands were murdered,
and their organs, eyeballs, heads, and limbs were sent to Verschuer
and the Rockefeller group at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.
After the war, Mengele was a famous target of Nazi-hunters pursuing
him to South America. But his boss, Verschuer, was regarded in a
different light: He was a high-level Rockefeller operative. In 1946,
Verschuer wrote to the Bureau of Human Heredity in London, asking
for help in continuing his "scientific research. '' In 1947, the
Bureau of Human Heredity moved from London to Copenhagen, and Verschuer
moved to Denmark to join the British group there. The new Danish
building for this group was erected with Rockefeller money. The
first International Congress in Human Genetics following World War
II was held at this Danish institute in 1956. Dr. Kallmann helped
save Verschuer by testifying at his denazification proceedings.
Kallmann, a director of the American Eugenics Society, became an
icon at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, which remains
to this day a nest of the Eugenics Society. With Verschuer and other
Nazi notables, Dr. Kallmann also created the American Society of
Human Genetics, which organized the "Human Genome Project''--a current
$3 billion physical multiculturalism effort.
1943: research in North America
With the war on, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Canadian military
joined their psychiatric forces. Canadian Army medical director
Dr. George Brock Chisholm had been trained as a psychiatrist at
the Tavistock Psychiatric Clinic in London, and Tavistock--the British
Crown's central mind-bending agency-- was a major Rockefeller Foundation
beneficiary. In 1943, the Rockefeller Foundation created the Allen
Memorial Institute at McGill University in Montreal. Eugenics- oriented
psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron, a Scottish immigrant to the United
States, was placed in charge of the institute's psychiatry. Experiments
in coercive interrogation and brainwashing would be conducted at
Allen Institute under the auspices of the Canadian military, the
Rockefeller Foundation, and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Dr. Cameron's "terminal'' use of electric shock as a brain-burning
torture, psychosurgery, and brainwashing with drugs and hypnosis
would make the Canadian program the most famous apsect of the CIA's
MK- Ultra.
Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., a new odor, that of marijuana,
could be detected inside St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington,
D.C. (St. Elizabeth's is the mental hospital where presidential
assailants or other federal cases are kept.) The superintendent,
Scottish Rite chief psychiatrist Winfred Overholser, was in 1943
the chairman of the misnamed "truth drug'' committee for the Office
of Strategic Services (OSS). The criminal underworld was systematically
being brought into official but secret joint activities with the
government, under the pretext of fighting fascism. Overholser's
crew administered the hallucinogen mescaline to various test subjects.
Then in the spring of 1943, they perfected the right mix of marijuana
and tobacco to produce a "state of irresponsibility'' in the subject.
The official OSS story is that New York mafia hitman August Del
Gracio began smoking Overholser's "joints'' on May 27, 1943, in
order to loosen his tongue. Federal agents were thus supposedly
to learn the inside secrets of drug trafficking--but not to stop
it. This was part of an ongoing federal program, which organized
crime czar Meyer Lansky boasts (in his authorized biography) that
he personally arranged. Mafia thugs were brought in to work in Naval
Intelligence offices, and jointly with U.S. agents in U.S. ports
and shipping, to more effectively intimidate our national enemies.
Former CIA staff member John Marks writes in The Search for the
Manchurian Candidate that Overholser's working group included counterintelligence
agents inside the Manhattan Project atomic bomb project, and the
FBI, which was under the direction of Dr. Overholser's Scottish
Rite comrade, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The Overholser group
gave marijuana to U.S. soldiers at Army bases throughout the country,
supposedly to aid in the search for subversives. Later, during the
1950s and 1960s, the strategists of the MK- Ultra project would
utilize the same channels of influence with U.S. security agencies
to let them transform a generation of youth into dope users.
1944-48: after Nazism, the International Congress on Mental Health
In 1944, with the concentration camps in full swing and Europe
burning, Montagu Norman resigned from the Bank of England. He immediately
began a new project, ironically related to his own repeated mental
breakdowns and hospitalizations. Norman organized the British National
Association for Mental Health. In its formative stages the group
was based at Thorpe Lodge, Norman's London home, where he had met
with Nazi Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht to plan the Hitler
regime's 1930s budgets. Montagu Norman's Bank of England assistant
Otto Niemeyer was made treasurer of the National Association of
Mental Health. Niemeyer's niece, Mary Appleby, became general secretary
of the association. She previously worked in the German Section
of the British Foreign Office. The president of Norman's association
was to be Richard Austen ("RAB'') Butler. He had been deputy foreign
minister to Lord Halifax and the spokesman in the British Parliament
for the pro-Nazi policy. The chairman of the association was to
be be Lord Halifax's son-in-law, the Earl of Feversham. The vice
chairman was Lord Montagu Norman's wife, eugenics activist Priscilla
Reyntiens Worsthorne Norman. Norman's British group would soon expand
and to take over management of the world psychiatric profession.
When the war ended, the exposure and punishment of those responsible
for the Nazi barbarities was a rather delicate matter. Dr. Donald
Ewen Cameron interrupted his Canadian brain butchery to go help
the British Crown's Tavistock psychological warfare unit evaluate
the sanity of Nazi official Rudolph Hess. Cameron's unique insights
into the Nazi mentality had made him a valued part of a secret wartime
psychiatric committee in Washington to assess the trends in the
Nazi leadership's thinking. Cameron now testified as an expert at
the Nuremberg war crimes trials. His old OSS colleague Allen Dulles,
later the CIA director, was reportedly pleased by Cameron's suggestion
that each surviving German over the age of 12 should be given electroshock
treatment to burn out remaining vestiges of Nazism. That part of
the Nuremberg Code dealing with scientific research was drafted
by Boston psychiatrist Leo Alexander; he soon afterward joined with
Auschwitz experimental mastermind Otmar Verschuer in Franz Kallmann's
American Society of Human Genetics.
In 1948, Montagu Norman's National Association for Mental Health
gathered the world psychiatric and psychological leaders together
at an International Congress on Mental Health at the United Kingdom's
Ministry of Health in London. At this congress, a World Federation
for Mental Health was formed, to run the planet's psychological
services. Lady Norman, the hostess of the congress, was named to
the executive board. Norman picked as president of the World Federation
the chief of the British military's psychological warfare department,
Tavistock Institute chief Brig. Gen. Dr. John Rawlings Rees.
In connection with the founding of the World Federation for Mental
Health, a New York agent of Montagu Norman named Clarence G. Michalis
was made chairman of the board of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.
That foundation, in turn, would pay for much of what the World Federation
and Tavistock were to do to the United States--supplying dope and
otherwise subverting western ideals. The Macy Foundation's chief
medical officer, Dr. Frank Fremont- Smith, would be the permanent
co-director of the World Federation with J.R. Rees. The technical
coordinator of the U.S. delegation to the 1948 congress, Nina Ridenour,
later wrote in Mental Health in the United States: A Fifty Year
History, that "the World Federation for Mental Health ... had been
created upon the recommendation of the United Nations' World Health
Organization and Unesco, because they needed a non-governmental
[i.e., not accountable to any check of law or constitution-- EIR
ed.] mental health organization with which they could cooperate.''
Ridenour alluded to the fact that the British psychological warfare
executive had itself created the heart of the U.N. apparatus: "Having
official consultive status with the United Nations and several of
its specialized agencies, the World Federation for Mental Health
is in a position to influence some of the U.N.'s decisions and some
aspects of its program.
The two U.N. agencies with which the World Federation works most
closely are the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organzation (UNESCO). [Ridenour:]
"The first director of WHO, and indeed quite literally its 'creator,'
was a prominent Canadian psychiatrist, Brock Chisholm, M.D., formerly
director general of the Canadian Army Medical Services. Since its
inception, WHO has made significant contributions to world mental
health through the reports of its various Expert Committees; through
some of its other special reports, such as the notable monograph
Mental Health and Maternal Care by [Tavistock's] John Bowlby, M.D.;
and through the widespread activities of its Mental Health Division,
of which the British psychiatrist Ronald C. Hargreaves was the first
director." Unesco's partnership with Rees was guided by Unesco's
founding secretary general, eugenics strategist Sir Julian Huxley,
and by Unesco social sciences chief Dr. Otto Klineberg, a Tavistock-affiliated
psychologist specializing in the supposedly racial characteristics
of the American Negro.
The congress, which in effect founded the modern "mental health''
profession, brought together one of the most exotic collection of
enemies of humanity in recent centuries. Its vice presidents included:
Prof. Cyril Burt: Tavistock psychiatrist, eugenics activist, a leader
of the "psychical research'' movement (seances, ESP, ghosts), who
was notorious for fraudulent "twins'' research; Dr. Hugh Chrichton-Miller:
founder of the Tavistock Clinic; vice president of the C.G. Jung
Institute in Zurich; vice president, National Association for Mental
Health; Dame Evelyn Fox: a longtime leader of the British eugenics
movement (Lady Norman was a disciple of Dame Evelyn); Sir David
Henderson: psychiatrist in London, Munich, and New York; author
of Psychiatry and Race Betterment; Lord Thomas Jeeves Horder: president
of the Eugenics Society of Great Britain; president of the Family
Planning Association; president of the Anglo-Soviet Public Relations
Association; former physician to King Edward VIII; Carl G. Jung:
occultist; psychiatrist to Montagu Norman, Paul Mellon, and the
Dulles family; representative of German psychiatry under the Nazis,
co-editor of the Nazis' Journal for Psychotherapy; Dr. Winfred Overholser:
representative of the Scottish Rite Masons; chairman of the American
delegation to the International Congress on Mental Health; Alan
Ker Stout: University of Sydney, Australia, philosophy professor,
president of the New South Wales Film Society, officer of Unesco
for films; Dr. Alfred Frank Tredgold: member of Britain's Ministry
of Health Committee on Sterilization and a leading expert on mental
defectives.
The congress was run by the host British "National Association,''
whose patron was the Duchess of Kent, widow of the Grand Master
of Masons (1939-42) and mother of the Grand Master of Masons (1967
to the present), and whose vice presidents were eugenics and masonic
officials. The general conference at the congress was on the subject
of guilt, including the crucial plenary session on alleged German
collective guilt for the crimes of Nazism. The first speaker was
Margaret Mead, anthropologist, occultist, who would be president
of the World Federation for Mental Health in 1956 and 1957, during
the MK-Ultra crimes. The "Chairman for Discussion'' of this plenary
was Scottish Rite strategist Winfred Overholser. In his opening
remarks, Overholser said: "I understand that a vocal minority in
the press does not agree with the wisdom of having such a meeting,
but we feel there is great hope for the future if the principles
of mental hygiene can be translated into terms of international
action.''
NOTES
1."The Rockefeller Foundation and German Biomedical Sciences, 1920-1940:
Educational Philanthropy to International Science Policy'' by Paul
Weindling in the book Science, Politics and the Public Good: Essays
in Honour of Margaret Gowing, London, Macmillan Press, 1988.
1950s: MK-Ultra
The outrages perpetrated by Ewen Cameron became the most notorious
aspect of the postwar Anglo-American mind-control program. Cameron
had trained at the Royal Mental Hospital in Glasgow, under eugenicist
Sir David Henderson, and founded the Canadian branch of his friend
John R. Rees's World Federation for Mental Health. In the various
member countries and subdivisions, these channels of British intelligence
operations are known as the national, provincial, or state Mental
Health Associations. Cameron was also elected president of the Canadian,
American, and world psychiatric associations. He became famous after
the CIA was sued by some survivors of his work--because the CIA
had financed the tortures.
Cameron would drug his victims to sleep for weeks on end, waking
them daily only to administer violent electric shocks to the brain.
He used the British Page-Russell electroconvulsive method, an initial
one-second shock, then five to nine additional shocks, administered
while the patient was in seizure. But he increased the normal voltage
and the number of sequences from one to two or three times per day.
Patients lost all or part of their memories, and some lost the ability
to control their bodily functions and to speak. At least one patient
was reduced almost to a vegetable; then Cameron had the coginitve
centers of her brain surgically cut apart, while keeping her alive.
Some subjects were deposited permanently in institutions for the
hopelessly insane.
For the CIA, Cameron tested the South American poison called curare,
which kills a victim while simulating natural heart failure. But
Cameron claims to have used it only in non-lethal doses to further
immobilize his subjects while they were kept in sensory deprivation
tortures for as long as 65 days. Then they would be given lysergic
acid diethylamide (LSD) for "programmable'' hallucinations. When
the subject was sufficiently devastated, Cameron and his assistant,
a veteran of the British Royal Signals Corps, would begin "Psychic
Driving'': Through a loudspeaker hidden under the pillow, or through
unremovable earphones, they would play a tape over and over again
to burn certain phrases into what was left of the victim's memory.
The CIA was found to have financed these horrors, as well as ghastly
experiments in other locations, using a front called the Society
for the Study of Human Ecology. (The society gave a grant for a
study of the effects of circumcision on young Turkish boys, the
grantees to be in Istanbul, studying five to seven year olds and
their problems with their genitals. It is claimed that this was
intended to give a cover to the CIA front as a real academic organization.)
The question of sponsorship
But the authorship of this enterprise cannot reasonably be assigned
to the CIA, per se. Even before we review other agencies' direct
involvement, we must understand that the CIA chief during MK-Ultra,
Allen Dulles, was thoroughly attached to British Empire geopolitical
aims. Introduced to British spies by his uncle Robert Lansing, Woodrow
Wilson's secretary of state, Dulles had had a strong personal identification
since childhood with the British Secret Intelligence Service.
The Dulles family's upper class-status in America began when ancestor
William Dulles arrived in South Carolina from India. With a fortune
made in India by providing financial and security services for the
British East India Company army, he bought a slave plantation which
the family held through the American Civil War. The family's mental
life was always that of the British Empire and its American colonial
subordinates. Allen Dulles's main corporate activity was as a director
of the J. Henry Schroder banking company in London, a prime instrument
in Montagu Norman's nazification of Germany. As partners in the
Sullivan and Cromwell firm, Allen Dulles and his brother John Foster
Dulles represented the Rockefeller-Harriman- Warburg combination,
I.G. Farben, and virtully every other Nazi corporate organization
that danced on London's marionette strings.
It was disclosed that for MK-Ultra, particularly for the experimental
use and distribution of LSD, the CIA operated through another front,
the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation. But the geometry of the "front''
really worked the other way around. The Macy Foundation represented
the British psychological warfare executive, as extended into U.S.
and related institutions. In the midst of launching MK-Ultra, during
1954-55, the Macy Foundation's medical director Frank Fremont-Smith
was president of British General Rees's World Federation of Mental
Health. Under Rees as the director, the two together "made a journey
to a number of countries in Asia and Africa to establish contacts
and seek ways in which the organziation may extend its activities
in those regions.''
Through official military and intelligence conferences over which
it presided, and through various informal and secret operations,
the Macy Foundation directed the spread of LSD by U. S. agencies
during the 1950s. The Macy Foundation's chief LSD executive, Harold
Abramson, was a psychiatric researcher at Columbia University and
at the eugenics center in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York.
It was Abramson who first "turned on'' Frank Fremont-Smith. Abramson
also gave LSD for the first time to British anthropologist Gregory
Bateson, sometime husband of Margaret Mead. Then in 1959, Bateson
gave LSD to Beat poet Alan Ginsburg at Stanford University, under
controlled experimental conditions. Following this, Dr. Leo Hollister
at Stanford gave LSD to mental patient turned author Ken Kesey and
others, and thus it was said to have spread "out of the CIA's realm.''
Masonic `charity'
Other parts of the U.S. government participated in the project
exposed as MK-Ultra. The Army Chemical Center paid for LSD and related
drug brainwashing experiments by Dr. Paul Hoch. Along with Nazi
eugenics leader Franz Kallmann, Hoch co-directed the research at
Columbia University's New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr.
Hoch was a member of the American Eugenics Society, in Kallmann's
eugenics cell at the institute. Hoch was simultaneously appointed
State Mental Hygiene Commissioner by New York Gov. Averell Harriman,
and was reappointed by the next governor, Nelson Rockefeller. Dr.
Hoch's forced injections of a mescaline derivative brought about
the 1953 death of New York tennis player Harold Blauer. Hoch's colleague
Dr. James Cattell later told investigators, "We didn't know whether
it was dog piss or what it was we were giving him.'' When Hoch died,
British brain butcher Ewen Cameron directed his funeral.
Dr. Hoch, a Scottish Rite masonic strategist, worked with Dr. Kallman
under the direction of Scottish Rite Freemasonry's Field Representative
of Research on Dementia Praecox, Dr. Nolan D.C. Lewis, the superintendent
of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. As the Ku Klux Klan
has been the defining project for the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction,
the Rite's Northern Jurisdiction left its official mark on the world
through MK- Ultra--its most important "charity.'' Much of the psychiatric
dirty work, though, has been done inside the Rite's KKK-spawning
Southern Jurisdiction, which includes all southern states and everything
west of the Mississippi River. Robert Hanna Felix, 33rd degree mason,
was a director of the Scottish Rite's psychiatric research. He ran
a spectacularly lawless brainwashing establishment.
The exposure of the MK-Ultra scandal revealed that the CIA had
funded one Dr. Harris Isbell to carry out barbarous experiments
using slave subjects, nearly all of them black drug addicts, at
the Addiction Research Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Isbell was
the director of the center from the 1940s until 1963. His boss was
masonic master psychiatrist Felix, who founded the National Institute
of Mental Health and was NIMH director from 1949 to 1964. The Lexington
facility had been Dr. Felix's personal project since he had been
its clinical director in the 1930s, and he put it under the jurisdiction
of the NIMH. The Felix-Isbell slave experiments involved LSD and
a wide variety of other hallucinogens and exotic poisons. In one
case, seven prisoners were kept hallucinating on LSD for 77 consecutive
days. The torture at Lexington followed the pattern developed by
Cameron in Montreal: Drug-induced sleep was interrupted by electroconvulsive
shock. Cooperative subjects were rewarded with shots of heroin or
any other drug of their choice. And for mental health, the masonic
administration encouraged the prisoners to participate in synthetic
religious and political cults.
Felix's program was not simply to make humans into controllable
beasts, but to decentralize the zombie- manufacturing. A 1993 report
to the Scottish Rite Supreme Council by its current psychiatric
research director, Steven Matthysse, explains: "Thirty years ago,
a massive program began, which has continued unabated to this day:
the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill.... My predecessor
as research director of the Schizophrenia Research Program, Dr.
Robert H. Felix, 33 Degree, Gourgas medalist and the founding director
of the National Institute of Mental Health, was one of the chief
architects of this program. 'We are entering a new era,' he wrote,
'of community-centered, comprehensive psychiatric care.'... Dr.
Felix predicted that, in 25 years, 'State mental hospitals as we
know them would no longer exist.' He was right.... During the years
from 1955 to 1992, the state mental hospital census went down by
82%.'' The strategists of MK-Ultra succeeded in moving the mentally
ill out of costly mental hospitals, onto the streets, where they
now consitute a large proportion of America's homeless. We shall
now see what kind of "community-centered psychiatric care'' these
strategists did in fact implement, as Britain's MK-Ultra poured
drugs into the country and worked to fabricate the drug- sex youth
culture.
Seymour Solomon Kety was both an executive of the Scottish Rite's
psychiatry experiments, and a Scottish Rite- funded clinical experimenter.
He was chief of NIMH clinical sciences from 1957 through 1967, and
continued as the NIMH "senior scientist'' into the 1990s. A close
associate of the Kallmann Nazi-eugenics cell at Columbia, Kety was
a national director of the American Eugenics Society, under its
1980s name, the Society for the Study of Social Biology. Kety helped
lead the masons' U.S. agency, the NIMH, beyond the Kentucky experiments,
to the brink of Hell.
Manchuria in California?
As Carol Greene has demonstrated in her 1992 book Morder aus der
Retorte: Der Fall Charles Manson, (Test-Tube Murder: The Case of
Charles Manson) Charles Manson, before he committed mass murder,
was himself an NIMH "research subject.'' Manson was released from
a California prison in March 1967. He was required by law to report
regularly to a parole officer named Roger Smith, who was based at
the Haight-Ashbury Medical Clinic in San Francisco. This was an
NIMH project designed to observe and in effect supervise the first
large-scale drug addiction of white teenagers, thousands of whom
were the clinic's clients. Clinic director David E. Smith was also
the publisher of the Journal of Psychedelic Drugs, and a leading
national advocate for the legalized use of narcotics. Within the
clinic arrangement, Charles Manson's parole officer was officially
commissioned to scientifically investigate the effects that various
kinds drugs had on addicts served by the NIMH clinic. David Smith
also collaborated with another NIMH project: a behavioral study
of children in communes. He was an expert on the breeding of violent
anti-social characters in the mind-crushing environment of the hippie
or cult commune.
Parole officer Roger Smith remained on Manson's case after he was
no longer his parole officer, as an adviser and observer of the
increasingly insane man. Charles Manson took up with a British-origin
satanic killer cult called The Process--Church of the Final Judgment,
a spin-off from Scientology. When he started with The Process is
not clear, but there are some reports that it was in that summer
of 1967. Its British founders had put the U.S. headquarters of the
cult into the Haight-Ashbury section, two blocks from where Manson
was living, and they recruited from among the "flower children''
for the jobs of drug-running, assassination, and race riots.
David Berkowitz, convicted in the New York "Son of Sam'' serial
murders, was an initiate of The Process. Manson is most widely known
for his communal Family, which carried out the satanic Tate-LaBianca
murders. But here we note that Lynette "Squeaky'' Fromme, who became
the head of the Family after Manson was arrested in October 1969,
was herself imprisoned for the 1975 attempted assassination of U.S.
President Gerald Ford. Another associate of the Manson Family, Sarah
Jane Moore, was also imprisoned for a failed assassination attempt
on President Ford. Had either been successful, Nelson Rockefeller
would have become President.
There is a certain psychiatric agency, the American Family Foundation,
which exists officially to guard the public from injurious cults.
AFF is the mother organization for the so-called Cult Awareness
Network (CAN). Dr. Louis Jolyon West is a director of AFF. An expert
in brainwashing for the Air Force and the CIA, West first achieved
fame from his MK-Ultra feat--he injected LSD-25 into an elephant
and killed it. West researched "the psychology of dissociated states''
for the CIA, using LSD and hypnosis. His friend Aldous Huxley suggested
to Dr. West during an MK-Ultra experiment that West hypnotize his
subjects prior to administering LSD, in order to give them "post-hypnotic
suggestions aimed at orienting the drug-induced experience in some
desired direction.''
Dr. West was called upon by the government to examine Jack Ruby,
who had killed Lee Harvey Oswald before Oswald could stand trial
for his alleged role in the assassination of President John Kennedy.
West declared Ruby to be in a "paranoid state manifested by delusions,
visual and auditory hallucinations, and suicidal impulses.'' Ruby
was convicted in 1964, but conveniently died in 1967 while awaiting
what could have been a revealing re- trial.
Dr. West lived in Haight-Ashbury during the summer of 1967, to
study the hippies. In the 1970s, West became famous again for his
plans to create a Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence.
Its staff was to investigate the genetics and biochemistry of their
prisoners, including "hyperkinetic children,'' whose every motion
would be electronically monitored by Orwellian guards. Though backed
by Gov. Ronald Reagan, the plan was defeated.
Rabbi Maurice Davis is another "expert'' guarding America from
cults as a director of the American Family Foundation. Davis worked
at the NIMH Lexington Addiction Research Center as a chaplain, serving
the slave victims of the MK-Ultra drug experiments as they were
brought into cult participation. Rabbi Davis then moved to Indianapolis
and sponsored the career of Rev. Jim Jones, whose followers were
murdered with poisoned Kool-Aid in Guyana.
The bulk of the start-up financing for the American Family Foundation
was channelled through a New York law firm running two funding satellites
of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation. The same law firm was the legal
representative of The Process--Church of the Final Judgment.
The Process Church employs neo-Nazi themes, as do other British-origin
movements such as the Satanists associated with California's Anton
Lavey and Col. Michael Aquino. Charles Manson's swastika tatoo attests
to this. Many of the psychotic potential presidential assassins
have been "neo-Nazis.'' These include Ronald Reagan's deeply brainwashed
assailant John Hinckley, and some of those who have threatened President
Clinton.
To help turn up the possible source for this curious zombie pattern,
we review the case of NIMH leader Seymour Kety--as of recent report
the chairman of the Professional Advisory Section of the Scottish
Rite Masons' Schizophrenia Research program. This is the Dr. Kety
who, with his NIMH predecessor Dr. Felix, helped shape the programs
that made Charles Manson a satanic beast. A Scottish Rite brochure
reports on the meetings of the Rite's Grand Commander and Supreme
Council with their psychiatrists to plan for the future. The brochure
explains that Dr. Kety "can trace his interest in the genetics of
schizophrenia to a report by Dr. Franz Kallmann at one of these
meetings years ago. Dr. Kety's own genetic studies have become landmarks
in the field, as the first convincing demonstration of an inherited
factor.'' Not the first, perhaps, because Kallmann provided Adolf
Hitler with "convincing'' pretexts to exterminate mental patients.
The official assassination program
The ambiguous rationale for the MK-Ultra program was the search
for the Manchurian Candidate: to study, emulate, and counterbalance
communist programs which brainwash people who could be dangerous
to our national security. These programs were secret, and masses
of MK-Ultra records were destroyed. But some aspects of the program's
direct testing have been divulged. CIA executive Morse Allen worked
at creating killers under hypnosis on and around Feb. 19, 1954.
The CIA planned early in 1954 to hypnotize a man they considered
disposable, to get him to make an assassination attempt, be arrested
for attempted murder, and be "thereby disposed of.''
A CIA hypnosis study was done by Alden Sears at the University
of Minnesota and was moved by Sears to the University of Denver,
Colorado. Sears worked to answer the question, "Could a hypnotist
induce a totally separate personality? CIA counterintelligence chief
James Jesus Angleton, a leader of the British intelligence faction
in the American intelligence community, established three goals
for the hypnosis program: 1) to induce hypnosis very rapidly in
unwitting subjects; 2) to create durable amnesia; and 3) to implant
durable and operationally useful post-hypnotic suggestion. A test
of rapid hypnosis took place in July 1963. The counterintelligence
staff in Washington, D.C. asked the CIA station in Mexico City to
find a suitable candidate for a rapid induction experiment. The
station proposed a low-level agent, whom the Soviets had apparently
doubled. A counterintelligence man flew in from Washington and a
hypnotic consultant arrived from California. The experiment was
said to have misfired.
According to CIA hypnosis expert Milton Klein, creating a hypnotized
"patsy'' is easier than making a totally controlled Manchurian Candidate.
The patsy can be induced by hypnosis to do things which later show
up as circumstantial evidence that will get him falsely blamed for
a crime. Klein has claimed he can create a patsy in three months;
a full-scale Manchurian Candidate takes six months.
The assassins' goals
Back in 1961, at the height of MK-Ultra, the NIMH, led by masonic
high priest Robert Felix, had created an elite group of biologists,
behavioral psychologists, chemists, pharmacologists, neuropsychologists,
and psychiatrists. This 150-member American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
comprised many of most important MK-Ultra participants. An inner
group of the college, the Study Group for the Effects of Psychotropic
Drugs on Normal Humans, held a conference in 1967 to outline the
desired course for the United States to the year 2000. This conference
was reported on by two MK-Ultra leaders: Dr. Wayne O. Evans, director
of the U.S. Army Military Stress Laboratory in Natick, Massachusetts;
and Nathan Kline, a eugenics fanatic and research psychiatrist for
Columbia University, who had set up voodoo-oriented psychological
clinics in Haiti in conjunction with "Papa Doc'' Duvalier. The preface
to the Evans-Kline report said the group "concluded that the present
breadth of drug use may be almost trivial when we compare it to
the possible numbers of chemical substances that will be available
for the control of selective aspects of man's life in the year 2000....
"The American culture ... [is] moving toward a 'sensate society.'...
A greater emphasis is being placed on sensory experience and less
upon rational or work-oriented philosophies. Such a philosophical
view, coupled with the means to separate sexual behavior from reproduction
or disease, will undoubtedly enhance sexual freedom.... It seems
... obvious that the youth of today are no longer afraid of either
drugs or sex."
Again, the philosophers and spokesmen for the avant-garde advocate
the personal sensory experience as the raison d'etre of the coming
generation. Finally, we are moving into an age in which meaningful
work will be possible only for a minority: In such an age, chemical
aphrodisiacs may be accepted as a commonplace means to occupy one's
time. It will be interesting to see if the public morality of the
next 30 years will change as much as it has in the last 30. "If
we accept the position that human mood, motivation, and emotion
are reflections of a neurochemical state of the brain, then drugs
can provide a simple, rapid, expedient means to produce any desired
neurochemical state that we wish. The sooner that we cease to confuse
scientific and moral statements about drug use, the sooner we can
rationally consider the types of neurochemical states that we wish
to be able to provide for people.'' This is the historical thinking
of the British strategists who want to destroy the U.S. presidency
and the American republic. And this is the criminal apparatus with
which they have equipped themselves to do it.
For further reading
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Samuel Harrison Baynard, Jr., History of the
Supreme Council, 33 Degree, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
of Freemasonry, Northern Jurisdiction of the United States of
America, Vol. II, Boston, 1938, published by the Supreme Council.
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The Campaigner, April 1974: L. Marcus, "The
Real CIA--The Rockefellers' Fascist Establishment,'' and M.
Minnicino, "Low Intensity Operations: The Reesian Theory of
War.''
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May 1974: Peter Cuskie, "The Shaping of the
Anglo-American SS by War,'' and Richard Freeman, "Rockefeller's
Fascist Labor Policies.'' Photocopies available from Ben Franklin
Booksellers, Inc. (see www.LaRouchePub.com).
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Anton Chaitkin, "Franklin Witnesses Implicate
FBI and U.S. Elites in Torture and Murder of Children,'' The
New Federalist, Dec. 13, 1993.
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Anton Chaitkin, "Cairo Population Conference
Repeats 1932 Nazi Planning Meeting,'' EIR, April 29, 1994.
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Franz J. Kallmann, The Genetics of Schizophrenia:
A Study of Heredity and Reproduction in the Families of 1087
Schizophrenics, New York: 1938.
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Stefan Kuhl, The Nazi Connection: Eugenics,
American Racism and German National Socialism, New York: Oxford
University Press, 1993.
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Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. and Anton Chaitkin,
Bring Down the Pike Statue Now: Why the KKK National Monument
Must Fall, 1993, published by The New Federalist, P.O. Box 889,
Leesburg, Va. 20178.
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Bernhard Schreiber, The Men Behind Hitler: A
German Warning to the World, France: La Hay-Mureaux, ca. 1975),
English edition supplied by H. and P. Tadeusz, 369 Edgewere
Road, London W2. A copy of this book is held by Union College
Library, Syracuse, N. Y.
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Jeffrey Steinberg, "30 Years of Menticide,''
EIR, Oct. 6, Oct. 20, and Nov. 3, 1989.
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Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin, George Bush:
The Unauthorized Biography, Washington, D.C. [available online]:
EIR, 1992, consult expecially chapters 1-4.
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Carol White and Brian Lantz, "Satan's Helpers:
Nazi Doctors in America,'' EIR, Oct. 6, 1989.
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