MK ULTRA

MK ULTRA,was the CIA’s questionable project that took place in the 1950’s that involved dosing unknowing citizens with large amounts of LSD, mind control, and a murder possibly covered up by our government. There is much speculation as to what the real motives behind these experiments were, one side argues that our government was using MK ULTRA for the mind control of American citizens and that the project still exists under a different name. The other side argues that MK ULTRA was only being used as a way to find a truth serum for the benefit of the country. The argument of this research paper is that MK ULTRA was in fact created for the mind control of American citizens.
“Mind sciences, or the study of human behavior in relation to the mind is the newest of all the arts, it is less than 100 years old and it is by far the most cloaked by secrecy” This was said by Mark Phillips, a former CIA operative in the documentary “The Most Dangerous Game- The History of MK ULTRA”. There is no surprise that our government has things they would like to keep secret for …show more content…
“Were in Nazi Germany, and in the Nazi ideology, they had something called “Weltanschauungskrieg” which means, “World View Warfare” The idea for them was imposing the Nazi worldview on the countries they had occupied. The Americans picked up this idea, created their own version and called it “Psychological Warfare” ”. The definition of Psychological Warfare in Webster’s New World Dictionary is “The use of propaganda or other psychological means to influence or confuse the thinking, undermine the morale, of an enemy or opponent.” This could be seen as the U.S. just simply adopting one of Nazi Germany’s tactics for the benefit of our military, and there is no connection to the Nazi’s. Well, unfortunately, there is a connection to the Nazi’s and it was officially sanctioned by our