The MK-Ultra conspiracy can be proven because we have discovered documents recording gruesome experiments, people have come forward with their struggles through MK-Ultra, and other projects have branched out in addition to this. For 20 years from 1953 to 1973, the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), funded and conducted tests on human subjects, both with and without their knowledge, in an effort to control minds and personalities for espionage. One such project was called MK-Ultra.
After WWII, the Cold War soon began to take action. Opposing countries soon became suspicious of each other and began the use of spies. Not only did they have a desire for a spy but they had additional ideas. “The hypothesis of whether it would be possible …show more content…
Hypnotizing young girls at the age of 19 to see whether they could be lead into doing something against their natural will. Proven documents state that they used these women to determine whether they would be used as information carriers or even killers.
The most famous test done through MK-Ultra in its entire history is the LSD drugging. “Although MK-Ultra dealt with many areas of mind control, it is the development and testing of LSD that has attracted the most attention because it was taken out of governmental institutions and applied to the general American Public” (Knight). LSD stands for Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. This is a synthetic crystalline compound, that is a potent hallucinogenic.
While MK-Ultra was still in its beginning phase they very commonly used mental patients as their test subjects. This controlled environment made it very easy for the CIA to know exactly what was going on and monitor things with a close eye. Being that the project was top secret the CIA crossed lines they shouldn’t …show more content…
Wetmore grew up in Brandon and now lives in Rutland, resided at the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury for extended periods in her teens and early 20’s. Karen was admitted into this hospital at the age of thirteen in 1965, after threatening her mother and found wandering around school confusedly. As I have said stated earlier, It is easy for the CIA to get their hands on mental patients because everything is so closely monitored. Once someone is admitted as a mental patient they loose all credibility from there, and people just think they are
After WWII, the Cold War soon began to take action. Opposing countries soon became suspicious of each other and began the use of spies. Not only did they have a desire for a spy but they had additional ideas. “The hypothesis of whether it would be possible …show more content…
Hypnotizing young girls at the age of 19 to see whether they could be lead into doing something against their natural will. Proven documents state that they used these women to determine whether they would be used as information carriers or even killers.
The most famous test done through MK-Ultra in its entire history is the LSD drugging. “Although MK-Ultra dealt with many areas of mind control, it is the development and testing of LSD that has attracted the most attention because it was taken out of governmental institutions and applied to the general American Public” (Knight). LSD stands for Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. This is a synthetic crystalline compound, that is a potent hallucinogenic.
While MK-Ultra was still in its beginning phase they very commonly used mental patients as their test subjects. This controlled environment made it very easy for the CIA to know exactly what was going on and monitor things with a close eye. Being that the project was top secret the CIA crossed lines they shouldn’t …show more content…
Wetmore grew up in Brandon and now lives in Rutland, resided at the Vermont State Hospital in Waterbury for extended periods in her teens and early 20’s. Karen was admitted into this hospital at the age of thirteen in 1965, after threatening her mother and found wandering around school confusedly. As I have said stated earlier, It is easy for the CIA to get their hands on mental patients because everything is so closely monitored. Once someone is admitted as a mental patient they loose all credibility from there, and people just think they are