Proof The CIA Used Hypnosis To Extract Secrets - John Kiriakou
In a Nutshell
CIA's MK Ultra brainwashing experiments from 1952-1975 were a complete failure that killed people and produced no useful results, with 85% of documentation destroyed before congressional review. However, modern hypnosis techniques successfully extracted verified intelligence from a Greek witness to the 2000 assassination of Brigadier Stephen Saunders, confirming that targeted information extraction is now possible with current technology. The source accurately recalled truck details, license plate numbers, and conversation during a 4.5-hour hypnosis session, demonstrating that focused hypnotic techniques can yield reliable intelligence when applied to cooperative subjects.
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In practical terms, brainwashing is real. The CIA, KGB, Chinese, and North Koreans have been working on brainwashing operations since the early 1950s. The concept of the "prismatic filter" was based on facts and reality.
In the early 1950s, the CIA recruited a source inside the Soviet Union who reported that the KGB was working on a brainwashing process that might allow remote control of someone from a long distance. The CIA was horrified by this idea. However, there was no such KGB operation - the truth was that there was a Chinese operation, but nothing the KGB was doing.
The CIA decided it was in an unenviable position and had to catch up, so it created and implemented the MK Ultra program, which ran from 1952 to 1975.
The MK Ultra program was a complete and utter failure that led to the death of a number of people. The true number will never be known. The agency was giving its employees the drug LSD and giving people in San Francisco LSD while pumping germs into the air to see who would get upper respiratory infections.
A CIA officer broke into a bakery in a small village in France and put LSD in the bakery's flour one morning, causing everyone in the village to have an LSD-induced hallucination when they ate their bread that morning.
"Okay, what do we do with this information now? We have people jumping out of...you know, from rooftops and balconies."
In 1975, Senator Church told the CIA director before the Church Committee not to destroy the documents. However, the director went straight back to headquarters and ordered the staff to tear everything up. Only 15% of the documents survived. This suggests that brainwashing is not real - the attempts were made but failed.
With new technology, new materials, and a more advanced understanding of human behavior, new capabilities have likely been unlocked. Brainwashing is probably possible now.
In April 2000, the British defense attaché Brigadier Stephen Saunders was assassinated in Athens by an assassin from the "November 17 Revolutionary Organization." Several months after the assassination, a surprise visitor walked into the U.S. embassy claiming to have intelligence information.
An FBI agent at the embassy assessed the visitor as mentally disturbed and sent him away, but after reviewing his note, the CIA called him back for further questioning.
The source, a simple-minded farmer from central Greece with poor grammar and limited education, reported that about 40 minutes after the assassination, he was driving on the national highway and needed to urinate. He went behind a large fig tree next to a closed church on the side of the road.
While urinating, a truck stopped, followed by a car. The back doors of the truck were opened revealing a motorcycle inside. The man in the car asked the two men in the truck "Akumaze, is he still alive?" One replied "He should be dead by now."
The man in the truck handed a brown paper bag to the man in the car, possibly containing the murder weapon. The source also observed the truck's license plate, which was later found to be a stolen police car license plate.
The source was hypnotized in a third country by a CIA psychiatrist who was a certified hypnotist. The procedure involved turning off all lights, having the man sit in a chair, making him as relaxed as possible, and counting down from 10 in Greek until he entered a state of hypnosis.
When the hypnotist asked the man to raise his right or left arm in the air, he did so and kept his arm raised for four and a half hours without muscle strain. During the hypnosis, the source accurately described:
- The truck stopping
- Two men being in the truck
- The driver getting out and opening the back door
- A motorcycle inside the truck
- The truck's license plate number
The license plate information was verified through Athens connections and confirmed as belonging to a stolen police car. The FBI initially thought the CIA team was crazy for using hypnosis.
The source was so eager to impress that he started making things up in subsequent meetings, leading to his termination as an asset. However, all information provided during the initial hypnosis session proved to be true.
Brainwashing is probably possible with current technology and understanding. Limited information can potentially be extracted through focused techniques. Strong counterintelligence apparatus is necessary because enemies will attempt to exploit these capabilities.
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