Re:Project MKUltra
by chvid on Saturday October 05, 2019 @09:31AM
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The Church committee hearing documented a lot of this stuff so it is proven in that sense. Another question is whether these techniques actually work in the sense that you can hypnotise someone to commit a murder using lsd or something. Probably not is my guess.
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Very evidently you can hypnotise the public to support mass murder, using the techniques they finally evolved. It has worked again and again, most prominently in driving support for invading Iraq.
As it was taught in other places in the world, we may guess that ISIS, FARC, and other movements learned to apply the methods for their own purposes. Anywhere you find ordinary people committing extreme atrocities, there are its (or its Soviet or Chinese counterparts') fingerprints.
I believe that is done using old-fashioned lies and bullshit ... not LSD.
LSD was a method tried, under the program, that failed. The program moved on to more effective methods.
So people were more opposed to mass-murder before the 1950s?