Psychiatrist’s1960sLSD Mind-Control ExperimentsComeBack toHauntAmerica
Therecentreleaseofpreviouslyclassifieddocumentshasresurrectedinterestina mysteriousvisitbetweenpsychiatristLouisJolyonWest,withJackRuby,LeeHarvey Oswald'skiller,whenhewasinjail.WesthadbeenfundedbytheCIAtoconductmindcontrolexperimentsinthe1950s-70s. Reportedly,Rubysufferedanacutepsychoticbreak followinghistimewithWest,whopronouncedhim ‘technicallyinsane’.DuringRuby’strial,thejudge notedheneverwitnessedthebehaviorWest described.AccusationsarosethatWesttampered withRuby,includingpharmacologicaltreatment.
AdocumentobtainedundertheFreedomofInformationActrevealstheCIAsetWestupina clandestinelaboratorytoperform“mind-control”experimentswithhypnosisandLSD.Aportionofthe secretexperimentswereexposedinthemid-1970sbytheU.S.SenateSelectCommitteeon Intelligence. WestreportedtotheCIAthattheexperimentshe’dbegun in1953usingLSDhadcometofruition.Healsoclaimed tobeabletoreplace“truememories”with“falseones”in humanbeingswithouttheirknowledgebyadministering “newdrugs”effectiveinspeedingtheinductionofthe hypnoticstate.
AnothercontroversialcaseinvolvingCIA-fundedpsychiatristJolyon WestincludedevaluatingSirhanSirhan,whoassassinatedRobertF. KennedyattheAmbassadorHotelinLosAngelesonJune5,1968. WestclaimedSirhanwasthesubjectofpsychic driving,amind-alteringtechniqueinvolvinglooped audiorepeatedtoasubjectundertheinfluenceof hypnosisorparalyticdrugs,alongwithatriggerword orsentencethatwhenusedwouldactivateahidden personalityprogrammedwithinthesubject.
racialfactorsandthosepronetosuchviolenceweremostlyyoungBlackandHispanicurban males.HecalledforBlackandHispanicchildrentobestudiedforageneticabnormality. Heproposedachemicalcastrationdrugandthe useofremotemonitoringtechniquestorecord bioelectricalchangesinthebrainsofhuman subjects,whichrequiredimplantingtiny electrodesintothebrainsofBlacksand Hispanicssuspectedofviolentbehavior.
PsychiatristJolyonWestandRacism—In1972,Westclaimedthatriotsweretiedtogeneticand
healthindustrywatchdogCitizensCommissiononHuman
Thiswaslargelybecauseofhis brainwashingandLSDexperiments;a racistprogramcalled"Theviolence initiative;"hisuseofpsychosurgery,and hislinkstowell-knownassassins,to evaluatetheir"Mentalstates."
Untilhisdeathin1999,Westwasscrutinizedbythemental
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From1969to1989,WestservedaschairofpsychiatryattheUniversityof California,LosAngelesSchoolofMedicine,andtheUCLANeuropsychiatric Institute.ButhishistorywiththeCIAdatedbeforethis. BeforeUCLA,Westcuthisteethworkingwith anthropologistMargaretSangerforAirForce Intelligence,examiningAmericanPOWsfromthe KoreanWarwhowereactually"Manchurian Candidates"(apersonusedasapuppetbyanenemy power,throughbrainwashingtechniquesasdepictedin the1959film).
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