Project Artichoke

Project ARTICHOKE was a CIA project that researched interrogation methods and arose from Project MKULTRA on August 20, 1951 — Wikipedia



CIA not at the movies

When we think of the CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, we may envision Jason Bourne or Ethan Hunt. Running around the world, saving lives, and fighting baddies in nice choreographed fight scenes. For me, it looks cool as hell. Serving my country, traveling, and spying, but being a field agent is not as clear cut as the film industry portrays it.

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There is a darker side to the CIA. The CIA tasks are gathering, processing, and analyzing national information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence—HUMINT.

Relying on Intelligence

The CIA relies heavily on its human intelligence. What does this mean? The CIA heavily relies on information through human sources. These National Clandestine Service, NCS, are liable for the collection of HUMINT. These are the guys responsible for Jason Bourne and Ethan Hunt.

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Many of these NCS officers need to understand human nature. How can anyone try to understand human nature? Well these NCS officials have to if they want to be successful. It takes years of practice and a certain emotional intelligence to be successful at reading people and all its complexities.

Now imagine if you could extrapolate information through mind control.
The CIA has done many experiments’ like these in the past like Project MKUltra. These are dark psychological experiment’s; these types of experiments brutalize the victims and don’t follow any ethical or medical guidelines. One such testing was Project Artichoke.

PROJECT ARTICHOKE

Project Artichoke was the study of interrogation methods through hypnosis, forced morphine addiction, and subsequent forced withdrawal, and the use of other chemicals including LSD, to produce amnesia and other vulnerable states in subjects.

The sole purpose of this project was to see if the CIA could control an individual through a series of experiment’s labeled above and eventually be a willing member to the point he or she would go against fundamental laws of nature.

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This project ran from the ’50s and ended in the mid-’60s. I believe this Project Artichoke and Project MKUltra helped the CIA define some of the interrogation methods we now see used in Guantanamo Bay. Some of the released information says the found success with “total isolation” as an operational tool of potential.

Military Experiments

They conducted these experiments on military members. It doesn’t specify what they conducted on them, but you can imagine. Alternatively, how they got these six members, voluntarily or involuntarily? Did they know what this experiment meant? Alternatively, did they dump these six people in a dark hole somewhere?

We now know what isolation does to people, from inmates stuck in isolation, but there are varying degrees of isolation. For example, there is an isolation method called “The White Room,” where subjects are isolated in a white room, wear white clothes, and eat from white food from white plates. They are also sensory deprived.

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They also used certain drugs to try to control people. Some of these drugs were muscle relaxers, psychotic medicine, drugs used in treatments for Parkinson’s, stimulants, tranquilizers, and two drugs couldn’t be identified previously used in Project MKUltra.

From the national security archive, it doesn’t explain or detail what they did or how, but for those who have seen or experienced addiction, you can only imagine how lethal these administrations of drugs by professionals could have done to whomever these volunteers were.

Only a few references carry little detail. So, we don’t know if a combination of drugs and isolation helped to control subjects better.

Hypnosis

Another use was hypnosis. This detail is vague too. It says they experimented with volunteer staff, but what type of hypnosis? What did they hypnotize these people to do? Was it successful? Did the volunteers know when the hypnosis ended or began?

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The documents state there was intense interest but would be of little use in operational matters but could help as a tool in offensive or defensive aid. They also used mechanical means in this experiment with hypnosis.
These types of experiments are dark.

All About Control

I doubt any of these test subjects realized the extent this type of manipulation had on them; there is no follow up. I don’t doubt the CIA is still perfecting and experimenting on unwilling test subjects.

It would be ideal to have mind control over a person, to do your bidding in another country, to cause chaos and disorder. Do I believe the United States and other countries have reached this level of mind control, probably?

Dora Starbuck Esquivel

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FOOTNOTE:
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