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NAZI MIND CONTROL 195search and development. The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) andthe Deputy Director of Plans (DDP) were kept informed on the programvia annual briefings by Chief Technical Services Division (C/TSD) orhis deputy. Most of the research and development was externallycontracted. . . . The objectives were behavioral control, behavior anomalyproduction, and countermeasures for opposition application of similarsubstances. Work was performed at U.S. industrial, academic, and governmentalresearch facilities. Funding was often through cutout arrangements.”After discussing testing on “volunteer inmates” and the diminishedrole of the MKULTRA project as fears of Soviet drug use eased, the CIAofficer that authored the report noted, “Over my stated objections theMKULTR A files were destroyed by order of the DCI (Mr. [Richard]Helms) shortly before his departure from office.”To study psychochemicals and the possibility of using them to achievemind control, the CIA, along with military intelligence, launched a programcode-named BLUEBIRD, later changed to ARTICHOKE.THE CI A HA S even admitted that its drug testing on college campusesresulted in the “drug revolution” of the 1960s.This amazing story began in 1943, when Swiss chemist Dr. AlbertHofmann, working for Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, accidentally absorbedthrough his fingertips a chemical derived from the cereal fungusergot. He proceeded to experience a semiconscious delirium completewith kaleidoscopic colors and visions. As this was the twenty-fifth compoundof lysergic acid diethylamide, synthetically produced by Sandoz,Hofmann named it LSD-25.The editors of Consumer Reports, in their monumental 1972 book Licit& Illicit Drugs, noted: “Psychiatrists were naturally interested from thebeginning in LSD effects. Many of them took the drug themselves, andgave it to staff members of mental hospitals, in the belief that its effectsapproximate a psychotic state and might thus lead to better understandingof their patients.”About the same time Dr. Hofmann was discovering LSD, General