The Rise of the Fourth Reich - ThereAreNoSunglasses

202 THE RISE OF THE FOURTH REICHA resulting inspector general’s report concluded, “The concepts involvedin manipulating human behavior are found by many people both withinand outside the agency to be distasteful and unethical.” As the result ofVance’s discovery and the inspector general’s report, the agency beganscaling back the project, which was eventually said to have ended in thelate 1960s.The MKULTRA program, which used patients in psychiatric hospitals,and other unwitting subjects, to develop mind- control techniques,became public knowledge in 1977, during hearings conducted by a Senatecommittee on intelligence chaired by Senator Frank Church. Some of themost distinguished figures in psychiatry participated in MKULTR A,including Dr. Ewen Cameron, the man whom Allen Dulles sent to studyRudolf Hess and who later served as president of both the American andCanadian Psychiatric Associations as well as the World Psychiatric Association.Any in-depth study of MKULTRA shows that the CIA, in addition toseeking a truth serum, also was highly interested in the ability to programindividuals to act in accordance with someone else’s will. The 1962 FrankSinatra film The Manchurian Candidate portrayed a programmed assassinordered to kill a ranking political figure. This movie came out at thesame time the CIA was actively working on just such a program, thanksin great part to the groundwork laid down years earlier by Nazimind- control experts.In the words of Kathleen Ann Sullivan, who claimed to have been partof the MKULTRA program as reported by Gordon Thomas, author ofMind Field: “I am a survivor of the MKULTRA program. It was run bythe CIA and designed to control a subject’s mind and will to the pointwhere he or she would become an assassin. To achieve this I was forced toundergo extensive drugging, electroshock, sensory deprivation, hypnosis,partake in pornographic films, act as a prostitute, and much else. I finallyhave realized I cannot keep hiding that it has left me only a shell of life tolive. In going public I want to end the fear all survivors of MKULTRAlive with.”Hunt noted: “That both the Army and CIA MKULTRA experiments