SO IT GOES: THE MKULTRA PROGRAM AND MY STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH AND FREEDOM

"American Guinea Pig: My Struggle for Health and Freedom", the first entry in this blog, is an introduction to my experiences and is no where near the full story. American Guinea Pig was written months before Katherine Shrader of the AP reported the NSA monitoring Doctors and Lawyers relationships with suspected terrorists. ("DOJ : NSA Could've Monitored Lawyers' Calls" AP 3/25/2006). http://www.truthout.org/article/justice-department-allows-monitoring-lawyers-calls In one of my last Hill ads before I departed Washington, I summed up my experiences in an advertisement : "Attorney Wanted: Accused Terrorists Are Not The Only Ones Without Representation"(The Hill 12/11/2002). http://www.healthycitizens.com/AttorneyWanted2.htm

I should have included physicians in the advertisement. In post World War II United States human experimentation research programs, there is a long history in monitoring physician- guinea pig relationships. In fact, an argument can be made that the technologies utilized in today's monitoring originated with these programs. In The Search For The Manchurian Candidate, John Marks wrote : "The Inspector General noted that the whole program could be compromised if an outside doctor 'made a correct diagnosis of an illness' Thus the MKULTRA program not only made some people sick but had a vested interest in keeping them from finding out what was really wrong." ( W.W. Norton & Co., pg. 106.) A look at the files of MKULTRA confirms that from the very beginning, a high priority was placed on the development of monitoring techniques.

MY PHYSICIAN AND LEGAL EXPERIENCES

Physicians go along with the human experimentation programs, an unpleasant necessity of doing business. How else can the longevity of these programs be explained? Many times when I lived in Washington DC 1998-2003, physicians would cancel appointments, even those I met socially who had invited me to call their office. Even when I could successfully have an appointment with a physician, he would refer me to another physician who would refuse me an appointment. One of my biggest disappointments is not finding a physician who would understand the importance of taking a stand and speaking out.

In the sidebar, "My Father's Estate" I address some of the difficulties I have had retaining attorneys It is obvious that it is the government and not my father who is worried about me with money. I don't believe my father in the last hours of his life, when he could neither speak nor sign his name, used hand signals to change his will. If this had been his intention, I am sure he would have done this months or years before. The government is not just in bedrooms but in the dyings' hospital rooms

TOTAL MONITORING

In American Guinea Pig, I write about interference with my relationship with .doctors and lawyers but the reality is there is total monitoring. There are few relationships that are not within the Government's reach. What is shocking is the ease that all these activities are accomplished. It is impossible to network to protect yourself. "Ignore, isolate and injure" is the mo of these programs whether you are in the United States or in London, Beijing, Sydney or Seoul. Many of those in Europe, Asia, Oceania who claim to be victims believe they have been victims for decades. http://www.mkultravictim.blogspot.com/ It is not just attorneys and physicians who have failed the victims but also journalists, legislators, clergy as well as their fellow citizens. To understand how this total control of an individual is accomplished is as important as exposing the individual programs.

It is important to recognize that the global aspects of these programs were addressed by Congress and Presidential Commissions in the 1970's. In "Testing and Use of Biological and Chemical Agents by the Intelligence Community", the U. S. Senate wrote about the international structure of the MKULTRA program: " The development, testing, and use of chemical and biological agents by intelligence agencies raises serious questions about the relationship between the intelligence community and foreign governments, other agencies of the Federal Government, and other institutions and individuals." This quote is relevant in helping to understand the evolution of the anti-terrorist programs, especially the cooperation between intelligence agencies in torture and rendition programs.

GLOBAL GUINEA PIG

1975, 1980 and 1996, I left the United States to first seek medical treatment and in later years to try to escape the United States Programs which I have found as likely to be successful as avoiding death and taxes They are global, so global that no longer can they be considered solely United States programs. Renditions could not have occurred without the consent of significant members of the global community. Neither could (the cerebral cortex behavioral modification mind control programs) I address.

My strategy during the past 15 years has been to look forward and be willing to forget the past. Let bygones bygones. I think most guinea pigs feel this way. Unlike many victims, my physicians in the early 1970's were involved with electromagnetic radiation, toxins, hypothalamus and vagus nerve research. Some published their research. An inspection of my legal and medical records will validate my claims Except for a couple of instances, I have never named an individual. physician, lawyer, legislator, clergy etc whom I have interacted with. I have been willing to forgive those who have knowledge about my suffering. even those who participated in my suffering. What is troubling is no one seems to realize these programs contaminate our society. These programs are not about guinea pigs; they are about us.

A POLICY THAT GUARANTEED NO JUSTICE FOR MKULTRA VICTIMS

CIA DIRECTOR STANSFIELD TURNER'S LETTER TO SENATOR INOUYE, CHAIRMAN SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE http://healthycitizens.googlepages.com/stansfieldturnerletter.pdf
THE CIA GENERAL COUNSEL'S LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY http://healthycitizens.googlepages.com/ciageneralcounselslettertojohnshopki.pdf

In 1994, at the time of the exposure of the radiation testing program, U.S. News And World Reports published an article about the victims of previous programs: "MKULTRA. Most victims have never been informed by the government of the nature of the experiments they were subjected to or, in some cases, even fact that they were subjects. In a 1977 hearing, then CIA director Stansfield Turner said he found the experiments 'abhorrent' and promised that the CIA would find and notify the people used in the tests. Turner last week insisted that 'they found everyone they possibly could find.' But internal memos and depositions taken from CIA officials in a lawsuit against the agency in the 1980s reveal that of the hundreds of experimental subjects used in the CIA's mind-control program, code-named MKULTRA, only 14 were ever notified and only one was compensated -- for $15,000." http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/940124/archive_012286.htm

This policy is addressed in CIA Director Stansfield Turner's letter to Senator Inouye and the CIA General Counsel's letter to the President of Johns Hopkins University. In his letter to Senator Inouye, Stansfield Turner wrote, "I believe we all have a moral obligation to these researchers and institutions to protect them from any unjustified embarrassment or damage to their reputations which revelation of their identities might bring. In addition, I have a legal obligation under the Privacy Act not to publicly disclose the names of he individual resarchers without their consent." The fact is, as a consequence of this policy, the MKULTRA programs could continue if no one could identify the victims, the universities or the researchers. Despite Presidential commissions, Senate and House hearings, the United States has never attempted to locate, compensate, heal and rehabilitate victims.