The Stargate Conspiracy by Lynn & Prince Picknett

Author:Lynn & Prince Picknett [Picknett, Lynn & Prince, Clive]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.

The first experiments were authorised by the CIA in 1950, code-named BLUEBIRD, later renamed ARTICHOKE and then, in 1953, MKULTRA. The US Navy had a similar research program, Project CHATTER (beginning in 1947), which pooled its resources with the CIA projects, and the US Army had its own version called Project OFTEN, which ran between 1968 and 1973.54

ARTICHOKE and MKULTRA included the investigation of narcotic plants found in Latin America and, as we have seen, Puharich had spent much of the 1950s investigating the mind-altering properties of hallucinogenic plants and fungi. And the US Army has admitted to testing LSD on nearly 7,000 servicemen — 1,500 of whom were not volunteers - in the late 1950s.55 It was this type of research in which Puharich was involved for defence and intelligence departments.

In the 1970s, after many questions raised about the CIA’s abuses of human rights, President Gerald Ford appointed an investigative commission under Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller. The commission’s references to ‘behavioural control research’ attracted the interest of writer John Marks, who obtained 16,000 pages of previously unclassified documents relating to MKULTRA under the Freedom of Information Act, though many of the key documents had already been destroyed on the orders of the CIA’s director in 1973.

Not everyone applauded Marks’s revelations. In his book about the ‘uses and abuses’ of hypnosis, Open to Suggestion (1989), Robert Temple declared bluntly that he refused even to read Marks’s book on the grounds that it was ‘irresponsible’ and ‘not commensurate with national security considerations’56 — which is manifestly untrue, as Marks had found his material using the Freedom of Information Act. Temple admits that ‘the CIA has been very naughty on many occasions’,57 but this does not, in his view, excuse Marks for ‘throwing mud’ at them. While Temple appears to think that a mild slap on the wrist is enough for the CIA, it is worth remembering that their ’naughtiness’ included mindbending experiments on US servicemen (at least 1,500 of whom were not volunteers), the inmates of jails and mental patients, which resulted in several deaths and turned many strong, healthy Americans into shambling wrecks. Very naughty.

What was Puharich’s role? There is no doubt that he was very deeply committed to much of the mind control experimentation of the military/CIA. He was certainly no mere Army doctor, whose work was confined to handing out pills and potions. In fact, even the Round Table Foundation - as Puharich himself implies in The Sacred Mushroom — was a front for the Army’s parapsychological experiments.

When he was redrafted in February 1953 it was as a captain at the Army Chemical Center in Edgewood, Maryland, the Army’s facility for research into chemical and psychological warfare and neurophysical research, where he served until April 1955, when he returned to the Round Table Foundation.58

Certain groups within the US Army were interested in Puharich’s parapsychological work. In The Sacred Mushroom, he records the visit to the Round Table Foundation of an unnamed colonel, who was in charge of research for the office of the chief of psychological warfare, in August 1952.

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