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Memory disturbances and dissociative amnesia in Holocaust survivors

Posted on June 25, 2011 at 10:02 PM

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Memory disturbances and dissociative amnesia in Holocaust survivors

The excerpts below are from this website.

_http://blogs.brown.edu/recoveredmemory/scholarly-resources/holocaust/_

(http://blogs.brown.edu/recoveredmemory/scholarly-resources/holocaust/)

The following articles provide compelling scientific evidence in support

of the phenomena of dissociation and recovered memory in Holocaust survivors.

In addition to supporting the phenomenon in general, these articles also

counter the argument that recovered memory is (a) no more than a recent

cultural “fad” and (b) specific to false accusers of sexual abuse.

DeWind, E. (1968). The confrontation with death. International Journal of

Psychoanalysis, 49, 302-305. Excerpt: “Most former inmates of Nazi

concentration camps could not remember anything of the first days of imprisonment

because perception of reality was so overwhelming that it would lead to a

mental chaos which implies a certain death.”

Durlacher, G. L. (1991). De zoektocht [The search]. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff.

Dutch sociologist Durlacher, a survivor of Birkenau, describes his search

for and meetings with another 20 child survivors from this camp. Excerpt: “

Misha…looks helplessly at me and admits hesitantly that the period in the

camps is wiped out from his brain….With each question regarding the period

between December 12, 1942 till May 7, 1945, he admits while feeling

embarrassed that he cannot remember anything."

Jaffe, R. (1968). Dissociative phenomena in former concentration camp

inmates. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 49(2), 310-312.

Case descriptions include amnesia for traumatic events and subsequent

twilight states in which events would be relived without conscious awareness.

Excerpt: “The dissociative phenomena described here turn out not to be rare,

once one is on the look out for them.”

Keilson, H. (1992). Sequential traumatization in children. Jerusalem: The

Magnes Press. Amnesia in Jewish Dutch child survivors for the traumatic

separation from their parents.

Krell, R. (1993). Child survivors of the Holocaust: Strategies of

adaptation. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 38, 384-389.

Excerpt: “The most pervasive preoccupation of child survivors is the

continuing struggle with memory, whether there is too much or too little."

Krystal, H., & Danieli, Y. (1994, Fall). Holocaust survivor studies in the

context of PTSD. PTSD Research Quarterly, 5(4), 1-5.

Kuch, K., & Cox, B. J. (1992). Symptoms of PTSD in 124 survivors of the

Holocaust. American Journal of Psychiatry, 149, 337-340.

Psychogenic amnesia was found in 3.2% of the totals sample, in 3.8 of the

general concentration camp survivors, and in 10% of tattooed survivors of

Auschwitz. 17.7% (N=22) of the total sample had received psychotherapy. The

tattooed survivors had a higher number of PTSD symptoms overall.

Lagnado, L. M., & Dekel, S. C. (1991). Children of the flames: Dr. Josef

Mengele and the untold story of the twins of Auschwitz. New York: William

and Morrow & Co.

Excerpt: “A few of the twins insisted that they had no memories of

Auschwitz whatsoever.”

Laub, D., & Auerhahn, N. C. (1989). Failed empathy—A central theme in the

survivor’s Holocaust experience. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 6(4), 377-400.

Excerpt: “Holocaust survivors remember their experiences through a prism

of fragmentation and usually recount them only in fragments.”

Laub, D., & Auerhahn, N. C. (1993). Knowing and not knowing massive

psychic trauma: Forms of traumatic memory. American Journal of Psychoanalysis,

74, 287-302.

Excerpt: “Erecting barriers against knowing is often the first response to

such trauma. Women in Nazi concentration camps dealt with difficult

interrogation by the Gestapo by derealization, by asserting ‘I did not go through

it. Somebody else went through the experience.’....Unintegrable memories

endure as a split-off part, a cleavage in the ego...When the balance is such

that the ego cannot deal with the experience, fragmentation

occurs....Simply put, therapy with those impacted by trauma involves, in part, the

reinstatement of the relationship between event, memory and personality.”

Marks, J. (1995). The hidden children: The secret survivors of the

Holocaust. Toronto: Bantam Books.

Excerpt: “So much of my childhood between the ages of four and nine is

blank….It’s almost as if my life was smashed into little pieces….The trouble

is, when I try to remember, I come up with so little. This ability to

forget was probably my way of surviving emotionally as a child.”

Mazor, A., Ganpel, Y., Enright, R. D., & Ornstein, R. (1990, January).

Holocaust survivors: Coping with posttraumatic memories in childhood and 40

years later. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 3(1), 11-14.

Modai, I. (1994). Forgetting childhood: A defense mechanism against

psychosis in a Holocaust survivor. In T. L. Brink (Ed.), Holocaust survivors’

mental health. New York: Haworth Press.

In a debate about uncovering painful memories of the Holocaust, Modai’s

case is of a 58 year old woman who is unable to remember her childhood.

Moskovitz, S., & Krell, R. (1990). Child survivors of the Holocaust:

Psychological adaptations to survival. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related

Services, 27(2), 81-91.

Excerpt: “Whatever the memories, much is repressed as too fearful for

recall, or suppressed by well-meaning caretakers wishing the child to forget.”

Musaph, H. (1993). Het post-concentratiekampsyndroom [The

post-concentration camp syndrome]. Maandblad Geestelijke volksgezondheid [Dutch Journal of

Mental Health], 28(5), 207-217.

Amnesia exists for certain Holocaust experiences, while other experiences

are extremely well remembered.

Niederland, W. G. (1968). Clinical observations on the “survivor syndrome.”

International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 49, 313-315.

Discusses memory disturbances such as amnesia and hypermnesia.

Stein, A. (1994). Hidden children: Forgotten survivors of the Holocaust.

Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books.

Excerpt: “Over the years I have been trying to re-experience those

feelings, but they kept eluding me. I was cut off from most of my memories, and

from relieving the anxiety of that time….I remember nothing about the time I

spent with those people…not a face, not a voice, not a piece of furniture.”

van Ravesteijn, L. (1976). Gelaagdheid van herinneringen [Layering of

memories]. Tijdschrift boor Psychotherapie, 5(1), 195-205.

Wagenaar, W. A., & Groeneweg, J. (1990). The memory of concentration camp

survivors. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 4, 77-87.

Abstract: This study is concerned with the question whether extremely

emotional experiences, such as being the victim of Nazi concentration camps,

leave traces in memory that cannot be extinguished. Relevant data were

obtained from testimony by 78 witnesses in a case against Marinus De Rijke, who

was accused of Nazi crimes in Camp Erika in The Netherlands. The testimonies

were collected in the periods 1943–1947 and 1984–1987. A comparison

between these two periods reveals the amount of forgetting that occurred in 40

years. Results show that camp experiences were generally well-remembered,

although specific but essential details were forgotten. Among these were

forgetting being maltreated, forgetting names and appearance of the torturers,

and forgetting being a witness to murder. Apparently intensity of

experiences is not a sufficient safeguard against forgetting."

Wilson, J., Harel, Z., & Kahana, B. (1988). Human adaptation to extreme

stress: From the Holocaust to Vietnam. New York: Plenum Press.

Yehuda, R., Elkin, A., Binder-Brynes, K., Kahana, B., Southwick, S. M.,

Schmeidler, J., & Giller, E. R., Jr. (1996, July). Dissociation in aging

Holocaust survivors. American Journal of Psychiatry, 153(7), 935-940.

Yehuda, R., Schmeidler, J., Siever, L. J., Binder-Brynes, K., & Elkin, A.

(1997). Individual differences in posttraumatic stress disorder symptom

profiles in Holocaust survivors in concentration camps or in hiding. Journal

of Traumatic Stress, 10, 453-465.

46% of 100 survivors report amnesia on PTSD measures.

_http://blogs.brown.edu/recoveredmemory/scholarly-resources/holocaust/_

(http://blogs.brown.edu/recoveredmemory/scholarly-resources/holocaust/)

Breaking the silence about non-state torture (NST)

Posted on May 27, 2011 at 12:20 PM

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Breaking the silence about non-state torture (NST)

I am a person who survived non-state torture in private settings in

childhood. I speak and use my writing and art-work to raise awareness and educate

about non-state torture including ritual abuse-torture, child trafficking,

and organised ritualised pedophilia.

I dream of seeing human rights recognition of non-state torture in private

settings for all persons. Torture in domestic/private settings is a

genderised violence. All persons, and particularly women, women who when they

were girls, and children who have endured torture victimisation in this way,

are invisiblised in our world.

(http://www.artprintsnst.net)

Ritual child abuse in France: German documentary

Posted on May 27, 2011 at 12:16 PM

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Ritual child abuse in France: German documentary

describes crimes

Ritual child abuse in France: German documentary pt. 1/5 - German

documentary that delves into three cases of child abuse in France.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUzQ7aqFyiU)

Ritual child abuse in France: German documentary pt. 2/5

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_qTWBZ_aRc)

Ritual child abuse in France: German documentary pt. 3/5

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TquVPkCTn6U)

Ritual child abuse in France: German documentary pt. 4/5

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxBeYH7qdVE)

Ritual child abuse in France: German documentary pt. 5/5

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUDAZLwRuCs)

The 14th Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations & Mind Control Conference

Posted on May 7, 2011 at 6:42 PM

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The 14th Annual Ritual Abuse,

Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference

(We are accepting early pre-registrations now for discount prices. Please write us at smartnews@aol.com for more information.)

August 5 - 7, 2011

DoubleTree near Bradley International Airport

16 Ella Grasso Turnpike

Windsor Locks, CT

Validating Information For Survivors

Posted on February 27, 2011 at 6:41 PM

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Please read with caution. Just found this site and it is very validating in regards to my memories and has answered some of my Q's. If the link doesnt work cut and paste into the address bar ---click enter.

http://www.the7thfire.com/new_world_order/Freemasonry/satanic_ritual_abuse.htm

Clip from Healing from Ritual Abuse and Mind Control DVD

Posted on January 18, 2011 at 11:16 AM

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Clip from Healing from Ritual Abuse and Mind Control DVD

Trish Fotheringham _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPbuhtVLy2g_

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPbuhtVLy2g)

Ordering information for the full video is at:

Healing from Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: Survivor Trish Fotheringham

Speaks Out - Interview by Ellen Lacter, Ph.D.

This is a three-disc DVD set interview of Trish Fotheringham, survivor of

ritual abuse and mind control.

In an interview of almost three hours with Dr. Ellen Lacter, Trish

Fotheringham inspires hope and courage for extreme abuse survivors. She gives

direction and guidance for the healing journey, not only to survivors but also

to the people who help them, including psychotherapists, clergy, and loved

ones.

_http://morethananidea.wordpress.com/dvd-interview/_

(http://morethananidea.wordpress.com/dvd-interview/)

Babies often tortured by fundamentalist polygamists: Witness

Posted on January 18, 2011 at 11:12 AM

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also:

Nine arrested in child sex abuse investigation - Rochdale

_http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/mormons-other-groups/_

(http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/mormons-other-groups/)

Babies often tortured by fundamentalist polygamists: Witness

By Daphne Bramham, Postmedia News January 13, 2011 Water torture of

babies is one way some members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter Day Saints instil fear of authority, a former member testified

Wednesday.

“It’s quite common,” Carolyn Blackmore Jessop said. She was a witness for

the B.C. government in the constitutional reference case to determine

whether Canada’s polygamy law is valid....

Jessop talked about the practice during her testimony in B.C. Supreme

Court.

Her assertions about water torture were not challenged by FLDS lawyer

Robert Wickett during cross-examination.

Outside the courthouse, Jessop said water torture is common enough that

there doesn’t seem to be any shame attached to the practice.

In her cousin’s baby book, there’s a handwritten note by her mother

noting that when her daughter was 18 months old, she was becoming quite a

handful and, as a result, was being held under the tap on a regular basis....

_http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Babies+often+tortured+fundamentalist+polyg

amists+Witness/4100427/story.html_

(http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Babies+often+tortured+fundamentalist+polygamists+Witness/4100427/story.html)

Nine arrested in child sex abuse investigation - Rochdale arrests made

after a police inquiry into the sexual exploitation of teenage girls - Helen

Carter guardian.co.uk 11 January 2011

Police investigating a group of men who allegedly groomed young girls for

sex in Rochdale have made a series of arrests.

Greater Manchester police said nine men had been arrested on suspicion of

causing or inciting child prostitution, sexual activity with a child and

paying for the sexual services of a child. The men, aged between 20 and 40

from Rochdale and Heywood, were arrested on 21 December.

_http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/11/nine-arrested-sex-abuse-rochd

ale_

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/11/nine-arrested-sex-abuse-rochdale)

Organised child sex abuse 'growing problem' in Wales

Posted on January 18, 2011 at 11:10 AM

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Organised child sex abuse 'growing problem' in Wales

7 January 2011

Children trafficked in Wales are being moved around the country and across

the UK, says children's charity Barnardo's. They are moved along the M4

corridor in south Wales and the A55 in north Wales to places including

London, Bristol, Birmingham and Liverpool, it says. Meanwhile, an AM says nearly

30 children in Wales' social services system have been identified as

victims of organised child sexual abuse....

The charity says it is working with more than 1,000 abused children who

are moved around British towns and cities. Dr Sam Clutton, lead policy

officer for child sexual exploitation at Barnardo's Cymru, said a "sophisticated

grooming process" saw young people being tricked by abusers. She told BBC

Radio Wales: "We know that this is becoming more organised and more tied

into organised crime.

_http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12204559_

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12204559)

Mind Control Documents & Links

Posted on December 24, 2010 at 9:30 PM

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Mind Control Documents & Links

copied with permission

_http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/mc-documents-links/_

(http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/mc-documents-links/)

proof mk-ultra exists

This page includes information on mk-ultra, the CIA, mind control,

Operation Paperclip and the Nazis, the 1995 congressional hearings, the 2010

veterans vs CIA court case, Artichoke, the CIA Supreme Court cases, Ewen

Cameron and the Sleep Room and the MK/Naomi project.

see:

A LOOK AT THE LAW AND GOVERNMENT MIND CONTROL THROUGH FIVE CASES

CIA VS SIMS

UNITED STATES VS STANLEY

ORLIKOW, ET AL VS UNITED STATES

KRONISCH VS UNITED STATES ET AL

HEINRICH, ET AL VS SWEET, ET AL

(http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/mindcontrol/articles-b

ooks/the-law-and-mind-control-a-look-at-the-law-and-goverment-mind-control-through-five-cases/)

h_ttp://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/articles-books/the-law-and-mind-control-a-look-at-the-law-and-goverment-mind-contro

l-through-five-cases/_

(http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/articles-books/the-law-and-mind-control-a-look-at-the-law-and-goverment-mind-control-through-f

ive-cases/)

Declassified MK-Ultra Project Documents:

(http://www.michael-robinett.com/declass/c000.htm) http://www.michael-robinett.com/declass/c000.htm

MKULTRA Documents (http://www.hiddenmysteries.com/freebook/mk/)

http://www.hiddenmysteries.com/freebook/mk/

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate

_http://cryptome.org/mkultra-0001.htm_ (http://cryptome.org/mkultra-0001.htm)

The CIA and Mind Control – John Marks

(http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm) h_ttp://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm_

(http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm)

List of MKULTRA Unclassified Documents (including subprojects)

(http://web.archive.org/web/20080613034340/http://www.nemasys.com/rahome/library/program

ming/mkultra.shtml)

h_ttp://web.archive.org/web/20080613034340/http://www.nemasys.com/rahome/library/programming/mkultra.shtml_

(http://web.archive.org/web/20080613034340/http://www.nemasys.com/rahome/library/programming/mkultra

.shtml)

APPENDIX B Documents Referring To Discovery Of Additional MKULTRA

Material? (http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1950/mkultra/AppendixB.htm)

h_ttp://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1950/mkultra/AppendixB.htm_

(http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1950/mkultra/AppendixB.htm)

(http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/mindcontrol/mc-documents-links/mk-ultra-links-torture-based-government-sponsored-mind-control-experimentation-on-chi

ldren/)

_http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/mc-documents-links/mk-ultra-links-torture-based-government-sponsored-mind-control-experimentation-on-children

(http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/mc-documents-links/mk-ultra-links-torture-based-government-sponsored-mind-control-experimentation-on-children/)

(http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/mindcontrol/mc-documents-links/cia-mind-control-nazis-mk-ultra-ritual-abuse-information/)

_http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/mc-documents-links/cia-mind-control-nazis-mk-ultra-ritual-abuse-inf

ormation/_

(http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/mc-documents-links/cia-mind-control-nazis-mk-ultra-ritual-abuse-information/)

The Shock Doctrine – by Naomi Klein – Chapter 1 - The Torture Lab – Ewen

Cameron, the CIA and the maniacal quest to erase and remake the human mind.

(http://books.google.com/books?id=b1uQNYbE8DkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:0

805079831#PPA25,M1)

h_ttp://books.google.com/books?id=b1uQNYbE8DkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:0805079831#PPA25,M1_

(http://books.google.com/books?id=b1uQNYbE8DkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:0805079831#PPA25,M1)

1995 U. S. congressional hearing:

MKULTRA Victim Testimony A: _

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iflBkRlpRy0&feature=related_

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iflBkRlpRy0&feature=related)

MKULTRA Victim Testimony B: _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXDASDDrDkM_

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXDASDDrDkM)

MKULTRA Victim Testimony C: _ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ES8Bv0_8w_

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ES8Bv0_8w)

2010 Court Case – Veterans vs CIA

CIA Tries Again to Duck Responsibility for Doing Drug Experiments on

Veterans By MARIA DINZEO December 14, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The Central

Intelligence Agency in January will argue for dismissal of Vietnam veterans’

claims that the CIA must provide them with information about the health

effects of chemicals used on them during Cold War-era human experiments. The CIA

also claims it is not obligated to provide the veterans with medical care

for side effects of the drugs. It’s the CIA’s third attempt to get the

case dismissed.

In a 2009 federal lawsuit, Vietnam Veterans of America claimed that the

Army and CIA had used at least 7,800 soldiers as guinea pigs in “Project

Paperclip.” They were given at least 250 and as many as 400 types of drugs,

among them sarin, one of the most deadly drugs known to man, amphetamines,

barbiturates, mustard gas, phosgene gas and LSD.

Among the project’s goals were to control human behavior, develop drugs

that would cause confusion, promote weakness or temporarily cause loss of

hearing or vision, create a drug to induce hypnosis and identify drugs that

could enhance a person’s ability to withstand torture.

(https://www.courthousenews.com/2010/12/14/32562.htm)

h_ttps://www.courthousenews.com/2010/12/14/32562.htm_ (https://www.courthousenews.com/2010/12/14/32562.htm)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – OAKLAND

DIVISION VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CENTRAL

INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, et al., Defendants. Case No. CV 09-0037-CW Noticed Motion Date

and Time: January 13, 2011 2:00 p.m. DEFENDANTS’ PARTIAL MOTION TO DISMISS

PLAINTIFFS’ THIRD AMENDED COMPLAINT

(http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/12/14/CIADismiss.pdf) h_ttp://www.courthousenews.com/2010/12/14/CIADismiss.pdf_

(http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/12/14/CIADismiss.pdf)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTNORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – OAKLAND

DIVISION VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CENTRAL

INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, et al., Defendants. Case No. CV 09-0037-CW PLAINTIFFS’

OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ PARTIAL MOTION TO DISMISS THIRD AMENDED COMPLAINT Date:

January 13, 2011 _http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/12/14/VetsvCIA.pdf_

(http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/12/14/VetsvCIA.pdf)

Veterans say CIA tested drugs, mind control on them By Jay Price – Staff

Writer 1/11/09 Instead of equipment testing, though, the Onslow County

native found himself in a bizarre, CIA-funded drug testing and mind-control

program, according to a lawsuit that he and five other veterans and

Vietnam Veterans of America filed last week. The suit was filed in federal

court in San Francisco against the Department of Defense and the CIA. The

plaintiffs seek to force the government to contact all the subjects of the

experiments and give them proper health care. The experiments have been the

subject of congressional hearings, and in 2003 the U.S. Department of

Veterans Affairs released a pamphlet said nearly 7,000 soldiers had been

involved and more than 250 chemicals used on them, including hallucinogens

such as LSD and PCP as well as biological and chemical agents. Lasting from

1950 to 1975, the experiments took place at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland.

According to the lawsuit, some of the volunteers were even implanted with

electrical devices in an effort to control their behavior. Rochelle, 60,

who has come back to live in Onslow County, said in an interview Saturday

that there were about two dozen volunteers when he was taken to Edgewood.

Once there, they were asked to volunteer a second time, for drug testing.

They were told that the experiments were harmless and that their health

would be carefully monitored, not just during the tests but afterward, too.

The doctors running the experiments, though, couldn’t have known the drugs

were safe, because safety was one of the things they were trying to find

out, Rochelle said. “We volunteered, yes, but we were not fully aware of

the dangers,” he said. “None of us knew the kind of drugs they gave us,

or the aftereffects they’d have.” _

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/01/12-8_ (http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/01/12-8)

Vets sue CIA, DoD over military experiments By PAUL ELIAS, Associated

Press Writer 1/7/09 SAN FRANCISCO – Six veterans who say they were exposed to

dangerous chemicals, germs and mind-altering drugs during Cold War-era

experiments filed a federal lawsuit against the CIA, Department of Defense

and other agencies Wednesday. The veterans say they volunteered for

military experiments as part of a wide-ranging program started in the 1950s to

test nerve agents, biological weapons and mind-control techniques, but were

not properly informed of the nature of the experiments. They blame the

experiments for poor health and are demanding the government provide their

health care. They also want the court to rule that the program was illegal

because its administrators failed to get their consent….The suit, filed in

San Francisco, alleges that at least 7,800 U.S. military personnel served

as volunteers to test experimental drugs such as LSD at the Edgewood

Arsenal near Baltimore, Md., during a program that lasted into the 1970s, and

that many others volunteered for similar experiments at other locations. “

In virtually all cases, troops served in the same capacity as laboratory

rats or guinea pigs,” the lawsuit states. The suit contends that veterans

were wrongfully used as test subjects in experiments such as MK-ULTRA, a

CIA project from the 1950s and ’60s that involved brainwashing and

administering experimental drugs like LSD to unsuspecting individuals. The project

was the target of several congressional inquiries in the 1970s and was

tied to at least one death. Harf said that MK-ULTRA “was thoroughly

investigated and the CIA fully cooperated with each of the investigations.” The

plaintiffs say many of the volunteers’ records have been destroyed or remain

sealed as top secret documents. They also say they were denied medals and

other citations they were promised for participating in the experiments.

They are not seeking monetary damages but have demanded access to health

care for veterans they say were turned away at Department of Veterans

Affairs facilities because they could not prove their ailments were related to

their military service. In 1988, the Justice Department agreed to pay

eight Canadians a total of $750,000 to settle their lawsuit alleging they

suffered psychological trauma from CIA-financed mind-control experiments that

included the use of LSD.

Operation Artichoke

CIA FILES – Operation ARTICHOKE - BACM RESEARCH - WWW.PAPERLESSARCHIVES.

About BACM Research – PaperlessArchives.com BACM

Research/PaperlessArchives.com publishes documentary historical research collections….

CIA ARTICHOKE FILES “Manchurian Candidate” ARTICHOKE CIA Files –

ARTICHOKE was the CIA’S cryptonym for the study and/or use of special interrogation

methods that have been known to included hypnosis, drugs and total is

olation. It grew out of the Agency’s Operation BLACKBIRD and was a forerunner to

the Agency’s MKULTRA. Project ARTICHOKE also known as Operation ARTICHOKE

was run by the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence. The project went

deeper into interrogation methods studied in the CIA’s Project BLUEBIRD.

ARTICHOKE offensive mind control techniques experiments attempted to induce

amnesia and highly suggestive states in its subjects. ARTICHOKE focused on the

use of hypnosis, forced morphine addiction, forced morphine addiction

withdrawal, along with other drugs, chemicals, and techniques. The main focus

of the program was summarized in a January 1952 CIA memo, “Can we get

control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his

will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self-preservation?”

One program experiment attempted to see if it was possible to produce a “

Manchurian Candidate.” In Richard Condon’s 1959 novel “The Manchurian

Candidate” an American soldier, who has been placed into a hypnotic state by

Communist forces, returns home to assassinate on command. Five years earlier

the CIA considered the possibility. A January 1954 CIA report asks the

question, “Can an individual of [redacted] descent be made to perform an act of

attempted assassination involuntarily under the influence of ARTICHOKE?”

(http://www.paperlessarchives.com/FreeTitles/ARTICHOKECIAFiles.pdf)

h_ttp://www.paperlessarchives.com/FreeTitles/ARTICHOKECIAFiles.pdf_

(http://www.paperlessarchives.com/FreeTitles/ARTICHOKECIAFiles.pdf)

CIA Supreme Court Cases

U.S. Supreme Court CIA v. SIMS, 471 U.S. 159 (1985) 471 U.S. 159 CENTRAL

INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ET AL. v. SIMS ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES

COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 83-1075. Argued

December 4, 1984 Decided April 16, 1985 ….Between 1953 and 1966, the

Central Intelligence Agency financed a wide-ranging project, code-named

MKULTRA, concerned with “the research and development of chemical, biological, and

radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to

control human behavior.” The [471 U.S. 159, 162] program consisted of

some 149 subprojects which the Agency contracted out to various universities,

research foundations, and similar institutions. At least 80 institutions

and 185 private researchers participated. Because the Agency funded MKULTRA

indirectly, many of the participating individuals were unaware that they

were dealing with the Agency.

MKULTRA was established to counter perceived Soviet and Chinese advances

in brainwashing and interrogation techniques. Over the years the program

included various medical and psychological experiments, some of which led to

untoward results. These aspects of MKULTRA surfaced publicly during the

1970's and became the subject of executive and congressional investigations.

_http://laws.findlaw.com/us/471/159.html _

(http://laws.findlaw.com/us/471/159.html)

U.S. Supreme Court UNITED STATES v. STANLEY, 483 U.S. 669 (1987) 483 U.S.

669 UNITED STATES ET AL. v. STANLEY CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT

OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

No. 86-393. Argued April 21, 1987 Decided June 25, 1987 Respondent, a

serviceman, volunteered for what was ostensibly a chemical warfare testing

program, but in which he was secretly administered lysergic acid diethylamide

(LSD) pursuant to an Army plan to test the effects of the drug on human

subjects, whereby he suffered severe personality changes that led to his

discharge and the dissolution of his marriage. Upon being informed by the Army

that he had been given LSD, respondent filed a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA)

suit. The District Court granted the Government summary judgment on the

ground that the suit was barred by the doctrine of Feres v. United States, 340

U.S. 135 , which precludes governmental FTCA liability for injuries to

servicemen resulting from activity “incident to service.” Although agreeing

with this holding, the Court of Appeals remanded the case upon concluding

that respondent had at least a colorable constitutional claim under the

doctrine of Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents, 403 U.S. 388 , whereby

a violation of constitutional rights can give rise to a damages action

against the offending federal officials even in the absence of a statute

authorizing such relief, unless there are “special factors counselling hesitation”

or an “explicit congressional declaration” of another, exclusive remedy.

Respondent then amended his complaint to add Bivens claims and attempted

to resurrect his FTCA claim. Although dismissing the latter claim, the

District Court refused to dismiss the Bivens claims, rejecting, inter alia, the

Government’s argument that the same considerations giving rise to the Feres

doctrine should constitute “special factors” barring a Bivens action….In

February 1958, James B. Stanley, a master sergeant in the Army stationed at

Fort Knox, Kentucky, volunteered to participate in a program ostensibly

designed to test the effectiveness of protective clothing and equipment as

defenses against chemical warfare. He was released from his then-current

duties and went to the Army’s Chemical Warfare Laboratories at the Aberdeen

Proving Grounds in Maryland. Four times that month, Stanley was secretly

administered doses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), pursuant to an Army plan

to study the effects of the drug on human subjects. According to his

Second Amended Complaint (the allegations of which we accept for purposes of

this decision), as a result of the LSD exposure, Stanley has suffered from

hallucinations and periods of incoherence and memory loss, was impaired in his

military performance, and would on occasion “awake from sleep at night

and, without reason, violently beat his wife and children, later being unable

to recall the entire incident.” App. 5. He was discharged from the Army in

1969. One year later, his marriage dissolved because of the personality

changes wrought by the LSD. December 10, 1975, the Army sent Stanley a letter

soliciting his cooperation in a study of the long-term effects of LSD on “

volunteers who participated” in the 1958 tests. [483 U.S. 669, 672] This was

the Government’s first notification to Stanley that he had been given LSD

during his time in Maryland. After an administrative claim for compensation

was denied by the Army, Stanley filed suit under the Federal Tort Claims

Act (FTCA), 28 U.S.C. 2671 et seq., alleging negligence in the

administration, supervision, and subsequent monitoring of the drug testing program.

_http://laws.findlaw.com/us/483/669.html_

(http://laws.findlaw.com/us/483/669.html)

The Sleep Room – Cameron

The Sleep Room’s Missing Memories by Ray Conlogue Quebec Arts

Correspondent, Montreal – Cameron he Sleep Room’s Missing Memories by Ray Conlogue

Quebec Arts Correspondent, Montreal “A new CBC [Canadian Broadcasting

Corporation] miniseries tells how mental patients in Montreal were once subjected

to CIA-sponsored brainwashing….recalls a series of barbaric experiments

conducted on mental patients over a nine-year period beginning in 1955…the “

psychic driving” technique invented by psychiatrist Ewen Cameron took on a

science-fiction quality when it was revealed in 1977 that the CIA had helped

finance the work. The CIA thought it had potential as a brainwashing

technique to be used on “enemies” of the United States during the Cold War….a

human catastrophe that stripped more than 300 people of their identities….she

sued Ottawa instead, and forced the government to pay $100,000 to each

surviving Allan patient.”

_http://web.archive.org/web/20030402163532/www.serendipity.li/cia/slprm.html _

(http://web.archive.org/web/20030402163532/www.serendipity.li/cia/slprm.html) (The Globe and Mail (Toronto), 1998-01-10,

page C2)

This week on the fifth estate – “The Sleep Room” 1/6/98 – When Canadians

first learned that CIA brainwashing experiments had been carried out on

Canadians… in Canada… with the knowledge of our government… at the Allan

Memorial Institute in Montreal …the story of Cameron’s experiments and the

victims’ struggle for justice have been made into a riveting movie, to be

broadcast on CBC Television… For the victims of The Sleep Room, the horror has

never really ended. VELMA ORLIKOW (patient of Dr. Ewen Cameron): The man

who I had thought cared about what happened to me didn’t give a damn. I was

a fly, just a fly. VOICE-OVER ANNOUNCER: Revisiting Canada’s infamous Sleep

Room. LINDA MACDONALD (patient of Dr. Ewen Cameron): I was…had to be

toilet-trained. I was a vegetable. VOICE-OVER ANNOUNCER: In the 1960s, Dr. Ewen

Cameron conducted CIA-funded experiments on troubled Canadian patients he

was meant to help… MacIntyre: …the CIA caved in the day before the trial

was to begin. They settled out of court for $750,000 – at the time it was the

largest settlement the CIA had ever awarded._

http://web.archive.org/web/20021225185605/http://www.radix.net/~jcturner/980106-Fifth-Estate.htm_

(http://web.archive.org/web/20021225185605/http://www.radix.net/~jcturner/980106-Fi

fth-Estate.htm)

Ottawa finally aids brainwashing victims Broadcast Date: Jan. 28, 1984

(digital clip) It sounds like a science fiction plot or a horror movie: A

front organization for the American CIA sets up shop in Canada to engage in

mind control experiments. But it’s no fiction, it’s the discussion on the

floor of the House of Commons and among lawyers for the Department of External

Affairs. Canadians caught up in the research, including a member of

Parliament’s wife, may finally get some action from the government in their

pursuit of answers and compensation. _

http://archives.cbc.ca/society/crime_justice/clips/15125/_

(http://archives.cbc.ca/society/crime_justice/clips/15125/)

Project Paperclip

Declassified Papers Show U.S. Recruited Ex-Nazis By SAM ROBERTS December

11, 2010 After World War II, American counterintelligence recruited former

Gestapo officers, SS veterans and Nazi collaborators to an even greater

extent than had been previously disclosed and helped many of them avoid

prosecution or looked the other way when they escaped, according to thousands of

newly declassified documents.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/12holocaust.html) h_ttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/12holocaust.html_

(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/12holocaust.html)

The report, “Hitler’s Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence and

the Cold War,” ( HITLER’S SHADOW Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and

the Cold War Richard Breitman and Norman J.W. Goda Published by the

National Archives _http://www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/hitlers-shadow.pdf_

(http://www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/hitlers-shadow.pdf)

Operation Paperclip – CIA’s Denial of Protecting Nazis is Blatant Lie

(Part 1) by Hank P. Albarelli Jr. Leaks or revelations are often more

compelling because of what they don’t reveal. Through Operation Paperclip, the U.S.

organized a monumental transfer of black technology by actively recruiting

Nazi scientists guilty of war crimes for employment by U.S. intelligence.

In his three-part investigation, author H. P. Albarelli dredges up the part

that was omitted from the recently-outed official report: the U.S.

pointedly chose ’fervent’ Nazi scientists with experience in chemical, biological

and radioactive warfare to become the architects of the CIA’s darkest

military experiments involving human guinea pigs, as was the case in Nazi

Germany.

On 11 November 1954, thirty-nine of the German-born scientists who entered

the United States through Project Paperclip were sworn in as U.S.

citizens. Military Intelligence “cleansed” the files of Nazi references. By 1955,

more than 760 German scientists had been granted citizenship in the U.S.

and given prominent positions in the American scientific community. Many had

been longtime members of the Nazi party and the Gestapo, had conducted

experiments on humans at concentration camps, had used slave labor, and had

committed other war crimes.

The article focused on a 600-page “secret report” that had been produced

by the U.S. Justice Department. The report, which Justice Department

officials had suppressed from public release for years, details the American

government’s importation into the U.S., following the end of World War II, of

countless numbers of Nazis.

Written in a dry, bureaucratic style, the report recounts a number of

examples of well-known Nazis to whom both the CIA and Department of State had

provided both shelter and employment to, including Adolph Eichman, Otto Von

Bolschwing, Dr. Josef Mengele, and Arthur Rudolph. To the purposes of this

article, it is important to underscore here that the long-concealed report

makes no mention whatsoever of the many Nazi scientists who specialized in

chemical, biological and radioactive warfare and who were secretly

relocated in the United States between the years 1946 and 1958….

“Operation Paperclip” transferred to the U.S. over 1,600 Nazi scientists,

largely escaping the Nuremberg trials. Men who were classified as ’ardent

Nazis’ were chosen – just weeks after Hitler’s defeat – to become ’

respectable’ U.S. citizens, some of whom are allegedly still working in places

like Brookhaven labs, Cold Spring Harbor and Plum Island. Photo: Gen. Reinhard

Gehlen (middle) and his SS united were hired, and swiftly became agents of

the CIA when they revealed their massive records on the Soviet Union to

the US. (http://www.voltairenet.org/article167692.html)

h_ttp://www.voltairenet.org/article167692.html_ (http://www.voltairenet.org/article167692.html)

Nazi’s Were Given ’Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says –

_http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html_

(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html)

Officials: CIA gave waterboarders $5M legal shield (AP) 12/17/10

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the CIA decided to waterboard suspected terror detainees in

overseas prisons, the agency turned to a pair of contractors. The men

designed the CIA’s interrogation program and also personally took part in the

waterboarding sessions. But to do the job, the CIA had to promise to cover at

least $5 million in legal fees for them in case there was trouble down the

road, former U.S. officials said.

_http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/dec/17/officials-cia-gave-waterboarders-5m-legal-shield/_

(http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/dec/17/officials-cia-gave-waterboarders-5m-legal-shield/)

Morgellons and the CIA’s MK/NAOMI Project (Part 2) by Hank P. Albarelli

Jr., Zoe Martell Why is it that the U.S. state apparatus is standing in the

way of any serious medical investigation into Mogellons disease? For the

simple reason that it would inexorably lead to the covert biological war

programmes of the 1950's. Hank Albarelli lifts the veil on a period – which may

not necessarily be over – when the military-industrial complex proclaimed

to safeguard the “free world” while testing new experiments on the civilian

population that it purported to protect; a period when members of the

medical profession – including the CDC – developed diseases that they should

have been preventing but which they used instead to contaminate the very

people they were supposed to protect.

….MK/NAOMI was the cryptonym for an ultra-secret project instituted by the

CIA for its partnership with the Special Operations Division (SOD) of the

U.S. Army’s biological warfare center at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The

general objectives of MK/NAOMI, as stated in contemporaneous CIA documents, were:

- To provide for a covert support base to meet clandestine operational

requirements.

- To research, develop, and stockpile severely incapacitating and lethal

materials for the specific use of CIA’s Technical Services Division.

- To maintain in operational readiness special and unique items for the

dissemination of biological and chemical materials.

- To provide for the required surveillance, testing, upgrading, and

evaluation of materials and items in order to assure absence of defects and

complete predictability of results to be expected under operational conditions.

Recently obtained CIA documents reveal that in the mid-1950s, scientists

at Fort Detrick’s SOD undertook intensive research and experimentation with

a large number of “paralysis agents.” This phase of MK/NAOMI was referred

to in-house at Fort Detrick as the “K Project” and the “K Problem.”

According to CIA documents, K indicates both “knockout” and “kill”, depending

upon the circumstances under which researched biological products were

employed by CIA operatives in the field operations conducted under “Project

Artichoke” and later programs. (http://www.voltairenet.org/article166027.html)

h_ttp://www.voltairenet.org/article166027.html_

(http://www.voltairenet.org/article166027.html)

Conference To Help Survivors Of Severe Child Abuse

Posted on December 24, 2010 at 9:21 PM

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A conference to help survivors of severe child abuse (ritual abuse) and torture will be held on August 5 - 7, 2011, between 8 - 5 PM Saturday and Sunday at the DoubleTree Hotel near Bradley International Airport, 16 Ella Grasso Turnpike, Windsor Locks, CT 06096 (between Hartford, CT and Springfield, MA). This conference will help educate survivors of this abuse and their helpers. Pre-registration is preferred. For information write S.M.A.R.T., P. O Box 1295, Easthampton, MA 01027-1295 E-mail: smartnews@aol.com, conference information is at: http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/

Ritual Abuse And Extreme Abuse Clinician’s Conference 2011 - A one day conference preceding our regular conference will be open to licensed practitioners in related fields to discuss issues in working with clients suffering from ritual abuse and extreme abuse symptoms. Students studying in related fields and retired licensed practitioners may write smartnews@aol.com by e-mail for more information. Internet conference information is available at: http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/ritual-abuse-and-extreme-abuse-clinicians-conference-2011/

WikiLeaks Vatican - US abuse cables, Morgellons and the CIA?s MK/NAOMI

Posted on December 11, 2010 at 1:48 PM

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WikiLeaks Vatican - US abuse cables, Morgellons and the CIA’s MK/NAOMI

Project

includes:

Cables show Ireland irked Vatican on sovereignty

WikiLeaks cables: Vatican refused to engage with child sex abuse inquiry

CIA FILES - Operation ARTICHOKE

Leaked Cables Show Vatican Tensions and Diplomacy With U.S.

By RACHEL DONADIO December 10, 2010 ROME — Recently released diplomatic

cables show the Vatican fighting to shore up its eroding control over

sexual abuse scandals in the United States and Ireland, highlighting complex

tensions between the Vatican hierarchy, local bishops and civil authorities.

The cables were obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to The New York

Times and other news organizations. They do not appear to contain any

bombshells about the Vatican, but they provide a telling glimpse of how American

diplomats often rely on the Roman Catholic Church’s worldwide network of

prelates for intelligence.

Some cables read in part like thrillers, like when Opus Dei, the powerful

religious order, took pains to distance itself from one of its members:

Robert P. Hanssen, an F.B.I. agent who in a dramatic case in 2001 pleaded

guilty to being a longtime Russian spy.

Others reveal some of the complex diplomacy between the United States and

the Vatican during the abuse scandal that hit the United States in 2002.

_http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/world/europe/11vatican.html_

(http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/world/europe/11vatican.html)

Cables show Ireland irked Vatican on sovereignty (AP) – 12/11/10 VATICAN

CITY (AP) — Newly released U.S. diplomatic cables indicate that the Vatican

felt "offended" that Ireland failed to respect Holy See "sovereignty" by

asking high-ranking churchmen to answer questions from an Irish government

commission probing decades of sex abuse of minors by clergy.

That the Holy See used its diplomatic immunity status as a tiny-city state

to try to thwart Ireland's government-led probe has long been known. But

the WikiLeaks cables, published by Britain's The Guardian newspaper on

Saturday, contain delicate, behind-the-scenes diplomatic assessments of the

highly charged situation. The Vatican press office declined to comment on the

content of the cables Saturday, but decried the leaks as a matter of

"extreme seriousness."

_http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i_GXdub34VCz5Deiq3s52q4L5IFQ?docId=c1ef34ff867b4f048918320d1c6ce20a_

(http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i_GXdub34VCz5Deiq3s52q4L5IFQ?docId=c1ef34f

f867b4f048918320d1c6ce20a)

WikiLeaks cables: Vatican refused to engage with child sex abuse inquiry -

Leaked cable lays bare how Irish government was forced to grant Vatican

officials immunity from testifying to Murphy commission Heather Brooke The

Guardian, 11 December 2010

The Vatican refused to allow its officials to testify before an Irish

commission investigating the clerical abuse of children and was angered when

they were summoned from Rome, US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks reveal.

Requests for information from the 2009 Murphy commission into sexual and

physical abuse by clergy "offended many in the Vatican" who felt that the

Irish government had "failed to respect and protect Vatican sovereignty

during the investigations", a cable says.

Despite the lack of co-operation from the Vatican, the commission was able

to substantiate many of the claims and concluded that some bishops had

tried to cover up abuse, putting the interests of the Catholic church ahead of

those of the victims. Its report identified 320 people who complained of

child sexual abuse between 1975 and 2004 in the Dublin archdiocese.

_http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/10/wikileaks-vatican-child-sex-abu

se-investigation_

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/10/wikileaks-vatican-child-sex-abuse-investigation)

Morgellons and the CIA’s MK/NAOMI Project (Part 2)

by Hank P. Albarelli Jr., Zoe Martell

Why is it that the U.S. state apparatus is standing in the way of any

serious medical investigation into Mogellons disease? For the simple reason

that it would inexorably lead to the covert biological war programmes of the

1950’s. Hank Albarelli lifts the veil on a period - which may not

necessarily be over - when the military-industrial complex proclaimed to safeguard

the "free world" while testing new experiments on the civilian population

that it purported to protect; a period when members of the medical profession

- including the CDC - developed diseases that they should have been

preventing but

which they used instead to contaminate the very people they were supposed

to protect.

One of the many pages from the MKNAOMI and MKULTRA declassified documents.

MKNAOMI was the code name for a joint Department of Defense/CIA research

program lasting from the 1950s through the 1970s. It is generally reported

to be a successor to the MKDELTA project and to have focused on biological

projects including biological warfare agents—specifically, to store

materials that could either incapacitate or kill a test subject and to develop

devices for the diffusion of such materials.

( List of declassified MK-Ultra Project Documents

_http://www.michael-robinett.com/declass/c000.htm_

(http://www.michael-robinett.com/declass/c000.htm) )

....MK/NAOMI was the cryptonym for an ultra-secret project instituted by

the CIA for its partnership with the Special Operations Division (SOD) of

the U.S. Army’s biological warfare center at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The

general objectives of MK/NAOMI, as stated in contemporaneous CIA documents,

were: