SCU PROFESSOR S BOOK DETAILS CIA ATTEMPTS AT MIND CONTROL

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• Document Release Date: August 6, 2001
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• Publication Date: August 25, 1978
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San Jose Mercury, Friday, August 25, 1978
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By Dale Rodebaugh'
Staff Writer.
SANTA CLARA-For the
last 30 years the United States
government has carried out the
most extensive mind-control
research and experimentation
in history, according to a Uni-
versity of Santa Clara law pro-
fessor who has co-authored a
book on the topic.
Examination of 20,000 pages
of CIA and Army documents
shows that the CIA probed ev-
erything from the psychologi-
cal Impact of circumcision to
the practices of Haitian witch
doctors, Alan Scheflin said in
an interview.
- "The Mind Manipulators" is
not' a sensationalized novel
written hurriedly to exploit
Watergate and other recent
revelations about the intellig-
ence community, Scheflin said.
It is the result of five years
of research and hundreds of in-
terviews and contains more
than 1,800 footnotes, said Sche-
flin, who teaches legal ethics
and law and psychiatry. His co-
author is Edward Opton, a San
Francisco attorney.
'
t alone in mind-
The CIA isn
control research; it is practiced
to a lesser degree by other gov-
ernment agencies, schools, hos-
pitals, universities, the military
and prisons, Scheflin said.
"Behavior modification and
mind control is the ? leading
school of psychology today," he
said.
"No other country has con-
ducted experiments in these
fields with the zeal and longev-
ity of the CIA. Its experiments
an be traced to its predeces-
sor, the Office of Strategic
Services organized during
World War II."
Alan Scheflin
- ..5 years of research
agency was very much in con-
trol. It knew what it was
doing."
Experiments were carried
out many times on unwitting
citizens, Scheflin said..
"In addition, the agency was
unsupervised, with not even.
Congress knowing what was
going on.' Its budget was hid-
den, coming' from many
sources, and no one knew how
the money was spent. Because
of this secrecy, the agency
could synthesize the knowledge
of the best minds in the nation
without scientists knowing it.
"The CIA also earned its own
money by acting as a runner of
opium for the tribesmen of
and military support it need-
d
Soviet experiments are noth-
ing compared to those of the
CIA, Scheflin said, because the
Russian hierarchy has ruled
out areas of research not com-
patible with its political doc-
trine.
The CIA concentrated its ex-
n
-
periments in drugs and hyp
d
e
sis,Scheflin said. He sai
compiled a list of 130 drugs, in-
eluding heroin, used by thel1
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The CIA has far exceeded its
charter and every president
since and including Harry Tru-
man authorized violations of 1
I that charter," Scheflin said...
?-"It's not a pretty picture.
What we have is the CIA
okayed by the president to in-
tervene for our 'security' all
over the world., We can't take
over the world, but if its lead-
ers can be manipulated to
think a certain way, to our ad-
vantage."
Sen. Frank Church's commit-
tee that' investigated the 'CIA
characterized it as a rogue ele-
phant, Scheflin said. "But we
are trying to show that the
"One organization funneled,}
money to a federal drug reha-1
bilitation and research agency,
in Kentucky that offered drugs,
to inmates. The director of that)
institution defended the prac-f
tice before Congress," he said.
-The CIA was looking for ai
precise mind-control agent in
an attempt to get 'Manchurian
Candidates,' Scheflin said. "Bu
I don't think it can be done.
There is no known drug to turn
people into robots.
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"But then, there is little need
for such a drug when. people
are willing to give up their
minds so readily. Just look at
the religious gurus. They don't
need sophisticated techniques.
They can talk people into what-
ever they want."
The danger of behavior mod-
ification and mind control goes
far beyond what the CIA has
done, Scheflin said.
"It is obvious there is a clear
link between government and
science to perfect mind control
and that there is a spillover of
the technology into the general
public.
"More and more people
know how to manipulate others
and are taking advantage of 'it.
-"The impact of -behavior
modification is that they're
saying, `the only thing we're in-
terested in is your behavior.'
All the leading proponents of
this philosophy are explicit
that people must not think of
themselves as free." -
To resist mind control, Sche-
flin said, "we must first under-
stand it, be familiar with the
techniques and know.who is
using it. Then we must write to
legislators and start organiza-
tions to resist it."
He said "The Mind Manipu-
lators" grew out of the efforts
of a group that fought the
UCLA "violence center" that
proposed among other experi-
ments to give amphetamines to
black and Chicano school chil-
dren.
"We stopped public funding
of that project,, but they may
be doing work now with pri-
vate funds," Scheflin said.
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