4,358 New MKUltra Docs To Be Released After Crowdfunding Campaign
John Greenewald has been FOIA requesting undisclosed, government documents since he was 15 years old, having filed roughly 9,000 requests. So, when he realized a batch of documents he received regarding the CIA’s mind control project MKUltra, was missing thousands of pages, he demanded an answer. Now, after a two-year battle to acquire those documents, the CIA finally acquiesced, though it commanded a fee.
Greenewald was made aware of the documents by a Reddit user who cross-checked his cache with their original index, finding 4,358 missing. Greenewald called the CIA to request them and was unsurprisingly met with resistance.
He was told the documents contained information regarding behavioral modification and were unrelated to MKUltra. But he wasn’t convinced, so he filed another FOIA to attain them.
Typically, Greenewald can submit a fee waiver for a FOIA request, under the grounds that he is a journalist and the publication of the files is for public interest, bettering the public’s understanding of the way government operates.
But this time his waiver was denied, with the CIA requiring a payment of $425.80 for his request. Unfortunately, Greenwald couldn’t come up with the money, instead turning to a GoFundMe crowdsourcing campaign. His goal was met within five days.
The disclosure of documentation surrounding the MKUltra program is of high public interest lately, especially with the release of the Netflix docudrama Wormwood, which investigates the death of former CIA scientist Frank Olsen, who became a victim of the program.
MKUltra was a program focused on studying the potential to control the minds of unwitting subjects, often through the administration of psychoactive substances, such as LSD.
Frank Olson was one of the CIA’s own, who was unknowingly given LSD before his suspicious death, falling from the 13th story window of a New York hotel.
Greenwald’s website was one of the first publications to release the CIA’s MKUltra documents after acquiring them in 2004. Since then, they have become the most commonly searched documents of more than 2,000,000 on the CIA’s website.
It will still take some time before this missing batch of documents makes its way into Olson’s hands and is published on his website, but we look forward to seeing what else the CIA has kept hidden from the public regarding one of its most nefarious and clandestine programs.
Watch this episode of Beyond Belief, in which John Greenewald discusses his career filing FOIA requests to uncover secret government programs:
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FOIA Request Accidentally Provides Government Mind Control Files
A FOIA request by investigative journalism website MuckRock, resulted in the release of some bizarre documents pertaining to government mind control programs involving psychotronic weapons.
MuckRock originally requested documents related to terrorism threats from the Washington State Fusion Center, a division associated with the Department of Homeland Security.
MuckRock is a non-profit publication that makes thousands of FOIA requests, calling itself a collaborative repository of public records and investigative journalism regarding government, politics, and social issues.
In addition to the information MuckRock requested, it was given a number of pictograms showing potential uses of psychotronic weapons used for things like mind control, microwave hearing, and remote brain mapping.
The first graphic shows the outline of a woman’s body pointing out different areas that could be remotely controlled, induced with pain or pleasure, and stimulated in strange ways. One of the arrows points to the center of the head and reads “forced manipulation of airways, including externally controlled forced speech.”
Another graphic shows the use of remote brain mapping and mind control by use of helicopters, trucks disguised as communication vehicles, and radio towers. It shows what appear to be wave signals penetrating walls of houses and controlling individuals or groups of people, as well as the different resonance frequencies needed to control various areas of the brain.
One page contains a website URL, raven1.net, which leads nowhere, while another comes from someone named Supratik Saha, a software and electronics engineer.
Scientific American pointed out that one of the graphics was included in an article published by Nexus magazine, describing NSA signals intelligence capabilities and Project ECHELON, the government data collection program long believed to be a conspiracy, until whistleblowers proved its existence.
Why the WSFC sent MuckRock these graphics is still a bit of a mystery. The website says it’s possible it could have gotten mixed up in documents meant to be sent elsewhere or they may have belonged to an intelligence officer collecting data that were misplaced. MuckRock called the agency’s office to ask what happened, but have heard no response yet.
It would come as no surprise if the government, or an agency like the NSA that acts covertly and autonomously, has been researching or actively running a program with these capabilities.
The prospect of psychotronic weapons isn’t that farfetched either, with the government’s history of similar programs during the Cold War and the multitude of people who believe they have been victims of such attacks. Not to mention, the reality of attempted mind control programs like MK-ULTRA and the NSA’s Project ECHELON, that have set precedent for the government’s clandestine agenda.
Whether a program like this is legitimate or not, it’s at least on their radar.
