THE UNDERGROUND NAZI INVASION OF THE UNITED STATES - Part 52
Mind Control
By Harry V. Martin and David Caul
Copyright FreeAmerica and Harry V. Martin, 1995
[Due to the original size of this file, over 100KB, I am presenting here
only the section of the file dealing directly with mind control research
and Nazi Germany. - Wol.]
Mind control origins found in Nazi Germany
By Harry V. Martin
and David Caul
Twelfth in a Series
Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991
Tuesday, November 19, 1991
At the conclusion of World War Two, American investigators
learned that Nazi doctors at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany
had been conducting mind control experiments on inmates. They experimented
with hypnosis and with the drug mescaline.
Mescaline is a quasi-synthetic extract of the peyote cactus, and
is very similar to LSD in the hallucinations which it produces. Though they
did not achieve the degree of success they had desired, the SS interrogators
in conjunction with the Dachau doctors were able to extract the most intimate
secrets from the prisoners when the inmates were given very high doses of
mescaline.
There were fatal mind control experiments conducted at Auschwitz.
The experiments there were described by one informant as "brainwashing
with chemicals". The informant said the Gestapo wasn't satisfied with
extracting information by torture. "So the next question was, why don't we
do it like the Russians, who have been able to get confessions of guilt at
their show trials?" They tried various barbiturates and morphine derivatives.
After prisoners were fed a coffee-like substance, two of them died in the
night and others died later.
The Dachau mescaline experiments were written up in a lengthy
report issued by the U.S. Naval Technical Mission, whose job it was at
the conclusion of the war to scour all of Europe for every shred of industrial
and scientific material that had been produced by the Third Reich. It was
as a result of this report that the U.S. Navy became interested in mescaline
as an interrogation tool. The Navy initiated Project Chatter in 1947, the
same year the Central Intelligence Agency was formed. The Chatter format
included developing methods for acquiring information from people against
their will, but without inflicting harm or pain.
At the conclusion of the war, the OSS was designated as the
investigative unit for the International Military Tribunal, which was to become
known as the Nuremberg Trials. The purpose of Nuremberg was to try the
principal Nazi leaders. Some Nazis were on trial for their experiments, and
the U.S. was using its own "truth drugs" on these principal Nazi prisoners,
namely Goring, Ribbentrop, Speer and eight others. The Justice in charge
of the tribunal had given the OSS permission to use the drugs.
The Dachau doctors who performed the mescaline experiments also
were involved in aviation medicine. The aviation experiments at Dachau fasci-
nated Heinrich Himmler. Himmler followed the progress of the tests, studied
their findings and often suggested improvements. The Germans had a keen
interest in several medical problems in the field of flying, they were interested
in preventing pilots from slowly becoming unconscious as a result of breathing
the thin air of the high altitudes and there was interest in enhancing night
vision.
The main research in this area was at the Institute of Aviation in
Munich, which had excellent laboratories. The experiments in relationship
to the Institute were conducted at Dachau. Inmates had been immersed in
tubs of ice water with instruments placed in their orifices in order to monitor
their painful deaths. Dr. Hubertus Strughold, who ran the German aviation
medicine team, confirmed that he had heard humans were used for the
Dachau experiments. Hidden in a cave in Hallein were files recording the
Dachau experiments.
On May 15, 1941, Dr. Sigmund Rascher wrote a letter to Himmler
requesting permission to use the Dachau inmates for experiments on
the physiology of high altitudes. Rascher lamented the fact that no such
experiments have been done using human subjects. "The experiments are
very dangerous and we cannot attract volunteers," he told Himmler. His
request was approved.
Dachau was filled with Communists and Social Democrats, Jews,
Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies, [Protestant] clergymen, homosexuals,
and people critical of the Nazi government. Upon entering Dachau, prisoners
lost all legal status, their hair was shaved off, all their possessions confiscated,
they were poorly fed, and they were used as slaves for both the
corporations and the government. The SS guards were brutal and sadistic.
The idea to test subjects at Dachau was really the brain child of Erich
Hippke, chief surgeon of the Luftwaffe.
Between March and August of 1942 extensive experiments were
conducted at Dachau regarding the limits of human endurance at high
altitudes. These experiments were conducted for the benefit of the German
Air Force. The experiments took place in a low-pressure chamber in which
altitudes of up to 68,000 feet could be simulated. The subjects were placed
in the chamber and the altitude was raised, many inmates died as a result.
The survivors often suffered serious injury. One witness at the Nuremberg
trails, Anton Pacholegg, who was sent to Dachau in 1942, gave an eye-
witness account of the typical pressure test:
"The Luftwaffe delivered a cabinet constructed of wood and metal.
It was possible in the cabinet to either decrease or increase the air pressure.
You could observe through a little window the reaction of the subject inside
the chamber. The purpose of these experiments was to test human energy
and the subject's capacity...to take large amounts of pure oxygen, and then
to test his reaction to a gradual decrease in oxygen. I have personally seen
through the observation window of the chamber when a prisoner inside would
stand a vacuum until his lungs ruptured. Some experiments gave men such
pressure in their heads that they would go mad and pull out their hair in an
effort to relieve the pressure. They would tear their heads and face with their
fingers and nails in an attempt to maim themselves in their madness. They
would beat the walls with their hands and head and scream in an effort to
relieve pressure in their eardrums. These cases of extreme vacuums generally
ended in the death of the subjects." The former prisoner also testified, "An
extreme experiment was so certain to result in death that in many instances
the chamber was used for routine execution purposes rather than an experi-
ment." A minimum 200 prisoners were known to have died in these experiments.
The doctors directly involved with the research held very high positions:
Karl Brandt was Hitler's personal doctor; Oskar Schroeder was the Chief of
the Medical Services of the Luftwaffe; Karl Gebhardt was Chief Surgeon on the
Staff of the Reich Physician SS and Police and German Red Cross President;
Joachim Mrugowsky was Chief of the Hygienic Institute of the Waffen SS;
Helmut Poppendick was a senior colonel in the SS and Chief of the Personal
Staff of the Reich Physicians SS and Police; Siegfried Ruff was Director of the
Department of Aviation Medicine.
The first human guinea pig was a 37 year old Jew in good health. Him-
mler invited 40 top Luftwaffe officers to view a movie of an inmate dying in the
pressure chamber. After the pressure chamber tests, the cold treatment experiments
began. The experiments consisted of immersing inmates in freezing
water while their vital signs were monitored. The goal was to discover the cause
of death. Heart failure was the answer. An inmate described the procedures:
"The basins were filled with water and ice was added until the water
measured 37.4 F and the experimental subjects were either dressed in a flying
suit or were placed in the water naked. The temperature was measured rectally
and through the stomach. The lowering of the body temperature to 32 degrees
was terrible for experimental subjects. At 32 degrees the subject lost consciousness.
They were frozen to 25 degrees. The worst experiment was performed on
two Russian officer POWs. They were placed in the basin naked. Hour after hour
passed, and while usually after a short time, 60 minutes, freezing had set in,
these two Russians were still conscious after two hours. After the third hour one
Russian told the other, 'Comrade, tell that officer to shoot us.' The other replied,
'Don't expect any mercy from this Fascist dog.' Then they shook hands and
said goodbye. The experiment lasted at least five hours until death occurred.
Dry freezing experiments were also carried out a Dachau. One subject
was put outdoors on a stretcher at night when it was extremely cold. While
covered with a linen sheet, a bucket of cold water was poured over him every
hour. He was kept outdoors undersub-freezing conditions. In subsequent
experiments, subjects were simply left outside naked in a court under freez-
ing conditions for hours. Himmler gave permission to move the experiments
to Auschwitz, because it was more private and because the subjects of the
experiment would howl all night as they froze. The physical pain of freezing
was terrible. The subjects died by inches, heartbeat became totally irregular,
breathing difficulties and lung endema resulted, hands and feet became frozen
white."
As the Germans began to lose the war, the aviation doctors began
too keep their names from appearing in Himmler's files for fear of future
recriminations.
(To be concluded Friday.)
America made it to the moon with Dachau research
By Harry V. Martin
and David Caul
Last of a Thirteen Part Series
Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991
Friday, November 22, 1991
The Nazi doctors who experimented on the inmates of prison camps
during World War Two were tried for murder at the Nuremberg Tribunal. The
accused were educated, trained physicians, they did not kill in anger or in
malice, they were creating a science of death.
Ironically, in 1933, the Nazi's passed a law for the protection of animals.
The law cited the prevention of cruelty and indifference to animals as one of
the highest moral values of a people, animal experimentation was unthinkable,
but human experimentations were acceptable. The victims of the crime of these
doctors numbered into the thousands.
In 1953, while the CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY was still con-
ducting mind control and behavior modification on unwitting humans in this
country, the United States signed the Nuremberg Code, a code born out of
the ashes of war and human suffering. The document was a solemn promise
never to tolerate such human atrocities again. The Code maintains three
fundamental principles:
The subjects of any experimentation must be volunteers who thoroughly
understand the purpose and the dangers of the experiments. They must be free
to give consent and the consent must be without pressure and they must be
free to quit the experiments at any time.
(In regards to the Nazi-based
CIA experiments, MK-ULTRA and the mind-control projects which followed,
the CIA has failed in all three of these areas. - Wol.)
The experiments must be likely to yield knowledge which is valuable to
everyone. The knowledge must be such that it could not be gained in any other
way.
The experiments must be conducted by only the most competent doctors,
and they must exercise extreme care.
The Nazi aviation experiments met none of these conditions. Most inmates at
Dachau knew that the experiments in the pressure chamber were fatal. From
the very beginning, control of the experiments was largely in the hands of the
SS, which was later judged to be a criminal organization by the Nuremberg
Tribunal.
Despite our lessons from Nuremberg and the death camps, the CIA,
U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army Chemical Corps targeted specific groups of
people for experimentation who were not able to resist, prisoners, mental
patients, foreigners, ethnic minorities, sex deviants, the terminally ill, children
and U.S. military personnel and prisoners of war. They VIOLATED the Nurem-
berg Code for conducting and subsidizing experiments on unwitting citizens.
The CIA began its mind control projects in 1953, the very year that the U.S.
signed the Nuremberg Code and pledged with the international community
of nations to respect basic human rights and to prohibit experimentation on
captive populations without full and free consent.
Dr. Cameron, a CIA operative, was one of the worst offenders against
the Code, yet he was a member of the Nuremberg Tribunal, with full knowledge
of its testimony. In 1973, a three judge court in Michigan ruled, "...experimental
psychosurgery, which is irreversible and intrusive, often leads to the blunting
of emotions, the deadening of memory, the reduction of affect, and limits the
ability to generate new ideas. Its potential for injury to the creativity of the
individual is great and can infringe on the right of the individual to be free from
interference with his mental process.
"The state's interest in performing psychosurgery and the legal ability
of the involuntarily detained mental patient to give consent, must bow to the
First Amendment, which protects the generation and free flow of ideas from
unwarranted interference with one's mental processes." Citing the Nuremberg
Code, the court found that "the very nature of the subject's incarceration diminishes
the capacity to consent to psychosurgery." In 1973, the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts enacted regulations which would require informed written
consent from voluntary patients before electroshock treatment could be per-
formed.
Senator Sam Ervin's Committee lashed out bitterly at the mind
control and behavior modification experiments and ordered them discontinued,
they WERE NOT. But the New England Journal of Medicine states, that the
consent provisions are "no more than an elaborate ritual." They called it "a
device that when the subject is uneducated and uncomprehending, confers
no more than a semblance of propriety on human experimentation."
The Nuremberg Tribunal brought to light that some of the most
respected figures in the medical profession were involved in the vast crime
network of the SS. ONLY 23 persons were charged with criminal activity in
this area, despite the fact that hundreds of medical personnel were involved.
The defendants were charged with crimes against humanity. They were found
guilty of planning and executing experiments on humans without their consent,
in a cruel and brutal manner which involved severe torture, deliberate murder
and with the full knowledge of the gravity of their deeds. ONLY seven of the
defendants were sentenced to death and hanged, others received life sen-
tences. Five who were involved in the experiments were not tried. Ernest
Grawitz committed suicide, Carl Clauberg was tried in the Soviet Union,
Josef Mengele escaped to South America and was later captured by Israeli
agents, Horst Schumann disappeared and Siegmund Rascher was executed
by Himmler.
There were 200 German medical doctors conducting these medical
experiments. Most of these doctors were friends of the United States [medical
establishment] before the war, and despite their inhuman experiments, the
U.S. attempted to rebuild a relationship with them after the war. The know-
ledge the Germans had accumulated at the expense of human life and suffering,
was considered a "booty of war", by the Americans and the Russians.The
'Americans' tracked down Dr. Strughold, the aviation doctor who was in charge
of the Dachau experiments. With full knowledge that the experiments were
conducted on captive humans, the U.S. recruited the doctors to work for them.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower (whose presidency was sponsored and financially
backed by the Rockefellers. - Wol.) gave his personal approval to exploit the
work and research of the Nazi's in the death camps.
Within weeks of Eisenhower's order, many of these notorious doctors
were working for the U.S. Army at Heidelberg. Army teams scoured Europe for
scientific experimental apparatus such as pressure chambers, compressors,
G-force machines, giant centrifuges, and electron microscopes. These doctors
were wined and dined by the U.S. Army while most of Germany's post-war
citizens virtually starved.
The German doctors were brought to the U.S. and went to work for
Project Paperclip. ALL these doctors had been insulated against war crime
charges. The Nuremberg prosecutors were SHOCKED that 'U.S. authorities'
were using the German doctors despite their criminal past.
Under the leadership of Strughold, 34 scientists accepted contracts
from Project Paperclip, and were moved to Randolph Air Force Base at San
Antonio, Texas. The authorization to hire these Nazi scientists came directly
for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The top military brass stated that they wished to
exploit these rare minds. Project Paperclip, ironically, would use Nazi doctors
to develop methods of interrogating German prisoners of war.
As hostilities began to build after the war between the Americans and
the Russians, the U.S. imported as many as 1000 former Nazi scientists.
(In their over-confidence, the 'government' officials assumed that these 'scientists'
would immediately give up their Nazi belief system and convert to the Constitutional
ideology. Those government officials involved -- excepting for the Project
Paperclip personnel, Nazi fifth columnists and double agents working within the
American government with the Rockefellers and other American Nazis -- must
have assumed that with the Neuremberg trials and de-Nazification operations
of Europe, the entire Nazi network had been extinguished, and therefore there
was no danger of these 1000 plus Nazi scientists collaborating with a secret
Nazi underground which intended to carry through on Adolph Hitler's plans in
spite of their apparent 'defeat' in Europe. - Wol.)
In 1969, Americans landed on the moon, and two groups of scientist
in the control center shared the credit, the rocket team from Peenemunde,
Germany, under the leadership of Werner von Braun, these men had perfected
the V-2s which were built in the Nordhausen caves where 20,000 slave laborers
from prison camp Dora had been worked to death. The second group were the
space doctors, lead by 71-year-old Dr. Hubertus Strughold, whose work was
pioneered in Experimental Block No. 5 of the Dachau concentration camp and
the torture and death of hundreds of inmates. The torture chambers that was
used to slowly kill the prisoners of the Nazi's were the test beds for the apparatus
that protected Neil Armstrong from harm, from lack of oxygen, and pressure,
when he walked on the moon.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: The Napa Sentinel would like to acknowledge the exceptional
contribution of radio commentator David Emory and his extensive archives.
Other source material included:
Acid Dreams by Martin Lee & Bruce Shlain
From the Belly of the Beast, Jack Henry Abbott
Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118, Feb. 24, 1974, testimony of Jose
Delgado
The Glass House Tapes, by Louis Tackwood
The Great Heroin Coup, by Henrik Kruger
Individual Rights and the Federal Role in Behavior Modification, 93rd Congress,
2nd Session, 1974. Sam Ervin Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional
'Rights
The Last Hero, Wild Bill Donovan, by Anthony Cave Brown
Mind Control, by Peter Schrag
The Mind Stealers, by Samuel Chavkin
Matador with a radio stops wild bull, New York Times, May 17, 1965
Operation Mind Control, Water Bowart
The Phoenix Program, Douglas Valentine
The Physical Control of the Mind, Jose M. R. Delgado, MD
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, Alfred McCoy
Role of Brain Disease in Riots and urban Violence, by Vernon H. Mark, Frank
R. Ervin, and William H. Sweet. Journal of the American Medical
Association, September 11, 1967.
San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 28, 1991
Convict Talks of 1984 Arms Talks With Iran, San Francisco Chronicle, December
29, 1986
San Francisco Chronicle, January 13, 1973
Guy Wright Column, San Francisco Chronicle, July 5, 1987
Sunday Times, July 1975.
Violence and the Brain, by Vernon H. Mark and Frank R. Ervin
War on the Mind: The Military Uses and Abuses of Psychology, by Peter
Watson
Were We Controlled? - by Lincoln Lawrence
Why Was Patricia Hearst Kidnapped? - by Mae Brussell, The Realist.
and other select readings.
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From: zodiac@ionews.io.org (Zodiac)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.org.cia,alt.activism,alt.drugs,alt.conspiracy
Subject: LSD, the CIA, and Your Brain
Message-ID: <2hom17$cc9@ionews.io.org>
Date: 21 Jan 94 13:40:55 GMT
[The following is from an extensive 80 plus KB file. Although most
of the file deals with CIA mind control research and one could reason
that 'NAZI' and 'CIA' are synonymous, I've cited only those passages
dealing directly 'NAZI' mind control experimentation. - Wol.]
...The navy became interested in mescaline as an interrogation agent
when American investigators learned of mind control experiments carried
out by Nazi doctors at the Dachau concentration camp during World War
II. After administering the hallucinogen to 30 prisoners, the Nazis
concluded that it was 'impossible to impose one's will on another person
as in hypnosis even when the strongest dose of mescaline had been
given.'
(Note: The danger in hypnosis is that it can -- through the power
of suggestion -- induce an alternate perspective on reality, and a person's
mind could be programmed in such a way that the programming process
itself is forgotten. Therefore a person could be programmed to believe
for example that they are having a bad 'nightmare' and that the one
causing the nightmare is an evil monster who must be killed 'in the
dream'. Drug-induced hypnosis can confuse a person's perceptions of
the lines between reality and unreality, and 'voices' giving instructions
could be interpreted to be of their own creation or from a supernatural
'source' when in fact the instructions are hypnotically-induced. So
then, even though the 'will' remains intact, the individual could be
moved to commit atrocities which they would not normally commit whether
because the scenario is made out to be a 'dream' or whether they
are programmed to see the 'target' as an evil monster who must be
vanquished in order to save the country, the world, and so on. People's
choices are highly dependent on their perception or context of reality.
If the true reality context is altered to a false reality context, such
as described above, they could be moved to commit atrocities that they
normally would not commit in a state of normal lucidity, such as
assassination, etc. - Wol).
But the drug still afforded certain
advantages to SS interrogators, who were consistently able to draw
'even the most intimate secrets from the [subject] when questions where
cleverly put.'
Not surprisingly, 'sentiments of hatred and revenge were exposed in
every case.'
The mescaline experiments at Dachau were described in a lengthy report
by the US Naval Technical Mission, which swept across Europe in search
of every scrap of industrial material and scientific data that could be
garnered from the fallen Reich. This mission set the stage for the whole-
sale importation of more than 600 top Nazi scientists under the auspices
of Project paperclip -- which THE CIA SUPERVISED during the early
years of the Cold War. Among those who emigrated to the US in such
a fashion was Dr Hubertus Strughold, the German scientist whose chief
subordinates (Dr Sigmund Ruff and Dr Sigmund Rascher) were directly
involved in "aviation medicine" experiments at Dachau, which included
the mescaline studies. Despite recurring allegations that he sanctioned
medical atrocities during the war, Strughold settled in Texas and became
an important figure in America's space program. After Werner von Braun,
he was the top Nazi scientist employed by the American government,
and he was subsequently hailed by NASA as the 'father of space medicine'...
Like the Nazi doctors at Dachau, the CIA victimized certain groups of
people, who were unable to resist: prisoners, mental patients, foreigners,
the terminally ill, sexual deviants, ethnic minorities...
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