Presented at
A New HOPE (2022),
July 23, 2022, 6 p.m.
(50 minutes)
Project MKULTRA has become a modern mythology about the creation of mind controlled agents called Manchurian candidates. Misinformation and disinformation has obscured the project's research that was to understand the security of humans' mind/brain in brain warfare. The modus operandi was "research and development of materials capable of producing behavioral or physiological change in humans." From 1953 to 1964, witting and unwitting researchers performed 149 sub-projects covertly funded through cutouts at 86 North American institutions. In 1975, Project MKULTRA was declassified. The controversial human experimentations were reviewed by U.S. President Ford and the U.S. Congress, but in 1973 CIA Director Helms had the records shredded.<br><br>The method to crack Project MKULTRA sub-projects' identities using open source intelligence is detailed in this presentation. First, redacted indexes from the congressional review organize the large declassified CIA data-set of surviving financial records. Next, society documents from cutout granting agencies trace funding from Project MKULTRA sub-projects to researchers. Then, funding acknowledgments to cutouts in academic publications reveal a complete research cycle. Finally, a cracked index of Project MKULTRA sub-projects shows confirmed, and unconfirmed but known, participant identities.<br><br>The cracked index's percentage of completion is analyzed against indexes from *The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate*" by John Marks in 1978 and The CIA Doctors by Dr. Colin A. Ross in 2006. An art infographic displays the sub-projects' identities and academic publications. The cracked index produced through acknowledgments to cutouts shows an accurate history of brain warfare research and development in Project MKULTRA, different than the modern mythology.<br>
Presenters:
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Josh Patrick Paulton / Peon
as Josh Patrick "Peon" Paulton
**Josh Patrick "Peon" Paulton (@vicastudio)** is a registered clinical counselor with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counselors in Canada. He works in mental health, and his research focuses are mindfulness meditation, gastrointestinal diseases, and consciousness. Josh is also a clinical hypnotist. He combines his experience working professionally with advanced mind/body practical knowledge to teach how the human mind operates and how to exploit it. Josh is a magician, and one day will rule earth.
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Alannah Clamp
**Alannah Clamp (@theglencoeclub)** is an artist from Vancouver, British Columbia. She has her Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Bachelor of Art History from Concordia University in Montreal, and Master of Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. She has exhibited her photographic and video work in Canada, the U.K., and South Africa.
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