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lostnfound

(17,547 posts)
Thu Apr 16, 2026, 09:13 PM 21 hrs ago

CIA CHILD ABUSE circa 1959: Ted Kaczynski was a 3 year victim of MK Ultra starting at age 17 [View all]

Saw a book ‘Human History on Drugs’ at the bookstore and curiously picked a random chapter.
Mind was blown. Read Wikipedia and a bit more online to verify. Here is what they did not talk about in news reports about the Unabomber.

Take a shy 16 year old genius (IQ 167) and give him a scholarship to Harvard.
As a sophomore, he volunteers for a psychological experiment that sounded like an intellectual debate (write an essay about your beliefs, then get challenged by others to defend the contents of your essay).

So for the next THREE YEARS, WEEK AFTER VICIOUS WEEK, under experiments conducted by Dr. Henry Murray (former OSS) the CIA recorded this student through a one-way mirror while a skilled interrogator belittled and taunted him. Then they forced him to watch these recordings being humiliated— so that he would see just how stupid they made him look. They were trying to psychologically break him — and in some specific way, it’s clear that they did break him.

The book says all of this is documented, and the only thing that is not documented is that they were dosing him with LSD during these 200 experiences. CIA director Richard Helms ordered MK-ULTRA materials to be destroyed. But they were sloppy about it, and recovered files showed that MK-ULTRA was ‘obsessed with LSD’. When Kaczynski’s lawyers tried to get the records from Harvard, Harvard refused and sealed all of Dr. Murray’s records.

As a mother, I am sickened that this was done to a young man at the precise time in life that a human needs to be finding friends, learning to trust and bond with other people, and transforming from a shy 17 year old boy to a socially adjusted 20-something. It is insane.

And it is criminal that these facts were hidden when the s*** hit the fan. Nobody owned up or was held to account for what they did and the role they played. Just like now, with the Epstein cases.

So ANYTIME the US government claims they “just want to protect children”, they are LYING.

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Yikes! yellow dahlia 21 hrs ago #1
The MK ULTRA program was designed to observe the unsuspecting MagickMuffin 21 hrs ago #2
What, exactly, was the CIA hoping to discover? Baitball Blogger 8 hrs ago #14
Supposedly for interrogation, but really for creating and controlling assassins. Kid Berwyn 5 hrs ago #21
Wow 😳 MustLoveBeagles 21 hrs ago #3
Wow.... just WOW. Talitha 20 hrs ago #4
I don't know if it's true, but I've read many times Haggard Celine 20 hrs ago #5
Countless troops got to watch above ground nuke testing. eggplant 19 hrs ago #7
I haven't read the manifesto but wonder how accurate have been his predictions. CoopersDad 20 hrs ago #6
Kaczynski murdered 3 people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995 bigtree 9 hrs ago #10
I'm more interested in the complete lack of punishment for the apparatus that created him lostnfound 9 hrs ago #12
there's no evidence that LSD and belittling him 'created him' bigtree 8 hrs ago #13
Silly little experiments? No way. lostnfound 7 hrs ago #15
he didn't believe he was 'tortured' bigtree 7 hrs ago #18
Yeah, it's real funny MorbidButterflyTat 4 hrs ago #29
you can come to any conclusion you want of you project enough of what you want into it bigtree 4 hrs ago #32
All good points. yellow dahlia 4 hrs ago #27
So the CIA takes a 16 year old kid (not yet an adult) wnylib 5 hrs ago #23
they didn't 'take him' bigtree 5 hrs ago #26
What a bizarre sense of humor. wnylib 3 hrs ago #34
the humor is directed at the absurdity of transposing all or even any of that on this terrorist bigtree 2 hrs ago #37
OK. I'll take the critique of the analogy between wnylib 1 hr ago #42
did they really give him LSD, or is that just included in the report bigtree 1 hr ago #43
I thought your letter to the editor was good and totally valid lostnfound 2 hrs ago #36
I was relatively young bigtree 2 hrs ago #38
That's obviously the CIA's fault and done on purpose. Blue Full Moon 5 hrs ago #22
nonsense. Apparently, it also caused Kaczynski to earn his doctorate degree from U of Michigan bigtree 5 hrs ago #24
Unethical human experimentation in the United States blue-wave 18 hrs ago #8
Wow that's shocking in scope lostnfound 14 hrs ago #9
Kaczynski himself said the experiments had no significant effect on the course of [his] life" bigtree 9 hrs ago #11
How the h*** would he know, he was mentally ill? Nt lostnfound 7 hrs ago #16
lol. I'd reason every person who is driven to attack or kill someone is mentally ill to some degree bigtree 7 hrs ago #17
No problem with LSD. My shock was learning that a weird fringe program and weird fringe criminal had a nexus. lostnfound 3 hrs ago #33
Unabomber Decoded: Did Harvard Study Fuel Rage? Goonch 6 hrs ago #19
from your article bigtree 5 hrs ago #25
Oh! Of course! MorbidButterflyTat 4 hrs ago #30
blaming that study for his unibombing is really something bigtree 4 hrs ago #31
My view of it is a bit more subtle than thinking he was triggered decades later lostnfound 2 hrs ago #41
Uncle Sam did evil things to children with radiation. Kid Berwyn 6 hrs ago #20
bullying always bad. + amerikkka elected the worst bully. pansypoo53219 4 hrs ago #28
Accomplices to murder? n/t returnee 2 hrs ago #35
Whitey Bulger, also. Mc Mike 2 hrs ago #39
His was pronged child abuse. delisen 2 hrs ago #40
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