Discussion on Modern Mind Control and MKUltra

Uh, this task force could also consider trying

to determine whether some new

incarnation of MKUltra exists today.

When the main phase of MKUltra drew to a close in the early

1960s, Sidney Gottlieb concluded that it

had failed.

Uh, that in fact, there is no such thing as mind control.

Even if he was right, however, he may have been right only at that

time.

In the many decades since then,

there have been enormous advant- advances in cyber technology,

in, uh, artificial intelligence, in neuroscience.

Covert agencies may have access now to tools for mind control

that Sidney Gottlieb could not even have imagined.

It may well have been true in 1963

that mind control is a myth,

but whether it's still true

is uncertain.

Uh, and that question of whether

mind control might now be possible under our new

circumstances is something that has presumably occurred

to scientists who work for secret services, including our own.

This task force has a chance to connect the past to the future.

A renewed effort to find MKUltra documents from the

1950s and to fill out the redactions of those that have been

released

might shed new light on how the CIA operated during that period.

It could also inform a new inquiry into whether any mind

control projects are now underway inside the US security

apparatus.

That might help prevent the emergence of a twenty-first century MKUltra

that could be even more destructive than the original. Thank you.

Thank you very, very much, Dr. Kinzer.