How Did Dr. George Estabrooks Use LSD In The CIA

During the 1950’s and 1960’s, America was in fierce competition with other world powers, but primarily Russia. Examples of this are the space race, the nuclear arms race, and many top secret government projects that were meant to gain an advantage against warring countries. Russia was responsible for the famous Russian Sleep Experiments and many nuclear bomb detonations. But, America was far from innocent when it came to experimentation during this time. The CIA carried out an elaborate project named MKULTRA. In this project, the CIA experimented on humans, particularly children, using LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) in order to try to enhance their intelligence or control their minds. Dr. George Estabrooks took the lead in conducting

George Estabrooks is the only doctor in the project that has publicly spoken about his techniques to control his patient’s minds. He wrote the book Hypnotism in 1963, which described splitting people’s personalities and making them carry out missions using code words. These missions would be anything from killing major political figures or stealing top secret information without the subjects having any recollection of doing the task. The subjects were always conscious throughout the task, but they would feel that they had multiple people within them. The personality that would be triggered to do the missions would be cognitive of the normal personality, but the normal personality would not be cognitive of the covert one. Dr. Estabrooks used a variety of methods to transform his patients. He admitted to using electro shock and hypnosis in order to make counterintelligence communist operatives. He even states that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby, assassins of John F. Kennedy, could have very well been operating under hypnosis. Estabrooks also

As fictitious as this sounds, the results of the experiments were staggering. It was shown that people that were made to have multiple personality disorder physically changed when they transitioned from one personality to another. Scientists saw that subjects would have better or worse eyesight depending on what personality they were in, and other physical characteristics of the personalities were noticeable as well. For example, when given MRI’s, patients had structural changes in their thinking processes, and their brain waves represented two entirely different people.