Chris WilliamsonProof The CIA Used Hypnosis To Extract Secrets - John Kiriakou
Chris Williamson
Brainwashing and MK Ultra 0:00
Operationally, brainwashing was treated as real, and the CIA, KGB, Chinese, and North Koreans all worked on it from the early 1950s. The speaker says the CIA panicked over false reports of Soviet remote control work and then created MK Ultra. He calls MK Ultra a failure that ran from 1952 to 1975, caused deaths, and included LSD tests on employees, people in San Francisco, and a French village.
Records And What Survived 2:30
By 1975, the Church Committee had told the CIA not to destroy the files, but the agency shredded most of them anyway. Only 15% survived, so that is all that is really known. The speaker says this leaves open the idea that brainwashing was tried and failed, not that nothing was attempted at all.
A Hypnosis Session 4:00
He then describes a case in Athens after the 2000 assassination of British defense attaché Stephen Saunders. A walk-in source, a poor farmer from Central Greece, may have seen the killers near a chapel and a banyan tree. Because he seemed simple and hard to interview, headquarters sent a psychologist, a psychiatrist, and two Greek speakers to hypnotize him in a third country.
What Came Out 7:00
Under hypnosis, the man kept his arm raised for four and a half hours and described the van, the men, and the motorcycle. He also read a license plate that turned out to be stolen police plates when checked in Athens. The first account was true, but later meetings became unreliable because he started making things up to impress them.
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