Comments for Source Reveals CIA Electro-Shock Torture in Secret Detention Camps at http://www.pacificfreepress.com , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.pacificfreepress.com Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:22:42 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/75--source-reveals-cia-electro-shock-torture-in-secret-detention-camps.html#comment-29 I am consistently amazed at our ability to be shocked and surpised by the old news that the CIA, in collusion with other acronyms like the DIA, tortures people. Since its inception after WWII, the CIA has constituted nothing but a shadowy, para-military cult that seemingly relishes its ability to evade the paper-thin checks-and-balances on the lawbooks regulating the Agency's activities. --Throughout the 60s and into the 70s, the CIA, in collaboration with the DoD, systematically tortured, murdered, and terrorized thousands upon thousands of Southeast Asians during the execution of their so-called Operation Phoenix. The project's single mission was to intimidate (i.e., terrorize) the [b]civilian[/b] population of Vietnam into ending their support of the VC. --In his opening remarks to the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 1977, Sen. Ted Kennedy informed the American people: [i]The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over 30 universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations." At least one death...resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers.[/i] That was the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Critics inside the intelligence community and out have always maintained that the project, known as MKULTRA, claimed many more deaths than the one referenced by Sen. Kennedy, something entirely plausible given that the Agency's ex-director, Richard Helms, revealed that he had destroyed much of the project's paperwork. But enough of the papertrail survived, and it reads like an SS manual on human experimentation: torture via electro-shock and sensory deprivation 'treatments' and coma-inducing dosages of drug cocktails was routine. --In 1994, the U.S. General Accounting Office released a report that the DoD, between 1940 and 1974, was conducting a parallel project on "volunteer" soldiers; Gary Matsumoto has alleged that human experimentation persists in the US military to this day in his book [u]Vaccine A[/u]. --In 1996, investigative journalist Gary Webb published a series of articles in the San Jose Mercury News charging that the CIA was responsible for the importation and distribution of crack cocaine that led to the epidemic in South-Central L.A. during the 80s. Subsequent investigations have proven many of Webb's allegations. The US Government--through its Mr. Hyde-like alter, the CIA--has systematically tortured, terrorized, drugged and experimented on US citizens, non-US citizens, soldiers, "combatants", and civilians alike. All of this to say: What can we expect from a pig but a grunt? - jon Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:22:07 +0100