PROJECTING PROMETHEUS

The Ultimate Long-Range Goal of MK-ULTRA

MK-Ultra and related programs of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of Scientific Intelligence are usually associated with three names: Sidney Gottlieb, Ewen Cameron, and William Kroger. Sidney Gottlieb was an American chemist and CIA officer who served as the central figure in the agency’s MK-Ultra program. He is often called the agency’s “poisoner in chief” due to his work developing toxins, assassination tools, and psychoactive substances for covert operations. Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron was a Scottish-born psychiatrist who served as the first director of the Allan Memorial Institute (affiliated with McGill University in Montreal) and as the first chairman of McGill’s psychiatry department. In the 1950s–1960s, Cameron’s research on “psychic driving” and “de-patterning” attracted CIA interest amid Cold War fears of “brainwashing.” From 1957 to 1964, the CIA funded his work through MK-Ultra Subproject 68, in which patients at the Allan Memorial Institute who had been admitted for relatively minor issues like anxiety, depression, or postpartum conditions, were – without their informed consent – subjected to experiments in erasing dysfunctional memories and reprogramming the mind using drugs, electroshocks, induced comas, sensory deprivation and overload, and “psychic driving” by means of repetitive audio loops played to patients while either in an induced coma or restrained. Dr. William S. Kroger (or Kroeger) was a prominent American psychiatrist, obstetrician-gynecologist, and pioneering medical hypnotist. In the context of the infamous Candy Jones case, he is widely identified as the real individual behind the pseudonym “Dr. Marshall Burger.” He held academic and clinical positions, including affiliations with UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute, specializing in hypnosis for interrogation, pain control, and behavioral modification. Candy Jones (born Jessica Arline Wilcox), a former fashion model and radio host, claimed that after she was recruited as a CIA courier in the 1960s, Dr. Kroger hypnotically programmed her with a secondary personality, “Arlene,” for espionage missions, involving drugs, hypnosis, and torture-like conditioning. She also claimed that Kroger had subconsciously programmed her to commit suicide once she was no longer useful to MK-Ultra.