In the 1960s, at the Copenhagen City Hospital in Denmark, a secret human experiment became an unforgettable nightmare for 311 orphans. Recently, the experiment witness Winnick told this unforgettable past through the documentary "Finding Yourself", and many details of the experiment and the black hands behind the scenes also surfaced.
Pictured: Danish documentary "Finding Yourself". Image source: CCTV News
Secret human experiments
One day at the age of 11, Winnick was taken into the basement of the hospital and sat in a cold chair, covered with electrodes, and the noise kept hitting the eardrums.
Years later, Winnick consulted historical documents and realized that he was a "guinea pig" in a human experiment to test children for schizophrenia. In its first year alone, the project received 3.4 million Danish kronors and $21,000 in funding, and the CIA was behind it.
Winnick angrily said it was not his personal story, but a story shared by more than 300 children. He decided to make this into a documentary to let more people know about this almost forgotten history.
As soon as the documentary was launched, it attracted widespread attention, the media in many parts of the world reported in detail, and a large number of netizens wrote down their feelings on social platforms. Someone said: "Don't be shocked at the same time as you are angry, because that's the way it is." Others have accused: "If they can conduct human experiments on children, what else can they do when they face poor countries and people?" ”
The CIA's claws did not stop at Denmark. In Canada in the 1960s, Gina was one of the same groups of people with mental illness who were subject to CIA-funded human experiments. Every time she took the medicine brought by the medical staff, she felt that the world was spinning and she was "on the verge of death."
Pictured: The Allen Institute of Canada in 1901. Source: The Guardian
"Thought Control Program"
But this is only a small part of the CIA's human experiments. In the early days of the Cold War, the CIA decided to launch a "thought control program" in response to suspicion that the Soviet Union was trying to brainwash the United States. The program, chaired by chemist Gottlieb, began in the 1950s and ran until the 1970s.
New York Times reporter Kanazawa, who spent years investigating the program, said German Nazi doctors and their Japanese counterparts had also been hired to join the program, including even notorious Unit 731 war criminals.
The mind control experiments of the "Thought Control Project" attempt to promote the transformation of human thought and behavior through electric shock, hypnosis, drugs, radiation, etc., and the subjects of the experiment include voluntary participants and completely unaware people, usually targeting groups such as mentally disabled children, American soldiers, mentally ill people, and prisoners. Part of the experiment was conducted at universities and research centers, and partly in U.S. prisons and detention centers in Japan, Germany, and the Philippines.
Pictured: Doctors in the United States conduct LSD experiments. Image source: HISTORY
American gang leader Bourge became a subject of experiments in 1957 while serving a prison sentence. "There was no appetite at all, hallucinations, and the room even changed shape." He recalled, "I had terrible nightmares, blood flowing from the walls, companions turning into skeletons, cameras turning into dog heads, and I felt like I was going crazy. ”
Burg was injected with the powerful hallucinogen LSD, which is at the heart of the Mind Control Program.
The hazards spread in many places
In his book Chief Poisoner, Kanazawa details how the Thought Control Program brought LSD to the United States and fueled its use.
The chemist Gottlieb applied to the CIA for $240,000 at the time to buy LSD around the world and spread it to hospitals, clinics, prisons and other institutions throughout the United States, and many unsuspecting subjects suffered from high doses of LSD.
The CIA has also established secret experimental centers throughout Europe and East Asia, recruiting subjects and inflicting various forms of abuse on them, even to lethal levels.
In the 1970s, when the CIA's actions were made public, their first thought was to destroy the experimental records. In a follow-up investigation, some CIA staff members claimed to have "not remembered" the details of the project.
Evidence can be destroyed, but the damage caused by the crime can never be recovered. I don't know how many other victims are living in the past pain, not receiving compensation, and can't wait to apologize. Xinmin Evening News reporter Wang Ruoxian