Secret CIA Document Shows Plan to Test Drugs on Prisoners, Childhood abuse never ended for Australian adults, SMART Child and Ritual Abuse Newsletter

Secret CIA Document Shows Plan to Test Drugs on Prisoners
By Dror Ladin, Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project
November 13, 2018

 

Thanks to an ACLU victory in federal court, we know much more about how CIA doctors violated the medical oath to “do no harm.”

 

One of the most important lessons of the CIA’s torture program is the way it corrupted virtually every individual and institution associated with it. Over the years, we have learned how lawyers twisted the law and psychologists betrayed their ethical obligations in order to enable the brutal and unlawful torture of prisoners.

 

Now we’ve won the release of a 90-page account of the CIA’s Office of Medical Services role in the CIA torture program — a secret history written by the top CIA medical official, whose identity remains classified.

 

The history reveals that CIA doctors were hunting for a “truth serum” to use on prisoners as part of a previously secret effort called Project Medication. The CIA studied records of old Soviet drug experiments as well as the CIA’s notorious and discredited MK-Ultra program, which involved human experimentation with LSD and other drugs on unwitting subjects. The CIA doctors involved in Project Medication wanted to use Versed, a psychoactive drug similar to some of those used in MK-Ultra, on prisoners.

 

The CIA ignored lessons from its own history. After MK-Ultra was shut down, the CIA director testified in 1977, “It is totally abhorrent to me to think of using humans as guinea pigs.” But decades later, the agency decided to experiment on humans again, testing pseudoscientific theories of “learned helplessness” on its prisoners.

 

While Project Medication never got off the ground, CIA medical professionals remained critical participants in experimenting with torture. Just like the government lawyers who tried to give unlawful torture a veneer of legality, the secret history reveals that CIA doctors were “indispensable” to the effort of “legitimizing the program.”....
https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/torture/secret-cia-document-shows-plan-test-drugs-prisoners

 

CIA considered potential truth serum for terror suspects
By DEB RIECHMANN November 13, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shortly after 9/11, the CIA considered using a drug it thought might work like a truth serum and force terror suspects to give up information about potential attacks.

 

After months of research, the agency decided that a drug called Versed, a sedative often prescribed to reduce anxiety, was “possibly worth a try.” But in the end, the CIA decided not to ask government lawyers to approve its use.

The existence of the drug research program — dubbed “Project Medication” — is disclosed in a once-classified report that was provided to the American Civil Liberties Union under a judge’s order and was released by the organization Tuesday.

 

The 90-page CIA report, which was provided in advance to The Associated Press, is a window into the internal struggle that medical personnel working in the agency’s detention and harsh interrogation program faced in reconciling their professional ethics with the chance to save lives by preventing future attacks.

 

“This document tells an essential part of the story of how it was that the CIA came to torture prisoners against the law and helps prevent it from happening again,” said ACLU attorney Dror Ladin....
https://www.apnews.com/e4bc055b4fee4e0d9f47ab14adc2c173

 

Childhood abuse never ended for thousands of Australian adults
By Tracey Shelton 3 Nov 2018

Sarah is living proof that "life after hell" is possible.

For more than 20 years she says she endured beatings, rape and degradation at the hands of her family....

 

Her abusers spanned three generations and included her grandfather, father and some of her brothers. She has scars across her body....

While most people assume child abuse ends at adulthood, it can bring control, fear and manipulation that can last a lifetime.

 

Incestuous abuse into adulthood affects roughly 1 in 700 Australians, according to research by psychiatrist Warwick Middleton — one of the world's leading experts in trauma and dissociation. If that estimate is accurate, tens of thousands of Australian adults like Sarah are being abused by family members into their 20s or even up to their 50s....

 

Hidden in 'happy' families, successful careers

Sydney criminologist Michael Salter has found similar patterns in his own research. He said cases of incest are "fairly likely" to continue into adulthood, but this extreme form of domestic abuse is unrecognised within our health and legal systems.

"It's unlikely that these men are going to respect the age of consent," says Mr Salter, who is an associate professor of criminology at Western Sydney University. "It doesn't make sense that they would be saying, 'Oh you're 18 now so I'm not going to abuse you anymore'. We're just not having a sensible conversation about it."

 

The ABC spoke with 16 men and women who described being abused from childhood into adulthood....

 

A mental 'escape'

Professor Middleton describes abuse by a parent as "soul destroying". In order to survive psychologically, a child will often dissociate from the abuse.

Compartmentalising memories and feelings can be an effective coping strategy for a child dependent on their abuser, says Pam Stavropoulos, head of research at the Blue Knot Foundation, a national organisation that works with the adult survivors of childhood trauma.

'I learnt to disappear'

Like a "shattered glass", three women discuss the myths and challenges of living with Dissociative Identity Disorder.

The extreme and long-lasting nature of ongoing abuse can result in dissociative identity disorder, which on the one hand can shield a victim from being fully aware of the extent of the abuse but can also leave them powerless to break away, Ms Stavropoulos says....
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-03/child-abuse-can-continue-into-adulthood/10418556 

SMART Child and Ritual Abuse Newsletter - Issue 143 – November 2018
https://ritualabuse.us/2018/11/issue-143-november-2018/ 

Articles include:
- Organised Abuse in the UK Conference 2018
- Satan worshiping middle school girls
- Catholic clergy sex abuse investigation
- Drug-related violence in Mexico
- Rotherham child sexual abuse
- Brett Kavanaugh's alleged sexual misconduct - Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court
- Bill Cosby, sexual assault, Andrea Constand
- Warren Jeffs, FLDS sect, fundamentalist Mormon cult, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Nevada’s famous pimp Dennis Hof, allegation of sexual assault,
- Scott Morrison’s national apology to Australian survivors and victims of child sexual abuse
- Colonia Dignidad, Nazi, ex-Nazi Paul Schäfer, Hartmut Hopp
- Corey Feldman, Documentary of Child Abuse in Movie Industry, Truth: the Rape of 2 Coreys, Hollywood’s Sexual Misconduct Scandals

 

 

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