Roots of Modern Psychological Torture, Mind Control (& Organized Stalking-Electronic Torture/Targeted Individual Program) ENDEVR Documentary

Professor Tim Shallice, Neuropsychologist, Former Director of Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London

The goal (at the US Guantanamo Bay detention/torture center), psychologically, was to create the most dreadful conditions you could establish for a human being. And the enhancement to that was based on a program called “learned helplessness”…. The program included even putting people into coffins, to create such inhumane conditions, that you would be under the power, they called it “demonstrated omnipotence.”

Mark Fallon, Department of Defense

So the idea was that you could the undermine the basic instincts of survival of an animal (and human) if you traumatized them or tortured them enough.

Dr. Steven Reisner, psychologist

Webmaster: In my opinion, the dialogue from this excellent video, partially transcribed below, summarizes and encapulates the development and application of the scientifically-based, state-sponsored torture techniques now being systematically deployed against “targeted individuals” on a worldwide basis! Essentially, the TI program IS an ongoing, global “open-air GITMO torture program.” Selected dialogue is transcribed here:

At about 30:40 into the video:

Professor Tim Shallice, Neuropsychologist, Former Director of Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London:

In the autumn of 1971, a report came out in the Sunday Times (about the “14 hooded men: tortured by British authorities in Northern Ireland). It became clear that this was the scientific development of brainwashing techniques. What you see in these techniques is the state devising methods to essentially destroy the personality of an individual by scientific means.

Moderator: Professor Tim Shallice was one of the first to make the connection between the Montreal experiments (by CIA MKULTRA psychiatrist, Dr. Ewen Cameron) and the interrogation (torture) techniques used in Northern Ireland. In 1974, he presented a BBC documentary with the Irish prisoners who by then had been nicknamed “the hooded men.”

Dr. Alfred McCoy, author of “A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror” (2006): They (the 14 “hooded men”) were subjected to essentially the same two foundational techniques that had been developed as a result of the CIA’s (MKULTRA) behavioral research in the United States during the 1950s nearly 20 years before (sensory deprivation and self-inflicted pain).

Professor Tim Shallice: The two most important (techniques) were sleep deprivation and isolation. In Ireland, they got no sleep at all for the first two days. This combination of procedures, which are each in themselves extremely simple and extremely cheap to produce, comes from the abstraction from (CIA MKULTRA) scientific work. And the consequence of this in the men that I interviewed was a long-term traumatic neurosis… post-traumatic stress disorder. It was carried out with the intention of brainwashing and it certainly succeeded in doing so.

Dialogue at about 51:40:

Video moderator: On Oct. 7, 2001, the “War on Terror” began.

Mozzam Begg, British national, family man, educator and humanitarian volunteer in Afghanistan, then Guantanamo detainee: (Now, after US and UK bombing and invasion of Kabul began) it’s pure panic. This isn’t just the United States bombing sorties and campaigns. This is now soldiers on the ground, armed people in the streets killing people, arresting people, torturing people. And I’m a target.

Moderator: Mozzam was captured and detained in Baghram Air Base for a year. In February, 2003, he was taken to Guantanamo Bay detention camp and accused of being a member of Al Qaeda. He was considered high risk. And for the next 22 months he was held in solitary confinement.

…. Moderator: In the chaos (following 9/11), President Bush signed a secret directive giving the CIA authority to kill or capture terrorists anywhere. In the years that followed, several dozen aircraft criss-crossed the globe making thousands of flights.

Professor Alfred McCoy: People were snatched off the streets of Milan and Stockholm and put into this transnational gulag of “allied” sites in Uzbekistan to Morocco.

Moderator: Faced with an onslaught of prisoners, the Bush administration drew up a memorandum known as the “torture memos.” It set out the legal basis for using these techniques in the “war on terror” and cited the “hooded men” (of Northern Ireland) 1978 judgement. Within months the CIA rolled out these (torture) methods (derived from Project MKULTRA; sensory deprivation and self-inflicted pain, including sleep deprivation, forcing “stress positions,” “walling technique,” “dark,” “confined space”) within Guantanamo and all its black sites. They called them “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques.”

Mark Fallon, Department of Defense, Chief Investigator for Al-Qaeda: The CIA turned to contract psychologists who had no experience with Al Qaeda (or) interrogations (or) the Middle East…

Dr. Bruce Jessen, CIA-paid psychologist: Jim and I together… rolled out a list of techniques that we thought had worked well in the SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) school.

Dr. Jim Mitchell, CIA-paid psychologist: I had already been told that the Geneva Conventions didn’t apply to the captured detainees by the attorneys at the CIA and so I don’t think I thought about Geneva Conventions.

Mark Fallon: They (Drs. Jessen and Mitchell) became… the modern-day equivalent of snake oil salesmen. These two psychologists were awarded a $183 million contract to run a program of torture.

President George W. Bush: We must conduct ourselves under the common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention (which states) that there will be “no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. What does that mean?

McCoy: They used the CIA paradigm of sensory deprivation and self-inflicted pain and then they added to it. They probed Arab cultural sensitivities and they discovered that nudity and fear of dogs would break down Arabs.

Moderator: CIA psychologists used Dr. Ewen Cameron’s experiments on sensory deprivation and overload along with the Cold War SERE program to create a horrific mix of torture techniques.

Mark Fallon: The program included even putting people into coffins, to create such inhumane conditions, that you would be under the power, they called it “demonstrated omnipotence.”

Moderator: Secretly, the APA (American Psychological Association) permitted psychologists working in the torture program to override their ethical code of “do no harm” if the military and CIA required it.

Dr. Steven Reisner: The program of abusive interrogations, of torture,at the CIA was designed and at Guantanamo was designed by a psychologist and a psychiatrist after they were trained in the techniques and in the program of the CIA abuses….. So the underlying (idea) was that you could if you traumatize them, or torture them enough.”

Mark Fallon: The goal, psychologically, was to create the most dreadful conditions you could establish for a human being. And the enhancement to that was based on a program called “learned helplessness.”

From (1960’s?) News Clip: Recently released CIA documents refer to the feasibility of remote control of animals and that special investigations will be conducted toward the application of selected elements of these techniques to man.

Moderator: Scientists have long experimented on animals to determine human behavior. In 1967, Dr. Martin Seligman (University of Pennsylvania CIA psychologist) began a series of tests using electric shocks on dogs.

Mark Fallon: He (Seligman) was able to determine that if you indiscriminantly abuse the dog… gave them electrical shocks. Even if they could avoid the shocks, they would just submit to them, they would learn to be helpless. These dogs would learn helplessness.

Dr. Reisner: Their aim was to undermine the mental independence of detainees, the instincts for self-preservation, the ability to think and choose using techniques not unlike what Seligman did to his dogs.

Mark Fallon: The psychologists actually designed a program based on those SERE techniques and the theory of learned helplessness and then tried to apply those theories to human beings.

Dr. Reisner: So the idea was that you could the undermine the basic instincts of survival of an animal (or human) if you traumatized them or tortured them enough.

Moderator: In August, 2017, the two psychologists who created the CIA’s torture program (at Guantanamo Bay) were about to be put on trial.

Dr. Bruce Jessen: We were soldiers doing what we were instructed to do. We knew it was lawful, we knew it was legal, we knew it had been vetted and approved.

Moderator: The CIA settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. No liability was admitted.

Webmaster comment: This brilliant film traces the progressive development of state-sponsored torture techniques deployed on civilians from the CIA’s MKULTRA mind/behavioral control experiments of Dr. Ewen Cameron in the 1950s and 60’s, to the utilization of these techniques by the British government against fourteen Northern Irish civilians (the so-called “hooded men”), to the torturing of Middle Easterners at America’s Guantanamo Bay detention facility and other CIA “black sites.” Although the film does not make the connection to the widespread utilization of these same torture techniques against “targeted individuals,” I believe overwhelming evidence indicates that these same no-touch torture techniques are being widely deployed against TIs on worldwide basis.