Doc 0000040395
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This document, from the CIA MKUltra mind-control program collection, is a flyer for a rally against CIA terrorism featuring Philip Agee, and includes a summary of alleged CIA abuses such as drug experimentation, assassination attempts, mining harbors, distributing an assassination manual, providing torture training, and sponsoring propaganda books.
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Ask the archive about this →. . Defend the Constitution! Neutralize the CIA! I Second Annual Rally Against CIA Terrorism I Memorial Union- Nov. 16- 12:00 PM i i ,. featuring . : Philip Agee i Appro·Jed tor Release. ! Former CIA Officer Date •• ~ ~ ~ - ~: -\.. "•"' ~ : " · * ' " ) '( 0 ', <) Author, Inside the Company: CIA Diary Summary of CIA Abuses: • Under project !\t K-ULTRA and related programs, the CIA and its researchers drugged Agen cy operators, prisoners, mental patients, and college students with LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge or consent. At least several people died as a result of this experimen tation, yet the complete details of the program remain unknown today since Agency officials destroyed most of the files in the early 70's. • The CIA "attcmptcdM to assassinate Rene Schneider· (Chile), Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Ngo Dinh Diem (Vietnam), and Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic), according to the Church Committee im·estigation. More recently, in veil: Secret Wars of the CIA. Bob Woodward .. reported that the CIA had arranged an attempt to assassinate Shcihk Mohammed Fadlallah ~ on March 8, 1985, unintentionally killing 80 people and wounding another 200. • In early 1984, the CIA mined the harbors of Nicaragua in direct violation of Article l, Sec-r.ion 8 of the Constitution. Later that year, it distributed an assassination manual in \iolation of Presidential Executive Order #12333. These and other actions were condemned by the World Court in 1986 as violating international law. • According to former CIA analyst Jesse Leaf, the CIA provided training in torture techniques to the Shah's secret p9lice in Iran, precipitating the "Iranian Hostage Crisis" of 1979. • According to the Church CommiHee report, the CIA has covertly produced, subsidi7.cd, or I i .· sponsored "well over one thousand books", effectively waging a propaganda campaign against the American people. The most recent known case of CIA sponsm:ship occurred in 1985 when the Agency paid a Harvard professor approximatelyS 109,000 to writeSmliliArnhiil: The Ouest iN Sccmity. No mention was made in the book of the CIA's involvement. I
The image displays a graphic with a stylized title "THE BLACK VAULT" centered at the top. To the left of the title is an illustration of a vault door with intricate mechanical details and a blue glow emanating from it. To the right of the vault illustration, white text provides information about the source of the document, stating it was obtained from "The Black Vault," an online database of declassified government documents. It further specifies that this record is part of the "MKULTRA/Mind Control Collection," containing over 20,000 declassified pages from the CIA, and provides a URL for downloading the collection.
The page contains a black and white illustration at the top, depicting a group of people in a historical setting, potentially a formal gathering or protest. Below the illustration, there is a text-heavy document with several bullet points detailing alleged CIA abuses. A handwritten annotation "CEC 1330" is visible next to "Approved for Release Date". In the bottom right corner, there's a faint diagonal line that may indicate a perforation or a torn edge. There are no photographs, explicit diagrams of experiments, or visual evidence of experimental procedures.
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