CIA Must Disclose Data on Human Experiments

[Jan Klimkowski]

Officially, EA 1729 was the classified codename for LSD-25.

Title : CLINICAL INVESTIGATION OF EA 1729

Corporate Author : CHEMICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT LABS EDGEWOOD ARSENAL MD

Personal Author(s) : SIM, VAN M.

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Report Date : JUN 1961

Pagination or Media Count : 59

Abstract : EA 1729 (lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD25) has been studied extensively in animals and in humans as a possible incapacitating CW compound. Clinical, physiological, and psychiatric studies have been conducted. From the standpoint of biological effectiveness, EA 1729 incapacitates man at doses as low as 1 microgram/kg, the degree of incapacitation increasing with the dose. Its effects endure for periods ranging from 6 to 24 hours. There is a very wide margin of safety between the incapacitating and lethal doses.

Descriptors : *CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS, *LYSERGIC ACIDS, DOSAGE, CHEMICAL WARFARE CASUALTIES, PHYSIOLOGY, BEHAVIOR, AMIDES, DRUGS, PSYCHOLOGY, ETHYL RADICALS, PSYCHIATRY.

Subject Categories : PHARMACOLOGY
CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL WARFARE

Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE

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It wasn't just "tested" by intelligence agencies. Multinationals used it too:

AD-379676, Physical Properties of EA1729 and EA3528, Final Report, Sept
1964 - May 1966, Robert C. Binning, Harry S. Wilson, William G.
Scribner, Donald R. Adams, Lawrence E. Holboke, February 1967, 61 pages,
Monsanto Research Corp, Dayton, Ohio

http://www.hoboes.com/pub/Prohibition/Dr...20on%20LSD

According to "Acid Dreams" author, Martin Lee:

The CIA was still searching for a viable "truth serum" -- the Holy Grail of the cloak-and-dagger trade -- when it initiated Operation Artichoke in the early 1950s and began utilizing LSD during interrogation sessions. Odorless, colorless, and tasteless, LSD was hailed as a "potential new agent for unconventional warfare," according to a classified CIA report dated Aug. 5, 1954. But even a surreptitious dose of LSD, the most potent mind-bending drug known to science, could not guarantee that an interrogation subject would spill the beans.

Perhaps the concept of a "truth serum" was a bit farfetched, for it presupposed that there was a way to chemically bypass the mind’s censor and turn the psyche inside out, unleashing a profusion of secrets. After much trial and error, the CIA realized that it doesn’t quite work that way.

Eventually, CIA experts figured out the most effective way to employ LSD as an aid to interrogation. They used its terrifying effects on some prisoners as a third-degree tactic. A skillful interrogator could gain leverage over prisoners by threatening to keep them in a crazed, tripped-out state forever unless they agreed to talk. This method sometimes proved successful where others had failed. LSD has been used for interrogations on an operational basis -- albeit sparingly -- since the mid-1950s.

U.S. Army interrogators also employed EA-1729 (the code for LSD) as an intelligence-extracting aid. Similar to the strategy of their CIA counterparts, Army interrogators used the drug to scare the daylights out of people who were zonked and terror-stricken on acid.

Documents pertaining to Operation Derby Hat record the results of several EA-1729 interrogations conducted by the Army in the Far East during the early 1960s. One subject vomited three times and stated that he “wanted to die” after he had been slipped some LSD. His reaction was described as “moderate.”

After another target absorbed triple the dose normally used in such sessions, he kept collapsing and hitting his head on a table. “The subject voiced an anti-communist line,” an Army report noted, “and begged to be spared the torture he was receiving. In this confused state he even asked to be killed in order to alleviate his suffering.”

http://dissidentvoice.org/Articles/LeeTruthSerum.htm