http://www.unwittingvictim.com/Delgado.html
In 1969 Dr. Jose Delgado, a Yale psychologist, published a book “Physical Control of the mind, Toward a Psychocivilized Society” (2). In this book he presented the results of 30 years of research. Scientists had succeeded in mapping out the relations between different points in the brain and a lot of the activities, functions, and sensations of humans and animals.
The stimulation of the motion center in the cat’s brain by electric current of 1.2 milliampere made it raise his hind foot above the floor, at 1.5 milliampere it raised the foot by 4 cm, at 1.8 milliampere it raised the foot all the way up, at 2 milliamperes the cat raised it’s foot even during a jump and landed badly.
When a man was asked to straighten his hand the bending of which was stimulated he replied “I think your electricity is stronger then my will.”
By means of electrical stimulation of the brain the rhythm of breathing and heart beat [this was even stopped for several pulses] was affected as well as the function of the most of the viscera, such as the secretion of the gall bladder.
As well frowning, opening and closing of eyes and mouth, chewing, yawning, sleep, dizziness, epileptic seizures in healthy persons etc. were induced. There was a direct correlation between the electrical stimulation of different parts of the brain and a visible reaction in both human-beings and animals.
Animal: A cat’s licking was induced and, in correlation to the electrically stimulation, the cat looked for something to lick.
Stimulation of more superior nerves in the brain produced more complex movements:
Animal: A monkey got up to walk whenever the stimulation of that point in the brain started, and sat back to eat it’s food whenever the stimulation was stopped.
The stimulation of points in the brain where feelings and emotions reside produced decisions.
Human: A passive, depressed woman tore up a piece of paper when her center of anger was stimulated: “I did not control myself. I had to get up and tear.”, she commented.
Human: An aggressive woman, with the same point stimulated, took the guitar she was playing until the moment of stimulation, and smashed it against the wall.
The intensity of feelings could be controlled by turning the knob which controlled the intensity of the electric current.
Human:When the pleasure center was stimulated women offered marriage to therapists.
Animal: Stimulation of a point in a monkey’s brain stopped her maternal behavior toward a newborn baby.
When the limbic system was stimulated the patients vigilance weakened, they lost capacity to think, often they began to undress or grope and when the stimulation stopped they did not remember it.
During this time period, using human inventions, the closest they got to nature [reading electrical activity of the brain] is best documented by the experiment when the “electrodes” were implanted in the cat’s internal ear and connected with an amplifier and loudspeakers. The cat’s internal ear [electrical activity between the ear and brain] then functioned as a microphone converting the sounds into electrical impulses which were collected by electrodes and from the loudspeakers sounded the words whispered into the cat’s ears [remember the use of cats by the CIA as guided microphones].
John Stanton Yeomans, in his book “Principles of Brain Stimulation” (3) of 1990 describes an experiment where, by the electrical stimulation of visual brain center the perception of Braille characters in blind persons was induced. They have learned to read them. John Stanton Yeomans writes that by the electrical stimulation of the brain hundreds of reactions were produced including complex thoughts.
Jose Delgado stimulated 100 times one point in a bull’s brain, which made him 100 times bellow. Delgado became world known when he faced a charging bull, fitted with electrodes. He had no other protection except the small black box in his hands with which he had goaded the bull to become more and more enraged. And he then with the bull almost upon him, pressed another button and the animal promptly stopped in its tracks. At the end of his book Jose Delgado states that the hope that the new power acquired by the behavioral science will remain limited to scientists (or some charitable elite does not raise neither distant nor recent past) and that the control of human behavior will quickly progress in methodology as well as in applicability. He proposed to employ this new knowledge to create a “psychocivilized society”.
Gordon Thomas, the author of the book inspired by the abuse of mental patients in Montreal used for the CIA drug and psychological research, based his book not only on CIA documents, but also based his book on interviews with the former CIA employees. He describes the visit of the director of the CIA Office of Research and Development at the CIA directors office in 1972, where he entrusted that the electrical stimulation of the brain was the key to creating not only a psychocivilized person, but an entire psychocivilized society. It would be a world where every human thought, emotion, sensation and desire could be actually controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain.
If the CIA tried to use the electrical brain stimulation to produce the new generation of the lie detector they would have to implant the electrodes in the points in the brain where the thoughts origin in both the investigator and the interrogated and connect them. In the same way if they wished to control somebody’s behavior he would have to “obey” his “boss’s” thoughts. Of course this would be a very clumsy way to do it. But the methods of brain stimulation and registration of brain activity were progressing fast.
Gordon Thomas describes in his book on the CIA mind control research (1) a “Schwitzgebel machine” which allegedly the CIA produced in 1972. The Schwitzgebel machine consisted of a Behavior Transmitter-Reinforcer fitted to a body belt that “received from and transmitted signals to a radio module”. The Schwitzgebel machine was able “to record all physical and neurological signs in a subject from up to a quarter of a mile” (4).
1 ) Gordon Thomas: Journey into Madness, the True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse, 1989, Bantam Books, USA, ISBN 0-553-05357-4
2 ) Jose M. R. Delgado: Physical Control of the Mind, Toward a Psychocivilized Society, 1969, USA
3 ) John Stanton Yeomans: Principles of Brain Stimulation, Oxford University Press, 1990, Great Britain, ISBN 019-506-1381
4 ) see reference 1)
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