East WingCrossover Event: "Vanished With a Trace"Episode Opener: "The Shadow Cabinet" (Full-Length, Detailed, with MK Ultra & Gateway Process)COLD OPEN
INT. WHITE HOUSE – EAST WING – NIGHT
The corridors are dim, the atmosphere tense. In a secure conference room, high-level CIA and NATO officials gather. The President's chair is empty.
A digital map glows on the wall, marked with red dots—Scorpion HQ, FBI, NCIS, NYPD, NATO command centers.
DIRECTOR ELLEN HART (CIA):
The President is not to be briefed until we have full operational control. This is a NATO-CIA joint directive. The Eye must remain in the shadows.
GENERAL RICCI (NATO):
Our assets are in place in Rome, London, and Berlin. Gateway process teams are ready for remote influence operations.
DEPUTY DIRECTOR MASON (CIA, clandestine ops):
Scorpion and their coalition are getting too close to the truth about MK Ultra and the original Eye protocols. We need to escalate.
HART:
Begin full review of the Gateway Process. I want all psychic assets and remote viewers prepped. No mistakes.
INT. CIA BLACK SITE – GATEWAY PROCESS LAB – NIGHT
A sterile, soundproofed room. Subjects recline in zero-gravity chairs, headphones over their ears. Technicians monitor EEGs and brainwave monitors.
TECHNICIAN:
Initiating HEMI-SYNC. Binaural beats at 4 Hz. Subject entering theta state.
INSTRUCTOR (softly):
Focus on your breathing. In... and out. Visualize the energy balloon. Let the frequencies synchronize your mind.
SCREEN (readout):
ALPHA → THETA → DELTA brainwave transition. Heart rate steady. Subject reporting "expanded awareness."
NARRATION (V.O.):
The Gateway Process, based on Monroe Institute protocols, uses Frequency Following Response (FFR), Hemispheric Synchronization (HEMISYNC), resonant breathing, guided imagery, and sound frequencies to induce altered states of consciousness. The goal: remote viewing, psychic espionage, and manipulation of reality itself.
INSTRUCTOR:
Now, project your consciousness beyond the room. Seek the target. Report anything you see.
A subject's body twitches, eyes darting beneath closed lids.
SUBJECT (whispering):
I see a room... computers... a map. Scorpion HQ.
TECHNICIAN (to Mason, urgent):
They're probing us. Scorpion's algorithm is close to identifying our field agents.
INT. CIA ARCHIVES – NIGHT
Rows of file cabinets, stamped TOP SECRET. A CIA archivist unlocks a drawer labeled "MK ULTRA / GATEWAY." Inside:
Hypnosis protocols
Transcendental meditation scripts
Biofeedback records
Declassified "Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process" documents
Monroe Institute tapes
M.I.A.S. Bulletins outlining the Gateway Program's history, technology, and session structure
Surviving MK Ultra documents: LSD studies, hypnosis manuals, "Perfect Concussion" subprojects, and files on Operation Midnight Climax
ARCHIVIST (muttering):
If the world ever knew...
INT. GATEWAY PROGRAM TRAINING CENTER – NIGHT
A group of new recruits sits in a lecture hall. A senior instructor addresses them.
INSTRUCTOR:
The Gateway Program's purpose is to expand your consciousness—Focus 3, Focus 10, Focus 12, Focus 15, Focus 21.
You'll use HEMISYNC, guided imagery, and FFR to achieve out-of-body experiences, communicate with other energy systems, and learn to control your body and mind.
RECRUIT:
And if we succeed?
INSTRUCTOR:
You'll see the world as it truly is. And you'll serve your country in ways you never imagined.
INT. EAST WING – SITUATION ROOM – LATER
RICCI:
The public can't handle the reality of mind control, psychic warfare, or the Gateway experiments. We keep the narrative contained.
MASON:
Deploy digital countermeasures. If necessary, Operation Obelisk: media blackout, targeted misinformation, asset removal.
HART:
What about MK Ultra? If they connect the dots from the 1950s to now, we lose plausible deniability.
RICCI:
We remind them who writes the rules. NATO and the CIA have been running this game since the Cold War. We don't lose.
MASON:
Begin phase two of Gateway. Every psychic asset, every remote viewer, every handler—on alert. If Scorpion's task force exposes us, we erase the trail.
INT. CIA MK ULTRA TESTING ROOM – FLASHBACKS
Quick cuts:
Unwitting subjects given LSD in a hospital room
Hypnosis sessions, subjects repeating code phrases
"Perfect Concussion" subproject: sub-aural frequency blasts
Operation Midnight Climax: a man in a brothel, one-way mirror, agents taking notes
Canadian psychiatrist Donald Cameron's "psychic driving" with patients in drug-induced comas, tape loops repeating
Electroconvulsive therapy, electrodes sparking
NARRATION (V.O.):
MK Ultra's legacy is one of secrets, erased memories, and broken lives. Over 150 subprojects—drugs, hypnosis, torture, and psychic manipulation. Most records destroyed, but the shadow remains.
INT. WHITE HOUSE – EAST WING – SECURE COMMUNICATIONS
A technician monitors encrypted chatter. A red alert flashes: SCORPION TASK FORCE MERGED. ALLIED TEAMS INTEGRATED.
TECHNICIAN:
They're uniting. They're coming for us.
INT. CONFERENCE ROOM – NIGHT
The camera lingers on the empty President's chair, then slowly zooms in on the Eye's symbol projected on the wall.
HART (cold, decisive):
The Eye sees all. And if they look back at us, we blind them.
RICCI:
Activate all hands. No loose ends.
CUT TO BLACK.
++++++++++Release of real CIA files
The image shows a document titled "M.I.A.S. BULLETIN" from the Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences, dated Approved For Release 2003/09/10. It outlines the Gateway Program, which focuses on the development and exploration of human consciousness. Key aspects of the program include:
• Purpose: To improve individual consciousness, explore expanded awareness, control the physical body and out-of-body experiences, and communicate with other energy structures and realities.
• History: The program is based on over 3,000 test exercises involving 1,932 participants over ten years, with contributions from researchers across various disciplines.
• Technology: It utilizes Frequency Following Response (FFR) and Hemispheric Synchronization (HEMISYNC), techniques involving specific sound pulses to induce altered states of consciousness. Robert Monroe patented this method in 1975.
• Practical Application: Sessions involve pre-recorded exercises using FFR, HEMISYNC, and vocal guidance, delivered through stereo headphones. Goals include achieving various "Focus" states, such as Focus 3 (Basic HEMISYNC), Focus 10 (Mind awake/body asleep), Focus 12 (Expanded awareness), Focus 15 (No-time), and Focus 21 (Other energy systems).
• Structure: The program offers different session formats:
• Excursion: A one-day introductory experience.
• Discovery: A long weekend focusing on self-direction and control of consciousness.
• Voyage: A full seven-day program incorporating previous training and exploring other energy systems.
• Exploration: An advanced meeting for those who have completed the Voyage session.
• Participation: The program is open to individuals with curiosity or latent talents, subject to acceptance by the Program Director.
The document also provides contact information for the Institute's East and West coast locations. The East coast location is in Faber, VA, and the West coast location is in San Francisco, CA.
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Project MK-ULTRA - Intellipedia Doc ID: 6613524 Approved for Release: 2018/12/12 006760269 W (U) Project MK-ULTRA From Intellipedia (b) (3) - P.L. 86-36 (U) This page has not been edited since October 02, 2011. Please help with completing or updating the page if it has intelligence value (U) See inteilipedia:Abandoned pages for more information about pages with this banner. (U) See the discussion Page for more information about the status of this page. 9 Oa Project MK-ULTRA, MK-ULTRA, or MKULTRA, was the code name for a covert CIA mind-control and chemical interrogation research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence. This official U.S. government program began in the . early 1950s, continuing at least through the late 1960s, and it supposedly used United States citizens as unwitting test subjects.E11[21[311'he published evidence indicates that Project MK-ULTRA involved the surreptitious use of many types of drugs, as well as other methods, to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function. � Project MK-ULTRA was first brought to wide public attention in 1975 by the U.S. Congress, through investigations by the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission. Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms�ordered all MK-ULTRA files destroyed in 1973; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms' destruction order.1-41 Although the CIA insists that MK-ULTRA-type experiments have been abandoned, 14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti has stated in various interviews that the CIA routinely conducts disinformation campaigns and that CIA mind control research continued. In a 1977 interview, Marchetti specifically called the CIA claim that MK-ULTRA was abandoned a "cover story.451161 � On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy said: The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations." At least one death, that of Dr. Frank Olson, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers:171 Sec the Wikipcdia article Project MICULTRA a � smsear...- es� mu � �,������� %VW. ...�������� Cover sheet for MKULTRA proposal � "lb this day most specific information regarding Project MKULTRA remains highly classified.E81 Contents � 1 Title and origins � 2 Goals � 3 Budget � 4 Experiments n 4.1 LSD � � 4.2 Other drugs � 4.3 Hypnosis and Magic � 4.4 Canadian experiments sr 5 Revelation � 6 U.S. General Accounting �trite Report ri 7 Legal issues involving informed consent � 8 Extent of participation � 9 Notable subjects � 10 Incidents � 10.1 Dr:Frank Olson Commits Suicide � 11 Sec also � 12 Web links � 13 References Title and origins The project's intentionally oblique CIA myPtonym is made tip of the digraph MK. Meaning that the project was sponsored by the agency's Technical Services' I of 8 Approved for Release: 2018/12/12 006760269 4/3/2018 8:13 AM Project MK-ULTRA - Intellipedia Approved for Release: 2018/12/12 006760269 I I upsittruclicpcula.inteimx.ic.goviwnnacx.phpllitle=Project_MK-ULT... 2 Of 8 � � vi v peva.. g rr, " g a.4 Dr. Sidney Gottlieb approved of an MKULTRA subproject on LSD in this lone 9.1953 letter. Division, followed by the word ULTRA (which had previously been used to designate the most secret classification of World War II intelligence). Other related cryptonyrns include MK-NAOMI and MK-DELTA. A precursor of the MK-ULTRA program began in 1945 when the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency was established and given direct responsibility for Operation Paperclip. Operation Paperclip was a program to recruit former Nazi scientists. Some of these scientists studied torture and brainwashing, and several had just been identified and prosecuted as war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials.191"1 Several secret U.S. government projects grew out of Operation Paperclip. These projects included Project CIIATTER (established 1947), and Project BLUEBIRD (established 1950), which was later renamed to Project ARTICHOKE in 1951. Their purpose was to study mind-control, interrogation, behavior modification and related topics. Headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, the MK-ULTRA project was started on the order of CIA director Allen Dulles on April 13, 1953,011 largely in response to Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean use of mind-control techniques on U.S. prisoners of war in Korea.1121 The CIA wanted to usc similar methods on their own captives. The CIA was also interested in being able to manipulate foreign leaders with such techniques,1131 and would later invent several schemes to drug Fidel Castro. Experiments were often conducted without the subjects' knowledge or consent") In some cases, academic researchers being funded through grants from CIA front organizations were unaware that their work was being used for these purposes.115) In 1964, the project was renamed MK-SEARCII. The project attempted to produce a perfect truth drug for use in interrogating suspected Soviet spies during the Cold War, and generally to explore any other possibilities of mind control. Sidney Gottlieb Another MK-ULTRA effort, Subproject 54, was the Navy's top secret "Perfect Concussion" program, which used sub-aural frequency blasts to erase mcmory.1161 Because most MK-ULTRA records were deliberately destroyed in 1973 by order of then CIA Director Richard Helms, it has been difficult, if not impossible, for investigators to gain a complete understanding of the more than 150 individually funded research sub-projects sponsored by MK-ULTRA and related CIA 171 programs.[ Goals The Agency poured millions of dollars into studies probing dozens of methods of influencing and controlling the mind. One 1955 MK-ULTRA document gives an indication of the size and range of the effort; this document refers to the study of an assortment of mind-altering substances described as follows:" I. Substances which will promote illogical thinking and impulsiveness to the point where the recipient would be discredited in public. 2. Substances which increase the efficiency of mcntation and perception. 3. Materials which will prevent or counteract the intoxicating effect of alcohol. 4. Materials which will promote the intoxicating effect of alcohol. 5. Materials which will produce the signs and symptoms of recognized diseases inn reversible way so that they may be used for malingering, etc. 6. Materials which will render the induction of hypnosis easier or otherwise enhance its usefulness. 7. Substances which will enhance the ability of individuals to withstand privation, torture and coercion during interrogation and so-called "brain-washing". 8. Materials and physical methods which will produce amnesia for events preceding and during their use. 9. Physical methods of producing shock and confusion over extended periods of time and capable of surreptitious use. IS. Substances which produce physical disablement such as paralysis of the legs, acute anemia, etc. II. Substances which will produce "pure" euphoria with no subsequent let-down. 12. Substances which alter personality structure in such a way that the tendency of the recipient to become dependent upon another person is enhanced. 13. A material which will cause mental confusion of such a type that the individual under its influence will find it difficult to maintain a fabrication under questioning. 14. Substances which will lower the ambition and general working efficiency of men when administered in undetectable amounts. IS. Substances which promote weakness or distortion of the eyesight or hearing faculties, preferably without permanent effects. 16. A knockout pill which can surreptitiously be administered in drinks, food, cigarettes, as an aerosol. etc., which will be safe louse, provide a maximum of amnesia, and be suitable for use by agent types on an ad hoc basis. 17. A material which can be surreptitiously administered by the above routes and which in very small amounts will make it impossible for a man to perform any physical activity whatsoever. Historians have asserted that creating a "Manchurian Candidate" subject through "mind control" techniques was a goal of MK-ULTRA and related CIA projects."' 4/3/2018 8:13 AM Approved for Release: 2018/12/12 006760269 Project MK-ULTRA - Intellipedia Budget Approved for Release: 2018/12/12006760269 A secretive amangement granted the MK-ULTRA progratn a percentage of the CIA budget. The MK-ULTRA director was granted six percent of the CIA 'operating budget in 1953, without oversight or accounting.101An estimated USSIOm or more was spent.I'll Experiments CIA documents suggest that "chemical, biological and radiological" means were investigated for the purpose of mind control as part of MK-ULTRAP21 LSD Early efforts focused on LSD, which later came to dominate many of MK -ULTRA's programs. Experiments included administering LSD to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, prostitutes, mentally ill patients, and members of the general public in order to study their reactions. LSD and other drugs were usually administered without the subject's knowledge or informed consent, a violation of the Nuremberg Code that the U.S. agreed to follow after World War II. � Efforts to "recruit" subjects were often illegal, even discounting the fact that drugs were being administered (though actual use of LSD, for example, was legal in the United States until October 6, 1966). In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, the brothels were equipped with one-way mirrors, and the sessions were filmed for later viewing and study.123I � Some subjects' participation was consensual, and in many of these cases, the subjects appeared to be singled out for even more extreme experiments. Inane case, volunteers were given LSD for 77 consecutive days.1241 LSD was eventually dismissed by MK-ULTRA's researchers as too unpredictable in its resultsP1 Although useful information was sometimes obtained through questioning subjects on LSD, not =commonly the most marked effect would be the subject's absolute and utter certainty that they were able to withstand any forte of interrogation attempt, even physical torture. Other drugs Another technique investigated was connecting a barbiturate IV into one arm and an amphetamine IV into the other.1261The barbiturates were released into the subject first, and as soon as the subject began to fall asleep, the amphetamines were released. The subject would begin babbling incoherently at this point, and it was sometimes possible to ask questions and get useful answers. Other experiments involved heroin, morphine, temazepam (used under code name MK-SEARCH), mescaline, psilocybin, scopolamine, marijuana, alcohol, sodium pentothal.1271 and ergine (in Subproject 22). Hypnosis and Magic Declassified MK-ULTRA documents indicate hypnosis was studied in the early 1950s. Experimental goals included: the creation of "hypnotically induced anxieties," "hypnotically increasing ability to learn and recall complex written matter." studying hypnosis and polygraph extuninations. "hypnotically increasing ability to observe and recall complex arrangements of physical objects." and studying "relationship of personality to susceptibility to hypnosis."Eni In addition, the CIA used the services of American magician John Mulholland to write two manuals on sleight of hand and undercover communication techniques. hi 1973, virtually all documents related to MKULTRA were destroyed. Mulholland's manuals were thought to be among them until a single surviving copy of each was discovered in the agency's archives around 2008-2009. Bob Wallace and H. Keith Melton published "The Official CIA Manual qf Thicket:I, and Deceplion" to chronicle this research into the use of illusion for the agency's field agents.1291 Canadian experiments The experiments were exported to Canada when the CIA recruited Scottish psychiatrist Donald Owen Cameron, creator of the "psychic driving" concept, which the CIA found particularly interesting. Cameron had been hoping to correct schizophrenia by erasing existing memories and reprogramming the psyche. He commuted from Albany, New York to Montreal every week to work at the Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University and was paid $69,000 from 1957 to 1964 to carry out MKULTRA experiments there. In addition to LSD. Cameron also experimented with various paralytic chugs as well as electroconvulsive therapy at thirty to forty times the normal power. His "driving" experiments consisted of putting subjects into drug-induced coma for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements. His experiments were typically carried out on patients who had entered the institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postpartum depression, many of whom suffered pernmnently from his actions.130/ His treatments resulted in victims' incontinence, artmesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators were their parents.Pli His work was inspired and paralleled by the British psychiatrist Dr. William Sargant at St. Thomas' Hospital, London, and Belmont Hospital, Surrey. who was also involved in the Intelligence Services and who experimented extensively on his patients without their consent, causing similar long-term damage.1321 Dr. Cameron and Dr. Sargant are the only two identified Canadian experimenters, but the MKULTRA file makes reference to many other unnamed physicians who were recruited by the CIA.16"u"!""dedi It was dining this era that Cameron became known worldwide as the first chairman of the World Psychiatric Association as well as president of the American and Canadian psychiatric associations. Cameron had also been a member of the Nuremberg medical tribunal in 1946-1947.1331 Revelation 3 of 8 4/3/2018 8:13 AM Approved for Release: 2018/12/12 006760269 Project MK-ULTRA - Intellipedia Approved for Release: 2018/12/12006760269 In 1973. CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MK-ULTRA files destroyed. Pursuant to this order, most CIA documents regarding the project were destroyed, making a full investigation of MK-ULTRA impossible. In December 1974, The A'ew Mt* 7711ICA reported that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities, including experiments on U.S. citizens, during the 1960s. That report prompted investigations by the U.S. Congress, in the form of the Church Conunittee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission that looked into domestic activities of the CIA, the FBI. and intelligence-related agencies of the military. In the summer of 1975, congressional Church Committee reports and the presidential Rockefeller Commission report revealed to the public for the first time that the CIA and the Department of Defense had conducted experiments on both unwitting and cognizant human subjects as pan of an extensive program to influence and control human behavior through the use of psychoactive drugs such as LSD and mescaline and other chemical, biological, and psychological means. They also revealed that at least one subject had died after administration of LSD. Much of what the Church Committee and the Rockefeller Commission learned about MKULTRA was contained in a report, prepared by the Inspector General's office in 1963, that had survived the destruction of records ordered in 1973.1341 However, it contained little detail. The congressional committee investigating the CIA research, chaired by Senator Frank Church. concluded that "Iplrior consent was obviously not obtained from any of the subjects". The committee noted that the "experiments sponsored by these researchers ... call into question the decision by the agencies not to fix guidelines for experiments." Following the recommendations of the Church Committee, President Gerald Ford in 1976 issued the first Executive Order on Intelligence Activities which, among other things, prohibited "experimentation with drugs on human subjects, except with the informed consent, in writing and witnessed by a disinterested party, of each such human subject" and in accordance with the guidelines issued by the National Commission. Subsequent orders by Presidents Carter and Reagan expanded the directive to apply to any human experimentation. On the heels of the revelations about CIA experiments, similar stories surfaced regarding U.S. Army experiments. In 1975 the Secretary of the Army instructed the Army Inspector General to conduct an investigation. Among the findings of the Inspector General was the existence of a 1953 memorandum penned by then Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson. Documents show that the CIA participated in at least two of Department of Defense committees during 1952. These committee findings led to the issuance of the "Wilson Memo," which mandated�in accord with Nuremberg Code protocols�that only volunteers be used for experimental operations conducted in the U.S. armed forces. In response to the Inspector General's investigation, the Wilson Memo was declassified in August 1975. With regard to drug testing within the Army, the Inspector General found that "the evidence clearly reflected that every possible medical consideration was observed by the professional investigators at the Medical Research Laboratories." However the Inspector General also found that the mandated requirements of Wilson's 1953 memorandum had been only partially adhered to: he concluded that the "volunteers were not fully informed, as required, prior to their participation; and the methods of procuring their services. in many cases, appeared not to have been in accord with the intent of Department of the Army policies goveming use of volunteers in research." Other branches of the U.S. armed forces, the Air Force for example, were found not to have adhered to Wilson Memo stipulations regarding voluntary drug testing. In 1977, during a hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to look further into MKULTRA, Admiral Stansfield Turner, then Director of Central Intelligence, revealed that the CIA had found a set of records. consisting of about 20,000 pages,1351 that had survived the 1973 destruction orders, due to having been stored at a records center not usually used for such documents.1341 These files dealt with the financing of MKULTRA projects, and as such contained few details of those projects, but much more was learned from them than from the Inspector General's 1963 report. In Canada, the issue took much longer to surface, becoming widely known in 1984 on a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news show, The Fift