Conspiracy

MKUltra: CIA once tried to use mind-controlled animals as assassins

By T.K. Randall
June 15, 2025 ·  4 comments

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Credit: Hebrew Matio / CC BY-SA 4.0 (adapted) 60 years ago, the CIA was involved in a secretive and controversial program known as MKUltra which experimented with mind control techniques - often involving unwilling or unknowing human participants.

Before this, however, researchers attempted various mind control experiments using animals.

The idea was to use electrical impulses to stimulate the brains of the animals which included rats, cats, dogs, monkeys, donkeys, guinea pigs and birds.

Some animals were to be rigged with explosives or deadly toxins, essentially acting as assassins that the enemy (in this case the Soviet Union) would never see coming.A rat, for example, could be used to poison someone, while larger animals could even be equipped with explosives that would be remotely detonated when the animal reached its objective.

According to declassified files, the researchers did manage to control the animals using these methods, although it doesn't look as though they were ever used to assassinate any targets.

Instead, the information learned from the research was later applied to human mind control experiments before the whole thing was hushed up by the powers that be.

It wasn't until decades later that the full extent of what the CIA had been up to during these years was fully exposed.

Source: Mail Online | Comments (4)

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