Karen Wetmore - Surviving Evil: CIA Mind Control Experiments in Vermont

CIA Mind Control
Experiments in Vermont

Karen Wetmore

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Wetmore, Karen

Surviving Evil: CIA Mind Control Experiments in Vermont

ISBN 10: 0-9815376-5-0

ISBN-13: 978-0-9815376-5-8

1.Mind Control 2. Central Intelligence Agency 3. Vermont State Hospital

Dedicated To the Memory of
Phillip Harold Cram
1951-1969
I will miss you forever.

A special thank you to Kathy Judge: there is no doubt in my mind that without your help, I literally would not have survived. When I lost all hope, you held it for me until I could hold it once again for myself. You believed in me when I could no longer believe in myself. You trusted in me and showed me that I could take the risk to trust again. You showed me how to accept all that has happened in my life and be able to live despite it all. Thank you for being there when I needed you the most and helping me pull my life out of chaos. I will be grateful to you always.

Thank you, Dr. Colin Ross for encouraging me to write this book. Your advice on CIA drug and mind control programs has been invaluable. Thanks for answering my many questions related to MKULTRA. Your support is much appreciated.

Thanks to my father, George Wetmore, I miss you Dad, and my mother Dorothy Wetmore, who encouraged me to write a book, my brother George (Kip) Wetmore, Sue Wetmore, Jeffery Wetmore, Christopher Wetmore and King. I love you all.

Thanks to Dr. Thomas Fox. I wish you were here.

Thanks to Dr. Judy Nepvue, Dr. Alan Shirks, Copley Hospital, Rutland Regional Medical Center, (RRMC), and the 1981 nursing staff, Copley Hospital, especially Anna Anderson, Carol Leonard and Cheryl.

Thanks to RRMC psychiatric unit nursing staff: Lynne Colville, Mary Patten, Rosemary Johnson, Tammy, Lesa, Susan and Marlene.

Thanks to Karen Esty, Linda Khoury, Sylvia Boyea, Viola Littlejohn, Henry and Joyce LaVanway, Craig and Peggy Angstadt, Jane Quigley, Marianne, Jules and Mary Denis, Gene and Sally Pagano, John Fillioe, Phil Fass, Jane Youngbaer, Rep. Anne Donahue, Rep. Michael Fisher, Deana Weidman, Ezra The Book Finder and Professor Sandra Coyle (for helping me polish my writing skills in your classroom).

Thanks to Senator Bernie Sanders and Burlington office staff, Jim Rader and Gretchen Bailey, Vermont State Trooper Sharon, my former neighbor, Waterbury Center, Vermont (1981), Vermont State Police, Middlesex barracks (1971-1972).

Thanks to, Bob Pratt, Randal Smathers, Editor Rutland Herald, Louis Porter, former Chief Vermont Press Bureau, Associated Press, David Moats, Rutland Herald Editorial Page Editor, the Rutland Herald, the Barre-Times Argus, the Vermont Press Bureau, Blink Films, Smithsonian Channel, Counterpoint Newspaper, Valtin, Jeff Kaye (for posting the November 30, 2008 Rutland Herald article).

Thanks to Jimmy Judge and Peter and Sharon Anderson, and June Austin and Pam Greeno Westcott for helping me fill in childhood memories. I miss you Pam.

Special thanks go to the people who spoke with me on a confidential basis. Thank you for your valuable information.

People contact me by letter and email to describe ongoing harassment with non-lethal weapons, mind control techniques and intimidation. Many of their stories sound plausible and are told coherently, in detail, and with a context that makes sense of them. This may be a prior husband or boyfriend in the military, prior employment in the intelligence community, working for a defense contractor, or something similar. But, no matter how plausible, none of the accounts can be proven or disproven.

Karen Wetmores story is completely different. I have never met anyone who has worked so hard for so long to obtain solid documentation of her allegations of mind control experimentation. As you will read in these pages, Karen filed numerous Freedom of Information Act requests with the CIA and military, corresponded with numerous officials and politicians, and read a great deal of background material. Piece by piece, she assembled her facts, until she had documented a large network of professional connections, relationships and contacts between her own psychiatrists and the network of CIA and military mind control doctors.

Karens claim that she was a victim of CIA mind control experimentation is backed up by extensive circumstantial evidence enough to establish her case in a court of law, in my opinion but also by direct evidence and documents. As she explains, the starting point was discovering the name of Robert W. Hyde, M.D. in her medical records. I was already aware of Dr. Hyde. He was cleared at TOP SECRET by the CIA as a contractor in its mind control program, MKULTRA. He received $148,515.00 from the CIA in 1955 under MKULTRA Subproject 10 for LSD experiments. He received $5,580.00 in 1961 under MKULTRA Subproject 61, and $24,500.00 in 1956 under MKULTRA Subproject 66.

In 1955, Dr. Hyde published a paper in the American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 111, pages 881-895, entitled, Experimental Psychiatry II. Clinical and Physio-chemical observations in experimental psychosis. This paper is about LSD experiments. Dr. Hydes coauthors were Max Rinkel, M.D., Harry Solomon, M.D., and Hudson Hoagland, Ph.D. Dr. Hoagland worked at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, which was the site for MKULTRA Subproject 8, funded in 1953 for $39,500.00 to support LSD experiments. Dr. Hyde was the contractor on Subproject 8.

Other coauthors of Dr. Hydes on published papers include J. Sanbourne Bockoven, M.D., Jackson DeShon, M.D., and Harry C. Solomon, M.D. Keep an eye out for these names as you read Karens story. In 1958, a book was published entitled, Chemical Concepts of Psychosis, edited by Max Rinkel and Herman Denber. The book is the Proceedings of the Symposium on Chemical Concepts of Psychosis held at the Second International Congress of Psychiatry in Zurich, Switzerland, September 1-7, 1957.

Participants and contributors to the Symposium include the following documented CIA and military mind control contractors and LSD researchers: Robert Heath, Hudson Hoagland, Paul Hoch, Abraham Hoffer, Albert Hofmann, Amedeo Marrazzi, and Humphrey Osmond. This is the network of doctors who conducted LSD, brain electrode implant and other experiments for the CIA and US military during the time period that Karen Wetmore was being experimented on in hospitals in Vermont. Paul Hoch, M.D. killed tennis pro, Harold Blauer, with an experimental dose of mescaline provided by the US Army at New York State Psychiatric Institute on January 8, 1953. Harold Blauer was never told he was receiving a hallucinogen. His family received an award of $18,000.00 on June 17, 1955 from the New York Court of Claims.

We know for a fact that CIA and military mind control contractors killed at least one person with mescaline in the 1950s. What are the odds that Harold Blauer was the only one who died? Keep this in mind as you read Karen Wetmores account of the hundreds of deaths at Vermont State Hospital during the time period of MKULTRA, MKSEARCH and other CIA mind control programs.

The involvement of Vermont State Hospital and Vermont School of Medicine in CIA mind control experiments, which was extensive and lasted over a long period of time, has never been documented before. This is original investigative work by Karen Wetmore. Additionally, she is the first person to bring the existence of the CIAs MKCOTTON program to public attention. I filed a Freedom of Information act request about MKCOTTON as a result of Karens research, but the CIA told me they had no additional information on it.