Historical Examples of Government Covert Operations & Psychological Manipulation

1. GATE Program (1980s-1990s)​

   • A covert government program that recruited gifted students from schools and placed them in a specialized program with tests of psychic abilities that involved instructors asking them what symbols they detected on flashcards that the students couldn't see.

   • The students were instructed to drink a mysterious pink liquid after the test that made them feel confused and forgetful, with no explanation as to what exactly the substance was.

   • Although the program and its purpose was never officially exposed, countless testimonies of students in the program are on online platforms such as Reddit and TikTok and the students recounted that their parents were angry that their children were made to drink strange liquids as part of the program without informed parental consent.

   • Some speculate that the program was actually a government operation to recruit children with psychic abilities that could be used in classified military intelligence operations. Some examples of people with psychic abilities include Ingo Swann, who participated in the Central Intelligence Agency's Stargate Project on remote viewing after extraordinarily sensing that Saturn had rings before their formal scientific discovery; Joseph McMoneagle, who was also utilized in the Stargate Project for his remote viewing abilities; as well as Uri Gelle, who was invited to be an asset in Mossad operations after demonstrating paranormal abilities.

   • Public disclosure and scientific research into psychic abilities are intentionally suppressed and discredited by mainstream media so that they can remain classified tools of covert military intelligence operations. Psychic abilities are extremely useful to deep state operations and the narrative around how exactly the phenomenon works scientifically is not known due to lack of mainstream recognition.

2. COINTELPRO (1956–1971)

   • A covert FBI program designed to infiltrate, disrupt, and discredit civil rights leaders, activists, journalists, and political dissidents such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Black Panther Party.

   • The FBI used psychological warfare, planted false evidence, and spread disinformation.

3. MKUltra (1953–1973)

   • A CIA mind-control program that conducted unethical experiments on unsuspecting individuals.

   • Included forced drugging with LSD, hypnosis, and other psychological torture techniques.

   • Victims included prisoners, mental patients, and ordinary citizens.

4. Operation Mockingbird (1940s–1970s)

   • A CIA program that infiltrated mainstream media to manipulate news narratives.

   • Journalists at major outlets were secretly working for the CIA to control public perception.

   • The goal was to spread propaganda and suppress inconvenient truths.

5. The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (1932–1972)

   • A secret U.S. Public Health Service experiment and study in which Black men with syphilis were deliberately left untreated to study the disease’s effects.

   • The victims were lied to and denied treatment for decades.

6. Zersetzung (1970s-1980s)

   • A psychological warfare technique used by the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) to repress political opponents in East Germany that served to combat alleged and actual dissidents through covert means, using secret methods of abusive control and psychological manipulation to prevent anti-government activities. Zersetzung methods were designed to break down, undermine, and paralyze people behind "a facade of social normality"in a form of "silent repression."

   • Up to 10,000 individuals are estimated to have become victims, 5,000 of whom sustained irreversible damage.

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Historical Examples of Psychiatric Abuse and Weaponization of Mental Health Diagnoses

1. The Martha Mitchell Effect (1970s)

   • Martha Mitchell, wife of Nixon’s Attorney General, discovered Watergate-related crimes and tried to expose them.

   • Instead of being taken seriously, she was labeled delusional and forcibly drugged.

   • Years later, it was revealed she was telling the truth all along.

2. Soviet Psychiatric Abuse (1950s–1980s)

   • The USSR weaponized psychiatry to silence political dissidents.

   • People who spoke against the government were declared mentally ill with a diagnosis called "sluggish schizophrenia" and placed in asylums. The illness was diagnosed even in patients who showed no symptoms of schizophrenia or psychosis, and patients were told that their symptoms would appear later when they protested. Corrupt medical professionals claimed that patients with sluggish schizophrenia could present as seemingly sane but manifested subtle personality changes which could remain unnoticed by the untrained eye.

   • A majority of experts believe that the concept was developed under instructions from the Soviet secret service KGB and the Communist Party.

   • Many were forcefully medicated, subjected to electroshock therapy, and institutionalized. After being discharged from hospitals, patients diagnosed with sluggish schizophrenia were deprived of their civic rights, credibility, and employability.

3. The Rosenhan Experiment (1973)

   • A study in which researchers faked psychiatric symptoms to see if hospitals could tell the difference between real and fake mental illness.

   • None of the hospitals detected the deception, exposing how unreliable psychiatric diagnoses can be.

4. Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard (1860s)

   • Institutionalized by her husband for holding different religious beliefs.

   • At the time, men could have their wives committed without evidence of mental illness.

   • She fought for legal reforms that gave people more rights against wrongful institutionalization.

5. Gustl Mollath (2006)

   • He was committed to a high-security psychiatric hospital after being declared insane with paranoid personality disorder.

   • His supposed delusions regarding money-laundering activities at a major bank were later found to be true. Mollath claimed that there was a conspiracy to have him locked up in a psychiatric ward because of his incriminating knowledge, and that he was being persecuted for being a whistleblower on tax evasion.

6. Jani and Bodhi Schofield (2000s-present)

   • Jani Schofield appeared on national television presenting as a severe case of childhood schizophrenia when she was 7 years old. Her mother claimed that she had delusions and hallucinations that caused her to become violent and hurt herself and had imaginary characters instructing her on what to do. 

   • Years later, her brother Bodhi Schofield was also diagnosed with schizophrenia. Because of the rarity of childhood schizophrenia, the case was investigated and it was revealed that the mother was "doctor shopping" for unethical psychiatrists to give the schizophrenia diagnosis in a Munchausen by proxy ploy for public sympathy and attention. He has appeared in several videos heavily medicated and sedated with antipsychotic medications.

   • In 2019, Jani and Bodhi Schofield were removed from their family's care by Child Protective Services. The case was discussed extensively on online forums as an example of how unethical a caregiver with Munchausen by proxy can be when abusing psychiatry.

7. The C.I.A. Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists (2006)​

   • A book that provides proof based on 15,000 pages of documents obtained from the CIA through the Freedom of Information Act that there have been pervasive, systematic violations of human rights by American psychiatrists over the last 65 years. Psychiatrists participated in unethical experiments to create amnesia, new identities, and new memories in the minds of experimental subjects are described from the doctors' own publications. It describes extensive violations of human rights funded by the CIA and the military and conducted by American psychiatrists in North America, perpetrated not by a few renegade doctors, but by leading psychiatrists, psychologists, pharmacologists, neurosurgeons and medical schools.

   • The psychiatrists studied mind control and were funded by militaries, universities, and the government.

   • The medical schools and academia have been completely silent on psychiatric participation in mind control experimentation. The mind control experimentation was systematic, organized, and involved many leading psychiatrists and medical schools.

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Historical Examples of Greed and Deadly Pharmaceutical Corruption

(Profit-Driven Criminals Masquerading As White-Collar Professionals in the Medical Industry)

1. Purdue Pharma (2007)

   • Paid fines for misleading the public about how addictive the drug OxyContin was compared to other pain medications.

   • OxyContin was systematically marketed as if it had very limited potential for addiction or abuse. Purdue trained its sales representatives to convey to doctors that the risk of addiction from OxyContin was less than one percent. A related feature of this strategy was that, because of the purported low risk, it could be prescribed as an effective treatment for chronic pain from virtually any condition, not just cancer. 

   • Purdue enlisted consulting firm McKinsey & Company to decide and implement OxyContin marketing strategies. McKinsey suggested Purdue focus its sales rep visits to the highest-prescribing doctors. Purdue also wooed doctors with free trips to pain-management seminars in vacation destinations. According to a study in the American Journal of Public Health, more than 5,000 physicians, pharmacists, and nurses attended these all-expenses-paid symposia, where they were recruited and trained for Purdue's national speaker bureau. In a 2017 presentation to members of the Sackler family, McKinsey consultants suggested that Purdue pay pharmaceutical distributors a rebate for every overdose attributed to the pills the distributor sold. Purdue's vice president of sales and marketing expressed hesitation on the need to turbocharge sales, but Sackler family members and other executives pushed on with the promotion. Sales soared, while more than 450,000 people died.

2. Insys Therapeutics (2019)

   • Insys Therapeutics was an American specialty pharmaceutical company. Its main product was Subsys, a sublingual liquid form of the drug fentanyl. Fentanyl is an extremely fast-acting and powerful opioid used to relieve breakthrough pain in cancer patients, and prescription of fentanyl in the US for such pain usually requires documented failure of more conservative therapies. 

   • Insys had a practice of paying doctors speaking fees to promote their products. They had set up the Insys Reimbursement Center, in which Insys workers would call insurers on behalf of doctors’ offices to get them to authorize payment for Subsys. Even though Subsys was only supposed to be for cancer related patients, the workers would mislead the insurers into paying for it. In 2012, a sales rep for Insys filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company. He gathered documents, emails and even audio recordings to bolster his case, yet the government declined to intervene.

   • In 2017, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill released a report and audio recording of an Insys representative allegedly falsely claiming to represent a doctor's office and lying about a patient's diagnosis in order to circumvent prescribing rules for Subsys. Attorney Richard J. Hollawell obtained the audio recording from Envision in response to a subpoena for a civil suit he filed against Insys. The patient later died due to an adverse reaction to her medications.

   • In 2016, Insys donated $500,000 to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, a group opposing a marijuana legalization ballot initiative in the state of Arizona. Investor filings confirm the company was concerned about the impact of legalization on sales for a cannabis-based drug it was developing. The reason publicly given for opposing the measure was to "protect children." However, medical marijuana advocates have criticized the company's position as hypocritical, profit-driven, and an appeal to emotion, as the company actively developed its own cannabis-derived products. In a September 2016 statement, J.P. Holyoak, a representative from the pro-legalization campaign, commented, "It appears they are trying to kill a non-pharmaceutical market for marijuana in order to line their own pockets."

   • Insys employees misrepresented the medical conditions of the patients, lying that they had breakthrough pain, lying that the patients had tried other medications, and lying that the patients needed the sublingual spray rather than less expensive pills marketed by other firms because they had difficulty swallowing.

   • Insys employees were revealed to have bribed corrupt doctors with kickbacks and even trips to strip clubs for prescribing Subsys.