Sidney Gottlieb

Sidney Gottlieb (August 3, 1918 – March 7, 1999) was an American chemist probably best-known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency mind control program (MKULTRA). Image File history File links Gottlieb01. ... Image File history File links Gottlieb01. ... August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Chemist Julie Perkins of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory pours from a Florence flask. ... The CIAs seal features an eagle atop a sixteen-point compass. ... Declassified MKULTRA documents Project MKULTRA (also known as MK-ULTRA) was the code name for a CIA mind-control research program that began in the 1950s[1], and continued until the late 1960s[2]. There is much published evidence that the project involved not only the use of drugs to...

Sidney was born in the Bronx under the name Joseph Schneider. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. A stutterer from childhood, Gottlieb got a master's degree in speech therapy. He also had a club foot, but this did not stop him from practicing folk dancing, a lifelong passion. The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of United States. ... Multicolored chemicals are frequent hallmarks of chemistry. ... The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Speech therapy is the corrective or rehabilitative treatment of physical and/or cognitive deficits/disorders resulting in difficulty with verbal communication. ... A club foot, or talipes equinovarus (TEV), is a birth defect. ... Folk Dancing is a general term for dances from various countries that are normally performed during social events by people with little or no professional training. ...

In 1951, Sidney Gottlieb joined the Central Intelligence Agency. As a poison expert, he headed the chemical division of the Technical Services Staff (TSS). Sidney became known as the "Black Sorcerer" and the "Dirty Trickster". He supervised preparations of lethal poisons and experiments in mind control. 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... Technical Services Staff is the United States Central Intelligence Agency component responsible for providing supporting gadgets, disguises, forgeries, secret writings, and weapons. ... Mind control (or thought control) has the premise that an outside source can control an individuals thinking, behavior or consciousness (either directly or more subtly). ...

MKULTRA

In April 1953 Sidney Gottlieb headed the secret Project MKULTRA which was activated on the order of CIA director Allen Dulles. Gottlieb was known for administration of LSD and other psycho-active drugs to unwitting subjects and for financing psychiatric research and development of "techniques that would crush the human psyche to the point that it would admit anything." He sponsored physicians such as Ewen Cameron and Harris Isbell in controversial psychiatric research that used unwitting humans as guinea pigs. Many people suffered serious adverse affects consequent of research financed by Gottlieb and the Rockefeller Foundation. 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... Declassified MKULTRA documents Project MKULTRA (also known as MK-ULTRA) was the code name for a CIA mind-control research program that began in the 1950s[1], and continued until the late 1960s[2]. There is much published evidence that the project involved not only the use of drugs to... Allen Welsh Dulles (April 23, 1893 – January 29, 1969) was an influential director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1953 to 1961 and a member of the Warren Commission. ... For other uses, see LSD (disambiguation). ... Psychopharmacology is the study of the effects of any psychoactive drug that acts upon the mind by affecting brain chemistry. ... Donald Ewan Cameron (1901-1967) was a Scottish-American psychiatrist. ... The Rockefeller Foundation is a charitable organization based in New York City. ...

Dr. Sidney Gottlieb approved of an MKULTRA subproject on LSD in this June 9, 1953 letter.

In March 1960, under The Cuban Project, a CIA plan approved by President Eisenhower and under the direction of CIA Directorate for Plans, Richard Bissell, Gottlieb came up with ideas to spray Fidel Castro's television studio with LSD and to saturate Castro's shoes with thallium so that the hair of his beard would fall out. Gottlieb also hatched schemes to assassinate Castro, including the use of a poisoned cigar, a poisoned wetsuit, an exploding conch shell, and a poisonous fountain pen. Download high resolution version (440x632, 101 KB)Dr. Sidney Gottliebs approval of an MKULTRA subproject on LSD. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Download high resolution version (440x632, 101 KB)Dr. Sidney Gottliebs approval of an MKULTRA subproject on LSD. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... For other uses, see LSD (disambiguation). ... June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... The Cuban Project, also known as Operation Mongoose is the general name for CIA covert operations and plans initiated by President John F. Kennedy on November 30, 1961 which authorized aggressive covert assault on Communism in the Cuban Republic. ... Dwight David Eisenhower, (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969, popularly known as Ike) was an American soldier and politician. ... Richard Mervin Bissell Jr. ... Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) has been the leader of Cuba since 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement, he overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista. ... For other uses, see LSD (disambiguation). ... General Name, Symbol, Number thallium, Tl, 81 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13, 6, p Appearance silvery white Atomic mass 204. ... A conch shell A Conch is a sea creature, a marine gastropod. ...

QJ/WIN

After U.S. president Eisenhower, in August 1960, ordered the assassination of Congolese prime minister Lumumba, secret agent QJ/WIN (Sidney Gottlieb) was sent by the CIA to deliver a tube of poisonous toothpaste, of the same brand used by Lumumba, to a CIA contact named Larry Devlin. The toothpaste was to be secretly switched with Lumumba's personal toothpaste. Devlin, however, in his undercover work had come to admire Lumumba and could not in good conscience murder him. So Devlin abandoned his CIA mission. Motto: E pluribus unum (1789 to 1956) (Latin: Out of Many, One) In God We Trust (1956 to present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at federal level; English de facto Government • President • Vice President Federal republic George... Dwight David Ike Eisenhower (October 14, 1890–March 28, 1969), American soldier and politician, was the 34th President of the United States (1953–1961) and supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, with the rank of General of the Army. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Motto: Justice - Paix - Travail (French: Justice - Peace - Work) Anthem: Debout Congolais Capital Kinshasa Largest city Kinshasa Official language(s) French Government President Transitional Government Joseph Kabila Independence From Belgium June 30, 1960 Area  - Total    - Water (%)   2,344,858 km² (12th) 905,351 sq mi  3. ... Patrice Lumumba Patrice Emery Lumumba (2 July 1925 - 17 January 1961) was an African nationalist leader and the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo when it declared its independence in June 1960. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... Larry Devlin is a retired CIA field officer. ...

Some historians speculate that the CIA eventually played some role in the events that transpired in those weeks before Lumumba was murdered in January 1961. The US government has never made an official statement to the Congolese people. 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ...

He also tried to have Iraq's General Abdul Karim Qassim's handkerchief contaminated with botulinum. Less known was an operation within the CIA's Phoenix Program in Vietnam where a team of CIA psychologists performed mind control experiments on NLF suspects being detained at Bien Hoa Prison outside of Saigon. Through electrode implants in the brain, the prisoners were manipulated to attack each other with knives. The experiment was a failure and the prisoners were shot and their bodies burned. Abdul Karim Qassim (Arabic: عبد الكريم قاسم ) (also various other spellings; including Kassem, Quasim; popularly known as az-Za’im (Arabic: الزعيم ) the leader) (1914 - 9 February 1963) was an Iraqi military officer involved in the 1958 military coup détat. ... Botulin toxin or botox is the toxic compound produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. ... The Phoenix Program, known as Kế Hoạch Phụng Hoàng (a word related to fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix) in Vietnamese, was a covert intelligence operation undertaken by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in close collaboration with South Vietnamese intelligence during the Vietnam War. ... Mind control (or thought control) has the premise that an outside source can control an individuals thinking, behavior or consciousness (either directly or more subtly). ... National Liberation Front (NLF) flag NLF prisoner The National Front for the Liberation of Southern Vietnam (Vietnamese Mặt Trận Giải Phóng Miền Nam Việt Nam), also known as the National Liberation Front (NLF) and as Front National de Liberté (FNL), was the primary rebel organization fighting the Colonialist French regime... Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thành Chí Minh) is the largest city in Vietnam, located near the delta of the Mekong River. ... The term implant has different meanings: in Scientology, see Implant (Scientology) in medicine, see prosthesis This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

In 1972 while still the head of the Technical Services Staff, shortly before retirement, Sidney Gottlieb allegedly destroyed most of the CIA files pertaining to him. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ...

Sidney Gottlieb's death on March 7, 1999 came at a time that new trials involving victims of CIA experiments were commencing. March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Sources

• President 'ordered murder' of Congo leader by Martin Kettle, The Guardian, Thursday August 10, 2000
• Tempelsman's Man Weighs In on the Murder of Patrice Lumumba by Suzan Mazur

References

• "The Diaries Of a CIA Operative", by John Jacobs, Washington Post, September 5, 1977, A1
• The Secret History of the CIA, by Joseph J. Trento, Prima Lifestyles, 1st edition (October, 2001), ISBN 0761525629

See also

• Nazi medical experiments
• Church Committee

During World War II, the Nazi regime in Germany conducted human medical experimentation on large numbers of people held in its concentration camps. ... The Church Committee is the common term referring to the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a Senate committee chaired by Senator Frank Church (D-ID) in 1975. ...

External links

• Bibliography:Sidney Gottlieb - Spartacus Educational
• "The Diaries Of a CIA Operative" by John Jacobs, Washington Post, September 5, 1977, A1 - The Frank Olson Legacy Project
• "John K. Vance; Uncovered LSD Project at CIA" By Joe Holley, Washington Post, Thursday, June 16, 2005; Page B08