What Is MK-Ultra?

Under MK-Ultra, an increasing share of the workload gets farmed out to independent scientists. Dr. Ewan Cameron was one of the top couple of psychiatrists on the planet in the mid 1950s. He believed that breaking down patients minds through drugs and electroshock therapy would allow him to work from a clean slate whereby he could then reprogram the patients. Part of his reprogramming regime would involve what he dubbed psychic driving, which meant playing recorded messages to the patients for up to 20 hours a day,. These voices were played through headphones, helmets or speakers, sometimes installed right inside a patient's pillow. Her records show that some patients would hear these messages up to half a million times