CIA Secrets
Which American intelligence agency ran MKULTRA?
The CIA!!!!
What type of institution was used to silence some Soviet political critics?
Psychiatric hospitals
Which two superpowers were the main rivals during the Cold War?
The United States and the Soviet Union.
Which country conducted the secret MKULTRA program?
The US.
Who tranquilized their people?
Both did lol
What was the main goal of MKULTRA's behavioral research?
To manipulate or control human behavior
In the Soviet Union, criticizing the government could sometimes get you labeled as what? (Hint: Not a troublemaker.)
Mentally Ill
What is propaganda?
Information used to influence people's beliefs and opinions.
Which country used psychiatric institutions to confine some political opponents?
The Soviet Union
Who was using propaganda to influence people's beliefs during the Cold War: the USA, USSR, or both?
BOTH
What did the CIA hope to obtain through some of its interrogation experiments?
Useful information or the TRUTH.
According to the lecture, psychiatrists had the power to decide what was considered what in society?
Normal
During the Cold War, governments feared that science could allow them to control what part of a person?
The mind
Which country's intelligence agency secretly funded research through universities and other institutions?
United States
Under which US President did MKUltra start drug experimentation?
Eisenhower
What fear about communist governments helped motivate CIA mind-control research?
CIA thought communist governments might be running similar experiments.
What was the Soviet government's way of saying, "We don't like your opinion," without actually saying it?
Labeling some political critics mentally ill and institutionalizing them
According to the lecture, what methods have governments used to shape citizens perceptions?
Storytelling, mythmaking, and propaganda
Which country secretly tested substances on people who didn't even know they were part of an experiment?
The CIA, United states
Which people were most likely sent to physicatric hospitals in America?
Women whose husbands didn't want them anymore but wanted to remain married and women suffragists
What year didi MKUltra start?
1953
Why could labeling a dissent mentally Ill help soviet authorites silence critisizm
It could discredit people and justify their confinement
What does USSR stand for?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Which country was home to the KGB during the Cold War?
Soviet Union
What does CIA stand for?
Central Intelligence Agency