Martin Orne

From Article by Fiona Barnette

https://prepareforchange.net/2018/09/21/child-trafficking-ritual-sex-abuse-mk-ultra-are-a-single-worldwide-operation-run-by-the-u-s-u-k-and-aus-secret-services/

MARTIN ORNE

Sydney University was the centre of Australian MK-ULTRA research. MK-ULTRA university-based research was kicked off in Australia by CIA psychiatrist and hypnosis expert Martin Orne. In 1960, Orne conducted MK-ULTRA Subproject 84 under the title ‘Attitude Formation, Decision Matrices’ at Sydney University during a two-month lectureship.

Subproject 84 was funded by the US Airforce Office of Scientific Research under Grant Number AF-AFOSR-88-63. A further $30,000 was provided by the Human Ecology Fund, ‘To study the nature of the hypnosis process as it may relate to induction of a changed motivational state.’

Martin Orne’s visit to Sydney University was sponsored by USEFA (United States Educational Foundation in Australia) and the Australian branch of the Fulbright Scholarship and Lectureship Program. The Fulbright program was a CIA scheme for recruiting and training MK-ULTRA scientists and spreading MK-ULTRA know how.

Months prior to his Sydney University visit, Martin Orne presented a paper, ‘Antisocial Behavior and Hypnosis’ at Colgate University, at the invitation of Psychology professor George Estabrooks. A hypnosis expert and self-confessed CIA operative, George Estabrooks once boasted:

“The key to creating an effective spy or assassin rests in splitting a man’s personality, or creating multi-personality, with the aid of hypnotism… This is not science fiction… I have done it.”

Sub-project 84 aimed at determining whether hypnotised people would commit dangerous and harmful acts they wouldn’t otherwise. The resultant article, ‘Social Control in the Psychological Experiment: Antisocial Behaviour & Hypnosis,’ was co-authored by Martin Orne and Frederick Evans, a Sydney University psychology student.

Their article, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1965 [1], pp 189-200) featured the following abstract:

“Rowland and Young found that hypnotized subjects were willing to carry out such apparently antisocial actions as grasping a dangerous reptile, plunging their hand into concentrated acid, and throwing the acid at an assistant.”

This publication also notes: “We wish to thank A. G. Hammer, then acting Head of the Department of Psychology, for his cooperation with the use of departmental facilities.”

Beginning with Subproject 84, the University of Sydney became a major centre for MK-ULTRA hypnosis research during the early 1960s. Psychology professor John Sutcliffe led a research group that included fellow psychology professor Alfred Gordon Hammer and psychology students Frederick Evans, Peter Sheehan, Campbell Perry, and Wendy Walker.

These researchers all went on to make significant contributions to MK-ULTRA hypnosis research. Most of them also went on to serve on the False Memory Foundation Board, a CIA entity founded by MK-ULTRA perpetrators and pedophiles to discredit the victim accounts of CIA child trafficking, ritual abuse, and MK-ULTRA mind control.

In November 1962, John Sutcliffe published an article titled, ‘Personal identity, multiple personality, and hypnosis’ in the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis [Vol. 10 (4), pp 231-69].

Sutcliffe’s study considered whether multiple personality disorder stems from hypnotic suggestion, and if “degrees of proneness to multiple personality are predictive of degrees of hypnotisability.” MK-ULTRA mind control involved using unethical hypnosis to dissociate the mind and result in multiple personality disorder or DID.

In 1963, Frederick Evans was granted a CIA Fulbright Scholarship to continue hypnosis research with Martin Orne at Harvard. In 1966, Evans and Orne assumed positions at the University of Pennsylvania when it was a hive of MK-ULTRA hypnosis experimentation. Students Peter Sheehan and Campbell Perry joined them. Alfred Hammer likewise spent two sabbaticals in Martin Orne’s USA laboratories during the 1960s and 70s.

In 1961, Wendy Thorn received a post-graduate research scholarship at the Australian national University (ANU) for studies on the placebo effect, after completing her thesis in 1960 at Sydney University, on posthypnotic amnesia.

In the same year, she presented a paper to the APS on, ‘Hypnosis and Suggestibility.’ Thorn notes in her 1962 ANU thesis that, “This study would have also lacked a great deal without the information, advice and materials supplied by Professor H. J Eysenck.” Hans Eysenck was then director of MK-ULTRA Subproject 111.

In 1963-4, Wendy Thorn was involved in hypnosis research with MK-ULTRA Subproject 84 Dr Frederick Evans. She was currently receiving CIA funding via the Studies in Hypnosis Project that was directed by Martin Orne.

Frederick Evans received a Fulbright Scholarship to work with Martin Orne at Harvard in 1963. Wendy Thorn later continued to work with Frederick Evans and Hans Eysenck.