"We have a political system that awards office to the most ruthless, cunning, and selfish of mortals, then act surprised when those willing to do anything to win power are equally willing to do anything with it.� --Michael Rivero
Contributor: The author--a physician and former child spy, Sue Arrigo, MD
Quote from Winston Churchill: "Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened."
On the UNICEF website under children of war we find the following:
For centuries children have been involved in military campaigns.... What is frightening nowadays is the escalation in the use of children as fighters. Recently, in 25 countries, thousands of children under the age of 16 have fought in wars. In 1988 alone, they numbered as many as 200,000.
Children are easier to intimidate and they do as they are told. They are also less likely than adults to run away and they do not demand salaries.
A UNICEF survey of 199 child soldiers in Cambodia found that 5% of them had been used as spies (from www.mofa.go.jp/policy/human/child/survey/profile4.html ). When the Berlin Wall fell, it was found that the East German Secret Service, the Stasi, had employed over 10,000 spies under the age of 18, for 6% of their work force (from
http://www.undp.org/dpa/frontpagearchive/november99/8nov99/tv110899.pdf )
Here are excerpts of a Russian account of children used in WWI as spies by the Germans (from http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/11/27/40030.html ):
Crowds of homeless boys and girls gathered at railway stations, marketplaces, and especially around Russian military units back in 1914. There were a lot of those ragged little children everywhere. ...The Germans made child spies carry out their goals and tasks. As a guarantee, the Germans arrested the children-s parents or close relatives. They threatened to shoot them if the child decided to run away or refuse an order. ...
After the children were educated, they were attached to various military units of Russian troops. A troop number was their password to return from a task. Under the disguise of refugees, spy kids were able to penetrate deep behind enemy lines and collect information that was extremely valuable for Germany. As a rule, soldiers missed their families, so they were happy to accept a little homeless boy or girl in their detachment. Soldiers treated them like their own kids. �
Let me say a little about my own background. As a native-born US child and daughter of an undercover intelligence officer, I was forced into intelligence operations. A congressional hearing exposed a CIA interrogation experiment on the drugged clients of prostitutes, headed by George Hunter White, at the San Francisco Safe House [See MKULTRA : The CIA's Top Secret Program in Human Experimentation and Behavior Modification by George Andrews or view the 1977 Congressional Hearings on MKULTRA online at http://www.parascope.com/ds/documentslibrary/documents/mkultrahearing/index.htm .] This is one of the places I was trained at the age of 9 in 1961. The CIA did not the tell most of the truth at what happened at that �Safe House� that was anything but safe for children. But it did confirm my written memories as to its location, d�cor, prostitution, the expensive alcoholic habits of George Hunter White, and the LSD experiments and the filming for of the johns. Later, White would say of his job:
"I was a very minor missionary, actually a heretic, but I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape, and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest?� See www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=481520 .
MKULTRA was a joint CIA-DIA project to train children as spies and assassins, as is documented in CIA files released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). As a child in this project, I was tortured and threatened with the death of my mother to force me to comply. The torture was extensive, with episodes lasting weeks and repeated over many years. It included sleep deprivation, chronic cold exposure, deprivation of food, disorienting drugs, mock executions, and electroshocks to mouth and vaginal areas. In short it was unbelievable hell. It was done in conjunction with psychiatrists as mind control and to spilt my consciousness into a multiple personality, in which they would have control of all the personalities except the cover one. Other survivors also report the systematic use of torture (see U.S. Government Mind-Control Experiments On Children by Jon Rappoport or his web article at www.movingon.org/article.asp?sID=1&Cat=10&ID=1518 ). So many children were severely emotionally crippled that individual therapists ran into multiple cases of it in their practices. One such psychiatrist, Dr. Colin Ross investigated it through FOIA documents. After reading thousands of CIA documents, he sadly concluded that the stories of his clients were real. ( See Bluebird: The Deliberate Creation of Multiple Personalities by Collin Ross and his talk at http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/radio/ckln01.htm ).
My torturers under this project included three military officers trained in brainwashing techniques by the Pentagon. One of these was my father, although most of the years I was tortured he was not present. As an adult my father told me he had been trained at the Pentagon in brainwashing, so this is not just the memory of a child here. My father was in the Korean War as a US Army Officer (probably in the DIA), and involved in a torture scandal there. My father also told me in detail tortures he and other military officers had done in Korea, to frighten me.
The US govt. had an officially approved project to torture US children to force them into spying---MKULTRA and related projects. Many survivors report the same type of torture as I remember. Since there have been so many different survivor�s accounts remembered independently, all in agreement as to the methods used, there is no longer room for reasonable doubt that the US government engaged in the sexual torture of innocent American children. (See survivor�s accounts; A Nation Betrayed by Carol Ruiz, Unshackled by Kathleen Sullivan, Secret Weapons by Cheryl Hersha, Thanks for the Memories by Brice Taylor, and the talks by experts and survivors at CKLN-FM Mind Control Series http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/radio/ckln-hm.htm ).
For more information see the UNICEF site on children of war at
www.unicef.org/sowc96/ciwcont.htm , or a radio broadcast on Children of War at www.warchildren.org/ ,
or Amnesty International's site at www.amnestyusa.org/children/soldiers/agenda.html