Editing Project CHATTER

{{Short description|1947–1953 US Navy truth serum project}}
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'''Project Chatter''' was a [[United States Navy]] program beginning in the fall of 1947 focusing on the identification and testing of drugs in interrogations and the recruitment of agents. Their search included laboratory experiments on both animal and human subjects. The program operated under the direction of [[Charles Savage (psychiatrist)|Charles Savage]] of the [[Naval Medical Research Institute]], [[Bethesda, Maryland]], from 1947 to 1953.<ref>[http://www.theblackvault.com/documents/biologicalweapons/chatter/navychatter.pdf FOIA Documents from the Department of the Navy]</ref><ref name="LeeShlain1985">{{cite book|author1=Martin A. Lee|author2=Bruce Shlain|title=Acid dreams: the CIA, LSD, and the sixties rebellion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kX6XR0bdUJcC|year=1985|publisher=Grove Press|isbn=978-0-8021-3062-4|page=5|quote=Described as an "offensive" program, CHATTER was supposed to devise means of obtaining information from people independent of their volition but without physical duress.}}</ref> The project was geared toward identifying agents both synthetic and natural that were effective during [[interrogation]], as well as testing possible treatments for [[Depression (mood)|depression]]. The project was centered on, but not restricted to, the use of [[anabasine]] (an [[alkaloid]]), [[Hyoscine hydrobromide|scopolamine]] and [[mescaline]]. It was the first U.S. government project in which [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25)]] was used on [[Unethical human experimentation|human subjects]]. The Navy ended the project in 1953 when its experiments were merged into [[Project MKULTRA]].

==See also==
*[[MKUltra]]
*[[Project ARTICHOKE|Project Artichoke]]
*[[Unethical human experimentation in the United States]]

==References==
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[[Category:Central Intelligence Agency operations]]
[[Category:Psychedelic drug research]]
[[Category:Mind control]]
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[[Category:Human subject research in the United States]]

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