Yahoo News CIA created ‘remote controlled dogs’ using brain surgery in secret experiments
America’s Central Intelligence Agency conducted grisly experiments to create ‘remote controlled dogs’, with electrodes planted in their brains to ‘receive orders’.
The 1963 experiment saw dogs having electrodes implanted in their skulls, with signals transmitted to ‘reward’ the dogs for certain activity.
The researchers, in documents posted on the Black Vault, a declassified government document website, describe problems with the electrode implant site becoming infected.
Some of the six dogs wore helmets attached to their dog harnesses, while others had electrodes held in place with dental cement.
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The researchers were able to make the dogs run, turn and stop by running electrical currents into their brains.
The researchers wrote, ‘The specific aim of the research program was to examine the feasibility of controlling the behavior of a dog, in an open field, by means of remotely stimulated electrical stimulation of the brain.’
‘Such a system depends for its effectiveness on two properties of electrical stimulation delivered to certain deep lying structures of the dog brain: the well-known reward effect, and a tendency for such stimulation to initiate and maintain locomotion in a direction which is accompanied by the continued delivery of stimulation.’
