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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.74195 cm} x{3.23505 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Why MKULTRA is Relevant to Criminology}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Definition of MKULTRA: & CIA mind control and behavioural modification program (1953–1973), involving covert experiments on unwitting human subjects. \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 5) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Criminology relevance: & Example of state crime and crimes of the powerful. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Illustrates systematic violation of domestic and international law. \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & Demonstrates how scientific expertise can be weaponised by state agencies. \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Key research lens: & State secrecy → prevents detection, obstructs accountability. \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} & Intersection of law, ethics, and power. \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Criminological Frameworks Applicable to MKULTRA}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{State Crime}}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Definition: & Illegal or deviant acts committed by state agencies or officials in pursuit of their policies. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 5) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} MKULTRA as state crime: & Violated the Nuremberg Code (informed consent, avoidance of harm). \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & Covert dosing of civilians → assault, poisoning, battery. \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Experiments overseas violated host country sovereignty. \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Crimes of the Powerful}}} \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Edwin Sutherland's white-collar crime theory: & Crimes committed by persons of respectability and high social status. \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 4) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} MKULTRA fit: & Perpetrators were senior scientists, psychiatrists, government officials. \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 4) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Shielded by professional authority and classified security clearance. \tn % Row Count 29 (+ 4) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Neutralisation Theory (Sykes \& Matza, 1957)}}} \tn % Row Count 30 (+ 1) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Criminological Frameworks Applicable to MKULTRA (cont)}} \tn % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Techniques of neutralisation used by MKULTRA personnel: & Denial of injury: Framing experiments as harmless or necessary for national security. \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 5) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} & Appeal to higher loyalties: Claiming Cold War threats justified the actions. \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 4) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Denial of victim: Viewing subjects (prisoners, psychiatric patients) as expendable or unworthy. \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 5) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Strain Theory}}} \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 1) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Merton: & Crime arises when legitimate means to achieve goals are blocked. \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 4) % Row 15 \SetRowColor{white} MKULTRA angle: & The CIA sought control over human behaviour — an "innovation" where they abandoned lawful means and pursued illegal experimentation to achieve strategic dominance. \tn % Row Count 28 (+ 9) % Row 16 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{State-Corporate Crime}}} \tn % Row Count 29 (+ 1) % Row 17 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Partnership between government and private actors to commit harm.} \tn % Row Count 31 (+ 2) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Criminological Frameworks Applicable to MKULTRA (cont)}} \tn % Row 18 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} MKULTRA used: & University researchers (e.g., Harvard, McGill). \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 19 \SetRowColor{white} & Pharmaceutical companies supplying drugs. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 20 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Front organisations to hide CIA involvement. \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.14011 cm} x{2.83689 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Criminal Acts and Legal Violations}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Domestic US Law}}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Assault and battery: & Covert drugging without consent. \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Homicide: & Deaths of subjects (e.g., Frank Olson). \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{Kidnapping/unlawful} detention: & Some subjects held in isolation. \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Fraud: & Misuse of federal funds under false pretences. \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{International Law}}} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Nuremberg Code breaches: & Experiments without voluntary consent. \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} Geneva Conventions: & Prohibition on inhumane treatment of civilians and POWs. \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 3) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Sovereignty violations: & Experiments conducted in Canada, Germany, Japan. \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 3) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Civil Liability}}} \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 1) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Tort law violations: & Negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress. \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 3) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} Barriers to litigation: & State secrets doctrine, statute of limitations. \tn % Row Count 26 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.89126 cm} x{3.08574 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Victims and Vulnerable Populations}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Prisoners: & Viewed as expendable; less public oversight. \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Psychiatric patients: & Already institutionalised and discredited. \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Minorities and the poor: & Disproportionately targeted. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Military personnel: & Sometimes used without full disclosure. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Criminology note: Victimology shows a pattern where those with least social power are most vulnerable to state abuse.} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.84149 cm} x{3.13551 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Investigations and Exposure}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Church Committee (1975–1976)}}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{US Senate investigation into intelligence abuses.} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Revealed MKULTRA and related programs.} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Found systematic destruction of evidence (Sidney Gottlieb ordered MKULTRA files burned in 1973).} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Legal Cases}}} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Frank Olson family lawsuit (1970s–1990s).} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Canadian survivors of Ewen Cameron's "Montreal Experiments" sued the CIA and Canadian government.} \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Barriers to Justice}}} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} State secrecy doctrine: & Courts defer to executive branch claims of national security. \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 3) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} Evidence destruction: & Limits prosecution. \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Statute of limitations: & Many claims time-barred before program exposure. \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Theoretical Insights from MKULTRA in Criminology}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{State immunity enables large-scale harm without accountability.} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Elite deviance can operate under the guise of legitimate authority.} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Crimes of obedience (Kelman \& Hamilton, 1989): Individuals commit acts they know are wrong when ordered by superiors.} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Moral disengagement (Bandura): Rationalising harm by reframing it as necessary or justified.} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.69218 cm} x{3.28482 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Legacy and Policy Reforms}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Post-MKULTRA reforms: & Stronger human subject research protections (Belmont Report, IRBs). \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & Increased congressional oversight of intelligence agencies. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Continuing concerns: & "Black sites" and covert experiments post-9/11 raise parallels. \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & Surveillance and behavioural data collection as modern equivalents of control research. \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}