Gaustad Hospital

Gaustad Hospital   (Psychiatric hospital)
Formation	1855
Location	Oslo,  Norway
Norwegian psychiatric hospital which did research for MKULTRA.

Gaustad Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Oslo, Norway. Founded in 1855, it is Norway's oldest purpose-built psychiatric hospital.

Activities

The allegations in the program from year 2000 were the subject of a separate public investigation. As public investigations often do - especially when it comes to military cooperation with the United States - they rejected the claim. The program however, Rikets tilstand on TV2, was shut down in 2002.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Norwegian brain researcher and former Office of Strategic Services spook Carl Wilhelm Sem-Jacobsen operated electrodes into the brain of non-consenting psychiatric patients at Gaustad psychiatric hospital during research paid for by the CIA, the US Army, Navy and Air Force. Earlier chief psychologist at Gaustad, Per J. Isdahl said that "a huge project went out on controlling peoples behavior through controlling their brains physically through electronic connections from long distances but in such a way that people themselves did not know they were being controlled".

Sem-Jacobsen also glued electrodes to the heads of soldiers and claimed he could measure their soul lives. At the end of the CIAs use of the U2 airplane it was also developed a system to monitor and influence the pilot. Captain in the Norwegian Air Force, Oddmund Bjørnaali, is convinced Sem-Jacobsen choose pilots and made equipment for the U2 airplane.

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