So an enormous waste of money that achieved nothing?
> Make no mistake, these programs were prototypes for still-ongoing attacks on the American public.
Take your conspiracy theories elsewhere.
Never mind that we already knew this since COINTELPRO.
Specifically to the mind control, since that is what this is about.
Psychological manipulation includes things like advertising and PR, so that isn't the same thing at all.
This is a great example: take something that did happen (experiments 40+ years ago), combine it with something more recent people know about in passing ("Men who state at goats" - which I'd note was exactly about how it didn't work at all), and then use it to project into the idea that it must be more advanced today and mysterious forces are using it.
Indeed, the idea of taking something that did happen, and then weaving it into lots of other random things to hide it in the noise (like this comment does) is a tactic often used by intelligence operatives. There's a conspiracy theory for you to think about!
I'd note that there is no evidence given at all.
The OP could have spoken about the recent IARPA SHARP brain stimulation program[1] which is probably the most advanced research in this area. But clearly they didn't know about that or they'd also know how hard it is to make work and how far away from mind control it is!
The fact that you think what they were doing didn't work demonstrates, itself, that in fact what they really were doing did work: they misled you about what they were doing, with complete success.
Quite the opposite.