Slavery and the CIA’s Never-Ending MK-ULTRA Project
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/human-trafficking.html
Summary: Given the vast array of current CIA, DoD, DARPA, university, hospital and private institute research projects that had their roots in the CIA’s MK-ULTRA program, the vast array of US government censorship mechanisms, the vast array of human trafficking networks around the world, the seemingly unlimited budgets of the crime-infested CIA and DoD, the vast arrays of testimonies by MK-ULTRA and derivative program victims and survivors, ranging from the first generation in the 50s and 60s to Epstein related survivors, and survivors of CIA black sites, ongoing CIA torture programs, illegal data collection and secrecy by the CIA and the Senate, and extensive corruption in the judiciary, one can only wonder if the outrageous, unconscionable and wildly illegal MK-ULTRA ever ended or ever will end. Whereas some might assert that Nazi research should have gone to the grave with the monsters that originated that research, credible and referenced evidence presented in this article strongly suggests MK-ULTRA has not ended but continues albeit under different names, and healing is rather difficult or impossible when victim survivors continue to be harassed and intimidated for the crime of speaking out. That the CIA continues to illegally collect information on Americans does not help, for there is nowhere on planet earth for such individuals to find peace or any kind of security. January 2023 will mark fifty years since the MK-ULTRA program officially ended, and that would be a good demarcation point for the US government to express genuine remorse, and pay compensation to those who survived. For more than 40 years claims of “Sovereign Immunity” have protected the CIA from criminal prosecution for mind-control experiments inflicted upon children in the US. Primarily statue of limitations laws have prevented subjects from seeking compensation through civil litigation. According to Wright (2005) “No person who was the subject of CIA and military mind-control experiments as a child has ever received any settlement from the U.S. government.” The Conclusion of this article reports on methods of recovery from Dissociative Identity Disorder used by some victims of CIA research on children in the 1950s and 1960s, suggests the formation of a resource center for former MK-ULTRA and related research subjects, and suggests the Supreme Court of the US could facilitate justice for the surviving victims of the MK-ULTRA program and possibly prevent WWIII, if they were to reaffirm First Amendment protection of free speech, press and redress of grievances.
PART 1
Backdrop: Utter depravity - the closing act of late-stage democracy
Sept. 11, 2022 , updated Sept. 17, 2022
For many, being bought, sold and used as a slave is worse than death, for at least in death there is peace.
In a review article titled: The Psychological Torture of MK ULTRA, author Samantha Fore reported:
The MK ULTRA program committed human rights violations by using drugs, torture, hypnosis, and sexual abuse (Wright, 2005). It involved children, unknowing individuals, and many others who did not give consent to participate…
Children were popular candidates for mind-control because they are more responsive to the restructuring of the mind than an adult (Wright, 2005). The findings of these experiments on children were even presented at established conferences, which were sometimes funded by the CIA (Ross, 2007)...
Vol. 18 (2018): Undergraduate Research Journal, Published: 2020-02-11 https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/iusburj/issue/view/1999
Though an undergraduate at the time, Samantha Fore did a reasonably good job of assembling and assessing peer reviewed and published substantive research on the history of the CIA’s experimentation on “mind control.” Her references were an invaluable aid in researching this article as those references are buried so deep by Google’s page ranking algorithm as to be non-existent.
For example, see:
Wright, Evangeline, Mind-control experimentation: A travesty of human rights in the United States, Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 2005 Fall; 9(1): 211-239. Can be read at: https://www.booksie.com/549737-mind-control-experimentation-a-travesty-of-human-rights-in-the-united-states
The Wright article among other things reports attempts by former MK-ULTRA subjects to obtain compensation for what amounted to torture directed by the CIA, however generally were unsuccessful as nearly all of those claims were dismissed due to Statue of Limitations constraints.
One salient point made in Wright’s review of victims’ attempts to obtain compensation for subjects in experiments that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, more specifically the CIA’s LSD experiments, is that: “No person who was the subject of CIA and military mind-control experiments as a child has ever received any settlement from the U.S. government.” (See Appendix 1 for quotes from Wright’s excellent legal review of attempts to obtain compensation by victims of CIA experimentation.)
The Wright article also traces the history of the CIA’s mind control research to Nazi scientists brought to the USA after WWII via the CIA’s Operation Paperclip.
Operation Paperclip was initiated by CIA Director at that time Allen Dulles who smuggled, via a variety of ratlines, including the Catholic Church more than 1,600 Nazi scientists to the US. Though most of those researchers are reported to have been involved in aeronautics, some were involved in “mind control” research.
MK-ULTRA was not a single project, but a network of interconnected experiments, the most notable of which were the projects BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE that focused on inducing amnesia to create hypnotic couriers and ‘Manchurian Candidate’ super spies. In addition, BLUEBIRD focused on behaviour modification and hypnosis to prevent agency employees from divulging intelligence to adversaries, and ARTICHOKE on creating post-hypnotic triggers by which sleeper agents could be activated from a state of ignorance about their assignments. As a matter of fact, MK-ULTRA was a continuation of work that had begun in Nazi concentration camps, which explains why the CIA specifically used Operation Paperclip to recruit the scientists for the project. The main contributors were Walter Schreiber, former Surgeon-General of the Third Reich, and Kurt Blome, leader of the Nazi programme to weaponize Bubonic Plague…
From about 1948 to 1953, former Nazi scientists and CIA interrogators began to use LSD as an advanced interrogation technique, according to the new book "Operation Paperclip" by journalist Annie Jacobsen.
The CIA saw LSD as a potential “truth serum," according to FOIA documents obtained by Jacobsen, but it turned out to be an active metaphor for Cold War paranoia.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-nazi-scientists-inspired-the-cia-to-use-lsd-2014-2?r=US&IR=T
What Cold War CIA Interrogators Learned from the Nazis, Annie Jacobsen, Updated Jul. 12, 2017
In an offshoot of Operation Paperclip, the CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold War. The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King. The facility’s chief medical doctor was Operation Paperclip’s Dr. Walter Schreiber, the former Surgeon General of the Third Reich. When Dr. Schreiber was secretly brought to America—to work for the U.S. Air Force in Texas—his position was filled with another Paperclip asset, Dr. Kurt Blome, the former Deputy Surgeon General of the Third Reich and the man in charge of the Nazi’s program to weaponize bubonic plague. The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.
Camp King was strategically located in the village of Oberursel, eleven miles northwest of the United States European Command (EUCOM) headquarters in Frankfurt. Officially the facility had three names: the U.S. Military Intelligence Service Center at Oberursel, the 7707th European Command Intelligence Center, and Camp King. In 1945, the place housed captured Nazis but by 1948 most of its prisoners were Soviet bloc spies. For more than a decade Camp King would function as a Cold War black site long before black sites were known as such—an ideal facility to develop enhanced interrogation techniques in part because it was “off-site” but mainly because of its access to Soviet prisoners.
It was an international crisis in June of 1948 that gave Operation Paperclip momentum at Camp King. Early on the morning of June 24, the Soviets cut off all land and rail access to the American zone in Berlin, an action that would become known as the Berlin Blockade. “The Soviet blockade of Berlin in 1948 clearly indicated that the wartime alliance [between the Soviets and the United States] had dissolved,” explained CIA deputy director for operations Jack Downing. “Germany then became a new battlefield between east and west.”
At this time, the CIA believed the Soviets were pursing mind control programs—supposedly a means of getting captured spies to talk—and the Agency wanted to know what it would be up against if the Russians got hold of its American spies. Since the end of the war, the various U.S. military branches had developed advanced air, land and sea rescue programs, based in part by research conducted by Nazi doctors during the war. But the Soviets had also made great advances in rescue programs and this presented a serious, new concern for the Pentagon and the CIA. If a downed U.S. pilot or soldier was rescued and captured by the Russians, that person would almost certainly be subjected to unconventional Soviet interrogation techniques. In an attempt to determine what kinds of Soviet techniques might be used, a research program was set up at Camp King. Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal that the U.S. developed its post-war enhanced interrogation techniques here at Camp King, under the CIA code name Operation Bluebird.
Initially, Bluebird was to be a so-called “defensive” program. Officers were instructed “to apply special methods of interrogation for the purpose of evaluation of Russian practices,” only. In other words, to merely mimic Soviet techniques. But it did not take long for the CIA to decide that the best defense is offense, and the Agency began developing enhanced interrogation techniques of its own. FOIA documents reveal that the CIA saw LSD as a potential, “truth serum.” What if its officers could drug captured Soviet spies, interrogate them using LSD, and somehow make them forget that they’d talked? Inside Camp King, the LSD program was expanded and given a new code name.
“Bluebird was rechristened Artichoke,” writes John Marks, a former State Department official and authority on the CIA’s mind control programs. The goal of the Artichoke interrogation program, Marks explains, was “modifying behavior through covert means.” According to the program’s administrator, Richard Helms—the future director of the CIA—using drugs like LSD were a means to that end. “We felt that it was our responsibility not to lag behind the Russians or the Chinese in this field, and the only way to find out what the risks were was to test things such as LSD and other drugs that could be used to control human behavior,” Helms later told journalist David Frost, in an interview, in 1978. Soon, other U.S. intelligence agencies were brought on board to help conduct these controversial interrogation experiments at Camp King. As declassified dossiers reveal, with them they brought Nazi scientists from Operation Paperclip...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-cold-war-cia-interrogators-learned-from-the-nazis
And thus, it should be no surprise that the CIA wishes to keep its torture practices secret, even today.
September 15, 2022: US Judge protects secrets of US torture programs
The coverup of American longstanding torture programs was most recently affirmed by Washington DC District Judge Beryl Howell, on September 15, 2022.
That decision to protect, and thereby potentially to continue American CIA torture practices did not get wide publicity in the US news media. As of September 17, 2022, two days later, a Google search only found reference to that September 15 report on page 3, by an Iranian news source: https://www.farsnews.ir/en/news/14010625000304/CIA-Trre-Repr-Remain-Secre-fr-%E2%80%98Nainal-Secriy%E2%80%99.
This author only because aware of it by reading Russia Today news, (RT.com) that had a link to the LA Times article reported above. In other words, it appears Google, and other purveyors of corporate owned American mainstream news are assisting in the CIA’s coverup of its torture programs whereas foreign news sources from Russia and Iran do a much better job of reporting on those highly illegal CIA activities, even if Google hides those reports via its (illegal) censorship algorithms. These kinds of reports emphasize the validity of those who assert the US is “sleepwalking into WWIII.”
https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2021/12/24/are-we-sleepwalking-into-thermonuclear-world-war-iii/
And thus, American voters sleep well at night, and continue to vote for politicians that (start and escalate wars) practice torture, and via corporate control, keep it largely secret. One of the problems with this scenario is that torture by-in-large doesn’t work to extract secrets, but most will acknowledge it does spread terror to potential targets – with those targets being people and groups that object to the American drive for “full spectrum dominance” (global domination in perpetuity) the goal of American foreign policy since WWII.
CIA torture report to remain secret for ‘national security’
A US Senate report outlining the CIA’s brutal ‘enhanced interrogation’ methods will not see the light of day – for now 16 Sep, 2022
A US federal judge has ruled that a sprawling congressional report on the CIA’s Terror War torture program will remain classified, claiming citizens have no right to access the controversial document, portions of which were already leaked to the public by a Democratic senator in 2014.
In a decision on Thursday, District of Columbia Judge Beryl Howell said the report “does not qualify as a public record subject to the common law right of public access,” as a previous case concluded it was a “congressional record” and therefore could not be obtained through standard Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests…
https://www.rt.com/news/562899-cia-torture-report-classified/
Senate doesn’t have to release full CIA torture report, judge rules By Sarah D. Wire, Staff Writer, Sept. 15, 2022
Journalist Shawn Musgrave sought the 6,700-page document, citing a “common law right of access” to public records. The legal argument is conceptually similar to the Freedom of Information Act. Congress is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in 2016 that the report was a congressional record. Musgrave’s legal argument was made in an attempt to get around that limitation.
Common law right of access is decided in the District of Columbia Circuit based on a two-part test that requires a determination that the document is a public record and then balancing the government’s interest in keeping the document secret against the public’s interest in disclosure.
District of Columbia District Judge Beryl Howell ruled that the report “does not qualify as a public record subject to the common law right of public access” because although it was part of the committee’s investigation, it was aimed at gathering information and did not make recommendations or propose legislation. Therefore, she said, it falls under the protections of the 1st Amendment‘s speech and debate clause protecting legislators’ speech while crafting legislation.
The government interest in keeping the information secret outweighs public interest, Howell wrote.
“The Report contains highly classified information about the CIA’s detention and interrogation policies and procedures that would compromise national security if released, far outweighing the public’s interest in disclosure,” Howell said in her opinion dismissing the case.
That decision presents a clear and present danger to everyone in the world, as it affirms a right of the US government, from the president to the grunts on the ground, to detain and torture anyone, for any reason indefinitely. Furthermore, it provides the right of foreign governments to detain and torture any American citizen for any reason, indefinitely. It is the abrogation of all civilized laws, rights, freedoms, and international treatise. That decision must be appealed, and reversed, post haste.
Just as the CIA wishes to keep its torture practices secret from the citizens who pay for it, so too it kept information regarding “mind control” research on children secret by destroying it. No child research subject has ever received compensation for their horrific experiences in that research, regardless as to Constitutional guarantees of redress for grievances. In the words of Evangeline Wright, “The impossibility of a criminal remedy for survivors of mind-control experimentation is a mockery of justice,” and a clear violation of First Amendment rights.
In regards to civil law, former child subjects in the MK-ULTRA program can file a Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) claim, however not one former child subject has ever succeeded in redress for grievances.
In this article the Nazi roots of the American MK-ULTRA program are explored, as are the even older roots of that research.
Psychosocial research by the British at the Tavistock Institute in the UK
Mind control programs in the service of state may predate Nazi research. Some assert this research was initiated as psychosocial research by the British at the Tavistock Institute in the UK. The following is a quote regarding that research.
In addition to Freud and Klein’s influences from the field of psychology, the emerging field of sociology also contributed insights that led to the development of theories about people’s behaviors in groups. In 1896, French sociologist Gustave Le Bon published his now renowned observations about large, unorganized groups in his book The Crowd. Le Bon theorized that a person sacrifices a part of his or her individuality when joining a group, especially a large group, and becomes more easily influenced and susceptible to suggestion. Perhaps one of the first theorists to examine the group as a whole, Le Bon observed that the group mind was illogical, intolerant, prejudiced, rigid, uninhibited, and submissive to any dominant force that exerted its authority. According to Le Bon (1896), “An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will” (p. 33). Le Bon described how a charismatic leader could sway a crowd by playing on the crowd’s childlike credulity and untethered emotions in a manner which Freud (1922) observed “as being actually hypnotic” (p. 8).
Fraher, Amy L., SYSTEMS PSYCHODYNAMICS: The Formative Years of an Interdisciplinary Field at the Tavistock Institute, History of Psychology 2004, Vol. 7, No. 1, 65–84
The Tavistock Institute had its beginning in London in 1913 at Wellington House (the common name for Britain's War Propaganda Bureau), and is the source of many conspiracy theories regarding secret power-blocks controlling events in the world, in this case British and American entry into WW I – a war that did substantially reduce the power and size of the former Ottoman Empire, rather a hard blow to the Muslim world at that time.
The above quote by Amy Fraher gives some hints as to how a Hitler-like character, including Adolf himself, could be manufactured for the purpose of attaining political objectives.
And thus, we have a history of mind control starting in the UK, passing to the Nazis and then permeating throughout the CIA, with US government secrecy keeping the vast majority of its mind control and interrogation (torture) programs secret even until this day.
MK-ULTRA subjects and slavery
The surviving MK-ULTRA subjects have lived lives akin to slavery except worse in many ways. Slaves at least had the comradery of other slaves, and though escape usually resulted in death, at least the torture was over. Not so for the MK-ULTRA survivors, for in this world, there is no escape from the surveillance mechanisms of the American so-called “intelligence community.”
“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”
Abraham Lincoln’s 1862 message to Congress, delivered during the American Civil War
In the 1950s and 1960s—the height of the Cold War—the United States government feared that Soviet, Chinese and North Korean agents were using mind control to brainwash U.S. prisoners of war in Korea.
In response, Allan Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), approved Project MK-Ultra in 1953. The covert operation aimed to develop techniques that could be used against Soviet bloc enemies to control human behavior with drugs and other psychological manipulators.
The program involved more than 150 human experiments involving psychedelic drugs, paralytics and electroshock therapy. Sometimes the test subjects knew they were participating in a study—but at other times, they had no idea, even when the hallucinogens started taking effect...
https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/history-of-mk-ultra
The United States of America Is Decadent and Depraved
The problem isn’t Donald Trump – it’s the Donald Trump in all of us. By James Traub, December 19, 2017
“In The History of the Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon luridly evokes the Rome of 408 A.D., when the armies of the Goths prepared to descend upon the city. The marks of imperial decadence appeared not only in grotesque displays of public opulence and waste, but also in the collapse of faith in reason and science. The people of Rome, Gibbon writes, fell prey to “a puerile superstition” promoted by astrologers and to soothsayers who claimed “to read in the entrails of victims the signs of future greatness and prosperity.
“Decadence is usually understood as an irreversible condition — the last stage before collapse. The court of Muhammad Shah, last of the Mughals to control the entirety of their empire, lost itself in music and dance while the Persian army rode toward the Red Fort...”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/19/the-united-states-of-america-is-decadent-and-depraved/
The decadence of ancient Egypt and beauty of Cleopatra brought Mark Antony to his ignoble end, and the decadence of India finally forced the retreat of Alexander the Great. Though Rome is usually cited as the height of perversion and moral decay as summarized in Suetonius’ classic “The Twelve Caesars,” in fact the libertine lifestyles out in the colonies can exceed even the perversions of Rome and overcome the iron discipline of the mightiest of warriors.
And it is in India that one might find the genesis of the makings of the man that coalesced the forces that breathed life into that most corrupt of all CIA endeavors: The infamous MK-ULTRA program, for it perfected the arts of corruption and psychic enslavement, extinguishing the light of freedom for literally billions upon the earth.
When did the CIA - India “relationship” begin? The answer is back before there was a CIA.
“Something else happened to Allie (Allen Dulles) in that senior spring of 1914. Princeton was visited by one of its most charismatic young alumni. Sam Higgenbotham was a Presbyterian missionary ran the Ewing Christian College in Allahabad, India. The school’s focus was on training Indian farmers in the latest agricultural methods… The two men warmed to each other and Higgenbotham offered Allie a post at the school as an English instructor at a nominal sum…”
Allen Dulles: Master of Spies by James Srodes, Regnery Publishing, 1 July 2000 p. 36
He sailed to India arriving on July 20, 1914. During his year there he met several people who by hook or by crook became national and international leaders including Motilal Nehru, father of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India and Vijaya Lakshmi age 14. She later on in 1953 became the first woman president of the UN General Assembly. To say the man who came to personify the CIA had a “close relationship with India” would be an understatement.
Many consider Machiavelli to have explored the heights and depths of political treachery with his form of back-stabbing “diplomacy,” but his treacherous form of friendship was overshadowed by 2,300-year-old Indian “diplomat,” and author, Kautilya.
Scholar Roger Boesche wrote a summary of his book, the Arthasastra.
Kautilya's Arthasastra on War and Diplomacy in Ancient India
by Roger Boesche
Abstract: Kautilya was the key adviser to the Indian king Chandragupta Maurya (c. 317-293 B.C.E.), who first united the Indian subcontinent in empire. Written about 300 B.C.E., Kautilya's Arthasastra was a science of politics intended to teach a wise king how to govern.
In this work, Kautilya offers wide-ranging and truly fascinating discussions on war and diplomacy, including his wish to have his king become a world conqueror, his analysis of which kingdoms are natural allies and which are inevitable enemies, his willingness to make treaties he knew he would break, his doctrine of silent war or a war of assassination against an unsuspecting king, his approval of secret agents who killed enemy leaders and sowed discord among them, his view of women as weapons of war, his use of religion and superstition to bolster his troops and demoralize enemy soldiers, the spread of disinformation, and his humane treatment of conquered soldiers and subjects.
A bit later in life, Allen Dulles, the son of a Presbyterian minister and successful Wall Street lawyer certainly had a number of curious friends including Hitler and Mussolini. He also worked at his older brother’s law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell where he represented a number of very powerful German bankers and industrialists right up to the beginning of WWII. To his credit however it was Allen Dulles who persuaded Sullivan & Cromwell to shut down its Berlin office as “morally objectionable,” before the war began. Despite these rather curious caveats on their resumes in 1953 President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Foster Secretary of State and Allen Director of Central Intelligence. Allen went on to oversee the CIA’s overthrow of the Iranian government that same year, the government of Guatemala the next year, tried but failed to overthrow Sukarno in Indonesia in 1958, and then soldiered on in an attempt to assassinate Patrice Lumumba in the Congo, and used the Italian mafia in an attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro in Cuba.
For more on this highly controversial character, see: David Wise, A Patrician for the C.I.A., New York Times, Published: December 11, 1994, a book review of: Gentleman Spy, The Life of Allen Dulles, by Peter Grose.
Though this all may sound like a harsh appraisal of liberalism, it is possible the art of civilized leadership inculcates governing in such a way that liberals and conservatives can tolerate living with each other peacefully, a convention exercised (off and on) at least since the Code of Hammurabi c. 1755–1750 BCE.
The Dulles Brothers, WWII and MK-ULTRA
In the decade leading up to WWII there were heated debates in DC as to who to go after first, the fascists the US cultivated since at least the 1930s, or communists. Finally, it was decided to build up the German fascists and launch them at the Soviet Communists. Following that (WWII), it was planned, the US would swoop in, pick up the pieces and seize the crown as the world’s sole remaining superpower. Amazingly, the whole plan came off without a hitch. Except perhaps, most of Europe, Asia, North Africa and the western front of Russia were devastated by the war, and some 40 to 50 million human beings were killed, but the US did emerge as the one and only superpower, nonetheless.
In regards to attributing the genesis of WWII to the Dulles brothers, one can demonstrate the three classic criteria used by investigators for proving a crime (WWII): 1) Motivation (the goal of the USA emerging from that conflict as the world’s sole superpower), 2) Methods (building up the National Socialists in Germany and Zaibatsu in Japan), and 3) Opportunity (the Dulles brothers led this operation between 1940-1945 while working at Sullivan & Cromwell law firm, helped in no small way by leading American, European and Japanese industrialists, most of whom are still in business and doing rather well).
The younger of the two brothers, Allen Dulles was assigned to the role of DCI after he, in conjunction with his older brother John Foster Dulles, who didn’t see any problem with Germany conquering its neighbors and beating and killing Jews in the streets, played critical roles in starting WWII by spending years building up the National Socialist (Nazi) party in Germany and Zaibatsu (financial clique) in Japan.
After WWII and assignment as DCI, Allen Dulles who is largely attributed with creating the modern CIA, brought some 765 mostly Nazi scientists, engineers, and technicians into the CIA via “Operation Paperclip.” He also sanctioned and oversaw the continuation of the Nazi research at least in regards to human “special abilities” and mind control on mostly unwitting citizens including children. Those special abilities include surviving in ovens, freezers, while starving, and carrying around multiple personalities within one fragmented mind, as well as cultivating special abilities in the arts and sciences.
The project title MK-ULTRA had a double meaning. Whereas most agree MK stands for Mind Kontrol (German spelling: Kontrolle), most simply state ULTRA was used to designate “beyond Top Secret,” however others believe the acronym Unusual Latent Talent Research Assay was part of the formulation of the name. There were originally 149 research areas in that program however the matrix expanded over time.
It should be noted around 1961 Allen Dulles began to see the error of his ways, as he noted he was afraid of the power of a growing faction of Nazis within the CIA he directed. He was fired later that year after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Again, in fairness to him, he tried to delay the US invasion of Cuba, but was pushed by his younger brother Robert, who later also became president, and was also assassinated. From this one might learn to not plant 765 mostly Nazi scientists in the heart of one’s national intelligence agency. Regardless as to the moral of that story, the MK-ULTRA project continued after his demise as DCI, though he continued working with it in a consultant capacity.
MK-ULTRA overview and abuse of children
The CIA officially discontinued the MK-ULTRA projects in 1973, yet anecdotal evidence suggests those projects were not discontinued at all, but rather broken into segments and farmed out to the military, universities, other research organizations and overseas, under the umbrella of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, formed February 7, 1958). The use of children in that research was and remains particularly abhorrent because anecdotal evidence suggests it continues today under different names, and no name at all. The exposure of Jeffrey Epstein with his unlimited intelligence connections in the US, Middle East including Israel, Europe and Africa, adds a great deal of credibility to that theory.
That sort of confluence of power appears to metaphorically represent the deadly flowers grown from the roots of the MK-ULTRA projects.
The Hidden Tragedy of the CIA’s Experiments on Children, by HP Albarelli Jr & Jeffrey S Kaye, Truthout.org, August 11, 2010
https://truthout.org/articles/the-hidden-tragedy-of-the-cias-experiments-on-children
CIA The Secrets of Mind Control - Based on Three Books by Top Mind Control Researchers | Bluebird by Colin Ross, MD | Mind Controllers by Dr. Armen Victorian | and A Nation Betrayed by mind control survivor Carol Rutz. Mar 1, 2013
https://csglobe.com/cia-the-secrets-of-mind-control
Wright, Evangeline, (2005) Mind-Control Experimentation: A Travesty of Human Rights in the United States, Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 2005 Fall; 9(1): 211-239
https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/979217 (Citation)
Eyes Wide Open by Fiona Barnett
To quote some of the latter linked article:
[P. 8] Hilary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta and his brother Tony Podesta were staying in a Portuguese villa owned by UK politician Sir Clement Freud, in the same resort where British child Madeleine McCann was when she disappeared. Clement Freud was Sigmund Freud’s grandson. British media outed Clement Freud as a violent child rapist.9 John and Tony Podesta perfectly matched the identikit images Scotland Yard released of Madeleine’s abductors.
Fact checking on those allegations revealed:
Police warned of Clement Freud's Madeleine McCann connection 'did nothing', victim claims - Rape victim Vicky Hayes reported concerns to police forces two years ago, by Peter Yeung, 16 June 2016
Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann did nothing after being made aware of pedophile Sir Clement Freud's connection to the case, one of his victims has claimed.
Vicky Hayes, 64, who was groomed and raped by Mr Freud as a teenager, said she felt “very uneasy” after discovering that the former politician had befriended the McCann family and cooked for them at his holiday home...
Allegation, confirmed. Ms. Barnett continues:
[P. 11] James Rothstein said he was alerted to an identical VIP pedophile ring operating in the UK when Scotland Yard consulted him regarding the Profumo Affair. UK agents visited Rothstein in New York to extract anything he knew about British politicians and other VIPs having sex with child prostitutes. Britain were in damage control, tying up loose ends, covering up the true pedophile nature of the Profumo Affair. Rothstein and his law enforcement associates realised the international pedophile rings were all connected. He said the VIP members met at various world locations where each destination catered for a different type of degenerate sexual proclivity, including ‘satanic-themed’ abuse. Rothstein said he and his colleagues encountered fierce resistance to the investigation and prosecution of members of the child trafficking operation. His journalist contacts at the New York Times and Washington Post could not get stories about the VIP ring printed.
All police, FBI, customs and IRS officers who pursued the VIP pedophile network above street level had their careers subsequently destroyed. Rothstein’s attempts to arrest key perpetrators were continually thwarted. For example, the time he served the head of the CIA’s human compromise operation, Tippy Richardson. According to pedophile turned-police-informant Ben Rose, in November 1971, Tippy Richardson, businessman Leonard Stewart (from OPEC, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) and a surgeon named Dr Chesky, raped and murdered three boys aged 14 to 15 years in Ben Rose’s apartment on East 64th Street in New York City. The New York State Select Committee on Crime subsequently served subpoenas on both Tippy Richardson and Leonard Stewart. When served, Tippy Richardson said that because he worked for the CIA the subpoena would be withdrawn under the National Security Act by the time Rothstein and his colleague returned to their offices. That is precisely what occurred…
Fact checking on James Rothstein revealed:
Rothstein’s path into combating human trafficking began in 1966, when his captain with the NYPD assigned him to work prostitution and pedophilia. Eighth Avenue between 42nd and 50th streets in New York City (NYC) was known as the “Minnesota Strip” in that at any given time, over 400 girls from Minnesota were being exploited there.
“The captain decided I was going to take care of my own mess, since I was from Minnesota,” said Rothstein, who was born and raised in St. Martin.
Rothstein said that two years later, a NYPD police officer was stabbed to death by a pimp.
“When you kill a cop in New York, all hell breaks loose,” he said.
As a result of the murder, Rothstein was sent to work undercover to investigate and infiltrate prostitution and pedophilia rings.
Rothstein said that for the 12 years he worked undercover, one issue he continued to run into was different government agencies giving him the runaround or right out blocking him from doing his job. Many prominent figures stood to be compromised for using sexual services from prostitutes. Some, he said, were even into pedophilia.
Rothstein said human trafficking is going on more than ever now…
Ms. Barnett continues:
[P. 19] The best way to understand the global child trafficking industry is to trace the history of the drug trafficking industry. As you read Dope Inc. cross out the word ‘drugs’ and replace it with the word ‘kids’ to gain a picture of the child trafficking network that traded me. Like the drug trade, the child sex trafficking industry is run as a single integrated world operation. At the top sit the wealthy elite who maintain control by ensuring only blackmailed, compromised politicians, military brass and government officials occupy leadership. The secret services, including ASIO, MI6 and the CIA coordinate the child trafficking and human compromise operation, receive the victims procured via the little men, modify the behaviour of child victims until they become suitable assets, and transport the trained victims nationally and internationally to service VIP pedophiles.
[P. 195] Martin Orne at University of Sydney CIA psychiatrist Martin Theodore Orne conducted MK-ULTRA Subproject 84 at the University of Sydney during a two-month lecture period in 1960. His experiment was jointly funded by the US Airforce Office of Scientific Research (grant number AF-AFOSR-88-63) and the Human Ecology Fund (HEF) under the project title Attitude Formation, Decision Matrices.238 The HEF also financed Hans Eysenck’s Subproject 111 under the same title. Hence subprojects 84 and 111 were related and both influenced Australian operations. The HEF was a Cornell University based CIA cut-out for financing MK-ULTRA activities including Ewen Cameron’s crimes at Montreal's Allen Memorial Institute. Martin Orne’s 1960 visit was sponsored by USEFA (US Educational Foundation in Australia), the Australian body of the Fulbright Scholarship and Lectureship Program.239 The CIA used the Fulbright program to insert their agents or contractors into MK-ULTRA subprojects. University of Sydney Psychology faculty head, Alfred Gordon Hammer, approved Subproject 84.
Gordon Hammer (then APS Chair) subsequently spent two sabbaticals in Martin Orne’s Philadelphia laboratory during the 1960s and 70s.240 Leading up to Martin Orne’s visit, Gordon Hammer ran a weekly hypnosis seminar attended by University of Sydney students who became major contributors to MK-ULTRA hypnosis research: Frederick Evans, Wendy-Louise Walker, George Singer, Wendy A. Fairfax-Thorn, Jean Jones, Margaret Austin, Peter Sheehan, and Campbell Perry.241 In April 1960, four months before Martin Orne visited Sydney, George Hoben Estabrooks invited him to speak at a Colgate College symposium.242 Estabrooks, father of the Manchurian Candidate, boasted eight years later:
"The key to creating an effective spy or assassin rests in splitting a man’s personality, or creating multi-personality, with the aid of hypnotism. This is not science fiction. This has and is being done. I have done it. It is child’s play now to develop a multiple personality through hypnotism."243
Martin Orne’s presentation paper was later titled ‘Antisocial Behavior and Hypnosis.’ His experimental objective was to see if hypnotised subjects would carry out dangerous and harmful acts they normally would not. The resultant article, Social Control in the Psychological Experiment: Antisocial Behaviour & Hypnosis, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, was co-authored by Martin Orne and University of Sydney psychology student Frederick J. Evans. The abstract of the 1965 paper reads: Rowland and Young found that hypnotized subjects were willing to carry out such apparently antisocial actions as grasping a dangerous reptile, plunging their hand into concentrated acid, and throwing the acid at an assistant.244
Frederick Evans and Martin Orne subsequently assumed positions at the University of Pennsylvania, the USA’s major MK-ULTRA research hub.245
Eyes Wide Open by Fiona Barnett
There are many kinds of slavery and a conspiracy of silence does not lessen the reality of it. To the contrary, memories and realities of being forced into slavery produce a shadow life of forbidden truths that must be suppressed on a regular basis for one to appear, “normal,” even when one’s thoughts and perceptions are not, in many or most cases, “normal” in the common sense of the word. And yet, to survive, one must act as if everything is right with the world. Though Fiona Barnett’s claims may seem unbelievable, in the context of the times, they are entirely believable.
“Some 2 years ago the Senate Health Subcommittee heard chilling testimony about the human experimentation activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over 30 universities and institutions were involved in an “extensive testing and experimentation program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens” at all social levels high and low, native Americans and foreign. Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to “unwitting subjects in social situations.”
“At least one death, that of Dr. Olsen, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers. The test subjects were seldom accessible beyond the first hours of the test. In a number of instances, the test subject became ill for hours or days, and effective follow-up was impossible.”
The “ill effects” of those tests went far beyond being “ill for hours or days” in thousands of cases. In many cases death occurred, and in others life-long disabilities and/or haunting memories and nightmares resulted from that “research.”
PART II Slavery and the CIA’s Never-Ending MK-ULTRA Project
MK-ULTRA TIMELINE
1950 Precursor to the MK-ULTRA Program began under the name BLUEBIRD
1951 The name changed to ARTICHOKE after Canada and Britain were included in some subprojects
1953 Official start of MK-ULTRA
1964 Technically it was closed, but some programs continued under the name MK-SEARCH well into the 1970s.
1973 Informed regarding congressional investigations, then DCI Richard Helms ordered the destruction of MK-ULTRA records.
The MK-ULTRA program was hardly the first or last example of US government illegal experimentation on unwitting subjects, however it was in many ways the most secretive and longstanding.
In 1997 – 50 years too late, President Clinton apologized to and held a ceremony for the eight surviving subjects of the infamous “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” “research.” Three hundred and ninety-one of the 399 men with syphilis had already died before that apology.
Under Executive Order 13526 signed by President Barack Obama in December 2009, and still in effect, classified documents 50 years or older, must be declassified unless they include the names of confidential intelligence sources or information on weapons of mass destruction technology.
Begging the question: Since when did the CIA ever obey a president, Congress or anyone else?
According to Air Force historian Captain Earl H. Tilford: "Deception to fool the enemy was one thing, but lying to Congress and key members of the government, including the chief of staff of the Air Force and the secretary of the Air Force, was something else."
Earl H. Tilford, Setup: What the Air Force did in Vietnam and Why. Maxwell Air Force Base AL: Air University Press, 1991, p. 196.
When ordered by congress to discontinue torture, the CIA did not.
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB27/index.html
January, 2023 will be the 50th anniversary of the supposed termination of the MK-ULTRA project. The authenticity of what remains of that research is questionable.
The first major purge of MK-ULTRA records was in 1973.
Church Committee Report Book II - https://archive.org/details/ChurchCommittee/Church%20Committee%20Book%20I%20-%20Foreign%20and%20Military%20Intelligence/
What does that mean? The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI Jesse Helms, “The Man Who Kept the Secrets”) said: “We can continue in secret,” while the Deputy Director of CIA McCone said: “We really should stop.” What does the reader think probably happened?
Though “treasure troves” of documents have since emerged, proving the authenticity of some of them may be problematic as concealing the breadth of that research, and misdirecting those who might with to replicate it could be considered in the interests of “national security.”
Unfortunately, there are more questions than answers to the enigma of that research, due to the CIA’s ability to keep secrets, destroy secrets, discredit or otherwise unbalance and/or intimidate and control former subjects, with the latter objectives having been primary goals of the MK-ULTRA research from the beginning.
Common perceptions
Mention MK-ULTRA and most people think of an assassin and/or super-spy/soldier program. Movies like “Conspiracy Theory” starring Mel Gibson and the Jason Bourne series helped reinforce that kind of simplistic belief. Also see: 9 Movies and TV Shows Inspired By MK Ultra, Ranked, and there is also a new 2022 MK-ULTRA Movie titled: MK-ULTRA. In regards to books about that infamous program see: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n03/mike-jay/lace-the-air-with-lsd.) and “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, by Stephen Kinzer.”
MK-ULTRA was a lot more than all that. In fact, relatively few of the subjects were in “assassin” or spy programs (a few thousand perhaps), compared with the total number of subjects in the complete matrix of 149 project cells that added up to over 100,000.
For scientific methodological purposes most subjects were restricted to one (research project) “cell,” though some subjects were cross-cell trained for a variety of reasons ranging from variations in individual potential, to sub-discipline overlaps and so on. Likewise sub-sub projects emerged and sometimes converged. In any case it was all highly illegal, an abrogation of all Constitutional and civil rights.
1953–1964: Operation Midnight Climax — CIA’s lurid ventures into sex, hookers and LSD by ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION (Espousing Advancing Voluntary, Informed Consent to Medical Intervention)
Under Operation Midnight Climax, CIA operatives acted as drug suppliers, infiltrating different drug-using groups with political points of view deemed to be of “interest” and relayed information to CIA headquarters. Thus, thousands of ordinary Americans were subjected — most often without their knowledge or consent — to heavy doses of LSD and other highly potent illegal, hallucinatory drugs and surreptitiously surveyed. When he retired in 1966, after 14 years with the CIA, George Hunter White wrote a startling farewell letter to Sid Gottlieb, in which he reminisced about his Midnight Climax work:
“I was a very minor missionary, actually a heretic, but I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the all-highest?” (Lee and Shlain. Acid Dreams, 1992; Michael Kreca. How the US Government Created the “Drug Problem in the USA, 2001) [In 2006, Michael Kreca was shot dead by a San Diego policeman.]
https://ahrp.org/1953-1964-operation-midnight-climax-cias-lurid-ventures-into-sex-hookers-and-lsd/
And there was:
Colin Ross, Bluebird: Deliberate Creation of Multiple Personality By Psychiatrists. Richardson, TX: Manitou Communications, Inc., 2000. 406 pages. ISBN: 0970452519.
Many or most of the research projects were at least on the surface quite benign, for example detecting the potential for, and fostering prodigies in arts, sciences and even spiritual realms. Tragically there is not a good thing in the world that cannot be put to malign purposes. Name a science or an art, and it can be converted into a weapon of disinformation and war.
What little is known about the vast array of MK-ULTRA projects is largely deceptive, especially given the crown jewel of that series of projects has been mostly “redacted” from records accessible to the public, that being research on “psychic” ability.
If you look at a list of famous people that use psychics, you may be surprised to find that US Presidents use them quite regularly. The list of names is very impressive and includes John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover and many more....
Muss, Crystal, (2014) Mind reading, Clairvoyance and Psychic Development, 3rd Edition, Lulu Press, Publishing ISBN 978-1-329-77904-4
President Regan was not on that list for some reason, however he and especially his wife were big “believers” in psychic abilities. (President Regan had the dubious distinction of proving celebrity movie actors can be the “best” presidents because they follow the scripts given to them by the military-industrial complex without asking too many awkward questions as the last thing the CIA wants is a president capable of “independent thinking.”)
Allen Dulles, the progenitor of the MK-ULTRA Project had a strong belief in “psychic” abilities including “remote seeing,” “mind reading,” and the ability to psychically plant thoughts in the minds of other people.
Project MKUltra has gone down in the annals of conspiracy theory as one of the most bizarre footnotes in the clandestine history of the US secret services. A covert CIA programe started in the early 1950s, it expanded its remit to research everything from mind control to telepathy, ESP, psychic warfare and “remote viewing”. As we see in Stranger Things’ flashback scenes with Eleven submerged in a sensory-deprivation tank, this was the belief that it is possible to use the power of your mind to “see” events happening thousands of miles away – such as in the Soviet Union. Handy.
Among Allen Dulles’ friends were Albert Einstein, and Carl Jung, who had a profound interest in symbols, ancient beliefs, mythologies and the occult.
However, internet searches for “UK-ULTRA + psychic” yield no results from government sources – for a reason, as mentioned above, this was the “crown jewel” of the entire series of projects.
Some non-government research however does appear, for example a book titled The Psychic Battlefield: A History of the Military-Occult Complex, (2002) by W. Adam Mandelbaum who illuminates some of the history of occultist beliefs at the foundation of the USA and MK-ULTRA projects.
Mandelbaum’s book has the virtue of outlining relatively accurate information regarding MK-ULTRA research, though he consistently downplays that research project title. Likewise, he overlooks the cruel ends to which much of that research was applied.
His book is none the less valuable as it illustrates how insiders of those secret societies view themselves. Some of his research is reasonably accurate on the Freemasons, Illuminati, and some other occult secret societies that played a role in American history, however leaves out anything that reveals the darker sides of those organizations. But before all that is Chapter 1.
Chapter 1, the Introduction to this book starts out quite poetically, and largely accurately in this authors opinion. For those reasons the first paragraphs are quoted below as they pertain most directly to the nexus point of the MK-ULTRA projects.
“One of the darkly fascinating aspects of man's history on Earth has been his progress, in method and magnitude, in the development of ever more efficient means of destroying his fellow man. Bereft of claw and fang, yet possessed of the most developed brain of all species, man has become the most dangerous predator on the planet.
“But this predator, whose feet stalk the ground in search of kill or conquest, has his eyes ever on the starts, in search of, and in supplication to, the extrasensory - what some have called the spirit world, what many still call God. This need to believe walks hand in hand with the need to kill.
“As divergent and diametrically opposed as these needs appear to be, they have at times coalesced in a mystical marriage, wherein the warrior is also the wizard, the marauder is also the magician. It is the history of this relationship that concerns us in this work. It is the saga of Psychics and Soldiers - A History of the Military-Occult Complex.”
The Psychic Battlefield: A History of the Military-Occult Complex, (2002) by W. Adam Mandelbaum P. 19 & 20 https://ar.u1lib.org/book/5212967/f4a7df
Above I wrote: “largely accurately” for a reason. Having studied the physiological basis of predatory aggression I know predators stalk and kill their prey - to eat.
On the other hand, the American military-industrial complex is not satisfying a need to eat, but rather exists only to further fill the coffers and satisfy animalist and sadistic needs of that small percentage of people who are mostly already very rich indeed – the scions of western capitalism, the Americanized versions of the European aristocracy.
Furthermore, those very wealthy individuals care nothing about laws, morality or even human life and have been classically conditioned to only live for those quarterly dividends paid out to those who invest in the industries of killing, maiming and debasing humans.
Western capitalism is propped up by 1,697 years of hating, robbing and defaming non-Christians (AKA “pagans” since Roman Emperor Constantine), and 926 years of hating and robbing Muslims (since the beginning of the First Crusade) as of 2022. Thus, the western version of the mystical warrior knight in shining armor is not acting as a predator per se, but rather as mercenary of the ultra-rich, disguised as religious zeal or national defense when it’s actually base avarice and an unnatural (and most unholy) need of psychopaths to dominate and cruelly abuse those they can. (To be fair, other motivations were behind the crusades as well, for example the need to clear out very large numbers of the very poor in huge, filthy European slums.)
Those “caveats” aside, Mandelbaum’s first paragraph is very well written. He does later on go on to mention some of the hypocrisies of the Crusades, however makes it appear Christian hypocrisy and aggression in those wars were somehow balanced by Muslim violations of moral codes. Most historians however might not agree with that sentiment; whereas the Muslims of that time kept to the terms and conditions of contracts with the Christian crusaders, those crusaders did not in any cases adhere to those same terms and conditions. Thus, we have for example “Runciman’s History of the Crusades,” and European legends of the gentleman warrior Salahuddin, usually called Saladin in the west, transmitted down through the centuries to the early 1800s brushed up even by Sir Walter Scott. To quote:
“…Scott used Saladin as a model for his vision of chivalry. Saladin is a complex character in The Talisman and has flaws, but fulfilled Scott’s primary requirements of a refined and chivalrous warrior.”
The chivalrous Saracen: Sir Walter Scott’s portrayal of Saladin in The Talisman, by Balas, Eric, Kansas State University, 2013 https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/16543
Mandelbaum also skipped calmly over the Crusaders’ initial capture of the pluralistic Jerusalem, as it was an open integrated city at the time of the Crusader’s invasion.
Maddened by victory, the crusaders rushed through the streets, killing everyone in sight. They beheaded men, rapaciously raped and murdered women and children. Historian Steven Runciman wrote that the massacre at Jerusalem ‘emptied Jerusalem of its Muslim and Jewish inhabitants.’ (A History of the Crusades: The First Crusade. Vol.1, p. 287) Thomas Asbridge painted the crusaders in the same dark colour: he referred to them as ‘blood-hungry, ravening packs who overran the Holy City.’ (The Crusades: The Authoritative History of The War For The Holy Land, p. 101) He further writes that ‘the Frankish massacre was not simply a feral outburst of bottled rage; it was a prolonged callous campaign of killing that lasted at least two days and it left the city awash with blood and littered with corpses.’ (p. 102)
Mandelbaum made no mention of the absurd and cruel hypocrisies of King Richard during the 2nd crusade either. The histories report, when he first arrived King Richard was sick so Salahuddin had him sent medicine. Not once, but twice during battles King Richard lost his horse, so Salahuddin had him sent a horse. But King Richard did not reciprocate such nobility in his own warring tactics.
“Richard was keen to set off for Jerusalem, but could not leave while burdened by the 3,000 prisoners. His patience ran out, and he took a terrible decision. In his own words:
“‘On Saladin’s behalf it has been agreed that the Holy Cross and 1,500 living prisoners would be handed over to us, and he fixed a day for us when all this was to be done. But the time limit expired, and as the pact which we had agreed was entirely made void, we quite properly had the Saracens that we had in custody – about 2,600 of them – put to death.’
“They were roped together, led out to the open space before Acre, in full view of Saladin’s advance guards and executed by Christian swordsmen, along with 300 of their wives and children, sparing only the ‘prisoners of note’ and such as were strong enough to labor. The watching Muslims troops rushed to stop the slaughter, but were repulsed…
Saladin - The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire, by John Man, Penguin Random House UK, Corgi Edition 2016, p. 282.
Thus, Mandelbaum’s book comes across as somewhat unreliable in regards to European history, at least in regards to the crusades.
His book goes on to make mention of the long history of occultism in American history. For example, some signatories of the Declaration of Independence were freemasons including Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. Many occult symbols are used in the various rituals of masonry, including the skull and crossbones, the Seal of Solomon, and others. Various participants in the American Civil War were also Masonic adherents, for example 18,000 of them participated in the Battle of Gettysburg. The eye in the triangle on the US dollar bill, the "All-Seeing Eye," is also an important Masonic symbol.
There is however, a lot about the Freemasons’ role in the American Civil War Mandelbaum fails to mention: https://dunblane.site/freemasonry/traitors.htm
Mandelbaum claims that the Illuminati played a role in the French Revolution, however that point is strongly countered by others. https://bitterwinter.org/the-illuminati-4-how-the-legend-was-created
He did accurately report that the Illuminati had followers among the highest levels of European society that also utilized occult beliefs and had many members who followed the ancient pre-Christian mysteries. Some, according to Mandelbaum “shared living quarters with human bones” - the “essence of the military-occult complex.” This was, as Mandelbaum notes, the Age of Reason, and occultists were at the apex of anti-establishment sentiments; a perspective very much needed to throw off the last vestiges of the Catholic imposed Dark Ages. Thus, the liberal nature of those societies had to remain secret for the Vatican assassins were never far off.
Interestingly, Mandelbaum worked on some US government “psychic” research first called “Grill Flame,” and later until its termination in 1995, “Stargate,” developing what he called the “psychic spies of the remote viewing program…”
A search for “Grill Flame + Psychic” does reveal a labyrinth of no doubt pricy government research projects. https://irp.fas.org/program/collect/stargate.htm
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/apr/25/how-to-remote-view/
Yes, that is where American tax payer money goes. Being a government sponsored research project, the results are classified, however Mandelbaum asserts the results provided solid empirical evidence of psychic perception. That kind of research emphasizes this author’s belief the MK-ULTRA program never really shut down at all, but morphed into other projects albeit under different names.
One of the roots of the UK-ULTRA project came from G. H. Estabrooks who in 1963 admitted creating multiple personality assassins, and whose research on the use of hypnosis was utilized in WWII. According to Estabrooks, he split the personalities of couriers.
"The potential for military intelligence has been nightmarish. During World War II, I worked this (split personality) technique a vulnerable Marine Lieutenant I'll call Jones.... I split his personality into Jones A and Jones B. Jones, once a normal working Marine, became entirely different. He talked communist doctrine and meant it. He was welcomed enthusiastically by communist cells, was deliberately given a dishonorable discharge by the Corps (which was in on the plot) and became a card-carrying member. Jones A was the loyal American who spied on the subversive activities of Jones B.”
Hypnosis Comes of Age by G. H. Estabrooks, PH.D., Science Digest April, 1971, pp. 44 - 50
In regards to the above, Stanislaskyian actors learn much the same thing. Compartmentalizing personalities is essential for any good actor, and thus I am not impressed by the above highly touted research, though hypnotic drugs probably can help in that compartmentalization process. Furthermore, serious ethical considerations are overlooked by Mandelbaum, as brought forward by the Alliance for Human Research Protection:
Dr. Estabrooks did experiments on children. He corresponded with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover about using hypnosis to interrogate juvenile delinquents. His experimentation raises the possibility that he or other investigators might have attempted to create Manchurian Candidates in children. Such a possibility might seem far-fetched until one considers the LSD, biological and radiation experiments conducted on children, and the fact that four MKULTRA Subprojects were on children. The deliberate creation of multiple personality in children is an explicitly stated plan in the MKULTRA Subproject Proposal submitted for funding on May 30, 1961
The link below leads to a long and highly detailed article about the use of children in CIA experiments. Reader discretion is advised.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-hidden-tragedy-of-the-cias-experiments-on-children/
Also see:
https://ahrp.org/1963-hypnotist-george-estabrooks-admits-creating-multiple-personality-assassins/
Thus, Mandelbaum appears to make CIA research appear all quite reasonable, when in fact some of it was and forever will remain, monstrous, exceedingly cruel, and wildly illegal. For those who died and those who survived, it was absolutely unconscionable. For those who survived – they have to live with scars and psychological disabilities that haunt them forever, made worse if they happen to object to the American intelligence apparatus plan for full-spectrum dominance in perpetuity and the endless harassments, and personal, academic, and professional sabotage and obstructions that can and often entails.
Fiona Barnett (quoted near the beginning of this article) goes into that in some detail in her book: Eyes Wide Open.
In Chapter 15 Mandelbaum wrote about CIA psychic research, starting with “Operation Often,” followed by the opaque sounding "CIA RV at SRI."
Operation Often started in 1969 in the Office of Research and Development of the Central Intelligence agency and was designed to explore the world of black magic and the supernatural. This program was designed to use people's superstitions and religious beliefs against them.
Upon perusal one learns that RV stands for Remote Viewing, and SRI for Stanford Research Institute.
"In the 1970s with initial government funding provided by the Central Intelligence Agency, an investigation into the care and feeding of psychic spies was undertaken. The study of remote viewing was to establish a form of ethereal espionage that would remain secret (to most of the public at least) until the mid-1990s…
The research continued, and in 1973, remote viewer Pat Price was to astound the researchers of psychic spying by accurately describing a sensitive military site chosen as a training target including remote reception of actual code words...
The Psychic Battlefield: A History of the Military-Occult Complex, (2002) by W. Adam Mandelbaum P. 339, 343- 344
This also was another extension of MK-ULTRA research. As to the validity of the results of that research, this writer is skeptical.
In this chapter titled “The Psychic Battlefield,” Mandelbaum reveals himself has having worked on the CIA’s psychic research.
“The Office of Technical Services took the first action. With the approval of the same manager who supported the ESP studies a decade previously, an OTS project officer contracted for a demonstration with the previously mentioned man for a few days in August 1972. During this demonstration, the subject was asked to describe objects hidden out of sight by the CIA personnel. The subject did well. The descriptions were so startlingly accurate that the OTD and ORD representatives suggested that the work be continued...
“By October 1972 I was the project officer. I was chosen because of my physics background to work with the physicists from SRI. The Office of Technical Services funded a $50,000 expanded effort on parapsychology...”
Ibid 571-572
One can only hope they were not using LSD or other drugs on children during this research at that point. Presumably that stopped in 1973 with the termination of the MK-ULTRA project, though what kinds of research the CIA has been doing without oversight in foreign countries remains, unknown. Likewise, other foreign governments unquestionably attempted to copy all kinds of American research, however useless and cruel it may have been and continues to be.
In sum, Mandelbaum’s book does review interesting histories, however biased some of them may be. It appears to be written for 14-year-old Christian Caucasian boys to encourage them to undertake careers in psychic warfare; not perhaps the wisest of career choices, if the suicide statistics of US combat veterans is any indicator as to the mental health of US warriors after “executing” their missions.
Since 2001, more than 120,000 veterans have died by suicide. Since 2006, there has been an 86% increase in suicide rate among 18-to-34-year-old male veterans.
A good review of Department of Defense (DoD) research on creating “Super-Soldiers” titled: “The Pentagon’s Twilight Zone” was written by Sally Squires, and published in Washington Post, April 17, 1988. It systematically goes through some of what were MK-ULTRA projects and then transferred to DoD so-called “Super-Soldier” programs including investigations into the “paranormal” (supernatural), and found nothing so great about them. Yes, pre-performance visualization can improve performance, but that harkens back to pre-Christian Wiccan white magic practices ergo there’s nothing new about it.
It wasn’t just in the US either. The MK-ULTRA research project was also active in the UK (at least until 1964), Canada (1, 2, 3), Australia and numerous other nations allied with the US and UK.
Richelson, Jeffrey T. The Wizards of Langley: Inside the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2001.
1973-1977 Assessing former subjects in the MK-ULTRA program and crushing dissenters
Former American subjects of the MK-ULTRA program fell into two categories after that research project was (supposedly) terminated in 1973. Those who were considered “loyal” Americans (that did not for example demonstrate against the Vietnam War) were given resources and opportunities to put their abilities to good use in the service of the USA. Those who were considered anti-establishment were labeled mentally ill, drugged, put in mental hospitals, and drugged some more, or alternatively framed for crimes they didn’t commit or lured into crimes which they would otherwise not have committed. At minimum they were discredited to encourage their silence. (Disabling and discrediting targets were among the objectives of MK-ULTRA research.) Speaking about having been a subject in “top-secret CIA experiments” only further discredited former subjects as they were/are labeled as “conspiracy theorists,” paranoid, or at best, attention seeking.
It seems intuitively obvious (representing some degree of “face validity”) some or many of the former MK-ULTRA subjects were not big fans of the Vietnam war and the “secret” wars in Laos and Cambodia. This would naturally have led to their names being added to the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) which after 1969 was called the House Committee on Internal Security. The list that emerged, like the MK-ULTRA list of subjects was reported to have been destroyed.
More MK-ULTRA records were reported to have been destroyed in 1975. [Record #146120 10/20/1975 DESTRUCTION Of RECORDS ON DRUGS AND TOXINS] Why wasn’t that deemed a crime? They were destroying, [or at minimum concealing] evidence of grossly illegal acts by the CIA within the USA and overseas that violated every precept in contained in the Bill of Rights, numerous SCOTUS decisions, international laws and treaties.
The HCUA was originally designed to be a communist hunting organization.
Imagine the fate of a former MK-ULTRA subject that was an anti-Vietnam demonstrator in the early 1970s, somehow managed to survive, and has since become pro-socialist, now during the current Third Red Scare.
It appears reasonable to assume former MK-ULTRA subjects that survived who did not and do like war have never been “free.”
They have been for 50 years or more, true slaves without even the comradeship of other slaves. They were never allowed to succeed at anything because that could potentially lend credibility to their claims of having been subjected to series of grotesque injustices; injustices which in many cases began during their childhood and never ceased. Many of the subjects in MK-ULTRA were children; the children of university professors, military, doctors and nurses, those in the pharmaceutical industry, and so on. - G. Brundage
The slavery of the MK-ULTRA project has remained largely secret for more than half a century. It’s like it never happened even though there were more than a hundred thousand subjects just across the USA.
Most of the dissenters are probably dead by now, but how many remain alive?
Imagine the nightmares and memories of the MK-ULTRA survivors – a program wherein powerful mind-bending drugs were used on children who were often intentionally traumatized to promote multiple identities deemed helpful in the spy world. Would those nightmares and memories ever go away? In some cases, yes. Many or most people can be lured into poly-drug and alcohol abuse which fragments and limits long-term memories. That may seem like a blessing to those individuals. Lost in hedonism, they blissfully forget.
CIA’s propensity for war, coups, torture, escalating violence and sexual abuse
Given the role of the CIA in promoting wars, “color revolutions (1, 2) coups, torture programs, the arms race, prostitution (1, 2, 3, 4) and so on, has there ever an organization responsible for the murder and torture of more people including children than the CIA? Torture campaigns by and/or associated with the CIA continue until today.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7316471 Lancet. 2020 4-10 July; 396(10243): 22–23
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32078804 End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange, Lancet, 2020 Mar 7;395(10226):e44-e45
And the military isn’t much better.
https://www.livescience.com/12991-10-outrageous-military-experiments.html
CIA psychos
No wonder so many so-called intelligence officers need drugs and alcohol just to survive.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-10-mn-48728-story.html
Not all though. Some are true psychopaths and really enjoy that kind of thing, or just feel nothing at all. Inducing Dissociate Identity Disorder (AKA multiple personalities) was one of the primary goals of some MK-ULTRA projects. It was believed the perfect CIA officer or agent could become invulnerable to interrogation by switching identities.
So much like Stanislaskyian actors, selected UK-ULTRA (or derivative program) “altered” CIA officers and/or their malign unnatural agents can switch between the charming humorist to cutting a person’s throat, and back again.
If there ever was a good reason for knowing a person a pretty long time before even starting to trust him or her, this is it.
PART III Slavery and the CIA’s Never-Ending MK-ULTRA Project
Some might wonder how the CIA can get away with essentially enslaving thousands of people, via projects like MK-ULTRA, including American citizens, and get away with it. The answer is simple: Total, or very close to total control of media ranging from mainstream media news, to internet search rankings, radio, social media and even citizens’ communication devices like mobile phones and emails. There is a long history of this going back at least to the 1960s and project Mockingbird.
CIA’s media manipulation
…from Mockingbird (‘63) to today’s Deep Dive I and Deep Dive II and the Hollywood style, manufactured pretext for war in Ukraine
CIA’s Operation Mockingbird a precursor of US manipulation of world public opinion, 10 November 2021
During the Cold War, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) launched its Operation Mockingbird, which aimed to collect intelligence by bribing journalists and institutions around the world and affecting public opinion by manipulating news media.
Carl Bernstein, a famous American investigative journalist who unveiled the scandal in 1977, said that according to the plan, the CIA recruited journalists that were put on a payroll by the CIA and instructed to write “fake stories”. The CIA admitted that at least 400 journalists and 25 large organizations around the world had secretly carried out assignments for the agency.
To this day, the CIA still attempts to monitor and manipulate public opinion through this despicable practice. The so-called truth that underpins a news story, from the perspective of the U.S. government, is not worth mentioning at all, with news media just being used as a tool to safeguard the country’s hegemony in the world.
https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0180/75573204.pdf
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-entire-mainstream-warmongering-media-is-fake/5558977
Deep Dive I and II
The CIA’s Deep Dive I and Deep Dive II surveillance programs go way beyond what the CIA claims were the limitations of the original Mockingbird surveillance program in 1963.
If the reader was a subject in an MK-ULTRA or derivative project, and wants to talk with a lawyer, or media, the CIA can most certainly get there ahead of you and ensure your efforts are fruitless. Thus, a certain amount of stealth might be well advised.
Without CIA, DoD and other US government sponsored censorship mechanisms there would be no Ukraine war, because it was most certainly provoked, is openly targeting and murdering journalists, and is largely controlled by US trained and funded neo-Nazis.
2022.05.15 American Bipartisan Laconophilia and the Ukraine War, 2nd Ed.
https://www.scribd.com/document/574110447/American-Bipartisan-Laconophilia-and-the-Ukraine-War
https://www.academia.edu/81503619/American_Bipartisan_Laconophilia_Vol_2_Draft_2022_Jun
https://archive.org/details/american-bipartisan-laconophilia-and-the-ukraine-war (Book, 415 Pages)
2022.06.16 American Bipartisan Laconophilia and the Ukraine War – Vol 2 - Draft 2nd,
Edition, June 15, 2022, 204 pages, https://www.silkroadvirtualuniversity.org/publications-by-gcb.html
Media consolidation and corporate control of news and voter opinions
Democracy is dead
The CIA learned the wrong lesson from its defeat in Vietnam. Instead of learning that attacking distant nations is a bad idea, they decided US citizens were too well informed and accelerated media consolidation in the US resulting from a “dumbing down” agenda. Now, six corporations own 90% of American news media that ultimately determines who will become elected officials and thus the US democracy is a sham obedient only to corporate fiat. Ergo, the American democracy is dead.
Without a free press, democracy is a sham. Besides the trivial thing called the First Amendment, there were also Supreme Court decisions, and many other lower court decisions supposedly affirming freedom of the press. But they have all been washed away by the military-industrial-media-academic complex.
The following are just a few of illegal censorship mechanisms funded by the US government.
Illegal US government funded censorship mechanisms
Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab)
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/dfrlab-china-reports Page on: “Countering Chinese disinformation reports - In-Depth Research & Reports by Digital Forensic Research Lab” Related Experts: Iain Robertson
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/04/20/trump-media-chinese-lab-coronavirus-conspiracy
The Atlantic Council’s DFRLab runs similar kinds of smear campaigns against Russia.
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/10/01/fbi-peacedata-russia-censorship/
Graphika an FBI and Pentagon-backed private intelligence firm
Graphika terminates sites it finds "suspicious" without proof. ...shadowy tech firm Graphika, which has been a key institutional force driving Russiagate conspiracies in the US and Western Europe.
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/08/us-uk-military-intelligence-apparatus-destroy-jeremy-corbyn/
USC Center on Public Diplomacy
Acts as a front for a number of shadowy government propaganda organizations defaming China, Russia, Iran, Syria, etc.
https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/
If an organization wants to publish very negative reviews about any of American DoD’s target countries, this is the place to do it.
Coda Story – Anonymous attacks on western journalists who investigate D.C.’s narrative about China
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/18/us-government-funded-coda-story
Had any president, congressional representative, or the Supreme court, any respect for law, truth and justice, freedom and/or democracy, the US government would not permit this “technological elite” representing only a tiny percentage of the US population to so totally control public narrative. - G. Brundage
If the Ukraine War has proven anything, it is that the US Military-Industrial Complex can now very convincingly generate the pretext for war, and completely hide its role in provoking that war in the popular media. Thus, we have “manufactured consent.”
Without a free press, any and all democracies are fake, and the US has been a fake democracy for decades. The sad and simple fact is, a tiny handful of corporations totally own the government, and the news media, and by owning the news media they determine who people will vote for. Thus, the ultra-rich who are major shareholders in the major corporations decide who will be president, making a farse of “free elections.”
As if sidelining real journalists and replacing them with well-oiled corporate parrots isn’t bad enough, there are most certainly attack campaign directed at “left leaning” academics, alternative news (alt-news) investigative journalists and publishers.
And the British are fully “on-board” attacking American journalists and publications as well.
British collaboration in US Censorship Programs
British security state collaborator Paul Mason’s war on ‘rogue academics’ exposed by Kit Klarenberg and David Miller·June 21, 2022
“In his covert assault on antiwar scholars, “left-wing” journalist and security state collaborator Paul Mason enlisted an academic snitch who knew his targets well.
“In the latest installment of The Grayzone’s ongoing investigation into the anti-democratic, security state-influenced activities of Paul Mason, we look at how one of Britain’s most prominent alleged left-wing journalists and an ever-expanding cast of covert helpers targeted scholars who dared challenge establishment narratives on the conflict in Ukraine.
“Amidst his campaign to neutralize the UK antiwar left, Paul Mason declared in an email to several academics willing to inform on and undermine their own colleagues: “the far left rogue academics is who I’m after… The important task is to quarantine their ‘soft’ influencers and expose/stigmatize the hard ideologists.”
“Mason’s fishing expedition was conducted in apparent coordination with Andy Pryce, a senior British intelligence official involved in a series of malign information warfare and censorship initiatives.
“The journalist’s key academic enabler, self-styled counter-disinformation researcher Emma Briant, not only helped further his campaign to target antiwar figures, but furnished bogus claims about one individual which appears to have inspired a BBC smear piece on academic critics of the established narrative about killings of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. Many of those she snitched on considered her a colleague and even a comrade.
“Rather than own up to the activities exposed by the leaked emails, Briant has engaged in lawfare, threatening The Grayzone with a formal “cease and desist” demand. Sent by her lawyer on June 10th, the filing falsely charged that Kit Klarenberg, one of the authors of this article, played a direct role in the “misappropriation” of private communications.
“Briant’s legal counsel went on to threaten that his client would seek a “prohibitory injunction” to prevent further reporting on the leaked material, if not launch a claim for compensation due to “damage to her career and reputation,” if this outlet failed to comply with the demand.
“Briant’s attempt to muzzle The Grayzone is understandable, for as we will see, she has a lot to hide…”
Paul Mason’s platform and actions are most certainly consistent with the “alt-right.”
The Alternative Right, commonly known as the "alt-right," is a set of far-right ideologies, groups and individuals whose core belief is that “white identity” is under attack by multicultural forces using “political correctness” and “social justice” to undermine white people and “their” civilization.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/alt-right
“White identity,” is most certainly the issue.
Disposition of MK-ULTRA survivors and humanity
The clock is ticking on the remaining MK-ULTRA survivors.
They face most uncertain futures.
A fifty-year time limit on secrets? The memories die with the victims and so many truths with them. When in doubt the CIA likes to kill people. There was a fascinating article titled: “Medical assassins of the CIA,” I read as a teenager however it is nowhere to be found now. In any case, drugs can surreptitiously administered to anyone in liquid or gas form that will reliably cause heart attacks, strokes, cancers and any number of other fatal diseases and/or psychopathologies.
On the larger front, given the directions of the intelligence community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) in the New Cold War against Russia and China, fanaticism promoted within the IC and DoD, high level of multi-modal news censorship hugely facilitating the disingenuous rational for American aggression against those nations, saturation level corruption in American and British politics, plus the potential for accidents and error, the probability of WWIII occurring within the next two months (before the US November 2022 election), or at most two years (before the next US presidential election) appears quite high, at least 50% or greater. “There’s nothing like a war to get the people to rally around the flag,” most politicians believe. Fortunately, or not, western nations are war-weary and prefer that money be spent at home. But they have no voice because of media consolidation and censorship.
No empire in history has ever relinquished its power voluntarily, and in a thermonuclear armed world containing over 300 BSL laboratories extinction of the human species is a very real possibility.
As for the surviving MK-ULTRA subjects? At any one time the federal government can take one or two paths. 1) Clean up its act before it is forced to in the wake of the Second Great Depression, or 2) Wait, and let it happen, in the most ideologically divided, highly armed and drug addicted nation in the world.
It doesn’t take an oracle to figure that out, however it does help being drug and alcohol free, something Fortune 500 CEOs, Euro-American politicians and the czars in media, academia, and medicine really should try.
Conclusions
Fragment children’s mind with extreme violence, often sexual violence, pain, and deprivations of all kinds, is the epitome of abhorrent, and the CIA did that not only in the USA but also in several other “democratic” ally countries.
Where did those “researchers” go after “work” raping and otherwise torturing drugged up children? Why has no one been held to account?
The answer is simple: Slavery in the USA has never ended, it was and remains covered up with claims of “national security,” and “the whole world is out to get us!” when it is not. The US doesn’t have enough “bad guys” out there, so it manufactures them using research from MK-ULTRA and follow-up research outlined by DARPA and various branches within DoD and other institutions.
January 2023 will be the 50th anniversary of the official termination of the MK-ULTRA foundation of that research, although Pandora’s Box has been opened and there is no putting the genie back in the bottle.
None-the-less, the US government owes it to all former subjects in the MK-ULTRA and derivative programs to set the record straight, formally apologize, and pay restitution.
Few enough have survived these 50 years, and trust in government is at all times lows in the USA as it is. Who can trust a government that drugs and rapes its children, lies about it for 50 years while continuing to torment the victims, and then simply terminates them? That, if nothing else, will spell the end of the USA.
Even one drop of honesty from the US government could go a lot way to restoring some of its lost credibility and integrity. Many of the child subjects in that MK-ULTRA research were thought of as patriots at the time, but were then scrapped for seeing too clearly the amoral, awful nature of the ruthless American Empire.
“Instances of the United States overthrowing or attempting to overthrow a foreign government since the Second World War.”
(* indicates successful ouster of a government)
“China 1949 to early 1960s, Albania 1949-53, East Germany 1950s, Iran 1953*, Guatemala 1954*, Costa Rica mid-1950s, Syria 1956-7, Egypt 1957, Indonesia 1957-8, British Guiana 1953-64*, Iraq 1963*, North Vietnam 1945-73, Cambodia 1955-70*, Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960*, Ecuador 1960-63*, Congo 1960*, France 1965, Brazil 1962-64*, Dominican Republic 1963*, Cuba 1959 to present, Bolivia 1964*, Indonesia 1965*, Ghana 1966*, Chile 1964-73*, Greece 1967*, Costa Rica 1970-71, Bolivia 1971*, Australia 1973-75*, Angola 1975, 1980s, Zaire 1975, Portugal 1974-76*, Jamaica 1976-80*, Seychelles 1979-81, Chad 1981-82*, Grenada 1983*, South Yemen 1982-84, Suriname 1982-84, Fiji 1987*, Libya 1980s & 2011, Nicaragua 1981-90*, Panama 1989* Bulgaria 1990*, Albania 1991*, Iraq 1991, Afghanistan 1980s*, Somalia 1993, Yugoslavia 1999-2000*, Ecuador 2000*, Afghanistan 2001*, Venezuela 2002*, Iraq 2003*, Haiti 2004*, Somalia 2007 to present, Honduras 2009*, Libya 2011* to present, Syria 2012 to present, Ukraine 2014*”
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list
To that list one must add:
Yemen 2014, Turkey 2016, Venezuela 2019, Bolivia 2019*, Iran 2017 to present, Nicaragua 2018, China 2018 to present and Russia 2022.
No nation in world history ever tried to overthrow that many governments (67 at minimum), directly or via proxies.
How the Pentagon Uses a Secretive Program to Wage Proxy Wars
Exclusive documents and interviews reveal the sweeping scope of classified 127e operations.
By Nick Turse, Alice Speri, of The Intercept, July 1 2022
Small teams of U.S. Special Operations forces are involved in a low-profile proxy war program on a far greater scale than previously known, according to exclusive documents and interviews with more than a dozen current and former government officials.
While The Intercept and other outlets have previously reported on the Pentagon’s use of the secretive 127e authority in multiple African countries, a new document obtained through the Freedom of Information Act offers the first official confirmation that at least 14 127e programs were also active in the greater Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region as recently as 2020. In total, between 2017 and 2020, U.S. commandos conducted at least 23 separate 127e programs across the world...
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/01/pentagon-127e-proxy-wars
Why, why why(!) does the USA keep doing these things? Simply because US foreign policy makers believe the way to keep the US the most powerful nation on earth, is to keep every other nation and region on its knees, like a slave, begging for US help.
Where are the sanctions against the USA? Why isn’t every president responsible being tried in the Hague? Why has no mechanism been put in place a long time ago to prevent more of those criminal acts by the USA? - G. Brundage
The federal government is at this time drowning Ukraine in money and weapons hoping to start another world war, thinking that is the only way for the US to hang on to its global domination, while at the same time Americans are suffering economic devastation, massive drug addiction, very high levels of violent crime, homelessness, desperation, ideological conflicts of every kind, a prison population five times higher than most of the countries in the world and increasing supply chain issues.
It is most certainly time for a moral reawakening in the USA, starting at the top.
Given that the infinite greed of the “ultra-rich” capitalist class that is driving the US and Europe into bankruptcy has no fear of the future, it would be very refreshing for them to encourage the CIA to admit gross errors in the past, cease illegal experimentation on unwitting subjects, and pay compensation to the surviving MK-ULTRA subjects that were so cynically used by them, even and especially if those “subjects” had and in some rare cases still have the moral conscience and courage to strongly object to the CIA’s ill-fated efforts to subjugate the entire world while crushing their own freedom and any hope for the future.
https://ahrp.org/1963-hypnotist-george-estabrooks-admits-creating-multiple-personality-assassins/
It is clearly best amends be made, for though the genies are out of their bottles, the CIA really should try some new strategies, with the first and most effective being to make peace where and when possible, before WWIII, if that is possible.
In some ways the 71 pages of the final Chapter of Fiona Barnett’s book Eyes Wide Open are the most useful to those who grew up in an MK-ULTRA environment and especially those who might not have access to a qualified therapist.
How to Heal
18. Psychology 101
19. Trauma-Focused Integration
20. Dirty Doctors
21. A Life Sentence
22. Source of Hope Within
In her book Fiona Barnett makes repeated references to instances of intimidation and harassment, for coming out with the forbidden truths of the MK-ULTRA program. Epstein conveniently died, by whatever means, but terminating all surviving victims of the atrocities of the MK-ULTRA program isn’t going to fly by so easily. Some may doubt the credibility of her work. I do not, for a variety of reasons to be outlined in another article.
Near the end of her book, she writes:
Integration (of her fragmented selves) Is not a Cure-All
I had hoped integration would completely cure my PTSD. It didn’t. Complex PTSD may be a permanent, developmental condition. The standard treatment for PTSD involves convincing the client that although they were unsafe during the original trauma, they are safe now. The problem is, the victim must remove herself from the source of trauma in order to heal. In the case of victims of ritual abuse and mind control, the abuse is ongoing thanks to perpetual harassment from the trafficking network. Thus, my fellow victims and I have never had the chance to completely recover…
Nature of Trauma-Based Dissociation Treating mind control victims requires an understanding of what the perpetrators did to cause the dissociation. Knowing removes the power that mystery has over the victim and transitions the victim from learned helplessness into feeling empowered to act. Conscious awareness is the key to rupturing and collapsing the programming, just like the final scene of The Matrix film. The MK-ULTRA mind control process is based on trauma. Trauma is employed at every step of the way. Trauma is used to: create the initial attachment violation; bond victims to their perpetrators; fragment the brain into multiple personalities; program or condition a victim; and enhance a victims’ natural abilities. Since mind control is trauma based, it is essential for victims and therapists to understand how perpetrators manipulate the human body’s natural trauma response, and treat victims using a trauma-focused therapy approach. There is a known typical response to chronic trauma experienced during childhood.
This response kicks in when a child is exposed to multiple occurrences of sexual, physical or psychological abuse, or neglect. This trauma response is what most leading psychologists and psychiatrists in the 1950s - 70s were CIA-funded to study and artificially induce within a laboratory setting. Considered in the context of ritual abuse and mind control, the trauma process reveals how and why CIA perpetrators manipulated it…
Eyes Wide Open by Fiona Barnett
Healing is one thing. Correcting the system that perpetuates the above outlined barbarities is another.
Is such correction possible?
The ALLIANCE FOR HUMAN RESEARCH PROTECTION - Advancing Voluntary, Informed Consent to Medical Intervention https://ahrp.org/support is helpful as a lightning rod for survivors.
US government corruption works against healing
There is something called the Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community that “oversees programs and activities within the responsibility of the Director of National Intelligence (Title 50 U.S.C.A. Section 3033).” According to its internet site:
The Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (ICIG) conducts independent and objective audits, investigations, inspections, and reviews to promote economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and integration across the Intelligence Community.
The ICIG Hotline Program also processes:
Allegations of "Urgent Concerns" filed pursuant to the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act, and
Requests by persons within the Intelligence Community for the ICIG to review their allegations of reprisal under Presidential Policy Directive 19, Protecting Whistleblowers with Access to Classified Information.
https://www.oversight.gov/inspectors-general/office-inspector-general-intelligence-community
Attempting to obtain any kind of relief from the Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community might well be in vain. The Inspector General, Thomas A. Monheim is a wealthy Indian American with close relationships to Marco Rubio of “Attack LIBYA (Gadhafi)!,” Attack Iraq!, and Attack Syria! infamy, and Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines who resides at the axis of the revolving door between private industry and governmental power raising all kinds of questions regarding conflicts of interest. (Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe he’s the “real deal.” But, probably not.) It is unquestionably profitable to those such as Ms. Haines and her close associates to start wars, regardless as to specious claims of “no evidence of quid pro quo” cited by SCOTUS in Citizens United vs. FEC which led to today’s unlimited anonymous “donations” to politicians and the unlimited corruption and wars it has unleashed upon an innocent world and its children.
Professional/Academic Career
After leaving the Obama administration, Haines worked in the private sector consulting for companies such as the Denver-based national security contractor Palantir Technologies, which specializes in data analytics.
Principal at WestExec Advisors, a D.C.-based strategic advisory firm founded in 2017 by former Obama administration officials including Antony Blinken, (Biden’s Secretary of State), and Michèle Flournoy, (former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy under President Obama)…
Palantir — founded in 2003 with capital from investors including the CIA — provides software to help organizations analyze data... Palantir’s government business grew much faster in 2020 than its commercial business. Its total revenue increased 47% from about $743 million to $1,093 million in 2020. Its government business soared 77% to $610 million while its commercial business rose 21% to about $482 million, according to its 2020 10K. For the fourth quarter, Palantir’s government segment popped 85% to $190 million while its commercial segment inched up 4% to $132 million, noted CNBC.
Given the multi-layered structures of corruption within the Biden administration, no help for victims of abuses by the IC can be expected. In fact, the better one’s evidence, the greater danger one will put oneself. The saturation level greed and corruption in the Biden administration is beyond compare. IG Thomas A. Monheim was a hangover from the Trump administration, and those who witnessed former President Trump’s and Indian P.M. Modi’s little happy dances knows there was something rather deranged going on there.
One should remember Kautilya’s MO, Allen Dulles’ “relationship” with India starting back in 1914, and the fact it is an apartheid state enslaving the Dalits the same or worse than African American slaves in the Deep South before Emancipation.
It appears the best MK-ULTRA victim/survivors can do is read the writings of others who have managed to integrate divided or fragmented awarenesses and try writing down one’s experiences to help organize and objectify what can otherwise seem like chaos.
Corruption Unlimited
https://ronaldthomaswest.com/2021/01/23/cia-director-william-burns
https://prospect.org/world/how-biden-foreign-policy-team-got-rich
https://readsludge.com/2020/01/13/the-members-of-congress-who-profit-from-war
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/508991-caitlin-johnstone-biden-raytheon
https://www.cnas.org/people/mich%C3%A8le-flournoy
Ms. Barnett wrote: “The problem is, the victim must remove herself from the source of trauma in order to heal. In the case of victims of ritual abuse and mind control, the abuse is ongoing thanks to perpetual harassment from the trafficking network. Thus, my fellow victims and I have never had the chance to completely recover…”
Making matters more complex for survivors, is the CIA’s unrivaled and unlimited ability to spy on all Americans eradicating any and all rights to privacy, and thereby self-defense.
Senators raise alarm about secret CIA data-collection program, by Ryan King, Breaking News Reporter, February 10, 2022
Declassified documents reveal a CIA program lacking sufficient oversight that includes data collected from U.S. citizens, a pair of senators said Thursday.
The unnamed program was one of two detailed in the CIA's Deep Dive I and Deep Dive II reports, which the Associated Press described as a "repository" of classified data. In a statement to the Washington Examiner, the CIA defended its actions in the face of criticism by Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, two Democrats on the Intelligence Committee, who are raising concerns about civil liberties…
The above is a very revealing letter. 1) The heavy redaction suggests the Senate has its own “issues” with transparency, also 2) it was not released until February 2022, nearly a year after being written again raising issues with transparency.
The alternatives are Civil War within the US and WWIII. In any case, these crimes must stop, one way or another. A relatively small group of ultra-rich (8,000 to 10,000 people) cannot keep the rest of the planet hostage forever.
In the 35th annual Forbes list of the world's billionaires, the list included 2,755 billionaires with a total net wealth of $13.1 trillion, up 660 members from 2020; 86% of these billionaires had more wealth than they possessed last year. Exactly how they plan to survive the thermonuclear war they appear ready to start is an interesting question. In other words, all of humanity is on the butcher’s block at this time.
That the CIA continues to harass MK-ULTRA survivors and freely collects data on any and all American citizens raises quite a number of questions, including: Are they still testing the survivors(?), and what ultimately do they want?
Given the “vast array” of unknowns it seems prudent for the CIA to simply come clean for once, announce profound regret, and pay compensation to those who willingly or otherwise got trapped in the endless mire of the CIA’s MK-ULTRA project.
A resource center for former MK-ULTRA survivors?
There is – to this writer’s knowledge, no resource center for former MK-ULTRA survivors, nor is there a great deal of hope at this time. William Blum named his book: Killing Hope, US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II, for a reason. Thus, keeping hope alive is essential. Given Euro-American hubris has led the Trump & Biden administrations into the insanity of relaunching a cold war against both Russia and China that can turn hot at any time, keeping a low profile and simply surviving is probably the best most people can do today. However, it would be great if someone could open a resource center for former MK-ULTRA and related program individuals.
Surely Ms. Barnett has responded to the vast series of traumas she has experienced as a result of the MK-ULTRA program in as reasonable and legal a fashion as possible, especially considering the extent of crimes committed against her and her certain knowledge of even greater crimes committed against others. How many hundreds or thousands of other MK-ULTRA subjects are there out there who might not be so disciplined, self-controlled and reasonable?
Until the CIA is shuttered, and some responsible authorities get a leash on corporate Euro-American unlimited aggression, these crimes will continue.
There is a lot of work to be done
There is a lot of work to be done to heal the wounds to the psyche and soul of the USA, and some of those trillions of dollars the federal government is throwing around the world to promote the cruelest of all crimes, war, must be diverted where it is needed most, at home.
Compensation for all survivors of illegal research on unsuspecting subjects of mind control research by the CIA is clearly overdue. Neither claims of “Sovereign Immunity” nor “statute of limitation” laws should prevent the US from making a public formal apology to all unwitting subjects in CIA mind control research, or prevent deserved compensation paid to the survivors of that research.
Furthermore, all torture victims of the CIA likewise deserve compensation. There are innumerable ways to “extract” information from crime suspects, and torture is the least reliable of them all.
American so-called “Department of Defense” spending is an obscenity, and used to promote conflict rather than diminish or prevent it. The roughly 750 US foreign military bases spread across 80 nations are devoted largely to upholding unpopular US supported regimes in what appears to be a form of colonialism by the US, not defense. Meanwhile, “The House of Representatives in July passed a nearly $850 billion defense budget for 2023,” while the US National Debt spirals ever further out of control currently nearing $31 trillion dollars. The interest on that debt is mushrooming out of control as well, with the National Budget Office projecting that annual interest costs will rise from $399 billion in 2022 to $1.2 trillion in 2032. Simultaneous to that the United States spends more on “defense” than the next 9 countries combined, as the direct result of a psychotic fantasy that it can create and maintain “full-spectrum dominance” (domination); that is, maintain overwhelming military superiority in land, air, sea and space, in perpetuity (forever).
https://fair.org/home/for-corporate-media-space-belongs-to-washington
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/20/countdown-to-full-spectrum-dominance
The US is incurring debts and animosities that will take generations to resolve if decisive action is taken today. It appears the US federal government has gone so far out on a limb it sees no way back and thus proceeds further out into what is nothing less than a suicidal crusade to rule the world forever. Whereas in the 1960s cooler minds prevailed and nuclear was prevented, corporate greed and the momentum it has created mitigates against “cooler minds” prevailing in the international conflicts of today, with emphasis upon the current proxy war in Ukraine, and the economic and disinformation war against China. Both cases can so easily devolve into full-scale nuclear conflict in the blink of an eye, triggered by a single case of instrument failure, e.g., a US military vehicle, either land, sea or air-based reporting that a Russian or Chinese military vehicle “locked on” it.
How, any reasonable, critically thinking person must ask, can the American public get suckered into paying for all this knowing 1) that the end of civilization, and even possibly the extinction of the human species is at stake (given a thermonuclear would result in the stoppage of electricity keeping the freezers on in biological safety laboratories around the world) and 2) they are leaving huge financial and moral debts their children and grandchildren will have to pay.
It appears the answer goes back to psycho-social research by the Tavistock Institute in London starting in 1913, which was then amplified by the Nazi regime in Germany during WWII, then imported to the CIA via Operation Paper and has only expanded since. Those kinds of psychological and social manipulations were at the foundation of the MK-ULTRA research projects, and the perpetrators appear completely immune to all laws, both American and international, international treaties and moral codes evolved since the dawn of human civilization.
All of that begs the question: Is there any way to back off this situation before all of humanity must pay the price for this ultimate case of hubris exhibited by the American foreign policy labyrinth that is very violently, and utilizing terrorism and torture in its doomed attempt to rule the world forever?
Hubris and Sciences, by EP Diamandis and N. Bouras (2018)
There has been an increasing awareness of the importance of leadership and decision making, including scientists and academics, over recent times. By whom and how decisions are made can have serious implications across all levels of society. Several people have been successful in their life and have been inflicted by excessive pride and self-confidence. There are times when the manifestations of such behaviours demonstrate noticeable signs of narcissism and on extreme cases, hubris. Hubris is an old concept originated from the Greek mythology. The risk of hubris affects politicians, leaders in business, scientists, academia, the military, entertainers, athletes and doctors (among many others). Power, especially absolute and unchecked power, is intoxicating and is manifested behaviorally in a variety of ways, ranging from amplified cognitive functions to lack of inhibition, poor judgment, extreme narcissism, deviant behaviour, and even cruelty. Hubristic behaviour of overconfidence, extreme pride together with an unwillingness to disregard advice makes powerful people in leadership positions to over-reach themselves with negative consequences for themselves and others. As the dangerous consequences of hubristic behaviors become more apparent and well described it is imperative that individuals, organizations and governments act to prevent such phenomena. Responsible leaders, including acclaimed scientists should exercise greater humility to the complexity and inherent uncertainty of their activities and strive to seek out and challenge hubristic behaviours. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5850088/
In most Greek tragedies, hubris is a fatal disease.
Relying on the US Justice Department won’t work as Chief Justices are appointed by the president, and the presidents are chosen by the same corporate super-structures that control and censor the media.
Some Americans are on the right track.
Geoff Young: Peace Candidate Who Wants to Abolish CIA Wins Democratic Primary in Kentucky, by Jeremy Kuzmarov - June 1, 2022
On May 17, Young defeated Chris Preece with 52% of the vote to win the Democratic primary in Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District, which contains the cities of Lexington, Richmond and Frankfort, the state capital…
Geoff Young’s official site is:
https://www.young4ky.com
Also on the right track is Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA-13) who introduced the US Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2021 on February 18, 2021.
Unfortunately, the combined forces of the Trump and Biden administrations have created a rush to into not only a cold war with Russia and China, but also a proxy war with Russia with such blitzkrieg speed it appears the US public is numbed, and like a deer caught in the headlights, incapable of fomenting any corrective responses with sufficient speed.
Though Geoff Young and Congresswoman Barbara Lee are on the right track, it is unlikely there will be time for either of their plans to take effect before a new full-scale global war is ignited. As the European economies fail, and winter sets in, President Biden will be under pressure to prove his newest (proxy) war in Ukraine has some chance of success. He, and his European allies, in conjunction with the corporate owned mass media have painted themselves into a corner and the only way out, they will reason is to shoot their way out. Further escalation against Russia and or China is like to end in a thermonuclear war scenario.
The only peaceful way out of the current very deadly situation in Ukraine is for the US and Europe to permit 1) the Nord Stream II pipeline to open as it should have earlier this year had not the US provoked Russia into the Ukraine proxy war, and 2) Ukraine to recognize the Donbass region as an autonomous region which it should have done after the citizens voted there voted in the special referendum for that status. Likewise, Ukraine would be wise to give up on NATO membership and the US and all NATO nations should back off and away from Russia, and China.
Those above conditions however, are unlikely to be met due to American hubris – specifically its goal of attaining and maintaining “full-spectrum dominance” over the earth’s land, sea, air and space.
The above summarize the primary goals of this article, namely, to strongly enhance public knowledge concerning the following issues:
1) The US federal government must publicly acknowledge wrongdoing in its mind control research, especially on children and unwitting adults, and pay compensation, before WWIII, if that’s possible, and,
2) Back off all further related research, and the deadly flowers of that research, specifically its ability to control public perceptions in the US and worldwide to the extent that it can start wars based on obviously false information (the “China virus” lie, the “threat” of Chinese socialism,” lie and “Russian unprovoked attack on Ukraine” lie).
It appears the US government does nothing but lie these days – something that has not escaped the notice of most Americans.
Public trust in government is near historic lows (and has been spiraling downward for decades).
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/06/06/public-trust-in-government-1958-2022
Americans’ Trust in Media Dips to Second Lowest on Record, by Megan Brenan
https://news.gallup.com/poll/355526/americans-trust-media-dips-second-lowest-record.aspx
Thus, the goals of this article are timely and relevant as they relate to the concept of ushering in a new era in American history wherein the US government starts to become honest, for the first time since perhaps the Civil War.
Those goals however are unlikely to be met due to American pride.
Of the seven deadly sins, theologians and philosophers reserve a special place for pride. Lust, envy, anger, greed, gluttony and sloth are all bad, the sages say, but pride is the deadliest of all, the root of all evil, and the beginning of sin.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5203925
The author of the above article goes on to acknowledge that some forms of pride are good, e.g. personal accomplishments, and pride in one’s family and nation. However, excessive pride in any domain leads to arrogance, hubris and the eventual downfall of those exhibiting behaviors associated with that inflated pride.
“Pride leads to disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom” (Proverbs 11:2)
The Christian apostle Paul described an unrighteous people who will incur the wrath of God as “backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning.” (Romans 1:30)
“And they love to sit at the head table at banquets and in the seats of honor in the synagogues. They love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi.’ … But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” (Matthew 23:6–12)
The ability to auto-correct ones’ behaviors before the world forces one to make those changes is a notable personality characteristic. Failing to do so in the context of the current world milieu however may be a fatal error, as described in Greek legends about hubris, and many Biblical and Quranic references.
The US and Europe are rushing towards an enforced correction from abroad with its current wars against Russia and China. The US has a choice, either auto-correct or face the very real possibility of the end of civilization as we know it and/or possible extinction of humanity.
What’s going on the world today is not a movie, TV show or game. Americans have become so desensitized to killing and war via the mass media they have become inured to them, and don’t have any idea regarding the brutal realities that accompany those horrific events occurring in one’s own personal real life.
The first goal would easy enough to attain if it had congressional and/or presidential support, which is unlikely, however the second goal is more difficult as US history has been based on unlimited hubris and pride from the very beginning and old habits are hard to break even if they have the potential to result in the extinction of the human species.
Solutions
The courts have the potential to start to help the US back off its unconstitutional denial of crimes committed against the victims of US mind control research.
Likewise, the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is weighted in favor of conservatives at this time, which appears to be a terrible thing from the perspective of liberals, however could weigh in favor deciding the US did and still is denying the Constitutional rights of citizens that were robbed of those rights by the out-of-control CIA.
SCOTUS justices are sworn to defend the Constitution, and in regards to the child victims of illegal CIA research on American citizens, they have failed miserably.
Whatever can be done has to be done post haste as the clock is ticking at light speed.
The rights of US citizens, and the citizens of the world have all been usurped by the CIA in its insane quest for “full spectrum domination” of the entire earth, launched from the pad of research upon mostly unwitting American citizens and children; children who are now elderly and have lived their lives haunted by, and in the shadow of that research, and government attempts to keep them silent.
MK-ULTRA subjects were and, in many cases still are denied the right to liberty and pursuit of happiness, and the entire US population will be denied the right to life as well if the US does not back off its endless pursuit of “full-spectrum-dominance,” starting immediately. There are too many factors and mechanisms in the US game of provoking Russia and China right on their borders, any one of which can trigger the “unthinkable” catastrophe of WWIII. Unfortunately, thermonuclear war is no longer “unthinkable,” but rather a very real possibility.
Surely SCOTUS justices can see that, and they have constitutional law available to uphold the goals of this article, if they try. The alternatives are catastrophic.
Likewise, SCOTUS has already decided several times that unwarranted censorship is illegal in the US, yet have done nothing to stop the latest round of algorithmic censorship since the start of the Third Red Scare under President Trump and even further accelerated under the reign of President Biden.
This latter point is the thread that can very quickly unravel the binding that is holding the US and western world hypnotized with CIA engineered, presidential and mainstream media lies concerning recent events in east Europe. Upholding 1st Amendment rights and prohibiting US government sponsored censorship of alternative news and social media could rapidly end the current global economic crises, and start to bring hope back to humanity.
The ball is in the court of Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., the 17th Chief Justice of the United States. American tortures of the innocent must end, and First Amendment rights to freedom of the press and redress of grievances affirmed.
Not the end.
Other articles by Gregory Brundage can be found at:
https://uwm.academia.edu/GregBrundage
https://www.silkroadvirtualuniversity.org/publications-by-gcb.html (Open access and free downloads.)