The Cold War II: MKULTRA

Warning Explicit Content:   Possibly Offensive

There  are some things in history that people just refuse to believe.  It doesn't matter what the facts are, you can show them the declassified reports & congressional trials & the testimonies & they will still look at you like you're crazy.  It is too horrible for them to believe, too far fetched, too science fiction.

It's the type of shit that Alex Jones & Libertarians don't even believe.  You know, the really crazy people that think Lincoln was killed by the Federal Reserve Bank & that 9-11 was a Jewish conspiracy planned by the Rothschild family.  You know the truly insanely paranoid people in America.  They won't even touch this.

But the fact is it happened.  What you are about to read actually happened.  You can't get around it, the evidence is there & it is all just a FOIA request form your fingertips.

So, are you ready to go down this rabbit hole?

"Don't go near that elevator - that's just what they want us to do... trap us in a steel box & take us down to the basement."

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“There are times, however, & this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison & sex is death? If making love might be fatal & if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV & relentless masturbation. It’s a strange world. Some people get rich & others eat shit & die.”

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“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” 

Well, now that that ugliness is out of the way, it's time to get down to brass tacks & find out a little about history, or rather LSD, or more specifically mind control, domestic terrorists, murder, & forced child prostitution.

I actually had a friend who was shocked to find out about this & in retrospect I should have posted something about this sooner.  Especially, you know, since a lot of my emphasis in college dealt with the Cold War & Latin America & the CIA & MKULTRA sort of weaves its way through all of that.

Just as a warning, this one is probably going to be a little too dark to have fun with.

That's right, we are talking about:

MKULTRA

It's an honest to goodness real thing that hardly anyone has ever really heard about & even fewer people actually believe.  But it is true, it was a program & Bill Clinton apologized for it, after it really hit the presses, despite the fact that it was supposed to have been closed before he took office, & that was thanks to the Church Committee who said some pretty awful & pretty honest things about what the CIA was doing.

You see in the 1990s something wonderful happened, it was a gift for anyone that majored in History, a gift that was called the Freedom of Information Act.  Which sort of means, if you want to know something that the government is doing or has done, all you have to do is ask.  

Majoring in history sort of became the act of filing one FOIA request after another after another & we have this guy to thank for all that newly declassified information.

His name was Bill Clinton & he sort of tried to do what his favorite president promised to do thirty-odd-years ago.  The thing is, Bill went about it differently.  He tried to deconstruct the institution from the outside be declassifying things & his favorite president tried to splinter the CIA into a thousand different pieces from the inside.

His name was Jack Kennedy & he wanted to destroy the CIA.  He made a promise to splinter it into a thousand pieces & he did it because of a warning he got from his predecessor, President Dwight Eisenhower.

When Eisenhower was president the CIA was in transition.  They moved away from the hole Operation Paperclip, "we are going to preform intelligence & counter intelligence work" & moved into the "we are going to serve US business & not the US government."

So, without telling the president what was going on, & with a series of lies to Congress, the CIA & a man named Allen Dulles preformed an act of espionage that can also be considered treason.

He was the head of the Central Intelligence Agency & like everyone else in the CIA at the time, he was born to a rich family that wouldn't let him run the family business.  So, during WWII, he joined the navy & started working for ONI & was almost immediately transferred to the OSS, the precursor to the CIA.

OSS stands for "Oh So Secret."

I'm joking, it really stands for "Office of Strategic Services."

At first they were there to run intelligence during the world's biggest war.  But, afterwards, during the Cold War, the CIA dropped the whole intelligence thing & the FBI had to pick up the slack.

That's why the FBI had all the major counter-intelligence busts during the Cold War.  If you want to learn about how to catch spies, it's the FBI that did it, not the CIA. 

What the CIA was doing now was making money.

It is a little country called Guatemala & it is in Central America.  It is important because the United Fruit Company (UFCO) owned a lot of land & the nation's rail roads.  ALL the nations rail roads.

It is also important because Allen Dulles & his friends owned a LOT of stock in UFCO, you know, the company that gives us Chiquita Banana.

Well, it turns out that Guatemala had an election & the people voted for a reformist named Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán who ran on a platform of increasing the literacy rate, ending poverty, & feeding the people.  And he was going to pay for all of that by taxes.

These taxes included taxing the land that UFCO owned, for the first time, at a couple of cents per acre.  Not much at all.  But that would cut a little into the profits.

So Allen Dulles lied to congress & overthrew the new government in Guatemala in order to save a couple of penny's an acre in taxes for Chiquita Banana, which was a company that he & his buddies owned stock in.

It was called Operation PBSUCCESS & after everything went down Eisenhower found out the truth about what happened.  They weren't overthrowing a communist backed regime with ties to the Soviet Union, they in fact overthrew a democratically elected president that refused to cooperate with the Soviet Union.

Don't believe it?  Look it up, it'll take you two seconds.  Don't believe any of this?  Look it up, what you are reading is declassified & taught in Universities all across America, it is not at all secret any longer.  You can easily look all of this up.

So Eisenhower gave the nation a warning:

But by the time he gave the address, he had already served his time in office & a brand new president was taking his place.  Jack was coming into office.

And Eisenhower felt the need to warn him too.  The CIA was not under America's control, they were making their own missions based on business & corporations & not the will of the presidency or the American people.  In essence he told Kennedy that he lost control of the CIA.  It was the military industrial complex, not the government, that Dulles answered to.

And this was proven accurate because the very moment Kennedy took office, the CIA tried to do the same thing in Cuba, using the exact same plan that they had used in Guatemala.

Only this time the plan failed, because you can't play the same trick twice & actually expect people to fall for it.

You know:

"Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice...fool me twice...er...um...fool me twice you can't get fooled again."

Like Caesar, Kennedy was surrounded by enemies & he saw one thing very clearly, he had to destroy the CIA.  So he fired Allen Dulles & started working on dismantling the organization.

The CIA was under threat from the president, but thankfully they had read one of the most popular novels of the era & found inspiration within its pages.  It started in the 1950s, but after Jack's attack, they pushed the program into high gear.

They knew they couldn't exist with the presidency after them, so they looked to turn science fiction into fact as a means of staying alive & surviving.

They called the project:

MKULTRA

And before they could find the solution, through what some consider a monumental stroke of coincidental good fortune, Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated Jack in Dallas Texas, ending the CIA's problems.

He was a lone communist sympathizer & he murdered president John F. Kennedy because he loved the Soviet Union & Cuba & it was the perfect Cold War story.

Or it would be if he admitted to killing the president.  He never did.  He was still claiming he was innocent.  He was claiming he was a patsy.

Fortunately, that lone communist sympathizer was then liquidated by a patriotic American, before he had a chance to stand trial...& while he was in police custody.  Not at all suspect.

But we all know that this is the honest to God truth because there was an investigation on the assassination & we can read that investigation in The Warren Report.

And we know that The Warren Report was accurate because the investigation was lead by a man that had planned more assassinations of more high ranking politicians than anyone else in US history.  A man that knew the spy game better than anyone.

The investigation was lead by none other than Allen Dulles, the man who had been head of the CIA until Jack Kennedy fired him.  But got his job back the moment Oswald killed Kennedy.

So, bullet dodged, great, but now the cold hard realization had hit home with the CIA.  If it happened once it can certainly happen again & there is absolutely nothing to stop another president from dismantling the corporate intelligence agency & giving it back to the people.

So the question is, how do you program people?

The answer seemed clear at first.

Lysergic acid diethylamide was a chemical discovered by a man named Arthur Stoll using ergot, which was a grain fungus found on rye that is known to make people hallucinate.  It was one of the things that we blame the Salem Witch Trials on.

It seemed like a good enough place to start.  Why not, clearly a power hallucinogenic alters the individual's perception & that might be the place to begin probing into brain washing with the intent of mind control.

And we already knew that LSD could alter the mind to an extent where people can achieve nearly impossible leaps of imagination.

James Watson, for instance, in 1953 made enormous breakthroughs in DNA, breakthroughs that pushed the envelope of modern science & genetics all while, you know, tripping balls on LSD.

And it was about the time that we started to find the link between things like cave art & the birth of abstract thought, spirituality, & civilization as we know it all came with the first known uses of hallucinogenic drugs.

Essentially, archeologists & anthropologists were starting to say that we have things like cave art because certain drugs forever altered the way we as human beings think.

Essentially we were starting to link cave art with Ancient Aliens.  Fuck, my bad, I'm sorry.  What I meant was that we have cave art & the birth of culture as well as programs like Ancient Aliens because of things like Magic Mushrooms.

So it wasn't really that far of a stretch.  The science was sort of sound.  All the CIA needed to do was take what we already knew that hallucinogenics did to the mind & use it to program a human being into an assassin that doesn't know he is an assassin & an elected official that that is under your control & has no free will.

We've all done it before.  Remember when you were dropping acid with your friends in college & you thought it would be a good idea to fuck with them, so you leaned over & whispered shit in their ear?

"Sara, hey Sara, Satan says he wants you to get Sam a cream soda & an orange.  Make sure to peel it for him.  Satan doesn't know if  can peel it himself."

We've all done it before for fun, but the CIA was doing it to turn people into weapons, not to persuade your friends to get you some orange citrus goodness.

But, even as early as 1953, there were people that worked for the CIA & thought that this project was going a little too far.  Frank Rudolph Olson was one of them.  He was working for the CIA as a biological warfare scientist when they tried to test it on him.

They slipped him LSD while he was at a pretty upscale party in downtown Manhattan.  He was staying at the Hotel Statler at the time.

When they gave it to him he had no idea about the existence of MKULTRA & after he came down, about eight-hours later, he started making phone calls & discovered that he was an early test subject for the new mind control program.

Nine days later they threw him out the window of the Hotel Statler for threatening to out the program to the public.

After Olson, they picked different test subjects.  The CIA started administering LSD to mental patients, prisoners, drug addicts & prostitutes, "people who could not fight back," as one agency officer put it.  It beat the hell out of drugging their own biochemical scientists & besides, prostitutes, prisoners, & drug addicts were far more expendable.

They kept one man hallucinating & awake for 179 days on end while they were attempting to program him.

It was after this Kentucky 179 day incident that they saw a little success on the mental patient.  He wasn't exactly programed, but he wasn't as insane as he had been when they started, so they decided to expand the LSD experiments to colleges & universities.

Some notable graduates of the LSD MKULTRA experiments are:

Ken Kesey, Mary Prankster & author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Robert Hunter, the singer/songwriter best known for his association with the Grateful Dead.

And one of my favorite writers: Allen Ginsberg, famous for Howl.

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix."

In other words, thanks to the CIA's experimentation with LSD we had a certain movement in the '60s & '70s that Timothy Leary gets a lot of the credit for.

And they also sort of discovered that feeding people LSD has the exact opposite effect.  The conclusion of MKULTRA was that, even after a single use of LSD, the subject becomes impossible to program & far less likely to be open to outside suggestions including the simple use of propaganda & interrogation techniques as they discovered through the merging of MKULTRA with Project ARTICHOKE. 

Essentially, the Libertarian belief that fluoride in the water has the same effect as LSD & is used to brainwash people is completely bull shit because LSD makes it impossible to program people & fluoride has no mind altering properties.

The mind control program hit a dead end thanks to the Merry Pranksters.

However, thanks to the LSD experiments, Fort Brag started a New Age branch of the military that tried to make soldiers into Jedi Knights, had links to the Heavens Gate Cult in  California, & ultimately resulted in two minor successes.

1) The use of the Barny Theme Song during interrogations.
2) The 1980s & 90s television recruiting slogan "Be All that You Can Be."

But you know it best as:

And, at any rate, that is NOT what Clinton was apologizing for.  In fact, he wasn't even apologizing for the time when the CIA sprayed LSD into New York subways to see how it would effect the crime rate.

What Clinton was apologizing for in the video at the start of this lesson was a branch of the MKULTRA program called Operation Midnight Climax.

That's right, Clinton was apologizing for the use of Child Prostitution in the MKULTRA program that was designated "Operation Midnight Climax."

It started with brothels in San Francisco.  Brothels filled with little American girls that the CIA had abducted off the streets, frightened Amber Alerts that were going to be forced into prostitution so that the CIA could gain valuable information.

Mind you, the information that they wanted wasn't from Russian spies.  They were using child prostitutes to gain information from American businessmen & politicians, people who worked for rival corporations that the CIA did not yet have ties to & vested stock portfolios in & politicians that might want to shut the CIA down or be unfriendly to their corporate interests.

Let's face it, when you have enough wealth & power to make Solomon blush, you feel entitled to taste the most forbidden fruit possible.  Laws don't apply to them, laws apply to the lower classes.   In this case, the wealthy & powerful in America wanted to rape little girls & the CIA wanted to spy on them for corporate leverage. So they just appealed to their most base desire...human exploitation.

It was a side project, but one that fell under the greater MKULTRA framework, as many of the little girls that were used were also victim of the new experiments.

Let's face, if the Libertarians win, & they get both their platform of deregulation of business & the legalization of prostitution, Operation Midnight Climax will be horrifically legal & not just horrific.

MKULTRA took a turn down an even darker path.

LSD didn't work, so they turned to torture.

 The concept originated with the US Marine Corps boot camp & an ongoing debate between how the other branches train people & how the Marine Corps trains it's people.

You see the Marines believe that you have to break your recruits down & then you build them up again from scratch & the Army, the Air Force, & the rest of the Navy all seem to believe that once you are broken you stay broken.

This seems to be confirmed because it is the Marine Corps discharges that tend to do things like the shooting at the University of Austin Texas.

Only where the Marine Corps is tough on enlisted men, it doesn't physically torture them until they break down into a stuttering mess.  This is exactly what the CIA did & they started it with the little girls, the Amber Alerts, that they took to stock their brothel that they wanted to use to spy on wealthy Americans that felt entitled to the taboo.

And it proved moderately effective, at least it made the girls so fucking frightened of their CIA handlers that they were willing to do anything to not get tortured again.

Like the LSD experiments, the CIA expanded it's torture experiments to the University population & had some interesting graduates.

Candy Jones, the actress & model had gone through both the LSD & the torture experimentation in her life time.

James "Whitey" Bulger was one of the prisoners they tested on when he was in jail & the CIA was making the transition.

Of course you know him better as Jack's character in The Departed.

But the most interesting character to date, the man who graduated from the MKULTRA torture experimentation at a very young age is  Ted Kaczynski.

But you might not recognize the name or the photograph.  You know him better as this guy:

Ted wrote a "Unibomber Manifesto" & made it pretty clear that he was targeting the university professors that were working in the MKULTRA program.

You can actually read it, it used to be available at Borders & you could pick it up on Amazon & a fair amount of websites, if you are interested.

We are coming to the end of our story.  Or at least what we know of our story.

Sandra Day O'Connor said this about the MKULTRA court cases she oversaw:

"No judicially crafted rule should insulate from liability the involuntary & unknowing human experimentation alleged to have occurred in this case. Indeed, as Justice Brennan observes, the United States played an instrumental role in the criminal prosecution of Nazi officials who experimented with human subjects during the Second World War, & the standards that the Nuremberg Military Tribunals developed to judge the behavior of the defendants stated that the 'voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential ... to satisfy moral, ethical, & legal concepts.' If this principle is violated, the very least that society can do is to see that the victims are compensated, as best they can be, by the perpetrators."

But the thing is only the tip of the iceberg hit the courts.

A taste came out in the 1950 Feres v United States case.  A little more came out because of the death of Olson.

A big chunk of it came out 1975 because of the Church Committee.

Frank Church, a US Senator & a Democrat from Ohio  took the CIA into congress & headed a committee to attempt to dismantle the organization like Jack Kennedy had promised to do following the Bay of Pigs.

What we know of MKUlTRA today came out largely during the Church Committee & the rest came out in the congressional testimonies in the middle 1990s because of Clinton's wave of declassification.

But it was really only the tip.  What we know is only what congress, what the US Government was able to seize before the CIA systematically destroyed the real horrible secrets of MKULTRA out of fear of exposure from the Church Committee.

Don't believe it?  Look it up, it'll take you two seconds.  Don't believe any of this?  Look it up, what you are reading is declassified & taught in Universities all across America, it is not at all secret any longer.  You can easily look all of this up.

I'll leave you with this: