Extended interview: 50 years after the Manson murders, Tom O’Neill’s disturbing new book CHAOS seeks to dismantle the myths of Helter Skelter

August 8, 2019 cia

Archived 2 years ago from The Georgia Straight
Extended interview: 50 years after the Manson murders, Tom O’Neill’s disturbing new book CHAOS seeks to dismantle the myths of Helter Skelter

Terry Melcher was one of the key figures in the Manson Family saga, and his entire story—a new book argues—was bullshit.This isn’t quite news to anyone with a sincere interest in the events of that hot, mad summer in ’69 when a so-called hippie murder death cult slaughtered starlet Sharon Tate and …

RS Recommends: ‘Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties’

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July 9, 2019 cia

Archived 6 years ago from Rolling Stone
RS Recommends: ‘Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties’

It’s hard to explain Tom O’Neill’s new book Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties without sounding like a conspiracy theorist down a rabbit hole — you try telling your friends that a reporter spent two decades researching the links between one of America’s most …

MKUltra

June 1, 2019 cia

Archived 4 years ago from BBC History Magazine
MK Ultra: The Secrets Of The CIA’s Mind-Control Programme | History Extra

As the increasingly sticky layers were peeled back, this episode would become one of the biggest scandals to ever hit US intelligence services – a troubling tale involving biological weapons, pharmaceutical torture, illegal drug experimentation on innocent US citizens, and murder. Ultra secret The …

MKUltra

June 1, 2019 cia

Archived 5 years ago from BBC History Magazine
MK Ultra: The Secrets Of The CIA’s Mind-Control Programme – HistoryExtra

In 1953, CIA scientist Frank Olson plunged to his death under the influence of LSD. But his fate, Pat Kinsella reveals, may not have been a tale of tragic misadventure This competition is now closed Published: June 1, 2019 at 12:00 pm In the small hours of the morning, on 28 November 1953, a …

CIA launches mind control program, April 13, 1953

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April 13, 2019 cia

Archived 6 years ago from POLITICO
CIA launches mind control program, April 13, 1953

The CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence organized the project, code-named Project MKUltra. | Carolyn Kaster, File/AP Photo On this day in 1953, Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA, ordered the agency to develop mind-controlling drugs to be deployed against members of the Soviet bloc. The …

Inside the CIA’s Top Secret Otter Dossier

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December 17, 2018 cia

Archived 6 years ago from Newsweek
Inside the CIA’s Top Secret Otter Dossier

A newly declassified file from the Central Intelligence Agency’s Project MKUltra isn’t about dosing unsuspecting people with LSD; instead, it’s about otters. The new document stands out for its (relative) lack of sinister overtones compared to previous revelations from the CIA’s experiments in mind …

How the CIA Used Brain Surgery to Make Six Remote Control Dogs

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December 7, 2018 cia

Archived 6 years ago from Newsweek
How the CIA Used Brain Surgery to Make Six Remote Control Dogs

Newly released files from “behavior modification,” or mind control, projects conducted as part of the infamous Project MKUltra reveal the CIA experimented in more than controlling humans with psychotropic drugs, electrical shocks and radio waves—they also created field operational, …

Secret CIA Document Shows Plan to Test Drugs on Prisoners

MKUltra

November 13, 2018 cia

Archived 4 years ago from ACLU
Secret CIA Document Shows Plan to Test Drugs on Prisoners

Thanks to an ACLU victory in federal court, we know much more about how CIA doctors violated the medical oath to “do no harm.” One of the most important lessons of the CIA’s torture program is the way it corrupted virtually every individual and institution associated with it. Over the years, we …

CIA considered potential truth serum for terror suspects –

MKUltra

November 13, 2018 cia

Archived 4 years ago from Associated Press
CIA considered potential truth serum for terror suspects –

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shortly after 9/11, the CIA considered using a drug it thought might work like a truth serum and force terror suspects to give up information about potential attacks. After months of research, the agency decided that a drug called Versed, a sedative often prescribed to reduce …

MKUltra

September 20, 2018 china, cia

Archived 2 years ago from IFLScience
What Was The Secret Cold War CIA Program ‘MKUltra’ Really About?

When you hear the phrase “MKUltra”, what do you think of? I’m going to hazard a guess here and say that mind control crops up immediately, along with the CIA. Brainwashing. Hypnotizing people to carry out orders, even assassinations. Secretive experiments all kept behind closed doors during the …

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