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The Central Intelligence Agency
As the fear of communism was rising in the U.S. after World War II, government officials set their sights on developing a weapon that sounds straight out of science fiction: mind control. This effort was led by the CIA in a program called MK-ULTRA, which was made up of 149 “subprojects” involving …
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The conviction that pointy-headed intellectuals in the US national security establishment are covertly imposing their worldview on American foreign policy hardly originated with the Trump White House. Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist crusade in the 1950s was largely premised on the same paranoia …
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By Dina Temple-Raston, In Deep The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America’s “Deep State” By David Rohde Norton. 323 pp. $30 Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been a subject of “deep state” conspiracy theories that falsely claim he’s working …
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Everyone ‘knows’ who shot JFK, but is the story really that simple? Writing for BBC History Revealed, Nige Tassell examines the classified files released by the US in late 2017 for clues that might identify whether anyone was pulling the strings in the shadows… This competition is now closed …
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US Attorney General William Barr U.S. Attorney General William Barr and acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell broadly invoked the state secrets privilege this week to block 9/11 survivors and family members from obtaining crucial evidence to support their multi-billion dollar …
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Project MKULTRA was the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) mind control program that used LSD and hypnosis techniques to brainwash individuals. Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was a participant in one of Henry Murray’s experiments at Harvard where Murray’s team bullied, harassed, …
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“Madness: The Secret Mission for Mind Control and the People Who Paid the Price” — an investigative series in 5 parts — unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. In our first episode, we share powerful accounts of abuse at a psychiatric hospital in Montreal, and we …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the inauguration of Donald Trump at the Rotunda of the US Capitol on January 20.Kevin Lamarque/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our …
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TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. President Trump and some of his allies have blamed the deep state for trying to undermine his presidency. My guest David Rohde has written a new book titled “In Deep: The FBI, The CIA, And The Truth About America’s ‘Deep State.’” It examines …
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Conspiracy theories have a long history, but the actual term “conspiracy theory” emerged much more recently. It was only a few decades ago that the term took on the derogatory connotations it has today, where to call someone a conspiracy theorist functions as an insult. So it may come as no …
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