After learning of Whitey Bulger LSD tests, juror has regrets

February 22, 2020 cia

Archived 6 years ago from Associated Press
After learning of Whitey Bulger LSD tests, juror has regrets

EASTHAM, Mass. (AP) — One of the jurors who convicted notorious crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger says she regrets her decision after learning that he was an unwitting participant in a covert CIA experiment with LSD. Bulger terrorized Boston from the 1970s into the 1990s with a campaign of murder, …

Notorious mobster “Whitey” Bulger was apparently part of the CIA’s mind control drug program

MKUltra

February 19, 2020 china, cia

Archived 6 years ago from Mic
Notorious mobster “Whitey” Bulger was apparently part of the CIA’s mind control drug program

One of the most bizarre and disturbing government programs in American history is in the news again. On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that a member of the jury in the trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, the infamous Boston mobster convicted in 2013 of killing eleven people between the 1970s …

The global anti-vax movement: a visual history

Vaccines

February 19, 2020 cdc, cia, covid19

Archived 6 years ago from Coda Story
The global anti-vax movement: a visual history

The resurgence of measles in the United States and the UK, a polio outbreak in the Philippines, HPV-vaccine resistance in Japan — these headlines from the past year have roots in global anti-vaccine campaigns that stretch back over 200 years. Concerned parents, religious groups, liberals and …

MKUltra

February 7, 2020 cia

Archived 6 years ago from Deadline
Fremantle’s Storyglass Preps Scripted MK-Ultra Podcast With Australia’s Easy Tiger

EXCLUSIVE: Storyglass, the scripted podcast label set up by American Gods producer Fremantle, is developing an international audio series based around the controversial Project MK-Ultra. The company has partnered with Easy Tiger, a Fremantle-backed production company from Australia, on six-part …

Deep State

January 27, 2020 cia, trump

Archived 6 years ago from Business Insider
What the American ‘deep state’ actually is, and why Trump gets it wrong

The frequent invocations of the “deep state” by President Donald Trump and those around him are generally meant to cast blame when his administration doesn’t get its way. The idea of a “deep state” is not a new one, and Trump isn’t the first one to argue it exists in the US, even if his description …

MKUltra

January 22, 2020 cia

Archived 6 years ago from International Policy Digest
Book Review: ‘Poisoner in Chief’

“What is there left to do with the CIA and MKUltra?” This is the question which needs to be asked when engaging with Stephen Kinzer’s Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. Anyone familiar with the topic is unlikely to be offered new material concerning the infamous …

French publisher apologises for CIA 9/11 conspiracy theory in textbook

9/11

January 21, 2020 cia

Archived 6 years ago from Euronews
French publisher apologises for CIA 9/11 conspiracy theory in textbook

A French author and publisher have apologised after a history textbook suggested that the September 11 attacks were “no doubt orchestrated by the CIA”.A reference to the conspiracy theory was found in the work, ‘Histoire du XXe siècle en fiches’ (‘History of the 20th century in flashcards’), by …

France apology after history textbook links CIA to 9/11

9/11

January 20, 2020 cia

Archived 2 years ago from BBC News
France apology after history textbook links CIA to 9/11

Getty ImagesA French publisher has apologised after a history textbook that appeared in bookshops in recent weeks suggested the 11 September 2001 attacks were probably “orchestrated by the CIA”.The debunked conspiracy theory was apparently highlighted on social media initially by a group of …

UFOs

January 15, 2020 cia

Archived 6 years ago from History Channel
The UFO Sightings that Pushed the UK to Take ‘Flying Saucers’ More Seriously

In late September 1952, only months after a rash of “flying saucer” sightings over Washington, D.C. made headlines around the world, dozens of military officers participating in NATO exercises in the North Atlantic were struck by their own UFO fever. Exercise Mainbrace was the largest peacetime …

How the CIA Tried to Quell UFO Panic During the Cold War

UFOs

January 5, 2020 cia

Archived 6 years ago from History Channel
How the CIA Tried to Quell UFO Panic During the Cold War

In January 1953, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency had a thorny situation on its hands. Reports of UFO sightings were mushrooming around the country. Press accounts were fanning public fascination—and concern. So the CIA convened a group of scientists to investigate whether these unknown …

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