The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 14

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0:00 Hello, SR. How are you? I'm doing well this afternoon, Colonel. Hopefully you are as well. I am. Spending a lot of time with that grandbaby, I bet. We went to dinner last night. They usually join us on Wednesdays as well. So, yep. Amazing, amazing, amazing. Who knew what I was missing? Yep. Okay. I'm not going to wait for Bridget. I'm not sure.

0:34 what she's doing. I haven't heard too much from her today, but I went ahead and went live over on Rumble, so we're going to go ahead and get started as people start to drift in. This is probably, of all of the chapters in the book, and there's a lot of irony in this book, this chapter is probably the height of irony.

1:04 The name of it is called Brain Warfare. It starts on April 10th, 1953. CIA Director Allen Dulles delivered an alarming speech about Russia's latest secret weapon. Because, you know, anything that we want to do, we're going to create a threat in Russia to justify our doing it.

1:36 The latest threat, oh, I see Bridget, is brain warfare. Dulles made a speech to Princeton alumni with a lot of his friends in the audience in Hot Springs, Virginia. It was a resort. I wonder, said Dulles, whether we realize how sinister the battle for men's mind has become in Soviet hands.

2:10 The human mind is the most delicate of all instruments. It is so finely adjusted, so susceptible to the impact of outside influences that it is proving a malleable tool in the hands of sinister men. Not Dulles, just the Russians. The Soviets are now using brain perversion techniques as one of the main weapons in prosecuting the Cold War.

2:40 Some of the techniques are so subtle and so abhorrent to our way of life that we have recoiled from facing up to them. Dulles reported that the Soviets were engaging in a sick science, seeking to control human consciousness by washing the brain clean of thoughts and mental processes of the past

3:11 speak and act against their own will. Dulles' speech, which he made sure received wide media distribution because he controlled it, marked an ominous new phase in the Cold War, a militarization of science and psychology aimed not simply at changing popular opinion, but at re-engineering the human brain because they were already steep in doing it.

3:39 What Dulles did not tell his audience in Hot Springs was that several days earlier, he had authorized the CIA mind control program MKUltra. That would dwarf any effort Russians ever attempted. In fact, at the same time, he was condemning the Soviet brainwashing. Dulles knew the U.S. Military and Intelligence Agency had been working for several years.

4:08 in brain warfare. This secret experimentation would balloon under the CIA's MKUltra program. Launched by Dulles with a $300,000 budget, this Manhattan project of the mind would grow into a multi-million dollar program operating for a quarter of the century. I'd argue it still operates.

4:32 and enlisting dozens of leading universities and hospitals as well as hundreds of prominent researchers in study that often violated every ethical standard and treated the human subjects as expendable. Richard Helms, who oversaw MKUltra, advised Dulles that the scientific research underwritten by the program would have to be carried out in complete secrecy, explaining that most credible scientists

5:02 would be very reluctant to enter into a signed agreement of any sort connecting them to this because it would jeopardize their professional reputations. Many of the MKUltra projects involved the use of experimental drugs like LSD, which was provided to them from an heir of the DuPont family, which Helms saw as an atom bomb of the mind. The goal was to bend the subject's mind to the agency's will.

5:31 The undercover recruits in the spy trade were sketchy, undependable characters who were motivated by greed, blackmail, revenge, lust, or other less than honorable impulses. But the CIA's spymasters dreamed of taking their craft to a new technological level, one that flirted with the imaginative extremes of science fiction. They wanted to create human machines.

5:59 who would act on command even against their own conscience. Dulles was particularly keen on finding out if LSD could be used to program zombie-like saboteurs and assassins. He kept grilling Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA's top drug expert, asking him if psychedelic compounds could be used to make selected individuals commit acts of substantial sabotage or acts of violence.

6:28 including murder. The Manchurian Candidate, the 1959 best-selling thriller by Richard Condon that was later adapted for screen, dramatized this concept, a flesh and blood robot, a man so deeply programmed that he could be turned into a cold-blooded assassin. And I would argue that it was released when it was.

6:55 for a reason, because we know CIA agents were embedded in Hollywood. This particular film was a paranoid fantasy that was rooted in the Korean War. During the war, three dozen captured American pilots confessed to dropping biological weapons containing anthrax, cholera, bubonic plague, and other toxins in North Korea and China. The charges were hotly denied by the U.S. government, and when the airmen returned home after the war, they retracted their charges.

7:28 under the threat of being tried for treason. But they were true. They alleged that they were coaxed to say that they were subjected to brainwashing. The Korean War brainwashing story worked its way deeply into the American dream state through an aggressive promotional effort of CIA-sponsored experts like Edward Hunter, who claimed to have coined the term. Writing best-selling books on the alleged communist technique,

7:59 and testifying dramatically before Congress. Hunter essentially modernized the idea of demonic possession, in the words of one observer. The self-described propaganda specialist described how all the American boys fell victim to this insidious combination of Asian and Soviet torture science.

8:23 which turned each captured pilot into a living puppet, a human robot, with new beliefs and new thought processes inserted into a captive body, which at the same time they were doing. In the end, the Korean brainwashing story itself, the seedbed of so much creeping Cold War fantasy, turned out to be largely fictitious. Dulles made much of his hot spring speech, invoking the outrage,

8:53 of the image of American boys being forced to betray their own country and make confessions about how they had waged germ warfare on China and North Korea. But a later study commissioned by Dulles himself, conducted by two prominent Cornell Medical Center neurologists, including Harold Wolfe, a friend of the CIA directors, largely debunked the brainwashing panic.

9:18 They rejected reports that the communists were using esoteric mind control techniques, insisting that there had been no evidence of drugs or hypnosis of any kind. Most of the abuse metered out to the POWs and political prisoners, Wolf and his colleagues observed, amounted to nothing more than sophisticated isolation regimes and stress positions, like being forced to stand in the same room for hours.

9:49 and the occasional application of force. There is no reason to dignify these methods by surrounding them with scientific mystery or to denote them by terms of brainwashing, which imply that they were scientifically organized techniques of predictable effectiveness. In response to the brainwashing bugaboo that the CIA itself conjured up,

10:16 The agency constructed its own mind control machinery that was part Orwell and part Philip Dick. In Hot Springs, Dulles bemoaned the fact that unlike the ruthless Soviets, the U.S. had no easy access to human guinea pigs for brain experiments. But in fact, the CIA had already subjected helpless victims to its brain perversion techniques. Dulles began feeding Soviet prisoners.

10:46 and captured double agents into this psychological apparatus. Then he started using drug addicts, mental patients, prison inmates, and other quote-unquote expendables. By the end, Dulles would put his own family members in the hands of CIA mad scientists. In June of 1952, Frank Olson, a 41-year-old CIA biochemist,

11:14 Flew to Frankfurt, where he was picked up at the airport and driven 12 miles north of Camp King, an extreme interrogation center of the sort that would later be known as a black site. Now, keep in mind, 1952, it's in the middle of the Korean War. He's going to Germany, where Galen is operating. Olsen helped oversee the Special Operations Division at Camp Dietrich in Maryland.

11:47 weapons lab jointly operated by the U.S. Army and the CIA. The top secret work conducted included research on LSD-induced mind control, assassin toxins, and biological warfare. That was in fact being used in Korea and not by the Soviets. Olsen Division also was involved in research that was labeled information retrieval.

12:17 Extreme methods of extracting intelligence from uncooperative captives, which of course we saw replicated in the Phoenix program, Operation Condor, and all of the other Operation Gladio things that we've looked at. For the past two years, Olson had been traveling to secret centers in Europe where Soviet prisoners and other human guinea pigs were subjected to experimental interrogation methods. Dulles began spearheading this CIA research.

12:46 even before he became director of the agency under a secret program that preceded MKUltra called Operation Artichoke, after the spymaster's favorite vegetable. CIA officials later purged their files of evidence of the program, but in one of the surviving documents dated February 12, 1951, Dulles wrote to his ever-accommodating deputy, Frank Wisner, about, quote,

13:14 The possibilities of augmenting the usual interrogation methods by the use of drugs, hypnotics, shock, the enclosed folder interrogation techniques was prepared in my medical division to provide you with a suitable background, unquote. It was in secret overseas detention centers like Camp King where the CIA found many of the subjects for its artichoke interrogations.

13:43 defectors, double agents, and other unfortunates from the East who had fallen into U.S. hands. Some of the captives had been delivered to the CIA by the Galen organization, which for a time operated out of Camp King until relocating to Pollock. During the war, Camp King had been a Nazi interrogation center for captured U.S. and British flyers.

14:12 Afterwards, the U.S. military turned the camp into a stockade for notorious Nazi POWs like the propagandist Axis Sally and the commando Otto Skorzeny. But by 1948, the camp was operating as an extreme interrogation center for Soviet prisoners, a program jointly administered by CIA scientists and Nazi doctors.

14:43 who had presided over medical experimentations on concentration camp inmates during the war. At Camp King, CIA scientists and their German colleagues subjected victims to dangerous combinations of drugs like Benzedrine, Penethol, Natrem, LSD, and Mescaline. Under a research protocol that stipulated, quote, disposal of the body is not a problem, unquote.

15:13 More than 1,600 of the Nazi scientists recruited for the U.S. research projects like this would be comfortably resettled as UNI's neighbor during Operation Paperclip. One of the CIA-sponsored researchers who worked at the artichoke interrogation camps in Germany was a Harvard-trained physician named Henry Knowles Beecher.

15:40 He was brought to Camp King by the agency to advise on the best way to induce amnesia in Soviet spies after they were subjected to the interrogation methods. Beecher, the anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, was an outspoken proponent of the Nuremberg Code, which forbade medical experimentation on humans without informed consent.

16:06 But he was one of many prominent American doctors and scientists who lost their moral direction during the Cold War. Enticed by the generous CIA patronage and featured virtually unlimited funds and unrestricted research parameters. Lured into the world where nearly everything was permitted in the name of national security. Beecher even began drawing on the work of Nazi doctors at Dachau.

16:37 After reading a captured Gestapo report in 1947 that indicated that mescaline could be an effective interrogation tool, Beecher set off on a decade-long search for a magical truth serum that would compel unwitting subjects in Germany as well as his own Boston hospital, urging the government to expand its research into LSD as an offensive weapon.

17:04 Beecher subjected his involuntary subjects to severe overdoses of hallucinogenics, despite knowing that it caused acute panic, paranoid reactions, and other trauma. The psychosis, in miniature, he coolly observed in one government report, offers interesting possibilities. Ever since the Nuremberg trials, international legal authorities had moved to formally condemn

17:31 physical and psychological abuse of the powerless. The UN stated no one shall be subject to torture or to cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of punishment. The following year, the third Geneva Convention offered this commandment. No physical or mental torture nor any form of coercion may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information.

18:01 Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind. But by defining the Cold War as a ruthless struggle outside the norms of military conduct and human decency, the national security regime, shaped by men like Dulles, was able to brazenly defy international law. Few of them involved in the CIA brain warfare.

18:29 expressed any ethical concerns about their work. Quote, I never gave it a thought to legality or morality. Frankly, I did what worked, unquote. But Frank Olson did suffer profound moral anxieties about his work and the result of a serious crisis within the CIA itself. Dr. Olson began having serious doubts after traveling to various CIA research centers in England, France,

18:59 Norway, and Germany, and observing the human experiments being conducted in those black sites. Olsen's trip to Germany in the summer of 1952, during which he visited Haas Waldorf, a notorious CIA safe house on a country estate near Camp King, left him particularly shaken. Soviet prisoners were subjected to severe interrogation methods.

19:27 which sometimes resulted in their death. The cruelty he witnessed reminded him of Nazi concentration camps. After returning home to the United States, he began wrestling with his conscience, according to his wife. He had a tough time after Germany. Drugs, torture, brainwashing, called one of his fellow Camp Dietrich researchers, with whom Olson had worked on the projects. Olson and Cornerier

19:58 who was his colleague, had also collaborated on projects that made them less proud. After the war, they had traveled around the United States supervising the spraying of biological weapons from aircraft and crop dusters. Some of the tests, which were conducted in cities like San Francisco, as well as rural areas in the Midwest, involved harmless chemicals. Others featured dangerous toxins. In Alaska, where two men sought to stage their experiments in an environment

20:28 that resembled wartime Russia, we used a spore, which is very similar to anthrax. So to that extent, we did something that was not kosher. No, it was criminal. One of their research colleagues, a bacteriologist, Dr. Harold Batchelor, learned aerial spraying techniques from the infamous Dr. Kurt Blom, director of the Nazi bio warfare experiments.

20:57 conducted at Camp Dietrich. Olsen began to worry about how his airborne spray research was being utilized by the military. His wife said in addition to being deeply disturbed by the interrogation procedures he witnessed in Germany, he was haunted by the suspicion that the U.S. was practicing biological warfare in Korea, because they were. By the time he returned from Germany, Olsen was suffering a moral crisis, according to his family.

21:29 Olson's objections to the CIA brain warfare research apparently began to raise alarms at Camp Dietrich. One document in Olson's personnel file dated after his return from Germany indicated his behavior was causing the fear of a security violation. In November 1953, before Frank Olson could change his life because he was going to leave, he became one of the unwitting victims of the CIA mind control program.

22:00 A week before Thanksgiving, Olson and several other division scientists were invited to a weekend retreat at a secluded CIA facility near Deep Creek Lake in Western Maryland. The scientists were greeted by Sidney Gottlieb, the chief wizard of the CIA's Magic Potion Division. Gottlieb was one of the agency's most unique characters. He stuttered, he had a club foot, and was a biochemist.

22:33 Despite his infirmities, Gottlieb threw himself into his work with a passion. He was the son of an Orthodox Hungarian Jew. He rejected Judaism and spent his life searching for his own source of enlightenment. He experimented with Zen Buddhism and became an early celebrant of the cult of LSD.

23:02 devoted himself enthusiastically to the CIA mind manipulation program, subjecting hundreds of unsuspecting Americans to experimental drugs. The CIA chemists preyed on people who could not fight back. As one agency put it, such as seven patients in a federal drug hospital in Kentucky who were dosed with acid for 77 straight days by a Gottlieb-funded doctor who ran a hospital addiction program.

23:33 Gottlieb also excelled at cooking up rare toxins and clever delivery mechanisms to eliminate people the CIA had deemed enemies. Gottlieb strongly adhered to Dulles' ethic that there was no rules in war. We were in World War II mode, a CIA psychologist who was close to Gottlieb said. The war never ended for us. After dinner on the second night at the retreat, Gottlieb's deputy spiked a bottle of liquor.

24:04 to and offered it to the unsuspecting Olson and his colleagues. It was the beginning of a nightmarish ordeal for Olson, which would end a week later when the scientist went crashing through a window on the 10th floor of a hotel in Manhattan, where he was being held by the CIA and later plunged to his death. After being dosed at the camp, Olson never seemed to recover. He remained anxious and confused throughout the week leading up to his

24:35 being murdered. The CIA officials who took charge of him that week later claimed they were planning to put him in a psychiatric hospital, but instead they shuttled him from place to place, taking him to New York to see an allergist on the CIA payroll named Dr. Harold Abramson, who had conducted LSD tolerance experiments for the agency.

25:02 even to a musician named John Mulholland, who taught CIA agents how to improve their spycraft. As the days went by, Olson became increasingly agitated, telling Dr. Abramson, not without reason, that the CIA was trying to poison him, because they were. Shortly after Olson's death, someone placed a brief...

25:33 phone call from the scientist's hotel to Dr. Abramson. Well, he's gone, they said. Abramson's response, well, that's too bad, and hung up. Agents from the CIA's Office of Security, the department made up by former FBI agents and cops that cleaned up the spy agency's messes, quickly descended on the hotel, nudging aside New York police investigators.

26:03 James McCord, later known for his role in Watergate, was one of the security agents who took charge of the quote-unquote investigation for the CIA. The agency termed Olson's death a suicide. The tragic end of an emotionally unstable man, the story went. In 1975, the case resurfaced during the Rockefeller Commission investigation of CIA abuses ordered by President Ford.

26:33 Olson's widow and grown children were invited to the White House by President Ford, who apologized to them on behalf of the government. The Olson case would become enshrined in history as one of the more outrageous examples of CIA hubris and mad science. But as the years went by, the Olson family became convinced that Frank Olson's death was not a suicide, it was murder. Frank Olson did not die as a consequence of a drug experiment gone awry, the family said.

27:03 In 1994, Frank's eldest son, Eric, decided to have his father's body exhumed for a second autopsy. The team of pathologists was led by James Stars, a professor of law and forensic science at George Washington University. Probably should have picked a different university. The panel, with one dissenter, found evidence that Olson had suffered a blunt force trauma to the head and a chest injury before the fall.

27:32 Evidence that was called rankly and starkly suggestive of a homicide. While acknowledging that his team had not found any smoking guns, I am exceedingly skeptical that he went through the window on his own accord. But Olson's children failed in their efforts to reopen the case on the basis of new evidence. In 2012, a federal judge dismissed the family's lawsuit against the CIA.

28:00 in which they had asked for compensatory damages as well as access to documents about their father's death. The ruling against the family, primarily on technical grounds, the judge nonetheless noted the public record supports many of the allegations against the CIA, far-fetched as they may seem. Allen Dulles was coldly efficient when it came to ridding his agency of quote-unquote security problems. On the night of...

28:27 March 31st, 1953, several months before Frank Olson died or was murdered, Dulles invited an old friend and protege, James Cronthal, to his Georgetown house for dinner. The CIA director said he had business to discuss, but it turned out the evening's most pressing item of business was Cronthal's own fate.

28:52 Two-year-old Cronthal was a rising star in the CIA, where his profile fit the mold for one of Dulles' very best men. The son of a prominent New York banker, Cronthal was educated at Yale and Harvard and served under Dulles at the Byrne OSS station during the war. Before the war, he had rejected the banking career his family had planned for him in favor of teaching art history at Harvard. But Cronthal...

29:21 brought a keen business instinct to the art trade, establishing himself in Germany in the 1930s as a broker for Goring and Himmler and other Nazi leaders selling art treasures stolen from primarily Jewish collectors. After the war, he sought to redeem himself by trying to track down looted art pieces and return them to their rightful owners. He was a brilliant young man and became one of Dulles' favorites.

29:54 Dulles, who helped Cronthal take over the burn station in 47, after it became one of the CIA's first overseas outpost. When Dulles took charge of the agency in 53, he brought Cronthal back to Washington and had big plans for him. He was touted as a rare intelligence behind his veneer. Richard Helms was one of those who shared Dulles' admiration for this up-and-coming agent, writing,

30:27 that Cronthal was a top-flight intelligence officer who commands respect from his subordinates. Cronthal, whom Dulles fondly referred to as Jimmy, reminded him of his son, Allen Jr., highly intelligent with lots of promise. Dulles would also lose Cronthal, a man the spymaster had considered a member of his family, on the night of March 1953.

31:03 Cronthal's attitude for the espionage game derived in part from a lifetime of hiding his own personal secrets. He was gay. He had a weakness for young boys. The Gestapo discovered his sexual taste while he was working in Germany as an art dealer before the war. Later, when Cronthal was running the CIA station in Bern, the NKVD,

31:32 the Soviet secret police agency got access to Kronthal's Gestapo files after penetrating the Galen organization. The Soviets set up a honey trap for him in Switzerland with Chinese boys as bait. He was secretly filmed and blackmailed. By the time he returned to Washington, he was a double agent. It was Colonel Sheffield Edwards, a former army intelligence officer who ran the CIA's office of security.

32:02 who informed Dulles that his protege had turned. Edwards' internal security department was tasked with protecting the CIA against enemy penetration. The security unit was also in charge of what was delicately called enforcement, providing the muscle to eliminate threats. This is an army colonel. On the night of March 31st, as Dulles confronted Cronthal with the Office of Security Revelations over dinner,

32:34 quietly eavesdropping in the adjoining room. The sense of betrayal was certainly overwhelming for Dulles, but the CIA director, whose fit of rage was legendary, held his fury in check. The spy chief sounded sad. He spoke with the traitor in whom he had invested so much hope, remarking on the mystery of personal demons and how they can be set aflame, even the most promising careers. After the two men reviewed Cromthal's

33:04 Impossible situation and his dismal options, the shattered agent walked back home, a white brick townhouse with a small garden just two blocks from Dulles' residence. He was followed by the two CIA security men. When Cronthal's housekeeper arrived the next morning, his bedroom door was still closed and he had left a note that he was not to be disturbed. I'm sure he didn't leave that note.

33:31 Later that morning, two men who identified themselves as colleagues appeared at the house and told the housekeeper they had an urgent note. They wanted his body found. When they opened the door, they found the lifeless Cromthal across his bed, fully clothed with an empty vial near his body. Convenient. The investigation into his death was quickly taken over by Lieutenant Lawrence Hartnett.

34:00 of the Washington DC Metro Police, a homicide detective with a history of helping the CIA with their domestic problems. They've infiltrated all of the major police forces. Nett revealed that Cronthal had left a letter to Richard Helms in which he revealed that he was mentally upset about the pressure connected with work.

34:28 as well as a letter for Dulles. The autopsy concluded that he had taken his own life. How convenient. But the report left more questions than it answered, failing to determine the cause of death or the contents of the vial found in his bedroom. Sometime before his death, he had mailed a letter to his sister revealing his homosexuality, which came as no surprise to her. He then signed off in a perplexing way.

34:54 Cronthall's final words to his sister was, I can't wait till 1984. Love, Jim. Was it his way of saying that for him, Big Brother's authoritarianism had already been realized? James Cronthall case was like the Frank Olson matter. Later that year, another mess, the Dulles Office of Security had to clean up. If Cronthall's death was a suicide.

35:24 which they made it appear, it appeared to have been assisted. This is what one high-ranking CIA official, Robert Crowley, later suggested. One where the other, Crowley said, who was interviewed after he retired by journalist Joseph Trento, which we talked about before, Cronthal was induced to do the right thing for the good of the agency and of the men who had been his professional benefactors.

35:54 Allen probably had a special potion prepared that he gave Cronthal, should the pressure become too much, unquote. Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and the medical people produced all kinds of potions like that that could not be detected. Dulles never spoke in public about Cronthal after he was gone. Cronthal's sister's efforts to extract more information from the CIA proved futile. The press made little effort to investigate it.

36:23 James Cronthal was dropped down the dark well of CIA complications that just disappeared. Until he was wounded in Korea, Alan Dulles Jr. was the brightest hope of his family. A brilliant student, he excelled at Xavier, sped through Princeton in three years, and then took himself off to Oxford, where he completed his degree in history, writing a thesis on the

36:53 Undersecretary System of British Foreign Policy, Office. Sonny is what Alan Dulles called him. If Dulles took pride in his son's educational achievements, he never once mentioned it. The sisters, Toddy and Joan, gave up any expectation that their father would shine his attention on any of them. Alan Jr. was closer to his mom than he was his dad, as were the other two siblings.

37:25 One of Allen Jr.'s classmates, Xavier, a friend with whom he had contact even after his life-altering wound, was gay. There were rumors that he was too. Well, there could have been all kinds of experimentations at prep school, his sister later observed. Allen Jr. seemed to inhibit his own world. He was an introvert. In 1950, shortly after getting his degree at Oxford,

37:55 Sonny stunned his family by announcing he was joining the Marines. As war broke out in Korea, his uncle Foster used his connections to get him a desk job. But the 22-year-old enlistee volunteered instead for duty in Korea. He wanted to win his father's admiration. The senior Dulles had fought both world wars in bars and hotels, surrounded by foreign agents and accommodating mistress, and had never fired a gun.

38:25 Sonny's letters to his father from the Marine Corps were filled with a new assertiveness. He lectured the senior Dulles about the deficiencies of the military. Dulles' letters of reply, which he signed affectionately Alan, he didn't even refer to himself as his dad. By the summer of 1952, Alan Jr. found himself on the front lines of Korea as a second lieutenant in the 1st Marine Division. He had a gung-ho attitude.

38:57 That's sometimes borderline on reckless. He would charge an enemy sniper nest. Braving intense fire. One time his gun got shot out of his hand. And he was wounded in the wrist. But the day he was lucky. He didn't have to do any of that. But I guess he felt like he had something to live up to. One of his commanding officers later said. Once again defying heavy machine gun and mortar fire.

39:28 The young Dulles crawled within 30 yards of the enemy position, armed with rifle grenades, and began to direct a marine mortar attack. Shortly before the enemy soldiers began to pull back, the lieutenant was hit in the head with fragments from a mortar shell. I was there when they brought him back, his commanding officer said. He kept trying to get off the stretcher and go back to the front.

39:54 Allen Jr. would be evacuated to a hospital in Japan and underwent brain surgery. Clover, Dulles' wife, flew to her son's bedside. His surgeon said there were shrapnel that was still deeply embedded that would never be able to be removed. In late February 1953, the young Dulles was strong enough to be flown home. His father, who was to be confirmed the following day as the CIA director,

40:23 greeted him at Andrew's, photographs and all. As the young man underwent further treatment at Bethesda, he seemed to recover to somewhat of his old self. He recognized people, made jokes, blah, blah, blah. It became clear that Clover was going to need help caring for him. And Dulles had arranged for a clerical job for his son at the State Department.

40:57 It goes on. I'm not going to bore you guys with all the details, but basically he was kind of in and out of it. Sometimes he was his old self. Sometimes he was not. He moved around to a couple of different jobs. He was in and out of hospitals. He was in and out of all kinds of emotional treatment.

41:24 It goes on to say that Alan Dulles was not a wealthy man. His salary as a CIA director was about $130,000 in today's dollars. But it was a far cry from his salary that he had gotten from Sullivan and Cromwell, which of course we know he had a lot more money than that because there's all of the black market funds that are going around everywhere. So it goes on to say that

41:54 And eventually, Alan Dulles turned to the doctors at his MK Ultra branch. It is unclear whether Dulles paid for that treatment or not, but he got it. Among the first CIA-funded medical experts the spymaster enlisted to treat his son was Dr. Harold Wolfe, chief of the neurology department at New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center.

42:21 and former president of the American Neurological Association, who had become one of the agent's leading experts on mind control. Wolfe was a sophisticated medical scientist with an international reputation for his research on migraine headaches. His global roster of patients included the Shah of Iran and Prime Minister Mossadegh.

42:51 Wolfe set himself the goal of new experiments every day. He worked with a Dr. Donald D'Alessio, who interned for him and later worked on as his research associate. He was said to have had a relentless drive for accomplishment, especially in the migraine field.

43:18 When Wolf was asked by a colleague why he never bothered to be board certified in neurology, he looked puzzled for a moment and then said, who would test me? I'm like the best there is. When Wolf was asked by the CIA to take a leading role in MKUltra, he had no moral qualms about it. He himself would set up the ethical boundaries of his mind control experimentation. Wolf was sufficiently aware of the professional and perhaps legal pitfalls of MKUltra.

43:47 to make sure that the CIA would assume responsibility for all of his risky procedures. In a revealing passage in Wolfe's CIA grant proposal, he wrote for his Cornell research team, quote, potentially useful secret drugs and various brain damaging procedures on behalf of the agency to ascertain their functional effect upon the human brain and upon the subject's mood.

44:15 But Wolf carefully stipulated that any dangerous experiments would have to be conducted at CIA facilities and not at his hospital. Where any of the studies include potential harm to the subject, we expect the agency to make available suitable subjects and a proper place for the performance of the necessary experiments. In 1955, Wolf agreed to become the president of the Society for Investigations of Human Ecology.

44:43 the primary CIA front company for funneling research money to a wide array of mind control researchers in medicine, psychology, and sociology. Wolf's prestige became a major asset for the CIA as the agency attempted to bend the science profession to its Cold War aims. The neurologist also benefited greatly from the relationship, getting hundreds of thousands of dollars on repeated grants.

45:12 and steering millions to his colleagues. Wolfe became a friend of Dulles'. It was only natural for the CIA doctor to ask him for help with his son. Wolfe, of course, readily agreed to treat Allen Jr. It was the least he could do for his benefactor. But as a result, Sonny became another victim of the MK-ULTRA program.

45:42 has disturbing memories of visiting her brother in the New York hospital where he was subjected to insulin shock therapy, one of the experimental procedures employed by the CIA's human guinea pig program. Used primarily for the treatment of schizophrenia, insulin overdoses were meant to jolt patients out of their madness. The procedure resulted in a coma and violent convulsions. The most severe risk, of course, was brain damage and death.

46:14 Some were mentally impaired as a result. They used insulin at the New York hospital, Jones said. When I went to visit my brother, it was hard for me because he kept saying, can't you do something for me? I'm going mad. At the time, I didn't know what he was getting at or what I could do. I was just visiting him.

46:36 It was not until years later when Joan read exposés about MKUltra that she realized how far her father had gone, even with his own son, in the name of brain research. Once you go to the dark side, there's no limits, she said. Sonny showed no signs of improvement after enduring these treatments, although he did write his father a letter indicating that he had basically been broken. Despite Wolf's lack of success,

47:06 Dulles next reached out to Dr. Wilder Pinfield, a prominent neurosurgeon at Montreal's McGill University. And for those of you who've been around, McGill is the Canadian version of like a black site program. And yes, they sent him to that place too. There, let's see, I want to get the name of the doctor.

47:41 One of them is Wilder Penfield, but there's a couple of other ones. Donald Ewan Cameron, who Alan Dulles also knew since World War II. And that guy had been consulting with Rudolph Hess in Sanity Case at the Nuremberg trials. He became another notorious scientist involved in MKUltra.

48:10 By 57, Cameron was receiving a steady flow of funding from the CIA. Through that CIA front called Society for Human Ecology to do brainwashing experiments at McGill. They were later condemned when they were exposed as being barbaric. And then it talks about Cameron's experience was, if you guys have read anything about it,

48:42 He had dubbed his area where he did these experiments as the sleep room. It involved putting subjects into electric dreams states through insulin overdoses, massive infusion of LSD and other experimental drugs and electroshock therapy. He referred to that as de-pattering.

49:13 to wipe the brain clean of bad behaviors. Cameron sought to replace them with good ones. One patient underwent reprogramming in his sleep room for 101 days, consistently undergoing these experiments. The people who came to see Cameron was generally seeking relief from things like marital problems or depression. They left worse off than they came there.

49:44 His shock and awe warfare on the mine brought only much deeper misery to all of the patients, many of which were women. Though he was a genius at destroying people, he could not remake them, one of the patients said. Cameron himself indicated that the true aim of the CIA-funded research was not to improve patients' lives, but to contribute to the Cold War effort of perfecting the science of mind control.

50:15 He compared his patients to prisoners of war who are undergoing interrogation, saying that they, like prisoners of the communists, tended to resist treatment. They had to be broken. That's him. Gail Kastner, a young McGill nursing student, was one of the victims of this treatment. She had an emotionally overbearing father and had sought help. Obviously, it didn't help.

50:50 Another young mother who was suffering from postpartum depression was another victim. In the mid-1970s, after Cameron had died, the secrets of the sleep room and other inhumane MKUltra research centers began to emerge. As journalists filed freedom of information requests and Congress opened investigations into the CIA horror chambers.

51:16 Eventually, the CIA paid out $750,000 damages to nine families whose lives were turned upside down by Cameron's experiments, the largest settlement the agency had ever paid. All were victim of mind control experiments. Testifying in front of the Senate hearing in 77, CIA psychologist John Gittinger called MKUltra a foolish mistake.

51:45 But the work of Cameron and other MK Ultra scientists lives on in the agency, incorporated into a 1963 CIA torture manual called Counterintelligence Interrogation. That would be used to extract information out of Vietnam, Central America, i.e. Operation Condor.

52:07 and all black sites operated by the agency even after 9-11. And that's why that Kirikou guy that claims he's an honest CIA whistleblower, the only torture technique any of them ever talk about is waterboarding. It's so much worse, and they will not talk about it. It's limited hangout.

52:36 They have used drugs. They have used electrical shocks, which we've talked about nonstop here in Operation Condor, to include generators that had USAID stickers on them used to generate the electricity to shock people. And I'm not talking like little shocks. I'm talking like shocks that will kill you. All Alan Dulles.

53:08 and his little Mingala Gottlieb disciples. After Penfield pronounced that Allen Jr.'s condition was hopeless, Clover continued to seek care. Nothing basically ever helped Allen Dulles' son. He was shuffled around, had caretakers. It goes on to talk about that

53:44 Dulles was quite willing to steer suffering relatives towards MKUltra-connected physicians. Lumbotomies were among the more extreme mind control measures undertaken by the CIA program. At one point, Dulles arranged for his niece, Edith, the daughter of his sister, Margaret, to be lobotomized by a CIA brain surgeon. She had cancer, and it was in great pain.

54:12 They tried the lobotomy on her. All that came from my father, he was the one who suggested the doctor. It didn't work at all. It didn't stop the pain. It just made her odd, Joan later said. At one low point in Clover, Dulles' wife's life, a well-meaning CIA doctor recommended that she see Dr. Cameron, the sleep room guy. She decided not to do that.

54:48 Thankfully, finally, Alan Jr. was moved into Bellevue and he found the facility so soothing and environment that he stayed there for over 10 years. Eventually, Joan would pick her brother up and take him out to New Mexico with her and basically babysat him for the rest of her life, his life. And that's it. That's the day.

55:20 That's the chapter. SR, go ahead. Thank you, Colonel, and thank everyone for being here on Spaces and on Rumble. It just blows my mind that even Alan Dulles would do that to his own family. He did it. You can't tell me the man didn't know the results of what was coming out of this stuff. He knew. He was briefed on it all the time. Exactly. And then to say, oh, yeah, go ahead, do it to my son.

56:00 Oh, yeah, lobotomize my daughter. His niece. Yeah, his niece. His niece. Yeah, it just blows my mind. They call the book The Devil's Chessboard for a reason. He is the devil. He is a devil. He was a living, breathing version of the devil. If I may, Colonel, we do have a request from Craig Mutley on Rumble. Okay.

56:35 He's asking you if you could address Venezuela and election fuckery, so to speak, or absence of it in Venezuela's part tonight on Tracing Justice. On tonight's what? Tonight on Tracing Justice. I don't even know what that is. I have no idea either. I assume it's some podcast that he thinks you might be on or something. Let's see.

57:11 Okay. I am on one coming up. So let me check that out. I'll address it anywhere. Not here today, but we address it every Tuesday at six o'clock on the stolen election thing. And I'm quite liberal in what I say about it. But sure. Okay. Anything else? No? Okay.

57:50 What a short day. I'm just gobsmacked. It's still going through my mind. You're going to be exposed to it. If you don't like it, they'll kill you. That's this chapter in a nutshell. Absolutely. I mean, all you had to do was look at what they did with Olsen. And it took them that long to find out. And that's what I would say. And that's why I don't say what I say.

58:27 routinely, tongue in cheek. I honestly mean it. If you are an actual CIA whistleblower, you only get those bona fides if you've went to jail or they've tried to kill you and you survived. That's the only way that you have a bona fide as a CIA whistleblower. Anybody else that does not meet those two criteria,

58:52 are not bona fide whistleblowers because they will try to kill you or they will set you up and put you in jail. Renee, go ahead. Hey, everyone. Good afternoon. Yeah, this chapter reminded me. You're breaking up, Renee. All right. Let me see. Is it any better? It's better. Yeah, it's better now.

59:22 Okay. Yeah. I was just going to say this chapter reminded me kind of... Nope. You're still breaking up. We can't hear you. ...of the doll and et cetera, so forth. Still breaking up? Yeah. Ah, shoot. Okay. Anyway, I guess I'll just leave it there. I posted some stuff in the Purple Pill regarding testing Tavistock stuff.

59:59 Yeah, and it mirrors, we're talking about the beginning phase of what we exposed in Operation Condor. If you guys remember what they did with Office of Public Safety in Chile and Uruguay with Dan Mederone and in Brazil with that one kid that was on the resistance.

1:00:29 well-educated. They had put him in that prison and hooked up his testicles to the electric shock. They ran rods into his ear with the electric shock. All of that torture, all of the research that went into that torture, the use of drugging people, all of it was all done as a part of Artichoke and MKUltra.

1:00:58 Most people talk about MKUltra on the LSD. It's much, much bigger than that. And it was used extensively, it is used extensively in the field, even, I don't know about today, but it has always been used since all of this happened in the early 1950s on.

1:01:24 And we have read about it. We read about it in the Phoenix program. So it is a big, big part of who the CIA is. And another way to gauge whether or not they're telling the truth, just like that dumbass Bernson guy that supposedly is the whistle boy in stolen elections, making the accusation that Venezuela set up

1:01:54 Under Chavez, the first use of these black sites where they were torturing people, it's so laughably ridiculous, if you know anything about the history of the CIA, to even, I mean, again, it undermines the entire credibility of the book just because of all of the lies that are told. Warhamster, did you want to say something? Howdy. Yes, I did. Good evening. Hi.

1:02:28 Responding to Renee's article she put in the Purple Pill on the Tavistock Institute, that's actually an article that I've had bookmarked for quite some time. We are going to be addressing the Tavistock in quite some detail in the not too distant future. So, you know, I think we're hopefully finishing up scrolling key in the next couple of weeks. We may or may not.

1:02:53 We'll have to talk about this, Colonel, whether we want to spend time on Columbia University and the CIA or can we just assume everybody knows that it's done. And if that's the case, then we have to maybe put Richie Boys on the back burner so we can jump the pond. And if we do that, we're going to do probably two or three weeks on Cecil Rhodes, Tavistock Institute, the Fabian Society, which the Colonel has really, really...

1:03:24 dive deeply into. So it's going to be really fascinating. You probably know some stuff I don't about Fabian's and some of the other philosophies. And that should bring us to Back to America for the Foundations, which I think is going to be a great finale of this round of shows. But Tavistock, that article that Renee put in there, if you want to get ahead of it, give it a read. These are the people who created the concept of social engineering. And they're...

1:03:52 Pretty darn good at it. If you want to know why Europe is so woke, that's ground zero is the Tavistock Institute. Yeah. And that's where a lot of this stuff comes from. But this transgenderism came from there to such an extent that there was an outrage three or four years ago when the Tavistock had to shut down their whatever transitioning program. But, yeah, that's a really important data point. So I did want to respond to that. And the article she posted.

1:04:22 is one that I have used in my research years ago. It's a good article. Thank you for adding that. All along, go ahead. Yeah, Colonel, I just wanted to say, since on this topic of the MKL2 shenanigans, which I know can be kind of overwhelming for folks and begin to lack form sort of after a while, you know, because so much has been written about, and some of it's good and others not so much.

1:04:51 I would strongly recommend the book by H.P. Albarelli, which I know you've read his book on coup in Dallas. But his utter masterpiece, in my opinion, is it's called A Terrible Mistake about the Frank Olson murder in 1953. And as I think I've told you before, which he was interviewed extensively by Netflix.

1:05:18 And who is pissed as hell at what Netflix did to it and had written a book about it. And it was up on Amazon for three weeks, but apparently it came out, but no one has ever seen it. And I think I mentioned just a short version is they cut out the West Germany angle. In other words, that Frank Olson went to West Germany and it had like tripped over some paperclips, as it were.

1:05:47 And what a coinkydinky that that's the part that Netflix leaves out because our good friends Alan Dulles and John J. McCloy, future top dogs of the Warren Commission, because Gerald Ford was their water boy. Right. No question about it. We're, you know, basically running.

1:06:09 West Germany because, you know, John J. McCloy was High Commissioner of Germany at the time. Right. And the other source I would recommend, so everyone get that book because it really roots the MKUltra shenanigans in the early history of the CIA, you know, from 47 to 53 with a really, really good focus. And the Nazi aspect of it. Oh, absolutely. And the other thing I would recommend is

1:06:38 There's a YouTube by Harvard psychology professor, or I believe it's at Harvard Medical School. He actually just died recently, but his name is Dr. Daniel Brown. It's called The Real Manchurian Candidate. It is much, must, must, must viewing on because Dr. Brown interviewed Sirhan B. Sirhan for 60 hours over a long period of time.

1:07:07 And, you know, all the other top major league, you know, Ivy League credentialed up the Wazoo psychoanalysts have also interviewed Sirhan. But his when you watch this, it's just, you know, another league. And again, this guy's credentialed up the Wazoo by, you know, Harvard University. So it's definitely you could you can use that sort of credentialism against people who are, you know.

1:07:37 liable to bear the crucifix of conspiracy theory as engineered by Our Lady of the New York Times against that argument. It's an amazing watch. Again, it's called The Real Manchurian Candidate. Okay. Thank you. And I do want to give a shout out to Travis. I see him down there.

1:08:07 He sent me one of the most amazing finds. And as I told you, we have the smartest audience on X. And the majority of, at least half of the information that I use in my research comes from you guys. But he deserves an extra special.

1:08:36 shout out because let me log in real quick. I want to give you guys this information. And if you find any additional information, I haven't even done my own research into this. I was just, I spent the entire morning reviewing what he sent me, watching every video on the website that he sent me.

1:09:05 You guys know for when I say something blows me away, it's like something really big. This blew me away. He found a U.S. military unit that I had not come across. And it's called Detachment A, the letter A, Alpha.

1:09:36 And it is Operation Gladio. Like it's Operation Gladio. And I'd never heard of it. So they even talk in one of the videos, they show a picture of how they went into different areas that had previously been occupied by the Nazis.

1:10:09 pitched tents to make it look like it was a military compound over the cache units of German weapons to switch them out to NATO weapons. It is one of the most profound finds that we've had in the three years of doing this. So shout out to Travis for doing that. Amazing, amazing work. Again, I was blown away. And what was funny,

1:10:40 is that after he sent me some links, within a very short period of time, Google nixed all the links. It now says 404 error. You can't even go back and find some of the stuff that he was just looking at, which tells you how suppressed the information that we share is. They don't want you to know any of this.

1:11:04 But on the website, which I will post because I'm going to try to organize it all and do a post, a longer post on it. On the website, they have reunions where people are talking about some of the adventures. But in every video that is on that website, there's not a single mention.

1:11:31 of the people, and I recognize some of the names, the German names, they never mentioned that they were working with Nazis, not one time. And again, that's the piece that nobody wants you to know, that in the immediate, and we're talking the immediate aftermath of World War II, where they're going around changing out these caches of weapons. And they have one whole section

1:12:01 on a video that doesn't have any verbiage in it. It's just pictures of, they have an entire section called caches. It's just, it's an incredible find. So Travis, thank you very much for bringing that to my attention. And hopefully within a short period of time, I'll be able to condense that all into something that's meaningful and get that out to you actually in their own words. It's just an amazing find.

1:12:31 So, definitely wanted to give Travis a shout out. If you guys aren't following him, definitely follow him. He has some very good information that he shares. And he always responds to my posts, which I absolutely love, which is the only way that you guys are going to get my algorithms up enough for everybody else to see this information. Because they purposely suppress it. So, anyway. Okay. So.

1:13:04 Yes, tonight I was supposed to be on the Justice Cometh, but he just DM'd me and asked if we could postpone it till next week. So I'll give you guys a post talking about that after the show when I get a chance to chat with him to see if I'm open next week as well. So just an update for the person over on Rumble that was asking about that.

1:13:33 And yes, the elections was one of the things that I was going to talk to him about. So we'll definitely cover that when we do. Okay. All right. Oh, Craig Mutley. Yeah, I see that. Yes. Yes, I was scheduled to be on his show tonight, but I think he wants to move it to next week. So I'll give you guys an update over on X here shortly once we get that figured out. Okay. Anything else? Nope. All right.

1:14:05 So tomorrow at noon, we have one of the last sections of the secret societies that Warhamster and I are going to do. And then as he said, we're going to transition in a couple of weeks across the pond. And he keeps leaving out the Pilgrim Society. And we can't jump across the pond and then come back without talking about the bridge.

1:14:32 And the Pilgrim Society is the bridge. So we're going to do the Pilgrim Society, damn it. I have to keep reminding them. We have to do it. Even if it's just a show or two, we have to do it. Because it's critical to the entire map that we're trying to lay out for everybody. But I'll talk to him about that offline. All right, guys. Thanks for being here. I appreciate it. You guys have a nice evening.

1:15:02 And watch my post over on X to confirm whether we're doing the Justice Commons show tonight or next Thursday. So everybody take care. Have a nice evening. See you tomorrow at noon if we don't do the show tonight. And then we'll be back here tomorrow at 4. Thanks, everyone.

Entities here

CIA50 Allen Dulles44 MKUltra25 Frank Olson22 James Jesus Angleton16 Harold Wolfe11 Ewen Cameron9 Sidney Gottlieb8 Camp King7 Joan Dulles6 New York Hospital5 Travis5 Henry K. Beecher5 Operation Gladio5 Korean War5 Fort Detrick4 Richard Helms4 McGill University4 Clover Dulles4 Tavistock Institute4 Harold Abramson3 BND3 Nazi Party3 The Manchurian Candidate3 Gerald Ford3 Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology3 United Wa State Army3 Operation Artichoke3 Harvard University2 Wilder Penfield2 John J. McCloy2 Sirhan Sirhan2 Edith Dulles2 NKVD2 Venezuela2 Lawrence Hartnett2 Operation Paperclip2 Edward Hunter2 Daniel Brown2 Hermann Goring1

Claims made here

Allen Dulles founded MKUltra documented ▶ 3:39

“What Dulles did not tell his audience in Hot Springs was that several days earlier, he had authorized the CIA mind control program MKUltra. That would dwarf any effort Russians ever attempted. In fact…”

Richard Helms headed MKUltra documented ▶ 4:32

“and enlisting dozens of leading universities and hospitals as well as hundreds of prominent researchers in study that often violated every ethical standard and treated the human subjects as expendable…”

DuPont family supplied_arms_to MKUltra documented ▶ 5:02

“would be very reluctant to enter into a signed agreement of any sort connecting them to this because it would jeopardize their professional reputations. Many of the MKUltra projects involved the use o…”

Frank Olson member_of CIA documented ▶ 10:46

“and captured double agents into this psychological apparatus. Then he started using drug addicts, mental patients, prison inmates, and other quote-unquote expendables. By the end, Dulles would put his…”

Allen Dulles recruited Frank Olson documented ▶ 11:14

“Flew to Frankfurt, where he was picked up at the airport and driven 12 miles north of Camp King, an extreme interrogation center of the sort that would later be known as a black site. Now, keep in min…”

Allen Dulles founded Operation Artichoke documented ▶ 12:46

“even before he became director of the agency under a secret program that preceded MKUltra called Operation Artichoke, after the spymaster's favorite vegetable. CIA officials later purged their files o…”

BND front_for CIA documented ▶ 13:43

“defectors, double agents, and other unfortunates from the East who had fallen into U.S. hands. Some of the captives had been delivered to the CIA by the Galen organization, which for a time operated o…”

Henry K. Beecher member_of CIA documented ▶ 15:13

“More than 1,600 of the Nazi scientists recruited for the U.S. research projects like this would be comfortably resettled as UNI's neighbor during Operation Paperclip. One of the CIA-sponsored research…”

Sidney Gottlieb headed MKUltra documented ▶ 23:02

“devoted himself enthusiastically to the CIA mind manipulation program, subjecting hundreds of unsuspecting Americans to experimental drugs. The CIA chemists preyed on people who could not fight back. …”

Sidney Gottlieb assassinated Frank Olson host_asserted ▶ 23:33

“Gottlieb also excelled at cooking up rare toxins and clever delivery mechanisms to eliminate people the CIA had deemed enemies. Gottlieb strongly adhered to Dulles' ethic that there was no rules in wa…”

James McCord covered_up Frank Olson documented ▶ 26:03

“James McCord, later known for his role in Watergate, was one of the security agents who took charge of the quote-unquote investigation for the CIA. The agency termed Olson's death a suicide. The tragi…”

Gerald Ford pardoned Frank Olson documented ▶ 26:33

“Olson's widow and grown children were invited to the White House by President Ford, who apologized to them on behalf of the government. The Olson case would become enshrined in history as one of the m…”

Allen Dulles recruited James Jesus Angleton documented ▶ 29:54

“Dulles, who helped Cronthal take over the burn station in 47, after it became one of the CIA's first overseas outpost. When Dulles took charge of the agency in 53, he brought Cronthal back to Washingt…”

NKVD spied_on James Jesus Angleton documented ▶ 31:32

“the Soviet secret police agency got access to Kronthal's Gestapo files after penetrating the Galen organization. The Soviets set up a honey trap for him in Switzerland with Chinese boys as bait. He wa…”

James Jesus Angleton member_of CIA documented ▶ 32:02

“who informed Dulles that his protege had turned. Edwards' internal security department was tasked with protecting the CIA against enemy penetration. The security unit was also in charge of what was de…”

Allen Dulles headed CIA documented ▶ 32:34

“quietly eavesdropping in the adjoining room. The sense of betrayal was certainly overwhelming for Dulles, but the CIA director, whose fit of rage was legendary, held his fury in check. The spy chief s…”

James Jesus Angleton spied_on CIA documented ▶ 32:34

Lawrence Hartnett covered_up James Jesus Angleton host_asserted ▶ 33:31

“Later that morning, two men who identified themselves as colleagues appeared at the house and told the housekeeper they had an urgent note. They wanted his body found. When they opened the door, they …”

Allen Dulles ordered_assassination_of James Jesus Angleton guest_asserted ▶ 35:54

“Allen probably had a special potion prepared that he gave Cronthal, should the pressure become too much, unquote. Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and the medical people produced all kinds of potions like that tha…”

Allen Dulles member_of Sullivan & Cromwell documented ▶ 41:24

“It goes on to say that Alan Dulles was not a wealthy man. His salary as a CIA director was about $130,000 in today's dollars. But it was a far cry from his salary that he had gotten from Sullivan and …”

Allen Dulles recruited Harold Wolfe documented ▶ 41:54

“And eventually, Alan Dulles turned to the doctors at his MK Ultra branch. It is unclear whether Dulles paid for that treatment or not, but he got it. Among the first CIA-funded medical experts the spy…”

Allen Dulles funded MKUltra documented ▶ 41:54

Harold Wolfe member_of Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology documented ▶ 44:15

“But Wolf carefully stipulated that any dangerous experiments would have to be conducted at CIA facilities and not at his hospital. Where any of the studies include potential harm to the subject, we ex…”

Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology front_for CIA documented ▶ 44:43

“the primary CIA front company for funneling research money to a wide array of mind control researchers in medicine, psychology, and sociology. Wolf's prestige became a major asset for the CIA as the a…”

Harold Wolfe trained Allen Dulles host_asserted ▶ 45:12

“and steering millions to his colleagues. Wolfe became a friend of Dulles'. It was only natural for the CIA doctor to ask him for help with his son. Wolfe, of course, readily agreed to treat Allen Jr. …”

Allen Dulles member_of CIA host_asserted ▶ 45:12

Ewen Cameron member_of McGill University documented ▶ 47:06

“Dulles next reached out to Dr. Wilder Pinfield, a prominent neurosurgeon at Montreal's McGill University. And for those of you who've been around, McGill is the Canadian version of like a black site p…”

Allen Dulles recruited Wilder Penfield host_asserted ▶ 47:06

Allen Dulles recruited Ewen Cameron documented ▶ 48:10

“By 57, Cameron was receiving a steady flow of funding from the CIA. Through that CIA front called Society for Human Ecology to do brainwashing experiments at McGill. They were later condemned when the…”

Ewen Cameron trained Gail Kastner documented ▶ 50:15

“He compared his patients to prisoners of war who are undergoing interrogation, saying that they, like prisoners of the communists, tended to resist treatment. They had to be broken. That's him. Gail K…”

CIA paid Ewen Cameron documented ▶ 51:16

“Eventually, the CIA paid out $750,000 damages to nine families whose lives were turned upside down by Cameron's experiments, the largest settlement the agency had ever paid. All were victim of mind co…”

Allen Dulles funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 51:45

“But the work of Cameron and other MK Ultra scientists lives on in the agency, incorporated into a 1963 CIA torture manual called Counterintelligence Interrogation. That would be used to extract inform…”

CIA funded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 52:36

“They have used drugs. They have used electrical shocks, which we've talked about nonstop here in Operation Condor, to include generators that had USAID stickers on them used to generate the electricit…”

Allen Dulles recruited Edith Dulles host_asserted ▶ 53:44

“Dulles was quite willing to steer suffering relatives towards MKUltra-connected physicians. Lumbotomies were among the more extreme mind control measures undertaken by the CIA program. At one point, D…”

CIA funded Phoenix Program host_asserted ▶ 1:01:24

“And we have read about it. We read about it in the Phoenix program. So it is a big, big part of who the CIA is. And another way to gauge whether or not they're telling the truth, just like that dumbas…”

Tavistock Institute founded Fabian Society host_asserted ▶ 1:02:53

“We'll have to talk about this, Colonel, whether we want to spend time on Columbia University and the CIA or can we just assume everybody knows that it's done. And if that's the case, then we have to m…”

Hank Albarelli exposed Frank Olson book_quoted ▶ 1:04:51

“I would strongly recommend the book by H.P. Albarelli, which I know you've read his book on coup in Dallas. But his utter masterpiece, in my opinion, is it's called A Terrible Mistake about the Frank …”

Frank Olson spied_on Operation Paperclip book_quoted ▶ 1:05:18

“And who is pissed as hell at what Netflix did to it and had written a book about it. And it was up on Amazon for three weeks, but apparently it came out, but no one has ever seen it. And I think I men…”

John J. McCloy member_of Warren Commission host_asserted ▶ 1:05:47

“And what a coinkydinky that that's the part that Netflix leaves out because our good friends Alan Dulles and John J. McCloy, future top dogs of the Warren Commission, because Gerald Ford was their wat…”

Gerald Ford member_of Warren Commission host_asserted ▶ 1:05:47

Allen Dulles member_of Warren Commission host_asserted ▶ 1:05:47

John J. McCloy headed West Germany host_asserted ▶ 1:06:09

“West Germany because, you know, John J. McCloy was High Commissioner of Germany at the time. Right. And the other source I would recommend, so everyone get that book because it really roots the MKUltr…”

Daniel Brown member_of Harvard University host_asserted ▶ 1:06:38

“There's a YouTube by Harvard psychology professor, or I believe it's at Harvard Medical School. He actually just died recently, but his name is Dr. Daniel Brown. It's called The Real Manchurian Candid…”

Daniel Brown exposed Sirhan Sirhan host_asserted ▶ 1:06:38

Operation Gladio supplied_arms_to NATO host_asserted ▶ 1:10:09

“pitched tents to make it look like it was a military compound over the cache units of German weapons to switch them out to NATO weapons. It is one of the most profound finds that we've had in the thre…”

Operation Gladio covered_up Nazi Party host_asserted ▶ 1:11:31

“of the people, and I recognize some of the names, the German names, they never mentioned that they were working with Nazis, not one time. And again, that's the piece that nobody wants you to know, tha…”

Operation Gladio member_of Nazi Party host_asserted ▶ 1:11:31