Stephen Kinzer ─ Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2019
- The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturer-the agency’s “poisoner in chief.” As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He made pills, powders, and potions that could kill or maim without a trace-including some intended for Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. He paid prostitutes to lure clients to CIA-run bordellos, where they were secretly dosed with mind-altering drugs. His experiments spread LSD across the United States, making him a hidden godfather of the 1960s counterculture. For years he was the chief supplier of spy tools used by CIA officers around the world.
Stephen Kinzer, author of groundbreaking books about U.S. clandestine operations, draws on new documentary research and original interviews to bring to life one of the most powerful unknown Americans of the twentieth century. Gottlieb’s reckless experiments on “expendable” human subjects destroyed many lives, yet he considered himself deeply spiritual. He lived in a remote cabin without running water, meditated, and rose before dawn to milk his goats.
During his twenty-two years at the CIA, Gottlieb worked in the deepest secrecy. Only since his death has it become possible to piece together his astonishing career at the intersection of extreme science and covert action. Poisoner in Chief reveals him as a clandestine conjurer on an epic scale.
I find it absolutely fascinating that the author seems to extend so much effort in saying, in essence, "the government has concluded that there's really no such thing as mind control...doesn't really work." Am I the only one who finds this fishy??
I used to buy LSD from a guy that went to Stanford. He would fly into Arizona every few months and sell books of acid. He said it was made in lab at Stanford and Berkeley. This was in the 90’s.
You can in fact make a person who is opposed to murder go out and murder, using these techniques. They're still doing it to this day.
LSD was so risky back then, as there was no Trip Advisor™.
If you think the governments/intelligence agencies/NGOs/philanthropists involved in this just washed their hands and said "Nope, doesnt work. Bin it." Then i have a bridge to sell you. Also, for an EXTREMELY thoroughly researched and top tier documentary regarding MKUltra i HIGHLY recommend The Minds Of Men by Aaron and Melissa Dykes. Be prepared.
These programs are still in effect. But the (confirmed) technology used to achieve the same goals are far more dangerous than LSD. It should be an interesting future.
How the hell can he be BOTH a spiritual humanist AND a sociopath? Craycray how utterly accepted this was... horrified by the prospects of what now IS in these areas of torture.
Vividly brilliant and full of integrity, an increasingly rare flower. I can't wait to read his books.
In Chaos, Tom O'Neill mentions Gottlieb's work possibly working in Haight Ashbury and the Summer of Love. It involved Manson and his family. Manson was allowed to do a ton of crimes while on parole and not arrested until the fall after the Tate/La Bianca murders.
I am not sure Kinser's conclusion about Gottlieb's conclusion that mind control is not possible can be concluded yet. To me the jury is still out.
AI is the new MKULTRA. You can bet all this is even worse now.
Thanks for taking this story on Mr. Kinzer. Lots of folks would not touch this. A big budget movie is warranted.
This guy is smiles a little too much while describing the tortures and murders.
Charles Manson may have participated in these programs as well if i recall
The link between MK Ultra and Enhanced interrogation was made by Naomi Klein - in her book The Shock Doctrine - but also in a short film that you can find all over youtube that she made with Alfonso Cuaron. The graduate student went further than that, but that would have been a place to start is to see what she had.
This is very impressive "Gatekeeping". A real assessment of MK Ultra would include Hinkley, Chapman & Sirhan.
Sidney Gottlieb served as a source of inspiration for several fiction works: the tv series "the Pretender" (one of the mad scientists of the "Centre" was even named Sidney), and the original Ludlum novels about Jason Bourne, Bourne himself being a result of these experiments.
He sounds like he's enjoying telling us about this horrifying stuff way too much. He almost sounds like he admires it
Dr. Mengele worked for the CIA under Project Paperclip with names as Dr. Green, Dr. White, Dr. Black.
He tortured me in 1953. As I just skim through this, it seems to be somewhat of a white-washin.