The CIA’s human experiments with mind control (2017)
Did anyone catch the JRE podcast with Tom O&#x27;Neill [1], he was there detailing his findings and research on his book on Charles Manson and the Family and subsequently finding many of the associated links between Intelligence and Military agencies and personnel that were involved with MK ULTRA and other programs.<p>Its quite the rabbit hole; I personally couldn&#x27;t care less about the Manson family cult, as a kid I heard all about the scary hippy acid BS only to see them buying houses with their NIMBY tactics and driving gas guzzling SUVS in the 21st Century. Neither extremes turned out to be be true about those boomers, and instead all we got was a bland and trite form of entrenched entitlement in this country.<p>However, being a proponent of psychedelic use for medicinal and therapeutic purposes for many current epidemics, I wanted to hear what he had to say.<p>I ended up getting the audiobook, but haven&#x27;t started it yet as I&#x27;m finishing a final project for one of my classes.<p>But what was said so far on the podcast has been intriguing. Especially as the CIA released the redacted files in common limited hangout fashion, but what Tom did was go even deeper over the course of 20 YEARS and managed to get files that revealed how Graduate students, police and military men were used in a wide-spread network in clandestine operations to either conduct, observe, monitor the experiments of test subjects in their targeted studies&#x2F;experiments or be experimented on in order to refine a technique to achieve a desired result.<p>Its not clear to me if Manson and his crazy murders were intended to be used to solely discredit the psychedelic, anti-war or black movements of that period, but given what we saw with the Occupy Movement it is most definitely an effective tool in their arsenal to quell dissent that can be used if&#x2F;when needed.<p>Either way, the tarnished reputation of psychedelics and its legitimate psychologists&#x2F;researchers has been a bane for Humanity but a successful boon for Big Pharma. So inexorably tying LSD to Manson makes sense if you want to outlaw a currently researched substance with positive clinical trials, especially when Tom&#x27;s research reveals he may have been a subject himself as he had a series of unwarranted releases from arrest or jail and state appointed relationships with MK Ultra program operatives.<p>I&#x27;m just MAPS has been able to reignite the legitimacy and utility of these class of drugs again after all these years.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=J36xPWBLcG8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=J36xPWBLcG8</a>