Even truer story: MK-ULTRA was not a CIA mind-control experiment, it was a program of hundreds of various experiments on human subjects throughout America's prisons, universities, and hospitals.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1229954398215786496 …
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Replying to @BigMeanInternet @PatBlanchfield
@HeerJeet Has there been any good/authoritative write up on the origins of this? Like, the starting idea/who had it/and how it spread across the security state?3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Which is also to say there's a ton of stuff out there but the key thing is to - paradoxically - not go into it looking for a singular thread of actors linear ties. These may have existed but unless you want to go mad you should rather you have to see it as it probably was 1/2
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Replying to @PatBlanchfield @NSlayton and
2/2 IE a convergence of a whole different set of institutional objectives, academic disciplinary / research trends, intelligent efforts, and weird zeitgiest shit coallescing around the exigencies of the Cold War / 60s cultural upheaval. Sorry for the typos on my phone here 2/2
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the truth is that they destroyed the records! we've tried to cobble together from scraps. it's wild that so much of what we know is because the experiments happened to involve otherwise notable people (Bulger, Kesey, Kaczynski)
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And Manson (tangentially).
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