Light vs. Dark, Republic vs. Empire…

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Leo J. Ryan vs. Frank Carlucci

The showdown between Congressman Leo J. Ryan and D/Director of Central Intelligence Frank Carlucci (see conclusion of CIA and CIA and SLA Cult, Part II) represented something much bigger than just the forceful personalities involved. It represented the better angels and worse demons of the American psyche battling for the future. It was the personified microcosm of a larger conflict that was coming to a head at the end of the nineteen seventies. The confrontation would resolve the burning question pending at the end of two decades of chaos and turmoil in America: would we be an open, transparent democratic republic or a dark, opaque, autocratic empire?

With highly publicized Congressional Committees throughout the seventies confirming the disclosures of investigative journalists, by late in the decade the CIA and the secretive, militarist deep state it served was reeling. Committees chaired by Senator Frank Church and Representative Otis Pike, along with the presidential Rockefeller Commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, created plenty of embarrassing headlines about a security-intelligence state gone wild. The CIA’s reputation and influence were in the gutter. As a mid-seventies hit song by the band War put it, “I know you’re working for the C-I-A — they wouldn’t have you in the Maf-i-a.”  

In 1976 Jimmy Carter was elected as a result of congressional and public uproars about government corruption in the wake of Watergate and the FBI and CIA abuses that had been exposed. Determined to restore trust, he appointed an old Naval Academy classmate of his, the reputed straight-shooter Admiral Stansfield Turner to head the CIA and intelligence community as Director of Central Intelligence (DCI).  As Turner wrote in his autobiographical Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence, “President Carter had a mandate not only to clean house and raise public trust in national leadership but also to get the country’s intelligence apparatus under control.” The appointment of Turner signaled that Carter would attempt the reform that Congress had promised yet failed to deliver on. Turner noted that while the Congressional disclosures had highlighted the need for change, “In the end, the Rockefeller Commission’s report was too watered down to amount to much. The Church [committee] report recommended new charters for the Defense Department’s agency for coordinating intelligence, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA); the CIA; and the NSA; but these were not written. The Pike report wanted the DIA abolished, criticized the NSC (National Security Council) oversight mechanism, and called for increased congressional oversight, but had a rather small impact.”

Turner Targeted

While Stansfield Turner’s appointment satisfied the demands of the Democratic Party base, he was soon the target of a coordinated campaign to paint him as too weak and dovish to turn the battered agency around. The trigger for the backlash occurred when Turner fired 820 clandestine CIA agents, the heart of the old school CIA gangster clan. The backlash was no reflection of public sentiment. It was literally created by the CIA itself. Turner wrote in Burn: “The DO [Directorate of Operations CIA] people seized on the reduction of 820 positions as an opportunity to attempt to get me fired. They launched a disinformation campaign (one of their basic skills).” The CIA-infiltrated corporate media took its cue and attacked Turner for executing the very reforms he was appointed to institute. For example, the November 28, 1977 edition of Time magazine reported: “The agency is in turmoil because at least 800 of its employees are to be ‘terminated.’ All are members of the CIA’s 4,500-man Directorate of Operations, the clandestine branch, whose activities… have damaged the reputation of the CIA.” Time went on to quote the ghoulish former head of CIA clandestine operations James Angleton — the single agent most implicated in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — to pile on Stansfield with criticism for allegedly weakening America’s defenses. (see, Spooked Spooks at the CIA). Newsweek joined the effort to shackle Turner’s reforms, “Carter’s man at the CIA is under fire for purging the ‘dirty tricks department’ and reforming the whole spy system.” Ditto the Washington Star, “Turner tackles the CIA with vigorous inhumanity.”

In reality, the CIA ran a clandestine operation on its own director in violation of its own charter, in the wake of four years of brutal exposure of just such abuses, apparently demonstrating to President Carter who really drove the affairs of American government, the Military Industrial Intelligence Complex (MIIC). Carter, as was his want, quickly caved in. His “solution” was to bring in the prototypical Mr. Fixit of espionage. He appointed CIA black ops veteran Frank Carlucci as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence (DDCI) – the CIA’s second in command. A popular D.C. beltway radio station summed up the matter in a Feb 10 1978 report: “[K]ey members of the Carter Administration were trying to oust CIA Director Stansfield Turner…[whose] controversial management decisions drove morale at the CIA to a new low…Then word came from the White House that Frank Carlucci was to be named Deputy Director of the CIA…[whose] nomination marked a change of direction for the Agency.”  Clearly indicating a major regime change and return to the old CIA business as usual, the report continued, “Turner would surrender control of the day-to-day management of the Agency to Carlucci…”

That “surrender” by Turner was no exaggeration. Carlucci had negotiated control of the agency before accepting the appointment. Stansfield had protested and was overruled by Carter. This was evident in CIA’s FOIA reading room data base. I discovered an entire file in there that closely monitored this transition, consisting of dozens of articles and documents from 1978 covering nothing but a) the CIA’s reputational and operational crisis, b) the alleged new lease on life afforded it by the arrival of Carlucci, and c) Carlucci’s intensive public relations campaign which pressed to scale back reforms, most particularly the Freedom of Information Act and Congressional oversight as it applied to the CIA and intelligence community. The content of that file corroborates this entire article (see, Carlucci and Confidence Crisis)                  

Carlucci: master of dark CIA ops

Why Carlucci?  For starters he was old school CIA, the one that used the State Department as its cover to run black ops across the world (just as the brother tandem Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and CIA Director Allen Dulles had established in the 1950s – see, The Devil’s Chessboard). Carlucci was fresh off a scandal of his own that proved the point. The most popular political party in Portugal was screaming “foul” for Carlucci’s alleged CIA black ops meddling in a Portuguese national election under cover as the U.S. Ambassador to the country. Carlucci survived the controversy by shameless, blanket denial. (see The Stranger Career of Frank Carlucci, Counterpunch)

Carlucci was well-schooled in that art. 18 years earlier as a “State Department official” in the Congo, Carlucci was involved in perhaps the CIA’s most damning and embarrassing chapter. That was the assassination of the country’s duly elected President Patrice Lumumba. It did more to discredit the CIA and America with the rest of the world than any other single dark operation. That is because Lumumba was also the moral leader of the entire continent of Africa at a most critical time: the abolition of European colonization and institution of self-Democratic rule.  Although it later surfaced that President Eisenhower green-lit the assassination and Carlucci was intimately involved with Lumumba in his final days, he survived the fall out by bald faced denials.  (Counterpunch)

While Carlucci was – being charitable – at minimum aiding and abetting the killers of Africa’s first (and perhaps last) great hope for institution of true democratic republics, Leo J. Ryan was beginning a 180-degree divergent career path. 

Mr. Ryan goes to Washington

In the thick of Carlucci’s State/CIA Congo work WWII naval veteran Ryan was a High School English and Math teacher in South San Fransico, also serving as a city council member. In 1961 he chaperoned his school’s marching band to Washington D.C. for John F. Kennedy’s inaugural parade. He said that the experience inspired him to run for higher office. In the sixties he served as a California state assemblyman and in the seventies as U.S. Representative for the 11th US Congressional district covering the San Francisco Peninsula. Ryan became a sort of ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ figure. A regular Joe with little tolerance for corruption. He was a hands-on investigator. He once posed as a prisoner and lived for weeks under cover in general population in the California prison system in order to see the conditions for himself. He also doggedly pursued investigations and reforms of the U.S. intelligence apparatus, which by the time he arrived in Congress was giving the United States a huge international black eye.

Ultimately, Ryan became the greatest threat to the unlawful and immoral, yet routine, CIA clandestine operations. From his position on the House Foreign Affairs Committee (and its CIA subcommittee) he co-authored a bill amendment with Senator Harold Hughes that did more to reign in the rogue CIA than any other act of Congress. The purpose was to a) prevent the CIA from continuing unlawful domestic operations in violation of its charter and b) prevent the CIA from running its own rogue foreign policy hit squad as it had done for forty years, seriously damaging the United States’ image and global moral authority. The Hughes-Ryan Amendment was passed in 1974. It required the CIA to clear covert operations with the President of the United States beforehand and inform Congress of the fact of such approvals in a timely manner. Thereafter, Ryan continued to police the enforcement of the Act through close scrutiny of the CIA.

CIA hunts the Policeman

Throughout the seventies the CIA was closely monitoring Ryan’s efforts to increase control over the unruly agency. For example, its 27 June 1975 briefing to the DCI (Director of Central Intelligence) notes the tracking of “H.R. 8203 (Edgar and about 10 others, including Leo Ryan) Designates Majority and Minority Leaders of each house of Congress as members of the National Security Council.” Another measure to tighten oversight of the CIA by ten members of Congress, and the CIA only saw fit to mention one name, that of Ryan. (see, CIA Monitors Ryan)

While President Carter was quickly brought to bay by the CIA, Ryan was not so easily contained. By January 1976 his watchdogging had incurred the wrath of both the Director of the CIA William Colby and the President of the United States (and Warren Commission member) Gerald Ford. According to New York Times investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, Ford was upset that reports of the CIA’s meddling in Italian elections were published. Apparently, he was all for election interference in democratic western nations, it was the disclosure of the skullduggery that had him alarmed. Ryan was quoted “The passage of my amendment (Hughes-Ryan) was supposed to open things up. Somehow the assumption was that if the CIA has to tell more people, things will change. Well, they didn’t. What we don’t have is some form of approval and disapproval”, said Ryan. Hersch wrote, “[Ryan] said that he was disturbed by the fact that he and his colleagues learned of the CIA programs only after they had been formally approved by the President and put into effect.”  (New York Times, CIA AID REPORTS EVOKE FORD ANGER, January 7, 1976).

The Washington Star reported, “Complaining bitterly about secrets that were exposed as a result of congressional briefings, CIA Director William E. Colby today urged Congress to sharply reduce the number of lawmakers entitled to know what intelligence agencies are doing…BUT COLBY reserved most of his criticism for the House Intelligence Committee and for Rep. Leo Ryan, D-Calif., a member of the CIA subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee.” Of interest to our CIA MK Ultra series, the Star also noted “Colby also…criticize[d] the Senate Intelligence committee for failing to cover up the identity of Dr. Sidney Gottlieb (founder and director of MK Ultra) in its report on assassination plots.” (see, Washington Star, January 23, 1976) In the same breath as fingering Leo Ryan for shining light on the CIA, the Director was most alarmed by Congress shining that light on the author and director of the CIA’s most notorious decades-long crime against America, the MK Ultra Mind Control program. (Note, Gottlieb was implicated in the Lumumba assassination along with Carlucci).

Ryan’s concerns were further articulated and reported that same month. “‘I know there are three other CIA operations going on,’ Rep. Leo J. Ryan, D-Calif., told a news conference. ‘I am aware of CIA activities around the world to which I have strong objection,’ said Ryan, a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence. ‘I know about them, but you do not, I will not mention them because they are secret.’ But Ryan attacked Ford’s ‘national security’ reasons for keeping the two reports secret. ‘I think they endanger our national reputation rather than security,’ he said.” We all know how that ‘national security justifies government secrecy’ debate went. Sadly, Leo J. Ryan was the last elected official in America who literally risked his life in favor of maintaining an open, democratic society – which is why we have the opposite today instead. (See, Ryan – United Press International).

By early 1977, the CIA was actively working to combat reforms authored and policed by Ryan.  In its April 27, 1977 “Action Plan on congressional oversight”, the CIA legislative affairs office notes, “the Hughes-Ryan Amendment would have to be repealed or amended.” (see, CIA Action Plan)

The Clash of the Titans

By late 1978 when Carlucci was handed the keys to reinstate the military-industrial-intelligence complex (MIIC) total autocratic control, only one person stood in his way. At that moment, Leo J. Ryan (House Rep, CA-11, San Francisco) was the greatest threat to unlawful and immoral, yet routine, CIA clandestine operating basis. He would represent the last hope for significant and lasting reforms to the rogue agency.

In late August 1978 Ryan visited Patricia Hearst at the Pleasanton, California Federal prison.  He reported to the press that he believed the prison population was growing hostile toward Hearst.  (see, SF Gate Ryan visits Hearst) It might have been there that Ryan learned first-hand about the strange origins of Donald “Cinque” DeFreeze, the apparent MK Ultra Manchurian candidate (see CIA and SLA Cult Part II). So moved was Ryan by whatever he learned from and about Ms. Hearst and her erstwhile SLA cult leader, that he – along with California Senator S.I. Hayakawa – personally delivered a petition to the White House to have Hearst’s sentence commuted.

Exactly two days later brings us back to Ryan’s September 27, 1978 letter to the CIA Director demanding answers as to the CIA’s possible creation of an MK Ultra Manchurian candidate in Donald Defreeze. Note that Ryan is so confident there is fire behind the smoke he gives the Director an out from the specter of more embarrassing CIA scandal headlines: “In the event your investigation produces an affirmative response, I would appreciate a personal conversation with you about the matter before anything is done with the information.” This has led to speculation that Ryan intended to allow the explosive facts concerning CIA MK Ultra training and experimenting at Vacaville to remain a secret, provided DCI Turner could arrange for its ultimate victim – Patty Hearst – to be freed.  The tone of the letter makes it sound as if the former naval officer Ryan had a friendly relationship with Admiral Turner.

Unfortunately, by then Turner had been stripped of control over “day to day operations” of the CIA. We can now divine the significance of the reform-minded DCI Turner being elbowed out of the picture by dark ops master D/DCI Frank Carlucci. On October 18, 1978 Carlucci issued a lawyerly non-denial denial to Ryan: “Thank you for your letter of 27 September to Admiral Turner requesting confirmation or denial of the fact of CIA experiments using prisoners at the California medical facility at Vacaville. It is true that CIA-sponsored testing, using volunteer inmates, was conducted at that facility. The project was completed in 1968. Your letter referred to Donald DeFreese, known as CINQUE, and Clifford Jefferson, both of whom were inmates at Vacaville. In so far as our records reflect the names of the participants, there is nothing to indicate that either was in any way involved in the project.” (San Diego State University Jonestown Archives, emphasis supplied) As noted in CIA and SLA Cult Part II, “as far as our records reflect” was meaningless in the light of the CIA’s proven record of mass destruction of incriminating records. The last thing Ryan could be expected to do in light of Carlucci’s slippery response, would be to put the matter to rest. Unfortunately, there is no record of how Ryan responded to Carlucci’s obstruction. The entire matter was about to be forgotten because of the scandal that would eclipse both the Manson and Hearst affairs and every other media shock of the seventies.

Jim Jones and the People’s Temple

Ryan’s district also happened to contain the largest number of loud defectors from the infamous Bay Area People’s Temple (PT) cult of Jim Jones. Years earlier the controversy surrounding the PT had become so deafening that Jones and his several hundred followers had set up a compound called Jonestown in the remote jungle of Northwest Guyana.

Throughout 1978 Ryan’s constituents had been demanding that the U.S. government do something about reports that Jones was running strange mind control operations against his several hundred, mainly African-American, followers. Detailed sworn accounts told of large caches of weapons maintained to keep members imprisoned, dispensation of large amounts of psychiatric drugs, and regular instructions from Jones that he and his followers needed to prepare to commit suicide when the government ultimate swept down upon them.

The State Department and its embassy were unnaturally nonchalant about the matter. Two screaming oddities about the embassy were thoroughly overlooked by the federal government, congress, and the media when Jonestown ultimately imploded and became the biggest cult scare in world history. First, the US Embassy in Guyana was primarily a CIA controlled operation. That is because in the sixties when Guyana was swinging to the left politically, the CIA swooped in with its patented regime change ops and helped install a tin pot dictator, Forbes Burham. The CIA’s continuing presence throughout the seventies was required as Burnham’s popularity was so dismal it took election meddling and propaganda operations to keep him in power. Why Guyana was so important was made crystal clear earlier this year when a US ‘special military operation’ kidnapped the elected President of its neighbor Venezuela. Why? Venezuela is the most mineral rich country in the world. Guyana was also the world’s greatest exporter of aluminum bauxite – the raw ore used to produce aluminum.

The second strange fact about the CIA-controlled US Embassy in Guyana was that it was suspiciously friendly with Jim Jones.  Reports of Jones’ abuses were becoming more alarming and frequent throughout 1978 by first-hand witnesses who had managed to escape Jonestown. Yet, every ‘inspection’ of Jonestown by embassy personnel to verify the claims were always preceded by ample warning to Jones directly from the embassy. Predictably, the embassy never found anything to act upon. The U.S. government reports were effectively gaslighting Jonestown victims.

Leo J. Ryan decided that for whatever reasons the State Department and CIA were going to protect Jim Jones and Jonestown over the rights and concerns of his constituents. On November 14,1978 while Ryan was contemplating his next step to get around the obstruction of D/DCI Frank Carlucci concerning Patty Hearst and Donald DeFreeze, he boarded a flight out of Washington D.C. to Guyana. It was an attempt to do what the CIA and State Department refused to do, to save underprivileged, minority People’s Temple members from the clutches of a suicide-bound mind control experiment. 

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The War on Iran

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The following interview begins with a twenty-minute monologue that is the most honest, accurate description of the cause and consequences of the War on Iran available. It is followed by nearly two hours of receipts confirming that analysis given by the person most unarguably qualified to deliver that corroboration. Just about everything else circulating on the news and across the social media space on the subject is noise, contorted by self-interested ideologies poisoned by greed, entitlement, notions of racial supremacy, political graft, and/or juvenile ‘religious’ justifications.

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CIA and SLA Cult, Part II

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Reference:  The Second CIA Cult – Symbionese Liberation Army

Instead of asking for a cash ransom for the release of Patty Hearst, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) demanded that her father, media magnate William Randolph Hearst Jr, supply poor Californians with $2 Million of free food. The demand resulted in a sea change in public opinion, especially with the radical left which the SLA had alienated with the assassination of Marcus Foster. The right exacerbated the problem with reactionary responses to the demand. Governor Reagan told the media that he hoped that the poor people who would receive the food would contract botulism.

Cinque and his SLA crew dominated the media for the next two months. It issued “communiques” decrying what it called the fascist corporate state and its institutionalized racism, peppered with criticisms of the elder Hearst’s inept execution of the “feed the needy” demands. Boosting the SLA ride to fame, Patty Hearst announced that she was no longer a kidnap victim, but instead a card-carrying member of the SLA. She participated in the SLA’s armed robbery of the Hibernia Bank in downtown San Francisco. Security camera footage with Patty lording over face-down customers with a semi-automatic weapon would be run multiple times in virtually every major media forum for the next two years. Here is Hearst with Donald “Cinque” DeFreeze during the robbery:

Cinque’s intoxicating rise to fame would be short lived. After the bank robbery, Cinque issued a communique that would seal the fate of himself and all of the SLA in his vicinity. He broadcasted a ‘death warrant’ for the man who put him up to black radicalism and SLA formation in the first place. That was the coordinator of the Berkley/prison Black Cultural Association. It wasn’t the death pronouncement that marked the SLA for massacre, it was the reason articulated by Cinque:

“Colston Westbrook: male, black, age 55, brown eyes, brown hair, 5-8, 210 pounds, Berkley language instructor, resident of Oakland is a government agent, worked for the CIA in Vietnam as interrogator and torturer in Phoenix operation and also served same purpose in other foreign countries, now working for military intelligence while giving cross assistance to the FBI.”

Apparently, Donald DeFreeze (a/k/a Cinque) had been triggered when he learned of Westbrook’s background (which had by then been published in alternative newspapers). Informed observers reckoned DeFreeze must have realized then why Westbrook had prompted him to target the beloved Marcus Foster: to turn the public against Black activists, thus justifying more military policing of them (just as called for in COINTELPRO). The Westbrook communique signified that the gloves were off and the CIA and military intelligence were being teed up for the worst possible exposure and publicity imaginable. 

That prompted two credible, informed and disrelated observers to come to the same conclusion as to the ultimate fate of DeFreeze and the SLA. One was private investigator and author Lake Headley whom Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi called “the best private eye on earth.” The other was DeFreeze’s operative handler when he was serving as an informant for the Los Angeles Police Department, Detective Ronald Farwell. After Defreeze exposed and targeted CIA man Westbrook, both Headley and Farwell independently predicted there would be no arrest of Cinque and his SLA. Instead, both predicted Cinque and company would all be slaughtered in a shoot-out.

Shortly thereafter, on May 17 1974, the LAPD tracked down Cinque and the SLA to a small ramshackle home in Southeast Los Angeles. They surrounded it with over 400 officers, heavily armed with several armored vehicles. The house was pummeled with over 4,000 rounds of ammunition. It was burnt to the ground by incendiary cannisters shot into it. There were no survivors. Shreiber’s Revolution’s End shares a number of controversies about the incident, including whether a meaningful chance to surrender was given, whether a woman SLA member attempted to surrender but was shot in the back, and whether Cinque’s head was removed and destroyed to cover up evidence of psychosurgery he may have received as part of MK Search ‘treatment’ at Vacaville. Schrieber also outlines the big lessons the government clearly wanted the public to take away. It was the first time, and a warning for the future, that military grade force was and would be used domestically in an overwhelming fashion against ideological resistance. It was also the first time the networks’ ‘mini-cam’ technology was put to use so that the several hour pyrotechnic massacre was broadcast live across the nation. In Shreiber’s view, these facts tend to corroborate the claim that Donald DeFreeze was an unwitting MK Ultra victim put up to incredibly ill-informed, spectacular acts of rebellion which would justify  implementation of repressive police measures. Here are the remains of the Symbionese Liberation Army’s Alamo:

It was not until the coroner identified the burnt and bullet ridden bodies that the police discovered Patricia Hearst and two other SLA members, Bill and Emily Harris, were missing.  Hearst and the Harris’ avoided the others’ fate by virtue of luck. The day before they had engaged in their own shoot out over a shoplifting rap laid on Bill Harris at an L.A. Sporting Goods outlet and escaped to parts unknown.   

After the SLA massacre, the Harrises and Hearst went on the lam, crisscrossing America, hidden by left wing activists. During that nearly year and a half period, Hearst participated in more SLA communiques and another bank heist in which a bystander was murdered by her crew. 

Finally, on  September 18, 1975, Hearst was arrested in San Francisco. 

Jack Ruby Redux

To fully appreciate what follows, it would helpful if you read CIA Cult Creation – The Manson Family, with particular attention to what CIA MK Ultra psychiatrist Dr. Lois Jolyon “Jolly” West did. That is, West’s going to extraordinary lengths to wheedle his way into a federal court proceeding in order to influence it’s outcome by suspicious means. Just as in the case of Jack Ruby, West apparently went ex parte (off the record) to the Federal judge assigned to hear the Hearst case to have himself put in a position to manipulate the outcome of the case from the outset. We caused the public availability of the United States vs. Patricia Hearst record, which had been mothballed in off-site archives for more than 50 years, to be scanned and made available to the public.  (Hearst trial transcripts) The record is revealing. On the 23rd of September 1975, just four days after Hearst’s arraignment the judge ordered sua sponte (on his own, not upon any motion brought by either side) that Hearst’s mental fitness for trial be determined after the examination by court-appointed psychiatrists named Roland Levy, Donald Lundy, Seymour Pollack, and Chalmers Johnson. 

Two days later, on the 25th inexplicably and with no rationale provided, the judge again issued a sua sponte order, amending his order of the 23rd. The new order eliminated doctors Levy and Johnson and replaced them with “L.J. WEST, and MARGARET THALER.” So apparently unfamiliar with those involved, the judge omitted the latter’s last name, “Singer”, Margaret Thaler Singer, a longtime protégé of West. There is no record whatsoever of how or why the judge suddenly substituted the CIA’s West (along with partner Singer) into the mix. But just like the Ruby case, West took charge of the stable of psychiatrists. He added another MK Ultra colleague, Dr. Martin Orne, and CIA friendly ‘expert’ Robert J. Lifton. Finally, West proceeded to dig into Patricia Hearts with an intensity that made his Jack Ruby programming look like a picnic.

Seven days after the entry of West, his Jack Ruby case defense team member, former FBI agent and high profile CIA-friendly attorney F. Lee Bailey, entered his appearance on behalf of Hearst. The odds of these two CIA birds randomly rendezvousing in the Hearst case as they did in the Ruby case are incalculably tiny. Here is West lecturing Bailey and his team of CIA-affiliated psychiatrists on Hearst trial strategy in their San Francisco hotel:

The Brainwashing of Patty Hearst?

What is known of West’s dozens of hours spent with Patty Hearst reflects a classic case of brainwashing, mind control, or as psychiatry had come to relabel it – coercive persuasion. 

Hearst was resistant at first. Even after her arrest she made defiant expressions of solidarity with the American radical left. Upon booking she listed her occupation as “urban guerilla”, and flashed a closed fist leftist salute to media cameras. 

By her own account in her autobiography, a strong case can be made that West practiced more effective MK Mind Control than he had on Jack Ruby. Like Jack Ruby, Hearst found West “too soothing to be trusted.” But, apparently unlike Ruby, Hearst capitulated. She wrote that West’s “creepy, hypnotic voice” somehow overwhelmed her: “I simply crumpled under his scrutiny. I cried, murmuring and mumbling out replies that were not answers to his questions.”  (Quotations from Every Secret Thing, autobiography of Patricia Hearst)

Once her defenses were stripped, West lectured Hearst at length about his experience with the returning US soldiers who were ‘brainwashed’ in North Korean prison camps in the early 1950s. That included how they were saved from hanging for treason only by making the claim they had been “brainwashed” to testify to their captors about U.S. war crimes. He also committed the first cardinal sin of any legitimate counselling by telling Hearst what she ought to consider is ‘wrong’ with her. West informed Hearst that she had “traumatic neurosis with dissociative features”, “which meant simply that I was frightened out of my wits by the SLA, subjected to powerfully effective coercive manipulation by my captors, and that I would need three to four months of psychiatric treatment before I would be ‘able with full competence to aid and assist counsel in my own defense.’” (Every Secret Thing)

Just as in the Jack Ruby case (see, CIA Mind Control and the Assassination of JFK), West was originally appointed by the court to determine fitness of the defendant for trial but gaslit the court into subsequently accepting his conversion to a defense team psychiatrist. The odds of a psychiatrist successfully executing that sleight of hand in two of the most high-profile cases in U.S. history are impossibly slim. 

And so, West arranged for a handpicked psychotherapist, and his mind control colleagues, Dr. Singer, Dr. Lifton, and Dr Orne to spend many dozens of hours programming his evaluation into the head of Patricia Hearst. This is a conservative characterization by comparison to U.S. Attorney James Browning’s, lead prosector in U.S. vs. Patricia Hearst. 

Ultimately, he put it very bluntly to the jury: 

“Did [Hearst] do all of those things, and can you really believe she did all of those things because of fear from the Harrises (SLA members), or was it because she was reprogrammed by the psychiatrists, by the defense attorneys, with a view in mind to painting the very picture that has been painted of her here to you ladies and gentlemen?” (emphasis added)

Think about that. A United States Attorney from the Department of Justice suggesting that CIA employed and/or affiliated doctors Jolly West, Margaret Singer, Martin Orne and Robert Lifton “programmed” the mind of Patricia Hearst to carry out a stage-managed fiction to present before a U.S. Federal District Court judge and jury. Why? What were they hiding?

This was no whimsical allegation by Browning. It was based on the following evidence presented to the jury.

At page 2186 of the trial transcript the prosecution read from a West/Hearst psychiatric session transcript where West instructs (not asks, counsels or exams) Hearst on what her attorney told him would be the legal strategy and how she was to play along:   

“To emphasize the involuntary and violent way in which you were dragged out of a relatively normal life with a forcible and terrifying sort of indoctrination that you got, and the tremendous pressure of threats in the beginning to make you subservient and compliant with the leadership of this group so that they would be able to keep control of you.”  Remarkably, West does not ask Hearst if this is accurate or bears any resemblance to reality. Instead, he tries to sell her on the presentation: “I think myself that is the best explanation for what happened. I haven’t heard anything to make me think otherwise. Doesn’t that sound logical to you?”

At page 2189 self-proclaimed expert hypnotist West’s hypnotic-sounding command to Hearst, sealing the trial strategy deal, is read into the record:

“You are relatively suggestible. I would say if sensitized, easily deceived, especially if dependent on someone. You were so successfully coerced.”

Referring to West’s conditioning, U.S. Attorney Browning summed up the jury’s duty during closing argument: “One has only to question whether [West] was asking the defendant, whether he was evaluating the defendant or whether he was telling the defendant.”

(pg. 4450 trial transcript)

Despite several days of several West coordinated psychiatrists and America’s most famous trial lawyer (Bailey) trying to muddy the waters, the jury unanimously agreed that beyond a reasonable doubt Jolly West and his fellow CIA psychiatrists were the ones who performed mind control on Patty Hearst and not Donald DeFreeze and Symbionese Liberation Army. 

Hearst was convicted of bank robbery with a firearm and sentenced to 7 years in prison.

Cinque the MK Ultra Practitioner

While the jury agreed with the prosecution that the only Mind Control that was practiced on Patricia Hearst was that of Dr. Jolly West, it very nearly learned a highly protected state secret. So intent on diverting attention to DeFreeze was West that he very nearly outed his CIA brethren James Hamilton (MK Search 3 operator at California Corrections medical facility at Vacaville, during DeFreeze’s stay and participation in his medical experiments). West spit out that DeFreeze had learned effective mind control from his subjugation to Hamilton’s ‘treatment’: “Cinque was looking for a successful political conversion in the well-known revolutionary tradition (Maoist) of ‘thought reform.’ His experience in prison had taught him also that following a period of isolation, solitary confinement or ‘black hole,’ where people are kept in darkness, an inmate would be unusually susceptible to political indoctrination.”

(pg 2160 trial transcript) (Emphasis added)

Dr. Colin Ross, author of The CIA Doctors, connected the dots West left: “Where did a street hood and unsuccessful robber like Donald DeFreeze learn such sophisticated programming techniques?…My conclusion is that Defreeze was a controlled controller, created in part by Phoenix Program veteran Colston Westbrook.” 

So, we wind up asking ourselves “who was brainwashing whom?”

Recall in our Manson episode that confusing picture left behind in San Francisco in 1967 by MK Ultra doctors Jolly West and James Hamilton. It was difficult to discern whether Charles Manson and the CIA crossing paths was an accident, or Manson was programmed to kill, or even Manson was taught to program to kill. The same bizarre web was left behind Vacaville prison and the US District Court by West and Hamilton. Was Donald Defreeze programmed to kill, programmed to program to kill, and was Patty Hearst programmed by DeFreeze or by Dr. West, or even by both of them?   

In, out, back in, and out

After being convicted in March 1976, Hearst was released on bail pending appeal in November of 1976. After her appeals all the way to the US Supreme Court were exhausted Hearst was re-incarcerated in May 1978. Having lost at every level she disconnected from Bailey and hired a new, aggressive lawyer, George Martinez. In September of 78 he moved to reduce the sentence against Hearst. In early October, he filed material that West-influenced Bailey wouldn’t touch. That is the declaration of Clifford Jefferson a fellow inmate of DeFreeze’s subjected to the CIA MK Search mind control program at Vacaville. He summarized Jefferson’s declaration in his pleading as follows:

“Clifford Jefferson relates that Donald DeFreeze stated to him the CIA was conducting tests to try out certain drugs on inmates and that he had been in it. The tests were on the third floor of the facility in B-3 (at Vacaville). That Jefferson went there and met two CIA men who were giving the tests and who gave him drugs which wiped out his memory; that DeFreeze stated to Jefferson he had gone through the same tests and knew of certain stress tests; that Defreeze told Jefferson that when he got out of prison, they would kidnap a rich person and give him drugs and the person would become a robot and do anything he asked to do.”  – ADDITIONAL EXHIBIT IN SUPPORT OF MOTION TO REDUCE SENTENCE, filed October 6, 1978

Famed syndicated Columnist Jack Anderson was tipped off in advance and wrote a column about Jefferson, spreading the news across the country. (see October 5 1978 column). 

Worse still for the CIA, its biggest nemesis of the seventies, California Congressman Leo J Ryan, was clearly coordinating with Hearst’s new lawyer. He was already riding the Director of the CIA Admiral Stansfield Turner on the matter (see Ryan letter to Turner). Ryan’s September 27th 1978 letter demanded confirmation or denial regarding “CIA experiments using prisoners at the California medical facility at Vacaville”, specifically referring to “Donald DeFreeze, now deceased, who was the leader known as CINQUE of the Symbionese Liberation Army” and “Clifford Jefferson.”

On October 18th, Deputy CIA Director Frank Carlucci responded. Astonishingly, he admitted “it is true that CIA-sponsored testing, using volunteer inmates, was conducted at that facility.” His denial of DeFreeze and Jefferson involvement was carefully worded: “In so far as our records reflect the names of the participants, there is nothing to indicate that either was in any way involved in the project.”  It is an incredible denial given the CIA’s habit of destroying embarrassing documents en masse.

Given that the CIA’s Oct 1978 denial was contradicted by the fact that Jack Anderson had extracted an acknowledgement from Vacaville Superintendent T. Lawrence Clanon that “DeFreeze had volunteered for medical research in July 1970 shortly after he entered Vacaville” (See Anderson column), and Ryan’s history of pursuing CIA secrets like a bull dog, you can take it to the bank that as of shortly after 18 October 1978 (date of D/Director Carlucci letter) Ryan was pursuing new means of uncovering the whole truth. Why the paper trail ends in late October 1978 will be answered in future chapters. Those episodes explore another epic American tragedy which, until now, nobody had any reason to believe had anything to do with U.S. vs. Patricia Hearst.

Postscript on Hearst

Less than two months after the CIA’s Vacaville hijinks were put front and center before a Federal District Court Judge (Motion to reduce sentence) and the American public at large (Jack Anderson column), and smack dab in the middle of the CIA Director’s desk, and Leo J. Ryan’s pursuit of the CIA came to a climactic, violent conclusion (see coming chapters), the Patty Hearst affair was abruptly put to rest by the President of the United States. Despite the fact Hearst’s appeals were rejected all the way up to the United States Supreme Court, and despite her losing repeated motions to reduce or vacate her sentence, President Jimmy Carter would commute Hearst’s sentence, setting her free. After two long years of the most expensive defense ever produced in America striking out, only after the CIA’s fingerprints were presented did the Hearst saga surprisingly end.

In pursuing the whole truth from the CIA, Congressman Leo J. Ryan would not be so fortunate. 

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American Hero

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What an incredible acid test this message from Joe Kent is. Marvel the divide, the chickenhawks are squealing like stuck pigs on X and across all media channels. The viciousness with which they go after this man is remarkable. Also, behold the pundits lecturing him on international terrorism, zionism, and the like – like professors lecturing birds on how to fly.

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Victim of War: Free Speech

Posted on March 15, 2026 by | 7 comments

Donald Trump, like every President since JFK, has become a cloying, groveling slave of Empire. Trump came to be elected by winning the decisive Independent Middle by promising to break that mold. It was embodied most by two promises in particular: reinstitution of Free Speech and ending all war, let alone not starting new ones. See for example,

In one year he has betrayed those promises in a manner more destructive of the moral fabric of this country than any betrayal by any President since Lyndon Baines Johnson. We noted Trump’s departure from “Free Speech and no more wars” on 8 August 25 A New Form of Censorship, his continued fall on 16 Sep 25 Trump Is On A Slippery Slope and covered his apparent descent into war madness on 3 January 26, The Cult of War on Overt Display. While the majority of Independent Middle voices witnessed the same and rang out in loud protest, it was to no avail.

The holy war launched on 28 Feb 26, apparently on behalf of Bibi Netanyahu and historically illiterate “Zionist Christians” – against the strong dissent of 80% of Americans, is a forfeiture of American sovereignty unseen in its 250-year history. The bizarre, Middle School mentality propaganda issuing from the White House since the massacre of 168 Iranian school children on day one of the “war” is strengthening and emboldening America’s alleged competitors (Russia and China and its new league of nations, BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, et al). The juvenile, even infantile, illogical slop issuing from Trump’s “Truth Social” account and the White House press office is degrading American image and power at a dizzying pace.

If you believe there are high-minded, even the least bit defensible, goals and purposes behind the war, you are not paying attention to its two architects and drivers, Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump. The former refers to Iranians and Palestinians whom he vows to eliminate (read genocide) as “animals.” Trump refers to Iranians as ‘genetically’ inferior ‘savages’, whose only chance for survival is to cede the very land and minerals they have lived on for millennia. See for example:

This is Eugenics. That is justifying genocide to purify the race. Clearing the land of “animals” or “genetically” inferior “savages” in order to exploit it is no different to what we did the Native Americans in the nineteenth Century. A cursory review of history will show the precise same justifications issuing from the genocide purveyors then that you are being repeated by Israel and the White House now. And much of the media is playing ball with it.

Wait, the media? Wasn’t it all owned by the Left and used to demonize Trump 24-7 only a year ago? Yes. But, look what has happened since. Trump himself just this morning blasted out the following piece glorifying his “reshaping” of the media.

Trump celebrates himself for using the levers of government power to take out 7 anti-Trump media figures by name, and bring virtually all major US media players under his control and command.

Here is the clearly unbalanced Secretary of “War” lecturing the media on how it is to cover the decimation of Iran. Note that he says of CNN, “The sooner that David Ellison (Zionist nepo baby of Zionist Billionaire Larry Ellison) takes over that network, the better.” This is shortly after Trump negotiated a deal for Larry Ellison to buy the most influential social media platform on the planet, Tiktok, at a bargain basement price. Netanyahu commented the Tiktok sale was the most important advance in Israel’s war of censorship across Western Civilization. The Trump administration also paved the way for Ellison to take over one of the three major U.S. networks, CBS, which in the following several months has turned into a shameless Trump regime and Zionism War cheerleader.

In one year, Netanyahu and Trump have managed to consolidate more Empire controlled and censored media than during the previous forty years.

The fascist One World government order has made more progress in one year than it did in the previous four years of unprecedented consolidation. And it did so under the command of the President elected to stop it in its tracks. And now he is overtly attempting to censor folks like you and me.

The administration is already going after its own erstwhile greatest supporters:

1984 is upon us.

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Second CIA Cult – The Symbionese Liberation Army

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Part One

After Charles Manson, the next major sensational crime story impressed upon the collective consciousness of Americans was the saga of Patricia “Patty” Hearst. For several years beginning in early 1974 the corporate media kept the public electrified with the tale as it unfolded. Like with Manson, many informed people came to believe the around the clock coverage was intentional in forwarding the deep state aim of making the American public fearful of violent activist groups and cults and thus willing to give up their civil rights to protect themselves. As far as most are concerned, it began with the 4 February 1974 kidnapping of the heiress of media magnate William Randolph Hearst Jr by a radical political group, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA).  It continued through Hearst’s joining her captors in a high-profile bank robbery (her initiation as a participating member), then going on the lam for nearly two years, and ultimately being captured, tried, convicted and having her sentence commuted. But, unbeknownst to most, like the Charles Manson story it actually began much earlier

Fortunately, in 2016 an author named Brad Shreiber published the result of his extensive compilation of previous probes that had gone deeper than the official narrative the American public had come to accept over the several decades since the events. As Tom O’Neill awakened readers to the fact they had been snowed on the subject of Charles Manson in his groundbreaking Chaos, Shreiber alerted us to a similar psy op played upon our collective consciousness when it came to Patricia Hearst’s captor, Donald DeFreeze. While his book provides no new breakthroughs and very little original research, Revolution’s End: The Patty Hearst Kidnapping, Mind Control, and the Secret History of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA is a good reference book on the subject.

It is remarkable that forty years passed before someone would organize the evidence hiding in plain sight and use it to tell a compelling narrative that is far more credible and documented than the official one repeated ad nauseum by the media. Shreiber published what was written off in the seventies as coming from “Black radical prisoners.” Yet, those incarcerated in the California prison system were the only people situated to witness how Donald DeFreeze the revolutionary was created. As former U.S. Attorney and DEA Director Robert Bonner once said, “in a plot hatched in hell, don’t expect angels for witnesses.”  In this case, Shreiber’s witnesses already had the seal of approval from the dean of MK Ultra exposure, former State Department official and whistleblower John Marks (author of In Search For The Manchurian Candidate). Marks wrote this about the same sources used for Revolution’s End: “During the late 1960s and early 1970s, it seemed that every radical on the West Coast was saying the CIA was up to strange things in behavior modification at Vacaville (California prison medical/psychiatric facility where DeFreeze was created). Like many of yesterday’s conspiracy theories, this one turned out to be true.” (pg. 215 In Search of the Manchurian Candidate). 

As we did with O’Neil’s Manson opus, we will use Shreiber’s DeFreeze account as the foundation for summarizing the narrative, enhanced and supplemented by our own follow-up investigation and the established larger CIA Mind Control (MK Ultra) backdrop context. 

The Manson Parallels

The background of the alleged villain of this piece, Donald DeFreeze, had remarkable resemblance to that of Charles Manson. Like the latter, Donald DeFreeze spent his adolescence in juvenile penal institutions and most of his adult life in jails. While Manson was suspected to be a government operative based on years of unusual parole favors, there was no question about DeFreeze’s informant status. He was documented to be a government operative through the late sixties and early seventies. Like Manson, DeFreeze was an incredibly inept criminal always financially broke and caught more times than he was successful in attempting crimes. He found being an informant would net him regular cash payments from the police while remaining free to attempt bigger takes through robbery and gun trading. He worked under the auspices of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Public Disorder Intelligence Unit and Criminal Conspiracy Units, both of which were unusually close and cooperative with the California Bureau of Investigation (then governor Reagan’s chief intel arm used against Black activists), the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Schreiber shared evidence that DeFreeze was specifically used for purposes of infiltration of black power groups and for framing and convicting their leadership. That the Feds had routinely engaged in such activity was documented in the stolen FBI COINTELPRO papers (COINTELPRO).  As long as he cooperated, DeFreeze was given a get out of jail free card, allowing him to make street crime his profession and snitching, stinging and framing his protection. 

After a few years of plying his trade on the streets of Los Angeles, being arrested and set free by the police on numerous occasions, by 1969 DeFreeze overstayed his welcome. He was arrested for robbery and shooting his pursuers with a gun that the LAPD had given him to sell to Black activists in order to bust them for arms violations. He had directly put the police department at risk. His protectors, burnt one too many times by DeFreeze, decided to cut him loose. He spent a year in the LA County jail awaiting and then going through trial – overlapping Charles Manson’s stay in the same facility.  In December 1970, DeFreeze was sentenced to 5 to 14 years in prison with an initial stop at the California Corrections Department medical facility at Vacaville, California for psychiatric evaluation. And here is where the DeFreeze story runs smack dab into our CIA MK Ultra Mind Control narrative.

MK Ultra and MK Search

You may recall from our Manson chapter that CIA MK Ultra doctor Jolly West was working out of Stanford University when he crossed paths with the Manson family at the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in San Francisco in 1967. We also noted that Stanford’s leading MK Ultra psychiatrist Dr. James Alexander Hamilton was doing MK Ultra experiments in San Francisco at that very same time. Hamilton’s Stanford work had included MK Ultra Sub Project 2, the purpose of which was “To study the possible synergistic action of drugs which may be appropriate for use in abolishing consciousness.” (see, MK ULTRA Subproject 2).

On the heels of his San Francisco MK Ultra work, Hamilton headed to the very same institution Donald DeFreeze was committed to, Vacaville State Prison. He was director of the CIA’s MK SEARCH Subproject 3 (the successor to MK ULTRA) at Vacaville. MKSearch3 spanned into 1973. Marks wrote the following about Hamilton:

“Hamilton was one of the renaissance men of the program (MK ULTRA/SEARCH), working on everything from psychochemicals to kinky sex to carbon dioxide inhalation. By the early sixties, he had arranged to get access to prisoners at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville” (page 251, In Search For the Manchurian Candidate)

In January 1971, at the height of the Vacaville MK Search program, Donald DeFreeze was deposited there for psychiatric evaluation. While the average stay for an inmate was 90 days, DeFreeze would set the all-time record of over two years of Vacaville psychiatric “treatment.” Revolution’s End points to evidence that DeFreeze was subjected to experimental psychiatric drugs, some designed to coerce behavior change by making the inmate/patient violently ill. That DeFreeze participated in ‘experimental’ psychiatric drug programs was later confirmed by Vacaville Superintendent T. Lawrence Clanon. In addition to such debilitating drugs as Prolixin and Anectine, electro-shock treatment and brain crippling psycho-surgery were routine. That government backed psychiatric behavior modification was routinely used at Vacaville and throughout the California prison system (among others) was widely known through the Black community and its alternative (uncensored) history apparatus (see e.g., FIGHTING PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE: The BPP (Black Panther Party) and the Black Disability Politics of Mental and Carceral Institutions). 

Operation CHAOS

Hamilton’s MK Search activities at Vacaville were date coincident with the CIA’s clandestine Operation Chaos. The Rockefeller Commission (which much like the Warren Commission was intended to cover up known CIA crimes) acknowledged that the CIA’s Chaos ran from 1967 through October 74. The Commission noted the aim of the first project under Operation Chaos was: ”’An Effort…in Acquiring Assets in the “Peace” and “Black Power” Movements in the United States.’ The project was to involve the recruitment of agents who would penetrate some of the prominent dissident groups in the United States…” (page 137, Rockefeller Commission Report). While the Commission served to cover-up – slavishly accepting the CIA’s blanket denials of wrongdoing – the intent of such Black activist infiltration was clearly spelled out in the FBI’s Operation Cointelpro (the only unedited, unfiltered look at domestic spy operations in America, because the documents were stolen and published before the government could redact or destroy them like the CIA did in response to Congressional inquiries into CHAOS, MKUltra and MKSearch, and most recently Jeffrey Epstein). In the FBI director’s own written words, the aim of infiltration was to “Prevent militant black nationalist groups and leaders from gaining RESPECTABILITY, by discrediting them to three separate segments of the community. The goal of discrediting black nationalists must be handled tactically in three ways. You must discredit those groups and individuals to, first, the responsible Negro community. Second, they must be discredited to the white community, both the responsible community and to ‘liberals’ who have vestiges of sympathy for militant black nationalist [sic] simply because they are Negroes. Third, these groups must be discredited in the eyes of Negro radicals, the followers of the movement.” – March 4, 1968 memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Other Cointelpro documents demonstrate US spy agencies’ informants set up Black activists for assassinations.

Phoenix Program intersects with Chaos and COINTELPRO

At the same time DeFreeze was having his behavior modified and his mind controlled, he was subjected to another program run by a CIA subcontractor named Colston Westbrook. Westbrook had previously worked on a CIA operation setting up interrogation and torture centers for South Vietnamese citizens suspected of harboring sympathies for the North Vietnamese. It was a sub project of the infamous Phoenix Program. It is estimated that more than thirty thousand civilians were massacred as a result of torture-forced confessions under Phoenix. Colston’s work with DeFreeze had all the earmarks of a CIA Operation Chaos and FBI Cointelpro production. Colston’s new cover was as a prisoner enhancement service coordinator run out of University of California at Berkeley. Colston created the Black Cultural Association (BCA) at Vacaville and sister California prison at Soledad. The BCA connected white radical leftist students from Berkeley to Black prisoners for ‘cultural exchange.’ In practice, Colston and his program did nothing but turn Black activists more leftist and radical and do the same for white students who felt empowered with street cred for bonding with persecuted black ‘freedom fighters.’ Regardless of one’s politics, the program had zero socially redeemable purpose, even arguably, for either the students or the prisoners.

In fact, most Black prisoners were wary of the program. Westbook acknowledged that he resorted to offering extraordinary benefits to lure prisoners. That included arranging for meetings of the BCA where “conjugal” spaces were made available so that prisoners could have sex with female students. Still, most Black prisoners smelled a law-enforcement rat in Westbrook’s operation and did not want to be associated, despite the offered benefits, because to do so would be to be suspected of informant status (a virtual death warrant in prison). Later, prisoner-observers would surmise that Donald DeFreeze took Westbrook’s offered leadership role because he was and always had been an informant (the latter being documented fact). Indeed, with mind tenderized by MKSearch Subproject 3 ‘treatments’, all the conjugal visits he could handle, and perhaps the threat of his informant status being confirmed and leaked, Donald DeFreeze jumped to the lead of Westbrook’s program with enthusiasm. He established regular sexual relations with at least two of the Berkeley participants. While Schreiber repeats accusations that Patty Hearst herself came to conjugate with DeFreeze on several occasions under a false name and phony identification, I personally found the evidence flimsy and the likelihood slim. At the same time, there is no denying that at that time the politics of Patricia Hearst – then a student at Berkeley – were lurching further and further to the left.

Cult Formation

DeFreeze was indoctrinated by Westbrook and the students in leftist, radical politics. Even though DeFreeze appeared dull intellectually and slow to express his mainly shallow thoughts, under Westbrook’s guidance the students developed starry-eyed allegiance to DeFreeze. In their eyes he was a persecuted, minority freedom fighter.  DeFreeze’s acceptance of them bolstered their radical, revolutionary fantasies. And their acceptance of DeFreeze caused his damaged mind to swell. DeFreeze adopted the mantle “Cinque”, the name of the African slave/prisoner who famously overthrew and killed the guards, overseer and captain of the ship Amistad that was transporting him to the New World in the 19th Century. His group, himself and his student followers, adopted the moniker Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Symbionese was a coined term signifying symbiosis of races in fighting establishment oppression.

Finally, after Cinque was created and DeFreeze was fully playing the part, and had established a veritable cult of the Berkeley clan, he was virtually shoved out the door. DeFreeze was given a prison detail that put him in a position where only a six-foot bare chain-link fence separated him from freedom. To top it off, he was left there alone by prison authorities late at night – a obvious invitation to leave. On March 5, 1973 DeFreeze accepted and within hours joined his white ‘comrades’ in Berkeley.  No search party followed up. Nobody – including Colston Westbrook – bothered to check the residences of the Berkeley crew who spent months regularly visiting DeFreeze. And it was in those very residences over the next several months that their radical cult was organized and formalized.

SLA’s First Offensive

Cinque’s first endeavor at revolution was to offer up the SLA as an assassination for hire operation to the Bay Area black activist groups, including the Black Panthers and the United Slaves. All offers were recoiled from, with virtually everyone approached smelling a federal agent provocateur. Undaunted, the group continued to train with arms and explosives, DeFreeze’s specialty as a Los Angeles informant and a lifelong obsession. Rejected by the Black activist community, by autumn 1973 the SLA were planning their first major offensive against their capitalist masters.

Recalling an important target suggested by erstwhile CIA operative and mentor Westbrook, DeFreeze decided to assassinate the School Superintendent of Oakland, one Marcus Foster who allegedly served the aims of the national security state. His followers argued against it, noting Foster was seen as a hero in the black community, the very people SLA was formed to protect and serve.  They argued, “why kill a black man when our first purpose is to combat racism?” But, DeFreeze, once the vacillating, bumbling criminal was steadfast on the idea apparently implanted by Westbrook. 

The assassination was performed. The SLA took credit for it. The backlash – as predicted by most SLA members – was catastrophic. The leftist and activist communities, especially the black elements, roundly condemned the killing and sought to distance themselves from the SLA. They clearly saw Cinque/SLA’s act as something so anathema to the sensibilities of all communities that only the most avowed enemies (the CIA and FBI) could dream it up for a “black activist” group to execute. To them, it was something straight out of the CIA’s operation Chaos or the FBI’s COINTELPRO.

It was somewhere during this dark post-assassination period – alone and despised by all segments of society – where Schreiber reckons DeFreeze might have realized he had been set up by Westbrook aided by the ‘doctors’ of Vacaville and the prison system encouraging his ‘escape.’ In a world where SLA was universally vilified – right and left, establishment and radical – Cinque became a free agent who was forced to come up with a spectacular encore that would restore his followers confidence, his reason for being and his very survival.

Enter Patricia Hearst and…Scientology?

On the night of February 4, 1974 the SLA burst into Patricia Hearst’s Berkeley apartment, knocked her boyfriend to the ground with a rifle butt, and physically seized the heiress at gunpoint. They threw her into the trunk of a getaway car and fled into the night.

The Berkeley police initially investigated. When they discovered that the victim was the daughter of one of the most influential and wealthiest men in America, the Alameda County Sheriff’s department and FBI swooped in. After a day of getting nowhere, and apparently overwhelmed with the red tape and arrogance of its county and federal overseers, a Berkeley detective decided to try something unconventional. He had heard about a group of psychics working at the Stanford Research Institute, attached to the famous University at the south end of the Bay area.  The detective phoned a director of the project, Russell Targ.

Targ had two psychics to choose from. Both were long-term Scientologists, as was the founder and co-director of the entire psychic research project. Targ chose the top performing psychic at that time, a former Burbank, California police commissioner named Pat Price. According to Targ, Price was able to identify two of the kidnappers and the location of Hearst, even accurately describing her immediate circumstance of being blindfolded in a closet. (Third Eye Spies documentary) Establishment corroboration of Targ comes from the most unlikely of places. That is the Central Intelligence Agency. Two years earlier when the CIA saw the level of accuracy in the Scientologists’ abilities to transcend space and time to view things and events thousands of miles away, they became the largest funder of the program. The CIA assigned two full-time agents to oversee their investment. One was Ken Kress. His report corroborating Targ’s account is attached (CIA Report on Pat Price/Hearst).

Targ quipped that had the Feds not so summarily dismissed the Berkeley police’s SRI psychic data, the saga of Patty Hearst would have ended right there and then. But, the police were prevented from acting by the Feds, and so this story is to be continued.

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Life Force vs. Chemicals

Posted on January 29, 2026 by | Leave a comment

This Deep State and Scientology series began by establishing the Cult of Intelligence’s early and visceral need to eliminate L. Ron Hubbard and his established subjects of Dianetics and Scientology. In his 1951 book Science of Survival, Hubbard had disclosed the CIA and Military Intelligence unlawful mind control experiments on unwitting Americans. Worse, Dianetics procedure uncovered the fact and cured the damage inflicted (see The CIA vs. L. Ron Hubbard).  From the outset Dianetics and Scientology processes were virtually the reverse of establishment Mental Health and its Cult of Intelligence bosses (see Military Industrial Mind Control, documenting the post World War II merger of the military and ‘mental health’).

As Hubbard evolved Dianetics and Scientology, and MK Ultra probed the depths of how to “abolish consciousness” (MK Ultra Subproject 2), the diametric opposition of the deep state vs. L. Ron Hubbard intensified.

By the mid 1950’s the conflicting purposes of Hubbard vs. Intelligence-controlled, established psychiatry came into sharp focus around a simple electronic device.

The artifact is generally known as the Galvanic Skin Response meter (GSR).  Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West, the CIA MK Ultra doctor later tasked with destroying Hubbard and his Scientology movement, and organized psychiatry referred to it as an integral component of the lie detector. Hubbard called his version of the device the Electro-Psychometer (the E-Meter).  He referred to it in opposite terms than the psychiatrist, also calling it a truth detector.

The psychiatrists took the reductionist view that the meter detected chemical processes within the body. This is consistent with reductionist ‘science’ which for several hundred years – and to this day – attempts to reduce all forces and energies to physical universe matter. You know, the theory that says all mis-emotion and psychological disturbance is a chemical imbalance, to be ‘remedied’ by ingestion of drugs. Materialists still maintain this crude explanation, despite its flying in the face of subsequent discoveries in quantum mechanics (See e.g., The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra).  Hubbard took the opposite, vitalism view, that the meter was affected by life force – that is the energy created by the spirit, elan vital, inhabiting the body. 

Significantly, a study of the meter’s namesake Luigi Galvani reveals the age-old struggle Hubbard found himself up against, life force (elan vital, the spirit) vs. chemicals, or vitalism vs. reductionist materialism. Galvani’s story was the 18th Century chapter of science burying evidence of the spirit or life force. Galvani had discovered that a being created electrical force to aid in body movement and healing processes. Consensus opted to discredit Galvani’s view. Alesandro Volta offered the alternative explanation that the forces Galvani observed were explained by the interaction of different chemicals. As “science” was funded by industry bankers – who accumulated money not by truth but instead by marketability of physical universe goods, naturally Volta won the ‘consensus’ that did and does often constitute accepted “science.”  Thus, even today “science” says the GSR measures chemical changes registered through perspiration. For a deeper history on Galvani vs. Volta and the centuries-long suppression of evidence of spirit in science, see CROSS CURRENTS: The Promise of Electromedicine, Dr. Robert O. Becker, Penguin 1990).

Hubbard described how the E-Meter projected an imperceptible electric current through the body – on the order of magnitude of Galvani’s life force – and could detect impedance in the created circuit caused by thoughts interjected by the participant. It could also be explained as disruption in an electric field created and measured by the meter. In either event, a competent E-Meter operator can prove to anyone in less than a minute that without variance the E-Meter reads on thought projected by the participant. I have done so to the silent astonishment (or perhaps chagrin) of Scientology antagonists from the founder of CBS 60 Minutes to the Editor of the New York Times.   

For more than thirty years, Hubbard worked with electronics engineers to calibrate his E-Meter to react as closely as possible to thought, distinguishing its signal from the noise of other bio-electric processes. Others carried on the process for another 40 years so that now the Scientology E-Meter bears little resemblance to the GSR component of the crude lie detector of ‘science.’  With the aid of the E-Meter, Dianetics and Scientology sought to clear the mind of pains associated with physical and emotional injuries of the past. The idea was to locate moments of pain, release them of the detectable electrical charge they imposed on the mind and body, and thus clear the mind and free the will of the individual. Hubbard described the process in hundreds of lectures and dozens of books as a reversal of hypnotic effect.

Conversely, West and his CIA MK Ultra brethren used the GSR to measure pain inflicted on the body in the quest to capture the mind and will of the individual. Thus, West requisitioned a GSR, in the form of “polygraph” as part of his “psychophysiogical (sic) laboratory” where he would measure “noxious stimulation” inflicted on drug and hypnosis subjects. See attached 1956 West report and proposal to CIA poisoner in chief Sidney Gottlieb (see page 9 of REPORT ON RESEARCH IN HYPNOSIS). 

Clearly the cult of intelligence understood the significance of Hubbard’s work and evolution. They already were acutely aware of the fact that even without the aid of the E-Meter he could and did uncover the harms the CIA was committing against human research subjects.  Imagine their alarm when reckoning what else Hubbard might find out with the aid of the E-Meter. Consequently, the CIA spearheaded a multi-agency effort (including Army, Air Force and Navy intelligence), across several international governments, to stop L. Ron Hubbard in his tracks. 

But, it wasn’t enough to simply destroy Hubbard. The agency simultaneously attempted to steal the man’s discoveries. This was evidenced by the activities of its one-time employee and longtime informant Cleve Backster. Mr. Backster was an acknowledged expert on the polygraph (lie detector). He hung around the spiritualist community evidenced by his claim that he met L. Ron Hubbard at a function surrounding parapsychologist J.B. Rhine in the late forties. In 1967 Backster became famous when he published a paper that detailed experiments that he performed with plants using the GSR meter (Evidence of a Primary Perception in Plant Life, International Journal of Parapsychology). According to Mr. Backster his work demonstrated that plants have measurable feelings. It became the genesis of a cultural phenomenon recognizing new dimensions about life force. A very popular book followed, The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Thompkins and Christopher Bird.  A subsequent documentary by the same title featured a soundtrack created by Stevie Wonder.

Backster’s use of the crude ‘lie detector’ GSR component became the parapsychology/spiritualist standard diagnostic and experimental tool and continues to be until now. Ironically, during the ensuing decades, while improving upon that ill-tuned device, Hubbard’s E-Meter was smeared by the state-controlled corporate media as a “crude lie detector.”

Neither Backster, the CIA, nor any of those involved in creating a movement around Backster’s alleged discovery ever mentioned an embarrassing detail: The experiments Backster presented as groundbreaking had already been done and publicized nearly a decade before by L. Ron Hubbard. Of course, in keeping with the agency’s decades-long campaign to discredit Hubbard, his experiments were written off as some sort of kooky hoax. See for example, CIA-influenced Time/Life publication’s branding the E-meter as one of the “dumbest inventions.” (note, it is dated a year after Backster’s celebrated “discovery”, and ten years after the date of the photo displayed and the experiments conducted by Hubbard).

The deep state went so far as to attempt to ban the E-Meter in America through litigation spanning nearly the entire sixties. It backfired on the lead agency, the Food and Drug Administration, as even Time magazine was forced to acknowledge (Appeals: Victory for the Scientologists | TIME).  However, it kept Hubbard distracted while his discoveries were hijacked.

When much of the dust had cleared, even Cleve Backster acknowledged privately that which nobody was apparently willing to admit publicly. Until recently the evidence lay quietly in the archives of the University of West Georgia. There sat a 1976 letter from Backster to a Scientology staff member. In it, he acknowledges Hubbard’s precedence: ‘His interest in plants also appears to have preceded my extensive involvement since February 1966.’ (Cleve Backster letter) This concession, buried in cordial correspondence, highlights the overlap—and the lack of crediting—in their work.

It is quite possible Backster himself had created sufficient distance from the CIA so that he truly wished to give credit where credit was due. However, this would not be the last time the CIA would rob from L. Ron Hubbard while beseeching the media and other government agencies to destroy him. Stay tuned.

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The Cult of War On Overt Display

Posted on January 3, 2026 by | Leave a comment

Ref: The Cult of Intelligence, The War Cult Rages Out of Control

So, Trump steals the all-important independent vote in 2024 largely based on vehement and repeated libertarian promises. The foremost of which was no more war, no more neo con empire extension (read, republic destruction). He appoints decidedly anti-forever-war Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence to prove he was serious. First, she reports there is no atomic bomb threat imminent in Iran. Then, upon Cult of War pressure she caves and reverses herself to cheerlead the boss’ unprovoked bombing in Iran. In 2019 Gabbard had this to say about US intervention in Venezuela: Gabbard 2019. Cult of War coercive persuasion applied, and we’ve got Gabbard making Hillary Clinton look like a peacenik.

What is startling about the latest foray is how overtly imperialistic it is. The administration is bragging about the plunder it has won (newsflash, this rodeo hasn’t even begun yet). It is also remarkable for its lack of justification. They have bombed a country (with no casualties reported nearly 24 hours after triumphantly distributing massive airstrike footage over Venezuelan cities), indicted a head of state for, among other things, possessing machine guns, kidnapped him, subjected him to extraordinary rendition and bragged about that too. What is depicted in the following photo is sensory deprivation in violation of 4 major international human rights agreements to which the United States subscribes to. The taking of the photograph and distributing it alone is a violation of the Geneva Conventions. How soon we forget – say, Abu Ghraib for example.

All of this is apropos to what we have been covering on this blog for the past year. It is CIA MK Ultra Mind Control ‘technology’ being applied in the present overtly and pushed into our faces. It is flanked by the mass conversion (media accomplices noted) MK Ultra psy op being run on the American people to accept this demonic behavior.

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The War Cult Rages Out Of Control

Posted on December 21, 2025 by | 2 comments

reference: The Cult of Intelligence

Did you think the last post, The Cult of Intelligence, was some quaint nostalgia about darker times of the ancient past? Think again. This very day, the Military-Industrial Mind Control apparatus is on full display. While most Americans are distracted with Christmas preparation, weekend football, reality TV dramas, and hating one another on social media, the Director of National Intelligence herself, Tulsi Gabbard, is fighting for our country’s future. She is not battling a foreign power. She is crossing swords with the very agencies that are supposed to answer to her (Military Intelligence/CIA deep state). See, Tulsi Gabbard fights for peace.

Someone powerful enough to defy and covertly undermine the President and the Director of National Intelligence is dropping propaganda on Reuters news service clearly designed to undermine peace and to continue forever war in Eurasia. According to Reuters “six sources familiar with US intelligence” are claiming the absolutely absurd (for anyone paying any measure of attention to world affairs) idea that Russia is dead set on recreating the Soviet Union and presumably its purpose to rule the world with imposed communism. It is conveniently dropped right when prospects for peace in Ukraine were looking promising.

This is our second post in four months about the duly appointed and confirmed Director of National Intelligence combatting undermine and sabotage by the Cult of Intelligence in the year 2025, see Operation Mockingbird: CIA Mind/Behavior Control Program. CIA/DIA/NSA, et al – the Cult, is doing its all to realize the goals so clearly set forth eighty years ago, see Military Industrial Mind Control.

Stay vigilant.

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The Cult of Intelligence

Posted on December 18, 2025 by | Leave a comment

reference: The Deep State and Scientology and the series that follows it

Now that our series has introduced the CIA’s introduction of cult mania, let’s examine what makes the agency so expert on the subject.

Former U.S. Congressman Ron Paul once reckoned that democracy in America had effectively ended when former CIA Director Allen Dulles was appointed to the Warren Commission. The most suspect perpetrator of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was assigned to investigate that very crime. There is something to that idea (see e.g. CIA Mind Control and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy). After more than sixty years of whistleblowers’ and dogged researchers’ revelations, it is now fairly clear that the Warren Commission’s de facto mandate was to create the ‘record’ that would marginalize anyone with an independent thought about who actually killed President Kennedy and thus really controls the country.

One of the first and most important high level government whistleblowers of the early seventies disclosed that the military industrial complex and its intelligence community had usurped the Presidency long before the Kennedy assassination. He was Col. L. Fletcher Prouty who had served as chief of special operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Kennedy administration. Oliver Stone said of Prouty (who served as his model for whistleblower “Mr. X” in his film JFK), “Fletcher Prouty is a man whose name will go down in history.”  In 1973 Prouty published an expose that showed the CIA and military intelligence acting as an independent deep state unanswerable to the American public, The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World, republished by Skyhorse 2011.  Because of his unique position, Prouty never signed CIA non-disclosure agreements so the US government was powerless to censor him, legally. The CIA did succeed in limiting distribution of Prouty’s book through unlawful domestic covert operations against its wide distribution. 

In the wake of Prouty’s struggle with censorship, former Special Assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA Victor Marchetti and former State Department official John Marks published a book that carried the ball further, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, Alfred A. Knopf 1974. Marchetti introduced a number of documents and first-hand accounts from inside the CIA in their expansion upon Prouty’s work. ‘The Cult of Intelligence’ was the first book in American history to cause the US government to sue for prior restraint of publication. The agency was partially successful and large swathes of the original edition were blacked out at the order of courts buying into the CIA’s “National Security” claims. Years later, the book was updated with most of the redacted text restored.

Marchetti’s and Marks’ choice of a title could not have been more appropriate. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines cult as: a group (as an organization or religious sect) with tenets and practices regarded as coercive, insular, or dangerous. The CIA and US intelligence community meets all three criteria: coercive, insular and dangerous. The first chapter of ‘Cult of Intelligence’ explains why the authors refer to the “intelligence community” (and the Military Industrial Complex it services) as a cult. The following excerpts are from that chapter. See whether any of it rings true for you today.

There exists in our nation today a powerful and dangerous secret cult – the cult of intelligence.  Its holy men are the clandestine professionals of the Central Intelligence Agency. Its patrons and protectors are the highest officials of the federal government.  Its membership, extending far beyond governmental circles, reaches into the power centers of industry, commerce, finance and labor. Its friends are many in the areas of important public influence – the academic world and the communications media. The cult of intelligence is a secret fraternity of the American political aristocracy…

…The cult is intent upon conducting the foreign affairs of the U.S. government without the awareness or participation of the people.  It recognizes no role for a questioning legislature or an investigative press. Its adherents believe that only they have the right and the obligation to decide what is necessary to satisfy the national needs. Although it pursues outmoded international policies and unattainable ends, the cult of intelligence demands that it not be held accountable for its actions by the people it professes to serve. It is a privileged, as well as secret, charge. In their minds, those who belong to the cult of intelligence have been ordained, and their service is immune from public scrutiny.

The “clandestine mentality” is a mind-set that thrives on secrecy and deception. It encourages professional amorality – the belief that righteous goals can be achieved through the use of unprincipled and normally unacceptable means. Thus, the cult’s leaders must tenaciously guard their official actions from public view. To do otherwise would restrict their ability to act independently; it would permit the American people to pass judgment on not only the utility of their policies, but the ethics of those policies as well. With the cooperation of an acquiescent, ill-informed Congress, and the encouragement and assistance of a series of Presidents, the cult has built a wall of laws and executive orders around the CIA and itself, a wall that has blocked effective public scrutiny…

…In the field of classical espionage, the CIA’s Clandestine Services have been singularly unsuccessful in their attempts to penetrate or spy on the major targets…

…As the opportunities for covert action abroad dwindle and are thwarted, those with careers based on clandestine methods are increasingly tempted to turn their talents inward against the citizens of the very nation they profess to serve…

And so, as Noam Chomsky has ably demonstrated, elected federal officials from Congress to the White House continually operate in diametric opposition to the will of the American people who elect them.

This series is in the process of illustrating the why for the Cult of Intelligence’s launch of the great cult scare of the 70’s and 80’s. And it will demonstrate why the Cult specifically targeted Scientology for virtual annihilation as part of that campaign.

While we set the table, let’s add some perspective on the matter provided by Col. L. Fletcher Prouty (The Secret Team) and Victor Marchetti (The Cult of Intelligence).

Mr. Marchetti:

During the period 1969-1972, while I was Special Assistant to the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, it was my responsibility to read and evaluate all incoming intelligence reports from all sources, including the FBI, on a daily basis. In this capacity, I became aware of the intense interest of both the CIA and FBI in the Church of Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. The files on Scientology were voluminous, and there were frequent inter-agency discussions and meetings on how to counter what was perceived as a growing ‘problem’ posed by the Church. Proposals included infiltration by agents, psychological operations to discredit Hubbard, and even legislative efforts to classify Scientology as a subversive organization. However, higher-level reviews often vetoed the more aggressive tactics, though some surveillance and monitoring continued. – U.S. District Court, D.C., Civ. No. 77-2076, filed Oct. 5, 1978

L. Fletcher Prouty testified similarly to a court Ontario, Canada:

It is not without significance that the affidavit of Fletcher Prouty, appearing in Volume 8A of the record at tab KK, makes it appear that he formed the conclusion, as a highly placed official of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States, that since 1950 there has been a definite campaign of harassment against this organization (Scientology) for nearly thirty years, primarily by means of the dissemination of false and derogatory information around the world to create a climate in which adverse action would be taken against the Church and its members. – decision dated January 23, 1985, by Osler J. in the Ontario High Court of Justice

That is but the tip of an iceberg. 

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