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CIA Mind Control and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Posted on October 28, 2025 by | 1 comment

Jolly West Part III

For the most important and interesting revelations about Dr. Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West’s suspected involvement in the cover up of the assassination of President Kennedy, I refer again to Tom O’Neill’s MK Ultra opus CHAOS: CHARLES MANSON, THE CIA, AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE SIXTIES (Little Brown 2019). As with the last post, Jolly West Part II, I’ve done some further research and have recounted the facts from the perspective and context developed in our entire series (beginning with The Deep State and Scientology).

When you timeline the facts, often otherwise obscured truths emerge. That is why propagandists pay so much attention to confusing the critical factor of time. Accurate time sequence is the way we are going to approach the matter of some rather odd meddling that surrounded the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  Some new revelations emerge.

In February 1959 Hubert Winston Smith, a psychiatrist and lawyer, invited his friend and colleague Jolly West to participate in a New Orleans seminar for Smith’s Law-Science Academy. The group was formed to test how far the boundaries of law could be stretched in freeing cold-blooded criminals into society. A ‘logical’ extension of the Military Industrial Mind Control complex aim of “infiltration of law.”  

West dominated Smith’s agenda, making four of the eleven presentations given there. It was not surprising since both Smith and West share deep ties. They had extensive mutual MK Ultra and military psychiatric connections. For example, West associate and fellow MK Ultra contractor Dr. Stewart Wolf also attended the 1959 New Orleans conclave and had worked with Smith on legal cases. Wolf, like West, was mentored by confirmed MK Ultra experimenter and funder and personal friend of Alan Dulles at Cornell University medical center, Dr Harold Wolff. I obtained a stack of documents from the West personal archives that show Stewart Wolf working feverishly to establish West’s MK Ultra lab at University of Oklahoma at West’s behest in 1955. Even though Wolf was West’s titular superior (head of the school of medicine), and West was still in the throes of the Jimmy Shaver situation (see Jolly West Part II) and not yet working full time at the University, Wolf was head hunting for West’s MK Ultra doctor line-up, running each move by and taking direction from West.

Winston Smith, like West, was a proponent of plying uncooperative defendants with drugs and hypnosis to forcibly extract the “truth” out of them. The West, Wolf, Smith connections (and other military mind control complex ties) are thoroughly documented in an admirable piece of investigative journalism by Max Arvo in his three-part Jack Ruby series at Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment. For those wanting documentation beyond what we provide in this article, Arvo’s series is a virtual legal brief with a plethora of exhibits on much of the same ground we cover here. 

On October 3,1963 Louis Jolyon West made the following pronunciamento to a meeting of the Mental Health Association of Oregon:

“Now we are at the dawning of a new era in the field of psychiatry because we are learning for the first time how to produce temporary mental derangement in the laboratory.”

The Oregon Journal reported that “Dr. West listed the new hallucination drug LSD, along with other drugs, hypnosis and sleep deprivation as some of the things that psychiatrists were using to produce temporary mental illness effects in normal people…The most important contribution of [LSD] so far is in producing model mental illnesses, he believes.” (Oregon Journal October 3, 1963) West was publicly claiming to have made good on his 1953 promise to MK Ultra boss Sidney Gottlieb to create the means “for inducing in [subjects] specific mental disorders.” (see Jolly West Part I and Part II)

Fifty days later, on November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The farcical narrative the media was fed and dutifully and incessantly drilled into the public psyche included the ‘fact’ that the alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was a ‘lone nut.’ A person who up to that fatal day had never apparently been evaluated as insane was dubbed stark-staring mad and yet capable of pulling off a military grade, triangulated ambush on the President of the United States – all on his lonesome. The gaslighting had only just begun. (For a short primer on the absurdity of our mainstream conditioning on the incident see Oliver Stone’s JFK; or go further with Stone’s follow-up documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass; and/or take a deeper, documented dive at Kennedy and King, where Arvo’s series is posted.)

The November 22/23 1963 several-hour initial Lee Harvey Oswald interrogation – sans lawyer for the accused – resulted in nothing but denials from Oswald and the remarkably resolute sounding declaration that he’d been designated and set up as the “patsy” for the biggest crime of the 20th Century. Despite being the most important interrogation in American history, no recording of the interrogation ever saw the light of day. Some have ventured that Oswald was a botched product of MK Ultra Mind Control – programmed to believe he had committed the crime. A failure because instead of dutifully copping to the crime, he retained enough bearings to realize he hadn’t had done it. We are not going there because the best potential evidence of Oswald’s real provenance would soon disappear, forever.

On November 24, less than 48 hours after his arrest, the most important prisoner in the history of the United States of America, Oswald, was shot down on live television by one Jack Rubenstein, better known as Jack Ruby, a mob and intelligence community connected strip club owner in Dallas. Seemingly a desperate act following 36 hours of futile attempts to make Oswald incriminate himself. As much as the world craved answers out of Lee Harvey Oswald, it shifted its attention toward Ruby in hopes of getting closer to the truth.

Within 3 days, after many machinations involving Ruby’s brother being led around by mob and media connected intelligence types, San Francisco’s Melvin Belli was announced as counsel for Ruby. In keeping with the sea of contradictions the JFK assassination case served up, Belli was not even a criminal lawyer. Instead, he was a high-profile, ambulance-chasing personal injury lawyer, evidenced by his sobriquet “the king of torts.”

It just so happens that Melvin Belli was good friends with a local Dallas lawyer named Joe Tonahill, who was immediately brought on as local counsel. It also just so happened that Belli and Tonahill were close friends and associates of Jolly West colleague Hubert Winston Smith of Law-Science Academy fame and also a professor at University of Texas. 

Two more peculiar events occurred before the first day of December 1963 even arrived.

First, two days after the Belli dog and pony show (announcing to the media the Texas arrival of the king of torts), Jolly West held one of his own. He announced to United Press International that a panel of ten “nationally known psychiatrists” had agreed to serve as “friends of the court” to “examine Ruby on an impartial basis.” West claimed he was put up to the caper by one Charles W. Webster, professor of criminal law at Southern Methodist University (See, West Announces Panel). One little problem, Webster said just the reverse. It was the self-promoting West who first came to Webster to be a local authority tag to help West wheedle his way into visit Mr. Ruby (see Webster discredits West). West went to his grave thirty-six years later never disclosing who actually put him up to pursuing Ruby. By the end of this article, I reckon you’ll be able to make a relatively educated guess on who that was. Likewise, the ten alleged nationally known experts were never identified. Yet, before the Grand Jury had even decided on the prima facie case against Ruby, West infiltrated the court and asked presiding judge Joe Brown to set West loose on Ruby. Brown rejected the move.

The second strange event occurred concurrently to West’s hijinks. His drug-hypnosis proponent friend Hubert Winston Smith was instantly tapped by his friends Belli and Tonahill to create an “insanity defense” for Ruby. By the time Smith was flat-out establishing the theory and assembling the team of psychiatrists who would dutifully testify to its veracity, the only psychiatrist to have examined Ruby, Dr. John T. Holbrook, found on 25 November that Ruby was “clinically and legally sane.” Holbrook would conduct subsequent examinations on Dec 4 1963 and January 27-29 1964 making essentially the same finding. 

In fact, so apparently lucid was Mr. Ruby that by the time of trial, Smith’s own panel of three hand selected and coached psychiatrists had to agree that Ruby at that time was clearly ‘sane.’ So, reminiscent of the strange West affair involving Jimmy Shaver in 1954 (see, Jolly West Part II) the defense became that Ruby was “temporarily insane” at the time of the killing of Oswald, but apparently had regained his senses once the terrible deed was done. The jury thoroughly rejected the psych double-talk and by March 14,1964 Jack Ruby was sentenced to die by the electric chair.

If you study the case in any depth, you will soon realize there is next to no probability that Ruby could have pulled off the execution alone. A known mobster walking deep into a police station to stick a gun in the belly of the most guarded prisoner and valued potential witness in the history of the United States of America? The official motive repeated ad nauseum by the media was patently absurd on its face: “Ruby was so emotionally upset by Kennedy’s assassination he wanted to spare Jackie Kennedy from having to go through a trial.”  Right, from a venereal disease wracked underworld figure with CIA and mob connections, both of which wanted Kennedy dead.

Predictably, Ruby fired Belli. He then formally hired the psychiatrist/lawyer who bungled his insanity defense; due no doubt to the facileness with which Smith threw his own hand-picked and recruited psychiatrists under the bus, sharply criticizing the performance of all of them. Smith blatantly lied to the court, claiming he had not seen the reports of the trial psychiatrists he had himself assembled and coached. In perhaps a Freudian slip, reminiscent of West’s diabolical work on “behalf of” Jimmy Shaver (see Jolly West part II), Smith vowed to use hypnosis and drugs to “get the truth out of Ruby.” Had this come from the mouth of the prosecutor that is one thing, but Winston was the supposed defense lawyer.

 So, let us say that you promised the sure-fire insanity defense, it backfired, and now whatever conglomerate (organized crime, CIA, or combination of both) is dependent upon Ruby’s silence and/or discrediting is demanding results, or else. In order to manufacture insanity, who you gonna call? 

Operation Mind Control Fixer

Smith’s first action was to recruit his friend and colleague Dr. Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West onto team Ruby. Smith moved the court for permission to urgently have Ruby’s mental state examined anew. According to West’s later report on the examination, he discussed with Smith in advance using “Hypnosis and intravenous sodium pentothal were included among possible techniques to provide further information concerning Mr. Ruby’s state of mind at the time he shot Lee Harvey Oswald on 24 November 1963.” It seems, Jack Ruby was in for the Jimmy Shaver treatment – see Jolly West Part II. By late April Smith had obtained court clearance for West to visit and “examine” Ruby.

Before we proceed, let’s review the Jack Ruby psychiatric scorecard up to the day West entered the scene. Five psychiatrists, four of them for the defense, had found Ruby to be compos mentis in seven different reports to the court. None, zero, nada, zilch had found Ruby to be non compos mentis. (Chaos, chapter 11 and endnotes, Tom O’Neill, and Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment)

Only on the day Jolly West – master hypnotist, LSD experimenter, and self-proclaimed insanity-producing wonder – met Jack Ruby did all of that change, forever. As was the hambone’s wont, West immediately announced to as many media members as he and Smith could muster that Jack Ruby was at that moment “obviously psychotic”, suffering from “auditory and visual hallucinations.” West found further “corroboration” for his insanity finding: Ruby did not trust West and did not want to be admitted into a mental hospital saying he felt safer in jail. In other words, that he wouldn’t submit to institutionalization under the grand master of MK Ultra Mind Control was proof the man was insane. (see West’s 29 April 1964 report)

West told the media that if Ruby was not at once committed to a hospital he would become “hopelessly insane.” Get it? Incurable. Yet, the very next day, West said Ruby seemed to have regained his wits. An apparent less-than-24-hour psychotic break. Max Arvos made a well-reasoned case that Ruby might have been plied with LSD to create “insanity”, just as West promised he could do less than two months earlier. Arvos noted that Ruby’s breaks with reality – according to West’s knee jerk admission – seemed to last about the average amount of time of an LSD trip (8-24 hours), not the expected weeks to months that a normative psychotic break would last. Indeed, it seems Ruby went in and out of psychosis at the flip of a switch until the day he died. And the only common denominator in Ruby’s orbit during that entire time was Dr. Lois Jolyon “Jolly” West. All of the other more than half dozen psychiatrists involved in the case came and left; only West remained, in spite of Ruby’s consistently expressed horror at his presence. In spite of the one-time slip up immediately stating Ruby snapped out of it the next day, West would spend the rest of Ruby’s life – and beyond – stalking him and continuously asserting the man’s permanent departure from reality.

In either event, the judge was not impressed by West’s April 29, 1964 report and Smith’s attempt to have Ruby committed to a mental hospital where West could have his way with Ruby full time. Ruby remained jailed pending his appeal.

Warren Commission Cover-up

Over the next two months Ruby’s sister Eva Grant negotiated on Ruby’s behalf to have him testify before the Warren Commission, formed to be the final-word investigative body on the JFK assassination. The Commission was infamously corrupt, being effectively controlled by member Allen Dulles, the bitter JFK-fired former head of CIA who created MK Ultra and its predecessors Operations Artichoke and Bluebird. As such it was the wolf guarding the hen house, suspect number one left in charge of the crime enquiry. Grant’s and Ruby’s actions were vigorously opposed by Smith and the rest of the legal team. In fact, just as a deal was finally struck with the commission, less than a week before Ruby’s appearance, Smith suddenly resigned as counsel, claiming financial hardship. (In fact, Smith had been fired by University of Texas; but soon after he was magically swept off his feet and ushered to University Oklahoma for a position his partner in crime Jolly West had arranged).

The full transcript of the Warren Commission’s examination of Ruby reads like lawyers interrogating a person fully in the throes of an amphetamine-laced LSD*(see endnote) trip (see Ruby’s Warren Commission testimony). For several minutes at a time Ruby would appear lucid, reciting details with incredible precision. The moment Ruby was asked questions that got him off what sounded like an automatic, amphetamine-driven narrative, Ruby would flip into delusory rantings about a real time extermination against Jews that was going on across the United States. Warren himself seemed flummoxed, several times reassuring Ruby that he was perfectly sane; only to have Ruby then take off on another flite of rambling fantasy. The one constancy with Ruby during the testimony was his repeated request to be taken to Washington under special protection so that he could in safety tell the entire story of how he came to gun down Oswald. The request was repeatedly denied as if that were some psychotic rambling despite Warren stating on the record, “you are speaking very, very rationally, and I am really surprised that you can remember as much as you have remembered up to the present time”, and “There are many witnesses whose memory has not been as good as yours. I tell you that, honestly.”

Significantly, Warren and the other Commission members were so disinterested in investigating or even asking rational follow ups they entirely ignored this whopping admission by Ruby:

Ruby: “Mr. Belli and I decided–oh yes, when I went to say that I wanted to get on the stand and tell the truth of what happened that morning, he said, ‘Jack, when they get you on the stand, you are actually speaking of a premeditated crime that you involved yourself in.’”

That statement by Ruby utterly discredits the central official line we have been force fed and choked on for 61 years since. That is the lie that Ruby committed a crime of passion with no sign or evidence of pre-meditation. The prosecution did not even plead a premeditated murder. Yet, Ruby admitted to Warren’s face that his own lawyer knew and Ruby did not correct him that the killing of Oswald was his own words, “pre-meditated”, in other words planned in advance, with malice aforethought.

CIA Shrinks Stalk the Warren Commission

Despite CIA connected operatives’ failure to have Ruby pronounced insane by the Dallas court, they doubled down in riding shotgun for the agency with the Warren Commission.

First, Jolly West, sent a letter dated June 23, 1964 directly to the head of the Commission, Chief Justice Warren about the time the Commission’s evidence intake was in its wrap-up stage. West offered his unsolicited opinion on Ruby’s motivation for killing Lee Harvey Oswald. He touted his exclusive expertise having personally examined Ruby, not mentioning that the Dallas judge and juries considering Ruby’s competence to participate in his own defense utterly rejected West. West proffered that the man he diagnosed two months earlier as “positively insane” had an actual reason for killing Oswald. West wrote that the motive was “wanting to prove that the Jews – through himself – loved their President and were not cowards.” Notwithstanding the ham-fisted anti-semitic nature of the evaluation (implying Jews are cowards and unloyal to America), West also failed to mention that according to his own six-page detailed report of examination of Ruby, not once did Ruby utter or even hint of any such motivation. It was purely an invention out of the dark mind of the Black Sorcerer’s apprentice. (Chaos, Chapter 11 and endnotes)

Second, West’s original CIA MK Ultra mentor Donald W. Hastings (see Hastings I, and Jolly West Pt II) was corresponding with Warren Commission de facto chief investigator, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, through 1964 and 1965. While the content is not known, toward the end of their pen pal relationship, Hasting published what he had apparently been feverishly working on in 1964 and 1965: a four-part series titled “The Psychiatry of Presidential Assassination.” In it, Hastings obviously with zero examination and zero first hand-evidence offered up with certainty the state of mind of Lee Harvey Oswald:

“…[T]here is not, in my opinion, any reasonable doubt that the assassin had paranoid schizophrenia.” A ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ standard criminal conviction without the need for any messy trial, let alone psychiatric examination.

On the other hand, in the very same paper, Hastings offers another absolutely contradictory ‘out’ for the Commission, presuming Oswald was found to have acted ‘rationally’: “It is possible that Oswald still clung to the hope that by silence and denial he might be freed and be allowed to go to Russia, this time as a person of importance who would receive a hero’s welcome.”

(The Psychiatry of Presidential Assassination, Part IV, Donald W. Hastings M.D., July 1965 pp 295)

Was it coincidence that two long-related CIA MK Ultra contractors – while under CIA contract – were working on and around the Warren Commission without identifying themselves as affiliated with the agency whose head (Dulles was known to have effectively run the CIA for many years after his JFK firing) should rightly have been suspect number one? (re Dulles continuing de facto leadership role, see e.g. The Devil’s Chessboard, Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government, David Talbot, HarperCollins 2015) Was it coincidence that one-time MK Ultra mentor (Hastings) and his MK Ultra novitiate (West), both then-current MK Ultra contractors both created out of whole cloth “insanity” verdicts on both central players in the JFK assassination? Recently discovered documents cement the Hastings/West connection going back to 1948 (Hastings/West I), and show West in 1951 reporting to Hastings on their mutual MK Ultra associates at Cornell, including Allen Dulles’ personal friend Dr. Harold Wolff, and West’s 1950s/1960’s titular boss at University of Oklahoma, Dr. Stewart Wolf (Hastings/West II).

West Stalks Ruby to the Grave and beyond

Despite West’s best efforts, no judge nor jury would ever come to believe West’s assertion that Ruby belonged in an institution under West’s ‘care.’ While Ruby’s appeal was pending in 1966 the Texas Criminal Court of Appeal ordered the trial court to hold a jury trial on the sole issue of Ruby’s sanity. It seems there was some controversy on whom Ruby actually wished to serve as his counsel; the Court wanted to know whether Ruby was capable of directing his own defense before proceeding. While the lawyers came and went, Joe Tonahill (friend and confidante of Hubert Winston Smith) was still standing at the June 13, 1966 sanity trial, with a number of other lawyers also purportedly speaking on behalf of Ruby. While the hearing was held for purposes of ensuring Ruby’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel of his choice, the lawyers claimed the trial was a violation of Ruby’s constitutional rights. They attempted to keep Ruby out of the court room and while he was out of the court room argued that Ruby be censored from speaking. They refused to participate in protest while making a slew of continuing objections. The morning session of the transcript through page 29 reads as if the lawyers themselves had their own sanity issues. (June 13, 1966 Ruby sanity trial transcript)

In the afternoon session, several witnesses testified to months and months of apparent lucid, sane conduct on the part of Ruby in prison (pages 30-67 of transcript). Finally, over the objections of his own lawyers, Ruby himself demanded to address the jury to avoid being placed under the control of the likes of West. He gave a short statement attesting to his own sanity (page 68 transcript). He stated “I never did try to make anyone believe that I was of unsound mind. I don’t know where that originated from or who conspired to do that without my full mental capacity and agreeing with this…”

After listening to the witnesses and Ruby himself, the jury ruled that Ruby was in fact sane.

But that did not stop West. Notwithstanding Ruby’s distaste for West, he periodically weaseled his way into Ruby’s cell to pronounce him non compos mentis. Handy work against a patient who despises you and won’t speak to you. There is no evidence any other psychiatrist had a say about the psychiatric drugs Ruby would regularly consume throughout his nearly 3-year stint in prison. But, there is ample evidence he did consume such concoctions (his sister referring to them as ‘tranquilizers’). And, it is a fact that West was the only psychiatrist who remained connected to the case during that that entire period (none others lasting more than a few months). West’s pursuit of Ruby was dogged. According to his own testimony, West examined Ruby on six separate occasions over two years.

Ruby died on January 7, 1967. He had lost a short battle with cancer. The strain of cancer spread so quickly some researchers suspected it could have come out of the laboratory of West’s boss, Poisoner in Chief Sidney Gottlieb (reference to Gottlieb’s pursuit of such agents is documented in Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, Stephen Kinzer 2019 Henry Holt).

West continued to pursue Ruby even after his death. He testified at the probate trial of Ruby’s Estate on March 27, 1967 (transcript of proceedings). As ever West asserted that Ruby was insane at the time he executed a jailhouse Last Will in 1966. Even though the date to which West assigned Ruby’s insanity occurred a year after West had last ‘examined’ him, he testified with arrogant certainty of his findings. The court rendered a judgment that never adjudicated the issue of Ruby’s 1966 sanity. But, West had done his duty beyond the bitter end.

Mission accomplished, I suppose. The insane label seemed to stick forever in spite of repeated failures to get a court to agree; perhaps just in case some hidden Ruby real confession ever surfaced.

Epilogue

Max Arvos discovered the appropriate bookend to accompany this story’s beginning which was West’s overt claim of his ability to create insanity with LSD with relative ease: “During a June 1967 discussion between defense lawyer Phil Burleson and prosecution lawyer Bill Alexander, Alexander stated that: when West first testified on Jack Ruby’s mental condition, in 1964, (according to Alexander) he said that Jack needed treatment for what Alexander thinks is just “death row psychosis” and fairly normal, and suggested that he be treated with LSD (then in an experimental stage).” – ‘Notes on Burleson-Alexander Panel Discussion’, Radio-Television News Directors Association, WKY Studios, Oklahoma City, June 3, 1967. Notes by Elizabeth Price. Document in West’s UCLA papers, Box 164, Folder 3, p.1.

*fn The significance of LSD mixed with amphetamines will come into sharp focus on a later installment of this series: Jolly West and Charles Manson

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The Proof That MK Ultra Mind Control Worked?

Posted on October 11, 2025 by | Leave a comment

JOLLY WEST PART II

Before we examine Jolly West’s role in the cover up of the conspiracy that resulted in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, let’s finish some undone business.

We’ll begin with West’s bold claims to CIA MK Ultra boss Sydney Gottlieb made in his 1956  Studies of Dissociated States and Report on Research In Hypnosis. First, West includes in the former the definition of dissociated states “fugues, amnesias, somnambulisms, and multiple personalities.”  We’ll focus on fugues because as you can see it is the precise goal of the MK Ultra program (see The Deep State and Scientology, The CIA vs. L. Ron Hubbard).

Definition of fugue: 

“a disturbed state of consciousness in which the one affected seems to perform acts in full awareness but upon recovery cannot recollect the acts performed” – Merriam Webster dictionary

West goes on to state: “In fact, hypnosis may be considered to be a pure-culture, laboratory-controlled dissociative reaction. Of the entire phenomenology of the various states described above, there is not one single manifestation which cannot be produced experimentally in the hypnotic subject.”

(see attached, Studies of Dissociated States)

Further in West’s accompanying “Report on Research in Hypnosis” he reports (on page 7), with no caveats:

“Current experiments indicate that false memories may successfully be inserted and true memories removed in suitable subjects. In other words it has been found to be feasible to take the memory of a definite event in the life of an individual and, through hypnotic suggestion, bring about the subsequent conscious recall to the effect that this event never actually took place, but that a different (fictional) event actually did occur.” 

(see attached Report on Research in Hypnosis)

You might be wondering “if Jolly West put in writing to the head of CIA Clandestine Operations that the above MK ultra mind control techniques were proven ‘successfully’, where is the evidence of that capability?” That evidence is not in the document where the claim is made. It is not in the papers of Jolly West curated by UCLA. Nor is it with the CIA, unless they have it buried deep beneath the earth behind impenetrable barriers. The CIA to this day refuses to even acknowledge West was their boy, even though documentation of that being the case has been published far and wide.  

There must have been something to West’s claim, since as a result of the report, the CIA officially continued to fund West for another ten years (thirty years if you include the CIA fronts that funded subsequent West-led groups, such as American Family Foundation, AFF).

There may be a clue in the one and only event where documentation exists for what Jolly West actually did on this earth between the years 1954 and 1956.

Author Tom O’Neill was the first to discover the documents above and the incident we are about to explore. He covered it in some detail in his classic CHAOS: CHARLES MANSON, the CIA and the SECRET HISTORY OF THE SIXTIES, Little Brown 2019. Mr. O’Neill did not suggest that what follows may have served as West’s “proof” that MK Ultra worked. But, if one takes O’Neill’s extensive research, recounts it in chronological order, investigates and adds new relevant facts, an interesting picture emerges. It might suggest that this case fits the bill as the “proof” West relied upon in making the above sweeping claims of MK Ultra success (at least in the minds of West and Gottlieb, who arranged a least another decade of CIA funding because of West’s accomplishments).   

At the time of the incident concerned Jolly West was one year into his independent MK Ultra contractual relationship with the CIA. The event in focus concluded shortly (perhaps as soon as a day) before West announced “mission accomplished” to Gottlieb two years later. 

State of Texas vs. Jimmy Shaver

It was the bizarre matter of Jimmy Shaver. Very little was known about Shaver’s previous history other than he’d been divorced, had re-married, and had two kids. He was an airman at West’s Lackland Airforce base in San Antonio Texas. He was an instructor for dozens of men. He had no criminal record, no history of violence and was never considered mentally ill. He was, however, recommended for experimental treatment for migraine headaches at Lackland’ medical facility where the likes of West were experimenting. He fit two of Jolly West’s criterion for human guinea pig status: “airmen” and “patients” (see paragraph E “Subjects” of the attached page 3 of West’s June 11, 1953 proposal letter to MK Ultra Head Sidney Gottlieb.

On the night (early morning hours) of July 4, 1954 a three-year old girl was found raped and brutally murdered in a gravel pit near a tavern in San Antonio. According to the El Paso Herald-Post, the pit was located “just outside the wire fence of the Lackland Air Force Base.” (close to Jolyon West’s office and lab at the base). Shortly afterward Shaver emerged from the brush near the pit, sweating, breathing heavily, with scratches across his upper body. He was arrested. Witnesses said Shaver seemed “trancelike” and he asked “what is going on here?” as if he were genuinely in the dark. There was no indication Shaver had made any attempt to escape. Instead, he was wandering around in an apparent daze. He claimed to have no knowledge about the crime.

Through hours of interrogation at the local jail, Shaver maintained his innocence. Finally, mid-morning in apparent resignation he signed a confession. It only lasted for a few hours. In the afternoon, Shaver signed another confession that cancelled the first. In relevant part it stated, “If she was raped and she is dead then I must be responsible since I was the one who picked her up and put her in my car.” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram 30 Sept 1954). Quite the subjunctive case for ‘proof’ beyond a reasonable doubt. Significantly, O’Neill learned from a West associate that West had somehow inserted himself into the situation the very night of the murder, though the extent of his involvement was never disclosed.

Four days after the questionable confession Shaver told a reporter for the Austin American, “I guess I’m guilty, but I just can’t see me doing something like that…I’ve always been a religious man. I’ve always tried to be good. I don’t know what happened.”  Again, he asserted that he remembered nothing about the murder.  (Austin American article)

Shaver’s court-appointed attorneys moved the court to have Shaver declared insane and incapable of standing trial. The motion was tried before a jury. At first it seemed that Shaver’ motion would succeed. After all, according to the 22 Sept 1954 edition of the Brownsville Herald, “Three Air Force psychiatrists testified Shaver was insane at the time of the crime and is insane now.” 

But, the jury ruled Shaver was capable of standing trial. The Brownsville Herald reported on 24 Sept 1954 that when the jury read the verdict, Shaver’s mother Mrs. E. McGhee immediately had a heart attack and collapsed to the courtroom floor. (Brownsville Herald, attached)

With three military psychiatrists attesting to Shaver’s insanity, he still had a fighting chance in trial and on appeal.

Enter the Black Sorcerer’s apprentice, Dr. Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West. West took it upon himself all at once to a) become Jimmy’s doctor and treat him, b) forward his MK Ultra experimentation by plying Jimmy with drugs and hypnotism, and c) serve as the critical link on the defense team, the lead psychiatric expert witness in trial. A conflict of interest ridden mix that only an accomplished sociopath could orchestrate. 

West testified how through use of sodium amytal and hypnosis he had put Shaver into a hypnotic state. It was only in that artificially induced trance state that Shaver admitted to the crime. Realize, Shaver since the day after his possibly coerced, and subjunctive-laced confession never relented from the position that he had no recollection of the crime and was flummoxed by what had happened (until the day he died). Only his own psychiatrist, putatively testifying on his behalf, presented the evidence of admitted guilt required to send him to the electric chair. According to O’Neill who reviewed the original trial transcripts, “West argued that Shaver’s truth-serum confession was more valid than any other.” To add additional grounds for sentencing his patient/client to death, West testified that Jimmy Shaver though temporarily insane when he allegedly did the dirty deed, was now “sane.”   

In one go West managed to violate the Nuremburg Code against human experimentation, violate the Hippocratic Oath by harming his own patient (in fact having him sentenced to the death), violate doctor patient-privilege, and probably violate attorney work-product privilege. 

Any other medical professional who pulled such a stunt would promptly lose his license for life. He’d probably also be sued so royally as to have his wages garnished for the rest of his life to pay the judgement. Not so for favored and valued CIA contractors. They, like West, wind up living privileged and honorific-filled lives in exchange for such skullduggery.   

Tom O’Neill hunted down transcripts of West’s drug/hypnosis confession session. The passages he provided in CHAOS demonstrate West leading and encouraging Shaver to the point of possibly implanting the confession in Shaver’s head. Initially Shaver resisted.

Example:

West: “After you took her clothes off what did you do?”

Shaver: “I never did take her clothes off.”

The critical middle 1/3rd of the interview was not recorded – the period in which apparently Shaver’s resistance was worn down. The final segment begins with this narration: “Shaver is crying. He’s been confronted with all the facts repeatedly.” That Shaver caved to West’s suggested confession while under hypnosis and sodium amytal and repeated leading questions is no surprise today. That is because it is accepted science that both hypnosis and sodium amytal create extreme suggestibility, particularly when combined. But, further research found that Jolly West already knew that fact and worse about combining hypnosis with sodium amytal. Eight years earlier he wrote the following in his April 1948 paper “Hypnosis In psychotherapy”: “[Hersley] investigated nebutal, sodium amytal, and sodium pentothal, and believes the barbiturates act specifically on the hypothalamic region…he was able to establish good hypnotic rapport with 18 of 20 nurses, and produce hypnotic phenomena (catalepsy, hallucinations, hyperamnesia, etc.) in many.”  He must have remembered. After all, his first MK Ultra mentor Dr. William Donald Hastings of University of Minnesota sent this little note to his prize student in response that very paper:

1948 Hastings handwritten to WestDownload

But West concealed that fact from the court, instead passing off his implanted confession as “more valid than any other.” As the MK Ultra documents we’ve reviewed demonstrate West and his CIA bosses were never after the truth, but instead were intent on creating false memories, fugue states, and amnesia.

Did West program Shaver from the get-go to commit murder and forget it? Was Shaver an  MK Ultra experiment gone wrong that required implanting a confession to discredit and silence him? Did West simply bumble in and destroy Shaver’s defenses out of his signature brand of vanity mixed with incompetence?  We apparently can never know.

Leaving no stone unturned, O’Neill  investigated the “experimental treatments” that Shaver apparently received at the Lackland Air Force base medical facility. He requested the medical records for Jimmy Shaver. He was informed by Lackland that all medical records for 1954 were intact with one exception: those for last names beginning between “Sa” and St” went missing.

Whether programming a killer or implanting a confession, both would be employing the very means and ends West vowed in writing to his CIA boss Sydney Gottlieb to perform the year before. (see, Jolly West Part One)

Predictably, Shaver was found guilty and sentenced to death in the electric chair. Twice. He appealed the first verdict/sentence on a juror bias claim, won that appeal and was tried a second time. The day he was sentenced a second time to the electric chair sealed his fate forever. March 31, 1956.   

According to O’Neill’s best estimate, West’s triumphant “mission accomplished” claim (made in the undated documents referenced above) to Gottlieb was rendered in or about “April 1956.”

I am not claiming that West waited until the very month, perhaps even the very day, for Shaver’s fate to be sealed (dead men can’t tell tales) before claiming success at MK Ultra goals. But, looking at the sequence of things, one could come away with that impression.

While awaiting his fate on death row, Shaver was asked by an Associated Press reporter if he remembered anything on the night the little girl was killed. He said, “I just can’t recall a thing except that I remember riding in the back seat of the car.”  He seemed at ease, adding “I think it’s better for me to die for something that I didn’t do than to die for something I did. I don’t have blood on my hands and I praise God for that.” (Associated Press, published in Corpus Christi Caller Times)

Jimmy Shaver, of conscious mind (not in West’s drug and hypnosis induced trance state), insisted upon his innocence until his death by electrocution.

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Military Industrial Mind Control

Posted on October 6, 2025 by | 2 comments

“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” Charles Baudelaire

It has been remarked that the most difficult thing for humans to face is evil. Rather than confront it for what it is, people reflexively attempt to rationalize it. That weakness allows the truly sociopathic to survive and even to run roughshod over society. 

When you take off the blinders and view what is behind the rhetoric, the propaganda, and the establishment narratives implanted in our minds you sometimes find that what you thought was benevolent and helpful is in fact rotten and pernicious.  

Let’s take a break from the Scientology angle for a moment and review what we’ve learned in articles on this blog since Feb 28, 2025.

The deans of American psychiatry and psychology are found to be involved with and supportive of “doctors” who systematically tortured human guinea pigs (ala Nazi concentration camps under the direction of Josef Mengele). This was done in pursuit of creating deployable agents to conduct political assassinations, and to forget they committed the crimes and who directed them to commit them. As we will see, the research was also utilized to run psychological operations (psy ops) on the American public to make it more compliant with plutocratic wishes.

How could the very people who influenced and advised the leaders who brought this society to where it is today have possibly been involved in such crimes against humanity?  When you first answer the following question, it becomes more understandable: Where exactly is this country mentally, morally and spiritually? The areas that fall under the effective guidance and control of the mental health industry, funded by taxpayer trillions since 1950 to steer society into peaceful, prosperous productivity. I need not say more about the results of those efforts. Unless you are severely mentally impaired, you are aware that precisely the opposite of the 3 p’s came to be. Lawless criminality, rampant mental derangement, continuous mass shootings, organized political violence, all while the future economic prospects for our youth are worse than at any time in American history. For the first time ever, generations coming to maturity will NOT have a shot at being better off than their parents. 

But, then you might say “well, there’s lots of reasons other than the mental health monopoly. Like, how about the military-industrial complex, how about deterioration of our schools, how about perversions of the law and medicine? How about the economic engines fueling one undeniably corrosive factor, ‘Globalism’?”    

The answer may lie with a troika that formed during World War II whose stated intent was to infiltrate and control every one of the institutions responsible for each of the societal ills listed above. Its aim was literally to control the way the leadership of those institutions thought.

The mind controlling troika consisted of brigadier generals from the US, Canada and England. Military generals who were also the leading international lights of psychiatry – Brock Chisholm of Canada, John Rawlings Rees of England, and the U.S.’ very own William Menninger.

The three psych-generals collaborated with one another from the early 1940s until the end of their lives. Together they formed the World Health Organization (WHO) and installed one of their own, brigadier general Chisholm, as its first President where he reigned during all of the lynchpin, post war years 1948-1953. Realize, this was not simply “mental health”; the head shrinks took over ALL of health on a global scale.

The troika then formed the World Federation of Mental Health, installing brigadier general Rees as President in 1948. That year they also installed brigadier general Menninger as head of the American Psychiatric Association. An effective military junta seized control of matters of health and mental health across the western world. Based on these facts alone, is it any wonder that the Military Industrial Complex has utterly conquered American hearts and minds from coast to coast?

Paradoxically, these three founding generals shared and instilled leftist objectives with all of the elite psychiatrists of the day. Rees first outlined them in his landmark manifesto “Strategic Planning for Mental Health” (published on 4 Oct 1940 in Mental Health, vol 1 No. 4. All italicized/bolded quotations below are taken from that publication)

First Rees called for infiltrating all levels of education:

We must aim to make it [psychiatric world views] permeate every educational activity in our national life: primary, secondary, university and technical education are all concerned with varying stages in the development of the child and the adolescent.  Those who provide the education, the principles upon which they work, and the people upon whom they work, must all be objects of our interest. For education that ignores the commonsense principles that have been more clearly evolved of recent years is likely to be of indifferent quality.

Then he widens the net to “infiltrate…public life, politics and industry”:

Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.

Especially since the last world war we have done much to infiltrate the various social organizations throughout the country, and in their work and in their point of view one can see clearly how the principles for which this society and others stood in the past have become accepted as part of the ordinary working plan of these various bodies.  That is as it should be, and while we can take heart from this we must be healthily discontented and realize that there is still more work to be done along this line.  

Rees claimed they had already laid “useful attack” upon, among others, “the teaching profession and the Church” and called for deeper infiltration of “law and medicine”:

 Similarly, we have made a useful attack upon a number of professions.  The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church: the two most difficult are law and medicine. Anyone whose memory goes back for even a dozen years can realize how big a change has been effected in the outlook of professional people, while certainly anyone with vision can see how much still remains to be done.

Rees urged psychiatrists use totalitarian communist methods of infiltrating society and advises fraud to cover up its eugenicist aims (covering up its ‘Mental Hygiene’ origins with the more palatable Mmental Health’ label):

If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity!  If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity.  By that I mean that we cannot help so effectively if speaking for a National Council or any other body as we can when we make a more subtle approach adapted to the particular circumstances of the moment. It really wouldn’t matter if no one ever heard of this Council again provided that the work was done. Let us all, therefore, very secretly be “fifth columnists”.

I doubt the wisdom of a direct attack upon the existing state of affairs; even though there is a war on, that would still raise opposition, whereas the more insidious approach of suggesting that something better is needed—’why shouldn’t we try so and so’—is more likely to succeed.  The evolutionary process is essentially British, and I think that we should make it a fundamental in our propaganda plan.

Here again we had probably better be secretive and not mention the Council or any other body, but simply write or speak as individuals.  Don’t let us mention Mental Hygiene (with capital letters), though we can safely write in terms of mental health and common sense. When we do write it is important to remember that the understatement of a case is much more likely to be effective than its overstatement.

Too bizarre to be true?  Here is the citation. Read it yourself:  Strategic Planning for Mental Health

That this military/psychiatric cabal talk was not simply a one-off, aberrant product of an LSD trip is evidenced by the founding President of the World Health Organization (WHO), fellow brigadier general Brock Chisholm’s follow up address.

The Eradication of the Concept of Right and Wrong

Given at U.S. Department of Interior 23 October 1945, Chisholm titled his speech “The Re-establishment of Peacetime Society.”  The address was sponsored and attended by two prominent, high-level American leaders of Reis’ targeted classes for infiltration (politics and law). They were Vice President of the United States of America Henry A. Wallace, and Interior Secretary (and future Supreme Court Justice) Abe Fortas. Chisolm did not simply outline the future of mental health, but the future of all of society shaped by the controlling hand of psychiatry. Keep in mind, World War II had ended less than two months prior to this address. 

All quotations are bold and italicized and are taken from the contemporaneous publication of the entire address in PSYCHIATRY: Journal Of The Biology And the Pathology Of Interpersonal Relations, February 1946:           

First, the primary and ultimate goal of the “eradication of the concept of right and wrong” is spelled out emphatically:

The re-interpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for the faith in the certainties of the old people, these are the belated objectives of practically all psychotherapy…

…The pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos…

…The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and many other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely…

Those who advocate the teaching of right and wrong – which virtually every law-abiding citizen of the world considers the first duty of responsible parents – are belittled as the neuroses of the “immature, the inferior, the guilty”:

…This bugbear (criticism or eradicating right and wrong) has no basis in fact whatever. We all recognize these reactions as those of the immature, the inferior, the guilty, which are not found in the mature, integrated personality…

…If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility…

Now that annoying conscience feeding distractions such as morality, ethics and religion are eliminated, Chisholm declares global “annihilation” of nations and nuclear proliferation not only sane, but vital. Realize, this pronunciamento is given less than three months after the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, from the top psychiatrist on the planet no less:

…The people who definitely do not want to fight any more wars must promise annihilation to any nation which starts to fight and must be prepared immediately and ruthlessly to carry out that promise without parley or negotiation. This involves the continual upkeep of widely dispersed atomic rocket stations covering the whole world and a continual high pressure research program to discover ever more efficient methods of killing to keep ahead of any possible competition…

To achieve his aims, Chisholm promotes taking the rearing and education of children out of the hands of parents and putting it firmly in the hands of state teachers whom he finds to be tractable to following his “totalitarian” ways and means:

…The most important thing in the world today is the bringing up of children.  It is not a job for economic or emotional misfits, for frightened, inferiority-ridden men and women seeking a safe, respectable and quickly attainable social and emotional status, nor for girls filling their time before marriage. Fortunately there are recent signs of intellectual stirrings amongst teachers which give some hope…

And once that control is established, Chisholm suggests standard education be replaced with “psychopathology.”  Ever wonder how reading, writing, arithmetic, and the difference between right and wrong were driven out of the classroom?  Or how social engineering in publics got started and carried out? Wonder no more:

…Can such a program of re-education or of a new kind of education be charted? I would not presume to go so far, except to suggest that psychopathology, the sciences of living, should be made available to all children and primary and secondary schools, while the study of such things as trigonometry, Latin, religious and others of special concern should be left to universities…

If you take a long hard look at this, the World Health Organization’s and the World Federation of Mental Health’s post-World War II agenda was pretty effectively carried out. And you would be hard-pressed to find a single current societal ill that cannot be traced directly to that handiwork. Perhaps, with the possible exception of drugs. But, they got around to that, and we’ll get around to documenting it.

If there is any doubt about the types of politics this approach embraces consider this fact. Chisholm’s comrade and infamous Soviet spy Alger Hiss agreed wholeheartedly with the aims of this lecture and publication. In 1948, Hiss published Chisholm’s message on mental health in his socialist journal, International Conciliation; along with an introduction promoting it.

What we are witnessing here is a specious affliction on the psyche of western civilization. A form of mind control has been and is being applied to all levels of society. By their own words, the operators are acting as ‘fifth columnists’ trying to do the work of ‘totalitarians.’  Perhaps we’ve been wrong to focus on a ‘deep state’, ‘national security state’ or ‘d.c. blob.’  Perhaps it more closely resembles a Military Industrial Mind Control operation.

Real Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and other genuine peace seekers remaining in this country are perplexed with the bipartisan worship of violence and war in America. They ought realize that our increasing lust for death will likely never abate until such time that we recognize its sources and their once overt admission that it was their very aim from the outset. Perhaps this is wishful thinking since that very admission also contained the conclusion that “the church” was their first and easiest target for “infiltration.”

The rudiments bear repetition. It does not get any more Orwellian than this (War is Peace). We were told by the original President of the World Health Organization that the formula for “The Re-establishment of Peacetime Society” was total war carried out “ruthlessly” and “without parley or negotiation”:

…”The people who definitely do not want to fight any more wars must promise annihilation to any nation which starts to fight and must be prepared immediately and ruthlessly to carry out that promise without parley or negotiation. This involves the continual upkeep of widely dispersed atomic rocket stations covering the whole world and a continual high pressure research program to discover ever more efficient methods of killing to keep ahead of any possible competition”…

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Menninger and the Mental Health Mafia

Posted on October 1, 2025 by | Leave a comment

Related articles:  The Deep State and Scientology, The CIA vs. L. Ron Hubbard, Jolly West Part One, Another MK Ultra Anti-Scientology Mouthpiece

The investigation into Jolly West’s hijinks (see reference articles linked above) keeps unearthing new prominent psychiatrists and psychologists and tying them to the CIA’s MK Ultra Mind Control experiments. A newly discovered document exposing another prominent MK Ultra klan member is published here for the first time anywhere.

It concerns the world-famous Menninger Clinic. The outfit’s founders, brothers Karl and William Menninger, were psychiatrists who worked hard to publicly position themselves as more ‘humane’ than typical state institutions. While they probably delivered hundreds if not thousands of mind-disabling ECT (Electro Convulsive Shock) “treatments” they somehow managed to create a public image of being more interested in the gentler psychoanalytical approach to the problems of the human mind.

However, our newly discovered document ties William Menninger (head US Army psychiatrist during WWII) smack dab in the middle of an MK Ultra triangle with Dr. Sidney Gottleib (MK Ultra head) and Jolly West (Gottlieb’s star experimenter). To fully appreciate the significance of the connection, recall then-Air Force-major Jolly West’s 11 June 1953 plea to MK Ultra head Gottlieb to pave the way for West to land as head shrink of a major civilian university. He couched the demand in the context of needing to evade pesky Air Force superiors from interrupting his human guinea pig mind experiments. Here is the final page of that letter with the relevant portion highlighted: West letter to Gottlieb.

Now, review Gottlieb’s 2 July 1953 reply and promise to bring all pressure to bear upon the Air Force to make that possible, (see highlighted portions, recalling that Sherman C. Grifford is Gottlieb’s espionage cover name), 2 July 1953 Gottlieb letter to West.

Note, Gottlieb was then banking on MK Ultra doc Donald W. Hastings (Head US Air Force psychiatrist during WWII) to come through for Jolly with “clout.” 

Now have a look at the newly discovered May 10, 1954 letter from William Menninger to his apparent pal, the Assistant Secretary for Air at the Pentagon, Menninger letter.  Menninger urges that his friend facilitate Jolly West receiving the ideal MK Ultra position he sought in his 11 June, 1953 report and recommendations to Sidney Gottleib. Menninger personally vouches for the integrity of West attesting:

“I know Major West from several contacts with him and he is a very outstanding fellow.”

As noted in previous posts, by this time on West’s timeline, Jolly has never held a civilian job, and never worked one minute outside of proven MK Ultra laboratories (Air Force, University of Minnesota under MK Ultra operator Hastings, and Cornell University under MK Ultra operator Harold Wolff). Menninger is fronting for a literal creation of MK Ultra and its predecessors (Operation Bluebird, Operation Artichoke, etc).

It is noteworthy that this is precisely the kind of clout Gottlieb wished to obtain from Dr. Donald W. Hastings in his July 1953 letter to West (above). Apparently, Hastings did not come through as 10 months later Menninger is bringing his own, apparently larger, clout to bear. That Menninger was successful was memorialized in a letter from Gottlieb to West two months after Menninger stepped in (Gottlieb/West letter of September 16, 1954). More than a year after promising to go to bat for West, and less than two months after Menninger goes to bat for West, Gottlieb exclaims:

“Congratulations on your appointment at the University.”

That would be the University of Oklahoma just as Dr. Menninger specified. West would carry out MK Ultra Experiments there for more than a decade, the entire time hiding the fact from the university’s administration.

Predictably, William Menninger is not only an MK Ultra insider, but an original attacker of L. Ron Hubbard and Dianetics. Probably not coincidentally, he appears in the very same Minneapolis Star syndicated article where his MK Ultra brethren Dr. Donald W. Hastings first took shots at Dianetics. The big boys of mental health (MK Ultra bros) of the time were ganging up on L. Ron Hubbard in an organized fashion under the headline “Future Hazy for Dianetics as Foes Rally”:

The_Minneapolis_Star_1951_07_05_Page_27 (1) Hastings Story headlineDownload

First local boy Hastings weighs in with a shallow, rather crude attack:

The_Minneapolis_Star_1951_07_05_Page_27 HASTINGS on DianeticsDownload

Menninger joined Hastings taking “the same stand”:

The_Minneapolis_Star_1951 MenningeerDownload

But, this wasn’t Menninger’s first shot at L. Ron Hubbard. Menninger had previously sounded off within months of the initial May 1950 Dianetics release the year before, see Sep 9, 1950 edition LA Daily News.

Introduced as another past president of the APA, the corporate media hails Menninger as the “Shakespeare” of psychiatry.  Menninger lambasts Hubbard for coining “some new terminology and disregard[ing] all the psychological theories and observations that have been so extensively studied by so many people.”  Menninger’s language make it sound as if he hadn’t even read Dianetics himself before passing judgement, “my impression is…”. With what we’ve learned thus far in the present series (and what we will learn below) Menninger’s critique might have more fittingly been received as a badge of honor. In fact, the attack is telling in another important way.

As noted above, the Menningers positioned themselves with the gentler psychiatric arts such as psychoanalysis. In fact, William Menninger was the leading US proponent of Freudian psychoanalysis at the time. But, not just any old Freudian analysis. He embraced literal Freud, including significantly Freud’s eschewing of his original ‘seduction theory.’ That was, the not uncommon (particularly among the rich and famous) occurrence of adults seducing minor children for pedophilic sexual gratification. Freud originally called such adult seduction of children “seduction theory.” One hundred years later, psychoanalyst, archivist and author Jeffrey Masson documented (through Freud’s own files) that Freud ditched the ‘seduction theory’ because of the pressure he received from the many pedophiles among his clientele and supporters (see, The Assault on Truth: Freud’s Suppression of the Seduction Theory)*. In other words, pedophilia was common among the leaders of 19th Century Europe (as it was common among US leaders of the 50’s until today, as apparently it is with any empire on the decline). And Freud’s patrons let him know about it. So, Freud decided memory can be a fickle thing; and when it implicates pedophiles it is downright unreliable. There went ‘seduction theory’ into the shredder. Childhood memories of sexual abuse at the hands of an adult were recategorized as delusions.** 

For a broader perspective on how Freud ties into mind control operations, I recommend you watch the timeless BBC documentary series The Century Self, here.  You will learn that Menninger’s promotion of Freud in the U.S. was integral to larger mind control operations that the American aristocracy (including the CIA) were running coincident with MK Ultra. That program had to do with applying Freudian principles to manipulate and control the masses. Cooperating psychiatrists and psychologists infiltrated academia, media, and government and used them to run psy-ops to neutralize and enervate the American public. 

During the 1940’s through 1960’s, Freud’s nephew Edward Bernays (the founder of American propaganda, euphemistically relabeled “public relations”) worked directly with industry, wall street, the military and intelligence on controlling American minds en masse. The aim was to convert Americans from citizens (who insist upon participation in decision making) into Godless consumers (only interested in physical and personal psychological gratification) who would be controlled by address to their base, materialist (Freudian) instincts.

At the same time Freud’s daughter Ana travelled across America promoting vast expansion of Freudian psychological services to the public; with the stated intent of controlling the masses by suppressing their alleged omnipresent, hidden, evil intentions (man is basically evil theory). The first targets were the leaders of government, industry, finance, media and academia (the aristocracy and its order keepers). They flocked to psychoanalysts’ couches from coast to coast, paying top fees while pouring billions into psych coffers for ways and means to control and profit from the citizens turned consumers.

The Shakespeare of Psychiatry was critical to this effort. William Menninger and his brother Karl rolled out the American red carpet for Ana Freud. William went so far in supporting her cause that he volunteered to lend his prestigious name to the American Psychoanalytic Association, serving as president from 1947 to 1949 while concurrently serving as president of the American Psychiatric Association. The Menninger clinic went on to become a leading center for psychoanalytic treatment and training in the United States.

It is here where the lines of demarcation between Dianetics/Scientology and organized Psychiatry/Psychology became clear and stark. So as not to fall into the trap of overgeneralization, I am going to make a distinction between innocent mental practitioners of the mind who were and are in it for the primary purpose of helping others, and on the other hand those utilizing knowledge of the mind for profit and power. The latter happens to include pretty much the entire leadership structure of the bastions of the Mental Hygiene (originally an offshoot of Eugenics) industry which rebranded itself after World War II was “Mental Health.” I’ll refer to those profit/power motivated ‘leaders’ as the Mental Health Mafia.

There are three facts about the matter that cannot be refuted. You can argue till you turn purple about the background of L. Ron Hubbard and the ultimate worth of his Dianetics and Scientology vs. the background of the MK Ultra headed Mental Health Mafia. No matter what the outcome of that debate, the three facts remain unalterable.

First, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health was on bestseller lists throughout the country in 1950 and 1951, causing a visceral reaction from the mental health monopoly. (A fact that lends more credence and weight to the first two posts in this series, The Deep State and Scientology, and The CIA vs L. Ron Hubbard)

Second, Dianetics held that you don’t have to be part of the aristocracy to address and attempt to better the mind. Any two people could pick up a copy of Dianetics and within days begin that journey. That fact combined with the bestseller status of Dianetics was the largest monetary threat (percentage-wise) to the mental health mafia in the history of their monopoly. That is taking out of the equation the mental health mafia’s first natural enemy, religion in general and in the United States and Europe particularly, Christianity.

Third, Dianetics said ‘no memory is out of bounds’; you want to confront each and every demon from your past that is holding you back in the present. This was in direct conflict with the Freudian theory being forced upon the country from the top down which explicitly mandated that some memories are verboten; most particularly those memories that might implicate rich, fat bastard pedophiles. Or perhaps CIA mind control operations.

Now consider these facts. Virtually all of the very best psychiatrists, including virtually every President of the APA from the late forties to the late fifties, had direct ties to, or were complicit with, CIA MK Ultra Mind Control experimentations. And as we have demonstrated, the first and foremost goal of MK Ultra was the creation of amnesia for purposes of control.

As we will see this literally turned into a struggle across America between freedom of thought on the one hand and thought control on the other. An epic war that rages to this day and involves each and every one of us.

Notes:

*The Mental Health Mafia’s subsequent organized attack upon and cancellation of Jeffrey Masson is another epic worthy of a feature length motion picture.

**Stay tuned for later articles on how organized ‘mental health’ resurrected and reinforced pedophile defenses, winning over all of academia and corporate media in the 1990’s. Among the prominent villains of that story is none other than Jolly West.  

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