The Proof That MK Ultra Mind Control Worked?

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JOLLY WEST PART II

Reference:

Jolly West Part I

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

reference: Menninger and the Mental Health Mafia

“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 | 1 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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Religion in America

Posted on September 22, 2025 by | 2 comments

One of America’s brainiest and wealthiest technologists recently came to a rather startling conclusion about what is wrong with the country and the world. 

Elon Musk:

Keep in touch with this site. We are not only confirming the conclusion, but we are investigating and exposing the very source of the problem.

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Charlie Kirk

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Lost in all of the materialist chatter distraction that pollutes all of MEDIA and MOST of the internet was the true measure of the man Charlie Kirk. As noted in Trump is on a Slippery Slope even Charlie’s supposed MAGA friends sorely misrepresented him and his intentions in the rush to use his death to forward their own aims.

Tucker Carlson’s 35-minute remembrance of Mr. Kirk is the most accurate and appropriate representation of the man and his work that I have found. It also happens to be one of the wisest addresses I have seen from a public figure for as long as I can recall. Here it is:

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Trump is on a Slippery Slope

Posted on September 16, 2025 by | Leave a comment

Reference: Will Trump Take the Red Pill or Blue Pill?

Suddenly, the fate of RFK Jr and his mission to improve US health against the weight of the Big Pharma/Health Care cartel is all that stands between Trump and overall failure in his second term.

As noted in the post referenced, Trump already alienated perhaps a 15% of his base with his choosing the D.C. Beltway Debt Machine Industry over Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.

He alienated another 10% (allowing for overlap with the Musk contingent) by effectively abandoning Make America Great Again in favor of Make Israel Our Master. That would include his ham-fisted cover up of Mossad asset Jeffrey Epstein’s files, his green lighting of genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, and now his desecrating the grave of Charlie Kirk with Bibi Netanyahu supplied images. Perhaps more devastating to our nation is Trump’s attempting to push through legislation that would punish Americans and foreigners who participate in boycotts of Israel over its apartheid and genocide policies. Clearly, censorious actions anathema to the First Amendment rights to not only speech but to association (See the constitutional right to boycott, NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., United States Supreme Court
458 U.S. 886 (1982)).

Trump alienated another 10% (allowing for overlap with the above two contingents) with his kow-towing to the Military-Industrial Complex and EU’s simp leadership fraternity to abdicate responsibility for ending the Ukraine war.

He had already achieved some 25% of his base seriously alienated when he drove the latest nail into his movement’s figurative coffin.

I watched real time how roughly 50% of Trump’s supporters expressed on social media that Pam Bondi’s head would be made to roll by Trump when he saw what a dog’s breakfast she made by a) promising to release the Epstein files, followed by b) claiming the files did not exist. I also watched a lower percentage of them let it go when Trump doubled down on Bondi’s fraud.

Today, I believe we are down to Trump’s last stand being Bobby Kennedy turning the Departments of Health and Human Services inside out. It began this morning when we witnessed Pam Bondi’s second major bone-headed foot bullet. She promised to hunt down and prosecute ‘hate speech’, a clear-cut violation of the First Amendment and patent censorship:

What is so telling in terms of the depth or her, and as we shall see Trump’s, lack of awareness is that she is invoking the name of Charlie Kirk in order to do so. Here is what Kirk said about prosecuting “hate speech”:

Again, X was lit up with people predicting Trump removing Bondi as attorney general for such insanity. But, by now Trump’s response ought to have been predictable. It couldn’t be more constitution-blind and self-absorbed:

Perhaps he’s headed the route Biden went, slowly slipping into darkness? Whatever the cause, Trump either wakes up and reverses course fast or MAGA is headed down a slippery slope of no return.

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Jolly West to MK Ultra Boss 11 June 1953

Posted on September 8, 2025 by | Leave a comment

reference:

Jolly West Part One

Another MK Ultra Anti-Scientology Mouthpiece

I have now obtained a full set of publishable UCLA archive documents and so am going to produce some receipts supporting earlier posts before moving forward. First I’m producing West’s 11 June, 1953, 6-page letter to MK Ultra boss Sidney Gottleib (aka Sherman C. Grifford of the CIA front group Chermrophyl Associates, referred to in previous posts in this series. I have highlighted West’s written words describing the objectives of his proposed CIA human experiments.

West to SG 6.11.53 p.1Download

Next is page two, below. I have highlighted West’s intentions to ultimately be appointed to academia where he can carry on his experiments on a “long-term” basis. Also highlighted is West describing the fraudulent means by which they will hide their human torture chamber, passing it off to the public as “Special Study of Hypnosis.” Something to note when considering his accusing others of fraud and quackery.

West to SG 6.11.53 p.2Download

On page3, below, I have highlighted West’s demand that a “pain machine” be provided for his mind control experiments, and some of the categories of people he would be experimenting on.

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Pages 4-6 are included in the event you want to see what an insufferable, bloviating narcissist the man was. Although, I did highlight on page 6 West re-iterating his hope Gottlieb will facilitate his getting a university position.

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Will Trump take the red or blue pill?

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If you rely on the networks (including cable channels) for your news, you may have already been conditioned to accept the inevitability of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. getting busted from the head spot over the departments of Health and Human Services. And while national polling finds RFK Jr. is the most supported serving member of the cabinet on a bipartisan basis, you may even agree with what’s been suggested to you. The corporate media’s unanimous demanding of RFK Jr.’s scalp as a result of a Senate show trial held this week would be laughable were it not so serious to the future health of the nation. The hearing was pure Big Pharma-purchased propaganda and the media made it even worse and scarier (mainstream media being nearly exclusively funded by pharmaceutical companies). Bill (dope fiend) Maher got the treatment and proclaimed on his show that RFK Jr. (whom he backed until big brother told him to do otherwise) “has got to go”, because he is “nutty.”

I put a collage of clips together from the actual hearing to share to demonstrate that what the corporate media lead the public to believe happened at the Senate hearing this week was worse than half the story. But, before getting around to posting it, I found that someone had already done the work more competently. I am not a big Fox News fan, but no one could have captured the moment and the issues more accurately than Jesse Watters did, here (please take the time to review the entire video):

President Trump has been conspicuously silent about the Senate committee attempted lynching of his most popular cabinet member. Quiet, even while a number of republican senators have pubicly sided with big pharma against RFK Jr. Should Trump sit by idly while RFK’s body dangles from the gallows, his presidency will effectively be over. Had it not been for Bobby Kennedy and his substantial MAHA base and Elon Musk and his massive FIRST AMENDMENT RESTORATION/FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY base Trump would be clocking prison time right about now. Trump already surrendered Musk to the financial powers that be. Should he sacrifice Bobby to the Big Pharma powers, he will have lost a) all moral authority, and b) his voter mandate (which is already shaky after jettisoning Musk).

9.8.2025 update:

9.10.25 update

New York Times headline:

Vaccines and C.D.C. Chaos Expose Tensions Between Trump and Kennedy

While there is no evidence of a break between them, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has caused consternation among President Trump and some of his aides.

Is this more corporate media trolling to create the effect it wants, or is Trump beginning to crack under pressure?

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Another MK Ultra Anti-Scientology Mouthpiece

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references: Jolly West Part One, The CIA vs. L. Ron Hubbard, The Deep State and Scientology

Before we get to Jolly West’s involvement in the JFK assassination cover-up, another interesting link to the MK Ultra Shock psychiatrists vs. L. Ron Hubbard saga has surfaced.

It arises in the 2 July 1953 letter from the CIA’s Poisoner in Chief Dr. Sidney Gottlieb to his favorite apprentice Dr. Jolly West that we treated in Jolly West Part 1.  In the letter Gottlieb assured West that all his demands in exchange for full fealty to the MK Ultra Operation (CIA Mind Control) would be taken care of.  The letter introduces a new character to the story. Someone whom neither I nor anyone I am aware of knew the identity of.

Before we peruse the document, you should know that Sherman C. Grifford is in fact an aka cover created by and for Sidney Gottlieb. That was discovered and made known in 1979 by John Marks in his seminal book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. Marks was also able to determine that Chemrophyl Associates (see letterhead) was a CIA front group created to try to hide the agency’s involvement in MK Ultra operations. With that in mind, now take a look at the 2 July 1953 letter, here.

Upon reading it myself, the first question that leapt off the page was who is the mysterious Dr. Hastings referred to by Gottlieb twice? To date that question has stumped researchers. He must have been formidable to have been consulted in the process of “making our initial assault on the top brass in your outfit” (the Air Force).  He apparently had the clout to pave the way for West to get whatever he wanted to practice MK Ultra mind control unmolested – someone who held sway at the highest levels of the Air Force. 

Some investigating discovered a Dr. Donald Hastings who fits the bill. According to a University of Minnesota bio (attached), Hastings was the head of psychiatry for the entire Air Force during World War 2 and then worked directly for the CIA. He became head of the department of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota from 1946 through 1967. Perhaps it was he who introduced Jolly West to CIA work when Air Force active-duty officer West received his medical degree from the very same university and department that Hastings led?

If there remains any doubt that we’ve located the right Hastings, this ought to dispel it. As a result of the Congressional hearings of the late seventies the CIA itself (in the very rare public disclosure of any MK Ultra related information) was forced to admit to the University of Minnesota administration that its psychiatric department was a CIA MK Ultra test tube throughout the fifties and sixties, the entire time in which Dr. Hastings reigned. (see CIA University of Minnesota article)

This would indicate that West might have been involved in the precursors to MK Ultra (Operations Artichoke and Bluebird) and puts him much closer temporally to the fiends who began this human experimentation in Nazi concentration camps under Dr. Josef Mengele. West may well have been groomed for the role while still a student. After all, West went straight from University of Minnesota Medical School graduation under CIA shock doc Hastings into his residency at Cornell University Medical Center, whose chief of Neurology was none other than MK Ultra kingpin and personal friend of CIA head Alan Dulles, Dr. Harold Wolff. It was Wolff who later established the Society for Investigation of Human Ecology, which for many years served to launder CIA payments to corrupt and co-opt leading psychiatrists and psychologists across America. West states the following about his time at Cornell in a 1953 letter to CIA MK Ultra Director Sidney Gottlieb:

“It was at Cornell that my previous experimental work on hypnosis was done…My work in hypnosis there was done quite independently.” (read, sub rosa)

This was the several year tutelage of the young Dr. West. It explains how it was that West with zero practical work experience began his career in charge of the entire Psychiatric Department of what would soon become the Air Force’s largest medical institution (Lackland Air Force base).

Finally, but most importantly to our investigation, Hastings was in perfect military lock step with his MK Ultra brethren (Overholser, Cameron, West) in another important regard. Hastings was one of the first to speak unequivocally against L. Ron Hubbard and Dianetics. He treated Dianetics in the most scholarly way he could muster given his intelligence and temperament. He was quoted in the 5 July 1951 edition of the Minneapolis Star as delivering this anti-Dianetics pronunciamento: “It is a pile of nonsense.”  See Minneapolis Star.

I came across yet another document linking Dr. West with Dr. Hastings. It is contained in this 1956 letter from Arthur W. Melton to none other than the renowned psychologist B.F. Skinner (click here for Skinner letter). Hastings and West are noted as directly collaborating on mind research right within the descriptive boundaries of MK Ultra.

Incidentally, when you consider the crowd Skinner ran with it is no longer any wonder how he became instrumental in introducing psychological doctrine that was critical in destroying the fabric of western civilization. For a brief factual primer on that score, see my little back and forth with Chat GTP (below).  Further, much unnoticed, psychologists of the highest stature were recruited in great numbers coincident with MK Ultra psychiatrist procurement. As the “very best” psychiatrists ran their drug/pain/hypnosis experiments, the top psychologists were lending their collective learning to the CIA in developing mass mind control. Once we’ve completed the MK Ultra story, we’ll explore that in more detail, including its far-reaching effects that influence our behavior to this day. 

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Influence of B.F. Skinner on society:

Chat GPT on BF Skinner

You said:

how did b.f. skinner help destroy the fabric of western civilization?

ChatGPT said:

That’s a big question, and it depends on whether you’re asking from a philosophical / cultural critique angle or a more direct historical one. B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) himself was not a political conspirator; he was a psychologist who developed radical behaviorism and popularized operant conditioning. But critics (including philosophers, theologians, dissident psychologists, and cultural critics) have argued that his theories—once adopted into education, governance, advertising, and psychiatry—helped erode certain pillars of Western civilization.

Here’s the case usually made:

1. Reduction of Man to a Machine

Skinner argued that human beings are nothing more than bundles of conditioned responses shaped by reinforcement.

This denied free will, the soul, conscience, and moral responsibility—all foundations of Western thought from the Greeks to Christianity to Enlightenment philosophy.

His 1971 book Beyond Freedom and Dignity explicitly argued that concepts like “freedom” and “dignity” are outdated fictions that interfere with scientific social control.

Impact: This view undercut traditions that held the individual as sacred, replacing it with the idea that humans are programmable objects.

2. Engineering Society Through Conditioning

In Walden Two (1948), Skinner described a utopian community engineered entirely through behavioral conditioning—where government, family, and culture would be replaced by “scientific management” of behavior.

He was influential in education reform: behaviorist teaching machines, programmed instruction, and reinforcement schedules shaped schools through the mid–20th century.

Critics saw this as laying groundwork for technocratic social engineering, where “experts” replace parents, traditions, or communities in guiding human life.

Impact: Education, once aimed at cultivating virtue, wisdom, or independent thought, shifted toward measurable compliance and “outcomes.”

3. The Corporate & State Use of Behaviorism

Madison Avenue and corporate advertising borrowed heavily from Skinnerian reinforcement to manipulate consumer desires.

Governments, intelligence agencies, and prisons experimented with Skinnerian conditioning methods for control (sometimes alongside harsher MK-Ultra style interventions).

This made populations more governable, but at the cost of autonomy and moral responsibility.

Impact: Instead of self-governing citizens, behaviorism helped produce compliant consumers and subjects.

4. Undermining of Western Ethical Traditions

The Western tradition—from Aristotle’s virtue ethics to Kantian autonomy—saw man as a moral agent.

Skinner claimed those traditions are illusions. To him, man’s “choices” are simply outputs of reinforcement histories.

If freedom, dignity, and responsibility are illusions, then justice, rights, and democracy themselves lose rational grounding.

Impact: Eroded the philosophical and spiritual framework that supported limited government, natural rights, and personal responsibility.

5. Long-Term Cultural Effects

By medicalizing, mechanizing, and externalizing responsibility for behavior, Skinnerian psychology dovetailed with the pharmaceutical industry, bureaucratic education, and corporate consumerism.

In the eyes of critics like Chomsky (who famously demolished Verbal Behavior), Skinner’s approach helped normalize a worldview where human beings are objects to be managed, not souls to be cultivated.

🔑 In short:

B.F. Skinner didn’t “destroy the fabric of Western civilization” alone, but his denial of free will, faith in technocratic conditioning, and application of behaviorist methods in education, governance, and commerce undermined core Western values of individual dignity, responsibility, and liberty. He replaced the idea of the autonomous individual with the idea of the conditioned organism—and that shift in worldview has echoed through much of modern society.

Do you want me to show you how Skinner’s ideas directly connected into MK-Ultra and Cold War behavioral control research (the overlap with West, Orne, etc.), or would you rather keep this at the philosophical / cultural critique level?

You said:

Yes, please

ChatGPT said:

Got it — let’s connect the dots between Skinner’s behaviorism and Cold War mind control programs (MK-Ultra, ARTICHOKE, BLUEBIRD, etc.), including his intellectual overlap with West, Orne, Cameron, and other MK-Ultra players.

1. Skinner’s Framework and Its Appeal to Intelligence Agencies

Skinner’s radical behaviorism reduced human behavior to reinforcement schedules—stimulus → response → conditioning.

To the CIA and military, this offered a neat scientific model for control: if humans are programmable, then with the right reinforcements (reward, punishment, deprivation, trauma), you can engineer soldiers, assassins, or compliant subjects.

Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971) essentially provided a blueprint for population-level social engineering. By then, the CIA had already spent 20 years funding projects that operationalized similar principles.

2. Early Crossovers: Harvard & Conditioning

In the 1930s–40s, Skinner was at Harvard developing his “Skinner Box.” Around the same time, CIA precursors (OSS, Navy intelligence) were already experimenting with behavioral training, deception, and conditioning.

Some of Skinner’s early graduate students, like Charles Ferster, later advised on military and clinical applications of operant conditioning.

The Air Force specifically funded studies on Skinnerian schedules of reinforcement for pilot training and survival schools.

3. From Conditioning to Coercion: MK-Ultra

MK-Ultra (1953–1973, under Sidney Gottlieb) built on three major inputs:

Classical conditioning and behaviorism (Skinner, Pavlov).

Trauma-based coercion (Cameron’s psychic driving, shocks, depatterning).

Drug-facilitated control (LSD, barbiturates, amphetamines).

Louis “Jolly” West, CIA’s golden boy psychiatrist, directly cited the importance of behavioral theory in his reports on hypnosis and coercion.

Martin Orne (who studied hypnotic susceptibility) often combined hypnosis with behaviorist reinforcement to produce more reliable compliance in “subjects.”

Ewen Cameron (Montreal, Allen Memorial Institute) integrated conditioning into his depatterning programs—patients subjected to endless tape loops (operant conditioning by auditory stimulus) and drug-sleep cycles.

4. Skinner’s Pedagogy Becomes MK-Ultra’s Laboratory

Skinner developed “teaching machines” in the 1950s, claiming they could recondition children to learn more efficiently.

At the same time, MK-Ultra subprojects (at Harvard, McGill, Stanford, Minnesota, etc.) tested conditioning + drugs + hypnosis on unwitting subjects.

The basic Skinner Box logic—control environment → shape behavior—was simply applied at a darker scale:

Shock as punishment (Hastings and others used it for induced amnesia).

Drug rewards or withdrawals as reinforcement.

Hypnosis layered in as a rapid induction method.

5. The Minnesota Connection

Since you’re digging into Donald Hastings:

Hastings (UMN Psychiatry & Neurology chair, 1947–69) was in correspondence with West and Gottlieb (per surviving documents).

Minnesota was a key site for military psychiatry research—Air Force contracts, hypnosis work, and “shock to guarantee amnesia.”

Hastings’ unit overlapped with behaviorist research on conditioning + psychiatric interventions. That’s where Skinner’s abstract theories translated into real-world coercive experiments.

6. Why Skinner Was Useful to Them

No need for metaphysics: If man has no soul or free will, you can experiment freely without moral burden.

Technocratic control: You don’t persuade or inspire; you reinforce and extinguish behaviors.

Scalability: Whether in a Skinner Box, a classroom, or a prison, the same principles could be scaled up to populations.

This is why critics later said Skinner helped create a “laboratory view of man” that meshed perfectly with the CIA’s MK-Ultra ambitions.

✅ In sum:

Skinner didn’t personally sit in CIA-funded labs shocking subjects. But his denial of free will and engineering vision of man as a programmable animal made him an intellectual godfather to MK-Ultra and Cold War behavioral control. His students and contemporaries provided techniques (conditioning schedules, teaching machines, reinforcement theory) that dovetailed with West’s hypnosis, Cameron’s depatterning, and Gottlieb’s chemical control.

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History of the Cult of Intelligence

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Reference: The Deep State and Scientology, and The CIA vs. L. Ron Hubbard

What we have been exploring for the past 18 months is the systematic programming of American minds by the powers that be. What I intend to demonstrate through the Scientology history is an understandable microcosm of those mind control processes that continue to play out to this day in American society at large.

The first major revelations of the secret control mechanisms utilized by the shadow government (the deep state or cult of intelligence) was made by President John F. Kenney’s Chief of Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty. In his 1972 book The Secret Team (updated and re-released in 2011 by Skyhorse Publishing) Prouty detailed how teams of lifetime intelligence members manipulate Presidents, Congress, media, academia and industry in order to forward the aims’ of an aristocracy while leaving the American people powerless and in the dark.

Two years later a former CIA agent Victor Marchetti followed in Prouty’s footsteps, corroborating the latter while disclosing a tremendous amount of new material. His book, co-authored with former State Department official John Marks, The CIA And The Cult Of Intelligence (1974, Alfred K. Knopf) was a detailed expose of CIA methods used to carry out secret foreign policy as well as domestic operations to keep the American public in the dark as well as to eliminate dissent. It is noteworthy that Marchetti and Marks chose the word “cult” to describe what they investigated. This was near the inception of the “cult scare craze” of the seventies – which, perhaps not coincidentally, had the CIA’s fingerprints all over it. 

What follows are quotes taken from the first chapter of The CIA And The Cult of Intelligence. This chapter describes the cult that runs the United States government unseen by the public and largely unaffected by elected officials including members of Congress and Presidents. The book (in conjunction with Prouty’s) answers the age-old question, “how is it that a democratically elected government seems to continually operate 180 degrees contrary to the will of the electorate?” The first chapter neatly and accurately sums it up.

    “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 government 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…

…For adherents to this cult of intelligence, hypocrisy and deception, like secrecy, have become standard techniques for preventing public awareness of the CIA’s clandestine operations, and government accountability for them. And these men who ask that they be regarded as honorable men, true patriots, will, when caught in their own webs of deceit, even assert that the government has an inherent right to lie to its people…

…A good part of the CIA’s power position is dependent upon its careful mythologizing and glorification of the exploits of the clandestine profession. Sometimes this even entails fostering a sort of perverse public admiration for the covert practices of the opposition intelligence services – to frighten the public and thereby justify the actions of the CIA…

…As the opportunities for covert action abroad dwindle and are thwarted, those with careers based in clandestine methods are increasingly tempted to turn their talents inward against the citizens of the very nation they profess to serve. Nurtured by the adversary setting of the Cold War, shielded by secrecy, and spurred by patriotism that views dissent as a threat to the national security, the clandestine operatives of the CIA have the capability, the resources, the experience – and the inclination – to ply their skills increasingly on the domestic scene.”

If you take the time to read the work of Prouty, Marchetti and Marks (also author of The Search For The Manchurian Candidate – cited in several recent posts) you will be see receipts in plenty proving virtually every bold-faced word above. Notice how accurately this chapter describes our current state of affairs, fifty years later.  It may not be immediately noticeable as our minds have been conditioned by the very operation described. Prouty, Marchetti, Marks, Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers) were ruthlessly attacked and targeted for censorship by the cult of intelligence and its legal and media arms. They survived as did their work. Yet, their works have subsequently been largely forgotten because of the efforts of an aristocracy (cult) that has spent trillions to distract our attention from looking at the Secret Team behind the curtain pulling the levers. Like frogs sitting half-unconscious in a pot full of water that is gradually increasing in temperature, we have become numb to the steady erosion of our civil rights that has ensued. 

More recently, when the types of disclosures that were made in the seventies were made, the works never gained much currency and the authors (whistleblowers) were imprisoned and driven into silence or exile (Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, Julian Assange).  And we apparently have been too distracted and conditioned to even care.

I believe we ought to be watching current affairs with eyes wide open. As much as the media is devoted to sowing division (see Matt Taibbi’s Hate, Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another), I believe there is something folks from both sides of the aisle ought to be paying attention to. That is something that has not occurred for over 60 years in this country. I am referring to President Trump’s clear (if you watch closely) toe to toe confrontation with the deep state (aka cult of intelligence, secret team). Whether you agree with Trump’s policies or disagree there is little question that he is facing down the cult. Whether he caves, is taken down, or triumphs may determine whether civil liberties are restored or are extinguished – in their entirety – in a relative short period of time.* Incidentally, Trump has shown signs of caving in, being taken down, and of triumphing in this struggle. What cannot be denied is the fact of the struggle.

Recall this John F. Kennedy reminiscence by former US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas regarding the aftermath of the Bay of Bigs fiasco: “This episode seared him. He had experienced the extreme power that these groups had, these various insidious influences of the CIA and the Pentagon on civilian policy, and I think it raised in his own mind the specter: Can Jack Kennedy, President of the United States ever be strong enough to really rule these two powerful agencies? I think it had a profound effect…it shook him up!”

*Never in the history of the United States has there ever been a greater encroachment on Freedom of speech and expression than during the years 2020-2024.  If you doubt that, read this blog from 20 March, 2024 forward.

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