In recent posts – Government Censors Are Losing Their Minds and Elon Musk and the USSA – we described how prominent US citizens have been transformed from corporate media darlings to heinous villains instantly. All they had to do initially was publicly object to deep-state censorship strong arm tactics and begin to peek behind the deep state curtain of Oz.
This deep state is the creation of and the protector of the American plutocracy. Over the past ten years more concentrated effort has been put into creating an all-powerful plutocratic ruling class than in any other ten-year period in American history. The new unconstitutional 4th branch of government (the sprawling, permanent bureaucracy or deep state) has actively enforced an unprecedented transfer of wealth from the many to the few. In no commensurate period has income inequality increased so rapidly; have censorship measures been more prevalent; has state propaganda been so dutifully churned out by corporate media; has government control and regulation of powerful corporations (including but not limited to media) been so complete; has the entire justice apparatus been used to hunt down, prosecute and persecute populists designated as domestic enemies of the state. Unfortunately for the younger generations, the level of neo mania (all that matters is the now, modern, and unthinking) is so great they have no frame of reference to even notice such fundamental, repressive changes.
Because of the populist landslide results of the 2024 Presidential election we are likely to learn that all of the maladies above – those indicia of the unquestioned plutocrat hegemony being visited upon us – are not new. Such efforts at smashing the Bill of Rights have been part of the ‘deep state’ agenda for many decades. This could soon become more clear, even if only by Trump’s promised release of the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassination files. The long duration of this erosion of rights is not understood by many. That in part is due to the neo-maniacal trend in this society. That is all attention by the plutocracy is driven to the present and ever-present future “threats”; the idea being to keep people distracted and unaware of the gradual erosion of their rights. In order to overcome the Orwellian neo-maniacal erasure of history from the collective consciousness, some study of history is in order.
One history I am intimately familiar with is that of the relationship between the church of Scientology and the US deep-security state. It so happens that that history provides a helpful backdrop against which to better appreciate the recent Bill of Rights cancellation craze in America. Virtually all tactics we are witnessing of late have been applied with force and passion against Scientology for several decades.
Scientology’s founder L. Ron Hubbard came into American consciousness in 1950 with his bestselling book Dianetics; The Modern Science of Mental Health. It was a handbook for regular people to straighten out their own minds and lives through a prescribed self-help regimen. Prior to Dianetics, regression type therapy (that is, resolving one’s past through revisiting it) was practiced mainly under the auspices of the government (to wit, WW II PTSD cases) and almost always with the ‘aid’ of mind-altering drugs. Hubbard introduced the idea of freeing the mind without the use of drugs, which he viewed as exacerbating the conditions meant to be relieved. He was immediately set upon by the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, The American Psychological Association, The Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Association, the Food and Drug Administration and virtually every federal law enforcement and intelligence agency. It took several decades of liberal use of Freedom of Information laws and coast to coast litigation in order to a) survive the attacks and b) learn of its extraordinary extent and intensity.
Paradoxically, the hundreds of thousands of subsequently revealed documents were really unnecessary to understanding why Ron Hubbard seemed to pose such an earth-shaking threat to the keepers of America’s deepest, dark secrets. Instead, a short passage in Hubbard’s second major book on the mind told one all he needed to know about why the deep, security state mustered all its forces against him.
In 1951 Hubbard’s Science of Survival: The Prediction of Human Behavior hit the market. The book expanded on Dianetics counselling techniques and provided a manual for predicting human behavior. In the course of doing so, Hubbard revealed something that – in spite of his efforts – the world at large would remain ignorant of for more than two decades.
The offending passage:
There is another form of hypnotism which falls between the surgical operation and straight hypnotism without physical pain. This form of hypnotism has been a carefully guarded secret of certain military and intelligence organizations. It is a vicious war weapon and may be of considerable more use in conquering a society than the atom bomb. This is no exaggeration. The extensiveness of the use of this form of hypnotism in espionage work is so wide today that it is long past the time when people should have become alarmed about it.
It required Dianetic processing to uncover “pain-drug-hypnosis.” Otherwise pain-drug-hypnosis was out of sight, unsuspected and unknown.
Hubbard claimed that agents of the agencies so exposed made attempts on his life later in 1951. Their methods of course made proving such impossible. And the public brushed it off since the leading lights of American corporate media (including Time Magazine, the New York Times and CBS) went to extraordinary lengths at the behest of their deep-security state masters attempting to paint Hubbard in as unfavorable a light as possible.
In fact, it was not until the mid-1970s that Pain-drug-hypnosis (PDH) received any significant attention. That was when Senator Frank Church’s Intelligence Oversight Congressional Committee probed the dirty work of the CIA. That committee (and subsequent Congressional investigations) released documents and testimony proving that what L. Ron Hubbard stated as fact in 1951 was indeed irrefutable fact. The Church committee revealed that at the time (1951) of Hubbard’s revelations US Naval Intelligence and the CIA had been working for at least eight years on enhancing interrogation and torture techniques with drugs and hypnosis. In the early 50’s the CIA formally took the lead in all such operations under the rubric MK (Mind Control) Ultra. 1952 documents labelled Project Bluebird, a part of MK Ultra, spelled out the aims of their then ongoing experimentation with PDH:
“Can we obtain control of the future activities (physical and mental) of any given individual, willing or unwilling by application of SI (sensory isolation) and H (hypnosis) techniques?”
“Can we in a matter of an hour, two hours, one day, etc., induce an H (hypnotic) condition in an unwilling subject to such an extent that he will perform an act for our benefit? (long range)”
“Can we create by post-H (hypnotic) suggestion an action contrary to an individual’s basic moral principals?”
“Can we devise a system for making unwilling subjects into willing agents and then transfer that control to untrained agency agents in the field by use of codes or identifying signs or credentials?”
“Can we obtain control of the future activities (physical and mental) of any individual, willing or unwilling with a guarantee of amnesia?”
“Can an individual be made to perform an act of attempted assassination?”
And finally, for some comedic relief, the CIA asked a question indicating their Keystone Kops level of incompetence:
“Can we detect SI and H by use of SI an H (regression)?”
Link to original CIA document
As noted above L. Ron Hubbard had already been regularly ‘detecting’ SI and H (or pdh) through the decidedly drug and hypnosis free Dianetics. He’d even published the fact in a widely distributed book – and their own agency along with several others were pursuing Hubbard with considerable resources and ardor for having done so. I personally have so detected and uncovered SI and H (and PDH) application – along with relieving the damage originally done – by use of Dianetics and Scientology techniques.
Hubbard’s 1951 revelation would make him and his creation Scientology a “national security risk”, a priority target for discrediting and destruction by the government-friendly corporate media and numerous federal agencies.
While having some measure of success in getting the public to disbelieve such claims, they failed to stop Hubbard and his techniques. He and Scientology became long-terms targets of what we today call a “whole of society” approach to undermining Hubbard and his work. That is numerous federal agencies set out to frame and prosecute Hubbard and Scientology by any means necessary, all flanked by coordinating smears by corporate media and non-governmental organizations such as the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Association, and the American Medical Association. Having been a front-line defender against such techniques for years, I too was targeted by a US Department of Justice FBI sting operation. When confronted with Freedom of Information Act documents proving the attempted frame up, the FBI agent in charge sheepishly admitted, “we tried our best, but you didn’t take the bait.”
The anti-Hubbard/Scientology propaganda campaign required authoritative figures to provide the ‘proof’ of their smears. Who were the leading lights utilized to smash Hubbard and Scientology? The heads of the American Psychiatric Association and the World Psychiatric Association. They and their minions presented themselves as the preeminent experts on ‘Mind Control”. They testified publicly in the media, legally in courts and parliaments, doing everything possible to make Hubbard appear disreputable and to position Scientology as a “cult.” Their expertise was accepted and forwarded by literally every corporate media outlet and every intelligence and law enforcement agency in the western world. For forty years.
After all these decades later, after much smoke has cleared, after many relevant characters have long since passed and their papers became available, and tomes of classified government files have lost their classified status, let’s revisit who the authorities on Mind Control Cults – and the basis of their authority – were. In short, they were the epitome of the APA affliction known as “projection” (that is accusing others of your own sordid intentions and actions).
Dr. Winfred Overholser was the first ‘authority’ to strike out at Hubbard. Overholser was President of the APA 1947-48. Decades of research were required to finally prove that from 1949 through the early fifties, L. Ron Hubbard and his Dianetics presented a clear and present danger to Overholser personally. Just after Overholser’s stint as APA President Hubbard presented Dianetics to a group of psychiatrists at the Overholser-led Washington D.C. St Elizabeth Hospital. Hospital psychiatrists there eagerly adopted Dianetics methods as they experienced initial success. That was only until Overholser caught wind of it. He prohibited its use and denounced Hubbard and his techniques as a “fraud.” That would be its original, official branding. Why was Oversholser so intolerant in the face of his underlings’ successes? Decades later it was learned that throughout the forties and fifties Oversholser was experimenting on unwitting patient-victims with LSD, electroshock treatment and hypnosis (yes, PDH) at St Elizabeth’s. Oversholser was one of the founding CIA shock/torture doctors furthering Mind Control experiments in America; the same line of experiments begun in Nazi Germany under the infamous Dr. Joseph Mengele.
Dr. Ewen Cameron was an Overholser successor as President of the American Psychiatric Association during the critical years 1952-1953, a year after Hubbard published his expose on government Pain-Drug-Hypnosis practices. They were also the same years the CIA formalized years of such practices under the rubric MK Ultra (Mind Control Ultra); the program quoted from above. Those were also the years when the APA became the lead grand inquisitor against Hubbard and Scientology, a duty it carried out for another 30 years, until the APA’s condemnation became more like a badge of honor as far as decent people were concerned. Cameron was also the head of the World Psychiatric Association from 1961-67, the years it worked hand-in-glove with the CIA to instigate attempted bannings of Scientology internationally, from the U.K. to Australia.
What we learned from the 70s (from the Church Committee, and subsequent committee, hearings) to the present is that Cameron was a leading MK Ultra experimenter throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s. He was in direct communication with MK Ultra’s American Mengele, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, poisoner and torturer in Chief of the CIA. The most thorough treatment on the sinister nature of the mass tortures Cameron personally performed and directed can be found in Naomi Klein’s best-selling book The Shock Doctrine (2007, Knopf Canada). After exhaustive research from extensive Freedom of Information Act releases over thirty years, Ms. Klein demonstrated with ample fact references that while Cameron’s organization was condemning Hubbard and Scientology for alleged “mind control” Cameron himself was regularly drugging, poisoning, electroshocking, erasing the memories of, planting false memories in, and implanting commands into the brains of hundreds of unwitting human guinea pigs. Cameron’s victims were drugged beyond consciousness without their consent and then tortured and hypnotized, some for months on end. All hidden behind the cloak of the literal head of national and international institutions responsible for the betterment of human mental health. That is what made him an “expert” on Mind Control.
This is only the beginning of a story that would defy belief for many decades – until sufficient documentation could finally be obtained to prove it. Hopefully, it gives you some context from which to process the mind-numbing attacks, nullifications, brandings, and targeting being meted out by the deep state/corporate media cartel of late (witness Trump, Musk, Patel, RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, to name a few). There is more TO THE SCIENTOLOGY STORY. And at least one of the central characters makes Overholser and Cameron look like choir boys by comparison.
Moving On Up a Little Higher 