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This mental dilation of time makes physical torture worse than murder. The pain turns sideways to time, occupying an infinitude of paralyzed desperation.

Victims of MKULTRA don't usually get high-level briefings about the program, but I was given glimpses of what those psychopaths were up to because, for one, my direct handler had a penchant for bragging. Also, although I was only a boy when they started on me, I had a central role in advancing the techniques used on me; my ability to resist their demands on my intellect was diminished by the controls they placed on me.

Some personal observations:

  - Don't believe anything about which division of which agency is up to what. The intelligence community is a shell game, and everyone of consequence has a license to compartmentalize, which means they lie about what they are doing and for whom, even to their colleagues and official superiors.

 - At some point in mid-1970s a large contingent of MKULTRA, perhaps the whole remnant, decamped from the Central Intelligence Agency. From what I can tell through my tiny peekhole, they lost none of their access to facilities and assets but lost all of their accountability.

 - The article is spot-on about how underappreciated the role of hypnosis is. In MKULTRA, psychology is not the science of the mind but the art of human control. Hypnosis offers the preferred leash where individuals are compelled to specific acts. I was told that the intelligence community intended to misdirect the entire academic community of psychology, distorting their research to detract attention from the proprietary techniques used by intelligence operatives; I don't know if they did.

- I've been subjected to a range of what is called torture. No one will admit it, but torture is just a recreation for the psychopath within. At most, it's a crude adjunct to clever manipulation. That said, there is nothing comparable physical pain so severe and widespread that it overwhelms your ability to retain a central identity. The desperation turns you sideways to time.

- Hypnosis doesn't scale for control of populations, but many of the refinements of instructions for hypnotics improved the handbooks of propaganda.

This conclusion to the article rings true: >"The essence of the matter is that America’s mind control saga is not confined to the annals of CIA history, or even CIA torture rooms. In psychiatry, in social science, in the entertainment business and in social media, MKULTRA is the fabric of our lives."

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I knew some who claimed to be evil, whose only regret was not being more famous for it.

>We judge these programs under the wrong assumption that it is run by the good guys

Speaking as someone who as a boy was tortured and trafficked by operatives of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States of America, I am surprized how little appreciation there is for the standard role of misdirection in the espionage playbook.

It is inevitable that all these obstensibly well-intended investigators will have their ranks and their leadership infiltrated by intelligence agencies of major powers, all of whom invest in child-trafficking. What better cover?

My reply would be deemed conspiracy theory, though it would contain no theory, only testimony.

Why is this a legitimate topic on a forum that forbids trafficking in what are labelled "conspiracy theories."

The net effect of allowing a discussion of this sort is to restrict discussion to the few fragments of the record of MKULTRA that were allowed to survive.

Mr. Kinzer's book does not hint at how horrible, extensive, successful, or powerful the program was, nor does it show any cognizance of actual techniques employed in actual operations.

Since we're not allow to bring up the truth, can we just agree to avoid the topic?

Specific directives (to find a suitable place to anchor itself) require awareness of the terrain and object-recognition. Either a) the fungus has stumbled upon the signals to accomplish this singular feat or b) the fungus can read the ant's perceptions and can navigate. Finding the signal seems more likely because it is much less complex an achievement.

Not about suppression. unz.com is still operating. It just isn't a contributor to Google's news aggregator.

Anyway unz.com itself is an aggregator and doesn't publish everyone either.

>but I'm sure that is merely an unworthy cavil...

53 days ago I wrote a post but decided not to publish it. Thus am I compelled by you defend my right to publish here.

>it doesn't seem particularly to favor one side over the other

The non-racist voices, like Michael Hudson, get plenty of exposure elsewhere. They are used at unz.com to lend a civilized context to the sophistic racist writers.

>both are suffered to exist in public

Sophisticated argumentation leading to racist conclusions offends but does not enlighten and so is best ignored. There aren't two civil sides here, pretenses notwithstanding.

Agreed. Read UNZ.com to catch up on the latest thought in antisemitic, eugenicist, racist, and elitist circles. Otherwise, don't get upset when dehumanizers get unpersoned.