MK-Ultra is a conspiracy theory that suggests that celebrities and politicians who act strangely on camera are victims of a top secret mind control division of the US government. The theory has infiltrated certain internet corners, with believers believing that these individuals are not just nervous or butchering their lines, but are victims of a mind control division. Project MK-Ultra was a human experimentation program designed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop procedures and identify potential communist threats. Journalist Stephen Kinzer reveals that CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb worked in the 1950s and early 1960s to develop mind control drugs.
The code name for Project MK-Ultra was MK-ULTRA, which involved top-secret CIA experiments from 1953 to 1973. The program involved unwitting subjects being administered drugs and manipulated by the CIA. The CIA funded an army of psychiatric institutions across the United States to develop ways of mind control. MK-Ultra has had a lasting legacy on modern society, from its impact on conspiracy theories to its portrayal in popular culture.
📹 MK-Ultra: The shocking Cold War experiments hidden by the CIA – BBC REEL
In the early days of the Cold War, the CIA ordered the creation of a secret programme intended to find ways of mind control.
📹 The CIA Murder that Exposed MK-ULTRA | The Frank Olson Assassination
The CIA Assassination of Frank Olson | The Murder that Exposed MK-ULTRA November 28th, 1953. New York City. At 2:30 AM …
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Hey guys I thought immediately of AJ and Hecklefish when I caught part of this story on the history website and I read more about it online. It pertains to radioactive skeletons and ash found in India dating back roughly 10,000 years. Was it an Alien nuke? Space event? Something else supernatural? I’m really curious to know more and hopefully get your guys take which I trust the most. Also maybe in the future you guys can do a article on people who can move things with their mind. Telepathy. There’s article of people doin so and claiming it’s legit. That we all possess the ability but very few can harness it. Thank you for any considerations and keep up the excellent work! Can’t wait for the next article!
It would be interesting to find out more about the other nine scientists who were at that cabin at deep creek lake and whether all ten were secretly given LSD or if only a few were given laced drinks. Was the loyalty test specifically for Frank Olson or was everyone at that dinner being tested for loyalty?
Did MK Ultra go private after 1975? Imagine you have more than 20 years with a federal government agency and your program is cancelled and the system you created works. Well you retire with a nice pension and take your research private and create products for wealthy private entities and become a government vendor with intelligent services cover. As a private vendor with government intel cover you can collect billions of dollars, purchase clandestine properties, bribe foreign and domestic officials. Scare investigators into submission and In the area of psychiatry you can hide behind privacy laws and the gray area of the profession…MK Ultra victims still come forward only to be minimized and censored on social media and here. Their stories are similar but differ as to how the program operates today. 3 levels of MK. 1. Mass MK. 2. Group MK. 3. Individual MK. The most dominate characteristic of individual victims is multiple personality disorder.
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I would love an episode on the skinwalker TV show. Not just the lore but actually what happens and a critique of their research. It seens so real but so bs at the same time. I love this website and have listened multiple times to every episode. Reminds me a bit of buzzfeed unsolved which I also loved, hecklefish obviously is shane.
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I have watched dozens of your stories, and I can’t decide if you are extremely brave, extremely foolish, or a misdirect from the government. you present excellent content, and give a skeptics voice to what you produce, and your production quality is top notch. Perhaps it is the fact that you are willing to take a reasonable dive into your topics that keeps me coming back. The only question I keep coming back to, is how are you able, as a new website, able to afford, and maintain a reasonable level of production quality while still being a fairly new website? Most websites don’t reach the level you have for several years, and yet, here we are. Please don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that you are a government shill, I truly do enjoy what you are putting out, but yet, I look at the research, and production quality, and wonder. Do you have staff that assists in the research? Do you have a designated studio, and crew for production? Where is the financial backing for all that you have produced coming from, given we are still in the post-covid rebuilding stage of the economy? I truly hope you continue, and if Hecklefish is your tinfoil hat, let him keep on poking the bear. He is quite an enjoyable “Co-host.” Best wishes.
Very interesting. I learned some things I didn’t know. Amazing job as usual. Your time and effort is much appreciated. Have you considered looking into the murder of playwright, Christopher Marlowe? I think there still some questions concerning his death. By the way, I received my Hecklefish mug and t-shirt. Adorable!
A.J. you seriously NEED to do a story related to the Olsen murder. It involves MKULTRA. it’s the story of Thornwell, one of the test subjects. He was a US Serviceman falsely accused of taking some classified documents. You & the Hecklefish should get on it. It’d make a great, if harrowing addition to your MKULTRA vids. 🤔
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I worked in the hotel Pennsylvania which was once the hotel statler where Olsen had “jumped” from. I’ve roamed that entire building alone many times seeking anything. Sometimes, I can’t believe I was so daring. What intrigued me the most was Glenn Miller who used to perform there for the national broadcasting company during the times of the Swing era. When he passed away the hotel made a mini museum on one of top floors, long before the hotel closed last year b/c of politics. However, I used to work the overnight and I tried contacting Glenn ALL THE TIME. Apart from that I found the hotel VERY CREEPY AND I HAVE MY STORIES from unexplainable sounds, mists in the basement and the feeling of being watched. I was so attracted to Glenn millers music though, and I thought it was a shame that nobody knew what ever happened to him. I would play his music while I worked all night. I also tried contacting him with e.v.p. many times, and asked him to please show me a sign. It never truly happened… Or so I thought it didnt. Since my pay was so good I ended up moving to Queens New York. I’m originally from Manhattan, but I mysteriously ended up renting just a few blocks away from where he used to live in queens. I never even knew he lived out there in that borough either. I think that was the sign he decided to show me. I would never forget that. Working at the hotel penn was my dream job. So much culture in that hotel. Well was. . . B/c of Politics that hotel was shut down.
This made me sick to the stomach I cannot fathom the cruelty and psychopathic behaviour done by the people who should protect the citizens and not harm them. I know they do such things and most likely even today but its something different to hear a personal story about a family who lost their husband, father and child instead of just reading a report. Some people are just evil to the core… They dont have any conscious or regret about their actions its like painting a wall to them. Fd up psychos. That the government protects them instead of their people that they choose them above the innocent makes me sick! But its nothing new its another prove why we not ought to believe nor trust any government!
Great episode! As always thank you for the time and effort you and Heckle Fish put into this website. I’d like to see an episode about the JFK assassination! You’re the best I’ve seen at researching a topic. You don’t go at it with a predetermined opinion. You let the facts play out before coming up with a conclusion! Heckle Fish…. You and I should go fishing sometime!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.. Stay cool my finned friend! 😎😎😎🥰
Thank you for sharing this! I’ve heard about this case before but can’t remember hearing that it was acknowledged this was a wrongful death by the government. I’d love to know more. I’d also like to hear more about the army’s project mosquito ( not sure of the real name) and the CIA’s involvement with dropping whooping cough and other pathogens off the coast of Florida and California
Thank you for these investigations. I can personally affirm they (someone) are still experimenting on people they think are “expendable”. They just didn’t realize I trained to fight this treatment. A good friend gave me a hard head to mentally fight the subliminal conditioning. It’s still going on. ❤
Another great episode AJ. I had a friend years ago who told me he was a civilian contractor for the CIA in, another state. I wont give his name or where he was at just in case its all true. Lol But my buddy was a tall, strong guy. Who could handle himself in a fight. The stories he told where very difficult to swallow. I did a lot of shaking my head and smiling because I didnt want to call him a liar. The stories he told get more and more credibility with every thing I watch here on you tube. Have a great day.
Hallo, you mentioned that whole villages were drugged with LSD as an experiment. It would be very interesting if you could find more information on the topic and make a article about it. I personally have taken Lsd … a couple of times and in fact it is an experience that is very difficult to explain, because it is so different from normal state of mind. In fact what many people that i know and have taken the drug say and i felt it too … the first few times you take lsd usually the effect kicks in after about 40 min …. but you realise that something is happening at about 2 hour mark. Since then, I have wondered many times whether this could be used as chemical weapon and what would happen if a whole town or village is drugged,,,, apperantly i wasn’t the only one interested
Excellent program. I can guarantee you that the filth and soulless rot that underlay the programs you talked about, and the programs themselves, continued long, long after 1973. I know this for a fact, I’ve investigated extensively the Montauk Project and its relation to these programs, including connections to Plum island, Plattsburgh Air Force base, and the Allen Memorial Institute at McGill University in Montreal. My reports are online. The reports are entitled, respectively: Montauk Air Force Station: Active or Not?, and Phoenix Undead: Camp Hero and the Montauk Project Today. Do the research.
Poor Mr. Olsen He was involved in a mind control program and didn’t stay in it to win it. He thought he could just leave, how funny!! Seems he turned out to be a sucker in a room full of lolli-pops. And can you even imagine what would’ve happened to the family if they didn’t take the $750,000 and tried to sue. They probably would’ve all gotten really depressed out of nowhere and committed suicide.
I’d love to see you do a comprehensive article of alleged Egyptian artefacts and discoveries found and covered up. I recall seeing a black and white article of a sarcophagus excavation that some claimed was the actual body of Osiris (not necessarily saying I believe it) with specific glyphs visible that pointed to that conclusion. I’ll try and dig it up again, but I don’t think there’s any shortage of coverups (due in large part to Zahid Hawass).
I remember this. He was so clearly murdered it would take an idiot and a half to believe for one second this guy wasn’t killed. Only in the most dire situations do people kill themselves in these violent ways. A gun or hanging yourself is what most people do because jumping is uncertain and most people are terrified of heights. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen but there’s so many easier/less painful ways of going about it. Nobody wants to smack concrete and accidentally survive just to be in what I’m guessing would be the most pain you’ve ever endured next to being set on fire.
Key words were “Against their will..” They never said they would not help create a medical dilemma that would “require” experimental drugs to cure said biological predicament. Nor did they say they wouldn’t also require you keep getting these voluntary experimental drugs to fight the sickness. They are from the government and are here to help.
You should cover this topic more extensively. It’s fascinating to see the extent to which our tax dollars can fund atrocities when given to a corrupt government. I also hope that by bringing attention to these incidents, we send a message that we are now perusal their actions more closely than ever and won’t let these injustices be forgotten.
We’d be ignorant to think this wasn’t still going on! Ask yourself though, Are things like this worth it to keep our country number one in the world? Sometimes it’s best to not know what really goes on to keep our sanity.. There is no easy answer. That’s why not everyone is cut out for “certain” jobs.. It’s a messy world folks that’s why most of us choose to just stay in our bubble and keep our head down 😞
Do more on MK Ultra I mean I believe I heard that one of the scientists live next to Charles Manson and he used to give him drugs and that perhaps the whole Sharon Tate murder was MK Ultra gone wrong or just another test. Once upon a time in California with Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio is a parody of the Sharon Tate murder with a Twist at the end the wrong house. You and your team do great work it’s really interesting put in a nice format
I believe at this point I have watched all of the past WF articles and have enjoyed most of them. You frequently remark that the topic was suggested by a subscriber so I thought I’d make a suggestion or two. During his life David Crosby was often controversial. As a fan for a very long time I have read many articles about him as well as Graham Nash and Stephen Stills. The topic worth looking into is their connection with the CIA or Navel Intelligence. I’ve read that Crosby’s father as well as Stills belonged to one or the other of these organizations. David Crosby was never one to hold his tongue and surprisingly he avoided arrest and the draft during the 1960’s. He was known pretty much everywhere there were musicians to have the best pot anywhere. People such as Paul McCartney, Jagger and Richards, as well as many members of very popular bands and the counter culture were watched, raided and busted by police but not Crosby, Stills or Nash. Why? I read it alleged that they were protected by their father’s positions as well as being used as guinea pigs. There were known CIA offices atop a nearby canyon from where many rock stars lived. There were a few musicians who were drafted and either fought it or fled to Canada. Not Crosby or Stills or the Doors members or those of The Dead, Airplane, Doors, Allman Bros., and on and on with the top record makes from that era. Sally Mann Romano is still alive and was a witness to everything going on in the 60’s and early 70’s. Her book “The band’s with me” is a terrific read.
As a former LSD enthusiast, I can tell you there is almost nothing that someone you trust can do to you that will evoke a stronger feeling of betrayal or cause more anxiety or fear than to dose you without your knowledge. It is genuinely terrifying on so many levels. Particularly when you don’t know it happened until after the fact. Regardless, it is a horrendous thing to do to someone. Not cool, bro. So not cool.
This is being done to me all because I rejected a man who worked for the government. I saw major red flags in the beginning of dating, and I immediately ended it. Once I did, all hell broke loose in my life. This man ruined my reputation by accusing me of things I did not do but he did to me, turned my friends and family against me due to entrapment, and last but not least, he has lots of connections in the government where he was able to do MK2 Ultra, electromagnetic field waves, and other military weapons done on me all because I simply broke up with him. Still going through this today. Tried to move across the country to get away and somehow he found me and the mind control got worse. Never seen such an uglier side of our country then now.
Crazy stuff. There was and probably still is a weapons lab in my hometown in the NC mountains. Huge underground facility that always has a cover corp. at the front end. Was Tandy through my childhood. My folks talked about a time in the 50’s that the entire town and surrounding area was completely evacuated when something went wrong. No reason was ever given. Met a couple of people later in life that had worked there that talked a little about the wicked crap they made and handled there. Friends and coworkers lost in breaches that they were instantly sealed in and lost in seconds due to the lethality. I’m sure somebody is still up to no good up there. The valley is still under intense security.
I think my father was part of this. I don’t have any proof, but that’s also part of the reason I believe it. Most of his military records were destroyed in a “warehouse fire”. I hired a military attorney. She took my case pro bono. After 4 years I was exhausted mentally, from dealing with it. I still think about it though. Some days I wish I hadn’t given up. I don’t think I’ll ever know what happened to my father.
New discovery! If you try to rewind… FEROCIOUSLY TAPPING AT THE BACK BUTTON… & find… You can’t go back any further… You will be entertained… FOR AS LONG AS YOU WISH TO BE! … with AJ bouncing up & down at high speed, in his “slow sitting AJ” move! He looks like he belongs in an ol’school articlegame!
As a child I somehow had the name Gottlieb in my head and I thought I invented it. I thought it was a perfect fiction name to use for a villain in a story to write. My Dad was an Air Force Tech. Stationed at Beal AFB after I was born. I later became fire direction control and NBC NCO in the 82nd Airborne across the street from the “goat lab”. Lol. It’s true. I was in top 10% of all my testing. Years later, just a few years ago, I learned Gottlieb was a head of the MK Ultra project. It gave me chills. How did I dream up that name as a child? It’s strange. My whole life is strange. But…. I’m alive… I’m mostly happy. I’ve had lots of people tell me I’m MK ultra…. Jokingly I hope. Lmao. Proud I did Fire Direction Control for the Brass in the best Artillery Unit in the US Army. I prepared everything for the top brass but my clearance was only secret. Or was it? 😂😂😂
Walt Disney opened Disney Land on July 17, 1955, and Disney World on October 1, 1971. MK Ultra moved into Disney Land first inviting kids to be a part of their shows and performances. MK Ultra, now perfected, moved into Disney World in 1971. With thousands of kids wanting to be a part of newer shows, TV shows, and the like, the best of the kids, the ones with the most talent, were desensitized and became MK Ultra kids. Mind controlled. Mostly girls as they are more easily broken down, but some boys too. The girls became sex kittens. The symbol Disney used was the butterfly, found in so many shows and music articles. The end of result is the sad, but usually very public, mental breakdowns of these kids now in their 20’s; old enough now and trying to grasp what happened to them. Acting out, using drugs and alcohol to kill their pain, ending up in court rooms and jail. No doubt, MK Ultra is alive and well.