#66 - MK Ultra: The CIA's Secret Quest for Mind Control | Stephen Kinzer

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🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him “among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling, and he’s spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times. On this podcast we dive deep into his most recent work studying the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments, MK Ultra of the 1950s and ’60s, and the CIA’s “Poisoner and chief” Sidney Gotlieb who conducted brutal experiments with pills, powders, potions, and LSD in an attempt to control peoples minds of foreign leaders such as Fidel Castro. http://stephenkinzer.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, world. In 1999, entertainment reporter Tom O'Neill accepted a three-month assignment from a film magazine to write a story about the infamous Charles Manson Tate La Bianca murders that changed Hollywood.
0:13.7	Tom missed his deadline, but continued to investigate the murders, falling down a 20-year investigative rabbit hole that birthed his new book, Chaos,
0:23.5	which is the product of those two decades of meticulous research,
0:27.4	hundreds of interviews, and falling out with publishers that led to financial and legal repercussions for Tom.
0:33.4	Tom's book, Charles Manson, the CIA, and the secret history of the 60s, presents his research into the background and motives of the Tate La Bianca murders committed by the Manson family in 1969.
0:45.3	The evidence Tom has uncovered blows massive holes in the official narrative of the Charles Manson story and exposes corruption and cover-ups and Manson's connection to the CIA's MK Ultra LSD testing
0:58.2	and psychological warfare mind control programs.
1:01.3	Tom's book is the holy grail of true crime,
1:04.1	and on this episode, Tom tells some shocking stories that had to be left out of the book.
1:08.9	So without further ado, buckle the fuck up and enjoy this terrifying episode with Tom O'Neill.
1:22.9	Mr. Tom O'Neill, thank you.
1:25.3	Thank you so much for coming out here, man.
1:26.7	I really appreciate you being
1:27.6	new. So your book, Chaos, what a fascinating journey this has been for you, a 20-year journey to create
1:34.2	this thing. 20 years, it's actually came out two years ago this past week, two-year birthday. Oh, wow.
1:41.3	I've never stopped continuing to report on the same subject.
1:45.1	Really? Did you think you'd be able to just kind of wash your hands of it afterwards?
1:48.5	Well, I knew I wouldn't be able to do it entirely, but I hoped to. And I think I didn't work for
1:53.3	like two days after it came out, and then it was just all of a sudden going right back to the
1:57.1	open-ended stuff. And the good thing. Hello, this is a short message from A.O.
2:03.4	We know finding the right gift can be tricky.
2:06.5	So give the gift of electricals this year for an extra helping of ooh.
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