MKULTRA Pt 3: Sydney Gottlieb, Operation Paperclip, Midnight Climax & CIA Science Fiction!
Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt
Isaac Weishaupt
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of the Occult Symbolism and Pop Culture with Isaac Weishaupt podcast we continue our 4-part MKULTRA deep dive! In Part 3 we’ll cover the authoritative source on the man running MKULTRA: Dr Sydney Gottlieb. It will cover the nazi origins of MKULTRA, Operation Paperclip, origins of the terms used in the program, George Hunter White and Operation Midnight Climax and all the FREAKS within the CIA. In Part 4 we’ll cover Cathy O’Brien’s TRANCEformation of America book where we get the theory about sex slaves and Project MONARCH. We’ll also briefly look at Tom O’Neill’s CHAOS book about Charles Manson being a subject in the experiments.
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| 0:00.0 | The CIA spent decades trying to invent mind control by violating its victims' free will, |
| 0:05.2 | and they failed. |
| 0:06.3 | They didn't fail because they didn't torture people. |
| 0:08.9 | They didn't fail because they didn't drug prisoners, patients, soldiers, and civilians. |
| 0:12.6 | They failed because mind control may only exist in fiction. |
| 0:16.5 | And fiction is what convinced them it was real. |
| 0:19.5 | Today we're talking about the director of the CIA MK Ultra program, |
| 0:24.1 | Sidney Gottlie, by going through the book, Poisoner in Chief, |
| 0:27.3 | the most important MK Ultra book ever written. |
| 0:29.9 | From Nazis and bio-weapons to LSD, sex traps, assassinations, |
| 0:33.9 | and the moment the CIA realized they built an entire program chasing a fantasy. |
| 0:37.4 | Join me here on part three of the mk ultra deep dive series |
| 0:39.8 | that's right we're doing the deep dive of mk ultra we're on part three already can you |
| 0:50.9 | believe it part one we talked aboutK. Ultra as a basic primer with |
| 0:56.1 | some pop culture examples and David McGowan's book program to kill. Part two, we talked about a book |
| 1:02.1 | called Secrets and Lies by Gordon Thomas. And it went through the whole program through the eyes |
| 1:07.0 | of William Buckley, one of the CIA agents involved. And he talked about some of the occult aspects to Operation Often, |
| 1:13.7 | as well as some of the figures and characters and scientists involved, |
| 1:17.3 | which some of this material is going to come up again today. |
| 1:20.5 | When we go through the book, Poisoner in Chief, |
| 1:22.8 | that is the M.K. |
| 1:24.0 | Alchalky Program through the eyes of Sidney Gottlie, |
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