The Ripple Effect Podcast #196 (Stephen Kinzer | The CIA, MK Ultra & The Search For Mind Control)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

Bryan, Society & Culture, Callen, Philosophy, Carlin, Bill, 6, Dave

4.6 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Kinzer is an author, journalist, academic, former NY Times foreign correspondent, Boston Globe columnist, and senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Stephen also currently writes for several newspapers and news agencies.

Stephen has published many great books like The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War; All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror; Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq; Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future, and his NEW book that is now available Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.

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0:00.0	believe in the ripple effect.
0:25.6	The ripple fact. I'm gonna' I'm gonna I'm
0:38.3	I'm
0:39.3	Avaughan What's up?
1:06.6	Another episode of a perfect podcast.
1:08.3	I'm your host, Ricardo Vrend, also known as Ricky Branden.
1:11.7	Today we have a great episode for you. Author, Stephen Kinzer, he's written tons of books.
1:19.5	I've actually attempted to get him on in the past and had very little luck with getting a hold of him.
1:25.7	And weirdly enough, some of his people contacted me and said, hey, would you like to have
1:29.8	Stephen Kinzer on?
1:30.6	He has a new book called Poisoner in Chief that's coming out and would love to come on to talk
1:35.4	about it.
1:35.9	So it worked out.
1:37.7	And his name's probably familiar to a lot of you guys because he's written tons of great, great
1:43.6	books, one called
1:45.3	Overthrow, America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. He wrote the very popular
1:51.2	The Brothers, John Foster Dulles, Alan Dulles, and their Secret World War, Aldoush, All the Shaw's
1:57.5	Men, Blood of Brothers, A Thousand Hills. I mean, he's written so many books, Crescent and Star,
2:07.5	Reset, Iran, Turkey, and America's Future. He's written tons of really, really amazing books. So hopefully
2:15.2	have him on in the future to talk about some of his other books.
2:18.7	But today he's on to talk about a topic that I haven't actually talked about on this show before, which is weird because I'm almost to my 200th episode.
2:27.2	And I haven't talked a whole lot specifically on MK Ultra.
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