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How the CIA Creates Mind Controlled Assassins

Dr. Colin Ross, a psychiatrist specializing in dissociative identity disorder, joins to discuss his explosive book CIA Doctors, which documents medical malpractice by psychiatrists involved in CIA mind control programs. Ross stumbled into this research in 1991 when a patient with multiple...

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Key Takeaways
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    Dr. Colin Ross documented 149 MKUltra projects involving 1,500 LSD subjects and 120 different drugs tested on American citizens for mind control

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    Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, Sirhan Sirhan, Timothy McVeigh, and Charles Manson all show evidence of being MKUltra patients with programmed amnesia

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    Louis Jolyon West interviewed multiple assassins and appeared at key moments to provide cover stories for their mental states

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    Chaos by Tom O'Neill revealed Charles Manson's transformation from petty criminal to cult leader occurred after regular visits to Jolly West's clinic

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    The U.S. Army admitted to using 120 different drugs on 1,500 people, with brain electrode implants successfully controlling animal behavior remotely

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    Human electromagnetic fields can be measured at distance, with ELF waves propagating thousands of kilometers without signal decay

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    Sidney Gottlieb murdered CIA scientist Frank Olson by pushing him from a hotel window after dosing him with LSD when Olson threatened to become a whistleblower

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Dr. Colin Ross, a psychiatrist specializing in dissociative identity disorder, joins to discuss his explosive book CIA Doctors, which documents medical malpractice by psychiatrists involved in CIA mind control programs. Ross stumbled into this research in 1991 when a patient with multiple personalities handed him MKUltra documents, leading him to spend decades investigating CIA archives.

The conversation explores documented evidence of MKUltra's 149 projects spanning from the 1950s through the 1970s, involving experiments on American citizens using LSD, brain electrode implants, sensory deprivation, and psychological conditioning. Ross details connections between famous assassinations and mind control programs, drawing from his analysis of 15,000 pages of declassified CIA documents.

The discussion transitions to Ross's second area of research detailed in The Human Energy Field, where he presents scientific evidence for electromagnetic emissions from the human body, particularly through the eyes. This work attempts to bridge Eastern and Western medicine by measuring what traditional cultures call spiritual energy through electromagnetic field detection.

The Origins and Scope of American Mind Control Programs

MKUltra began in 1950 under CIA Director approval, three months before the Korean War, contradicting the official cover story that it was a defensive reaction to Communist brainwashing techniques.

The program encompassed 149 documented projects with three categories: industrial chemical procurement contracts, unwitting academic researchers funded through front organizations, and top-secret cleared psychiatrists who knew they were working for the CIA.

G.H. Estabrooks at Colgate College published the first documented methods in 1943, describing how to create 'super spies' using hypnotic conditioning with trigger phrases like 'the moon is clear' to activate alternate personalities.

The U.S. Army released a list of 120 different drugs used for mind control testing, with documented experiments on 1,500 LSD subjects, though some sources suggest the number reached 4,000 people.

Psychiatric Architects of Mind Control

Sidney Gottlieb, head of CIA's Technical Services Division, orchestrated the murder of Fort Detrick scientist Frank Olson in 1953 by dosing him with LSD and having him pushed from a hotel window when Olson threatened to expose biological warfare programs.

Louis Jolyon West, a top-secret cleared psychiatrist at UCLA, killed an elephant with LSD at Oklahoma City Zoo and later interviewed multiple assassins including Timothy McVeigh, Jack Ruby, and was involved in the Patty Hearst case.

Martin Orne and Jolly West served on the board of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, which Ross believes was created to discredit multiple personality disorder diagnoses that were revealing MKUltra programming.

José Delgado at Yale developed remote-controlled brain electrode implants and published Towards a Psycho-Civilized Society, proposing to implant electrodes in the entire population except leaders to create a controlled society.

Documented Cases of Programmed Assassins

Lee Harvey Oswald worked at 544 Camp Street in New Orleans, owned by FBI investigator Guy Bannister, and had documented connections to Pierre Lafitte, who used the alias Alex Heidel - the same alias used by Oswald.

Jack Ruby killed Oswald while allegedly having an epileptic seizure and claimed no memory of the shooting, with Jolly West declaring him mentally ill after a 24-hour examination.

Sirhan Sirhan maintains to this day that he has no recollection of shooting Robert F. Kennedy, stating 'I don't remember pulling my gun' and 'I don't remember the exact moment.'

Timothy McVeigh told authorities that a computer chip was removed from his buttock at Tinker Air Force Base, indicating constant surveillance tracking before the Oklahoma City bombing.

Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon, had multiple personalities described in his biography and purchased The Catcher in the Rye before the assassination, potentially serving as a programmed trigger.

Charles Manson and the Counterculture Conspiracy

Chaos by Tom O'Neill revealed that Charles Manson regularly visited the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic where Jolly West had an office, transforming from a petty criminal into a charismatic cult leader.

Manson modeled his life after Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, naming his son Valentine Michael after the protagonist and calling his parole officer 'Jubal' after a character in the book.

Operation Midnight Climax, run by George White, involved dosing hippies with LSD in San Francisco and observing them through one-way mirrors, with White quoted as saying 'where else could a good American boy rape, murder, and kill with impunity?'

The Manson murders effectively ended the 1960s counterculture movement, with Joan Didion noting that 'the day the murders happened was the day the 60s ended.'

The Epstein Connection and Modern Applications

Jeffrey Epstein started at Dalton School under Donald Barr, who wrote Space Relations about using underage sex as blackmail, potentially serving as a template for Epstein's operations.

William Barr, Donald's son and former Attorney General, was a CIA intern during the Church Committee investigations and visited Epstein's jail cell, with his cellmate mysteriously dying six months later.

Ross speculates that like Manson with Stranger in a Strange Land, Epstein may have been programmed using Space Relations as a template while in a highly suggestible state induced by drugs.

The pattern of systematic trauma conditioning in Epstein's operations mirrors MKUltra techniques for creating dissociative states and programming individuals for specific tasks.

Scientific Evidence for Human Energy Fields

Ross published research proving extramission - electromagnetic signals emitted from human eyes - by measuring brainwave-like patterns from electrodes positioned in front of his eye without physical contact.

Extremely low frequency (ELF) brainwaves propagate thousands of kilometers without signal decay, making long-distance electromagnetic communication between humans scientifically plausible.

The human body already captures and uses electromagnetic radiation for essential processes like vitamin D synthesis and vision, making electromagnetic healing modalities scientifically reasonable rather than mystical.

The Body Electric by Robert Becker demonstrated electromagnetic limb regeneration in salamanders, with modern researchers like Michael Levin at Tufts continuing this work using bioelectric fields to regrow limbs.

Ross proposes developing electromagnetic medicine using antenna arrays to measure the body's energy signature and identify disease at the electromagnetic level before biological symptoms appear.

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