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September 10, 2019
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief
The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief'
During the early period of the Cold War, the CIA became convinced that communists had discovered a drug or technique that would allow them to control human minds. In response, the CIA began its own secret program, called MK-ULTRA, to search for a mind control drug that could be weaponized against enemies.
MK-ULTRA, which operated from the 1950s until the early '60s, was created and run by a chemist named Sidney Gottlieb. Journalist Stephen Kinzer, who spent several years investigating the program, calls the operation the "most sustained search in history for techniques of mind control."
Some of Gottlieb's experiments were covertly funded at universities and research centers, Kinzer says, while others were conducted in American prisons and in detention centers in Japan, Germany and the Philippines. Many of his unwitting subjects endured psychological torture ranging from electroshock to high doses of LSD, according to Kinzer's research.
"Gottlieb wanted to create a way to seize control of people's minds, and he realized it was a two-part process," Kinzer says. "First, you had to blast away the existing mind. Second, you had to find a way to insert a new mind into that resulting void. We didn't get too far on number two, but he did a lot of work on number one."
MK-ULTRA, which operated from the 1950s until the early '60s, was created and run by a chemist named Sidney Gottlieb. Journalist Stephen Kinzer, who spent several years investigating the program, calls the operation the "most sustained search in history for techniques of mind control."
Some of Gottlieb's experiments were covertly funded at universities and research centers, Kinzer says, while others were conducted in American prisons and in detention centers in Japan, Germany and the Philippines. Many of his unwitting subjects endured psychological torture ranging from electroshock to high doses of LSD, according to Kinzer's research.
"Gottlieb wanted to create a way to seize control of people's minds, and he realized it was a two-part process," Kinzer says. "First, you had to blast away the existing mind. Second, you had to find a way to insert a new mind into that resulting void. We didn't get too far on number two, but he did a lot of work on number one."
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief
September 8, 2019
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-university-research-center-concealed-its-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein
How an Elite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
The M.I.T. Media Lab, which has been embroiled in a scandal over accepting donations from the financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, had a deeper fund-raising relationship with Epstein than it has previously acknowledged, and it attempted to conceal the extent of its contacts with him. Dozens of pages of e-mails and other documents obtained by The New Yorker reveal that, although Epstein was listed as disqualified in M.I.T.s official donor database, the Media Lab continued to accept gifts from him, consulted him about the use of the funds, and, by marking his contributions as anonymous, avoided disclosing their full extent, both publicly and within the university. Perhaps most notably, Epstein appeared to serve as an intermediary between the lab and other wealthy donors, soliciting millions of dollars in donations from individuals and organizations, including the technologist and philanthropist Bill Gates and the investor Leon Black. According to the records obtained by The New Yorker and accounts from current and former faculty and staff of the media lab, Epstein was credited with securing at least $7.5 million in donations for the lab, including two million dollars from Gates and $5.5 million from Black, gifts the e-mails describe as directed by Epstein or made at his behest. The effort to conceal the labs contact with Epstein was so widely known that some staff in the office of the labs director, Joi Ito, referred to Epstein as Voldemort or he who must not be named.
The financial entanglement revealed in the documents goes well beyond what has been described in public statements by M.I.T. and by Ito. The University has said that it received eight hundred thousand dollars from Epsteins foundations, in the course of twenty years, and has apologized for accepting that amount. In a statement last month, M.I.T.s president, L. Rafael Reif, wrote, with hindsight, we recognize with shame and distress that we allowed MIT to contribute to the elevation of his reputation, which in turn served to distract from his horrifying acts. No apology can undo that. Reif pledged to donate the funds to a charity to help victims of sexual abuse. On Wednesday, Ito disclosed that he had separately received $1.2 million from Epstein for investment funds under his control, in addition to five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars that he acknowledged Epstein had donated to the lab. A spokesperson for M.I.T. said that the university is looking at the facts surrounding Jeffrey Epsteins gifts to the institute.
The documents and sources suggest that there was more to the story. They show that the lab was aware of Epsteins historyin 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges of solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitutionand of his disqualified status as a donor. They also show that Ito and other lab employees took numerous steps to keep Epsteins name from being associated with the donations he made or solicited. On Itos calendar, which typically listed the full names of participants in meetings, Epstein was identified only by his initials. Epsteins direct contributions to the lab were recorded as anonymous. In September, 2014, Ito wrote to Epstein soliciting a cash infusion to fund a certain researcher, asking, Could you re-up/top-off with another $100K so we can extend his contract another year? Epstein replied, yes. Forwarding the response to a member of his staff, Ito wrote, Make sure this gets accounted for as anonymous. Peter Cohen, the M.I.T. Media Labs Director of Development and Strategy at the time, reiterated, Jeffrey money, needs to be anonymous. Thanks.
The financial entanglement revealed in the documents goes well beyond what has been described in public statements by M.I.T. and by Ito. The University has said that it received eight hundred thousand dollars from Epsteins foundations, in the course of twenty years, and has apologized for accepting that amount. In a statement last month, M.I.T.s president, L. Rafael Reif, wrote, with hindsight, we recognize with shame and distress that we allowed MIT to contribute to the elevation of his reputation, which in turn served to distract from his horrifying acts. No apology can undo that. Reif pledged to donate the funds to a charity to help victims of sexual abuse. On Wednesday, Ito disclosed that he had separately received $1.2 million from Epstein for investment funds under his control, in addition to five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars that he acknowledged Epstein had donated to the lab. A spokesperson for M.I.T. said that the university is looking at the facts surrounding Jeffrey Epsteins gifts to the institute.
The documents and sources suggest that there was more to the story. They show that the lab was aware of Epsteins historyin 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges of solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitutionand of his disqualified status as a donor. They also show that Ito and other lab employees took numerous steps to keep Epsteins name from being associated with the donations he made or solicited. On Itos calendar, which typically listed the full names of participants in meetings, Epstein was identified only by his initials. Epsteins direct contributions to the lab were recorded as anonymous. In September, 2014, Ito wrote to Epstein soliciting a cash infusion to fund a certain researcher, asking, Could you re-up/top-off with another $100K so we can extend his contract another year? Epstein replied, yes. Forwarding the response to a member of his staff, Ito wrote, Make sure this gets accounted for as anonymous. Peter Cohen, the M.I.T. Media Labs Director of Development and Strategy at the time, reiterated, Jeffrey money, needs to be anonymous. Thanks.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-university-research-center-concealed-its-relationship-with-jeffrey-epstein
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