Coincidence Theory

Revelator · August 2019

Speaking of genuine conspiracies, this week's New Yorker has an excellent article by Adam Gopnik titled "Are Spies More Trouble Than They're Worth?" which focuses on the CIA and its loony MK-ULTRA program—"the attempt, mostly in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, to achieve mind control through drugs." It was inspired by fear of Communist “brainwashing,” which itself "was a classic piece of Cold War propaganda, popularized by a writer with C.I.A. connections named Edward Hunter, as an attempt to "explain American defections in Korea." The CIA "bought into the story, and launched a mind-control program in a desperate effort to counter the nonexistent threat that it had helped conjure into being."

Referring to Sidney Gottlieb, the "renegade chemist who oversaw the MK-ULTRA program," Gopnik writes:

...the fantasies that Gottlieb’s work indulged are part of the woof and warp of the James Bond novels, a good index of the period’s inner life. Biological warfare through posthypnotic suggestion is the thread running through the best of them, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1963), and Bond himself is turned into a programmed assassin in The Man with the Golden Gun (1965), with orders to go back to headquarters and kill M. (M, of course, has anticipated the attack, and installed a descending shield in the ceiling above his desk.) That none of this was real did not make it less emotionally credible. What seems ridiculous to us now was then not just part of the currency of fantasy but part of the currency of the plausible, no more or less absurd than our own particular set of accepted pulpish horrors, like the fear that makes us all obediently take off our shoes and have them X-rayed in honor of a single failed 'shoe bomber,' nearly two decades ago. A time’s terrors are its own, and each age gets the agents it deserves.

A further Bond connection: Gopnik notes that "Gottlieb was, in the early sixties, put in charge of a plan to depose Fidel Castro by making his beard fall out." Ian Fleming had jokingly proposed a similar scheme to John F. Kennedy during their legendary meeting in Georgetown, arranged by Oatsie Leiter. Little did Fleming know that the CIA has seriously embarked on the same idea.

Thunderfinger · September 2019

http://armswatch.com/islamic-state-weapons-in-yemen-traced-back-to-us-government-serbia-files-part-1/

http://armswatch.com/us-task-force-smoking-gun-smuggles-weapons-to-syria-serbia-files-part-2/

Thunderfinger · September 2019

https://intelligencecommunitynews.com/darpa-posts-semafor-presolicitation/

Thunderfinger · September 2019

Thunderfinger · September 2019

RichardTheBruce · September 2019

That HAPS idea can't MISS.

Oh, wait.

Thunderfinger · September 2019

Thunderfinger · September 2019

Thunderfinger · September 2019

Thunderfinger · September 2019

Thunderfinger · October 2019

http://thealtworld.com/dilyana_gaytandzhieva/leaked-arms-dealers-passports-reveal-who-supplies-terrorists-in-yemen-serbia-files-part-3

Thunderfinger · October 2019

4EverBonded · October 2019

Such a coincidence. As is everything going on in this so-called administration.

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1181010418162163712

Thunderfinger · October 2019

Thunderfinger · October 2019

He later apologized for lying under oath, but he had sworn another oath to protect the secrets of the NSA. Never mind that he had also sworn to defend the Constitution.