John Kiriakou

Unless they know something that they haven't revealed that indicates either...

cross the interstate, some investigative lead that came across state lines or some kind of international involvement.

But my God, transparency is everything.

And like you said, Megan, in the post-COVID era where we've learned definitively that we can't trust what the government is telling us, then wouldn't transparency make that all go away?

Sure.

MKUltra was a CIA operation that was conceived in 1952.

It began to be implemented in 1953 and really took hold in 1955.

It did a lot of different things.

There were even sub-operations within MKUltra, MKChickwit, MKMidnight something or other, lots of them.

The bottom line was this.

There was a source that the CIA recruited, a Chinese communist source, who said that the Chinese government was experimenting with mind control.

That's where the idea of the Manchurian candidate came out, which led to a popular movie in the late 1950s starring Frank Sinatra.

In fact, the Chinese were not experimenting on mind control.

The Russians were, and the source was wrong.

But the CIA believed that it was behind the eight ball.

And if the Chinese were experimenting in mind control, then we needed, by God, to experiment in mind control and to figure out if we could sort of create a Chinese zombie world.

who could then work his way through the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party and take over China and then do away with communism.

And we all live happily ever after.

That's how it started.

So the CIA went about doing this in all of the worst possible ways.