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This film is based on the book
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Drugs as Weapons Against Us:
The CIA's Murderous Targeting
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of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix,
Lennon, Cobain, Tupac
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and Other Activists,
by John Potash.
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The story of how the CIA used
drugs as weapons against us,
starts with European merchants
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making huge profits
in opium sales.
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Opium is derived
from poppy flowers
and is the precursor
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for making opioid painkillers
and heroin.
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The British East India Company, the world's first leader
in opium profiteering,
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obtained its opium
from poppy fields
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in an area
of the British colonies
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along the Himalayan
mountain range,
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between Afghanistan
and Vietnam,
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the world's largest regions
of poppy fields.
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A group of American opium
shipping families
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partnered with the
British East India Company
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to gain vast wealth
and global dominance.
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The wealthy political families
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of the
British East India Company
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influenced their country's
participation
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in two opium wars
with China from 1839 to 1860.
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When the new trend
of opium smoking
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began to become
a severe problem in China,
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its leadership tried to ban
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the importation
of opium into China.
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In response, Britain fought
two wars with China,
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eventually forcing China
into a treaty,
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relinquishing control
of its ports and trade,
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as well as accepting
the British opium imports.
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This resulted in a crippling
widespread epidemic
of opium addiction in China.
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Britain subsequently gained
cheap access to China's
resources,
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gained control
of the main Shanghai province
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inside what is called,
the Golden Triangle
for opium crops,
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and separated
Hong Kong from China.
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The BBC reported that Britain
continued shipping opium into China well into the 1900s.
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So this most bustling of
British colonies was built
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on a drug
which stupefies people.
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Even more remarkably,
the British continued to ship
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opium into China until
well into the 20th century.
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In America, the Russell family
rose to the top
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of all the opium shipping
families in their work
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with the British East
India Company in the 1700s.
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ThisYale Standard article describes how they intermarried
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with other wealthy
New England families
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such as the Cabot's
and Pierpont's.
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Tycoon, John Pierpont,
J.P. Morgan,
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descended from
the latter family.
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The Harvard Business Library
company description details
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how the Russell's became
the top opium shipping family.
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These families put much wealth
into the Ivy League colleges
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and formed secret societies,
such as Yale's Skull and Bones
in 1833,
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who gave their members
today's equivalent
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of $200,000 each
upon graduation.
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New York Times number one
bestselling author,
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James Bradley, had previously
written the book,
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Flags of Our Fathers,
which was made into
a Clint Eastwood movie.
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He spoke about his third book,
The Imperial Cruise,
at the Atlanta History Center.
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His research for that book
uncovered how many of
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the Ivy League colleges were
started by top opium traders.
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Cabot House at Harvard,
I discovered,
that's opium money.
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You know the Skull and Bones
Society at Yale,
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that was built by,
and is still supported today,
by the Russell trust.
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The Russell family
were the biggest
opium dealers in China.
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If you were
appointed the president
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of Columbia University
tomorrow,
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it's the Low Library,
that's dedicated
to an opium dealer.
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The biggest initial benefactor
to Princeton University
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was John Green.
John Green was an opium dealer
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along with Warren Delano
out there in Canton.
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The wealthiest
American families' power
and influence
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led them to start
three major programs
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for shaping society
at home and abroad.
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They founded
the eugenics movement,
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they started the
Central Intelligence Agency,
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and they initiated
Operation Mockingbird,
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to gain vast influence
over people's belief
via control of the media.
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Chicago Tribune's syndicated
columnist, Edwin Black,
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documented the history
of the genocidal
eugenics program
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that deemed
these ethnic groups"
Irish, Italians, Jews,
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Blacks, Asians,
and Hispanics
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as inferior
and in need of sterilization,
as well as elimination.
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After World War II,
highest level
CIA whistle blower,
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Victor Marchetti,
a former assistant
to deputy director,
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said that the wealthiest white Anglo-Saxon protestant families
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started the CIA
and placed themselves
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at the top of the US
intelligence hierarchy.
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British Magazine editor,
Frances Stonor Saunders
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also detailed the history
of the CIA this way.
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C-SPAN covered Frances Stonor
Saunders speaking
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at the National Archives
about how the CIA spent
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vast amounts of money
on foundations that funded
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virtually all of the
well-known American
artists and writers
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for at least several decades
after its 1947 inception.
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She said they did this
in an attempt to control
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the way Americans
thought and acted.
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The US government,
through its intelligence
and espionage arm,
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poured huge resources
into a cultural
propaganda campaign.
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A central feature
of this campaign
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was to advance the claim
that it didn't exist.
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The CIA was in effect,
acting as America's
hidden Ministry of Culture.
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Whether they liked it or not,
whether they knew it or not,
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there were few writers,
poets, artists, historians,
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scientists or critics
in post-war Europe
and indeed America,
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whose names were not
in some way linked
to this covert enterprise.
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A vital constituent
of this effort
was psychological warfare.
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The most effective
counter-propaganda was defined
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the kind where
"The subject moves
in the direction you desire
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for reasons which he
believes to be his own.
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It's useless to dispute
these definitions,
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they are littered across
government documents,
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the... of American
post-war cultural diplomacy.
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The eugenics-funding
oligarchs,
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led by the J.P. Morgan
and Rockefeller families
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used their immense wealth
and power to gain vast control
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over Americans' information
in various ways.
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For example, Cal Berkeley
Journalism School Dean,
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Ben Bagdikian,
in his book,
The Media Monopoly,
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detailed how the wealthiest
families bought up
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the majority of the media
organizations in the 19-teens,
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before sharing media boards
of directors with those
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in the top multinational
corporations.
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Bagdikian found that
increasing monopolization
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has reached the point
of six corporations
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controlling over 90%
of our information.
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Also, Watergate muckraker,
Carl Bernstein,
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then published the findings
of the US Senate
Church Committee in 1977,
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that showed
how over 400 members
of the media,
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mostly the ownership
and management,
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lived dual lives in
their work for the CIA.
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The Rockefeller
and J.P. Morgan lawyer,
Allen Dulles,
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headed the OSS
and then became
the CIA director
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when he helped save
thousands of Nazis
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to do the oligarchy's bidding
at home and abroad.
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Attorney John Loftus,
worked for
the Justice Department
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in President Jimmy Carter's
administration,
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when he was
assigned to research
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US intelligence files
on saving Nazis.
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Nazi scientists, doctors,
and engineers were brought
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to the US and put on
the government payroll
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in a top-secret operation
run by joint chiefs of staff
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under the code name
"Paperclip."
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One of the CIA's top
collaborative projects
with Nazi scientists
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involved exploring
how they could use
drugs in warfare
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against leftist leaders
in the US and abroad.
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These projects evolved
into the CIA's top program
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that it started in 1953,
Project MKUltra,
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focusing on the use of LSD
and other drugs
in these applications.
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One of MKUltra's top sites
was the same location
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where the oligarchs ran
the eugenics program,
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Cold Spring Harbor.
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MKUltra scientists developed
a psychedelic hit list
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of leftist leaders
from Latin America to Africa.
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For example, they planned to
target Cuba's Fidel Castro
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and Che Guevara, as well as
Ghana independence leader,
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Kwame Nkrumah, all of
whom they planned to dose,
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meaning to
involuntarily give LSD.
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Congressional hearings
eventually exposed
project MKUltra
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running from 1953 to 1964,
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after researchers found
that its name
was changed to MKSearch,
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which ran until at least 1973.
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The congressional committed
gathered 16,000 documents
on Project MKUltra
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and found that it included
149 sub-projects.
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The hearing
coincides with the release
of 16,000 pages
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of declassified CIA documents
about the agency's project,
MKUltra,
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which
ran from 1953 to 1964.
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It is from these documents
and the findings
of the sub-committee,
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that investigators can piece
together some of the projects
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that were part of the largest
mind control program
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in the history
of the United States.
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The CIA's
MKUltra program became an umbrella name for operations
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involving drugs
and also hypnosis.
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This picture is from
a documentary detailing
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how MKUltra scientists
first offered incentives
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to over 1,000 soldiers
at Edgewood Arsenal to try LSD
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and two dozen other
MKUltra drugs,
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listed here from one final
report from 1955 to 1967.
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In another report on just LSD,
when surveyed up to
19 years later,
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about a quarter of these
test subjects
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stated still having lasting
negative effects from LSD.
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Other experimental tests showed that LSD was contributing
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to minor cerebral damage
and further mental health
problems.
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But the
Army's own study revealed
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one disturbing
and forgotten statistic,
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24% of the volunteers
re-examined had reported
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long-term adverse effects,
not physical,
but psychological.
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While this document
shows the CIA
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was working on the use
of LSD and other drugs
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for unconventional warfare,
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evidence supports
that the battlefield
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would include whoever opposed
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their racist, pro-war agenda,
particularly Americans.
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MKUltra scientists
then conducted what this
US Senate report said was,
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"Projects involving
the surreptitious
administration of LSD
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to unwitting non-volunteer
subjects at all social levels.
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One key reason
may have been related to
a CIA document statement
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of a developing goal of using
LSD to develop means for
the control of the activities
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and mental capacities
of individuals,
whether willing or not.
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Accumulating evidence
suggests this would become
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the unstated achievement
and the CIA's MKUltra agents'
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motivation for
its ever-increasing
distribution of LSD.
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Activist Paul Robeson Jr.,
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has presented
overwhelming evidence
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supporting that
the CIA targeted
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his extraordinary father
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by placing a psychedelic drug
in his drinks.
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Paul Robeson Sr. was an
All-American football player
in college,
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he graduated from
Columbia University Law School
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and was a world renowned
singer and activist,
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and he eventually learned
to speak 20 languages.
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Several weeks before
a planned trip to meet with
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Cuban leaders Fidel Castro
and Che Guevara in 1961,
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Paul Robeson had traveled
to Moscow to sing and lecture.
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Americans in his hotel threw
a surprise party in the room
next to his,
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and convinced him to attend.
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Paul Robeson Jr.
described this incident
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to Amy Goodwin
onDemocracy Now!,
the radio program.
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Wild party,
all kinds of people wandering
in and out,
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including dissidents,
refuseniks...
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Obviously, anti-Soviet people
disturbed him very much.
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What happened was,
he told me afterwards,
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a couple days later
when I saw him,
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he was in good condition,
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that he had hallucinated,
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not to give the details,
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but like you do on an LSD trip, then been terribly depressed.
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-What is BZ?
-BZ is a special drug
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to produce extreme
hallucination
and then extreme depression,
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developed by the CIA.
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LSD was developed on
many campuses, you see,
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and the spinoff
from the experiments,
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it was LSD, which is a
weaker version of BZ.
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But the BZ was used
on Frank Olsen
and on other victims
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to get rid of
political enemies,
foreign and domestic.
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Robeson Sr.
ended up in a hospital
under the care of doctors,
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who used MKUltra
de-patterning techniques,
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they gave Robeson
54 electroconvulsive
shock treatments
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at overly high doses,
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permanently damaging his mind
and sabotaging his career.
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The CIA appeared to
expand its work to target
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the ever-increasing amount
of leftist student activists
across the US
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American students had taken
up Martin Luther King's
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civil rights movement
with Freedom Summer
bus rides down south.
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Students also began
organizing to oppose
the increasing war in Vietnam.
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The CIA hid their work
on the MKUltra program
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behind a group
it secretly funded
out of Cornell University
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called the Human Ecology Fund.
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That fund gave large
financial grants to over
a hundred colleges,
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along with a hundred
prisons and hospitals
around the country.
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The institutions
conducted experiments,
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offering money to test subjects for taking psychedelic
mushrooms and LSD.
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Timothy Leary, seen here,
gained the most notoriety
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from these CIA-funded
college experiments.
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Timothy Leary used LSD
and other psychedelics
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on paid student
volunteers at Harvard,
from about 1960 to 1963,
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where he worked
as a psychology professor.
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Harvard kicked Leary,
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and his collaborating
fellow professor,
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Richard Alpert,
out of the university
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near the end
of the 1963 school year.
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Leary ended up starting
an international
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organization promoting LSD use.
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Two members of one of the
world's wealthiest families
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stepped in to aid
Leary's promotion
and distribution of acid.
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William Mellon Hitchcock,
seen right, with Leary
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and his sister,
Peggy Mellon Hitchcock,
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put a massive amount of money
into Leary's group.
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The Mellon Hitchcock family owned Mellon Bank and Gulf Oil,
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while also having members
who were US intelligence
veterans.
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Leary housed his group
in William Hitchcock's
New York mansion
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on a 2,300-acre estate
in Millbrook, New York,
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from late 1963 until late 1966.
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We know we don't have
the full story.
We do, however,
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have some striking new
revelations and insights.
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It was here
that the first halting steps
toward mind control began.
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The safe houses were not
the only testing grounds,
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millions of dollars
would be spent on LSD research
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at universities
throughout the country,
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and word would begin
to spread on campus
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about this so-called
mind-blowing drug.
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And suddenly, there was the
counterculture of the 60s.
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Dr. Timothy Leary, the 1960s
Johnny Appleseed of LSD.
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The CIA funded and supported
and encouraged hundreds
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of young psychiatrists
to experiment with this drug.
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In 1975, one of
New York's top alternative
newspaper publishers,
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East Village Other founder,
Walter Bowart,
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interviewed Timothy Leary
forFreedom Magazine.
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Alex Constantine and the
late Jim Keith both reprinted
this interview.
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Leary admitted in 1975 that,
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"80% of my movements,
80% of the decisions I made,
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were suggested to me
by CIA people.
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I've known this for
ten years, and yes,
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I was a witting agent
of the CIA."
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MKUltra scientists,
doctors, and agents,
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such as Dr. Humphry Osmond
and Captain Alfred Hubbard,
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proceeded to set up shop
at the Millbrook estate.
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They supplied Leary
and his cohorts
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with many different experimental psychedelic drugs.
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Many of New York's
influential leftist artists
and entertainers
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were lured to Millbrook,
or eventually convinced
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by the Leary type
of propaganda to try acid.
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Evidence showed that
the CIA and FBI
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opposed the Martin Luther King
led civil rights movement.
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These CIA scientist
activities were diverting
white New York City students,
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one of the largest sources
of Freedom Riders,
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luring them
to the Millbrook estate
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and damaging their minds.
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US intelligence
also opposed
the leftist activists
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in the
historically progressive
San Francisco Bay area.
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MKUltra targeted students
enrolled at the University
of California-Berkeley,
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who took part in civil rights
and free speech work
by promoting LSD parties.
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Nearby, Stanford University,
had already been conducting
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MKUltra experiments,
funded by the CIA's
front group,
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the Human Ecology Fund.
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Stanford University
graduate writing student,
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Ken Kesey, accepted money to
try acid as part of that study
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at a nearby
Stanford-affiliated hospital.
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Within several weeks,
the scientists
curiously offered
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their experiment subject Kesey
a job at the hospital,
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and gave him keys
to the LSD supply.
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Then they allowed
Kesey to confiscate
unlimited amounts of LSD.
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Kesey, a college wrestler,
who had barely ever been
drunk before the experiment,
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held regular parties with
alcohol, marijuana, and acid
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at his home
in the Stanford area.
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Evidence would come out
that this was similar
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to Leary's MKUltra
Millbrook estate parties.
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When the MKUltra university
experiments ended,
around 1963,
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an interesting romantic couple, Augustus Owsley Stanley III,
and Mary Cargill,
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stepped into supply Ken Kesey
with vast amounts of acid.
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This couple came from
two of America's
wealthiest families.
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Owsley Stanley's family
was Kentucky blue-blood.
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Owsley's father
was a government lawyer
and his grandfather
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was a Kentucky governor
and US senator.
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A Kentucky county
bears his family name.
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Cargill's family founded
America's largest
privately-owned company.
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Owsley supplied Kesey,
and then California,
with unlimited acid.
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The super-wealthy
Mellon Hitchcock family
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soon joined Owsley Stanley in trafficking acid nationwide.
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The Mellon Hitchcock-backed
new organization,
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The Brotherhood of Eternal
Love, helped make Owsley,
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seen here
with the Grateful Dead's
Jerry Garcia,
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America's largest acid supplier by around 1967.
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Chemist and engineer,
Tim Scully, assisted Owsley.
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In the summer of 1964,
Owsley, Kesey, and a group
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who called themselves
the Merry Pranksters,
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used a trip Kesey
was making to New York
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as an excuse to start
a cross-country
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promotional tour of acid.
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Arriving in New York City,
they would end up
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riding through
Harlem, New York,
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in July of 1964,
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around the time of the largest
civil rights riot to date.
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Was this a purposeful
introduction
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of this neighborhood to acid?
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That the Pranksters
would later bring acid
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to Watch Los Angeles in 1966,
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after blacks rioted against police brutality there, suggests it was.
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Ken Kesey and the Pranksters
then returned to
the San Francisco Bay area,
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and threw the first
Acid Test party
with the band the Warlocks.
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The party was held at Prankster Ken Babbs' 400-acre ranch.
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The Acid Test band the Warlocks soon changed their name
to the Grateful Dead.
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Acid Tests were parties with
large amounts of Kool-Aid
mixed with many hits of acid.
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Many people would be
involuntarily dosed
by each cup they drank.
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Ex-Marine officer, Ken Babbs,
and former Army commander,
Stewart Brand,
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proceeded to organize
a three-night acid test
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that they called
the Trips Festival.
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Thousands attended this event,
and many were voluntarily,
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and involuntarily,
introduced to acid there.
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One very important aspect
of these Acid Tests
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came out of a reprinted
legal deposition
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given by top CIA MKUltra
psychologist, John Gittinger.
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In his book,
A Terrible Mistake,
Hank Albarelli
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quoted Gittinger as saying
that he and several other
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MKUltra scientists had attended the Trips Festival and other Acid Tests.
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He said they tried to
blend in unnoticed,
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unlike some other federal
agents at one of the parties.
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This and other evidence
strongly suggests that these
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scientists helped conceive
and organize the Acid Tests.
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The fact that Ken Babbs
and Stewart Brand
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held important military posts
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just before coming
into the Pranksters,
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suggests they and others were
undercover MKUltra agents.
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Merry Prankster, Stewart Brand, was interviewed by
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the media group Big Think,
and asked,
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"Which shaped you more,
the military or
the Merry Pranksters?"
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Which was more important
between Merry Pranksterdom
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and US infantry?
They're about equal,
and matched,
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and sort of book ends,
in a way,
because I was at Fort Dix
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and my weekends,
I was running basic training
as a second lieutenant there,
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and then my weekends were in
the Lower East Side in New York,
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hanging out with artists
and the group
that'd later be called Usgo,
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and messing with
psychedelic drugs,
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and the weekend, week contrast
was just the sort of life
you wanna have as a young man.
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I was in charge of a platoon,
and 50 people,
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including some very
experienced sergeants.
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One of the things I found
with Merry Pranksters,
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and the Ken Kesey group
is that there were a number
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of ex-military people
in that group.
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Kesey was not,
but his number two, Ken Babbs,
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had been a helicopter
with Marines in Vietnam.
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While Kesey
went down to Mexico
to avoid possible jail time,
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00:25:05,025 --> 00:25:07,244
Babbs, Brand,
and the remaining Pranksters
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organized several more
similarly large Acid Tests.
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It was then that they
had their Acid Test
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in the Watts area
of Los Angeles,
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after one of the nation's
largest ever race riots.
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Activists alternatively
called these race rebellions
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as people protested
and set fires in response to
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00:25:24,392 --> 00:25:28,439
civil rights abuses
and police brutality.
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00:25:28,483 --> 00:25:31,268
A pattern appeared to become
increasingly more distinct
410
00:25:31,312 --> 00:25:34,315
in the similarities between
the Prankster's Acid Test
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and Timothy Leary's
CIA MKUltra work
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00:25:37,971 --> 00:25:40,713
against civil rights
and anti-war activists.
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00:25:40,756 --> 00:25:43,280
Pranksters introduced acid
to college students
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00:25:43,324 --> 00:25:45,935
from the activist hotbed
of Cal-Berkeley
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and San Jose State University,
along with introducing acid
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to radical blacks
from Harlem to Watts.
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Pranksters also participated
in the first San Francisco
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anti-Vietnam war marches,
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urging people
to stop protesting
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and instead to only turn
their backs on the war.
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Meanwhile, the Vietnam
War continued to expand.
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Professor Al McCoy's book,
The Politics of Heroin,
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details US intelligences
vast opium
and heroin trafficking
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from Vietnam to the US
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Some of the largest
opium-producing poppy fields
in the world
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grew in the Southeast Asian
Golden Triangle area
bordering Vietnam.
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Heroin addiction and overdoses
were sent soaring
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in the US,
as shown in this chart.
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As this picture shows,
heroin produced a huge boost
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in the American stock market
as dirty profits
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00:26:39,249 --> 00:26:42,252
from heroin sales
were laundered
through profit margins
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of banks and other
stock corporations.
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00:26:45,168 --> 00:26:47,910
Wall Street insider,
Catherine Austin Fitts,
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00:26:47,954 --> 00:26:52,872
described how this worked,
as discussed more later.
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The Golden Triangle in
Southeast Asia grew directly
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out of our covert
policies there.
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Before it had been run by
French intelligence
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with the Corsican mafia,
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00:27:04,057 --> 00:27:06,276
we took over with our
Air America
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00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,062
and civil air transport planes
flying in arms
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to our allies, flying
back out with the heroin,
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the first target being
US GIs during the Vietnam War,
443
00:27:16,504 --> 00:27:20,073
the second target being
the United States itself.
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00:27:20,116 --> 00:27:22,031
Frontline's Judy Woodruff,
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00:27:22,075 --> 00:27:24,730
revealed a US intelligence
agent's report attesting to
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00:27:24,773 --> 00:27:28,777
their bringing heroin
into the US
during the Vietnam War.
447
00:27:28,821 --> 00:27:32,955
In 1972,
a US intelligence agent
in Southeast Asia.
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sent a secret field report
to customs.
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The CIA was in fact
facilitating the movement
450
00:27:38,221 --> 00:27:42,791
of opiates to the US,
they steadfastly hid behind
the shield of secrecy,
451
00:27:42,835 --> 00:27:48,667
and said that all was done
in the interest of
national security, end quote.
452
00:27:56,370 --> 00:27:59,329
The four top
political icons of the 1960s,
453
00:27:59,373 --> 00:28:05,771
JFK, RFK, MLK,
and Malcolm X, were actively
trying to end the Vietnam War.
454
00:28:05,814 --> 00:28:10,166
President John F. Kennedy
had an apparent political
seat change while in office,
455
00:28:10,210 --> 00:28:13,866
and ended up declaring an end
to sending troops to Vietnam.
456
00:28:13,909 --> 00:28:18,348
He also tried to close
down the CIA's operation
MKUltra,
457
00:28:18,392 --> 00:28:22,396
firing the CIA director
and his assistant
who helped run it.
458
00:28:22,439 --> 00:28:26,356
Is there any
speed up in the withdrawal
from Vietnam intended?
459
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,925
Well, you know when
Secretary McNamara
and General Taylor came back
460
00:28:29,969 --> 00:28:33,363
they announced that we would
expect to withdraw
461
00:28:33,407 --> 00:28:39,152
a thousand men
from south Vietnam
before the end of the year.
462
00:28:39,195 --> 00:28:41,676
And there's been some reference
to that by General Harkins.
463
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,462
If we're able to do that,
that will be our schedule,
I think the first.
464
00:28:45,506 --> 00:28:49,249
A policy was put into place
to end the US involvement
in Vietnam
465
00:28:49,292 --> 00:28:51,294
and a formal
presidential decision
466
00:28:51,338 --> 00:28:55,385
was taken in October of 1963
that would, if implemented,
467
00:28:55,429 --> 00:28:58,040
have caused a full pull out
of US forces
468
00:28:58,084 --> 00:29:00,042
from Vietnam
by the end of 1965.
469
00:29:00,086 --> 00:29:02,741
And it's clear that he did,
we have all of the documents
470
00:29:02,784 --> 00:29:06,657
involved in
the making of the decision,
including the decision itself,
471
00:29:06,701 --> 00:29:11,750
and including actually tapes
of Kennedy ordering
that decision to be taken.
472
00:29:11,793 --> 00:29:15,275
President
John Kennedy and his
attorney general brother,
473
00:29:15,318 --> 00:29:18,669
Robert Kennedy, also went after mafia bosses such as
474
00:29:18,713 --> 00:29:23,500
New Orleans drug trafficking
kingpin, Carlos Marcello.
475
00:29:23,544 --> 00:29:26,765
Numerous researches such
as Professor Dale Scott,
476
00:29:26,808 --> 00:29:30,377
argue that some of these
factors led Marcello, the CIA,
477
00:29:30,420 --> 00:29:32,771
and the oligarchs
to orchestrate
478
00:29:32,814 --> 00:29:36,470
the 1963 assassination of JFK.
479
00:29:36,513 --> 00:29:40,082
He was the boss,
the mafia boss of New Orleans.
480
00:29:40,126 --> 00:29:42,606
He controlled
New Orleans, Louisiana,
481
00:29:42,650 --> 00:29:47,394
he controlled Mississippi,
Alabama, and Texas,
including Dallas.
482
00:29:47,437 --> 00:29:51,790
And his first mission
is to go after the mafia.
483
00:29:51,833 --> 00:29:54,575
At Neely Plaza
there were ten men arrested
484
00:29:54,618 --> 00:29:57,926
and this has been kept secret
for more than four years.
485
00:29:57,970 --> 00:30:00,276
Here are the pictures of
five of 'em being arrested
486
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,452
and they've never
been shown before.
487
00:30:02,496 --> 00:30:05,412
Several of these men
arrested have been connected
488
00:30:05,455 --> 00:30:08,763
by our office with the
Central Intelligence Agency
489
00:30:08,807 --> 00:30:10,591
of the United States
government.
490
00:30:10,634 --> 00:30:13,289
I am trying to tell you
that there is no question,
491
00:30:13,333 --> 00:30:15,552
as a result of our
investigation, that an element
492
00:30:15,596 --> 00:30:19,121
of the Central Intelligence
Agency of our country
493
00:30:19,165 --> 00:30:22,777
killed John Kennedy and that
the present administration
494
00:30:22,821 --> 00:30:27,173
is concealing the facts,
there is no question
about it at all.
495
00:30:27,216 --> 00:30:29,262
Two years later,
gunmen assassinated
496
00:30:29,305 --> 00:30:31,307
the first black activist
to speak out against
497
00:30:31,351 --> 00:30:34,354
the Vietnam War,
Muslim leader Malcolm X.
498
00:30:34,397 --> 00:30:38,227
On April 3, 1968, exactly one year after publicly
499
00:30:38,271 --> 00:30:41,230
pronouncing his opposition
to the Vietnam War,
500
00:30:41,274 --> 00:30:45,234
a gunman assassinated
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
501
00:30:45,278 --> 00:30:47,758
Researchers such as
King's friend and attorney
502
00:30:47,802 --> 00:30:52,502
William Pepper say that US
intelligence assassinated MLK,
503
00:30:52,546 --> 00:30:54,765
partly due to his
anti-war pronouncement,
504
00:30:54,809 --> 00:31:00,075
and partly due to his
refocusing on economic issues.
505
00:31:11,826 --> 00:31:14,829
In June of 1968,
Senator Robert F. Kennedy
506
00:31:14,873 --> 00:31:18,006
won the decisive California
presidential primary,
507
00:31:18,050 --> 00:31:21,880
marking the likelihood
of his winning
the Democratic nomination,
508
00:31:21,923 --> 00:31:24,230
and then gaining
the presidency.
509
00:31:24,273 --> 00:31:29,061
RFK often touted his growing
anti-Vietnam War stance before
his assassination,
510
00:31:29,104 --> 00:31:33,543
the night of winning
that California
presidential primary.
511
00:31:33,587 --> 00:31:35,937
Accused assassin,
Sirhan Sirhan, was grabbed
512
00:31:35,981 --> 00:31:41,638
while firing a gun
after getting no closer
than two feet in front of RFK.
513
00:31:41,682 --> 00:31:44,467
The coroner conducting
the autopsy on RFK
514
00:31:44,511 --> 00:31:50,212
held a press conference
showing how RFK's fatal wounds
came from behind the senator,
515
00:31:50,256 --> 00:31:52,040
within an inch of his head.
516
00:31:52,084 --> 00:31:53,912
Doctor Noguchi,
were you able to determine
517
00:31:53,955 --> 00:31:57,437
how far the gun muzzle was
from Senator Kennedy's head?
518
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:03,051
One gunshot wound was found
behind the right ear.
519
00:32:03,095 --> 00:32:07,229
We came to conclusion
that the muzzle distance
520
00:32:07,273 --> 00:32:14,193
would be one inch
from the right...
521
00:32:16,543 --> 00:32:17,761
ear.
522
00:32:17,805 --> 00:32:19,938
Now, how far was Sirhan
523
00:32:19,981 --> 00:32:22,853
from Senator Kennedy
at the time?
524
00:32:22,897 --> 00:32:25,508
I would say approximately
from three to six feet.
525
00:32:25,552 --> 00:32:28,250
Where was this
guard who was firing his gun?
526
00:32:28,294 --> 00:32:32,472
He was standing directly to
the side and back of Kennedy.
527
00:32:32,515 --> 00:32:34,474
Before these
last two assassinations,
528
00:32:34,517 --> 00:32:37,825
the CIA apparently began
cultivating a massive amount
529
00:32:37,868 --> 00:32:40,219
of acid dealing and promotion.
530
00:32:40,262 --> 00:32:42,830
For his widely praised book,
Acid Dreams,
531
00:32:42,873 --> 00:32:46,877
Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting, FAIR, co-founder,
532
00:32:46,921 --> 00:32:50,577
Martin Lee, interviewed several undercover agents who reported
533
00:32:50,620 --> 00:32:53,623
working in the Haight-Ashbury
neighborhood of San Francisco
534
00:32:53,667 --> 00:32:56,887
who described the Haight
as a human guinea pig farm.
535
00:32:56,931 --> 00:33:00,282
Lee also quoted a source
working with
the Hudson Institute
536
00:33:00,326 --> 00:33:02,110
strategist Herman Kahn,
537
00:33:02,154 --> 00:33:05,809
who collaborated with the CIA's MKUltra program.
538
00:33:05,853 --> 00:33:09,988
He said that Kahn
was primarily interested
in social control
539
00:33:10,031 --> 00:33:13,687
when Kahn marveled
at his own work at creating a similar wasteland
540
00:33:13,730 --> 00:33:16,211
in New York City's
East Village neighborhood.
541
00:33:16,255 --> 00:33:20,999
Kahn predicted an alternative
dropped out country
within the United States.
542
00:33:21,042 --> 00:33:24,959
This coincided with CIA asset
Timothy Leary's mantra,
543
00:33:25,003 --> 00:33:29,137
repeated by both alternative and mainstream media worldwide.
544
00:33:29,181 --> 00:33:34,142
Turn on, tune in,
and drop out.
545
00:33:34,186 --> 00:33:36,275
One possible way
US intelligence
546
00:33:36,318 --> 00:33:38,538
increased the trend
of idealistic young people
547
00:33:38,581 --> 00:33:43,456
tripping on acid, and possibly
damaging their minds,
was to start be-ins.
548
00:33:43,499 --> 00:33:47,808
The first human be-in
was organized in the same
San Francisco area
549
00:33:47,851 --> 00:33:53,074
as the ever-larger Acid Tests
that turned into
the Trips Festival.
550
00:33:53,118 --> 00:33:55,424
Researchers, Martin Lee
and Bruce Shlain,
551
00:33:55,468 --> 00:34:01,474
said that many of the 25,000 people at the first human be-in were tripping on acid.
552
00:34:01,517 --> 00:34:04,520
US intelligence appeared to put an ever-increasing stock
553
00:34:04,564 --> 00:34:06,783
into getting rock
musicians to directly,
554
00:34:06,827 --> 00:34:09,873
or inadvertently,
promote drugs for them.
555
00:34:09,917 --> 00:34:12,789
Ernest Hemingway's longtime
close friend and editor,
556
00:34:12,833 --> 00:34:16,532
A.E. Hotchner, wrote an
important book,Blown Away,
557
00:34:16,576 --> 00:34:19,840
an oral history of the
Rolling Stones rock band.
558
00:34:19,883 --> 00:34:23,104
That book included Hotchner
saying that in the mid-1960s,
559
00:34:23,148 --> 00:34:27,543
the CIA MKUltra
Deputy Director,
Robert Lashbrook,
560
00:34:27,587 --> 00:34:33,201
directed undercover agents
to give LSD to British
musicians in London.
561
00:34:33,245 --> 00:34:35,638
London undercover agent,
Steve Abram,
562
00:34:35,682 --> 00:34:38,424
stated that the CIA released
acid to rock groups,
563
00:34:38,467 --> 00:34:43,124
and that CIA agents
were distributing acid
all over the place.
564
00:34:54,048 --> 00:34:57,399
This draws more
scrutiny to the 1965 incident
565
00:34:57,443 --> 00:34:59,967
where the Beatles' guitarist
George Harrison's dentist,
566
00:35:00,010 --> 00:35:03,623
John Riley,
invited John Lennon,
his wife, Cynthia,
567
00:35:03,666 --> 00:35:07,409
Harrison and his girlfriend
Patti Boyd over for dinner.
568
00:35:07,453 --> 00:35:10,934
Patti Boyd and Cynthia Harrison describe the scene in detail
569
00:35:10,978 --> 00:35:13,546
and the Beatles
agreed about what happened.
570
00:35:13,589 --> 00:35:16,114
Riley and his girlfriend
proceeded to put LSD
571
00:35:16,157 --> 00:35:21,336
in the coffee
Lennon and Harrison drank,
without their knowledge.
572
00:35:21,380 --> 00:35:23,556
When Lennon found out,
he was furious.
573
00:35:23,599 --> 00:35:25,471
LSD was so new in London,
574
00:35:25,514 --> 00:35:27,647
Harrison didn't even know
what it was.
575
00:35:27,690 --> 00:35:31,085
Was Dr. Riley linked to
the CIA's MKUltra program
576
00:35:31,129 --> 00:35:35,698
or the collaborating
British Tavistock program?
577
00:35:35,742 --> 00:35:39,485
[interviewer] How did you
first get involved with LSD?
578
00:35:39,528 --> 00:35:41,835
A dentist in London.
579
00:35:41,878 --> 00:35:43,967
Dentist.
580
00:35:44,011 --> 00:35:46,883
Later on,
George, me, and our wives,
581
00:35:46,927 --> 00:35:48,711
without telling us
at the dinner party,
582
00:35:48,755 --> 00:35:50,931
actually, it was a
friend of George's.
583
00:35:50,974 --> 00:35:53,803
Cynthia and Patti
and myself were having dinner
584
00:35:53,847 --> 00:35:59,374
at this guy's house,
lysergic acid diethylamide 25.
585
00:35:59,418 --> 00:36:01,768
I didn't really
know what it was.
586
00:36:01,811 --> 00:36:03,552
Two years later in England,
587
00:36:03,596 --> 00:36:05,554
a man dubbed the acid king,
588
00:36:05,598 --> 00:36:07,643
David Schneidermann,
pictured on the left here
589
00:36:07,687 --> 00:36:10,124
with Rolling Stones
guitarist, Keith Richards,
590
00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:16,174
convinced Rolling Stones
lead singer, Mick Jagger,
to try LSD for the first time.
591
00:36:16,217 --> 00:36:19,264
At a party in guitarist's Keith Richards' home that year,
592
00:36:19,307 --> 00:36:21,614
Schneidermann convinced
Jagger to try acid,
593
00:36:21,657 --> 00:36:25,792
and then police came
and arrested Richards
and Jagger on drug charges,
594
00:36:25,835 --> 00:36:30,188
without arresting
Schneidermann,
who had many drugs on him.
595
00:36:30,231 --> 00:36:33,016
It later came out in
London'sDaily Mail newspaper
596
00:36:33,060 --> 00:36:34,975
that Schneidermann
worked undercover
597
00:36:35,018 --> 00:36:39,022
for both the FBI
and British MI-5.
598
00:36:39,066 --> 00:36:42,504
Others eventually got John Lennon and George Harrison
599
00:36:42,548 --> 00:36:45,638
to use acid again
over the next two years.
600
00:36:45,681 --> 00:36:49,381
Before Harrison
disavowed acid in 1967.
601
00:36:49,424 --> 00:36:52,079
Why did Lennon and Harrison
take acid again,
602
00:36:52,122 --> 00:36:55,256
along with the other Beatles Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney?
603
00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:59,869
The answer might lie
in the Laurel Canyon area
of Los Angeles.
604
00:37:07,094 --> 00:37:08,965
The late author,
Dave McGowan,
605
00:37:09,009 --> 00:37:11,185
wrote an extensive
expose on the rise
606
00:37:11,229 --> 00:37:14,188
of Los Angeles'
Laurel Canyon neighborhood.
607
00:37:14,232 --> 00:37:16,843
McGowan's evidence supports
that US intelligence
608
00:37:16,886 --> 00:37:19,715
orchestrated the rise
of Laurel Canyon,
609
00:37:19,759 --> 00:37:24,764
as the home for dozens of
almost instant music stars.
610
00:37:24,807 --> 00:37:28,550
The Canyon appeared to give rise to the hippy image itself.
611
00:37:28,594 --> 00:37:31,074
The US Air Force
already had vast personnel
612
00:37:31,118 --> 00:37:34,643
in Laurel Canyon with a
highly prolific movie studio
613
00:37:34,687 --> 00:37:37,951
called,
Lookout Mountain Laboratory.
614
00:37:37,994 --> 00:37:42,738
It produced a staggering
19,000 classified movies
and film projects
615
00:37:42,782 --> 00:37:45,437
with top actors, directors,
and producers
616
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,830
who all signed
confidentiality oaths
617
00:37:47,874 --> 00:37:51,878
to not reveal the films
at Lookout Mountain.
618
00:37:51,921 --> 00:37:55,925
Lookout Mountain Laboratories
was a top secret
619
00:37:55,969 --> 00:38:01,583
US Air Force installation
nestled up in Laurel Canyon,
620
00:38:01,627 --> 00:38:04,543
the existence of which
remained unknown
621
00:38:04,586 --> 00:38:06,414
until fairly recently even.
622
00:38:06,458 --> 00:38:10,113
Then it morphed into
a film studio at some point
623
00:38:10,157 --> 00:38:16,598
and was said to be
the world's most complete
self-contained film studio.
624
00:38:16,642 --> 00:38:18,296
Dave McGowan
found that virtually
625
00:38:18,339 --> 00:38:21,081
all the Laurel Canyon musicians and most of the actors
626
00:38:21,124 --> 00:38:25,172
came from top military parents
or military backgrounds.
627
00:38:25,215 --> 00:38:28,131
For example, this picture
shows a clean-cut Jim Morrison
628
00:38:28,175 --> 00:38:30,656
with his father,
who captained the naval ship
629
00:38:30,699 --> 00:38:36,705
that caused
the Gulf of Tonkin incident,
starting the Vietnam War.
630
00:38:36,749 --> 00:38:38,794
John Phillips
came right from the military
631
00:38:38,838 --> 00:38:42,102
into musical stardom
with The Mamas and the Papas.
632
00:38:42,145 --> 00:38:44,713
Some of these Laurel Canyon
celebrities were also part of
633
00:38:44,757 --> 00:38:50,153
America's wealthiest families,
such as David Crosby
of the Van Courtland family,
634
00:38:50,197 --> 00:38:54,375
as well as a media propagated dance instructor, Vito Polikus,
635
00:38:54,419 --> 00:38:57,509
who was Barbara Rockefeller's
cousin.
636
00:39:03,558 --> 00:39:05,168
Final key members
of the scene
637
00:39:05,212 --> 00:39:07,214
were Charles Manson
and his followers.
638
00:39:07,257 --> 00:39:10,304
Many women walked around naked
at sex and drug parties
639
00:39:10,348 --> 00:39:14,439
that included top actors
such as Peter Fonda
and Jack Nicholson,
640
00:39:14,482 --> 00:39:19,574
luring the Beatles
and countless other musicians
to take acid and other drugs
641
00:39:19,618 --> 00:39:22,229
for the first time or more.
642
00:39:22,272 --> 00:39:29,236
Vito Policus collaborated
with prominent Laurel Canyon
musicians in promoting drugs.
643
00:39:29,279 --> 00:39:33,022
The Beatles' Lennon said
his and Harrison's second time
taking acid
644
00:39:33,066 --> 00:39:35,198
was in Los Angeles
at a party organized
645
00:39:35,242 --> 00:39:38,463
by top selling musician,
David Crosby of The Byrds,
646
00:39:38,506 --> 00:39:42,467
and Crosby, Stills, and Nash,
near the Laurel Canyon
neighborhood.
647
00:39:42,510 --> 00:39:45,383
Paul offered a glimpse of why
he tripped the first time
648
00:39:45,426 --> 00:39:50,300
when he said, "peer pressure
was strong to take acid."
649
00:39:50,344 --> 00:39:53,608
And the second time
we had it in LA,
which was different.
650
00:39:53,652 --> 00:39:55,741
What happened then?
651
00:39:55,784 --> 00:39:58,221
Well, then we
took it deliberately,
652
00:39:58,265 --> 00:40:01,050
and then, well, we just decided to take it again in California,
653
00:40:01,094 --> 00:40:04,706
and the three of us took
it, Ringo, George, and I,
654
00:40:04,750 --> 00:40:07,187
I think maybe Neil
and a couple of The Birds,
655
00:40:07,230 --> 00:40:10,843
that what's his name,
the one in the
Stills and Nash thing?
656
00:40:10,886 --> 00:40:12,888
-You know the Byrds, B-Y-R-D--
-Yeah, David Crosby.
657
00:40:12,932 --> 00:40:15,456
Crosby and the other
guy who used to be the leader.
658
00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:17,545
And Peter Fonda came.
659
00:40:17,589 --> 00:40:21,506
So when acid came around,
we'd heard that
you're never the same.
660
00:40:21,549 --> 00:40:23,377
I was rather frightened
by that prospect.
661
00:40:23,421 --> 00:40:26,424
Just what I need.
So I delayed,
662
00:40:26,467 --> 00:40:28,600
'cause there's
a lot of peer pressure.
663
00:40:28,643 --> 00:40:30,079
The Beatles
went on to promote acid
664
00:40:30,123 --> 00:40:32,299
through their albums
and movies, such as
665
00:40:32,342 --> 00:40:33,996
Magical Mystery Tour.
666
00:40:45,225 --> 00:40:47,880
Regarding the
Rolling Stones in particular,
667
00:40:47,923 --> 00:40:50,665
British authorities continued
to use the drug charges
668
00:40:50,709 --> 00:40:53,276
from the FBI's
Schneidermann drug setup
669
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:59,674
to control the increasingly
outspoken anti-war
Rolling Stones musicians.
670
00:40:59,718 --> 00:41:01,459
There were a number of leaders
who believed acid
671
00:41:01,502 --> 00:41:04,592
was anti-revolutionary
and in conflict with their
672
00:41:04,636 --> 00:41:07,421
anti-war and anti-racism work.
673
00:41:07,465 --> 00:41:10,642
Columbia University SDS
and its leader Mark Rudd,
674
00:41:10,685 --> 00:41:15,690
seen here speaking
to a student crowd,
represented this opinion.
675
00:41:15,734 --> 00:41:19,607
Rudd led
the Columbia University
anti-war building takeover,
676
00:41:19,651 --> 00:41:22,523
the first event of
its kind nationally.
677
00:41:22,567 --> 00:41:24,917
The Columbia SDS
marched in and occupied
678
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,528
the university's main
buildings for many days
679
00:41:27,572 --> 00:41:32,011
to protest the Vietnam War
and government's
racist actions,
680
00:41:32,054 --> 00:41:37,930
inspiring similar SDS involved
college building
takeovers nationwide.
681
00:41:37,973 --> 00:41:41,237
SDS then enlisted
Mark Rudd to talk at schools
682
00:41:41,281 --> 00:41:44,676
around the country
to raise money for SDS.
683
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,896
We have closed down
four university buildings,
684
00:41:47,940 --> 00:41:51,857
three of which usually
have classes.
We've had mass meetings
685
00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:55,164
of 800 and 600
people respectively.
686
00:42:02,650 --> 00:42:06,088
By 1969, the Students
for a Democratic Society,
687
00:42:06,132 --> 00:42:09,004
had grown to nearly
100,000 members.
688
00:42:09,048 --> 00:42:12,007
At one of their national
conventions that year,
689
00:42:12,051 --> 00:42:14,967
a division arose between
two factions in the group,
690
00:42:15,010 --> 00:42:17,535
including a first faction
believed to be infiltrated
691
00:42:17,578 --> 00:42:22,322
by undercover agents,
that instigated
the breakup of SDS.
692
00:42:22,365 --> 00:42:24,629
Bernardine Dohrn
headed the second faction,
693
00:42:24,672 --> 00:42:28,502
after having been elected one
of the SDS leaders that year.
694
00:42:28,546 --> 00:42:32,201
This was the culmination of
Dohrn's good anti-Vietnam War
695
00:42:32,245 --> 00:42:36,379
and anti-racist organizing
in the 1960s.
696
00:42:36,423 --> 00:42:39,034
...in finding out
about the organization of SDS,
697
00:42:39,078 --> 00:42:41,167
we've always been quite
willing to talk about
the organization.
698
00:42:41,210 --> 00:42:43,561
Yeah, we'll talk about
socialism anywhere,
in the streets
699
00:42:43,604 --> 00:42:46,172
or in the senate,
anywhere, you know.
700
00:42:46,215 --> 00:42:49,044
I'm Mike Klonstien,
national secretary of SDS,
701
00:42:49,088 --> 00:42:51,220
and this is Bernardine Dohrn,
inter-organizational secretary.
702
00:42:52,918 --> 00:42:54,354
Is there a Communist faction
703
00:42:54,397 --> 00:42:56,008
making a big power play
for SDS at this time?
704
00:42:56,051 --> 00:42:58,271
Is there any
communists back here?
705
00:43:00,316 --> 00:43:02,231
As a law school
student in Chicago,
706
00:43:02,275 --> 00:43:05,017
Dohrn also played
a part at a Chicago be-in,
707
00:43:05,060 --> 00:43:07,976
while other SDS activists
had also become
708
00:43:08,020 --> 00:43:11,806
increasingly more
sympathetic to acid.
709
00:43:11,850 --> 00:43:14,417
She, Mark Rudd and others
seen here had formed
710
00:43:14,461 --> 00:43:18,508
a new political faction that
they called the Weathermen.
711
00:43:18,552 --> 00:43:21,250
At that convention,
Dohrn emotionally followed up
712
00:43:21,294 --> 00:43:24,340
of a fractional debate
by leading a walk out of many
713
00:43:24,384 --> 00:43:26,995
SDS members from
that convention,
714
00:43:27,039 --> 00:43:31,913
permanently splitting up
the nation's largest
anti-war organization.
715
00:43:31,957 --> 00:43:34,394
Whether Dohrn's use of
acid played a distinct role
716
00:43:34,437 --> 00:43:38,311
in this event is uncertain
but suspect.
717
00:43:46,972 --> 00:43:49,452
FBI documents showed
that agents had infiltrated
718
00:43:49,496 --> 00:43:53,500
Abbie Hoffman's Youth
International Party,
or Yippies.
719
00:43:53,543 --> 00:43:56,808
By the summer of 1969, an offshoot group of New York's
720
00:43:56,851 --> 00:44:02,422
Yippies, the Crazies,
had unsuccessfully tried
to chide Columbia
721
00:44:02,465 --> 00:44:05,599
SDS leaders into taking acid.
722
00:44:05,643 --> 00:44:11,518
Undercover FBI agent,
George Demmerle,
was a leader of the Crazies.
723
00:44:11,561 --> 00:44:14,347
Rudd and a number of other
Columbia SDS members
724
00:44:14,390 --> 00:44:17,655
were active in the
Weathermen factor.
725
00:44:17,698 --> 00:44:19,482
At one of their
New York parties,
726
00:44:19,526 --> 00:44:23,617
the Crazies spiked the New York Weathermen's punch with acid.
727
00:44:23,661 --> 00:44:26,489
Once they got Mark Rudd
and the New York
members tripping,
728
00:44:26,533 --> 00:44:29,188
the Weathermen disavowed
their stance against acid
729
00:44:29,231 --> 00:44:33,583
and ordered all New York
Weathermen to take acid.
730
00:44:33,627 --> 00:44:38,501
The CIA's MKUltra work
infiltrating groups
in pushing LSD
731
00:44:38,545 --> 00:44:41,504
would later come out in
a US Senate committee report,
732
00:44:41,548 --> 00:44:46,335
some newspapers such as
theWashington Post
covered it ever so briefly
733
00:44:46,379 --> 00:44:49,948
before never seeming
to mention it again.
734
00:44:49,991 --> 00:44:54,343
The Weathermen came from
parts of former SDS chapters
around the country,
735
00:44:54,387 --> 00:44:57,912
as well as from undercover
FBI training bases
736
00:44:57,956 --> 00:45:01,350
as some FBI agents
infiltrated the group.
737
00:45:01,394 --> 00:45:04,658
Mark Rudd, Bernardine Dohrn,
and other Weatherman leaders
738
00:45:04,702 --> 00:45:10,533
started showing the effects of acid in the following months by acting very irrationally.
739
00:45:10,577 --> 00:45:13,014
They invaded high schools
and held teachers,
740
00:45:13,058 --> 00:45:15,495
purportedly to
liberate students.
741
00:45:15,538 --> 00:45:18,846
They bullied money and meals
from people on planes,
742
00:45:18,890 --> 00:45:24,983
they got arrested in a days
of rage rampage in Chicago.
743
00:45:25,026 --> 00:45:28,290
And at a December of 1969
national convention,
744
00:45:28,334 --> 00:45:31,380
they bragged about not reading
any books in over a year
745
00:45:31,424 --> 00:45:35,080
and lauded
the Charles Manson group
for their gruesome murders
746
00:45:35,123 --> 00:45:38,126
of wealthy
Beverly Hills residents.
747
00:45:46,787 --> 00:45:48,789
It took some months
for Dohrn and others
748
00:45:48,833 --> 00:45:51,270
to realize they had
grown highly irrational
749
00:45:51,313 --> 00:45:56,405
and to at least
apologize publicly for lauding the Manson murders.
750
00:45:56,449 --> 00:45:58,407
By this time the Weathermen
had changed their name
751
00:45:58,451 --> 00:46:01,541
to the Weather Underground
for feminist reasons.
752
00:46:01,584 --> 00:46:03,717
And they appeared to start
sobering up a bit
753
00:46:03,761 --> 00:46:09,157
as they became a militant
anti-war vanguard group.
754
00:46:09,201 --> 00:46:11,638
Anti-war activists had
begun strategic bombings
755
00:46:11,681 --> 00:46:17,470
of institutions linked
to the Vietnam War
and racism in 1969.
756
00:46:19,254 --> 00:46:21,822
These activists planted
dynamite with timing devices
757
00:46:21,866 --> 00:46:26,784
and then called the building
managers to have them cleared
before the bombs exploded.
758
00:46:26,827 --> 00:46:30,570
The Weather Underground's leadership cell risked and lost some lives
759
00:46:30,613 --> 00:46:32,485
participating in at least
a couple dozen
760
00:46:32,528 --> 00:46:36,271
of these bombings
from 1970 onwards.
761
00:46:36,315 --> 00:46:42,364
Compatriot groups conducted
similar bombings numbering in the thousands in 1970 alone.
762
00:46:42,408 --> 00:46:44,714
It should be kept in mind
that this was in reaction
763
00:46:44,758 --> 00:46:49,371
to America's war
in Vietnam killing over
two million people,
764
00:46:49,415 --> 00:46:53,985
including several hundred
thousand young Americans.
765
00:46:56,465 --> 00:46:59,120
There were three early
morning bomb blasts
766
00:46:59,164 --> 00:47:01,949
on the west coast,
two at military facilities,
767
00:47:01,993 --> 00:47:04,430
and one at a courthouse,
Bill Stout narrates.
768
00:47:04,473 --> 00:47:06,606
The worst blast was at
the Navy and Air Force
769
00:47:06,649 --> 00:47:09,783
ROTC building on the campus of
the University of Washington.
770
00:47:09,827 --> 00:47:13,352
The 32nd bombing
of the year in Seattle,
really two bombings,
771
00:47:13,395 --> 00:47:16,572
two charges which went off
almost simultaneously
772
00:47:16,616 --> 00:47:18,574
shortly before
three this morning.
773
00:47:18,618 --> 00:47:20,663
There were warning calls
to the police,
774
00:47:20,707 --> 00:47:22,274
who got a janitor
out of the building
775
00:47:22,317 --> 00:47:24,493
just before the explosions.
776
00:47:24,537 --> 00:47:27,192
Across the nation,
between January of last year
777
00:47:27,235 --> 00:47:32,980
and April of this year,
a total of 4,330 bombings
have been reported.
778
00:47:33,024 --> 00:47:38,333
In the State of California
alone, the average is now
20 bombings a week.
779
00:47:38,377 --> 00:47:41,859
Occasionally, far right
extremists are responsible,
780
00:47:41,902 --> 00:47:46,254
but leftists and radicals
are most often to blame.
781
00:47:46,298 --> 00:47:50,302
⪠Kill me again,
kill me with love âª
782
00:47:50,345 --> 00:47:54,784
⪠Make it across this time
783
00:47:54,828 --> 00:47:59,746
⪠Deeper the wound
goes into the heart... âª
784
00:47:59,789 --> 00:48:02,183
The CIA had
Timothy Leary capitalized
785
00:48:02,227 --> 00:48:05,186
on his radicalization
of so many young people.
786
00:48:05,230 --> 00:48:08,189
Leary gave up the turn on,
tune in, drop out.
787
00:48:08,233 --> 00:48:11,410
He instead declared
unity with the radicals,
788
00:48:11,453 --> 00:48:14,717
and told them all to live
their lives dosed on acid,
789
00:48:14,761 --> 00:48:19,287
while further stating
that radicals should be
dosing others.
790
00:48:20,941 --> 00:48:23,422
The Mellon Hitchcock-funded
Brotherhood of Eternal Love,
791
00:48:23,465 --> 00:48:27,078
flew Leary to Algeria.
There, the Black Panthers'
792
00:48:27,121 --> 00:48:30,603
National Minister of
Information, Eldridge Cleaver,
793
00:48:30,646 --> 00:48:33,693
had set up a Panther
in exile chapter.
794
00:48:33,736 --> 00:48:36,304
Cleaver had escaped near
assassination and further
795
00:48:36,348 --> 00:48:39,655
persecution by staying
in Algeria with his wife,
796
00:48:39,699 --> 00:48:43,398
national Panther spokesperson,
Kathleen Cleaver.
797
00:48:43,442 --> 00:48:45,400
Several New York Panther
leaders,
798
00:48:45,444 --> 00:48:49,013
amongst many other Panthers
had joined him there.
799
00:48:49,056 --> 00:48:52,712
In deference to his
solidarity with
the Weather Underground,
800
00:48:52,755 --> 00:48:55,062
Eldridge Cleaver
first welcomed Leary.
801
00:48:55,106 --> 00:49:00,285
Here's Cleaver
before he took a more
militant stance against Leary.
802
00:49:15,996 --> 00:49:18,477
Martin Lee reported
how that quickly changed
803
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,480
and Cleaver soon put Leary
under house arrest
804
00:49:21,523 --> 00:49:24,309
due to Leary having
brought 20,000 hits of acid
805
00:49:24,352 --> 00:49:28,008
to Cleaver's Panther
encampment.
806
00:49:28,052 --> 00:49:32,404
Cleaver spoke of LSD
as part of a drug-induced
totalitarianism,
807
00:49:32,447 --> 00:49:34,928
and sent a message
to acid-crazed youth
808
00:49:34,972 --> 00:49:39,933
that their god is dead
as his mind is blown by acid,
809
00:49:39,977 --> 00:49:41,717
in referring to Leary.
810
00:49:43,154 --> 00:49:45,330
The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and the CIA
811
00:49:45,373 --> 00:49:49,943
helped get Leary
out of Cleaver's house arrest
and back to the US
812
00:49:49,987 --> 00:49:53,077
Once there, Leary told the
FBI the names and locations
813
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:57,907
of various New York
Weather Underground members
and they were arrested.
814
00:49:57,951 --> 00:50:00,649
"Don't follow leaders,"
words which have
proved prophetic
815
00:50:00,693 --> 00:50:03,783
after today's revelations
that Timothy Leary,
816
00:50:03,826 --> 00:50:07,656
guru of 60s counter-culture
collaborated with the FBI
817
00:50:07,700 --> 00:50:09,789
and named names
in the underground movement.
818
00:50:09,832 --> 00:50:12,922
Leary died three years ago
and was famous for preaching
819
00:50:12,966 --> 00:50:17,405
anti-establishment slogans
like, "Turn on, tune in,
and drop out."
820
00:50:17,449 --> 00:50:19,494
He could've added inform.
821
00:50:19,538 --> 00:50:25,544
⪠It's a long, long
lonely road âª
822
00:50:25,587 --> 00:50:28,982
⪠From the cradle
to the grave âª
823
00:50:29,026 --> 00:50:30,853
⪠And a lonely...
824
00:50:30,897 --> 00:50:32,899
By this time,
a man named Ronald Stark
825
00:50:32,942 --> 00:50:34,466
worked with
the Mellon Hitchcock's
826
00:50:34,509 --> 00:50:36,511
Brotherhood of Eternal Love.
827
00:50:36,555 --> 00:50:39,253
High level British police
detective, Dick Lee,
828
00:50:39,297 --> 00:50:41,734
found that Stark and his group
produced and distributed
829
00:50:41,777 --> 00:50:47,000
hundreds of millions
of LSD hits
to the international masses.
830
00:50:47,044 --> 00:50:51,178
Stark helped set up
acid laboratories
on several continents.
831
00:50:51,222 --> 00:50:52,875
The Italian police
arrested Stark,
832
00:50:52,919 --> 00:50:55,704
but an Italian judge
who tried to prosecute Stark
833
00:50:55,748 --> 00:50:58,620
on drug trafficking
was murdered.
834
00:50:58,664 --> 00:51:01,536
The next judge released
Stark due to numerous proofs
835
00:51:01,580 --> 00:51:05,018
that Ronald Stark was
actually a CIA agent,
836
00:51:05,062 --> 00:51:09,762
working for the American
Secret Services since 1960.
837
00:51:09,805 --> 00:51:12,243
An Italian Parliamentary
commission investigating
838
00:51:12,286 --> 00:51:14,680
Stark's drug
trafficking operation,
839
00:51:14,723 --> 00:51:18,901
also confirmed his work
for US intelligence.
840
00:51:18,945 --> 00:51:22,731
Stark was the biggest source
of underground acid
at one time in the world,
841
00:51:22,775 --> 00:51:24,907
and he ends up being released
from jail in Italy
842
00:51:24,951 --> 00:51:27,780
after a certain point
under that most
strange circumstances
843
00:51:27,823 --> 00:51:31,392
where a judge says,
that Ronald Stark,
the evidence shows,
844
00:51:31,436 --> 00:51:33,133
has been an agent of
the US Secret Services
845
00:51:33,177 --> 00:51:38,965
from the 1960s on, therefore,
we cannot keep him in jail.
846
00:51:39,008 --> 00:51:41,272
Writer, Martin Lee,
presented this information
847
00:51:41,315 --> 00:51:44,623
to many 1960s
activists and artists.
848
00:51:44,666 --> 00:51:47,104
He reported that a surprising
number of counter-culture
849
00:51:47,147 --> 00:51:52,674
veterans endorsed the notion
that the CIA disseminated
street acid en masse,
850
00:51:52,718 --> 00:51:57,723
so as to deflate the political potency of the youth rebellion.
851
00:51:57,766 --> 00:52:00,943
Famed writer
and ex-heroin addict,
William Burroughs,
852
00:52:00,987 --> 00:52:05,165
concluded how the CIA hurt
young activists in emphasizing
853
00:52:05,209 --> 00:52:08,037
LSD makes people
less competent.
854
00:52:08,081 --> 00:52:13,695
Also commenting about acid,
former SDS President,
Carl Ogilsbey said,
855
00:52:13,739 --> 00:52:16,698
"If US intelligence bodies
collaborated in an effort
856
00:52:16,742 --> 00:52:19,527
to drug an entire
generation of Americans,
857
00:52:19,571 --> 00:52:22,704
then the reason they did so
was to disorient it,
858
00:52:22,748 --> 00:52:25,446
sedate it,
and de-politicize it.
859
00:52:25,490 --> 00:52:30,973
Meanwhile, US intelligence
continued trying to use
musicians to promote drugs.
860
00:52:31,017 --> 00:52:33,846
Rock star Janice Joplin's
fiancé Michael Raymond
861
00:52:33,889 --> 00:52:37,676
had told another girlfriend
that he worked for the FBI.
862
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:40,635
The FBI also had
a file on Joplin.
863
00:52:40,679 --> 00:52:45,162
Details of Raymond's career
supported his FBI work.
864
00:52:45,205 --> 00:52:47,468
Raymond got Joplin
hooked on amphetamines
865
00:52:47,512 --> 00:52:49,818
before she cut off
the marriage plans
866
00:52:49,862 --> 00:52:52,821
when she found out
he was already married.
867
00:52:52,865 --> 00:52:55,824
Joplin further announced
on TV in 1970
868
00:52:55,868 --> 00:52:57,739
that she was going
to do several large,
869
00:52:57,783 --> 00:52:59,828
unprecedented concerts
for peace,
870
00:52:59,872 --> 00:53:03,005
raising money
for anti-war activists.
871
00:53:03,049 --> 00:53:06,357
This never happened,
as she had developed
a heroin habit,
872
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:09,447
and as she was trying to stop,
she unknowingly bought
873
00:53:09,490 --> 00:53:13,102
an unusually pure dose
of heroin that killed her.
874
00:53:13,146 --> 00:53:16,105
Janice's sister Laura
said that rumors persisted
875
00:53:16,149 --> 00:53:19,500
that the CIA had arranged
for Janice's death.
876
00:53:19,544 --> 00:53:23,765
There's a couple coming off
in August,
877
00:53:23,809 --> 00:53:27,900
the sixth I believe,
and the ninth.
878
00:53:27,943 --> 00:53:34,036
The sixth in Philadelphia,
in Shea Stadium,
and the ninth in Philadelphia.
879
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:37,953
Peace festivals that Peter Yero
started throwing together here.
880
00:53:37,997 --> 00:53:40,521
A lot of groups are
contributing their services
881
00:53:40,565 --> 00:53:44,221
and they're gonna give all
the bread to peace candidates,
you know.
882
00:53:44,264 --> 00:53:45,657
They've got some
real straight people
883
00:53:45,700 --> 00:53:49,008
to administer it
so it isn't a rip off.
884
00:53:49,051 --> 00:53:51,358
⪠I see you
885
00:53:51,402 --> 00:53:56,929
⪠I see you
at the door, crazy âª
886
00:53:56,972 --> 00:54:01,063
Another rock icon,
Jimi Hendrix,
also died in 1970,
887
00:54:01,107 --> 00:54:02,891
both the American
and British media
888
00:54:02,935 --> 00:54:04,850
had smeared Hendrix
in describing him
889
00:54:04,893 --> 00:54:07,809
as a rampant drug user
who died from choking
890
00:54:07,853 --> 00:54:11,639
on his own vomit
after using heroin.
891
00:54:11,683 --> 00:54:13,902
Top biographer
Shapiro and Glebbeek,
892
00:54:13,946 --> 00:54:17,079
describe Hendrix as someone
who wrote his best album,
893
00:54:17,123 --> 00:54:20,648
Are You Experienced,
without any drug use.
894
00:54:22,215 --> 00:54:25,000
They say he first tried
LSD after making the album,
895
00:54:25,044 --> 00:54:29,570
and only tried heroin a couple
of times, not liking it.
896
00:54:29,614 --> 00:54:33,966
Shapiro and Glebbeek
also say Hendrix's manager,
Mike Jeffrey,
897
00:54:34,009 --> 00:54:36,403
formerly worked for
British intelligence
898
00:54:36,447 --> 00:54:39,406
as an MI6 agent
who inserted himself
899
00:54:39,450 --> 00:54:42,279
into Hendrix's life
and controlled him.
900
00:54:42,322 --> 00:54:46,587
Details of Jeffrey's life
support that he continued
working undercover
901
00:54:46,631 --> 00:54:49,808
for MI6,
the FBI was also involved,
902
00:54:49,851 --> 00:54:53,594
and had Hendrix
under constant surveillance.
903
00:54:53,638 --> 00:54:55,770
This was likely due
to Hendrix's support
904
00:54:55,814 --> 00:54:58,599
of the Black Panthers in 1970,
since the FBI targeted
905
00:54:58,643 --> 00:55:04,431
the Black Panthers with
their counterintelligence
program known as COINTELPRO.
906
00:55:04,475 --> 00:55:10,524
And a program called COINTELPRO
which was a surveillance
and assassination program
907
00:55:10,568 --> 00:55:13,614
and it led to the murder
of 28 Black Panthers
908
00:55:13,658 --> 00:55:15,268
and they learned
from those documents
909
00:55:15,312 --> 00:55:16,313
that Jimi Hendrix had been
910
00:55:16,356 --> 00:55:18,271
put on a security index
911
00:55:18,315 --> 00:55:19,968
established by the FBI
912
00:55:20,012 --> 00:55:22,971
to have him and everyone else
on that index
913
00:55:23,015 --> 00:55:25,800
rounded up and placed
in detainment camps
914
00:55:25,844 --> 00:55:29,369
in the account of
a national emergency.
915
00:55:29,413 --> 00:55:32,981
Various government
files on activists
have shown that the FBI's
916
00:55:33,025 --> 00:55:35,244
counterintelligence
program targeting
917
00:55:35,288 --> 00:55:39,423
was joined by
the CIA's operation MH/CHAOS.
918
00:55:39,466 --> 00:55:43,252
Hendrix's fiancée,
Monika Dannemann,
said Hendrix believed
919
00:55:43,296 --> 00:55:47,866
Jeffrey set up Hendrix's first
drug bust for possession
of marijuana.
920
00:55:47,909 --> 00:55:52,523
She said Hendrix then thought
Jeffrey dosed Hendrix's drink
with a large amount of acid,
921
00:55:52,566 --> 00:55:58,006
and Hendrix thought it hurt
his guitar playing during
an anti-war benefit.
922
00:55:58,050 --> 00:56:01,793
Dannemann also said Hendrix
became very radical,
politically,
923
00:56:01,836 --> 00:56:04,317
and had stopped
taking acid in 1969
924
00:56:04,361 --> 00:56:08,452
after Martin Luther King's
1968 assassination.
925
00:56:08,495 --> 00:56:11,411
Hendrix started dedicating
albums to the Black Panthers
926
00:56:11,455 --> 00:56:13,805
and planning
political projects.
927
00:56:13,848 --> 00:56:16,155
Dannemann further said
Jeffrey threatened her life
928
00:56:16,198 --> 00:56:18,766
if she came out with her book
on the guitar legend
929
00:56:18,810 --> 00:56:21,639
a year after
Jimi Hendrix's death.
930
00:56:21,682 --> 00:56:25,033
She ultimately released
the book about 25 years later.
931
00:56:25,077 --> 00:56:29,864
She died,
purportedly of a suicide,
within a year of that release.
932
00:56:29,908 --> 00:56:33,172
In 2011, a Hendrix roadie
published a book saying that
933
00:56:33,215 --> 00:56:38,395
Mike Jeffrey admitted to him
that he had Hendrix killed.
934
00:56:38,438 --> 00:56:40,701
Mike Jeffrey is an
interesting take,
935
00:56:40,745 --> 00:56:45,140
he begins working for
the government
in the national service,
936
00:56:45,184 --> 00:56:48,709
he works into the military, he joins military intelligence,
937
00:56:48,753 --> 00:56:53,845
and at that point, his career
enters an obscure phase.
938
00:56:53,888 --> 00:56:57,414
So, there's little known
about his activities
939
00:56:57,457 --> 00:57:00,808
with MI6, except to say that
940
00:57:00,852 --> 00:57:04,246
he was stationed in Egypt
and he spoke Russian fluently.
941
00:57:04,290 --> 00:57:09,251
He actually confessed
to a jazz producer
by the name of Alan Douglas,
942
00:57:09,295 --> 00:57:11,210
who was a good friend
of Jimi Hendrix,
943
00:57:11,253 --> 00:57:13,734
that he had something
to do with the murder.
944
00:57:13,778 --> 00:57:15,562
He wasn't entirely clear
about it,
945
00:57:15,606 --> 00:57:17,651
but it was clear
to Alan Douglas
946
00:57:17,695 --> 00:57:20,698
that Michael Jeffrey
was making a confession.
947
00:57:28,357 --> 00:57:32,100
From the late 1960s onwards,
another top musical icon,
948
00:57:32,144 --> 00:57:34,146
Beatles lead singer,
John Lennon,
949
00:57:34,189 --> 00:57:36,409
started getting
much more political.
950
00:57:36,453 --> 00:57:39,630
For example, he participated
in anti-war actions
951
00:57:39,673 --> 00:57:41,806
and supported
Black Panther leaders.
952
00:57:41,849 --> 00:57:46,463
In reaction, US intelligence
increased their targeting
of him.
953
00:57:46,506 --> 00:57:49,378
In the 1970s, John Lennon
took about five years off
954
00:57:49,422 --> 00:57:53,252
from the public spotlight
to raise his second son.
955
00:57:53,295 --> 00:57:56,777
By 1980, Lennon came out
of his hiatus with two albums
956
00:57:56,821 --> 00:58:01,303
and an announced plan
to lead a march
of striking port workers.
957
00:58:01,347 --> 00:58:05,525
Mark David Chapman
fatally shot Lennon that year.
958
00:58:05,569 --> 00:58:09,137
In 1989, British attorney and crime reporter, Fenton Bresler,
959
00:58:09,181 --> 00:58:12,793
published his seven-year
investigation of Lennon's
murder
960
00:58:12,837 --> 00:58:15,709
titled
Who Killed John Lennon?
961
00:58:15,753 --> 00:58:19,321
Bresler concluded that the CIA used MKUltra techniques
962
00:58:19,365 --> 00:58:25,502
involving psycho-hypnotic
drugs and hypnosis
to have Chapman murder Lennon.
963
00:58:25,545 --> 00:58:30,463
Lennon told Paul Krassner,
the editor of The Realist,
964
00:58:30,507 --> 00:58:33,640
"If something happens to me
it wasn't an accident."
965
00:58:33,684 --> 00:58:36,382
Here's what John's son
Sean Lennon said
966
00:58:36,425 --> 00:58:38,166
about his dad's
assassination in 1998.
967
00:58:38,210 --> 00:58:39,994
"He was dangerous
to the government,
968
00:58:40,038 --> 00:58:41,692
these pacifist revolutionaries
969
00:58:41,735 --> 00:58:43,563
are historically killed
by the government.
970
00:58:43,607 --> 00:58:45,565
And anybody who thinks
Mark David Chapman
971
00:58:45,609 --> 00:58:47,828
was just some crazy guy
who killed my dad
972
00:58:47,872 --> 00:58:50,265
for his personal interests
is insane
973
00:58:50,309 --> 00:58:53,007
or hasn't
thought about it clearly."
974
00:58:53,051 --> 00:58:55,793
Veteran British
music writer, Phil Strongman,
975
00:58:55,836 --> 00:58:59,100
came to the same
conclusions as Bresler.
976
00:58:59,144 --> 00:59:02,843
He additionally found that
a Cuban exile CIA asset,
977
00:59:02,887 --> 00:59:07,892
Jose Joaquin Sanjenis Perdomo,
gained work as the doorman
978
00:59:07,935 --> 00:59:10,547
at Lennon's apartment
and aided in the murder.
979
00:59:10,590 --> 00:59:13,245
Bresler and Strongman's
copious amounts of evidence
980
00:59:13,288 --> 00:59:18,598
exposed CIA training programs
for local police departments.
981
00:59:18,642 --> 00:59:21,340
They also uncovered
that an Atlanta police officer
982
00:59:21,383 --> 00:59:24,038
trained Chapman in shooting
and provided him
983
00:59:24,082 --> 00:59:26,040
with deadly
hollow point bullets
984
00:59:26,084 --> 00:59:28,347
with which Chapman
killed Lennon.
985
00:59:28,390 --> 00:59:32,307
And we know the FBI
had a 300-page file on Lennon.
986
00:59:32,351 --> 00:59:36,660
Much of it remains classified
for national security reasons.
987
00:59:36,703 --> 00:59:40,446
The doorman at the Dakota
that night was Jose Perdomo,
988
00:59:40,489 --> 00:59:43,580
a veteran of the CIA's botched
Bay of Pigs invasion,
989
00:59:43,623 --> 00:59:45,712
a professional hitman who
worked closely with convicted
990
00:59:45,756 --> 00:59:49,760
Watergate burglar,
Frank Sturgis,
on the CIA's payroll.
991
00:59:49,803 --> 00:59:55,592
⪠Power to the people
heard that before âª
992
00:59:57,419 --> 01:00:01,119
⪠Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
993
01:00:01,162 --> 01:00:03,077
On a different
domestic war front,
994
01:00:03,121 --> 01:00:05,558
US intelligence used
many tactics to accomplish
995
01:00:05,602 --> 01:00:09,562
their documented goal
of neutralizing
the Black Panthers,
996
01:00:09,606 --> 01:00:13,653
including murdering Los Angeles and Chicago Panther leaders.
997
01:00:13,697 --> 01:00:17,352
In murdering Chicago's
Panther leader, Fred Hampton,
998
01:00:17,396 --> 01:00:21,095
it came out in court
that an undercover
US intelligence agent
999
01:00:21,139 --> 01:00:24,011
first drugged Hampton's drink
before police shot
1000
01:00:24,055 --> 01:00:29,321
an unconscious Hampton
in his bed
in a raid on his home.
1001
01:00:37,721 --> 01:00:43,814
The CIA had liaison projects
with police forces
all over the United States.
1002
01:00:43,857 --> 01:00:46,207
COINTELPRO was the code word
1003
01:00:46,251 --> 01:00:48,427
for a
counterintelligence program,
1004
01:00:48,470 --> 01:00:53,519
and it was a program
that the FBI created in 1956
1005
01:00:53,562 --> 01:00:57,262
to go after the communist
party with intentions
1006
01:00:57,305 --> 01:01:00,134
of trying to neutralize
the party,
put it out of business.
1007
01:01:00,178 --> 01:01:03,834
In 1967, they start what
became known as MH/CHAOS,
1008
01:01:03,877 --> 01:01:08,490
a code word for illegal
domestic operations
within the United States.
1009
01:01:08,534 --> 01:01:11,755
You might murder
a freedom fighter
like Bobby Hutton,
1010
01:01:11,798 --> 01:01:13,365
but you can't murder
freedom fightin'
1011
01:01:13,408 --> 01:01:16,150
and if you do,
you'll come up with answers
1012
01:01:16,194 --> 01:01:19,763
that don't answer,
explanations that don't explain,
1013
01:01:19,806 --> 01:01:21,895
you'll come up with conclusions
that don't conclude.
1014
01:01:21,939 --> 01:01:24,376
Extraordinarily talented.
1015
01:01:25,856 --> 01:01:27,858
Twenty-one years old.
1016
01:01:27,901 --> 01:01:30,338
They always had
local police departments
1017
01:01:30,382 --> 01:01:33,428
do their dirty work
and they began to
1018
01:01:33,472 --> 01:01:35,343
devise a scheme that culminated
1019
01:01:35,387 --> 01:01:38,042
in his assassination
while he was asleep,
1020
01:01:38,085 --> 01:01:44,439
drugged by his security officer
who was also a police informant.
1021
01:01:44,483 --> 01:01:50,576
City police in Chicago
murdered Fred Hampton.
1022
01:01:53,405 --> 01:01:57,757
In essence,
was an assassination
authorized by the FBI.
1023
01:01:57,801 --> 01:01:59,541
Or sanctioned by the FBI.
1024
01:01:59,585 --> 01:02:01,805
The FBI's considering
an attempt to try to smash
1025
01:02:01,848 --> 01:02:03,284
the Black Panther party.
1026
01:02:03,328 --> 01:02:06,200
They stopped actually
attacking us.
1027
01:02:06,244 --> 01:02:08,507
Didn't mean they didn't
have no covert crap going on.
1028
01:02:08,550 --> 01:02:12,380
Infiltration of cocaine
into the Black Panther party,
1029
01:02:12,424 --> 01:02:16,776
it's leadership, Huey P. Newton
being the main target.
1030
01:02:16,820 --> 01:02:18,473
And every
once in awhile, I says,
1031
01:02:18,517 --> 01:02:20,475
"Why are you snortin' this cocaine? This ain't the thing."
1032
01:02:20,519 --> 01:02:25,742
I had a clear impression that...
1033
01:02:25,785 --> 01:02:30,268
chemical warfare
would be utilized
against the Black Panther party.
1034
01:02:30,311 --> 01:02:32,531
We had taken a position
in our rules
1035
01:02:32,574 --> 01:02:35,621
against anyone shootin' heroin, and narcotics found
1036
01:02:35,664 --> 01:02:38,232
would be immediately dismissed
from the Black Panther party
1037
01:02:38,276 --> 01:02:43,411
because we essentially were
anti-drug in our operations.
1038
01:02:43,455 --> 01:02:46,240
Evidence also
supports that US intelligence
1039
01:02:46,284 --> 01:02:51,245
used undercover agents such
as professed undercover
agent infiltrator,
1040
01:02:51,289 --> 01:02:53,508
Earl Anthony and Elaine Brown,
1041
01:02:53,552 --> 01:02:59,776
to hook national Black Panther
co-founder, Huey Newton,
on cocaine.
1042
01:02:59,819 --> 01:03:02,430
LA Panther leader,
Geronimo JiJaga Pratt,
1043
01:03:02,474 --> 01:03:05,216
and national Panther leader,
Kathleen Cleaver,
1044
01:03:05,259 --> 01:03:09,002
identified Elaine Brown
as a US intelligence agent
1045
01:03:09,046 --> 01:03:10,177
who also admittedly
1046
01:03:10,221 --> 01:03:12,353
had top CIA undercover agent,
1047
01:03:12,397 --> 01:03:16,793
Jay Kennedy,
as her lifelong advisor.
1048
01:03:16,836 --> 01:03:20,448
Pulitzer Prize-winning
MLK biographer, Dave Garrow,
1049
01:03:20,492 --> 01:03:23,321
said Jay Kennedy
was a CIA informant,
1050
01:03:23,364 --> 01:03:26,803
as confirmed by CIA documents
on Kennedy.
1051
01:03:26,846 --> 01:03:31,155
Brown sued Cleaver
and Pratt for libel
but the suit was dismissed.
1052
01:03:31,198 --> 01:03:36,116
MKUltra was what you might call
a research program
1053
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:39,337
ran by the CIA to determine
if psychotropic drugs,
1054
01:03:39,380 --> 01:03:44,516
mind-altering drugs might be
used for intelligence purposes.
1055
01:03:44,559 --> 01:03:50,565
Either for chemical warfare
or the neutralization
of targets.
1056
01:03:50,609 --> 01:03:53,481
See, you have to remember,
if you read some of
the COINTELPRO documents,
1057
01:03:53,525 --> 01:03:58,182
they had a psychological
profile on Huey, on me,
on Eldridge.
1058
01:03:58,225 --> 01:04:03,056
I had the distinct impression
consistently from 1971
1059
01:04:03,100 --> 01:04:07,060
that Miss Elaine Brown
was a highly placed
1060
01:04:07,104 --> 01:04:10,847
intelligence operative
inside the Black Panther party.
1061
01:04:10,890 --> 01:04:13,675
I think Elaine Brown
came in through Earl Anthony
1062
01:04:13,719 --> 01:04:17,636
and she followed the same
course of devious type
1063
01:04:17,679 --> 01:04:22,206
of activities, so I'm sayin'
all this to say that
1064
01:04:22,249 --> 01:04:28,212
they got involved with people
and caused a lot of problems.
1065
01:04:28,255 --> 01:04:31,780
But we was aware of it,
we just wasn't aware
of the extent
1066
01:04:31,824 --> 01:04:35,959
that the LAPD, the federal
government with its COINTEL,
1067
01:04:36,002 --> 01:04:39,788
the CIA, FBI,
we wasn't aware to the extent
1068
01:04:39,832 --> 01:04:41,616
that these people
were involved.
1069
01:04:41,660 --> 01:04:46,186
She acknowledges in her
own words, in her book,
1070
01:04:46,230 --> 01:04:50,756
Taste of Power,that in
fact she had been educated,
1071
01:04:50,799 --> 01:04:55,543
groomed, taught,
at the hands of a long-time
1072
01:04:55,587 --> 01:05:02,159
Central Intelligence Agency operative, Jay Richard Kennedy.
1073
01:05:02,202 --> 01:05:03,769
So many party members
literally have told me
1074
01:05:03,812 --> 01:05:07,251
they believe this,
that this woman was connected
1075
01:05:07,294 --> 01:05:11,559
some kind of way and got
step-by-step, piece-by-piece,
1076
01:05:11,603 --> 01:05:14,475
got Huey hooked over into
some notion that he could get
1077
01:05:14,519 --> 01:05:17,957
more money behind the scene
if he, step-by-step,
1078
01:05:18,001 --> 01:05:21,787
methodologically demised
the Black Panther party.
1079
01:05:21,830 --> 01:05:25,747
John Stockwell,
former station chief
of the CIA in Angola,
1080
01:05:25,791 --> 01:05:29,708
he said "Well, I wanna
say this to you very clear,
1081
01:05:29,751 --> 01:05:34,321
the Huey P. Newton
that people see today
1082
01:05:34,365 --> 01:05:40,458
is a direct result
of operations run by the
Central Intelligence Agency
1083
01:05:40,501 --> 01:05:44,418
to ensure that he would
turn out the way that he is.
1084
01:05:44,462 --> 01:05:49,119
Huey P. Newton
was never the same.
1085
01:05:50,816 --> 01:05:56,561
⪠Got no more blood
to give any y'all âª
1086
01:05:58,128 --> 01:06:01,958
⪠Let go of Mutulu Shakur
1087
01:06:02,001 --> 01:06:05,222
One-time Harlem
Panther leader, Afeni Shakur,
1088
01:06:05,265 --> 01:06:08,790
had moved in with
Mutulu Shakur in the 1970s,
1089
01:06:08,834 --> 01:06:11,141
after she gave birth
to future rap icon,
1090
01:06:11,184 --> 01:06:15,797
Tupac Shakur,
in 1971, seen here.
1091
01:06:15,841 --> 01:06:18,844
Mutulu obtained a degree
in acupuncture and was one of
1092
01:06:18,887 --> 01:06:21,760
the first people using it
to treat drug addicts,
1093
01:06:21,803 --> 01:06:25,764
as assistant director of
Lincoln Detox in the Bronx.
1094
01:06:25,807 --> 01:06:28,767
The city tried to close
the clinic down in 1978
1095
01:06:28,810 --> 01:06:31,639
before someone killed
its director, Richard Taft,
1096
01:06:31,683 --> 01:06:34,642
and made the bizarre
but seemingly symbolic move
1097
01:06:34,686 --> 01:06:38,124
of inserting drugs
under Taft's skin.
1098
01:06:38,168 --> 01:06:43,738
They did a poor job with it,
as he died before the drugs
could enter his bloodstream.
1099
01:06:43,782 --> 01:06:46,132
Someone also used the
same strategy to murder
1100
01:06:46,176 --> 01:06:48,656
the clinic's lawyer,
Stanley Cohen.
1101
01:06:48,700 --> 01:06:50,832
Cohen had also been
representing Black Panther,
1102
01:06:50,876 --> 01:06:54,488
Assata Shakur, regarding a
New Jersey shooting incident
1103
01:06:54,532 --> 01:06:57,056
where Mutulu's brother,
Black Liberation Army founder,
1104
01:06:57,100 --> 01:06:59,841
Zayd Shakur,
was killed by police.
1105
01:06:59,885 --> 01:07:04,585
We went to interview
Dr. Mutulu Shakur,
1106
01:07:04,629 --> 01:07:07,153
who had cured thousands
of drug addicts
1107
01:07:07,197 --> 01:07:10,069
with the experimental treatment of acupuncture.
1108
01:07:10,113 --> 01:07:13,072
We found him in an
underground prison.
1109
01:07:13,116 --> 01:07:15,901
The Young Lords party
and the Black Panther party
1110
01:07:15,944 --> 01:07:22,038
wanted every municipal hospital that serviced the poor
in New York
1111
01:07:22,081 --> 01:07:28,479
to have an
acupuncture experimental center
inside of their drug program.
1112
01:07:28,522 --> 01:07:31,438
And because we were the first,
we became targets.
1113
01:07:31,482 --> 01:07:35,790
A hundred policemen came to
the Bronx and arrested us
1114
01:07:35,834 --> 01:07:39,098
and took us away
from the center.
1115
01:07:39,142 --> 01:07:41,013
Activists linked
to the Weather Underground
1116
01:07:41,057 --> 01:07:43,842
including Bernardine Dohrn's
sister, Jennifer,
1117
01:07:43,885 --> 01:07:47,280
and activists linked to
the Puerto Rican version
of the Panthers,
1118
01:07:47,324 --> 01:07:50,327
the Young Lords,
worked at Lincoln Detox.
1119
01:07:50,370 --> 01:07:54,200
When New York City Police
actually blockaded
Lincoln Detox.
1120
01:07:54,244 --> 01:07:58,596
Mutulu Shakur and
the rest of the staff
were forced to work elsewhere.
1121
01:07:58,639 --> 01:08:01,729
A group deemed the
Multinational Task Force
by some
1122
01:08:01,773 --> 01:08:05,211
and the Revolutionary
Armed Task Force by others,
1123
01:08:05,255 --> 01:08:10,477
decided to fund health
care in the Bronx by expropriating money from banks.
1124
01:08:10,521 --> 01:08:13,524
One of their armed robberies
of a bank truck in 1981
1125
01:08:13,567 --> 01:08:19,138
led to the fatal shooting
of a cop and a Brink's truck
guard in Nyack, New York.
1126
01:08:19,182 --> 01:08:22,141
A massive police sweep led to
those caught at the scene,
1127
01:08:22,185 --> 01:08:26,493
including Black Liberation
Army members and Weather Underground members
1128
01:08:26,537 --> 01:08:28,843
who were driving
the getaway truck.
1129
01:08:28,887 --> 01:08:31,716
Mutulu Shakur was falsely
charged with masterminding
1130
01:08:31,759 --> 01:08:35,459
the operation
and went into hiding.
1131
01:08:36,938 --> 01:08:39,593
⪠Power to the people,
heard that before âª
1132
01:08:39,637 --> 01:08:41,682
⪠Free Mumia Abul Jamal
1133
01:08:41,726 --> 01:08:44,555
⪠Got no more blood to give,
hear me y'all âª
1134
01:08:44,598 --> 01:08:47,253
⪠Let go of Mutulu Shakur
1135
01:08:47,297 --> 01:08:51,039
In 1986,
after five years
of being a fugitive,
1136
01:08:51,083 --> 01:08:54,782
the acupuncturist
and Republic of New Afrika
co-founder,
1137
01:08:54,826 --> 01:08:58,917
Mutulu Shakur,
was caught by the FBI.
1138
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:01,354
Shakur was not charged
with direct involvement
1139
01:09:01,398 --> 01:09:06,011
in the crime of bank robbery,
but only conspiracy
involvement in the crime,
1140
01:09:06,054 --> 01:09:09,145
despite no physical evidence
to support the claim.
1141
01:09:09,188 --> 01:09:13,845
Mutulu was also charged
with springing Assata Shakur
from jail,
1142
01:09:13,888 --> 01:09:18,328
after which she was granted political exile status in Cuba.
1143
01:09:18,371 --> 01:09:21,983
Mutulu was convicted
and sentenced to decades
in prison
1144
01:09:22,027 --> 01:09:28,947
where he remains,
despite being scheduled
for mandatory release in 2016.
1145
01:09:28,990 --> 01:09:32,342
While Mutulu was in hiding
in the early 1980s,
1146
01:09:32,385 --> 01:09:35,345
his wife, Harlem Black Panther
leader Afeni Shakur,
1147
01:09:35,388 --> 01:09:41,307
struggled financially
trying to raise her son Tupac
and her daughter, Sekyiwa.
1148
01:09:41,351 --> 01:09:43,483
A drug dealer,
Kenneth Legs Saunders,
1149
01:09:43,527 --> 01:09:47,357
entered Afeni's life
and got her hooked
on crack cocaine at this time.
1150
01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:51,187
⪠I try to forget it
all the pain âª
1151
01:09:51,230 --> 01:09:53,014
⪠Insane in the game
1152
01:09:53,058 --> 01:09:54,320
⪠I try to forget it
1153
01:09:54,364 --> 01:09:55,669
⪠Trying to make a dollar
1154
01:09:55,713 --> 01:09:57,802
⪠We'll honor some change
1155
01:09:57,845 --> 01:09:59,891
Legs Saunders
worked with Nicky Barnes,
1156
01:09:59,934 --> 01:10:02,241
who was an assistant
to one of the first black
1157
01:10:02,285 --> 01:10:05,853
New York drug kingpins,
Frank Matthews.
1158
01:10:05,897 --> 01:10:08,726
Professor Clarence Lusane
wrote that nine people
1159
01:10:08,769 --> 01:10:11,903
supplying drugs to Matthews
had their drug importation
1160
01:10:11,946 --> 01:10:15,602
charges dropped
due to their CIA ties.
1161
01:10:15,646 --> 01:10:18,214
The New York Times then
called Matthews' successor,
1162
01:10:18,257 --> 01:10:20,041
Nicky Barnes, Mr. Untouchable,
1163
01:10:20,085 --> 01:10:23,306
due to all his legal charges
that were dismissed.
1164
01:10:23,349 --> 01:10:25,830
This and other evidence
supports that Saunders worked
1165
01:10:25,873 --> 01:10:29,050
as part of a US intelligence
drug dealing network
1166
01:10:29,094 --> 01:10:33,838
that inserted him
into Shakur's life to undermine her activist work.
1167
01:10:33,881 --> 01:10:38,277
In the 1960s,
Chicago gang leader,
Jose Cha Cha Jimenez,
1168
01:10:38,321 --> 01:10:43,848
converted his Puerto Rican
gang, the Young Lords,
into activists.
1169
01:10:43,891 --> 01:10:47,373
Jimenez was in recovery
from a drug addiction.
1170
01:10:47,417 --> 01:10:49,767
Jimenez shadowed Black Panther
national co-founder,
1171
01:10:49,810 --> 01:10:52,639
Bobby Seale, for a month
to learn who to replicate
1172
01:10:52,683 --> 01:10:55,903
some of the Panther programs
for the Young Lords.
1173
01:10:55,947 --> 01:10:57,949
Police began targeting
the Young Lords,
1174
01:10:57,992 --> 01:11:00,908
trying to frame them
with drug possession charges.
1175
01:11:00,952 --> 01:11:03,476
The Young Lords spread
to many other cities,
1176
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:05,783
with the biggest chapter
arising in New York.
1177
01:11:05,826 --> 01:11:09,787
⪠The ghetto stinks
everywhere is the same âª
1178
01:11:09,830 --> 01:11:11,397
⪠I'm trying to forget it
1179
01:11:15,053 --> 01:11:17,185
In the 1970s,
activists had helped end
1180
01:11:17,229 --> 01:11:20,406
the Vietnam War
and US intelligence
shifted its attention
1181
01:11:20,450 --> 01:11:24,584
from the Golden Triangle
to other drug-producing
regions,
1182
01:11:24,628 --> 01:11:27,544
such as Latin America.
1183
01:11:27,587 --> 01:11:32,113
The CIA had helped relocate
thousands of Nazis
after World War II,
1184
01:11:32,157 --> 01:11:36,466
some of the Nazi scientists
brought to the US
continued their studies
1185
01:11:36,509 --> 01:11:40,600
of psychedelic drugs as part of the MKUltra program.
1186
01:11:40,644 --> 01:11:43,560
Many more Nazis were resettled
in Latin American countries,
1187
01:11:43,603 --> 01:11:48,042
particularly Bolivia,
Argentina, and Chile.
1188
01:11:48,086 --> 01:11:50,567
These Nazis helped build
alliances with the largest
1189
01:11:50,610 --> 01:11:52,960
coca plant farmers down there,
and aided them
1190
01:11:53,004 --> 01:11:55,441
in backing coups
against leftist leaders
1191
01:11:55,485 --> 01:11:58,314
to gain control
of those countries.
1192
01:11:58,357 --> 01:12:00,359
For example, in 1967,
1193
01:12:00,403 --> 01:12:03,101
Bolivian-based genocidal Nazi,
Klaus Barbie,
1194
01:12:03,144 --> 01:12:07,758
helped the CIA
murder Cuban revolutionary,
Che Guevara, in Bolivia,
1195
01:12:07,801 --> 01:12:12,632
before leading a cocaine coup
in that country by 1980.
1196
01:12:12,676 --> 01:12:16,375
American CIC decided to
smuggle Barbie out of Europe
1197
01:12:16,419 --> 01:12:18,464
to get rid of him, to hide him.
1198
01:12:18,508 --> 01:12:20,684
With the aid
of American officials,
1199
01:12:20,727 --> 01:12:22,555
Barbie is smuggled to Bolivia,
1200
01:12:22,599 --> 01:12:26,211
where he lives comfortably
for the next 30 years.
1201
01:13:11,082 --> 01:13:13,606
The CIA worked
with two Nazi colonies
1202
01:13:13,650 --> 01:13:16,174
inside the countries
of Chile and Argentina
1203
01:13:16,217 --> 01:13:18,219
to start Operation Condor.
1204
01:13:18,263 --> 01:13:20,439
Chile's Nazi colony
helped lead the coup
1205
01:13:20,483 --> 01:13:24,530
against elected Socialist
President Salvadore Allende.
1206
01:13:24,574 --> 01:13:28,012
The New York Times noted how
the Chilean Nazi
colony's leader
1207
01:13:28,055 --> 01:13:30,710
tortured leftists
in aid of the coup leader,
1208
01:13:30,754 --> 01:13:32,799
with London's
Daily Guardian detailing
1209
01:13:32,843 --> 01:13:36,237
Chile's dictatorship
trafficking cocaine.
1210
01:13:36,281 --> 01:13:39,632
That coup leader,
Chilean dictator,
Augusto Pinochet,
1211
01:13:39,676 --> 01:13:44,245
ruled for decades,
helping lead some
nine Latin American countries'
1212
01:13:44,289 --> 01:13:48,206
military dictatorships
to murder tens to hundreds
of thousands
1213
01:13:48,249 --> 01:13:52,428
of Latin American leftists,
including targeted hits
worldwide.
1214
01:13:52,471 --> 01:13:55,256
⪠Let me bend your ear again
my friend, it's not a game âª
1215
01:13:55,300 --> 01:13:58,042
⪠Many complicated matters,
too many to name âª
1216
01:13:58,085 --> 01:14:01,132
CIA Director,
George H.W. Bush,
1217
01:14:01,175 --> 01:14:06,442
helped orchestrate some
of these operations in 1976.
1218
01:14:06,485 --> 01:14:09,270
Around that time,
the CIA also worked
on developing
1219
01:14:09,314 --> 01:14:12,273
new poppy fields
in the Golden Crescent area,
1220
01:14:12,317 --> 01:14:15,102
where Afghanistan
borders Pakistan.
1221
01:14:15,146 --> 01:14:17,191
US intelligence
paid tribal leader
1222
01:14:17,235 --> 01:14:20,804
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, founder
of the Muslim Brotherhood,
1223
01:14:20,847 --> 01:14:23,241
to develop poppy fields
and laboratories
1224
01:14:23,284 --> 01:14:27,767
for the processing of opium,
morphine, and heroin.
1225
01:14:27,811 --> 01:14:30,117
The CIA also tried to
manipulate the politics
1226
01:14:30,161 --> 01:14:33,947
of Afghanistan, which bordered
the Soviet Union.
1227
01:14:33,991 --> 01:14:36,472
Afghanistan elected
a socialist government
1228
01:14:36,515 --> 01:14:38,778
and the CIA paid
the Muslim Brotherhood,
1229
01:14:38,822 --> 01:14:42,608
who became the mujahideen
to oppose the new government.
1230
01:14:42,652 --> 01:14:45,132
Reporters Elizabeth Gould
and Paul Fitzgerald
1231
01:14:45,176 --> 01:14:49,006
were experts on Afghanistan
for PBS and CBS News.
1232
01:14:49,049 --> 01:14:51,791
Paul Jay of the Real News
Network talked with
1233
01:14:51,835 --> 01:14:53,967
these reporters
about American policies
1234
01:14:54,011 --> 01:14:56,492
to manipulate the Soviet Union, as well as
1235
01:14:56,535 --> 01:15:01,105
US intelligence's work
with Pakistan's military
intelligence
1236
01:15:01,148 --> 01:15:03,977
on cross-boarder
trafficking into Afghanistan.
1237
01:15:04,021 --> 01:15:09,940
The US policy's to induce
the Soviets into Afghanistan
or at least facilitate it,
1238
01:15:09,983 --> 01:15:12,725
they certainly succeed,
the whole Pakistan society
1239
01:15:12,769 --> 01:15:16,207
starts to be transformed
by these billions of dollars
going...
1240
01:15:16,250 --> 01:15:18,557
arms going this way
and drugs coming this way,
1241
01:15:18,601 --> 01:15:23,823
back into Pakistan.
Eventually, the Russians leave.
Tell us what happens next.
1242
01:15:23,867 --> 01:15:27,000
In fact, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
and Ahmad Shah Massoud
1243
01:15:27,044 --> 01:15:32,353
were two of the main people
who caused the major destruction
in Kabul,
1244
01:15:32,397 --> 01:15:34,051
but this was all part
of the build up
1245
01:15:34,094 --> 01:15:39,012
that eventually was presented
by 1994 to '96
1246
01:15:39,056 --> 01:15:41,841
as an Afghan movement,
but really was very much
1247
01:15:41,885 --> 01:15:46,411
part of the ideological
political process
1248
01:15:46,454 --> 01:15:48,892
that the Pakistani ISI
military--
1249
01:15:48,935 --> 01:15:50,676
Together with the Saudis
I think should be added.
1250
01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:52,243
-Oh, absolutely.
-Together with the Saudis
1251
01:15:52,286 --> 01:15:53,374
but also the United States
1252
01:15:53,418 --> 01:15:55,246
was very much behind it.
1253
01:15:55,289 --> 01:15:57,204
Associated Press
andNewsweek reporter,
1254
01:15:57,248 --> 01:16:00,381
Robert Parry,
detailed how George Bush Sr.
1255
01:16:00,425 --> 01:16:03,341
continued working on
the CIA trafficking cocaine
1256
01:16:03,384 --> 01:16:08,564
out of Latin American
countries when he became
Vice President in 1980.
1257
01:16:08,607 --> 01:16:13,177
Parry and Professor Peter Dale
Scott detailed how, in 1979,
1258
01:16:13,220 --> 01:16:15,309
the Democratic Socialist
political party,
1259
01:16:15,353 --> 01:16:19,792
the FSLN,
aka the Sandinistas,
launched a revolution
1260
01:16:19,836 --> 01:16:24,623
against the US
intelligence-backed
Somoza family dictatorship.
1261
01:16:24,667 --> 01:16:31,151
The Somoza family
had ruthlessly ruled
Nicaragua since 1936.
1262
01:16:31,195 --> 01:16:33,763
While vice president under
Ronald Regan, George Bush,
1263
01:16:33,806 --> 01:16:39,377
headed the US intelligence
umbrella group,
the National Security Council.
1264
01:16:39,420 --> 01:16:42,336
In that position,
Bush headed covert operations,
1265
01:16:42,380 --> 01:16:44,991
directing Colonel Oliver North, as he supervised
1266
01:16:45,035 --> 01:16:48,473
cocaine trafficking with
a counterrevolutionary army
1267
01:16:48,516 --> 01:16:52,608
out of Honduras that sought
to topple the Sandinistas.
1268
01:16:52,651 --> 01:16:54,435
That army was called
the Contras.
1269
01:16:54,479 --> 01:16:57,613
⪠Lotta stubborn ass niggers
unwilling to change âª
1270
01:16:57,656 --> 01:17:01,094
⪠Every gangster got a chain
but not many can name âª
1271
01:17:01,138 --> 01:17:04,968
Senate hearings
with the involvement of Senator John Kerry's committee,
1272
01:17:05,011 --> 01:17:08,972
revealed much of the Contra
crack cocaine operations.
1273
01:17:09,015 --> 01:17:11,322
Pulitzer Prize winning
journalist, Gary Webb,
1274
01:17:11,365 --> 01:17:16,109
wrote a series of
front page stories
in theSan Jose Mercury News
1275
01:17:16,153 --> 01:17:20,157
that became the first viral
internet articles.
1276
01:17:20,200 --> 01:17:23,682
Their claim substantiated
that the CIA and their assets
1277
01:17:23,726 --> 01:17:26,598
trafficked cocaine
into the US
1278
01:17:26,642 --> 01:17:29,470
Other evidence supported that
the CIA had the further goal
1279
01:17:29,514 --> 01:17:33,779
of subverting urban American
communities with crack,
1280
01:17:33,823 --> 01:17:36,303
particularly black communities.
1281
01:17:36,347 --> 01:17:39,132
DEA agent whistleblower,
Mike Levine,
1282
01:17:39,176 --> 01:17:42,658
also reported evidence
of CIA drug trafficking.
1283
01:17:42,701 --> 01:17:45,530
Levine infiltrated top drug
trafficking rings,
1284
01:17:45,573 --> 01:17:49,142
but the CIA sabotaged
his DEA operations
1285
01:17:49,186 --> 01:17:53,016
and thwarted prosecution
of the drug ring leaders.
1286
01:17:53,059 --> 01:17:55,496
CBS's60 Minutes
covered one example
1287
01:17:55,540 --> 01:17:59,239
regarding the CIA
aiding Venezuela
in the smuggling
1288
01:17:59,283 --> 01:18:02,765
of a ton of cocaine into
the US in the early 1990s.
1289
01:18:02,808 --> 01:18:07,508
They also highlighted
Mike Levine's exposure
of these CIA activities.
1290
01:18:07,552 --> 01:18:10,294
The head of the DEA
at the time, Robert Bonner,
1291
01:18:10,337 --> 01:18:13,166
said that a ton
of pure cocaine,
1292
01:18:13,210 --> 01:18:15,255
worth hundreds
of millions of dollars,
1293
01:18:15,299 --> 01:18:18,302
had been smuggled
into the United States.
1294
01:18:18,345 --> 01:18:20,739
And he blamed the CIA,
saying the agency
1295
01:18:20,783 --> 01:18:25,526
had joined
the Venezuela national guard
in drug smuggling.
1296
01:18:25,570 --> 01:18:28,573
If it was a question of
supporting people who supported
1297
01:18:28,616 --> 01:18:34,013
our economic and political
philosophies in other parts
of the world,
1298
01:18:34,057 --> 01:18:37,190
and they happen to be drug
dealers, as most of them are,
1299
01:18:37,234 --> 01:18:39,802
we supported them
and we protected them.
1300
01:18:39,845 --> 01:18:43,762
Blandon and Meneses
were working for an army
1301
01:18:43,806 --> 01:18:45,938
that was a wholly owned
subsidiary of the CIA.
1302
01:18:45,982 --> 01:18:48,811
They were meeting
with CIA agents, Blandon...
1303
01:18:48,854 --> 01:18:50,464
And this came out in court,
I mean,
1304
01:18:50,508 --> 01:18:52,597
Danilo Blandon is now
a government witness.
1305
01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:55,121
In 1991,
former US Attorney General,
1306
01:18:55,165 --> 01:18:58,081
Ramsey Clark, who had worked
under President Johnson,
1307
01:18:58,124 --> 01:19:01,214
said that he believes
the government uses drugs
1308
01:19:01,258 --> 01:19:04,000
to sedate and divide
the masses.
1309
01:19:04,043 --> 01:19:08,569
Certainly drugs directed
into black communities
divided whites and blacks.
1310
01:19:08,613 --> 01:19:12,008
Drug sales
also led to gang wars
over drug-selling turf.
1311
01:19:12,051 --> 01:19:17,578
Gangs led particularly
violent wars over crack sales
from the 1980s onward.
1312
01:19:17,622 --> 01:19:20,625
⪠And livin' in the ghetto
got the joint insane âª
1313
01:19:20,668 --> 01:19:23,149
⪠Why human hearts used to
come along with the game âª
1314
01:19:23,193 --> 01:19:28,241
CIA assets
worked with a dealer named
Freeway Ricky Ross,
1315
01:19:28,285 --> 01:19:30,330
and helped him set up
a national network
1316
01:19:30,374 --> 01:19:33,812
that grossed billions
of dollars in selling crack.
1317
01:19:33,856 --> 01:19:35,771
Street gangs
gained more members,
1318
01:19:35,814 --> 01:19:39,775
particularly in Ricky Ross'
home area of Los Angeles.
1319
01:19:39,818 --> 01:19:42,995
The Bloods and the Crips
were the biggest street gangs
in LA,
1320
01:19:43,039 --> 01:19:48,305
and they notoriously fought
each other over control
of drug dealing turf.
1321
01:19:48,348 --> 01:19:51,438
Meanwhile, CIA whistleblower,
John Stockwell,
1322
01:19:51,482 --> 01:19:54,006
stated how his former
coworkers told him
1323
01:19:54,050 --> 01:19:59,316
they were now flying heroin
from Afghanistan's
Golden Crescent to America.
1324
01:19:59,359 --> 01:20:03,146
Without mention of the
CI program and the secret war
1325
01:20:03,189 --> 01:20:06,366
you do pick up articles
about the drug allocations
1326
01:20:06,410 --> 01:20:09,500
around the world are,
and the Golden Crescent
1327
01:20:09,543 --> 01:20:12,111
is now the largest source
of heroin apparently,
1328
01:20:12,155 --> 01:20:13,939
in the world today,
right in there
1329
01:20:13,983 --> 01:20:15,767
where the CIA's being
running this operation,
1330
01:20:15,811 --> 01:20:18,378
whether it's C-130s and C-123s
1331
01:20:18,422 --> 01:20:22,992
flying in with arms
and flying out with the heroin.
1332
01:20:23,035 --> 01:20:24,950
⪠Satan's nature is our goal
1333
01:20:24,994 --> 01:20:27,431
⪠Seize your carrot
seize my gold âª
1334
01:20:27,474 --> 01:20:30,477
⪠Lick their chops
enjoy your pain âª
1335
01:20:33,393 --> 01:20:39,356
US intelligence's
increase of opium cultivation
in the Golden Crescent area
1336
01:20:39,399 --> 01:20:42,446
appeared to lead to more
promotion in the US
1337
01:20:42,489 --> 01:20:46,754
to make demand for heroin
match their supply of it.
1338
01:20:46,798 --> 01:20:51,759
Evidence supports
that the CIA psychologically
profiled rising musicians.
1339
01:20:51,803 --> 01:20:55,459
Nirvana lead singer,
Kurt Cobain fit the bill
1340
01:20:55,502 --> 01:20:58,984
to inadvertently
help promote heroin.
1341
01:20:59,028 --> 01:21:03,119
Cobain had a chronic
stomach ailment, and he had stated in his diary,
1342
01:21:03,162 --> 01:21:05,469
having tried heroin
a handful of times
1343
01:21:05,512 --> 01:21:09,603
for pain relief
from 1987 to 1991,
1344
01:21:09,647 --> 01:21:13,999
In 1991, Nirvana had released
their first major label album,
1345
01:21:14,043 --> 01:21:18,395
and it had a meteoric rise
up the Billboard sales charts.
1346
01:21:18,438 --> 01:21:23,530
During that rise,
Courtney Love
entered Cobain's life
1347
01:21:23,574 --> 01:21:25,706
and according to at least
two friends,
1348
01:21:25,750 --> 01:21:29,623
influenced Kurt Cobain
to use heroin daily with her.
1349
01:21:29,667 --> 01:21:32,931
After she got pregnant with
his kid early in their dating,
1350
01:21:32,975 --> 01:21:36,152
he married her with
a prenuptial agreement.
1351
01:21:36,195 --> 01:21:39,459
In early April of 1994,
an electrician found
1352
01:21:39,503 --> 01:21:42,419
Kurt Cobain dead
in his Seattle home.
1353
01:21:42,462 --> 01:21:44,595
Within hours,
police stated that Kurt Cobain
1354
01:21:44,638 --> 01:21:48,729
had committed suicide
by shooting himself
with a shotgun.
1355
01:21:48,773 --> 01:21:51,907
New York Times top-selling
author, Ian Halperin,
1356
01:21:51,950 --> 01:21:55,736
and award-winning filmmaker,
Max Wallace wrote two books
1357
01:21:55,780 --> 01:22:01,568
presenting evidence
that Courtney Love
aided someone killing Cobain.
1358
01:22:01,612 --> 01:22:03,919
Police whistleblowers
said their supervisor
1359
01:22:03,962 --> 01:22:08,793
told them not to investigate
Cobain's death as anything
but a suicide,
1360
01:22:08,836 --> 01:22:11,187
despite evidence of foul play.
1361
01:22:11,230 --> 01:22:13,754
For example, Cobain's purported suicide note
1362
01:22:13,798 --> 01:22:16,366
appeared to have different
handwriting at a place
1363
01:22:16,409 --> 01:22:19,586
where the note had only sounded like a goodbye to fans
1364
01:22:19,630 --> 01:22:21,893
because he was
breaking up Nirvana.
1365
01:22:21,937 --> 01:22:26,985
Other band members confirmed
Cobain was doing this.
1366
01:22:54,317 --> 01:22:57,450
A former police detective
turned private detective,
1367
01:22:57,494 --> 01:22:59,975
Tom Grant, had been hired by Courtney Love
1368
01:23:00,018 --> 01:23:03,717
to investigate Cobain's
purported disappearance.
1369
01:23:03,761 --> 01:23:05,719
Yet Grant ended up
finding evidence
1370
01:23:05,763 --> 01:23:09,245
that Love aided
in Cobain's murder.
1371
01:23:09,288 --> 01:23:11,595
Grant's copious evidence
includes someone using
1372
01:23:11,638 --> 01:23:15,599
the credit card in Cobain's
wallet after his death.
1373
01:23:15,642 --> 01:23:18,297
Furthermore, the coroner
found an amount of heroin
1374
01:23:18,341 --> 01:23:20,256
in Cobain's system
that would immediately
1375
01:23:20,299 --> 01:23:24,912
incapacitate and kill
even a severe addict.
1376
01:23:24,956 --> 01:23:31,267
I just think that it's a staged
suicide is what I think,
that's the bottom line.
1377
01:23:31,310 --> 01:23:32,833
[male reporter] Wecht says
there was enough heroin
1378
01:23:32,877 --> 01:23:36,185
in Cobain's system
to kill five people.
1379
01:23:36,228 --> 01:23:38,491
All of the drug paraphernalia
was put back
1380
01:23:38,535 --> 01:23:41,146
into his nice little cigar box.
1381
01:23:41,190 --> 01:23:42,930
The needle was
taken off the syringe,
1382
01:23:42,974 --> 01:23:45,846
the tourniquet was taken off
the arm, everything was placed
1383
01:23:45,890 --> 01:23:47,718
back in the cigar box neatly,
1384
01:23:47,761 --> 01:23:51,200
and then he proceeds
to take a shotgun
and kill himself.
1385
01:23:51,243 --> 01:23:52,766
It's highly unlikely.
1386
01:23:52,810 --> 01:23:54,638
A docudrama,
Soaked in Bleach,
1387
01:23:54,681 --> 01:23:57,641
presented expert interviews
on Cobain's death,
1388
01:23:57,684 --> 01:24:00,470
supporting that Cobain
was murdered.
1389
01:24:00,513 --> 01:24:02,950
The film also presented
police foul play,
1390
01:24:02,994 --> 01:24:05,605
ranging from a two decades
delay in developing
1391
01:24:05,649 --> 01:24:07,694
all of the
death scene photographs,
1392
01:24:07,738 --> 01:24:11,263
to allowing the destruction of
possible crime scene evidence.
1393
01:24:11,307 --> 01:24:15,528
Well, the photographs
haven't been developed,
probably never will be,
1394
01:24:15,572 --> 01:24:20,272
we don't develop photographs
on suicides.
1395
01:24:20,316 --> 01:24:21,447
I have never heard of that,
1396
01:24:21,491 --> 01:24:23,188
Every case
I've been involved with
1397
01:24:23,232 --> 01:24:25,756
the crime scene photographs
were developed.
1398
01:24:29,238 --> 01:24:31,588
The creators
of the film,Soaked in Bleach,
1399
01:24:31,631 --> 01:24:34,721
found that the Seattle Police
allowed Kurt Cobain's body
1400
01:24:34,765 --> 01:24:38,160
to be cremated six days
after being discovered.
1401
01:24:38,203 --> 01:24:40,597
They waited 30 days
to process the shotgun
1402
01:24:40,640 --> 01:24:43,382
found at the scene
for fingerprints.
1403
01:24:43,426 --> 01:24:46,559
They gave Courtney Love
the shotgun to have it
melted down,
1404
01:24:46,603 --> 01:24:48,735
and they allowed
the greenhouse crime scene
1405
01:24:48,779 --> 01:24:52,565
where Cobain was found dead
to be torn down and destroyed.
1406
01:24:52,609 --> 01:24:55,307
The filmSoaked in Bleach, then presented expert witnesses
1407
01:24:55,351 --> 01:25:01,661
reporting their disbelief
that Cobain used heroin
and then shot himself.
1408
01:25:01,705 --> 01:25:05,883
No study that I
know of has correlated
1409
01:25:05,926 --> 01:25:09,234
the use of heroin with suicide.
1410
01:25:09,278 --> 01:25:14,239
I cannot think of a case
in which I have had someone
inject himself
1411
01:25:14,283 --> 01:25:19,462
with a large amount of heroin
and then proceed
to kill himself,
1412
01:25:19,505 --> 01:25:22,943
it just doesn't make sense.
1413
01:25:22,987 --> 01:25:25,642
⪠And when we leave
from this world âª
1414
01:25:25,685 --> 01:25:28,819
⪠We're born into another
1415
01:25:35,434 --> 01:25:37,523
Several more aspects
of Cobain's death
1416
01:25:37,567 --> 01:25:40,439
suggests US intelligence
murdered the radical leftist,
1417
01:25:40,483 --> 01:25:45,140
Kurt Cobain, at a time
when he was gaining sobriety.
1418
01:25:45,183 --> 01:25:49,796
First, Cobain had found
a medical cure to his
severe stomach pain,
1419
01:25:49,840 --> 01:25:52,277
for which he had
previously used heroin.
1420
01:25:52,321 --> 01:25:56,934
A blood test a month before
he died proved he had
no drugs in his system
1421
01:25:56,977 --> 01:25:59,371
and had not been an active
heroin addict.
1422
01:25:59,415 --> 01:26:01,330
How's your stomach?
1423
01:26:01,373 --> 01:26:02,635
Have you found anything to--
1424
01:26:02,679 --> 01:26:05,290
Oh... it's gone.
1425
01:26:05,334 --> 01:26:07,336
-Yeah?
-Yeah.
1426
01:26:07,379 --> 01:26:10,339
I've finally been subscribed
the right stomach medicine
1427
01:26:10,382 --> 01:26:14,299
after six years
of being in constant pain.
1428
01:26:14,343 --> 01:26:20,479
Finally, I haven't had
a stomach problem
for, like, over a year now.
1429
01:26:20,523 --> 01:26:22,394
Additionally,
the only police detective
1430
01:26:22,438 --> 01:26:26,181
to defy his supervisor's orders and spend over 200 hours
1431
01:26:26,224 --> 01:26:28,008
looking for the source
of the heroin,
1432
01:26:28,052 --> 01:26:31,273
Detective Antonio Terry,
became the first
1433
01:26:31,316 --> 01:26:34,624
Seattle Police Officer murdered in nine years.
1434
01:26:34,667 --> 01:26:37,192
Detective Terry was able
to convey that his assailants
1435
01:26:37,235 --> 01:26:41,544
new his route home from work,
and knew he was
a police officer,
1436
01:26:41,587 --> 01:26:43,807
before he died from his wounds.
1437
01:26:43,850 --> 01:26:46,331
And finally,
Eldon El Duce Hoke,
1438
01:26:46,375 --> 01:26:48,028
an acquaintance
of Courtney Love,
1439
01:26:48,072 --> 01:26:51,031
passed two polygraph tests
on national TV,
1440
01:26:51,075 --> 01:26:57,821
stating that Courtney Love
had offered him $50,000 to blow her old man's head off.
1441
01:26:57,864 --> 01:26:59,997
You did some
deal with Courtney, right?
1442
01:27:00,040 --> 01:27:03,696
Yeah, she offered me 50 grand
to whack Kurt Cobain.
1443
01:27:03,740 --> 01:27:06,786
Yeah, but,
how were you gonna whack him,
did she tell in how to do it?
1444
01:27:06,830 --> 01:27:08,745
Yeah, blow his fucking'
head off, she had a shotgun.
1445
01:27:08,788 --> 01:27:10,616
So where were you
gonna find him to do it?
1446
01:27:10,660 --> 01:27:13,706
Well, up there, she gave...
mapped it out.
1447
01:27:13,750 --> 01:27:18,363
I mean, up there in Bellevue,
wherever they live,
right outside Seattle.
1448
01:27:18,407 --> 01:27:23,760
I know right where
the house is, I know right
what garden to pop him in.
1449
01:27:23,803 --> 01:27:27,981
I just didn't think
she was serious.
1450
01:27:28,025 --> 01:27:30,288
But did she
tell you how she wanted you
to pop him?
1451
01:27:30,332 --> 01:27:33,422
Yeah, she says,
"Blow his fuckin' head off,
I got the shotgun."
1452
01:27:33,465 --> 01:27:35,902
But she didn't
say anything about making it
look like a suicide?
1453
01:27:35,946 --> 01:27:37,817
-Make it look like a suicide.
-Well, yeah, but if you just blew
1454
01:27:37,861 --> 01:27:40,385
his brains out like you said,
it wouldn't look like a suicide,
1455
01:27:40,429 --> 01:27:41,908
it'd look like you blew
his brains out, right?
1456
01:27:41,952 --> 01:27:48,959
But I told Alan,
I mean, my friend... [laughing]
1457
01:27:51,309 --> 01:27:53,311
I'll let the FBI catch him.
1458
01:27:53,355 --> 01:27:56,532
El Duce
had passed a polygraph test.
1459
01:27:56,575 --> 01:27:58,316
Eldon Hoke died several days
1460
01:27:58,360 --> 01:28:01,058
after the filming
of these statements.
1461
01:28:01,101 --> 01:28:03,408
⪠And when we wake
from this world âª
1462
01:28:03,452 --> 01:28:06,803
⪠We're born into another
1463
01:28:11,590 --> 01:28:13,592
Love's father,
Hank Harrison,
1464
01:28:13,636 --> 01:28:15,942
said the extremely wealthy
parents of Love's mother,
1465
01:28:15,986 --> 01:28:18,989
Linda Carol, helped take
his daughter away from him
1466
01:28:19,032 --> 01:28:23,559
when she was about
five years old, sending him
into a depression.
1467
01:28:23,602 --> 01:28:27,693
Harrison said that Courtney
found him again when she was
a young teenager
1468
01:28:27,737 --> 01:28:30,609
trying to get out of
a juvenile detention facility.
1469
01:28:30,653 --> 01:28:33,395
She said her childhood
therapist had sex with her,
1470
01:28:33,438 --> 01:28:37,616
and gave her
psycho-hypnotic medications.
1471
01:28:37,660 --> 01:28:39,575
After Hank Harrison
got her out,
1472
01:28:39,618 --> 01:28:42,491
he found that she'd developed
a drug addiction.
1473
01:28:42,534 --> 01:28:47,147
Award-winning journalist
Melissa Rossi documented how Harrison also said Courtney
1474
01:28:47,191 --> 01:28:50,020
was prostituting herself
as a teenager.
1475
01:28:50,063 --> 01:28:53,415
For example, when Courtney
stayed with Harrison in Dublin
1476
01:28:53,458 --> 01:28:55,765
when she was 17-years-old,
Hank said
1477
01:28:55,808 --> 01:29:00,291
she spent much of her time in
Dublin hooking on the street.
1478
01:29:00,335 --> 01:29:03,816
Rossi also reprinted
the contents of a letter
from Courtney
1479
01:29:03,860 --> 01:29:06,950
to a boyfriend when she
was about 20-years-old,
1480
01:29:06,993 --> 01:29:09,779
where Courtney said
she prostituted herself,
1481
01:29:09,822 --> 01:29:13,391
apparently to earn money
to get back to the boyfriend
1482
01:29:13,435 --> 01:29:17,177
while working in
a strip club in Taiwan.
1483
01:29:17,221 --> 01:29:19,789
This was Courtney's
second time
working as a stripper
1484
01:29:19,832 --> 01:29:22,400
in an Asian country,
as Rossi noted how Courtney
1485
01:29:22,444 --> 01:29:29,146
had previously worked at strip clubs for the Japanese mafia at about 15-years-old.
1486
01:29:29,189 --> 01:29:31,714
Several biographies
have mentioned this.
1487
01:29:31,757 --> 01:29:34,325
Rossi said that Courtney
told friends that she had been
1488
01:29:34,369 --> 01:29:39,635
part of the white slave trade
while stripping in Japan.
1489
01:29:39,678 --> 01:29:43,769
Harrison said Courtney
then visited him when he was
doing research
1490
01:29:43,813 --> 01:29:47,077
in Dublin, Ireland,
when she had just turned 17.
1491
01:29:47,120 --> 01:29:51,777
There she also met a new friend of Harrison's, Steven O'Leary.
1492
01:29:51,821 --> 01:29:54,650
Harrison said in his book,
Love Kills,
1493
01:29:54,693 --> 01:29:57,783
that O'Leary later admitted
to being a CIA agent
1494
01:29:57,827 --> 01:30:02,135
in a letter he wrote
to Harrison on his death bed.
1495
01:30:02,179 --> 01:30:07,619
Harrison had said O'Leary
died in the location and date
verified in this obituary.
1496
01:30:07,663 --> 01:30:11,884
Harrison further said that
Steve O'Leary,
and his brother, Kevin,
1497
01:30:11,928 --> 01:30:14,017
took Courtney
to Liverpool, England.
1498
01:30:14,060 --> 01:30:16,933
Courtney Love biographer,
Melissa Rossi,
1499
01:30:16,976 --> 01:30:21,111
noted that Love carried
a thousand hits of acid
to Liverpool.
1500
01:30:21,154 --> 01:30:24,897
Love distributed the acid
at various music scenes.
1501
01:30:24,941 --> 01:30:29,728
This duplicated MKUltra
operations of the 1960s.
1502
01:30:29,772 --> 01:30:32,731
Love repeated these behaviors
in Portland, Oregon,
1503
01:30:32,775 --> 01:30:35,430
Los Angeles,
and other music scenes.
1504
01:30:35,473 --> 01:30:39,651
OK, and he openly told you
that he worked for the CIA.
1505
01:30:39,695 --> 01:30:44,264
Later, he didn't
at that time, no,
but it was obvious.
1506
01:30:44,308 --> 01:30:47,093
But, no, at the time, he did
not verbally tell me that
1507
01:30:47,137 --> 01:30:49,661
'cause he was under oath
not to tell me, of course,
1508
01:30:49,705 --> 01:30:51,837
but later on,
after he retired, he told me,
1509
01:30:51,881 --> 01:30:53,883
he wrote me a letter,
and I have the letter.
1510
01:30:53,926 --> 01:30:56,451
Kevin Leary,
when you mentioned
Kevin Leary you said,
1511
01:30:56,494 --> 01:30:58,670
"Oh,
he was high up in the CIA."
1512
01:30:58,714 --> 01:31:01,456
What was his duties in the CIA?
1513
01:31:01,499 --> 01:31:04,937
Well, he had
superiority over his brother.
1514
01:31:04,981 --> 01:31:10,073
My daughter came along,
Steve took care of her for me,
1515
01:31:10,116 --> 01:31:13,468
and got her safely to London,
where she was then,
1516
01:31:13,511 --> 01:31:18,473
wound up in Liverpool,
hangin' out with Scott
and Ant...
1517
01:31:20,344 --> 01:31:22,477
The question remains,
did Courtney Love's
1518
01:31:22,520 --> 01:31:27,438
relationship
with the CIA continue up to the death of Kurt Cobain?
1519
01:31:27,482 --> 01:31:30,702
Her legal immunity and other
evidence suggests it did.
1520
01:31:30,746 --> 01:31:33,313
⪠Raised in the ghetto
off meeker means âª
1521
01:31:33,357 --> 01:31:37,535
⪠Fightin' to survive
here packed for the dreams âª
1522
01:31:37,579 --> 01:31:41,147
Evidence supports
that in 1996, US Intelligence
1523
01:31:41,191 --> 01:31:44,977
manipulated and murdered
another musical icon.
1524
01:31:45,021 --> 01:31:49,504
Entertainment megastar,
Tupac Amaru Shakur.
1525
01:31:49,547 --> 01:31:52,071
Before his early death
at the age of 25,
1526
01:31:52,115 --> 01:31:56,162
Tupac had produced
enough songs for over
a dozen CDs,
1527
01:31:56,206 --> 01:31:59,731
had five albums which topped
the Billboard sales charts,
1528
01:31:59,775 --> 01:32:01,994
and had stared in six films.
1529
01:32:02,038 --> 01:32:05,520
Mainstream Media censored
much of Tupac's history.
1530
01:32:05,563 --> 01:32:10,089
For example, at the age of 18,
Tupac headed
the New Afrikan Panthers,
1531
01:32:10,133 --> 01:32:15,878
which tried to replicate
his mother's Black Panthers, and was active in eight cities.
1532
01:32:15,921 --> 01:32:18,010
Give that US intelligence
whistleblowers
1533
01:32:18,054 --> 01:32:20,883
said their programs continued
under different names,
1534
01:32:20,926 --> 01:32:26,062
it's clear Tupac
would've been targeted
as a leftist black leader.
1535
01:32:26,105 --> 01:32:28,499
Now, we're speaking
with brother Tupac Shakur
1536
01:32:28,543 --> 01:32:31,807
who was the national chairman
of the New Afrikan Panthers.
1537
01:32:31,850 --> 01:32:33,199
My name is Bomani Bakari,
1538
01:32:33,243 --> 01:32:36,159
the program is indeed
'Round Midnight.
1539
01:32:36,202 --> 01:32:40,859
Uh, OK, if you,
I believe that
the new African Panthers
1540
01:32:40,903 --> 01:32:45,385
are about serious freedom,
really reachin' out.
1541
01:32:45,429 --> 01:32:47,257
Along with his mother, Afeni,
1542
01:32:47,300 --> 01:32:49,564
many other former
Black Panthers,
1543
01:32:49,607 --> 01:32:51,696
including
Watani Tyehimba,
1544
01:32:51,740 --> 01:32:54,351
mentored Tupac
throughout his life.
1545
01:32:54,394 --> 01:32:57,528
Tyehimba was a co-founding
national security director
1546
01:32:57,572 --> 01:33:01,184
of the New Afrikan People's
Organization, NAPO,
1547
01:33:01,227 --> 01:33:06,232
and became Tupac's
business manager.
1548
01:33:06,276 --> 01:33:09,627
NAPO's national chairman,
Chokwe Lumumba,
1549
01:33:09,671 --> 01:33:11,586
became Tupac's national lawyer.
1550
01:33:11,629 --> 01:33:13,631
⪠Back for the dreams
1551
01:33:15,677 --> 01:33:17,635
⪠I'm tired of hearin'
my mama sobbin'
cryin' the blues âª
1552
01:33:17,679 --> 01:33:19,637
⪠Went to school
in High Waters âª
1553
01:33:19,681 --> 01:33:22,597
Between the time
of Tupac's first and second
1554
01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:26,035
solo CD release, Tupac,
and his imprisoned stepfather,
1555
01:33:26,078 --> 01:33:29,604
Mutulu Shakur,
devised their Thug Life plan
1556
01:33:29,647 --> 01:33:33,695
for Tupac to develop a gangsta
persona as part of a plan
1557
01:33:33,738 --> 01:33:37,873
to appeal to gangs
then politicize them.
1558
01:33:37,916 --> 01:33:40,919
This was part of Tupac's
extended Panther family's work
1559
01:33:40,963 --> 01:33:43,487
at getting the nation's
largest waring gangs,
1560
01:33:43,530 --> 01:33:47,752
the Bloods and the Crips,
to call peace truces
with each other
1561
01:33:47,796 --> 01:33:50,755
and engage in leftist activism.
1562
01:33:50,799 --> 01:33:53,410
The gang peace truces
spread nationally,
1563
01:33:53,453 --> 01:33:56,543
and Tupac directly aided them,
helping bring together
1564
01:33:56,587 --> 01:33:59,503
gang leaders
at gang truce picnics.
1565
01:33:59,546 --> 01:34:03,289
Tupac and Mutulu also developed a Code of Thug Life
1566
01:34:03,333 --> 01:34:07,293
to help decrease the damage
gangs do to their communities.
1567
01:34:07,337 --> 01:34:10,209
The Young Lords influenced
New York's largest gangs,
1568
01:34:10,253 --> 01:34:14,561
the Latin Kings,
to drop drug dealing
and become activists.
1569
01:34:14,605 --> 01:34:18,827
The Code of Thug Life
is a revolutionary document.
1570
01:34:18,870 --> 01:34:21,351
Go online and look at
Tupac's Code of Thug Life,
1571
01:34:21,394 --> 01:34:24,223
he began to broker the peace
between these gangs.
1572
01:34:24,267 --> 01:34:26,965
If gangs
are allowed to flourish
because they're doing
1573
01:34:27,009 --> 01:34:30,229
the job of the oppressor
and in terms of eliminating
1574
01:34:30,273 --> 01:34:33,450
young black men,
that's what neocolonialism is.
1575
01:34:33,493 --> 01:34:36,671
I don't have to come in as
the oppressor in my uniform,
1576
01:34:36,714 --> 01:34:41,327
with my army, with my people
who look different,
and kill you and lock you up.
1577
01:34:41,371 --> 01:34:44,330
What I can do is create
a psychological climate
1578
01:34:44,374 --> 01:34:46,332
of self-hatred,
I can pour in the guns,
1579
01:34:46,376 --> 01:34:50,467
and pour in the
drugs and step back
and let you do it to yourselves,
1580
01:34:50,510 --> 01:34:52,687
and nobody is seeing where
it's really coming from.
1581
01:34:52,730 --> 01:34:56,560
And so Fred Hampton got killed
in Chicago for the same thing.
1582
01:34:56,603 --> 01:35:02,218
He had taken the Young Lords,
the toughest, best organized,
largest street gang,
1583
01:35:02,261 --> 01:35:06,178
Puerto Rican street gang
in Chicago,
and helped them become
1584
01:35:06,222 --> 01:35:08,528
a revolutionary organization
called the Young Lords Party.
1585
01:35:08,572 --> 01:35:10,400
⪠Went to school
in High Waters âª
1586
01:35:10,443 --> 01:35:12,010
⪠We're crossin'
the gang borders âª
1587
01:35:14,534 --> 01:35:17,189
Catherine Austin Fitts,
a Wall Street insider
1588
01:35:17,233 --> 01:35:20,105
who had also worked as
assistant secretary of housing
1589
01:35:20,149 --> 01:35:22,151
under the first
President George Bush,
1590
01:35:22,194 --> 01:35:24,283
detailed how vastly
street drugs
1591
01:35:24,327 --> 01:35:26,982
prop up
various corporate stocks.
1592
01:35:27,025 --> 01:35:29,811
She evolved politically
and tried to expose this,
1593
01:35:29,854 --> 01:35:31,856
such as in this article
inNarco News,
1594
01:35:31,900 --> 01:35:35,555
in which she details
how several street
level drug dealers
1595
01:35:35,599 --> 01:35:38,384
each make at least several
hundred dollars a day,
1596
01:35:38,428 --> 01:35:41,866
250 days a year,
equaling a net of at least
1597
01:35:41,910 --> 01:35:45,565
$100,000 a year
for their supplier.
1598
01:35:45,609 --> 01:35:48,307
Fitts said this money
is laundered by establishments
1599
01:35:48,351 --> 01:35:51,310
dealing in cash, these include
restaurants and banks
1600
01:35:51,354 --> 01:35:56,533
who hide the cash in their
accounting ledgers as money
received legitimately,
1601
01:35:56,576 --> 01:35:59,405
and then return the money
to the higher-level dealers
1602
01:35:59,449 --> 01:36:03,627
in a way that makes their money appear legally earned.
1603
01:36:03,670 --> 01:36:07,239
Fitts said that these
banks and restaurant chains
on the stock exchange
1604
01:36:07,283 --> 01:36:12,897
increase their stock values
by 20 to 30 times,
and turn a $100,000 profit
1605
01:36:12,941 --> 01:36:17,510
into a two to three million
dollar profit of stock value.
1606
01:36:17,554 --> 01:36:21,645
Thus the radicalization of the 3,000-member Latin Kings alone,
1607
01:36:21,688 --> 01:36:25,997
cost the money launderers
billions of dollars.
1608
01:36:32,308 --> 01:36:34,440
One of the ways
that we finance the growth
1609
01:36:34,484 --> 01:36:37,530
of multinational corporations
and big banks
1610
01:36:37,574 --> 01:36:42,274
and the rise of the Dow Jones,
is by selling narcotics
to our children.
1611
01:36:42,318 --> 01:36:44,842
It's one of the most profitable
businesses in America.
1612
01:36:44,886 --> 01:36:49,586
And towards the end
we were discussing the fact
that the Department of Justice
1613
01:36:49,629 --> 01:36:52,458
estimates that
the United States is the leader
1614
01:36:52,502 --> 01:36:55,592
in laundering organized
crime profits of about
1615
01:36:55,635 --> 01:36:58,638
500 billion to a trillion
dollars a year.
1616
01:36:58,682 --> 01:37:02,294
So, I asked the audience
what would happen if we stopped
1617
01:37:02,338 --> 01:37:05,254
being the worldwide leader
in laundering 500 billion
1618
01:37:05,297 --> 01:37:09,040
to a trillion a year,
and they said,
1619
01:37:09,084 --> 01:37:11,608
"Well, you know, if we stopped,
our mutual funds
1620
01:37:11,651 --> 01:37:14,654
would go down in price,
the stock market would crash.
1621
01:37:14,698 --> 01:37:17,048
President Bush,
the former CIA director
1622
01:37:17,092 --> 01:37:19,355
had rallied massive
federal forces
1623
01:37:19,398 --> 01:37:21,313
against the gang truce
movement,
1624
01:37:21,357 --> 01:37:23,446
and researchers
published evidence
1625
01:37:23,489 --> 01:37:26,144
that police framed
gang peace truce leaders.
1626
01:37:26,188 --> 01:37:31,758
As this excerpt
of Mike Davis' article in the
New Left Review details.
1627
01:37:31,802 --> 01:37:35,110
Congress had also formed
a committee looking into
1628
01:37:35,153 --> 01:37:38,548
the dangers of radical
political rappers.
1629
01:37:38,591 --> 01:37:41,116
The prison system
transferred Mutulu Shakur
1630
01:37:41,159 --> 01:37:43,858
into the country's
most maximum-security prison
1631
01:37:43,901 --> 01:37:47,035
due to his influence
through Tupac.
1632
01:37:47,078 --> 01:37:49,037
⪠Life as I knew it
was about the grind âª
1633
01:37:49,080 --> 01:37:51,648
⪠My pops is the pen
just doin' his time âª
1634
01:37:51,691 --> 01:37:54,694
Several attempts
were made on Tupac's life,
1635
01:37:54,738 --> 01:37:58,350
including two allegedly
off duty Atlanta
police officers
1636
01:37:58,394 --> 01:38:03,878
using a gun stolen from an
evidence room to shoot at him.
1637
01:38:03,921 --> 01:38:09,666
Much evidence supports
the Haitian, Jacques Agnant, was an undercover police agent,
1638
01:38:09,709 --> 01:38:15,324
including a long
rap sheet of charges
that were all dismissed.
1639
01:38:15,367 --> 01:38:19,545
Agnant set up Tupac's sexual
liaison with Ayanna Jackson,
1640
01:38:19,589 --> 01:38:21,634
where she accused him
of forced sex
1641
01:38:21,678 --> 01:38:24,768
on her second sexual
encounter with him.
1642
01:38:24,811 --> 01:38:28,641
Police erased taped evidence
helping exonerate Tupac.
1643
01:38:28,685 --> 01:38:32,428
While Tupac
was found not guilty
of all major charges,
1644
01:38:32,471 --> 01:38:35,431
a jury did find him guilty
of touching her butt
1645
01:38:35,474 --> 01:38:38,869
against her will
after consensual sex.
1646
01:38:38,913 --> 01:38:41,263
For that, a judge gave
Tupac a sentence
1647
01:38:41,306 --> 01:38:46,746
of up to four years in prison
while awaiting appeal
in December of 1994.
1648
01:38:46,790 --> 01:38:49,271
US intelligence appeared
to take a greater role
1649
01:38:49,314 --> 01:38:54,580
in manipulating Tupac
during his 11 months in jail
and 11 months out.
1650
01:38:54,624 --> 01:38:59,063
first they practiced
penal coercion on him,
which involved extreme
1651
01:38:59,107 --> 01:39:02,675
psychological
manipulation techniques.
1652
01:39:02,719 --> 01:39:05,330
They coupled this
with COINTELPRO tactics
1653
01:39:05,374 --> 01:39:08,943
to instigate the east coast
versus west coast rap war
1654
01:39:08,986 --> 01:39:12,729
between Tupac and his rapper
friend Biggie Smalls,
1655
01:39:12,772 --> 01:39:15,601
and they coerced him
to join the music label,
1656
01:39:15,645 --> 01:39:18,300
Death Row Records,
while still in jail.
1657
01:39:18,343 --> 01:39:20,955
⪠Lady Justice is blind,
can't see our pain âª
1658
01:39:20,998 --> 01:39:23,435
⪠Ain't do a damn thing
when my brother was slain âª
1659
01:39:23,479 --> 01:39:26,134
Death Row had dozens
of police officers
1660
01:39:26,177 --> 01:39:28,919
working at all levels of their company, particularly,
1661
01:39:28,963 --> 01:39:32,836
Reggie Wright Jr.,
whose father,
Reggie Wright Sr.,
1662
01:39:32,879 --> 01:39:36,274
headed the Compton area's
police gang division.
1663
01:39:36,318 --> 01:39:39,016
When investigating police
detective Russell Poole
1664
01:39:39,060 --> 01:39:42,802
asked about the purpose
of the police officers
in Death Row Records,
1665
01:39:42,846 --> 01:39:47,633
his superiors said they could
be considered covert agents.
1666
01:39:47,677 --> 01:39:49,809
Police reports stated
that Death Row
1667
01:39:49,853 --> 01:39:53,074
trafficked drugs and guns
but were never charged.
1668
01:39:53,117 --> 01:39:57,121
Death Row employees said
Knight tried to end
the gang peace truce,
1669
01:39:57,165 --> 01:40:01,473
and evidence supports
Death Row aided
the murder of Tupac.
1670
01:40:01,517 --> 01:40:05,042
Death Row also produced
the most negative Tupac songs,
1671
01:40:05,086 --> 01:40:07,001
which promoted
weed and alcohol,
1672
01:40:07,044 --> 01:40:11,005
while also exacerbating
the East versus West rap war.
1673
01:40:11,048 --> 01:40:16,010
Georgetown Law Professor,
Michelle Alexander,
wroteThe New Jim Crow,
1674
01:40:16,053 --> 01:40:20,318
about how US intelligence
has contributed to
the mass incarceration
1675
01:40:20,362 --> 01:40:23,060
of blacks through
long jail sentences
1676
01:40:23,104 --> 01:40:27,499
for non-violent drug offenses
such as marijuana possession.
1677
01:40:27,543 --> 01:40:30,067
The following are excerpts
from the award-winning
1678
01:40:30,111 --> 01:40:34,506
filmmaker Nick Broomfield's
movie,Biggie and Tupac.
1679
01:40:34,550 --> 01:40:37,509
Broomfield presented
Detective Poole's
press conference
1680
01:40:37,553 --> 01:40:40,469
about his superiors
blocking his investigation,
1681
01:40:40,512 --> 01:40:46,301
as well as his beliefs
that his fellow cops aided
in Tupac and Biggie's murders.
1682
01:40:46,344 --> 01:40:48,390
Detective Poole
had presented reports
1683
01:40:48,433 --> 01:40:50,870
on Death Row's
drug trafficking.
1684
01:40:50,914 --> 01:40:54,048
He also cited the police
officers in Death Row,
1685
01:40:54,091 --> 01:40:56,311
including its
security director,
1686
01:40:56,354 --> 01:40:58,443
former cop, Reggie Wright Jr.,
1687
01:40:58,487 --> 01:41:01,533
whose father headed a police
gang division.
1688
01:41:01,577 --> 01:41:04,754
I provided the chief
with enough information
1689
01:41:04,797 --> 01:41:08,062
and evidence that would
warrant a full probe,
1690
01:41:08,105 --> 01:41:13,110
and at that meeting
I was ordered
not to investigate any further.
1691
01:41:13,154 --> 01:41:17,462
Ex-detective Poole
resigned after
18 years on the force
1692
01:41:17,506 --> 01:41:19,377
when he was prevented
from investigating
1693
01:41:19,421 --> 01:41:22,293
fellow police officers whom he believed to be involved
1694
01:41:22,337 --> 01:41:25,122
in the murders of Biggie Smalls
and Tupac Shakur.
1695
01:41:25,166 --> 01:41:31,737
Because it was no secret
that Death Row Records was
involved in drug trafficking.
1696
01:41:31,781 --> 01:41:34,697
Between 30 and 40
police officers,
1697
01:41:34,740 --> 01:41:38,570
some of whom are seen here,
worked off duty for Death Row.
1698
01:41:38,614 --> 01:41:41,443
This is Reggie Wright Sr.,
Chief Gangs Officer.
1699
01:41:41,486 --> 01:41:43,749
I'm dealing with this man,
Reggie Jr.,
1700
01:41:43,793 --> 01:41:46,361
seen here second left,
has been running Death Row
1701
01:41:46,404 --> 01:41:48,319
since Suge Knight's
been in prison.
1702
01:41:48,363 --> 01:41:50,408
⪠And how the hell it happened
man, I can't explain âª
1703
01:41:50,452 --> 01:41:52,018
⪠So Imma wipe away the tears
1704
01:41:52,062 --> 01:41:53,237
⪠Take over the game
1705
01:41:53,281 --> 01:41:55,370
By the summer of 1996,
1706
01:41:55,413 --> 01:41:58,634
Tupac said he fulfilled
his Death Row Records contract
1707
01:41:58,677 --> 01:42:02,246
and started his own
record label, Euphanasia,
1708
01:42:02,290 --> 01:42:06,120
with its logo seen here
on his medallion.
1709
01:42:06,163 --> 01:42:11,299
Tupac had further majorly
decreased his drinking
and weed smoking,
1710
01:42:11,342 --> 01:42:14,606
as noted here by rap mogul,
Russell Simmons.
1711
01:42:14,650 --> 01:42:19,133
And he got engaged
to Quincy Jones'
daughter, Kidada,
1712
01:42:19,176 --> 01:42:21,135
A Death Row guard,
Kevin Hackie,
1713
01:42:21,178 --> 01:42:23,224
who was also
working for the FBI
1714
01:42:23,267 --> 01:42:24,703
apparently turned on the FBI
1715
01:42:24,747 --> 01:42:26,966
when he warned
Tupac not to attend
1716
01:42:27,010 --> 01:42:28,446
a Mike Tyson boxing match
1717
01:42:28,490 --> 01:42:31,797
on September 7th,
1996 in Las Vegas.
1718
01:42:31,841 --> 01:42:33,843
Death Row
fired Hackie immediately
1719
01:42:33,886 --> 01:42:36,193
after they learned
about the warning.
1720
01:42:36,237 --> 01:42:38,456
Tupac went to Las Vegas
and was shot
1721
01:42:38,500 --> 01:42:40,806
in a drive by incident
after the fight.
1722
01:42:40,850 --> 01:42:45,289
Hackie said he had documents
to prove the FBI
were in Tupac's motorcade
1723
01:42:45,333 --> 01:42:50,903
and watched when a car pulled
up to Tupac's in Las Vegas
and fatally shot him.
1724
01:42:50,947 --> 01:42:54,864
Filmmaker Broomfield reported
on US congressional concerns
1725
01:42:54,907 --> 01:42:59,173
about radical political rap
several years
before Tupac's death,
1726
01:42:59,216 --> 01:43:04,482
and on Hackie's statements
that the FBI at least
watched Tupac's murder.
1727
01:43:04,526 --> 01:43:07,485
In 1993,
a Senate select committee
1728
01:43:07,529 --> 01:43:09,966
was set up to look into
the hip hop movement.
1729
01:43:10,009 --> 01:43:14,710
Fear of its
inflammatory qualities
led to FBI surveillance.
1730
01:43:14,753 --> 01:43:17,930
Hackie just informed us
he was working
1731
01:43:17,974 --> 01:43:22,021
as an undercover FBI agent a year before Tupac was killed.
1732
01:43:22,065 --> 01:43:25,503
According to Hackie,
FBI agents and ATN agents
1733
01:43:25,547 --> 01:43:29,681
were in cars just behind Tupac
on the night he was shot.
1734
01:43:29,725 --> 01:43:32,597
Former New York
Black Panther 21 trial target,
1735
01:43:32,641 --> 01:43:34,860
Jamal Joseph,
eventually became chairman
1736
01:43:34,904 --> 01:43:37,167
of the Columbia University
Film Department
1737
01:43:37,211 --> 01:43:41,215
while staying close
with Afeni and Tupac Shakur.
1738
01:43:41,258 --> 01:43:44,827
Joseph described his belief
that Suge Knight and others
at Death Row
1739
01:43:44,870 --> 01:43:47,612
influenced Tupac
to start smoking weed again.
1740
01:43:47,656 --> 01:43:49,919
They appeared to do this
for US intelligence
1741
01:43:49,962 --> 01:43:53,052
to both manipulate Tupac
and then take him down
1742
01:43:53,096 --> 01:43:55,272
when he was leaving
Death Row Records
1743
01:43:55,316 --> 01:43:57,535
to become a more sober
and positive leader.
1744
01:43:57,579 --> 01:44:00,973
He also talked about the fact
that he was gonna
stop gettin' high,
1745
01:44:01,017 --> 01:44:05,891
and I know that when he got out
that when he got into the car
1746
01:44:05,935 --> 01:44:08,938
on the way to the airport,
Suge Knight was like,
1747
01:44:08,981 --> 01:44:10,940
"Man, here, have a drink.
Here's a blunt."
1748
01:44:10,983 --> 01:44:15,031
Now, right away
it's manipulation
and a different agenda.
1749
01:44:15,074 --> 01:44:18,904
And so I think that
there were people,
1750
01:44:18,948 --> 01:44:21,080
Suge Knight and other people,
that took those things
1751
01:44:21,124 --> 01:44:25,215
and just go, like,
"OK, we don't want him
thinking clearly."
1752
01:44:25,259 --> 01:44:28,697
But, yes,
I think he was targeted
because he was a Shakur
1753
01:44:28,740 --> 01:44:31,047
and because they know
connected with that name
1754
01:44:31,090 --> 01:44:33,745
was not just a legacy
but the activism
1755
01:44:33,789 --> 01:44:39,490
and the ability to...
to organize meetings.
1756
01:44:44,408 --> 01:44:46,845
Starting around the mid-1990s,
1757
01:44:46,889 --> 01:44:52,460
US intelligence appeared
to push another drug,
MDMA or Ecstasy.
1758
01:44:52,503 --> 01:44:55,941
MDMA's precursor drug MDA
had been used
1759
01:44:55,985 --> 01:44:59,423
in the CIA's
MKUltra experiments.
1760
01:44:59,467 --> 01:45:01,425
Many studies conducted
in various countries
1761
01:45:01,469 --> 01:45:04,341
revealed that Ecstasy
led to memory loss,
1762
01:45:04,385 --> 01:45:06,952
with even infrequent usage.
1763
01:45:06,996 --> 01:45:09,520
The apartheid South African
government appeared to use
1764
01:45:09,564 --> 01:45:12,741
Ecstasy as a weapon
against its black citizens.
1765
01:45:12,784 --> 01:45:14,786
The assistant to the head
of South Africa's
1766
01:45:14,830 --> 01:45:18,790
chemical and biological
warfare program said his boss,
1767
01:45:18,834 --> 01:45:23,186
Wouter Basson, directed him to
manufacture a ton of Ecstasy.
1768
01:45:23,229 --> 01:45:25,971
The post-apartheid
government charged Basson
1769
01:45:26,015 --> 01:45:27,843
with selling a thousand
hits of Ecstasy
1770
01:45:27,886 --> 01:45:30,672
in South African
black neighborhoods.
1771
01:45:30,715 --> 01:45:33,588
Investigators found that
Basson's Ecstasy trafficking
1772
01:45:33,631 --> 01:45:36,330
went well beyond South Africa,
as he collaborated
1773
01:45:36,373 --> 01:45:41,639
with military chemical
warfare centers
in the US and Britain.
1774
01:45:41,683 --> 01:45:44,163
In 1999,
Basson was brought to trial
1775
01:45:44,207 --> 01:45:48,646
for murder,
fraud and drug smuggling.
1776
01:45:48,690 --> 01:45:51,910
Witnesses describe the horrors
committed by Project Coast.
1777
01:45:51,954 --> 01:45:54,652
Investigators revealed
how the program had used
1778
01:45:54,696 --> 01:45:57,655
private front companies,
offshore bank accounts,
1779
01:45:57,699 --> 01:46:00,484
and worldwide
intelligence connections.
1780
01:46:00,528 --> 01:46:06,360
-You were able to visit
Porton Down and Fort Detrick?
-Yes, we did.
1781
01:46:06,403 --> 01:46:08,492
You know,
I already have hassles
1782
01:46:08,536 --> 01:46:10,320
with the UK and American
governments,
1783
01:46:10,364 --> 01:46:11,669
I don't need any more,
thank you.
1784
01:46:11,713 --> 01:46:13,367
Basson was confirming visits
1785
01:46:13,410 --> 01:46:16,326
to the main bioweapons
labs in the west.
1786
01:46:16,370 --> 01:46:19,590
The popular New York rap group, Wu-Tang Clan,
1787
01:46:19,634 --> 01:46:22,419
who were co-produced
by black activist leader,
1788
01:46:22,463 --> 01:46:25,596
Sonny Carson,
was also a target of a major
1789
01:46:25,640 --> 01:46:30,862
US intelligence operation
involving the FBI and ATF.
1790
01:46:30,906 --> 01:46:34,779
A high-level mafia ecstasy
kingpin, Michael Caruso,
1791
01:46:34,823 --> 01:46:39,871
was paid to go undercover
inside Wu-Tang Clan.
1792
01:46:39,915 --> 01:46:42,221
Caruso inserted himself
into the rap group,
1793
01:46:42,265 --> 01:46:45,703
becoming a personal manager
for two of the group members.
1794
01:46:45,747 --> 01:46:49,185
He treated them to parties with drugs and beautiful women.
1795
01:46:49,228 --> 01:46:51,187
When theVillage Voice
ran a cover story
1796
01:46:51,230 --> 01:46:55,800
exposing Caruso's mafia and
US intelligence connections,
1797
01:46:55,844 --> 01:46:59,325
the Wu-Tang rappers
immediately fired Caruso.
1798
01:47:05,070 --> 01:47:06,942
Besides appearing
to spread Ecstasy among
1799
01:47:06,985 --> 01:47:09,901
the hip-hop generation
in these and further ways,
1800
01:47:09,945 --> 01:47:12,426
US intelligence
continued to wage war
1801
01:47:12,469 --> 01:47:15,603
against other children
of leading Black Panthers,
1802
01:47:15,646 --> 01:47:18,475
who called themselves
Panther Cubs.
1803
01:47:18,519 --> 01:47:20,956
Chicago Panther leader
Fred Hampton's son,
1804
01:47:20,999 --> 01:47:23,306
Fred Hampton Jr.,
became head of the
1805
01:47:23,349 --> 01:47:28,180
International People's
Democratic Uhuru
movement in 1990.
1806
01:47:28,224 --> 01:47:30,922
He experienced at least
several assassination attempts
1807
01:47:30,966 --> 01:47:33,969
and was convicted
of aggravated arson in what
1808
01:47:34,012 --> 01:47:37,538
clearly appeared
as a frame-up by police.
1809
01:47:37,581 --> 01:47:39,496
After serving
nine years in prison,
1810
01:47:39,540 --> 01:47:44,501
Hampton founded the Prisoners
of Conscience Committee, POCC.
1811
01:47:44,545 --> 01:47:45,763
[interviewer]
Sir, introduce yourself,
1812
01:47:45,807 --> 01:47:47,461
tell us what's going on today
1813
01:47:47,504 --> 01:47:48,636
and what are your thoughts?
1814
01:47:48,679 --> 01:47:50,289
Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.,
1815
01:47:50,333 --> 01:47:52,944
Blank Panther Party Cubs,
son of Chairman Fred Hampton,
1816
01:47:52,988 --> 01:47:55,773
as well as Akua Njeri,
formerly known
as Deborah Johnson.
1817
01:47:55,817 --> 01:47:57,383
In fact,
she just went in just now.
1818
01:47:57,427 --> 01:47:59,473
This is not police brutality,
it's police terrorism.
1819
01:47:59,516 --> 01:48:02,258
Let's be consistent with that.
We gotta organize
and be very clear.
1820
01:48:02,301 --> 01:48:04,303
There is a gang
problem in this city,
1821
01:48:04,347 --> 01:48:06,915
and the worst gang in this city
is Chicago Police Department.
1822
01:48:08,482 --> 01:48:10,658
We gotta be consistent
with that.
1823
01:48:10,701 --> 01:48:12,834
The police, in fact,
the former superintendent
1824
01:48:12,877 --> 01:48:14,488
of Chicago police,
Leroy Martin, himself said,
1825
01:48:14,531 --> 01:48:15,837
"The baddest gang in this city
1826
01:48:15,880 --> 01:48:17,534
is the Chicago
Police Department."
1827
01:48:17,578 --> 01:48:20,885
They plant drugs on you,
they do drive-bys,
the whole deal.
1828
01:48:20,929 --> 01:48:23,540
We're not gonna get sidetracked
what the police call it.
1829
01:48:23,584 --> 01:48:27,544
We're very clear.
Ain't no war on drugs, no war
on guns, no war on gangs.
1830
01:48:27,588 --> 01:48:29,938
It's war on our black asses,
point blank.
1831
01:48:29,981 --> 01:48:31,548
By the new millennium,
1832
01:48:31,592 --> 01:48:33,332
two new groups that
received much attention
1833
01:48:33,376 --> 01:48:35,552
bore a strong resemblance
to and had many
1834
01:48:35,596 --> 01:48:41,950
of the same links as the CIA
MKUltra's Human Ecology Fund.
1835
01:48:41,993 --> 01:48:45,083
Officials in the Pentagon
aided the new organization
1836
01:48:45,127 --> 01:48:48,826
the Multidisciplinary
Association
of Psychedelic Studies,
1837
01:48:48,870 --> 01:48:52,743
or MAPS, which had started
in 1986.
1838
01:48:52,787 --> 01:48:56,660
The similar Heffter group
started near that time
and did similar work
1839
01:48:56,704 --> 01:49:00,577
with the help from
the Rockefeller family.
1840
01:49:00,621 --> 01:49:04,059
People associated with both
MAPS and the Heffter Institute
1841
01:49:04,102 --> 01:49:06,409
worked with William
Leonard Pickard,
1842
01:49:06,452 --> 01:49:09,020
who with long-time paid
US intelligence partner,
1843
01:49:09,064 --> 01:49:12,676
Gordon Todd Skinner,
rose to become the top known
1844
01:49:12,720 --> 01:49:16,201
LSD trafficker
by the new millennium.
1845
01:49:16,245 --> 01:49:19,030
Pickard manufactured
ten million hits a month
1846
01:49:19,074 --> 01:49:23,469
in a decommissioned missile
silo on Wamego, Kansas.
1847
01:49:23,513 --> 01:49:26,995
Pickard had
previously met with the
Brotherhood of Eternal Love's
1848
01:49:27,038 --> 01:49:30,868
top scientist, Tim Scully,
in 1974.
1849
01:49:39,094 --> 01:49:41,705
William Pickard had a
dizzying array of connections
1850
01:49:41,749 --> 01:49:44,490
to universities,
top government officials,
1851
01:49:44,534 --> 01:49:48,407
top military figures, and the British House of Lords.
1852
01:49:48,451 --> 01:49:51,715
Pickard regularly met
with many MKUltra contractors
1853
01:49:51,759 --> 01:49:54,413
as well as receiving payments,
at one time,
1854
01:49:54,457 --> 01:49:57,939
from the Drug Enforcement
Agency in the 1980s.
1855
01:49:57,982 --> 01:50:02,073
Pickard had also
manufactured MDMA or Ecstasy.
1856
01:50:02,117 --> 01:50:04,815
In November of 2000,
some apparently honest
1857
01:50:04,859 --> 01:50:10,995
Drug Enforcement Agency
officials arrested Pickard
for his acid trafficking.
1858
01:50:11,039 --> 01:50:14,129
Most of Pickard's powerful
associates went unpunished
1859
01:50:14,172 --> 01:50:17,741
for this acid trafficking,
including his very wealthy
1860
01:50:17,785 --> 01:50:21,266
US intelligence agent partner,
Gordon Todd Skinner,
1861
01:50:21,310 --> 01:50:23,834
as well as MAPS
and Heffter-funded
1862
01:50:23,878 --> 01:50:26,663
Harvard Medical School
professor, John Halpern,
1863
01:50:26,707 --> 01:50:32,626
who admittedly gave Pickard
$299,000 in cash in 1998
1864
01:50:32,669 --> 01:50:34,845
with no explanation.
1865
01:50:34,889 --> 01:50:39,241
The international drug wars
continue today
in various other ways.
1866
01:50:39,284 --> 01:50:45,116
In 1991,
President George H.W. Bush launched the Andean Initiative,
1867
01:50:45,160 --> 01:50:49,773
allocating 4.5 billion dollars,
purportedly to eradicate
1868
01:50:49,817 --> 01:50:52,210
cocaine-producing
coca crops in Colombia
1869
01:50:52,254 --> 01:50:54,865
and other Latin American
countries.
1870
01:50:54,909 --> 01:50:57,389
President Bush called it
an anti-drug campaign,
1871
01:50:57,433 --> 01:51:03,700
but coca production tripled
from the time he launched it
in the 1980s to 2000.
1872
01:51:03,744 --> 01:51:06,311
On September 11, 2001,
planes flew into
1873
01:51:06,355 --> 01:51:10,925
the World Trade Center
and an attack
also occurred at the Pentagon.
1874
01:51:10,968 --> 01:51:13,579
President George W. Bush
quickly blamed
1875
01:51:13,623 --> 01:51:16,321
Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda,
and linked them
1876
01:51:16,365 --> 01:51:19,934
to Taliban-controlled
Afghanistan.
1877
01:51:19,977 --> 01:51:23,154
Less than one month later,
on October 2, 2001,
1878
01:51:23,198 --> 01:51:25,417
President Bush started
the longest-running war
1879
01:51:25,461 --> 01:51:29,334
in American history
in Afghanistan.
1880
01:51:29,378 --> 01:51:31,336
Since then, Afghanistan
has become the largest
1881
01:51:31,380 --> 01:51:35,166
opium-producing area
in at least 60 years.
1882
01:51:35,210 --> 01:51:37,299
Pictured here
are American soldiers
1883
01:51:37,342 --> 01:51:41,477
in an Afghanistan
opium-producing poppy field.
1884
01:51:41,520 --> 01:51:44,175
Professor Peter Dale Scott
and other researchers
1885
01:51:44,219 --> 01:51:46,612
report that Bush's real
reason for attacking
1886
01:51:46,656 --> 01:51:51,139
the Taliban in Afghanistan
appeared to be
the Taliban's eradication
1887
01:51:51,182 --> 01:51:55,404
of their opium-producing
poppy fields in 2000.
1888
01:51:55,447 --> 01:52:00,670
In 1999, Afghanistan supplied
5,000 tons of heroin annually,
1889
01:52:00,714 --> 01:52:04,500
or 70 to 75%
of the world's heroin.
1890
01:52:04,543 --> 01:52:07,198
In June of 2001,
theNew York Times
1891
01:52:07,242 --> 01:52:10,462
and theWashington Post
printed articles confirming
1892
01:52:10,506 --> 01:52:13,422
that the Taliban's ban on
opium production that year
1893
01:52:13,465 --> 01:52:20,211
virtually wiped out
70% of the world's
illicit opium production.
1894
01:52:20,255 --> 01:52:22,779
The only people in Afghanistan
that continued production
1895
01:52:22,823 --> 01:52:26,565
were a small CIA-funded group
called the Northern Alliance,
1896
01:52:26,609 --> 01:52:31,614
who produced about 185 tons
of opium during that ban.
1897
01:52:31,657 --> 01:52:36,097
By 2007, after six years
of the US war on Afghanistan,
1898
01:52:36,140 --> 01:52:39,274
opium production rose
to over 8,000 tons,
1899
01:52:39,317 --> 01:52:42,059
nearly doubling any
previous production.
1900
01:52:42,103 --> 01:52:46,760
ANew York Times article
discussed how the US installed
Northern Alliance leader,
1901
01:52:46,803 --> 01:52:48,805
Hamid Karzai, as president,
1902
01:52:48,849 --> 01:52:50,894
while his brother,
Ahmed Karzai,
1903
01:52:50,938 --> 01:52:53,984
had been on the CIA payroll
for eight years
1904
01:52:54,028 --> 01:52:57,988
and the White House believed
Ahmed was involved
in drug trafficking.
1905
01:53:09,173 --> 01:53:11,436
In September of 2011,
a group of activists
1906
01:53:11,480 --> 01:53:13,787
that called themselves
"Occupy Wall Street"
1907
01:53:13,830 --> 01:53:18,661
protested in the park
across from New York's Wall Street financial district.
1908
01:53:18,704 --> 01:53:21,751
They started chanting the
notion that most Americans
1909
01:53:21,795 --> 01:53:23,971
are the 99% of the population
1910
01:53:24,014 --> 01:53:28,323
from which the 1% wealthiest are stealing.
1911
01:53:28,366 --> 01:53:30,716
The Occupy movement
spread around the country,
1912
01:53:30,760 --> 01:53:35,025
and US intelligence began targeting them in various ways.
1913
01:53:35,069 --> 01:53:38,115
In 2012, activist
videographers released footage
1914
01:53:38,159 --> 01:53:40,335
of their investigation
of what they deemed
1915
01:53:40,378 --> 01:53:46,515
MK Occupy Minnesota,
with a clear reference
to CIA's MKUltra.
1916
01:53:46,558 --> 01:53:48,647
They found that police
intelligence bribed
1917
01:53:48,691 --> 01:53:52,390
Minneapolis Occupy activists
to smoke potent weed,
1918
01:53:52,434 --> 01:53:57,134
along with the potentially psychosis-causing Spice and K2.
1919
01:53:57,178 --> 01:53:58,919
Then they interrogated
these activists
1920
01:53:58,962 --> 01:54:01,660
about other Occupy activists,
and offered them bribes
1921
01:54:01,704 --> 01:54:05,795
to become police informants
on the Occupy movement.
1922
01:54:05,839 --> 01:54:08,145
The police officers
involved were found to be
1923
01:54:08,189 --> 01:54:11,018
part of a national drug
recognition program
1924
01:54:11,061 --> 01:54:13,629
active in 49 states and Canada.
1925
01:54:13,672 --> 01:54:18,764
The program was at least
stopped in Minnesota
after the MK Occupy film
1926
01:54:18,808 --> 01:54:22,116
spawned many more
investigative disclosures.
1927
01:54:22,159 --> 01:54:25,075
One of these disclosures
cited by CBS News
1928
01:54:25,119 --> 01:54:29,123
was that 190 officers
at 85 Minnesota agencies
1929
01:54:29,166 --> 01:54:32,996
are drug recognition
trained officers.
1930
01:54:43,267 --> 01:54:46,183
"We know who you are.
We know that you're panned in,
1931
01:54:46,227 --> 01:54:48,533
that you're deep
into the Occupy movement."
1932
01:54:48,577 --> 01:54:54,148
I was like, "Dang, am I that
infamous in the system?"
1933
01:54:54,191 --> 01:55:00,284
They gave me a quarter
or more... of marijuana
1934
01:55:00,328 --> 01:55:04,288
and... if I said I would
become an informant.
1935
01:55:15,996 --> 01:55:18,476
In the arena of
opium and money laundering,
1936
01:55:18,520 --> 01:55:21,566
Bloomberg News
reported that by 2013,
1937
01:55:21,610 --> 01:55:25,570
JPMorgan Chase was the
largest bank in the world.
1938
01:55:25,614 --> 01:55:29,139
John Pierpont Morgan
was a descendant of
the Pierpont family,
1939
01:55:29,183 --> 01:55:34,579
that had intermarried
with the Russell family, the top American opium traders.
1940
01:55:34,623 --> 01:55:37,452
In 2013, President Obama's
administration
1941
01:55:37,495 --> 01:55:41,412
fined JPMorgan Chase Bank
over two billion dollars
1942
01:55:41,456 --> 01:55:47,810
for not safeguarding
against money laundering
and other illegal practices.
1943
01:55:47,853 --> 01:55:51,292
Europe's largest bank, HSBC,
had a record-breaking
1944
01:55:51,335 --> 01:55:56,079
money laundering settlement
with the Obama administration
in 2013,
1945
01:55:56,123 --> 01:56:00,779
yet was allowed to
keep its enormous profits.
No one went to jail.
1946
01:56:00,823 --> 01:56:04,609
That year, HSBC was the
world's third largest bank
1947
01:56:04,653 --> 01:56:06,916
and sixth largest
public company.
1948
01:56:06,960 --> 01:56:11,573
HSBC stands for
Hong Kong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation
1949
01:56:11,616 --> 01:56:15,185
and a Scottish lord
founded it in 1865
1950
01:56:15,229 --> 01:56:18,319
with the help of his
opium trading profits.
1951
01:56:18,362 --> 01:56:23,280
Hong Kong grew
at an astonishing rate.
1952
01:56:23,324 --> 01:56:27,110
A new bank was founded
to service the China trade,
1953
01:56:27,154 --> 01:56:30,026
the Hong Kong
and Shanghai Bank.
1954
01:56:30,070 --> 01:56:32,115
We know it as HSBC.
1955
01:56:33,682 --> 01:56:35,814
So two of
the three largest banks
1956
01:56:35,858 --> 01:56:39,035
in the world gained their start from opium shipping money.
1957
01:56:39,079 --> 01:56:42,082
As detailed earlier, evidence
supports that America
1958
01:56:42,125 --> 01:56:45,650
fought its two longest wars
in the Golden Triangle area
1959
01:56:45,694 --> 01:56:48,958
next to Vietnam, and at the
other end of that Himalayan
1960
01:56:49,002 --> 01:56:52,440
mountain range in the Golden
Crescent of Afghanistan,
1961
01:56:52,483 --> 01:56:56,270
starting in 2002 over opium.
1962
01:56:56,313 --> 01:57:00,274
In October of 2017,
Newsweek Magazine reported
1963
01:57:00,317 --> 01:57:02,928
that under President Trump
administration orders,
1964
01:57:02,972 --> 01:57:07,759
the US military dropped
more bombs on Afghanistan
that September
1965
01:57:07,803 --> 01:57:11,502
than dropped in any other month in the previous seven years.
1966
01:57:11,546 --> 01:57:17,682
Their drug wars continue
while more and more activists
are rising up to stop them.
1967
01:57:59,681 --> 01:58:05,339
⪠Power to the people,
heard that before âª
1968
01:58:07,167 --> 01:58:12,607
⪠Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
1969
01:58:14,609 --> 01:58:20,397
⪠Got no more blood
to give any y'all âª
1970
01:58:22,182 --> 01:58:25,881
⪠Let go of Mutulu Shakur
1971
01:58:25,924 --> 01:58:28,318
⪠Power to the people,
heard that before âª
1972
01:58:28,362 --> 01:58:30,581
⪠Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
1973
01:58:30,625 --> 01:58:33,497
⪠Got no more blood
to give any y'all âª
1974
01:58:33,541 --> 01:58:36,413
⪠Keep your hands off Posada
1975
01:59:17,628 --> 01:59:21,458
⪠All the pain
in playin' the game âª
1976
01:59:21,502 --> 01:59:26,681
⪠Tryin' to make a dollar
bill outta some change âª
1977
01:59:26,724 --> 01:59:31,947
⪠The ghetto's for me
everywhere is the same âª
1978
01:59:31,990 --> 01:59:33,427
⪠I'm tryin' to forget
1979
01:59:37,866 --> 01:59:40,347
⪠Raised in the ghetto
off meeker means âª
1980
01:59:40,390 --> 01:59:42,653
⪠Fightin' to survive here... [lyrics indistinct]
1981
01:59:42,697 --> 01:59:45,047
⪠My mission was a mission
which weighed and moved âª
1982
01:59:45,090 --> 01:59:47,484
⪠I'm tired of hearin'
my momma sobbin'
cryin' the blues âª
1983
01:59:47,528 --> 01:59:49,007
⪠Went to school
in High Waters âª
1984
01:59:49,051 --> 01:59:51,184
⪠We're crossin'
the gang borders âª
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