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[narrator] This film is based on the book

Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA's Murderous Targeting

of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac

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

making huge profits in opium sales.

Opium is derived from poppy flowers and is the precursor

for making opioid painkillers and heroin.

The British East India Company, the world's first leader in opium profiteering,

obtained its opium from poppy fields

in an area of the British colonies

along the Himalayan mountain range,

between Afghanistan and Vietnam,

the world's largest regions of poppy fields.

A group of American opium shipping families

partnered with the British East India Company

to gain vast wealth and global dominance.

The wealthy political families

of the British East India Company

influenced their country's participation

in two opium wars with China from 1839 to 1860.

When the new trend of opium smoking

began to become a severe problem in China,

its leadership tried to ban

the importation of opium into China.

In response, Britain fought two wars with China,

eventually forcing China into a treaty,

relinquishing control of its ports and trade,

as well as accepting the British opium imports.

This resulted in a crippling widespread epidemic of opium addiction in China.

Britain subsequently gained cheap access to China's resources,

gained control of the main Shanghai province

inside what is called, the Golden Triangle for opium crops,

and separated Hong Kong from China.

The BBC reported that Britain continued shipping opium into China well into the 1900s.

So this most bustling of British colonies was built

on a drug which stupefies people.

Even more remarkably, the British continued to ship

opium into China until well into the 20th century.

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In America, the Russell family rose to the top

of all the opium shipping families in their work

with the British East India Company in the 1700s.

ThisYale Standard article describes how they intermarried

with other wealthy New England families

such as the Cabot's and Pierpont's.

Tycoon, John Pierpont, J.P. Morgan,

descended from the latter family.

The Harvard Business Library company description details

how the Russell's became the top opium shipping family.

These families put much wealth into the Ivy League colleges

and formed secret societies, such as Yale's Skull and Bones in 1833,

who gave their members today's equivalent

of $200,000 each upon graduation.

New York Times number one bestselling author,

James Bradley, had previously written the book,

Flags of Our Fathers, which was made into a Clint Eastwood movie.

He spoke about his third book, The Imperial Cruise, at the Atlanta History Center.

His research for that book uncovered how many of

the Ivy League colleges were started by top opium traders.

Cabot House at Harvard, I discovered, that's opium money.

You know the Skull and Bones Society at Yale,

that was built by, and is still supported today, by the Russell trust.

The Russell family were the biggest opium dealers in China.

If you were appointed the president

of Columbia University tomorrow,

it's the Low Library, that's dedicated to an opium dealer.

The biggest initial benefactor to Princeton University

was John Green. John Green was an opium dealer

along with Warren Delano out there in Canton.

[narrator] The wealthiest American families' power and influence

led them to start three major programs

for shaping society at home and abroad.

They founded the eugenics movement,

they started the Central Intelligence Agency,

and they initiated Operation Mockingbird,

to gain vast influence over people's belief via control of the media.

Chicago Tribune's syndicated columnist, Edwin Black,

documented the history of the genocidal eugenics program

that deemed these ethnic groups" Irish, Italians, Jews,

Blacks, Asians, and Hispanics

as inferior and in need of sterilization, as well as elimination.

After World War II, highest level CIA whistle blower,

Victor Marchetti, a former assistant to deputy director,

said that the wealthiest white Anglo-Saxon protestant families

started the CIA and placed themselves

at the top of the US intelligence hierarchy.

British Magazine editor, Frances Stonor Saunders

also detailed the history of the CIA this way.

C-SPAN covered Frances Stonor Saunders speaking

at the National Archives about how the CIA spent

vast amounts of money on foundations that funded

virtually all of the well-known American artists and writers

for at least several decades after its 1947 inception.

She said they did this in an attempt to control

the way Americans thought and acted.

The US government, through its intelligence and espionage arm,

poured huge resources into a cultural propaganda campaign.

A central feature of this campaign

was to advance the claim that it didn't exist.

The CIA was in effect, acting as America's hidden Ministry of Culture.

Whether they liked it or not, whether they knew it or not,

there were few writers, poets, artists, historians,

scientists or critics in post-war Europe and indeed America,

whose names were not in some way linked to this covert enterprise.

A vital constituent of this effort was psychological warfare.

The most effective counter-propaganda was defined

the kind where "The subject moves in the direction you desire

for reasons which he believes to be his own.

It's useless to dispute these definitions,

they are littered across government documents,

the... of American post-war cultural diplomacy.

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[narrator] The eugenics-funding oligarchs,

led by the J.P. Morgan and Rockefeller families

used their immense wealth and power to gain vast control

over Americans' information in various ways.

For example, Cal Berkeley Journalism School Dean,

Ben Bagdikian, in his book, The Media Monopoly,

detailed how the wealthiest families bought up

the majority of the media organizations in the 19-teens,

before sharing media boards of directors with those

in the top multinational corporations.

Bagdikian found that increasing monopolization

has reached the point of six corporations

controlling over 90% of our information.

Also, Watergate muckraker, Carl Bernstein,

then published the findings of the US Senate Church Committee in 1977,

that showed how over 400 members of the media,

mostly the ownership and management,

lived dual lives in their work for the CIA.

The Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan lawyer, Allen Dulles,

headed the OSS and then became the CIA director

when he helped save thousands of Nazis

to do the oligarchy's bidding at home and abroad.

Attorney John Loftus, worked for the Justice Department

in President Jimmy Carter's administration,

when he was assigned to research

US intelligence files on saving Nazis.

Nazi scientists, doctors, and engineers were brought

to the US and put on the government payroll

in a top-secret operation run by joint chiefs of staff

under the code name "Paperclip."

One of the CIA's top collaborative projects with Nazi scientists

involved exploring how they could use drugs in warfare

against leftist leaders in the US and abroad.

These projects evolved into the CIA's top program

that it started in 1953, Project MKUltra,

focusing on the use of LSD and other drugs in these applications.

One of MKUltra's top sites was the same location

where the oligarchs ran the eugenics program,

Cold Spring Harbor.

MKUltra scientists developed a psychedelic hit list

of leftist leaders from Latin America to Africa.

For example, they planned to target Cuba's Fidel Castro

and Che Guevara, as well as Ghana independence leader,

Kwame Nkrumah, all of whom they planned to dose,

meaning to involuntarily give LSD.

Congressional hearings eventually exposed project MKUltra

running from 1953 to 1964,

after researchers found that its name was changed to MKSearch,

which ran until at least 1973.

The congressional committed gathered 16,000 documents on Project MKUltra

and found that it included 149 sub-projects.

[man] The hearing coincides with the release of 16,000 pages

of declassified CIA documents about the agency's project, MKUltra,

which ran from 1953 to 1964.

It is from these documents and the findings of the sub-committee,

that investigators can piece together some of the projects

that were part of the largest mind control program

in the history of the United States.

[narrator] The CIA's MKUltra program became an umbrella name for operations

involving drugs and also hypnosis.

This picture is from a documentary detailing

how MKUltra scientists first offered incentives

to over 1,000 soldiers at Edgewood Arsenal to try LSD

and two dozen other MKUltra drugs,

listed here from one final report from 1955 to 1967.

In another report on just LSD, when surveyed up to 19 years later,

about a quarter of these test subjects

stated still having lasting negative effects from LSD.

Other experimental tests showed that LSD was contributing

to minor cerebral damage and further mental health problems.

[man] But the Army's own study revealed

one disturbing and forgotten statistic,

24% of the volunteers re-examined had reported

long-term adverse effects, not physical, but psychological.

[narrator] While this document shows the CIA

was working on the use of LSD and other drugs

for unconventional warfare,

evidence supports that the battlefield

would include whoever opposed

their racist, pro-war agenda, particularly Americans.

MKUltra scientists then conducted what this US Senate report said was,

"Projects involving the surreptitious administration of LSD

to unwitting non-volunteer subjects at all social levels.

One key reason may have been related to a CIA document statement

of a developing goal of using LSD to develop means for the control of the activities

and mental capacities of individuals, whether willing or not.

Accumulating evidence suggests this would become

the unstated achievement and the CIA's MKUltra agents'

motivation for its ever-increasing distribution of LSD.

[narrator] Activist Paul Robeson Jr.,

has presented overwhelming evidence

supporting that the CIA targeted

his extraordinary father

by placing a psychedelic drug in his drinks.

Paul Robeson Sr. was an All-American football player in college,

he graduated from Columbia University Law School

and was a world renowned singer and activist,

and he eventually learned to speak 20 languages.

Several weeks before a planned trip to meet with

Cuban leaders Fidel Castro and Che Guevara in 1961,

Paul Robeson had traveled to Moscow to sing and lecture.

Americans in his hotel threw a surprise party in the room next to his,

and convinced him to attend.

Paul Robeson Jr. described this incident

to Amy Goodwin onDemocracy Now!, the radio program.

[Paul Jr.] Wild party, all kinds of people wandering in and out,

including dissidents, refuseniks...

Obviously, anti-Soviet people disturbed him very much.

What happened was, he told me afterwards,

a couple days later when I saw him,

he was in good condition,

that he had hallucinated,

not to give the details,

but like you do on an LSD trip, then been terribly depressed.

-[Amy] What is BZ? -[Paul Jr.] BZ is a special drug

to produce extreme hallucination and then extreme depression,

developed by the CIA.

LSD was developed on many campuses, you see,

and the spinoff from the experiments,

it was LSD, which is a weaker version of BZ.

But the BZ was used on Frank Olsen and on other victims

to get rid of political enemies, foreign and domestic.

[narrator] Robeson Sr. ended up in a hospital under the care of doctors,

who used MKUltra de-patterning techniques,

they gave Robeson 54 electroconvulsive shock treatments

at overly high doses,

permanently damaging his mind and sabotaging his career.

The CIA appeared to expand its work to target

the ever-increasing amount of leftist student activists across the US

American students had taken up Martin Luther King's

civil rights movement with Freedom Summer bus rides down south.

Students also began organizing to oppose the increasing war in Vietnam.

The CIA hid their work on the MKUltra program

behind a group it secretly funded out of Cornell University

called the Human Ecology Fund.

That fund gave large financial grants to over a hundred colleges,

along with a hundred prisons and hospitals around the country.

The institutions conducted experiments,

offering money to test subjects for taking psychedelic mushrooms and LSD.

Timothy Leary, seen here, gained the most notoriety

from these CIA-funded college experiments.

Timothy Leary used LSD and other psychedelics

on paid student volunteers at Harvard, from about 1960 to 1963,

where he worked as a psychology professor.

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Harvard kicked Leary,

and his collaborating fellow professor,

Richard Alpert, out of the university

near the end of the 1963 school year.

Leary ended up starting an international

organization promoting LSD use.

Two members of one of the world's wealthiest families

stepped in to aid Leary's promotion and distribution of acid.

William Mellon Hitchcock, seen right, with Leary

and his sister, Peggy Mellon Hitchcock,

put a massive amount of money into Leary's group.

The Mellon Hitchcock family owned Mellon Bank and Gulf Oil,

while also having members who were US intelligence veterans.

Leary housed his group in William Hitchcock's New York mansion

on a 2,300-acre estate in Millbrook, New York,

from late 1963 until late 1966.

We know we don't have the full story. We do, however,

have some striking new revelations and insights.

It was here that the first halting steps toward mind control began.

The safe houses were not the only testing grounds,

millions of dollars would be spent on LSD research

at universities throughout the country,

and word would begin to spread on campus

about this so-called mind-blowing drug.

And suddenly, there was the counterculture of the 60s.

Dr. Timothy Leary, the 1960s Johnny Appleseed of LSD.

[Leary] The CIA funded and supported and encouraged hundreds

of young psychiatrists to experiment with this drug.

[narrator] In 1975, one of New York's top alternative newspaper publishers,

East Village Other founder, Walter Bowart,

interviewed Timothy Leary forFreedom Magazine.

Alex Constantine and the late Jim Keith both reprinted this interview.

Leary admitted in 1975 that,

"80% of my movements, 80% of the decisions I made,

were suggested to me by CIA people.

I've known this for ten years, and yes,

I was a witting agent of the CIA."

MKUltra scientists, doctors, and agents,

such as Dr. Humphry Osmond and Captain Alfred Hubbard,

proceeded to set up shop at the Millbrook estate.

They supplied Leary and his cohorts

with many different experimental psychedelic drugs.

Many of New York's influential leftist artists and entertainers

were lured to Millbrook, or eventually convinced

by the Leary type of propaganda to try acid.

Evidence showed that the CIA and FBI

opposed the Martin Luther King led civil rights movement.

These CIA scientist activities were diverting white New York City students,

one of the largest sources of Freedom Riders,

luring them to the Millbrook estate

and damaging their minds.

[narrator] US intelligence also opposed the leftist activists

in the historically progressive San Francisco Bay area.

MKUltra targeted students enrolled at the University of California-Berkeley,

who took part in civil rights and free speech work by promoting LSD parties.

Nearby, Stanford University, had already been conducting

MKUltra experiments, funded by the CIA's front group,

the Human Ecology Fund.

Stanford University graduate writing student,

Ken Kesey, accepted money to try acid as part of that study

at a nearby Stanford-affiliated hospital.

Within several weeks, the scientists curiously offered

their experiment subject Kesey a job at the hospital,

and gave him keys to the LSD supply.

Then they allowed Kesey to confiscate unlimited amounts of LSD.

Kesey, a college wrestler, who had barely ever been drunk before the experiment,

held regular parties with alcohol, marijuana, and acid

at his home in the Stanford area.

Evidence would come out that this was similar

to Leary's MKUltra Millbrook estate parties.

When the MKUltra university experiments ended, around 1963,

an interesting romantic couple, Augustus Owsley Stanley III, and Mary Cargill,

stepped into supply Ken Kesey with vast amounts of acid.

This couple came from two of America's wealthiest families.

Owsley Stanley's family was Kentucky blue-blood.

Owsley's father was a government lawyer and his grandfather

was a Kentucky governor and US senator.

A Kentucky county bears his family name.

Cargill's family founded America's largest privately-owned company.

Owsley supplied Kesey, and then California, with unlimited acid.

The super-wealthy Mellon Hitchcock family

soon joined Owsley Stanley in trafficking acid nationwide.

The Mellon Hitchcock-backed new organization,

The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, helped make Owsley,

seen here with the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia,

America's largest acid supplier by around 1967.

Chemist and engineer, Tim Scully, assisted Owsley.

In the summer of 1964, Owsley, Kesey, and a group

who called themselves the Merry Pranksters,

used a trip Kesey was making to New York

as an excuse to start a cross-country

promotional tour of acid.

Arriving in New York City, they would end up

riding through Harlem, New York,

in July of 1964,

around the time of the largest civil rights riot to date.

Was this a purposeful introduction

of this neighborhood to acid?

That the Pranksters would later bring acid

to Watch Los Angeles in 1966,

after blacks rioted against police brutality there, suggests it was.

Ken Kesey and the Pranksters then returned to the San Francisco Bay area,

and threw the first Acid Test party with the band the Warlocks.

The party was held at Prankster Ken Babbs' 400-acre ranch.

The Acid Test band the Warlocks soon changed their name to the Grateful Dead.

Acid Tests were parties with large amounts of Kool-Aid mixed with many hits of acid.

Many people would be involuntarily dosed by each cup they drank.

Ex-Marine officer, Ken Babbs, and former Army commander, Stewart Brand,

proceeded to organize a three-night acid test

that they called the Trips Festival.

Thousands attended this event, and many were voluntarily,

and involuntarily, introduced to acid there.

One very important aspect of these Acid Tests

came out of a reprinted legal deposition

given by top CIA MKUltra psychologist, John Gittinger.

In his book, A Terrible Mistake, Hank Albarelli

quoted Gittinger as saying that he and several other

MKUltra scientists had attended the Trips Festival and other Acid Tests.

He said they tried to blend in unnoticed,

unlike some other federal agents at one of the parties.

This and other evidence strongly suggests that these

scientists helped conceive and organize the Acid Tests.

The fact that Ken Babbs and Stewart Brand

held important military posts

just before coming into the Pranksters,

suggests they and others were undercover MKUltra agents.

Merry Prankster, Stewart Brand, was interviewed by

the media group Big Think, and asked,

"Which shaped you more, the military or the Merry Pranksters?"

Which was more important between Merry Pranksterdom

and US infantry? They're about equal, and matched,

and sort of book ends, in a way, because I was at Fort Dix

and my weekends, I was running basic training as a second lieutenant there,

and then my weekends were in the Lower East Side in New York,

hanging out with artists and the group that'd later be called Usgo,

and messing with psychedelic drugs,

and the weekend, week contrast was just the sort of life you wanna have as a young man.

I was in charge of a platoon, and 50 people,

including some very experienced sergeants.

One of the things I found with Merry Pranksters,

and the Ken Kesey group is that there were a number

of ex-military people in that group.

Kesey was not, but his number two, Ken Babbs,

had been a helicopter with Marines in Vietnam.

[narrator] While Kesey went down to Mexico to avoid possible jail time,

Babbs, Brand, and the remaining Pranksters

organized several more similarly large Acid Tests.

It was then that they had their Acid Test

in the Watts area of Los Angeles,

after one of the nation's largest ever race riots.

Activists alternatively called these race rebellions

as people protested and set fires in response to

civil rights abuses and police brutality.

A pattern appeared to become increasingly more distinct

in the similarities between the Prankster's Acid Test

and Timothy Leary's CIA MKUltra work

against civil rights and anti-war activists.

Pranksters introduced acid to college students

from the activist hotbed of Cal-Berkeley

and San Jose State University, along with introducing acid

to radical blacks from Harlem to Watts.

Pranksters also participated in the first San Francisco

anti-Vietnam war marches,

urging people to stop protesting

and instead to only turn their backs on the war.

Meanwhile, the Vietnam War continued to expand.

Professor Al McCoy's book, The Politics of Heroin,

details US intelligences vast opium and heroin trafficking

from Vietnam to the US

Some of the largest opium-producing poppy fields in the world

grew in the Southeast Asian Golden Triangle area bordering Vietnam.

Heroin addiction and overdoses were sent soaring

in the US, as shown in this chart.

As this picture shows, heroin produced a huge boost

in the American stock market as dirty profits

from heroin sales were laundered through profit margins

of banks and other stock corporations.

Wall Street insider, Catherine Austin Fitts,

described how this worked, as discussed more later.

The Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia grew directly

out of our covert policies there.

Before it had been run by French intelligence

with the Corsican mafia,

we took over with our Air America

and civil air transport planes flying in arms

to our allies, flying back out with the heroin,

the first target being US GIs during the Vietnam War,

the second target being the United States itself.

[narrator] Frontline's Judy Woodruff,

revealed a US intelligence agent's report attesting to

their bringing heroin into the US during the Vietnam War.

[Woodruff] In 1972, a US intelligence agent in Southeast Asia.

sent a secret field report to customs.

The CIA was in fact facilitating the movement

of opiates to the US, they steadfastly hid behind the shield of secrecy,

and said that all was done in the interest of national security, end quote.

[narrator] The four top political icons of the 1960s,

JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X, were actively trying to end the Vietnam War.

President John F. Kennedy had an apparent political seat change while in office,

and ended up declaring an end to sending troops to Vietnam.

He also tried to close down the CIA's operation MKUltra,

firing the CIA director and his assistant who helped run it.

[reporter] Is there any speed up in the withdrawal from Vietnam intended?

Well, you know when Secretary McNamara and General Taylor came back

they announced that we would expect to withdraw

a thousand men from south Vietnam before the end of the year.

And there's been some reference to that by General Harkins.

If we're able to do that, that will be our schedule, I think the first.

A policy was put into place to end the US involvement in Vietnam

and a formal presidential decision

was taken in October of 1963 that would, if implemented,

have caused a full pull out of US forces

from Vietnam by the end of 1965.

And it's clear that he did, we have all of the documents

involved in the making of the decision, including the decision itself,

and including actually tapes of Kennedy ordering that decision to be taken.

[narrator] President John Kennedy and his attorney general brother,

Robert Kennedy, also went after mafia bosses such as

New Orleans drug trafficking kingpin, Carlos Marcello.

Numerous researches such as Professor Dale Scott,

argue that some of these factors led Marcello, the CIA,

and the oligarchs to orchestrate

the 1963 assassination of JFK.

He was the boss, the mafia boss of New Orleans.

He controlled New Orleans, Louisiana,

he controlled Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas, including Dallas.

And his first mission is to go after the mafia.

At Neely Plaza there were ten men arrested

and this has been kept secret for more than four years.

Here are the pictures of five of 'em being arrested

and they've never been shown before.

Several of these men arrested have been connected

by our office with the Central Intelligence Agency

of the United States government.

I am trying to tell you that there is no question,

as a result of our investigation, that an element

of the Central Intelligence Agency of our country

killed John Kennedy and that the present administration

is concealing the facts, there is no question about it at all.

[narrator] Two years later, gunmen assassinated

the first black activist to speak out against

the Vietnam War, Muslim leader Malcolm X.

On April 3, 1968, exactly one year after publicly

pronouncing his opposition to the Vietnam War,

a gunman assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Researchers such as King's friend and attorney

William Pepper say that US intelligence assassinated MLK,

partly due to his anti-war pronouncement,

and partly due to his refocusing on economic issues.

[narrator] In June of 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy

won the decisive California presidential primary,

marking the likelihood of his winning the Democratic nomination,

and then gaining the presidency.

RFK often touted his growing anti-Vietnam War stance before his assassination,

the night of winning that California presidential primary.

Accused assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was grabbed

while firing a gun after getting no closer than two feet in front of RFK.

The coroner conducting the autopsy on RFK

held a press conference showing how RFK's fatal wounds came from behind the senator,

within an inch of his head.

[interviewer] Doctor Noguchi, were you able to determine

how far the gun muzzle was from Senator Kennedy's head?

One gunshot wound was found behind the right ear.

We came to conclusion that the muzzle distance

would be one inch from the right...

ear.

[interviewer] Now, how far was Sirhan

from Senator Kennedy at the time?

I would say approximately from three to six feet.

[interviewer] Where was this guard who was firing his gun?

He was standing directly to the side and back of Kennedy.

[narrator] Before these last two assassinations,

the CIA apparently began cultivating a massive amount

of acid dealing and promotion.

For his widely praised book, Acid Dreams,

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, FAIR, co-founder,

Martin Lee, interviewed several undercover agents who reported

working in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco

who described the Haight as a human guinea pig farm.

Lee also quoted a source working with the Hudson Institute

strategist Herman Kahn,

who collaborated with the CIA's MKUltra program.

He said that Kahn was primarily interested in social control

when Kahn marveled at his own work at creating a similar wasteland

in New York City's East Village neighborhood.

Kahn predicted an alternative dropped out country within the United States.

This coincided with CIA asset Timothy Leary's mantra,

repeated by both alternative and mainstream media worldwide.

Turn on, tune in, and drop out.

[narrator] One possible way US intelligence

increased the trend of idealistic young people

tripping on acid, and possibly damaging their minds, was to start be-ins.

The first human be-in was organized in the same San Francisco area

as the ever-larger Acid Tests that turned into the Trips Festival.

Researchers, Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain,

said that many of the 25,000 people at the first human be-in were tripping on acid.

US intelligence appeared to put an ever-increasing stock

into getting rock musicians to directly,

or inadvertently, promote drugs for them.

Ernest Hemingway's longtime close friend and editor,

A.E. Hotchner, wrote an important book,Blown Away,

an oral history of the Rolling Stones rock band.

That book included Hotchner saying that in the mid-1960s,

the CIA MKUltra Deputy Director, Robert Lashbrook,

directed undercover agents to give LSD to British musicians in London.

London undercover agent, Steve Abram,

stated that the CIA released acid to rock groups,

and that CIA agents were distributing acid all over the place.

[narrator] This draws more scrutiny to the 1965 incident

where the Beatles' guitarist George Harrison's dentist,

John Riley, invited John Lennon, his wife, Cynthia,

Harrison and his girlfriend Patti Boyd over for dinner.

Patti Boyd and Cynthia Harrison describe the scene in detail

and the Beatles agreed about what happened.

Riley and his girlfriend proceeded to put LSD

in the coffee Lennon and Harrison drank, without their knowledge.

When Lennon found out, he was furious.

LSD was so new in London,

Harrison didn't even know what it was.

Was Dr. Riley linked to the CIA's MKUltra program

or the collaborating British Tavistock program?

[interviewer] How did you first get involved with LSD?

[John] A dentist in London.

[woman laughing] Dentist.

[John] Later on, George, me, and our wives,

without telling us at the dinner party,

actually, it was a friend of George's.

Cynthia and Patti and myself were having dinner

at this guy's house, lysergic acid diethylamide 25.

I didn't really know what it was.

[narrator] Two years later in England,

a man dubbed the acid king,

David Schneidermann, pictured on the left here

with Rolling Stones guitarist, Keith Richards,

convinced Rolling Stones lead singer, Mick Jagger, to try LSD for the first time.

At a party in guitarist's Keith Richards' home that year,

Schneidermann convinced Jagger to try acid,

and then police came and arrested Richards and Jagger on drug charges,

without arresting Schneidermann, who had many drugs on him.

It later came out in London'sDaily Mail newspaper

that Schneidermann worked undercover

for both the FBI and British MI-5.

Others eventually got John Lennon and George Harrison

to use acid again over the next two years.

Before Harrison disavowed acid in 1967.

Why did Lennon and Harrison take acid again,

along with the other Beatles Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney?

The answer might lie in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles.

[narrator] The late author, Dave McGowan,

wrote an extensive expose on the rise

of Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon neighborhood.

McGowan's evidence supports that US intelligence

orchestrated the rise of Laurel Canyon,

as the home for dozens of almost instant music stars.

The Canyon appeared to give rise to the hippy image itself.

The US Air Force already had vast personnel

in Laurel Canyon with a highly prolific movie studio

called, Lookout Mountain Laboratory.

It produced a staggering 19,000 classified movies and film projects

with top actors, directors, and producers

who all signed confidentiality oaths

to not reveal the films at Lookout Mountain.

Lookout Mountain Laboratories was a top secret

US Air Force installation nestled up in Laurel Canyon,

the existence of which remained unknown

until fairly recently even.

Then it morphed into a film studio at some point

and was said to be the world's most complete self-contained film studio.

[narrator] Dave McGowan found that virtually

all the Laurel Canyon musicians and most of the actors

came from top military parents or military backgrounds.

For example, this picture shows a clean-cut Jim Morrison

with his father, who captained the naval ship

that caused the Gulf of Tonkin incident, starting the Vietnam War.

John Phillips came right from the military

into musical stardom with The Mamas and the Papas.

Some of these Laurel Canyon celebrities were also part of

America's wealthiest families, such as David Crosby of the Van Courtland family,

as well as a media propagated dance instructor, Vito Polikus,

who was Barbara Rockefeller's cousin.

[narrator] Final key members of the scene

were Charles Manson and his followers.

Many women walked around naked at sex and drug parties

that included top actors such as Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson,

luring the Beatles and countless other musicians to take acid and other drugs

for the first time or more.

Vito Policus collaborated with prominent Laurel Canyon musicians in promoting drugs.

The Beatles' Lennon said his and Harrison's second time taking acid

was in Los Angeles at a party organized

by top selling musician, David Crosby of The Byrds,

and Crosby, Stills, and Nash, near the Laurel Canyon neighborhood.

Paul offered a glimpse of why he tripped the first time

when he said, "peer pressure was strong to take acid."

[Lennon] And the second time we had it in LA, which was different.

[interviewer] What happened then?

[John] Well, then we took it deliberately,

and then, well, we just decided to take it again in California,

and the three of us took it, Ringo, George, and I,

I think maybe Neil and a couple of The Birds,

that what's his name, the one in the Stills and Nash thing?

-You know the Byrds, B-Y-R-D-- -Yeah, David Crosby.

[Lennon] Crosby and the other guy who used to be the leader.

And Peter Fonda came.

So when acid came around, we'd heard that you're never the same.

I was rather frightened by that prospect.

Just what I need. So I delayed,

'cause there's a lot of peer pressure.

[narrator] The Beatles went on to promote acid

through their albums and movies, such as

Magical Mystery Tour.

["Whiskey Sage" by ElectroCult Circus]

[narrator] Regarding the Rolling Stones in particular,

British authorities continued to use the drug charges

from the FBI's Schneidermann drug setup

to control the increasingly outspoken anti-war Rolling Stones musicians.

There were a number of leaders who believed acid

was anti-revolutionary and in conflict with their

anti-war and anti-racism work.

Columbia University SDS and its leader Mark Rudd,

seen here speaking to a student crowd, represented this opinion.

Rudd led the Columbia University anti-war building takeover,

the first event of its kind nationally.

The Columbia SDS marched in and occupied

the university's main buildings for many days

to protest the Vietnam War and government's racist actions,

inspiring similar SDS involved college building takeovers nationwide.

SDS then enlisted Mark Rudd to talk at schools

around the country to raise money for SDS.

We have closed down four university buildings,

three of which usually have classes. We've had mass meetings

of 800 and 600 people respectively.

[narrator] By 1969, the Students for a Democratic Society,

had grown to nearly 100,000 members.

At one of their national conventions that year,

a division arose between two factions in the group,

including a first faction believed to be infiltrated

by undercover agents, that instigated the breakup of SDS.

Bernardine Dohrn headed the second faction,

after having been elected one of the SDS leaders that year.

This was the culmination of Dohrn's good anti-Vietnam War

and anti-racist organizing in the 1960s.

...in finding out about the organization of SDS,

we've always been quite willing to talk about the organization.

Yeah, we'll talk about socialism anywhere, in the streets

or in the senate, anywhere, you know.

I'm Mike Klonstien, national secretary of SDS,

and this is Bernardine Dohrn, inter-organizational secretary.

[reporters talking over each other]

[reporter] Is there a Communist faction

making a big power play for SDS at this time?

Is there any communists back here?

[crowd cheering]

[narrator] As a law school student in Chicago,

Dohrn also played a part at a Chicago be-in,

while other SDS activists had also become

increasingly more sympathetic to acid.

She, Mark Rudd and others seen here had formed

a new political faction that they called the Weathermen.

At that convention, Dohrn emotionally followed up

of a fractional debate by leading a walk out of many

SDS members from that convention,

permanently splitting up the nation's largest anti-war organization.

Whether Dohrn's use of acid played a distinct role

in this event is uncertain but suspect.

[lyrics indistinct]

[narrator] FBI documents showed that agents had infiltrated

Abbie Hoffman's Youth International Party, or Yippies.

By the summer of 1969, an offshoot group of New York's

Yippies, the Crazies, had unsuccessfully tried to chide Columbia

SDS leaders into taking acid.

Undercover FBI agent, George Demmerle, was a leader of the Crazies.

Rudd and a number of other Columbia SDS members

were active in the Weathermen factor.

At one of their New York parties,

the Crazies spiked the New York Weathermen's punch with acid.

Once they got Mark Rudd and the New York members tripping,

the Weathermen disavowed their stance against acid

and ordered all New York Weathermen to take acid.

The CIA's MKUltra work infiltrating groups in pushing LSD

would later come out in a US Senate committee report,

some newspapers such as theWashington Post covered it ever so briefly

before never seeming to mention it again.

The Weathermen came from parts of former SDS chapters around the country,

as well as from undercover FBI training bases

as some FBI agents infiltrated the group.

Mark Rudd, Bernardine Dohrn, and other Weatherman leaders

started showing the effects of acid in the following months by acting very irrationally.

They invaded high schools and held teachers,

purportedly to liberate students.

They bullied money and meals from people on planes,

they got arrested in a days of rage rampage in Chicago.

And at a December of 1969 national convention,

they bragged about not reading any books in over a year

and lauded the Charles Manson group for their gruesome murders

of wealthy Beverly Hills residents.

["Whiskey Sage" by ElectroCult Circus]

[narrator] It took some months for Dohrn and others

to realize they had grown highly irrational

and to at least apologize publicly for lauding the Manson murders.

By this time the Weathermen had changed their name

to the Weather Underground for feminist reasons.

And they appeared to start sobering up a bit

as they became a militant anti-war vanguard group.

Anti-war activists had begun strategic bombings

of institutions linked to the Vietnam War and racism in 1969.

These activists planted dynamite with timing devices

and then called the building managers to have them cleared before the bombs exploded.

The Weather Underground's leadership cell risked and lost some lives

participating in at least a couple dozen

of these bombings from 1970 onwards.

Compatriot groups conducted similar bombings numbering in the thousands in 1970 alone.

It should be kept in mind that this was in reaction

to America's war in Vietnam killing over two million people,

including several hundred thousand young Americans.

There were three early morning bomb blasts

on the west coast, two at military facilities,

and one at a courthouse, Bill Stout narrates.

[Bill] The worst blast was at the Navy and Air Force

ROTC building on the campus of the University of Washington.

The 32nd bombing of the year in Seattle, really two bombings,

two charges which went off almost simultaneously

shortly before three this morning.

There were warning calls to the police,

who got a janitor out of the building

just before the explosions.

Across the nation, between January of last year

and April of this year, a total of 4,330 bombings have been reported.

In the State of California alone, the average is now 20 bombings a week.

Occasionally, far right extremists are responsible,

but leftists and radicals are most often to blame.

♪ Kill me again, kill me with love ♪

♪ Make it across this time

♪ Deeper the wound goes into the heart... ♪

[narrator] The CIA had Timothy Leary capitalized

on his radicalization of so many young people.

Leary gave up the turn on, tune in, drop out.

He instead declared unity with the radicals,

and told them all to live their lives dosed on acid,

while further stating that radicals should be dosing others.

The Mellon Hitchcock-funded Brotherhood of Eternal Love,

flew Leary to Algeria. There, the Black Panthers'

National Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver,

had set up a Panther in exile chapter.

Cleaver had escaped near assassination and further

persecution by staying in Algeria with his wife,

national Panther spokesperson, Kathleen Cleaver.

Several New York Panther leaders,

amongst many other Panthers had joined him there.

In deference to his solidarity with the Weather Underground,

Eldridge Cleaver first welcomed Leary.

Here's Cleaver before he took a more militant stance against Leary.

[narrator] Martin Lee reported how that quickly changed

and Cleaver soon put Leary under house arrest

due to Leary having brought 20,000 hits of acid

to Cleaver's Panther encampment.

Cleaver spoke of LSD as part of a drug-induced totalitarianism,

and sent a message to acid-crazed youth

that their god is dead as his mind is blown by acid,

in referring to Leary.

The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and the CIA

helped get Leary out of Cleaver's house arrest and back to the US

Once there, Leary told the FBI the names and locations

of various New York Weather Underground members and they were arrested.

"Don't follow leaders," words which have proved prophetic

after today's revelations that Timothy Leary,

guru of 60s counter-culture collaborated with the FBI

and named names in the underground movement.

Leary died three years ago and was famous for preaching

anti-establishment slogans like, "Turn on, tune in, and drop out."

He could've added inform.

♪ It's a long, long lonely road ♪

♪ From the cradle to the grave ♪

♪ And a lonely...

[narrator] By this time, a man named Ronald Stark

worked with the Mellon Hitchcock's

Brotherhood of Eternal Love.

High level British police detective, Dick Lee,

found that Stark and his group produced and distributed

hundreds of millions of LSD hits to the international masses.

Stark helped set up acid laboratories on several continents.

The Italian police arrested Stark,

but an Italian judge who tried to prosecute Stark

on drug trafficking was murdered.

The next judge released Stark due to numerous proofs

that Ronald Stark was actually a CIA agent,

working for the American Secret Services since 1960.

An Italian Parliamentary commission investigating

Stark's drug trafficking operation,

also confirmed his work for US intelligence.

Stark was the biggest source of underground acid at one time in the world,

and he ends up being released from jail in Italy

after a certain point under that most strange circumstances

where a judge says, that Ronald Stark, the evidence shows,

has been an agent of the US Secret Services

from the 1960s on, therefore, we cannot keep him in jail.

[narrator] Writer, Martin Lee, presented this information

to many 1960s activists and artists.

He reported that a surprising number of counter-culture

veterans endorsed the notion that the CIA disseminated street acid en masse,

so as to deflate the political potency of the youth rebellion.

Famed writer and ex-heroin addict, William Burroughs,

concluded how the CIA hurt young activists in emphasizing

LSD makes people less competent.

Also commenting about acid, former SDS President, Carl Ogilsbey said,

"If US intelligence bodies collaborated in an effort

to drug an entire generation of Americans,

then the reason they did so was to disorient it,

sedate it, and de-politicize it.

Meanwhile, US intelligence continued trying to use musicians to promote drugs.

Rock star Janice Joplin's fiancé Michael Raymond

had told another girlfriend that he worked for the FBI.

The FBI also had a file on Joplin.

Details of Raymond's career supported his FBI work.

Raymond got Joplin hooked on amphetamines

before she cut off the marriage plans

when she found out he was already married.

Joplin further announced on TV in 1970

that she was going to do several large,

unprecedented concerts for peace,

raising money for anti-war activists.

This never happened, as she had developed a heroin habit,

and as she was trying to stop, she unknowingly bought

an unusually pure dose of heroin that killed her.

Janice's sister Laura said that rumors persisted

that the CIA had arranged for Janice's death.

There's a couple coming off in August,

the sixth I believe, and the ninth.

The sixth in Philadelphia, in Shea Stadium, and the ninth in Philadelphia.

Peace festivals that Peter Yero started throwing together here.

A lot of groups are contributing their services

and they're gonna give all the bread to peace candidates, you know.

They've got some real straight people

to administer it so it isn't a rip off.

♪ I see you

♪ I see you at the door, crazy ♪

[narrator] Another rock icon, Jimi Hendrix, also died in 1970,

both the American and British media

had smeared Hendrix in describing him

as a rampant drug user who died from choking

on his own vomit after using heroin.

Top biographer Shapiro and Glebbeek,

describe Hendrix as someone who wrote his best album,

Are You Experienced, without any drug use.

They say he first tried LSD after making the album,

and only tried heroin a couple of times, not liking it.

Shapiro and Glebbeek also say Hendrix's manager, Mike Jeffrey,

formerly worked for British intelligence

as an MI6 agent who inserted himself

into Hendrix's life and controlled him.

Details of Jeffrey's life support that he continued working undercover

for MI6, the FBI was also involved,

and had Hendrix under constant surveillance.

This was likely due to Hendrix's support

of the Black Panthers in 1970, since the FBI targeted

the Black Panthers with their counterintelligence program known as COINTELPRO.

And a program called COINTELPRO which was a surveillance and assassination program

and it led to the murder of 28 Black Panthers

and they learned from those documents

that Jimi Hendrix had been

put on a security index

established by the FBI

to have him and everyone else on that index

rounded up and placed in detainment camps

in the account of a national emergency.

[narrator] Various government files on activists have shown that the FBI's

counterintelligence program targeting

was joined by the CIA's operation MH/CHAOS.

Hendrix's fiancée, Monika Dannemann, said Hendrix believed

Jeffrey set up Hendrix's first drug bust for possession of marijuana.

She said Hendrix then thought Jeffrey dosed Hendrix's drink with a large amount of acid,

and Hendrix thought it hurt his guitar playing during an anti-war benefit.

Dannemann also said Hendrix became very radical, politically,

and had stopped taking acid in 1969

after Martin Luther King's 1968 assassination.

Hendrix started dedicating albums to the Black Panthers

and planning political projects.

Dannemann further said Jeffrey threatened her life

if she came out with her book on the guitar legend

a year after Jimi Hendrix's death.

She ultimately released the book about 25 years later.

She died, purportedly of a suicide, within a year of that release.

In 2011, a Hendrix roadie published a book saying that

Mike Jeffrey admitted to him that he had Hendrix killed.

[man] Mike Jeffrey is an interesting take,

he begins working for the government in the national service,

he works into the military, he joins military intelligence,

and at that point, his career enters an obscure phase.

So, there's little known about his activities

with MI6, except to say that

he was stationed in Egypt and he spoke Russian fluently.

He actually confessed to a jazz producer by the name of Alan Douglas,

who was a good friend of Jimi Hendrix,

that he had something to do with the murder.

He wasn't entirely clear about it,

but it was clear to Alan Douglas

that Michael Jeffrey was making a confession.

[narrator] From the late 1960s onwards, another top musical icon,

Beatles lead singer, John Lennon,

started getting much more political.

For example, he participated in anti-war actions

and supported Black Panther leaders.

In reaction, US intelligence increased their targeting of him.

In the 1970s, John Lennon took about five years off

from the public spotlight to raise his second son.

By 1980, Lennon came out of his hiatus with two albums

and an announced plan to lead a march of striking port workers.

Mark David Chapman fatally shot Lennon that year.

In 1989, British attorney and crime reporter, Fenton Bresler,

published his seven-year investigation of Lennon's murder

titled Who Killed John Lennon?

Bresler concluded that the CIA used MKUltra techniques

involving psycho-hypnotic drugs and hypnosis to have Chapman murder Lennon.

Lennon told Paul Krassner, the editor of The Realist,

"If something happens to me it wasn't an accident."

[Syrett] Here's what John's son Sean Lennon said

about his dad's assassination in 1998.

"He was dangerous to the government,

these pacifist revolutionaries

are historically killed by the government.

And anybody who thinks Mark David Chapman

was just some crazy guy who killed my dad

for his personal interests is insane

or hasn't thought about it clearly."

[narrator] Veteran British music writer, Phil Strongman,

came to the same conclusions as Bresler.

He additionally found that a Cuban exile CIA asset,

Jose Joaquin Sanjenis Perdomo, gained work as the doorman

at Lennon's apartment and aided in the murder.

Bresler and Strongman's copious amounts of evidence

exposed CIA training programs for local police departments.

They also uncovered that an Atlanta police officer

trained Chapman in shooting and provided him

with deadly hollow point bullets

with which Chapman killed Lennon.

And we know the FBI had a 300-page file on Lennon.

Much of it remains classified for national security reasons.

The doorman at the Dakota that night was Jose Perdomo,

a veteran of the CIA's botched Bay of Pigs invasion,

a professional hitman who worked closely with convicted

Watergate burglar, Frank Sturgis, on the CIA's payroll.

♪ Power to the people heard that before ♪

♪ Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

[narrator] On a different domestic war front,

US intelligence used many tactics to accomplish

their documented goal of neutralizing the Black Panthers,

including murdering Los Angeles and Chicago Panther leaders.

In murdering Chicago's Panther leader, Fred Hampton,

it came out in court that an undercover US intelligence agent

first drugged Hampton's drink before police shot

an unconscious Hampton in his bed in a raid on his home.

The CIA had liaison projects with police forces all over the United States.

[man] COINTELPRO was the code word

for a counterintelligence program,

and it was a program that the FBI created in 1956

to go after the communist party with intentions

of trying to neutralize the party, put it out of business.

In 1967, they start what became known as MH/CHAOS,

a code word for illegal domestic operations within the United States.

You might murder a freedom fighter like Bobby Hutton,

but you can't murder freedom fightin'

and if you do, you'll come up with answers

that don't answer, explanations that don't explain,

you'll come up with conclusions that don't conclude.

Extraordinarily talented.

Twenty-one years old.

[man] They always had local police departments

do their dirty work and they began to

devise a scheme that culminated

in his assassination while he was asleep,

drugged by his security officer who was also a police informant.

City police in Chicago murdered Fred Hampton.

[guns firing rapidly]

In essence, was an assassination authorized by the FBI.

Or sanctioned by the FBI.

The FBI's considering an attempt to try to smash

the Black Panther party.

They stopped actually attacking us.

Didn't mean they didn't have no covert crap going on.

Infiltration of cocaine into the Black Panther party,

it's leadership, Huey P. Newton being the main target.

[Seale] And every once in awhile, I says,

"Why are you snortin' this cocaine? This ain't the thing."

I had a clear impression that...

chemical warfare would be utilized against the Black Panther party.

We had taken a position in our rules

against anyone shootin' heroin, and narcotics found

would be immediately dismissed from the Black Panther party

because we essentially were anti-drug in our operations.

[narrator] Evidence also supports that US intelligence

used undercover agents such as professed undercover agent infiltrator,

Earl Anthony and Elaine Brown,

to hook national Black Panther co-founder, Huey Newton, on cocaine.

LA Panther leader, Geronimo JiJaga Pratt,

and national Panther leader, Kathleen Cleaver,

identified Elaine Brown as a US intelligence agent

who also admittedly

had top CIA undercover agent,

Jay Kennedy, as her lifelong advisor.

Pulitzer Prize-winning MLK biographer, Dave Garrow,

said Jay Kennedy was a CIA informant,

as confirmed by CIA documents on Kennedy.

Brown sued Cleaver and Pratt for libel but the suit was dismissed.

MKUltra was what you might call a research program

ran by the CIA to determine if psychotropic drugs,

mind-altering drugs might be used for intelligence purposes.

Either for chemical warfare or the neutralization of targets.

See, you have to remember, if you read some of the COINTELPRO documents,

they had a psychological profile on Huey, on me, on Eldridge.

I had the distinct impression consistently from 1971

that Miss Elaine Brown was a highly placed

intelligence operative inside the Black Panther party.

[man] I think Elaine Brown came in through Earl Anthony

and she followed the same course of devious type

of activities, so I'm sayin' all this to say that

they got involved with people and caused a lot of problems.

But we was aware of it, we just wasn't aware of the extent

that the LAPD, the federal government with its COINTEL,

the CIA, FBI, we wasn't aware to the extent

that these people were involved.

She acknowledges in her own words, in her book,

Taste of Power,that in fact she had been educated,

groomed, taught, at the hands of a long-time

Central Intelligence Agency operative, Jay Richard Kennedy.

So many party members literally have told me

they believe this, that this woman was connected

some kind of way and got step-by-step, piece-by-piece,

got Huey hooked over into some notion that he could get

more money behind the scene if he, step-by-step,

methodologically demised the Black Panther party.

John Stockwell, former station chief of the CIA in Angola,

he said "Well, I wanna say this to you very clear,

the Huey P. Newton that people see today

is a direct result of operations run by the Central Intelligence Agency

to ensure that he would turn out the way that he is.

[man] Huey P. Newton was never the same.

♪ Got no more blood to give any y'all ♪

♪ Let go of Mutulu Shakur

[narrator] One-time Harlem Panther leader, Afeni Shakur,

had moved in with Mutulu Shakur in the 1970s,

after she gave birth to future rap icon,

Tupac Shakur, in 1971, seen here.

Mutulu obtained a degree in acupuncture and was one of

the first people using it to treat drug addicts,

as assistant director of Lincoln Detox in the Bronx.

The city tried to close the clinic down in 1978

before someone killed its director, Richard Taft,

and made the bizarre but seemingly symbolic move

of inserting drugs under Taft's skin.

They did a poor job with it, as he died before the drugs could enter his bloodstream.

Someone also used the same strategy to murder

the clinic's lawyer, Stanley Cohen.

Cohen had also been representing Black Panther,

Assata Shakur, regarding a New Jersey shooting incident

where Mutulu's brother, Black Liberation Army founder,

Zayd Shakur, was killed by police.

[man] We went to interview Dr. Mutulu Shakur,

who had cured thousands of drug addicts

with the experimental treatment of acupuncture.

We found him in an underground prison.

[man] The Young Lords party and the Black Panther party

wanted every municipal hospital that serviced the poor in New York

to have an acupuncture experimental center inside of their drug program.

And because we were the first, we became targets.

A hundred policemen came to the Bronx and arrested us

and took us away from the center.

[narrator] Activists linked to the Weather Underground

including Bernardine Dohrn's sister, Jennifer,

and activists linked to the Puerto Rican version of the Panthers,

the Young Lords, worked at Lincoln Detox.

When New York City Police actually blockaded Lincoln Detox.

Mutulu Shakur and the rest of the staff were forced to work elsewhere.

A group deemed the Multinational Task Force by some

and the Revolutionary Armed Task Force by others,

decided to fund health care in the Bronx by expropriating money from banks.

One of their armed robberies of a bank truck in 1981

led to the fatal shooting of a cop and a Brink's truck guard in Nyack, New York.

A massive police sweep led to those caught at the scene,

including Black Liberation Army members and Weather Underground members

who were driving the getaway truck.

Mutulu Shakur was falsely charged with masterminding

the operation and went into hiding.

♪ Power to the people, heard that before ♪

♪ Free Mumia Abul Jamal

♪ Got no more blood to give, hear me y'all ♪

♪ Let go of Mutulu Shakur

[narrator] In 1986, after five years of being a fugitive,

the acupuncturist and Republic of New Afrika co-founder,

Mutulu Shakur, was caught by the FBI.

Shakur was not charged with direct involvement

in the crime of bank robbery, but only conspiracy involvement in the crime,

despite no physical evidence to support the claim.

Mutulu was also charged with springing Assata Shakur from jail,

after which she was granted political exile status in Cuba.

Mutulu was convicted and sentenced to decades in prison

where he remains, despite being scheduled for mandatory release in 2016.

While Mutulu was in hiding in the early 1980s,

his wife, Harlem Black Panther leader Afeni Shakur,

struggled financially trying to raise her son Tupac and her daughter, Sekyiwa.

A drug dealer, Kenneth Legs Saunders,

entered Afeni's life and got her hooked on crack cocaine at this time.

♪ I try to forget it all the pain ♪

♪ Insane in the game

♪ I try to forget it

♪ Trying to make a dollar

♪ We'll honor some change

[narrator] Legs Saunders worked with Nicky Barnes,

who was an assistant to one of the first black

New York drug kingpins, Frank Matthews.

Professor Clarence Lusane wrote that nine people

supplying drugs to Matthews had their drug importation

charges dropped due to their CIA ties.

The New York Times then called Matthews' successor,

Nicky Barnes, Mr. Untouchable,

due to all his legal charges that were dismissed.

This and other evidence supports that Saunders worked

as part of a US intelligence drug dealing network

that inserted him into Shakur's life to undermine her activist work.

In the 1960s, Chicago gang leader, Jose Cha Cha Jimenez,

converted his Puerto Rican gang, the Young Lords, into activists.

Jimenez was in recovery from a drug addiction.

Jimenez shadowed Black Panther national co-founder,

Bobby Seale, for a month to learn who to replicate

some of the Panther programs for the Young Lords.

Police began targeting the Young Lords,

trying to frame them with drug possession charges.

The Young Lords spread to many other cities,

with the biggest chapter arising in New York.

♪ The ghetto stinks everywhere is the same ♪

♪ I'm trying to forget it

[lyrics indistinct]

[narrator] In the 1970s, activists had helped end

the Vietnam War and US intelligence shifted its attention

from the Golden Triangle to other drug-producing regions,

such as Latin America.

The CIA had helped relocate thousands of Nazis after World War II,

some of the Nazi scientists brought to the US continued their studies

of psychedelic drugs as part of the MKUltra program.

Many more Nazis were resettled in Latin American countries,

particularly Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile.

These Nazis helped build alliances with the largest

coca plant farmers down there, and aided them

in backing coups against leftist leaders

to gain control of those countries.

For example, in 1967,

Bolivian-based genocidal Nazi, Klaus Barbie,

helped the CIA murder Cuban revolutionary, Che Guevara, in Bolivia,

before leading a cocaine coup in that country by 1980.

American CIC decided to smuggle Barbie out of Europe

to get rid of him, to hide him.

[narrator] With the aid of American officials,

Barbie is smuggled to Bolivia,

where he lives comfortably for the next 30 years.

[man narrating]

[Herbert]

[man narrating]

[narrator] The CIA worked with two Nazi colonies

inside the countries of Chile and Argentina

to start Operation Condor.

Chile's Nazi colony helped lead the coup

against elected Socialist President Salvadore Allende.

The New York Times noted how the Chilean Nazi colony's leader

tortured leftists in aid of the coup leader,

with London's Daily Guardian detailing

Chile's dictatorship trafficking cocaine.

That coup leader, Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet,

ruled for decades, helping lead some nine Latin American countries'

military dictatorships to murder tens to hundreds of thousands

of Latin American leftists, including targeted hits worldwide.

♪ Let me bend your ear again my friend, it's not a game ♪

♪ Many complicated matters, too many to name ♪

[narrator] CIA Director, George H.W. Bush,

helped orchestrate some of these operations in 1976.

Around that time, the CIA also worked on developing

new poppy fields in the Golden Crescent area,

where Afghanistan borders Pakistan.

US intelligence paid tribal leader

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood,

to develop poppy fields and laboratories

for the processing of opium, morphine, and heroin.

The CIA also tried to manipulate the politics

of Afghanistan, which bordered the Soviet Union.

Afghanistan elected a socialist government

and the CIA paid the Muslim Brotherhood,

who became the mujahideen to oppose the new government.

Reporters Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald

were experts on Afghanistan for PBS and CBS News.

Paul Jay of the Real News Network talked with

these reporters about American policies

to manipulate the Soviet Union, as well as

US intelligence's work with Pakistan's military intelligence

on cross-boarder trafficking into Afghanistan.

The US policy's to induce the Soviets into Afghanistan or at least facilitate it,

they certainly succeed, the whole Pakistan society

starts to be transformed by these billions of dollars going...

arms going this way and drugs coming this way,

back into Pakistan. Eventually, the Russians leave. Tell us what happens next.

In fact, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Ahmad Shah Massoud

were two of the main people who caused the major destruction in Kabul,

but this was all part of the build up

that eventually was presented by 1994 to '96

as an Afghan movement, but really was very much

part of the ideological political process

that the Pakistani ISI military--

Together with the Saudis I think should be added.

-[Elizabeth] Oh, absolutely. -[Paul] Together with the Saudis

but also the United States

was very much behind it.

[narrator] Associated Press andNewsweek reporter,

Robert Parry, detailed how George Bush Sr.

continued working on the CIA trafficking cocaine

out of Latin American countries when he became Vice President in 1980.

Parry and Professor Peter Dale Scott detailed how, in 1979,

the Democratic Socialist political party,

the FSLN, aka the Sandinistas, launched a revolution

against the US intelligence-backed Somoza family dictatorship.

The Somoza family had ruthlessly ruled Nicaragua since 1936.

While vice president under Ronald Regan, George Bush,

headed the US intelligence umbrella group, the National Security Council.

In that position, Bush headed covert operations,

directing Colonel Oliver North, as he supervised

cocaine trafficking with a counterrevolutionary army

out of Honduras that sought to topple the Sandinistas.

That army was called the Contras.

♪ Lotta stubborn ass niggers unwilling to change ♪

♪ Every gangster got a chain but not many can name ♪

[narrator] Senate hearings with the involvement of Senator John Kerry's committee,

revealed much of the Contra crack cocaine operations.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Gary Webb,

wrote a series of front page stories in theSan Jose Mercury News

that became the first viral internet articles.

Their claim substantiated that the CIA and their assets

trafficked cocaine into the US

Other evidence supported that the CIA had the further goal

of subverting urban American communities with crack,

particularly black communities.

DEA agent whistleblower, Mike Levine,

also reported evidence of CIA drug trafficking.

Levine infiltrated top drug trafficking rings,

but the CIA sabotaged his DEA operations

and thwarted prosecution of the drug ring leaders.

CBS's60 Minutes covered one example

regarding the CIA aiding Venezuela in the smuggling

of a ton of cocaine into the US in the early 1990s.

They also highlighted Mike Levine's exposure of these CIA activities.

The head of the DEA at the time, Robert Bonner,

said that a ton of pure cocaine,

worth hundreds of millions of dollars,

had been smuggled into the United States.

And he blamed the CIA, saying the agency

had joined the Venezuela national guard in drug smuggling.

If it was a question of supporting people who supported

our economic and political philosophies in other parts of the world,

and they happen to be drug dealers, as most of them are,

we supported them and we protected them.

Blandon and Meneses were working for an army

that was a wholly owned subsidiary of the CIA.

They were meeting with CIA agents, Blandon...

And this came out in court, I mean,

Danilo Blandon is now a government witness.

[narrator] In 1991, former US Attorney General,

Ramsey Clark, who had worked under President Johnson,

said that he believes the government uses drugs

to sedate and divide the masses.

Certainly drugs directed into black communities divided whites and blacks.

Drug sales also led to gang wars over drug-selling turf.

Gangs led particularly violent wars over crack sales from the 1980s onward.

♪ And livin' in the ghetto got the joint insane ♪

♪ Why human hearts used to come along with the game ♪

[narrator] CIA assets worked with a dealer named Freeway Ricky Ross,

and helped him set up a national network

that grossed billions of dollars in selling crack.

Street gangs gained more members,

particularly in Ricky Ross' home area of Los Angeles.

The Bloods and the Crips were the biggest street gangs in LA,

and they notoriously fought each other over control of drug dealing turf.

Meanwhile, CIA whistleblower, John Stockwell,

stated how his former coworkers told him

they were now flying heroin from Afghanistan's Golden Crescent to America.

Without mention of the CI program and the secret war

you do pick up articles about the drug allocations

around the world are, and the Golden Crescent

is now the largest source of heroin apparently,

in the world today, right in there

where the CIA's being running this operation,

whether it's C-130s and C-123s

flying in with arms and flying out with the heroin.

♪ Satan's nature is our goal

♪ Seize your carrot seize my gold ♪

♪ Lick their chops enjoy your pain ♪

[lyrics indistinct]

[narrator] US intelligence's increase of opium cultivation in the Golden Crescent area

appeared to lead to more promotion in the US

to make demand for heroin match their supply of it.

Evidence supports that the CIA psychologically profiled rising musicians.

Nirvana lead singer, Kurt Cobain fit the bill

to inadvertently help promote heroin.

Cobain had a chronic stomach ailment, and he had stated in his diary,

having tried heroin a handful of times

for pain relief from 1987 to 1991,

In 1991, Nirvana had released their first major label album,

and it had a meteoric rise up the Billboard sales charts.

During that rise, Courtney Love entered Cobain's life

and according to at least two friends,

influenced Kurt Cobain to use heroin daily with her.

After she got pregnant with his kid early in their dating,

he married her with a prenuptial agreement.

In early April of 1994, an electrician found

Kurt Cobain dead in his Seattle home.

Within hours, police stated that Kurt Cobain

had committed suicide by shooting himself with a shotgun.

New York Times top-selling author, Ian Halperin,

and award-winning filmmaker, Max Wallace wrote two books

presenting evidence that Courtney Love aided someone killing Cobain.

Police whistleblowers said their supervisor

told them not to investigate Cobain's death as anything but a suicide,

despite evidence of foul play.

For example, Cobain's purported suicide note

appeared to have different handwriting at a place

where the note had only sounded like a goodbye to fans

because he was breaking up Nirvana.

Other band members confirmed Cobain was doing this.

[lyrics indistinct]

[narrator] A former police detective turned private detective,

Tom Grant, had been hired by Courtney Love

to investigate Cobain's purported disappearance.

Yet Grant ended up finding evidence

that Love aided in Cobain's murder.

Grant's copious evidence includes someone using

the credit card in Cobain's wallet after his death.

Furthermore, the coroner found an amount of heroin

in Cobain's system that would immediately

incapacitate and kill even a severe addict.

I just think that it's a staged suicide is what I think, that's the bottom line.

[male reporter] Wecht says there was enough heroin

in Cobain's system to kill five people.

All of the drug paraphernalia was put back

into his nice little cigar box.

The needle was taken off the syringe,

the tourniquet was taken off the arm, everything was placed

back in the cigar box neatly,

and then he proceeds to take a shotgun and kill himself.

It's highly unlikely.

[narrator] A docudrama, Soaked in Bleach,

presented expert interviews on Cobain's death,

supporting that Cobain was murdered.

The film also presented police foul play,

ranging from a two decades delay in developing

all of the death scene photographs,

to allowing the destruction of possible crime scene evidence.

Well, the photographs haven't been developed, probably never will be,

we don't develop photographs on suicides.

I have never heard of that,

Every case I've been involved with

the crime scene photographs were developed.

[narrator] The creators of the film,Soaked in Bleach,

found that the Seattle Police allowed Kurt Cobain's body

to be cremated six days after being discovered.

They waited 30 days to process the shotgun

found at the scene for fingerprints.

They gave Courtney Love the shotgun to have it melted down,

and they allowed the greenhouse crime scene

where Cobain was found dead to be torn down and destroyed.

The filmSoaked in Bleach, then presented expert witnesses

reporting their disbelief that Cobain used heroin and then shot himself.

[man] No study that I know of has correlated

the use of heroin with suicide.

I cannot think of a case in which I have had someone inject himself

with a large amount of heroin and then proceed to kill himself,

it just doesn't make sense.

♪ And when we leave from this world ♪

♪ We're born into another

[narrator] Several more aspects of Cobain's death

suggests US intelligence murdered the radical leftist,

Kurt Cobain, at a time when he was gaining sobriety.

First, Cobain had found a medical cure to his severe stomach pain,

for which he had previously used heroin.

A blood test a month before he died proved he had no drugs in his system

and had not been an active heroin addict.

[interviewer] How's your stomach?

Have you found anything to--

Oh... it's gone.

-Yeah? -Yeah.

I've finally been subscribed the right stomach medicine

after six years of being in constant pain.

Finally, I haven't had a stomach problem for, like, over a year now.

[narrator] Additionally, the only police detective

to defy his supervisor's orders and spend over 200 hours

looking for the source of the heroin,

Detective Antonio Terry, became the first

Seattle Police Officer murdered in nine years.

Detective Terry was able to convey that his assailants

new his route home from work, and knew he was a police officer,

before he died from his wounds.

And finally, Eldon El Duce Hoke,

an acquaintance of Courtney Love,

passed two polygraph tests on national TV,

stating that Courtney Love had offered him $50,000 to blow her old man's head off.

[interviewer] You did some deal with Courtney, right?

Yeah, she offered me 50 grand to whack Kurt Cobain.

[interviewer] Yeah, but, how were you gonna whack him, did she tell in how to do it?

Yeah, blow his fucking' head off, she had a shotgun.

[interviewer] So where were you gonna find him to do it?

Well, up there, she gave... mapped it out.

I mean, up there in Bellevue, wherever they live, right outside Seattle.

I know right where the house is, I know right what garden to pop him in.

I just didn't think she was serious.

[interviewer] But did she tell you how she wanted you to pop him?

Yeah, she says, "Blow his fuckin' head off, I got the shotgun."

[interviewer] But she didn't say anything about making it look like a suicide?

-Make it look like a suicide. -[interviewer] Well, yeah, but if you just blew

his brains out like you said, it wouldn't look like a suicide,

it'd look like you blew his brains out, right?

But I told Alan, I mean, my friend... [laughing]

I'll let the FBI catch him.

[interviewer] El Duce had passed a polygraph test.

[narrator] Eldon Hoke died several days

after the filming of these statements.

♪ And when we wake from this world ♪

♪ We're born into another

[narrator] Love's father, Hank Harrison,

said the extremely wealthy parents of Love's mother,

Linda Carol, helped take his daughter away from him

when she was about five years old, sending him into a depression.

Harrison said that Courtney found him again when she was a young teenager

trying to get out of a juvenile detention facility.

She said her childhood therapist had sex with her,

and gave her psycho-hypnotic medications.

After Hank Harrison got her out,

he found that she'd developed a drug addiction.

Award-winning journalist Melissa Rossi documented how Harrison also said Courtney

was prostituting herself as a teenager.

For example, when Courtney stayed with Harrison in Dublin

when she was 17-years-old, Hank said

she spent much of her time in Dublin hooking on the street.

Rossi also reprinted the contents of a letter from Courtney

to a boyfriend when she was about 20-years-old,

where Courtney said she prostituted herself,

apparently to earn money to get back to the boyfriend

while working in a strip club in Taiwan.

This was Courtney's second time working as a stripper

in an Asian country, as Rossi noted how Courtney

had previously worked at strip clubs for the Japanese mafia at about 15-years-old.

Several biographies have mentioned this.

Rossi said that Courtney told friends that she had been

part of the white slave trade while stripping in Japan.

Harrison said Courtney then visited him when he was doing research

in Dublin, Ireland, when she had just turned 17.

There she also met a new friend of Harrison's, Steven O'Leary.

Harrison said in his book, Love Kills,

that O'Leary later admitted to being a CIA agent

in a letter he wrote to Harrison on his death bed.

Harrison had said O'Leary died in the location and date verified in this obituary.

Harrison further said that Steve O'Leary, and his brother, Kevin,

took Courtney to Liverpool, England.

Courtney Love biographer, Melissa Rossi,

noted that Love carried a thousand hits of acid to Liverpool.

Love distributed the acid at various music scenes.

This duplicated MKUltra operations of the 1960s.

Love repeated these behaviors in Portland, Oregon,

Los Angeles, and other music scenes.

[Opperman] OK, and he openly told you that he worked for the CIA.

[Harrison] Later, he didn't at that time, no, but it was obvious.

But, no, at the time, he did not verbally tell me that

'cause he was under oath not to tell me, of course,

but later on, after he retired, he told me,

he wrote me a letter, and I have the letter.

[Opperman] Kevin Leary, when you mentioned Kevin Leary you said,

"Oh, he was high up in the CIA."

What was his duties in the CIA?

[Harrison] Well, he had superiority over his brother.

My daughter came along, Steve took care of her for me,

and got her safely to London, where she was then,

wound up in Liverpool, hangin' out with Scott and Ant...

[indistinct]

[narrator] The question remains, did Courtney Love's

relationship with the CIA continue up to the death of Kurt Cobain?

Her legal immunity and other evidence suggests it did.

♪ Raised in the ghetto off meeker means ♪

♪ Fightin' to survive here packed for the dreams ♪

[narrator] Evidence supports that in 1996, US Intelligence

manipulated and murdered another musical icon.

Entertainment megastar, Tupac Amaru Shakur.

Before his early death at the age of 25,

Tupac had produced enough songs for over a dozen CDs,

had five albums which topped the Billboard sales charts,

and had stared in six films.

Mainstream Media censored much of Tupac's history.

For example, at the age of 18, Tupac headed the New Afrikan Panthers,

which tried to replicate his mother's Black Panthers, and was active in eight cities.

Give that US intelligence whistleblowers

said their programs continued under different names,

it's clear Tupac would've been targeted as a leftist black leader.

[man] Now, we're speaking with brother Tupac Shakur

who was the national chairman of the New Afrikan Panthers.

My name is Bomani Bakari,

the program is indeed 'Round Midnight.

[Tupac] Uh, OK, if you, I believe that the new African Panthers

are about serious freedom, really reachin' out.

[narrator] Along with his mother, Afeni,

many other former Black Panthers,

including Watani Tyehimba,

mentored Tupac throughout his life.

Tyehimba was a co-founding national security director

of the New Afrikan People's Organization, NAPO,

and became Tupac's business manager.

NAPO's national chairman, Chokwe Lumumba,

became Tupac's national lawyer.

♪ Back for the dreams

[lyrics indistinct]

♪ I'm tired of hearin' my mama sobbin' cryin' the blues ♪

♪ Went to school in High Waters ♪

[narrator] Between the time of Tupac's first and second

solo CD release, Tupac, and his imprisoned stepfather,

Mutulu Shakur, devised their Thug Life plan

for Tupac to develop a gangsta persona as part of a plan

to appeal to gangs then politicize them.

This was part of Tupac's extended Panther family's work

at getting the nation's largest waring gangs,

the Bloods and the Crips, to call peace truces with each other

and engage in leftist activism.

The gang peace truces spread nationally,

and Tupac directly aided them, helping bring together

gang leaders at gang truce picnics.

Tupac and Mutulu also developed a Code of Thug Life

to help decrease the damage gangs do to their communities.

The Young Lords influenced New York's largest gangs,

the Latin Kings, to drop drug dealing and become activists.

The Code of Thug Life is a revolutionary document.

Go online and look at Tupac's Code of Thug Life,

he began to broker the peace between these gangs.

If gangs are allowed to flourish because they're doing

the job of the oppressor and in terms of eliminating

young black men, that's what neocolonialism is.

I don't have to come in as the oppressor in my uniform,

with my army, with my people who look different, and kill you and lock you up.

What I can do is create a psychological climate

of self-hatred, I can pour in the guns,

and pour in the drugs and step back and let you do it to yourselves,

and nobody is seeing where it's really coming from.

And so Fred Hampton got killed in Chicago for the same thing.

He had taken the Young Lords, the toughest, best organized, largest street gang,

Puerto Rican street gang in Chicago, and helped them become

a revolutionary organization called the Young Lords Party.

♪ Went to school in High Waters ♪

♪ We're crossin' the gang borders ♪

[lyrics indistinct]

[narrator] Catherine Austin Fitts, a Wall Street insider

who had also worked as assistant secretary of housing

under the first President George Bush,

detailed how vastly street drugs

prop up various corporate stocks.

She evolved politically and tried to expose this,

such as in this article inNarco News,

in which she details how several street level drug dealers

each make at least several hundred dollars a day,

250 days a year, equaling a net of at least

$100,000 a year for their supplier.

Fitts said this money is laundered by establishments

dealing in cash, these include restaurants and banks

who hide the cash in their accounting ledgers as money received legitimately,

and then return the money to the higher-level dealers

in a way that makes their money appear legally earned.

Fitts said that these banks and restaurant chains on the stock exchange

increase their stock values by 20 to 30 times, and turn a $100,000 profit

into a two to three million dollar profit of stock value.

Thus the radicalization of the 3,000-member Latin Kings alone,

cost the money launderers billions of dollars.

One of the ways that we finance the growth

of multinational corporations and big banks

and the rise of the Dow Jones, is by selling narcotics to our children.

It's one of the most profitable businesses in America.

And towards the end we were discussing the fact that the Department of Justice

estimates that the United States is the leader

in laundering organized crime profits of about

500 billion to a trillion dollars a year.

So, I asked the audience what would happen if we stopped

being the worldwide leader in laundering 500 billion

to a trillion a year, and they said,

"Well, you know, if we stopped, our mutual funds

would go down in price, the stock market would crash.

[narrator] President Bush, the former CIA director

had rallied massive federal forces

against the gang truce movement,

and researchers published evidence

that police framed gang peace truce leaders.

As this excerpt of Mike Davis' article in the New Left Review details.

Congress had also formed a committee looking into

the dangers of radical political rappers.

The prison system transferred Mutulu Shakur

into the country's most maximum-security prison

due to his influence through Tupac.

♪ Life as I knew it was about the grind ♪

♪ My pops is the pen just doin' his time ♪

[narrator] Several attempts were made on Tupac's life,

including two allegedly off duty Atlanta police officers

using a gun stolen from an evidence room to shoot at him.

Much evidence supports the Haitian, Jacques Agnant, was an undercover police agent,

including a long rap sheet of charges that were all dismissed.

Agnant set up Tupac's sexual liaison with Ayanna Jackson,

where she accused him of forced sex

on her second sexual encounter with him.

Police erased taped evidence helping exonerate Tupac.

While Tupac was found not guilty of all major charges,

a jury did find him guilty of touching her butt

against her will after consensual sex.

For that, a judge gave Tupac a sentence

of up to four years in prison while awaiting appeal in December of 1994.

US intelligence appeared to take a greater role

in manipulating Tupac during his 11 months in jail and 11 months out.

first they practiced penal coercion on him, which involved extreme

psychological manipulation techniques.

They coupled this with COINTELPRO tactics

to instigate the east coast versus west coast rap war

between Tupac and his rapper friend Biggie Smalls,

and they coerced him to join the music label,

Death Row Records, while still in jail.

♪ Lady Justice is blind, can't see our pain ♪

♪ Ain't do a damn thing when my brother was slain ♪

[narrator] Death Row had dozens of police officers

working at all levels of their company, particularly,

Reggie Wright Jr., whose father, Reggie Wright Sr.,

headed the Compton area's police gang division.

When investigating police detective Russell Poole

asked about the purpose of the police officers in Death Row Records,

his superiors said they could be considered covert agents.

Police reports stated that Death Row

trafficked drugs and guns but were never charged.

Death Row employees said Knight tried to end the gang peace truce,

and evidence supports Death Row aided the murder of Tupac.

Death Row also produced the most negative Tupac songs,

which promoted weed and alcohol,

while also exacerbating the East versus West rap war.

Georgetown Law Professor, Michelle Alexander, wroteThe New Jim Crow,

about how US intelligence has contributed to the mass incarceration

of blacks through long jail sentences

for non-violent drug offenses such as marijuana possession.

The following are excerpts from the award-winning

filmmaker Nick Broomfield's movie,Biggie and Tupac.

Broomfield presented Detective Poole's press conference

about his superiors blocking his investigation,

as well as his beliefs that his fellow cops aided in Tupac and Biggie's murders.

Detective Poole had presented reports

on Death Row's drug trafficking.

He also cited the police officers in Death Row,

including its security director,

former cop, Reggie Wright Jr.,

whose father headed a police gang division.

I provided the chief with enough information

and evidence that would warrant a full probe,

and at that meeting I was ordered not to investigate any further.

[reporter] Ex-detective Poole resigned after 18 years on the force

when he was prevented from investigating

fellow police officers whom he believed to be involved

in the murders of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur.

Because it was no secret that Death Row Records was involved in drug trafficking.

[reporter] Between 30 and 40 police officers,

some of whom are seen here, worked off duty for Death Row.

This is Reggie Wright Sr., Chief Gangs Officer.

I'm dealing with this man, Reggie Jr.,

seen here second left, has been running Death Row

since Suge Knight's been in prison.

♪ And how the hell it happened man, I can't explain ♪

♪ So Imma wipe away the tears

♪ Take over the game

[narrator] By the summer of 1996,

Tupac said he fulfilled his Death Row Records contract

and started his own record label, Euphanasia,

with its logo seen here on his medallion.

Tupac had further majorly decreased his drinking and weed smoking,

as noted here by rap mogul, Russell Simmons.

And he got engaged to Quincy Jones' daughter, Kidada,

A Death Row guard, Kevin Hackie,

who was also working for the FBI

apparently turned on the FBI

when he warned Tupac not to attend

a Mike Tyson boxing match

on September 7th, 1996 in Las Vegas.

Death Row fired Hackie immediately

after they learned about the warning.

Tupac went to Las Vegas and was shot

in a drive by incident after the fight.

Hackie said he had documents to prove the FBI were in Tupac's motorcade

and watched when a car pulled up to Tupac's in Las Vegas and fatally shot him.

Filmmaker Broomfield reported on US congressional concerns

about radical political rap several years before Tupac's death,

and on Hackie's statements that the FBI at least watched Tupac's murder.

[reporter] In 1993, a Senate select committee

was set up to look into the hip hop movement.

Fear of its inflammatory qualities led to FBI surveillance.

Hackie just informed us he was working

as an undercover FBI agent a year before Tupac was killed.

According to Hackie, FBI agents and ATN agents

were in cars just behind Tupac on the night he was shot.

[narrator] Former New York Black Panther 21 trial target,

Jamal Joseph, eventually became chairman

of the Columbia University Film Department

while staying close with Afeni and Tupac Shakur.

Joseph described his belief that Suge Knight and others at Death Row

influenced Tupac to start smoking weed again.

They appeared to do this for US intelligence

to both manipulate Tupac and then take him down

when he was leaving Death Row Records

to become a more sober and positive leader.

He also talked about the fact that he was gonna stop gettin' high,

and I know that when he got out that when he got into the car

on the way to the airport, Suge Knight was like,

"Man, here, have a drink. Here's a blunt."

Now, right away it's manipulation and a different agenda.

And so I think that there were people,

Suge Knight and other people, that took those things

and just go, like, "OK, we don't want him thinking clearly."

But, yes, I think he was targeted because he was a Shakur

and because they know connected with that name

was not just a legacy but the activism

and the ability to... to organize meetings.

[lyrics indistinct]

[narrator] Starting around the mid-1990s,

US intelligence appeared to push another drug, MDMA or Ecstasy.

MDMA's precursor drug MDA had been used

in the CIA's MKUltra experiments.

Many studies conducted in various countries

revealed that Ecstasy led to memory loss,

with even infrequent usage.

The apartheid South African government appeared to use

Ecstasy as a weapon against its black citizens.

The assistant to the head of South Africa's

chemical and biological warfare program said his boss,

Wouter Basson, directed him to manufacture a ton of Ecstasy.

The post-apartheid government charged Basson

with selling a thousand hits of Ecstasy

in South African black neighborhoods.

Investigators found that Basson's Ecstasy trafficking

went well beyond South Africa, as he collaborated

with military chemical warfare centers in the US and Britain.

[man] In 1999, Basson was brought to trial

for murder, fraud and drug smuggling.

Witnesses describe the horrors committed by Project Coast.

Investigators revealed how the program had used

private front companies, offshore bank accounts,

and worldwide intelligence connections.

-[man] You were able to visit Porton Down and Fort Detrick? -Yes, we did.

You know, I already have hassles

with the UK and American governments,

I don't need any more, thank you.

[man] Basson was confirming visits

to the main bioweapons labs in the west.

[narrator] The popular New York rap group, Wu-Tang Clan,

who were co-produced by black activist leader,

Sonny Carson, was also a target of a major

US intelligence operation involving the FBI and ATF.

A high-level mafia ecstasy kingpin, Michael Caruso,

was paid to go undercover inside Wu-Tang Clan.

Caruso inserted himself into the rap group,

becoming a personal manager for two of the group members.

He treated them to parties with drugs and beautiful women.

When theVillage Voice ran a cover story

exposing Caruso's mafia and US intelligence connections,

the Wu-Tang rappers immediately fired Caruso.

[hip hop music]

Besides appearing to spread Ecstasy among

the hip-hop generation in these and further ways,

US intelligence continued to wage war

against other children of leading Black Panthers,

who called themselves Panther Cubs.

Chicago Panther leader Fred Hampton's son,

Fred Hampton Jr., became head of the

International People's Democratic Uhuru movement in 1990.

He experienced at least several assassination attempts

and was convicted of aggravated arson in what

clearly appeared as a frame-up by police.

After serving nine years in prison,

Hampton founded the Prisoners of Conscience Committee, POCC.

[interviewer] Sir, introduce yourself,

tell us what's going on today

and what are your thoughts?

Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.,

Blank Panther Party Cubs, son of Chairman Fred Hampton,

as well as Akua Njeri, formerly known as Deborah Johnson.

In fact, she just went in just now.

This is not police brutality, it's police terrorism.

Let's be consistent with that. We gotta organize and be very clear.

There is a gang problem in this city,

and the worst gang in this city is Chicago Police Department.

[crowd talking over each other]

We gotta be consistent with that.

The police, in fact, the former superintendent

of Chicago police, Leroy Martin, himself said,

"The baddest gang in this city

is the Chicago Police Department."

They plant drugs on you, they do drive-bys, the whole deal.

We're not gonna get sidetracked what the police call it.

We're very clear. Ain't no war on drugs, no war on guns, no war on gangs.

It's war on our black asses, point blank.

[narrator] By the new millennium,

two new groups that received much attention

bore a strong resemblance to and had many

of the same links as the CIA MKUltra's Human Ecology Fund.

Officials in the Pentagon aided the new organization

the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies,

or MAPS, which had started in 1986.

The similar Heffter group started near that time and did similar work

with the help from the Rockefeller family.

People associated with both MAPS and the Heffter Institute

worked with William Leonard Pickard,

who with long-time paid US intelligence partner,

Gordon Todd Skinner, rose to become the top known

LSD trafficker by the new millennium.

Pickard manufactured ten million hits a month

in a decommissioned missile silo on Wamego, Kansas.

Pickard had previously met with the Brotherhood of Eternal Love's

top scientist, Tim Scully, in 1974.

["New Orleans" by ElectroCult Circus]

William Pickard had a dizzying array of connections

to universities, top government officials,

top military figures, and the British House of Lords.

Pickard regularly met with many MKUltra contractors

as well as receiving payments, at one time,

from the Drug Enforcement Agency in the 1980s.

Pickard had also manufactured MDMA or Ecstasy.

In November of 2000, some apparently honest

Drug Enforcement Agency officials arrested Pickard for his acid trafficking.

Most of Pickard's powerful associates went unpunished

for this acid trafficking, including his very wealthy

US intelligence agent partner, Gordon Todd Skinner,

as well as MAPS and Heffter-funded

Harvard Medical School professor, John Halpern,

who admittedly gave Pickard $299,000 in cash in 1998

with no explanation.

The international drug wars continue today in various other ways.

In 1991, President George H.W. Bush launched the Andean Initiative,

allocating 4.5 billion dollars, purportedly to eradicate

cocaine-producing coca crops in Colombia

and other Latin American countries.

President Bush called it an anti-drug campaign,

but coca production tripled from the time he launched it in the 1980s to 2000.

On September 11, 2001, planes flew into

the World Trade Center and an attack also occurred at the Pentagon.

President George W. Bush quickly blamed

Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda, and linked them

to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

Less than one month later, on October 2, 2001,

President Bush started the longest-running war

in American history in Afghanistan.

Since then, Afghanistan has become the largest

opium-producing area in at least 60 years.

Pictured here are American soldiers

in an Afghanistan opium-producing poppy field.

Professor Peter Dale Scott and other researchers

report that Bush's real reason for attacking

the Taliban in Afghanistan appeared to be the Taliban's eradication

of their opium-producing poppy fields in 2000.

In 1999, Afghanistan supplied 5,000 tons of heroin annually,

or 70 to 75% of the world's heroin.

In June of 2001, theNew York Times

and theWashington Post printed articles confirming

that the Taliban's ban on opium production that year

virtually wiped out 70% of the world's illicit opium production.

The only people in Afghanistan that continued production

were a small CIA-funded group called the Northern Alliance,

who produced about 185 tons of opium during that ban.

By 2007, after six years of the US war on Afghanistan,

opium production rose to over 8,000 tons,

nearly doubling any previous production.

ANew York Times article discussed how the US installed Northern Alliance leader,

Hamid Karzai, as president,

while his brother, Ahmed Karzai,

had been on the CIA payroll for eight years

and the White House believed Ahmed was involved in drug trafficking.

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In September of 2011, a group of activists

that called themselves "Occupy Wall Street"

protested in the park across from New York's Wall Street financial district.

They started chanting the notion that most Americans

are the 99% of the population

from which the 1% wealthiest are stealing.

The Occupy movement spread around the country,

and US intelligence began targeting them in various ways.

In 2012, activist videographers released footage

of their investigation of what they deemed

MK Occupy Minnesota, with a clear reference to CIA's MKUltra.

They found that police intelligence bribed

Minneapolis Occupy activists to smoke potent weed,

along with the potentially psychosis-causing Spice and K2.

Then they interrogated these activists

about other Occupy activists, and offered them bribes

to become police informants on the Occupy movement.

The police officers involved were found to be

part of a national drug recognition program

active in 49 states and Canada.

The program was at least stopped in Minnesota after the MK Occupy film

spawned many more investigative disclosures.

One of these disclosures cited by CBS News

was that 190 officers at 85 Minnesota agencies

are drug recognition trained officers.

[man speaking]

"We know who you are. We know that you're panned in,

that you're deep into the Occupy movement."

I was like, "Dang, am I that infamous in the system?"

They gave me a quarter or more... of marijuana

and... if I said I would become an informant.

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[narrator] In the arena of opium and money laundering,

Bloomberg News reported that by 2013,

JPMorgan Chase was the largest bank in the world.

John Pierpont Morgan was a descendant of the Pierpont family,

that had intermarried with the Russell family, the top American opium traders.

In 2013, President Obama's administration

fined JPMorgan Chase Bank over two billion dollars

for not safeguarding against money laundering and other illegal practices.

Europe's largest bank, HSBC, had a record-breaking

money laundering settlement with the Obama administration in 2013,

yet was allowed to keep its enormous profits. No one went to jail.

That year, HSBC was the world's third largest bank

and sixth largest public company.

HSBC stands for Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation

and a Scottish lord founded it in 1865

with the help of his opium trading profits.

[man] Hong Kong grew at an astonishing rate.

A new bank was founded to service the China trade,

the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.

We know it as HSBC.

[narrator] So two of the three largest banks

in the world gained their start from opium shipping money.

As detailed earlier, evidence supports that America

fought its two longest wars in the Golden Triangle area

next to Vietnam, and at the other end of that Himalayan

mountain range in the Golden Crescent of Afghanistan,

starting in 2002 over opium.

In October of 2017, Newsweek Magazine reported

that under President Trump administration orders,

the US military dropped more bombs on Afghanistan that September

than dropped in any other month in the previous seven years.

Their drug wars continue while more and more activists are rising up to stop them.

["Melanoma" by ElectroCult Circus]

-[song ends] -[hip hop music]

♪ Power to the people, heard that before ♪

♪ Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

♪ Got no more blood to give any y'all ♪

♪ Let go of Mutulu Shakur

♪ Power to the people, heard that before ♪

♪ Free Mumia Abu-Jamal

♪ Got no more blood to give any y'all ♪

♪ Keep your hands off Posada

[lyrics indistinct]

[hip-hop music]

♪ All the pain in playin' the game ♪

♪ Tryin' to make a dollar bill outta some change ♪

♪ The ghetto's for me everywhere is the same ♪

♪ I'm tryin' to forget

[lyrics indistinct]

♪ Raised in the ghetto off meeker means ♪

♪ Fightin' to survive here... [lyrics indistinct]

♪ My mission was a mission which weighed and moved ♪

♪ I'm tired of hearin' my momma sobbin' cryin' the blues ♪

♪ Went to school in High Waters ♪

♪ We're crossin' the gang borders ♪

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