Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The CIA, the Riddler, "Limited Hangout," and "Seek Ye the Truth . . ."



Torture - mind & body - in the Home of the Brave.

The natives seem to have gotten restive again, inasmuch as my e-mail has become replete with objection after objection, comment after comment, and question after question concerning what I’ve had to say regarding the World Trade Center and “9-11.” However often I remind readers that my principle interest in the horror story of September 11, 2001 is not the matter itself, but how the public reasons and debates concerning it and issues the like, it is all to no avail. Once a small mind has decided it knows something, it won’t change; and matters like the WTC remind me of something columnist Sidney Harris once said:

“Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.”

Now that I think of it, Harris also observed that ignorance itself is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance. Stupidity, like insanity, often prevents its victim from realizing that something is amiss, let alone helping himself.

One thing most salient where the WTC debate is concerned is that, whereas in every other instance where I have anything to say critical of the left I am a neo-conservative three clicks to the right of Attila the Hun, and I am a bleeding-heart liberal whenever I say anything negative concerning the right, I am criticized roundly from both extremes where the World Trade Center attack is concerned.

Interesting, what?

During all my commentary on issues like anthropogenic global warming (and pollution – why the two things are never mentioned in the same context strikes me as very suspicious), the war in Iraq, “9-11,” and the like, I have discussed again and again the indisputable, widely published, fact of Operation Mockingbird. Operation Mockingbird, for those who haven’t been too obsessed during their lives with matters like “9-11,” is the Central Intelligence Agency operation by which the federal government seized and maintains control of the nations’ media and information. Operation Mockingbird was, by no mere co-incidence, born during the same CIA administrations as programs like MKULTRA, MKCHAOS, and others the infamous like – all aimed at what a Fletcher School instructor would one day term “the necessity . . . “to deceive, confuse, and bewilder the U.S. public” . . . “in order to both maintain law and order, and provide for national security.”

As the 1973 Church Hearings disclosed, the government of the Land of the Free has been intensely interested – one might fairly say “devoted” – to control of the public’s mind and, therefore, functioning as a democracy - since the end of World War Two.

“Project CHATTER” was instigated by the US Navy late in 1947. Project Chatter was directed toward identifying agents both synthetic and natural - anabasis aphylla (an alkaloid), scopolamine and mescaline, among others -.that were effective during interrogation (we don’t torture people, remember?). Fascinatingly enough, the reason given by the Navy for halting the project was “the success of other projects.”

“Waterboarding,” maybe? That was, remember, 1947.

Project BLUEBIRD was a CIA mind control program, for which the U.S. authorized experiments to be conducted by licensed psychiatrists. The experiments sought “means to affect, alter, or destroy the mind by creating new identities, inducing amnesia, inserting hypnotic access codes in subjects' minds, creating multiple personalities, and creating false memories.”

Parenthetically, the research also included placing brain electrodes in people and controlling their behavior from remote transmitters, administering daily dosages of LSD-25 to children for extended periods of time, and using electroconvulsive therapy to erase memories (two U.S Army veterans I assisted during my personal war with the U.S. of America - Land of the Free and Home of the Brave – were victims of “Bluebird” experiments).

Project ARTICHOKE was a CIA project spun off Project BLUEBIRD, this one researching interrogation methods. Artichoke was an offensive program of mind control that gathered together the intelligence divisions of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and FBI. A CIA memo dated January, 1952 puts the lie to any double talk like that concerning “waterboarding,” asking the question, "Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self preservation?" ARTICHOKE studied hypnosis, forced addiction to morphine and other chemicals, subsequent forced (“cold turkey”) withdrawal, among other methods, to produce amnesia and other vulnerable states in the Home of the Brave’s victims.

“Cold Turkey” from morphine, heroine, or cocaine addictions isn’t torture? Do tell!

In 1953 (April 20), ARTICHOKE became Project MKULTRA. Project MKULTRA was the new code name for CIA mind-control research programs. Let’s not forget that ironically the CIA – Central Intelligence Agency – was, in turn, the new agency of the military industrial complex corporations who were in the process of seizing control of the U.S.

Digraphs like MK, incidentally, designate responsibility for various CIA programs and operations. “MK” means the agency's Technical Services Division, followed by the arbitrary dictionary word ULTRA. My own code name was at one time AMSHRIKE. “AM” indicated operations against Cuba; later, matter of fact, when operations against Fidel Castro were given the same name as that which arose from my SWAT concept – it was originally dubbed cynically by the dis-believing, “the Mongoose Trick” – a CIA officer came up a preposterous story in order to cover the fact. In my book “Letters to Aaron, the Hal Luebbert Story,” I observed:

“Nevertheless, the Company is the Company. When it was somehow obliged to explain why the plot to kill Fidel Castro was code named Mongoose a few years ago, the CIA reported that a colonel named Lansdale had randomly selected the letters for unused cryptonym letters in the agency’s code lexicon. As I pointed out to my son during the time his therapy included writing to me, the odds against that being coincidence were about the same as the odds against randomness of selection. I explained to Aaron that the number of eight letter arrangements, words, that Lansdale could have picked from the alphabet is the mathematical combination 26C8 = 26!/8!(26-8)! = 1,526,275. Only one of those possible words is “mongoose,” and there are 8!/4!3! = 280 ways to arrange those letters, making the probability of random selection equal to 1,562,275 times 280, or 437,440,000 to one.”

For other examples of CIA cryptonyms, go to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_cryptonym

Project MK-ULTRA became famous when in 1973, the U.S. Congress in the form of the Senator Frank Church Committee and a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission published fourteen reports on U.S. intelligence agencies, their operations and abuses of the law and of power they had committed. The Church committee and Rockefeller Commission were the precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a “limited hangout” by the U.S. Congress and White House, intended at the deception by confusion and bewilderment of the U.S. public Project MKULTRA had sought in the first place. Although the CIA subsequently insisted that MKULTRA-type experiments had been abandoned, recent events not only betray the CIA and federal government “limited hangout” that was the Church Hearings, they make the one-time observation of James J Angleton, now deceased former CIA Director of Counter-Intelligence, still meaningful:

“Deception,” Angleton observed, “is a state of mind. And deception is the mind of the state.”

“We do not torture,” President Bush declared recently in Panama City, that in response to reports of secret CIA prisons overseas, and the use of “techniques” like “waterboarding.” “We don’t torture . . .” not unless you mean the language. Anybody remember Orwell? “Newspeak?” How about “doublespeak?”

Well their motto IS, “Seek ye the truth . . .,” and the Church report says, “Drugs were used primarily as an aid to interrogations, but MKULTRA/MKDELTA materials were also used for harassment, discrediting, or disabling purposes.”

Need I add emphasis?

Now’s a good time to remind yourself again of that “We don’t torture” quote by the honorable George W. Bush, President of the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave. “Drugs were used primarily . . . for disabling purpose.” Not torture.

If you can believe that, and still believe you haven’t been affected by your deceiving government’s efforts to control your mind and opinion, you are proof positive of what you refuse to believe.

Let’s also recall – it’s in that “limited hangout” record, even – that those 1975 “hearings” also disclosed attempts to assassinate foreign leaders like Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, the Diem brothers of Vietnam, Gen. René Schneider of Chile; and, of course President John F. Kennedy's plan to use the Mafia to kill Fidel Castro of Cuba. Outright murder, but not torture.

May I ask why none of us has heard – not once - through all of today’s “waterboarding” dialectic, nothing about the infamous “School of the Americas?” How is it that during all the discussion of “interrogation techniques,” no one has mentioned the CIA’s KUBARK? "KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation," to be more specific. “Counterintelligence Interrogation” describes techniques including, among other things, "coercive counterintelligence interrogation of resistant sources". This 1963, Home of the Brave manual, describes “we don’t torture” methods like electric shock, and – big surprise here – “waterboarding.”

If I mention again Project MOCKINGBIRD, do you think you’ll recognize anything familiar? No, I don’t suppose – another proof of validity where what I’m saying here is concerned.

Remember “limited hangout?” A “limited hangout” is a deception, misdirection, or cover-up involving "mea culpa" type confession of a small part of previously secret information, that in order to establish credibility for the one “fessing up.” By releasing the information the person or group confessing appears to be "coming clean" – even acting with integrity; while in actuality he withholds the truly damning, critical, and indictable facts of deeper crime in order to protect himself and/or those who could be exposed were whole truth to be revealed. “Limited hangout” is typically a responsive effort intended to lower the heat being raised by investigators pursuing evidence that threatens to expose something like MKULTRA.

That includes the torture of our own soldiers - or have you forgotten already?

The “limited hangout” is all but invariably combined with distractions, miss-directions, subterfuges, red herrings, and other propaganda techniques; and if you’re astute enough to be thinking about the Nancy Grace, Greta Van Susteren, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and their haranguing harpy sisters’ “rape of the day,” or lurid celebrity news - bilgewater garbage concerning such nationally critical figures as Britney Spears - you may be catching on. The “hangout” also leads to false trails, distractions, or ideological disinformation - all, of course, intended to permit the government and/or its agency to continue their nefarious activities.

A former CIA agent, one Victor Marchetti, wrote in the seventies: "A 'limited hangout' is spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting - sometimes even volunteering - some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further."

I hope you’re paying attention, attention sufficient to recognize those “clandestine professionals” as the military industrial complex and its current crop of “assets” otherwise known as the U.S. Congress.

It was during the same time as MKULTRA – you DO remember what that was intended to accomplish? – that Project MOCKINGBIRD was launched. MOCKINGBIRD was designed to do to the nation’s mind just what MKULTRA and its spin-offs were designed to do to mind and mentality of the individual. MOCKINGBIRD, like MKULTRA and all the rest, had its “spin-offs,” too - Project NORTHWOODS, for instance.

It happens that Chris, a friend who is CEO of a domestic security agency, asked succinctly (“What do you know about . . .?”) today what I knew of Operation Northwoods. My reply (paraphrased slightly for privacy and security [why the general reader never relates those two, either – speak loudly concerning the tactics, purpose, and success of MOCKINGBIRD]) was as follows:

“There were three. The first had to do with infiltration into the U.S. (at first Alaska, then we realized the Soviets weren't interested much in Alaska but in a kind of “outpost” maneuver area – practice, that is, for infiltration of Spetsnaz into the continental U.S.). We already knew (Senator Joseph McCarthy [for whom a friend of mine named Chichester did covert ops]) about "the Trust" - Soviet agents who were the children of immigrants here from Russia right after the revolution and now insinuated into all levels of our government and military). The idea was to covertly (we did) hunt down both Spetsnaz and "Trust" agents and kill them.

“That, as you know, was one of the things I was recruited and trained to do.

“The second Operation ‘Northwoods’ (1961) was the CIA ‘lemonade from lemons’ operation intended to use the original Soviet operation as an excuse to justify the same kind of operations by the CIA (and U.S. Government) against the U.S. public, partially by ‘limited hangout,’ partially as part of Operation Mockingbird – pretend, in other words, that the media were part of Soviet "Trust" ops against the U.S. and rid the government of people in the media still desirous of reporting the truth. ‘Deceive, confuse, and bewilder’ (the way a Fletcher School "wonk" put it), in order to achieve control of the U.S. public impossible (according to the Fletcher School man) by using conventional - law and police - methods.

“Several operations were, in turn, ‘spun off’ Northwoods, one being the Nixon Administrations Sandwedge (remember Daniel Ellsburg?) and others in turn spun off that (the Reagan White House’s variation on the Soviet Union’s ‘disinformation,’ for instance. COINTELPRO, for another instance, was FBI - but it used agents (‘narcs,’ for instance), plans, NSA technology, plans, etc. from Mockingbird and Northwoods.
“Northwoods Three, you might call it, started with the FISA (1978 - actually begun in 1975), and has thus far culminated in the Patriot Act. Interesting about this is the fact that while the public (foremost, all the Web blabberers) are concerned with the first level of the eavesdropping ("limited hangout" working exactly as intended), the real threat is the Northwoods effect. Access to your private actions, thoughts, etc - permits the government to sow massive confusion ("deceive, confuse," etc) in one's life and associations. They can, for instance, relatively easily make any group spastic, ineffective in its operations.

“It's fascinating that you should have asked this THIS morning. Rita and I discussed it all the way home from having visited her folks during the weekend. When a guy on TagWorld last night defended federal eavesdropping - cameras everywhere - I wrote him a note to reflect that I wished he could have walked a while in my shoes while the government was even using Northwoods techniques and technology to interfere with ATM transactions whenever I tried to get cash (it ruined, made impossible, my last "gig" for Smith Legacy Security, matter of fact).

“Amigo, I have to stop right here with any more Northwoods or Mockingbird discussion because certain parts of it are still classified information I got during my covert retaliation against the government’s tapping of my phones, burglarizing my house, etc.. Next time I see you, I'll fill you in on everything I know (which is damned near all of it, right down to names of some of the people).

“Hal”

Before I could conclude with my discussion of MKULTRA-like projects like Operation Mockingbird, Operation Northwoods, and the others, my friend Chris brought me up short with another question. He asked about “Loose Change,” a Website reaping the capitalist rewards of public sensation related “9-11” and the World Trade Center. I wrote:

“Chris,

“Loose Change is utter balderdash, more of the opportunist stuff intended to exploit “9-11” for money. I've written a great deal about it all, inasmuch as each new Web forum I go to invariably has a new cult worshipping the gods of conspiracy theory. I've also written a lot about it on my site www.judoknighterrant.com "Mongoose Trick" opinion page.

“The latest dialogue has been on TagWorld, another place from which I've gotten massive amounts of sociological, psychological, and statistical data concerning this sort of Northwoods and Mockingbird control of public opinion and mentality.

“Rita and I are as a matter of fact discussing how one might combat by way of education federal seizure of the public's mind and opinion. That's due the fact that so much of the Mockingbird, Northwoods, Sandwedge, MKCHAOS federal operations against the public, our collective thought processes, and our democratic form of government depend upon and are intended to create and ensure ignorance in the form of abject inability to reason effectively on one's own behalf.

“The Mockingbird and Northwoods people - and the people they have in turn deceived - spread rumor. When any of the conspiracy theorists on the Web can be persuaded to so much as attempt (most have no real idea how to do that) to document his claims, he refers you invariably to another site which does the same thing he is doing - like "Loose Change," for instance. You can't obtain a single piece of hard, mathematical, scientific, or logical data - just more pompous, pontificating and bloviating hearsay. I have checked each and every claim made by "Loose Change" and others: not a single fact that holds up against scientific and forensic investigation. Not one!

“Oh, now and then something sounding scientific is woven through the cloth of it all, but always it is a law of physics or the like that is logically detached from the subject domain of discourse - an irrelevant conclusion, in other words. Josef Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda, wrote a great deal about it all, you know. ‘In effective propaganda,’ he said, ‘there must always appear a grain of truth. You must, of course, speak to the stupidest in your audience, because others will quickly see that what you prove is really irrelevant to your topic.’ There's more, but each time I look at the “controlled demolition” delusion, I think of Goebbels and Hitler.

“Adolf, you know, said, ‘If you would move the broadest mass of any people, you must tell them the biggest and stupidest lies. The people will fall prey more easily to a big lie than to a little one.’ The difference here is that massive communication technology like the Web lets each person the propagandists have hornswoggled become yet another propagandist – and, unlike heretofore in history, the exponential succession of dupes results in a really massive propaganda effort.”

I signed the letter before remembering what intelligence people refer to as a “false flag.” A “false flag” operative is one who appears to be one thing while indeed being another. False flag operations are those conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, and are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by someone other than the deceivers. The “false flag” appears to be doing one thing while he is in reality doing another. Pretty simple.

Pretty simple until you realize that the “false flag” may not realize that he, too, is being deceived. Among the false flag operatives like those of Project MOCKINGBIRD and NORTHWOODS are those referred to as “pull-toy” and “wind-up” (toy) “assets.” The “pull-toy” is an individual so easily led - so far right or left wing, for instance – that he can be made to do things detrimental to his own cause, simply by virtue of his zealous need to act, to DO something. The “wind-up” is another “false flag” extremist, this one so demented by the fervor of his creed that he can be triggered into action merely by the excitement of someone ranting like he, himself, does.

If that, again, reminds anyone of the “controlled demolition” theorists declaiming about the World Trade Center and “9-11,” you are far removed from those of your countrymen who are being duped by both the “Loose Change” theorists and their brethren, and the U.S. Government who is, in turn, duping them (and the nation).

So. We have a primer in that deception that is the mind of the state. A primer, however, will serve only to alert those well-intentioned and caring enough about their country to realize that they have been victimized by that “deceive, confuse, and bewilder” tactic I spoke of earlier here. The “craft of intelligence,” as it has been called, is one like that of crime detection, forensic medicine, physical science, mathematics, propositional logic, epistemology, or the like. A little knowledge is a dangerous – often self-destructive – thing, one best left to those who have devoted many years to learning.

It is the stuff from which witch-hunts and lynchings are made.

But there is also an old writing, one called The Book. In it, the man we know as Jesus (not his name, actually – and there’s still another lesson apropos of this one) said, “Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves . . . By their fruits ye shall know them.”

Has anybody checked the fruit – or “fruits” - lately?

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