Mind Control, LSD, KKK Informants: What The Church Committee Revealed About The Weaponization Of Federal Agencies

In January, the House was dominated by Republicans Announced the formation A new committee was formed to examine the weaponization of government agencies. The FBI The CIAFor potential abuses against American citizens.

The “The” “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” The new committee will try to find the truth about things such as the FBI’s connection Russia collusion hoax: what it knows about February 6 Capitol breach Targeting apparent Pro-life activists Its handling The Hunter Biden laptop and its relationship with tech companies such as Twitter, among other concerns.

The commission’s supporters have compared the newly formed body with a tiger. The Church Committee in the 1970s, which revealed a multitude of serious abuses by the NSA, FBI and CIA. The Church Committee was Header Sen. Frank Church (D.I.D.) was the one who initiated it and it began in January 1975.

The committee searched through hundreds of There are thousands of pages Many documents were later classified or made public. 

The findings of the commission about the operations and plans of the intelligence community led to the passing of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. This Act sets a fixed term limit for FBI director, prohibits political assassinations and creates permanent congressional intelligence committees.

But much of what senators say is true Alarming facts were discoveredMany programs were particularly notable.

These are the five most outrageous charges against the intelligence agency. 

MK-ULTRA

The MK-ULTRA program was perhaps the most well-known intelligence operation that was discovered during the Church Committee. It involved the CIA trying to master mind control techniques and experimenting using LSD on unwitting subjects. 

The evidence was apparently so damning that outgoing CIA Director Richard Helms worked with CIA chemist Sydney Gottlieb, who headed the program, to destroy evidence of the project’s work in the early 1970s before the program was reportedly shuttered.

“Gottlieb wanted to create a way to seize control of people’s minds, and he realized it was a two-part process,” Stephen Kinzer is a journalist and the author of “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control,” NPR In a 2017 interview. “First, you had to blast away the existing mind. Second, you had to find a way to insert a new mind into that resulting void. We didn’t get too far on number two, but he did a lot of work on number one.”

Kinzer says Gottlieb arranged to have the CIA buy the world supply LSD in 1950s. This was then distributed to hospitals and prisons as well as other research institutions for research on the effects of LSD. 

“The CIA actually hired the vivisectionists and the torturers who had worked in Japan and in Nazi concentration camps to come and explain what they had found out so that we could build on their research,” Kinzer explains. 

U.S. Involvement in Foreign Assassinations

The Senate investigated whether the U.S. attempted or had tried to assassinate leaders of other countries with which it was not at war. According to one Report From the committee, the “evidence establishes that the United States was implicated in several assassination plots.”

Senators, for instance, said that they had “strong evidence” The U.S. was implicated in a plot against Patrice Lumumba (prime minister of Congo), who was assassinated on 11/11/61. (13) One official testified that President Dwight Eisenhower authorized the assassination.

Another favorite target of the CIA was Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro, with one proposal appearing to involve poisoning a box of Castro’s favorite cigars (71-73). Other plots and assassination ideas were also discovered by the investigators, which they described in a 300-page report. 

The senators concluded their discussion. Noted It was noted that there was no U.S. policy at the time against assassinations and that it should be avoided “an instrument of American policy.”

Surprisingly, this source came from the intelligence committee has claimed That the agency was “involved” Tucker Carlson of Fox News reports that President John F. Kennedy was killed. 

COINTELPRO

COINTELPRO was an FBI program Operation This involved informants and FBI agents infiltrating extremist groups. The Church Committee condemned aspects of the operation as violating the First Amendment. Descriptive The program is “covert action” American citizens against American citizens equals operations a country would use during war.

“In these programs, the Bureau went beyond the collection of intelligence to secret action designed to ‘disrupt’ and ‘neutralize’ target groups and individuals. The techniques were adopted wholesale from wartime counter intelligence, and ranged from trivial (mailing reprints of ‘Reader’s Digest’ articles to college administrators) to the degrading (sending anonymous poison-pen letters intended to break up marriages) and the dangerous (encouraging gang warfare and falsely labeling members of a violent group as police informers),” The Church Committee was founded. 

According to the report, more than 2000 COINTELPROs were found.