I saw this today on Twitter. Apparently the newly-released material is the result of the tenacious efforts of John Greenewald and his amazing Black Vault website. Here’s a link to the Black Vault archive for CIA mind control programs, including MK-ULTRA.
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MK-ULTRA Settlement in the News
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) recently ran this headline (both the title and sub-title are noteworthy): Federal government quietly compensates daughter of brainwashing experiments victim Lawsuit filed after The Fifth Estate re-aired documentary about Dr....
Not Your Typical Mainstream Media Yuck-fest: Newsweek Special Edition on the Search for Alien Life
Alejandro Rojas has a short description of the recent special edition of Newsweek. Here’s his first paragraph: Newsweek recently released a special edition magazine titled Life Beyond Earth? The Mission to Find the Answer, and while one might expect it to be...
Sleep Paralysis and Alien Abduction
A few months ago my PEERANORMAL podcast did an episode on the phenomenon of sleep paralysis. As is our format, I and the other hosts read several peer-reviewed articles about the topic and discussed them. Below is an article we didn’t discuss, as the episode...
Review of The Greys Have Been Framed: Exploitation in the UFO Community
I’ve been intending to review Jack Brewer’s book, The Greys Have Been Framed: Exploitation in the UFO Community , for some time now. I’ve linked to some of Jack’s research posted on his blog The UFO Trail before. Jack has devoted considerable...
Short Summary of an Episode in UFO Infamy: the Paul Bennewitz Affair
I’ve often referred to the Bennewitz affair in conversation about how certain U.S. government agencies and personnel are not above using UFO believes as tools to perpetuate a UFO narrative they find useful (read: a useful myth designed to misdirect away from...
The Betty and Barney Hill Case: More Reasons to Disbelieve
Robert Schaeffer’s recent post on the Hill case is worth a close read: Dr. Simon Reveals his Real Thoughts on the Hill “UFO Abduction” Case. In the post Schaeffer provides new documentation as to the inconsistencies of the Hill testimony, including...
U. S. Mind Control Programs, UFOs, and Alleged Alien Abductions: A Cold War History Lesson
Honestly, folks, this piece by Jack Brewer at the UFO Trail is one of the best things you’ll ever read on this topic. Psy Ops and Mind Control: Then, Now and the UFO Community It’s a telling history of how these odd subjects are inextricably related,...
Hypnosis in Interrogation: A CIA Paper
Hat tip to Jack Brewer at the UFO Trail for this item. Very interesting. The link above leads to a paper on the CIA website. The paper is marked: ” “APPROVED FOR RELEASE: CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM: 22 SEPT 93.” The paper sections are: Nature of...
Alien Abductions Round-Up
That’s probably the best way to characterize what’s been going on with Jack Brewer and microbiologist Dr. Tyler Kokjohn. Both have posted recently about the questionable methodology (that’s being kind) of Budd Hopkins, one of the more famous names...
Alien Abductee Testimony About Telepathic Messsaging from Aliens
I’ve long been skeptical of this claim. I can remember back when writing The Facade reading articles about how the military-industrial complex was working on electronic means to convey messages directly to a person’s auditory mechanisms or brains....
The Elephant in the Alien Abduction Research Room: Methodological Integrity
In another excellent piece on the UFO Trail blog, Jack Brewer takes the issue of the use of hypnosis in alien abduction research head-on. The post is another example of why, if you care about thinking clearly about matters ufological, you should be reading his blog. A...
CIA, Mind Control, Alien Abduction: Addendum
I recently blogged about Jack Brewer’s series on government mind controls programs and their potential overlap with alien abduction reports. As Facade readers know, mind control was one of the sub-threads in the novel. That previous post pointed readers to two...
Alien Abduction, Contact, and Mind Control
Jack Brewer over at The UFO Trail has begun a two-part series on the CIA’s mind-control programs. UFO Religions readers (and Facade fans) will want to read Part One, along with an earlier essay on John Marks, the researcher who blew the lid off the secrecy. John...
Betty Hill’s Star Map vs. Real Astronomy
From time to time I see the idea of actual intelligent ET visitation defended on the basis of the Betty and Barney Hill abduction -- specifically, on the basis of the "star map" that Betty Hill allegedly saw while on board the alien space ship during her abduction....