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HomeMy WebLinkAbout25-Handout Dru2 War-Real War Why are we involved in this quote "Drug War" and why is the government misrepresenting its own research to promote it? Is the Institutional corruption "State Organized Crime" associated with the Drug War a greater threat to our democracy and National Security than the black market drugs themselves? Do profits from black markets finance domestic intelligence operations? Can we end this war without a bloodbath? This web site, Drug War / Real War addresses these questions honestly and proactively. The book, Drug War Economics: The Machine Behind the Madness is also available on this site. It is a brutally honest assessment of America's drug policy and the Institutional Corruption that dictates public policies on a global scale. The first chapter is included at this site. As well. As the life cycle of this war runs its course, state organized repression (an escalating cycle of violence) will become a more dominate factor in our lives. The driving force behind this war is not just the addictive nature of these drugs. The drug addict is only the cattle in the bigger picture. The real addicts in this war are our intelligence communities and the power structure itself. They became addicted to the illegitimate power and the revenues the "black markets" and the "Drug War" created. They used (1) "black Market" drugs to destabilize communities and governments; (2) the revenues these black markets generated for access to power; (3) Finally, the power to criminalize their competitors and consolidate political control over communities and eventually nations. What started off as off budget funding of domestic and foreign intelligence operations ended up the corrupt power base that dominates our political parties, institutions and most world governments. It is time to ask these questions (1) What are the power brokers willing to do to protect this power base? (2) Where is this war headed? (1) I have studied and witnessed the destruction the Drug War Economy has used in the acquisition and maintenance of power in the global community. I have no evidence to conclude, the Drug War Economy will be less viscous when defending the status quo and their own heads. An early example of the Drug War Economy in action was the CIA funded Phoenix Program during the Vietnam War. The Phoenix Program included the systematic assassination of over 35,000 South Vietnamese civilians during the war. This CIA program was financed with revenues from the heroin trade and turned 100s of thousands of Americans into heroin addicts. Once the trade routes and markets were established, our intelligence community became addicted to the money, the drugs and the illegitimate power those markets created. The 1980s was more of the same, with Cocaine Wars in Central and South America, but on a much larger scale. Democratic governments such as Bolivia, fell to Nacro Generals with loyalty to our intelligence community. The conquest continues. b/;;.io3 :::t-t-- ~ S- .' (2) Where is this war headed? Straight to hell. Foreign intelligence agencies are acquiring greater control over black market drug supplies in America. The drugs destabilize the host nation and the revenues finance access to political power or terrorist operations inside our own borders. The costs associated with our prison industry deny critical infrastructure investments in legitimate domestic alternatives. This escalating cycle of violence is self perpetuating. If we do not end this war (if that is even possible) our landscape will be littered with scenes like Waco, Oklahoma City and the Twin Towers. Before it is over, many millions will have died in the conflict and the institutions defining civil society will be gone. This is not the ravings of a Madman, I wish it was. It is just the honest assessment of the history of the Drug War Economy and the history of the corrupt regimes the Black Markets / Drug War created. DRUG WAR ECONOMICS: THE MACHINE BEHIND THE MADNESS and this site also set several logical guidelines for the use of violence to end this war. Several of those guidelines are capital crimes under Federal anti terrorism statutes and state legislated criminal codes. Unfortunately, the criminals are rogue assets of domestic intelligence networks and corrupt government officials. Violence is also assessed as a legitimate option when this statement is true. "When the people in power cannot step down because the skeletons in their closets will cost them their heads, they will leave in cuffs or they will leave in a box." The final question, can we end this war without a bloodbath? Probably not. A lot will depend on whether American troops, when given the order, will fire on American citizens or turn their guns on the oppressors. Another possibility is open hostility in the law enforcement communities, the military and our intelligence communities to the power brokers that feed and profit from this mess. I hope law enforcement, the military and our intelligence community aren't offended by this statement but, we will probably get more justice in a crack pipe. I would sure like to see them prove me wrong. In closing, if you are in law enforcement, the military, intelligence, public policy planning, a lawyer, jailer, a judge, in the bail business, black market, domestic intelligence or whatever, go ahead and purchase this book or the CD. I did a lot of my research with you folks and asked those forbidden questions. I also field tested this book to people in your professions. They liked it. You will not be disappointed with it and God knows you've made enough money on this war already. One last statement to law enforcement, the military, our foreign / domestic intelligence communities and anyone that gives a shit. "Question your own reality. You might find you lack the moral authority to do the wrong thing." Sincerely, Jay Lindberg Brought to you by Lindberg Publishing (We Fly Right) file:!!!Untitkd CIA Mind-Control Operations and THE SYNDROME By John Case June 13,2001 THE SYNDROME is a thriller driven by a secret culled from the deepest recesses of the Cold War. It is a secret that encompasses an illicit program of human experimentation, using pain, drugs and hypnosis to create the perfect assassin. So sensitive was this program that only a handful of people have ever been privy to more than a small part of it. The activity's existence was first hinted at by the Rockefeller Commission in a 1974 report on domestic CIA operations. The Commission devoted just two sentences to the program, whose documentary record had been destroyed by an outgoing CIA Director. Despite that Director's attempt to impose institutional amnesia on the Agency he'd headed, seven boxes of financial documents were later found in a dusty cabinet at the Agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The paper-trail contained within those boxes wound its way through a complex of medical institutes, hospitals and foundations that had given cover to a behavioral modification program in which human guinea pigs had been "tested to destruction" without their knowledge or consent. Beyond those seven boxes, no other records are known to exist. Even so, the New York District Attorney's office continues to seek homicide indictments against CIA officers who are believed to have murdered a key scientist in the program. Though few records of its existence remain, the program is known to have begun during World War II, when the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) attempted to develop "a truth drug" in an effort to elicit information from recalcitrant Prisoners of War. The subjects of these earliest experiments were captured Axis soldiers, and American GIs facing court-martial for various crimes. When the war came to an end, the program did not. Instead, it took a strange turn--and gained momentum. What had been a search for a truth-drug morphed into a mind-control program whose purpose was to create a murderous automaton whose memory could be "edited" by his handlers at headquarters. The need for an assassination "utility" of this kind had been articulated a few years earlier by a professor of anthropolol!V at Harvard, a former ass operative who was himself implicated in World War II assassination plots. This was the late Carleton Coon who, in an after-action report to ass chief "Wild Bill" Donovan, wrote, "...we cannot be sure that the clear and obiective scholars who study the existinl! social systems and draw up the blueprints for a society to suit our technolol!V will always be heard, or that their plans will be put into operation. We can almost be sure that this will not be the case. Therefore some other power, some third class of individuals aside from the leaders and the scholars must exist, and this third class must have the task of thwartinl! mistakes, dial!nosinl! areas of potential world diseauilibrium, and nippinl! the causes of potential disturbances in the bud. There must be a bod v of men whose task it is to throw out the rotten apples as soon as the first spots of decay appear. A body of this nature must exist undercover. It must either be a power unto itself. or be l!iven the broadest discretionarv powers by the hil!hest human authorities." With the outbreak of the Korean War, Coon's proposal seems to have been melded with the truth-drug investigations then under way, and given a jump-start. The Pentagon and the CIA arranged for the publication of articles about "communist brainwashing" in popular magazines such as The Reader's Digest and Saturday Evening Post. The message was explicit: there was a "mind-control gap." This created a groundswell of political support for the Agency's decision to embark upon a full-fledged "mind-control" program of its own. Beginning in 1952, the CIA began to work with the Special Operations Division of the Army's biological research center at Fort Detrick, studying the covert use of chemical and biological weapons. Among the drugs file:/llJntilkd studied was LSD. The subjects in these experiments were people on the margins of society. They included the inmates of prisons and mental institutions, as well as homeless alcoholics on Skid Row. Those who espoused unpopular political views or whose lifestyle was perceived as immoral were also considered "fair game"--and so became unwitting guinea pigs in the spooks' quest to create a "Manchurian Candidate." Occasionally, the Agency experimented on its own--and, sometimes, with terrible consequences. In 1954, Dr. Frank Olson was invited to a gathering at a CIA retreat near Deep Creek Lake, Maryland. At that gathering, we are told that Olsen and nine other people were given high doses of LSD without their knowledge By all accounts, Olson's reaction was negative in the extreme. Plunged into severe depression, he suffered hallucinations for days, and was taken to see a therapist in New York. While there, and under the most mysterious circumstances, he fell to his death from an upper-story window of the Statler Hotel. Though Olsen's death was pronounced a suicide, the case has since been re-opened, and is now under investigation by the New York District Attorney's office. Meanwhile, the Agency forged ahead. Fearful of adverse publicity from incidents such as the one that claimed Olsen's life, the CIA shifted many of its operations to the West Coast and abroad. One such activity involved safe-houses in New York and Washington, where prostitutes were paid to bring clients. "Fair game," the clients would be dosed with drugs, and their behavior observed by CIA operatives sitting behind two-way mirrors. With Olsen's death, these and other operations were moved to San Francisco, where the fallout from such activities could be more easily controlled. Still other experiments were funded abroad. At McGill University in Montreal, Dr. Ewen Cameron carried out a series of experiments for the CIA, effectively turning his patients into "vegetables." The process, which Cameron called "depatterning," relied upon intensive electro shocks, followed by 30-60 days of drug-induced sleep, to destroy existing patterns of behavior. In the end, the patient would become a tabula rasa, her mind wiped clean and empty. Elsewhere, scientists such as Maitland Baldwin agreed to go one step further, volunteering to carry out "terminal experiments" in sensory deprivation. Patients-subjects-victims would be buried alive for an "indefinite" period in stimulus-free "boxes." In effect, they would become the CIA's very own zombies. Behind the codewords, BLUEBIRD and PANDORA and ARTICHOKE, the CIA and its sister agencies experimented upon a large and diverse group of subjects, many of whom suffered terribly. Using drugs and hypnosis, microwaves and radiation, the experimenters sought ways to affect moods, impose "selective amnesia," create multiple personalities, induce trance-states by rapid and remote means, and generate so-called "screen memories. " This last involved the creation of false "memories" as a way of blocking genuine ones. A key plot-point in THE SYNDROME, it is also a way to impel an agent to commit suicide when his usefulness is at an end. The mind-control program initiated by the CIA in the I 950s was officially discontinued in the 1960s, though many critics of the Agency insist that the most "promising" research continues under other auspices, at home and abroad. This bookn THE SYNDROME--is , about that.