63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read - Jesse Ventura [10]
Yet another study has been uncovered. In 2010, a researcher named Susan Reverby of Wellesley College discovered that the USPHS was also busy in Guatemala from 1946-1948, infecting nearly 1,000 Guatemalan citizens with venereal diseases. Why? To test antibiotics. Don’t believe me—here are excerpts from Findings from a CDC Report on the 1946-1948 U.S. Public Health Service Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Inoculation Study. If you want to view it yourself, go to www.hhs.gov/1946incoulationstudy/findings.html.
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MIND CONTROL
The CIA’s Project ARTICHOKE and MKULTRA
At the same time the Guatemalan experiments were taking place, the just-formed Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was borrowing another page from 1930s Germany. I’d like to say that’s where these next documents originated, but no, this is our own government using people as guinea pigs. Their behavior-control programs were known as Project ARTICHOKE and MKULTRA.
Why the perpetrators were not brought to trial and justice is beyond me. If anyone in the private sector did something like this, they would go to jail and throw away the key. But I guess governments are immune from the same standards. Laws that apply to the general populace don’t apply to them. Lest we forget, isn’t the government made up of people too?
Nothing was publicly known about these grisly experiments until the mid-1970s, and guess who in the Ford administration was involved in helping keep the lid on the worst of what went on? None other than Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Dick Cheney. It seems the torture of detainees at Guantanamo—which we’ll examine later in this book—has deep roots in our secret history.
The three documents that follow are an excerpt from a 1975 CIA memo on some of what ARTICHOKE involved, a 1951 ARTICHOKE report on Sensony Integration (SI) and Hypnosis (H) on two unwitting girls, and a 1963 CIA “Report of Inspection of MKULTRA.”
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A FAKE TERRORIST ATTACK
Operation Northwoods
At the end of April 2001, a little more than four months before 9/11, the startling fact that the American military had planned fake terrorist attacks on our own citizenry first came to light. The book Body of Secrets , by James Bamford, called it the “most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government.” This was Operation Northwoods, which was approved by all the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1962 for action against Cuba.
Here was the background: at a White House meeting on February 26, 1962, when various covert action plans seemed to be going nowhere, Robert Kennedy ordered a stop to all such anti-Castro efforts. General Lyman Lemnitzer, the holdover chairman of the Joint Chiefs from the Eisenhower years, decided the only option was to trick the American public and world opinion into a justifiable war.
The document you’re about to read was presented to President Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, that March. Three days later, JFK told Lemnitzer that there was virtually no possibility of our using overt force to take Cuba. Within a few months, Lemnitzer had been transferred to a different job.
So Operation Northwoods remained secret for thirty-five years. Now you can download a PDF from the National Security Archive website, and it makes for pretty chilling reading. You could even think about it as establishing a precedent for the future. If something like this was on the table in 1962, wouldn’t it likewise have been in 2001? What Northwoods had on the drawing board, I believe 9/11 was.
It seems that all through history, wars and takeovers are started with false flag operations: the Reichstag fire, the Chinese supposedly attacking Japan, the Gulf of Tonkin incident with Vietnam. The list goes on and on. History has a way of repeating itself, like that old cliché: if it works once, let’s try it again.
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THE VIETNAM SHAM
Kennedy’s Plans to Withdraw