Of some what might have been even 20 million(probably much much more) people that were subjected to MK ULTRA, I was and am the only man ever who dared to publicly reveal government butchery or just how far they have gone in my case alone - to be diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia(thats all) and tortured in mental ward for almost two years to death(and terrorized at home for years). They tested on me all sorts of "medications"(and more) and mind control techniques which involved, terror techniques as well as brain wiping(via electroshocks and what I believe was also "ZIP").
NOTE: in article KGB is mentioned - in case of my own, KGB only got involved enough to study what Americans have developed and to prevent what could become mass killing of totally innocent population based in Eastern Europe. I ENTIRELY RELEASE KGB OF ANY GUILT THAT AMERICANS MAY USE(brought up) TO SUGGEST KGB'S INVOLVEMENT IN MY CASE. KGB SIMPLY DIDN'T HAVE CHOICE !!! CONTAMINATED WITH GERMAN NAZISM AMERICA AND GERMANY ARE DICTATING LUNACY(totally inhumane treatment of own and foreign people via here mentioned methods - eugenics via social engineering or rather what is government selection for the sake of 10% of population in both countries - magnificent "aryans") TO THE WORLD AND WORLD IS SIMPLY FORCED TO SOMEHOW RESPOND TO THIS LUNACY !!! "Aryan" people are doing just fine in America and worldwide...Don Black and David Duke and other prominent nazis are deeply involved in big farma because idiots like myself are used as experimental animals for the governments once identified as "nazis"(marked as wasted folks are instructed in hatred and "aryans" live in abundance of peace and prosperity throughout US/Germany). Its a booming industry(government business) and at no wonder this subjects were involved in my case(strange that Don Black doesn't revive his domain or buys another one since dude earned over $13.000 per month with his forum - why is that Donnie !!??? Time to temporarily disappear !!????).
>>>>It was filled with pure Sandoz LSD-25. He showed me a gun disguised as a fountain pen that could shoot a cartridge of nerve gas. “Some of the stuff George White and I tested,” he explained.
It all began because the CIA knew the Russians had this LSD sh*t and they were afraid the KGB was using it to brainwash agents,” Feldman told me. “They wanted us to find out if we could actually use it as a truth serum.”<<<<
Drugs used and produced by this very same SANDOZ NOVARTIS company to drive people insane => compel them into bipolar, split personality disorder, PSTD, schizophrenia, paranoia etc...
Drugs used and produced by this very same SANDOZ NOVARTIS company to now "cure" people from above mentioned disease(people which they have driven insane in another words)...this are exact drugs they have used on me afterwards in Slovenia.
AMERICAN EXTREME NAZI(John McCain's boy - part of McCain's team involved in my abductions already in 1996 and who was here in this very house and to whom US Government have forced me to as a "roommate" in 2009 after declining me even the right to rent place according to my own preference - had $15.000 in savings in my pocket, but wasn't allowed to even rent compelled to rent from nazi instead) BY THE NAME NATHAN RUST FROM SEATTLE, HAVE INSISTED ON BRUTAL RUSSIAN METHODS THAT WERE SUPPOSEDLY USED ON RUSSIAN POPULATION(ACCORDING TO HIM) WHEN HE SUBJECTED ME TO MKULTRA TORTURE(IN SLOVENIA AND IN US)...
This "Aryan" nazi Nathan Rust of Finnish ancestry(no way are people from Finland as insane as this dude was and is - America is
a insane nazi hatred factory and whoever goes there leaves his/her sound mind behind forever) was the first one who have shown me photo(seen here) of Russian eaten by other Russians during Soviet Finish war(case of cannibalism - "TALK ABOUT SLAVS AND COMMUNISTS BEING CANNIBALS" WERE PARTIAL INSTRUCTIONS OF THIS VERY JOHN MCCAIN LUNATIC WHO ENGAGED IN MKULTRA NAZISM INCITEMENT FOR ENTIRE TWO YEARS AND HAVE HAD ME PRESENTED
AFTERWARDS AS NAZI TO OTHER EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS OF WHICH SOME HAVE EVEN BITTEN BAIT - OTHER KNEW THE TRUTH, BUT WERE SILENT)...I cite, "you have a little advantage as Russian because you can run well in the snow, but we will get you"...This John McCain expert turned in 1997/1998 into anti-racist(he even became excited about Chinese immigration to Canada and he still dated non "Aryan" Italian girl as a camouflage in 2009 whom he met in 1997/1998 via Italian government crew which also arrived to specialize itself on employment blacklisting issues per other Western European governments to Miami) on command of John McCain. He threatened and threatened if I would ever dare to speak my mind about anything that you read here(constantly travels across the Europe to plant nazism on behalf of US Government - is used as a courier).
Russian girl that offered me marriage in Miami is employed very today in Budapest on Russian embassy(where I went to apply for Russian visa in 2017 when in Budapest and she made herself clear about it by getting in my face making disapproving facial movements ;).
"YOU WILL BE HOMELESS IF YOU EVER COME TO RUSSIA" IS WHAT I WAS TOLD IN MOSCOW WHEN BROUGHT THERE UNDER MKULTRA IN 2001 !!! JUST FEW MONTHS LATTER, ALL EUROPEAN CREWS DISAPPEARED FROM MIAMI !!!
IT WAS MONTH OR SO AFTER 9/11 THAT I APPEARED THERE FOR WORK SEARCH AND THE ONE WHO MET ME THERE AND BEGUN TO ACCUSE ME OF 9/11 INVOLVEMENT AS EXPLAINED O MY VIDEOS WAS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA - WHEN I ATTEMPTED TO CALL POLICE ON OBAMA, JOHN MCCAIN'S CREW FEMALE BY THE NAME J. H. STOPPED ME AND SUGGESTED ME TO SPEAK INSTEAD TO JOHN MCCAIN WHO PROMISED(ASSURED ME WITH LIES AND HAVE FOUND HIMSELF BY "COINCIDENCE" RIGHT THERE AND RIGHT THEN) THAT HE IS ACTUALLY MONITORING(INVESTIGATING) OBAMA http://ausertimes.blogspot.si/2016/12/obama-is-not-done-destroying-america.html....
"YOU WILL BE HOMELESS IF YOU EVER COME TO RUSSIA" IS WHAT I WAS TOLD IN MOSCOW WHEN BROUGHT THERE UNDER MKULTRA IN 2001 !!! JUST FEW MONTHS LATTER, ALL EUROPEAN CREWS DISAPPEARED FROM MIAMI !!!
IT WAS MONTH OR SO AFTER 9/11 THAT I APPEARED THERE FOR WORK SEARCH AND THE ONE WHO MET ME THERE AND BEGUN TO ACCUSE ME OF 9/11 INVOLVEMENT AS EXPLAINED O MY VIDEOS WAS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA - WHEN I ATTEMPTED TO CALL POLICE ON OBAMA, JOHN MCCAIN'S CREW FEMALE BY THE NAME J. H. STOPPED ME AND SUGGESTED ME TO SPEAK INSTEAD TO JOHN MCCAIN WHO PROMISED(ASSURED ME WITH LIES AND HAVE FOUND HIMSELF BY "COINCIDENCE" RIGHT THERE AND RIGHT THEN) THAT HE IS ACTUALLY MONITORING(INVESTIGATING) OBAMA http://ausertimes.blogspot.si/2016/12/obama-is-not-done-destroying-america.html....
How is it to be accused(and jobless and massacred via MKULTRA, and accused of million things you have nothing to do with, and beaten up, and bullied etc. etc. etc.) by terrorists involved in 9/11 of which one latter becomes even president !!????
Not easy, but you either go on with it or fail indefinitely...this politicians are for me rather joke(McCain is a low life criminal...thug/gangster who loves to do as seen here and even blackmails victims - not only those whom he have tortured, but incl. those whom he lures in his traps - foreign governments).
John McCain's Nathan Rust even with whigger haircut(imitating Jamaicans in 2009 when I posted partial truth on internet about my situation in US and Slovenia and in hurry/panic to disappear from Bellingham after over 10 years of stay there)...
Nathan Rust was impressive in Novo mesto - I cite neighbor Sonja Kotar in 1998, "Savo(my father who acted insanely) be careful because boy like this can acknowledge you as insane and you will be taken care by the government - he is very sharp"....
"YOU NEED TIN FOIL HAT TO AVOID US GOVERNMENT TRACING GPS SIGNAL WHICH WAS IMPLANTED IN YOUR HEAD" WERE HIS(and others) WORDS TO ME IN SLOVENIA AND ON BISCAYNE(MIAMI DOWNTOWN) - THIS WORDS REPEATS ALSO BY OTHERS OVER 1000 TIMES TO ME WITHIN LAST 20 YEARS...
"WHAT ABOUT IF BOBBY(called me "Bob" in US) WOULD DISAPPEAR IN AMERICAN ASYLUM SYSTEM FOR LIKE 20-25 YEARS AND THEN COME OUT ONE DAY AND WORLD WOULD LOOK DIFFERENT AHAHAHA...OHH, WE WOULDN'T GIVE YOU TO RUSSIANS; WE WOULD GIVE YOU TO GERMANS"(lunatic to me in the face in Miami, Seattle, Slovenia...there is less than nothing that is human in this NAZI beast !!!)...
He stayed in Kotar's house during his first visit in Slovenia and above mentioned John McCain's J. H.(this CIA female was involved against me in John McCain's team from beginning of 1996) even slept with me on the last day in a Seattle's Holiday Inn hotel before I left US in 2009 for Europe(John McCain performed last MKULTRA torture on me on this very last day to ensure about what I supposed to know and what not - they have questioned me entire night and the next day I boarded plane for Europe)...CIA's Ukrainian guy(he was part of John McCain team since day A 1996 - John McCain rented entire floor in this hotel for my stay there) even saluted me at the ice machine with, "hello my friend how are you"....
Nathan Rust was impressive in Novo mesto - I cite neighbor Sonja Kotar in 1998, "Savo(my father who acted insanely) be careful because boy like this can acknowledge you as insane and you will be taken care by the government - he is very sharp"....
"YOU NEED TIN FOIL HAT TO AVOID US GOVERNMENT TRACING GPS SIGNAL WHICH WAS IMPLANTED IN YOUR HEAD" WERE HIS(and others) WORDS TO ME IN SLOVENIA AND ON BISCAYNE(MIAMI DOWNTOWN) - THIS WORDS REPEATS ALSO BY OTHERS OVER 1000 TIMES TO ME WITHIN LAST 20 YEARS...
"WHAT ABOUT IF BOBBY(called me "Bob" in US) WOULD DISAPPEAR IN AMERICAN ASYLUM SYSTEM FOR LIKE 20-25 YEARS AND THEN COME OUT ONE DAY AND WORLD WOULD LOOK DIFFERENT AHAHAHA...OHH, WE WOULDN'T GIVE YOU TO RUSSIANS; WE WOULD GIVE YOU TO GERMANS"(lunatic to me in the face in Miami, Seattle, Slovenia...there is less than nothing that is human in this NAZI beast !!!)...
He stayed in Kotar's house during his first visit in Slovenia and above mentioned John McCain's J. H.(this CIA female was involved against me in John McCain's team from beginning of 1996) even slept with me on the last day in a Seattle's Holiday Inn hotel before I left US in 2009 for Europe(John McCain performed last MKULTRA torture on me on this very last day to ensure about what I supposed to know and what not - they have questioned me entire night and the next day I boarded plane for Europe)...CIA's Ukrainian guy(he was part of John McCain team since day A 1996 - John McCain rented entire floor in this hotel for my stay there) even saluted me at the ice machine with, "hello my friend how are you"....
HIS BIGGEST FEAR WAS FOR WORLD TO FIND OUT ONE DAY(today) WHO HE TRULY WAS/IS = A HARD CORE "ARYAN" NAZI HATER WHO DEDICATED HIMSELF TO TOTALLY DIFFERENT LIFESTYLE ON JOHN MCCAIN'S COMMAND...
I am unsure about Nathan Rust's marriage to Italian ballerina(whether one produced or ever will produce any children at all - it was a fake marriage according to him alone back then due to her insufficient "Aryan" DNA), however, I do know that we Slavs aren't worth dime to this "Aryans" and nor are Italians(90%
of Europe is not worth to them a dime)...I am amazed about Ukrainian stupidity to have anything to do with US and nazi regimes as the one in Germany/Norway/Sweden where they were acknowledged by this very nazis in my presence(incl you Italians and Hungarians etc.) as little more than gypsies who territory is extremely important. I cite Swedish Dan Andersson(a real nazi who changed into whigger as well - stalked me in Norway in 2010 - on photo Norwegian nazi Helle Bjorklund Helle Bjørklund who went from nazi extremist into full mode "pacifist") of Sweden in 1996 to me in Miami Downtown, "we made expedition there(Ukraine) and realized after careful studies that this people are NOT related to us Scandinavians at all - they are barely what one would consider as white"...did you read this well Poroshenko and others !!?????
ZIOFASCISM(NAZISM SUPPORTED BY ZIONISTS) IS BRUTAL AND MUST BE KILLED ONCE AND FOR ALL !!! RIGHT NETANYAHU !!????
John somehow still believes that he will manage to get away with it, but its just a dead walking man wish as we both know Johhny ;) There will be soon smoke going out of those ears and nose and Mr. Nathan Rust will take your seat(just like yourself McCain, I want him dead as well) - The elders, however, have priority....
I cite this nazi clown when in Novo mesto(and his friends of whom some live in Novo mesto's Blue lagoon - plava laguna/ mestne nive area) on and on day day dreamed with his friends, "we will abduct you..take you away if you ever mention any of this"...come and get it Nathan...come and get it is all I can say ;) Johnny is under investigation by the deep state himself(no such thing as free hideouts for nazis either Nathan)...it will be tough for your CIA guys to perform any of such task :))))
Russians(everybody - all to whom you have lied about me = whole world Johnny) also know who you are now(you and McCain - if that special one would even attempt to protect your ass, he/she alone would become deep state KGB target) and Germany/Scandinavia are butt naked...and life(like you told me case is with you) never gets dull with me either ;)
In this report, I was very very nice...trust me...very very very nice(have deliberately mis seen many people) and this because I care about you(much wasn't or ever will be told for your own sake). Thats all
From whowhatwhy.org
GOVERNMENT MIND CONTROL AGENT TALKS
MK-ULTRA, the CIA, and LSD
WhoWhatWhy Introduction by Milicent Cranor:
The story below offers a rare close-up view of a man who is so creepy it’s fascinating. He actually performed some of the dirty, unthinkable deeds you read about in the various exposés on the CIA.
According to the author, the man “looks like Danny DeVito playing the Penguin, and talks like Edward G. Robinson as gangster Johnny Rocco in Key Largo.”
The Penguin in question is Ira “Ike” Feldman. And the deeds he performed were for MK-ULTRA, the CIA’s program on mind control. They experimented on unsuspecting people, slipping them LSD without their consent, sometimes with devastating results. The project’s architect, Sidney Gottlieb, described in a 1953 memo the ways in which the drug could be used:
“‘Disturbance of memory; discrediting by aberrant behaviour; alteration of sex patterns; eliciting of information; suggestibility; creation of dependence.”
From all that has been written about the CIA, we find it easy to believe just about everything Feldman says on the subject. But the real value of this story is not so much the information it imparts; it’s the character it reveals about a major player — even if we see him only from the outside. Here, you can witness the way he talks, the attitude he exhibits, the contradictions he ignores, and the self-justifications he declares.
This was originally published in Spin Magazine in 1994, and is just as relevant today.
The author of that vintage Spin article, Richard Stratton, has recently published his memoirs, Smuggler’s Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia (Arcade Publishing, April, 2016)
Altered States in America
In the early 1950s, the U.S. government purchased the world’s supply of LSD as just the first step in a debauched program code-named MK-ULTRA. In an exclusive interview, Ike Feldman, one of the operations kingpins, talks to Richard Stratton about deadly viruses, spy hookers, and bad trips.
“I was a very minor missionary, actually a heretic, but I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape, and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest?”
CIA contract agent George Hunter White
The meeting was set for noon at a suitably anonymous bastion of corporate America, a sprawling Marriott Hotel and convention center on Long Island. Driving out of the city, I was tense and paranoid. For one thing, I was leaving Manhattan without permission from my parole officer. What was I going to tell him? “I want to travel to Long Island to interview a former narcotics agent who worked undercover for the CIA dosing people with LSD.” My parole officer would have ordered a urine test on the spot.
Then there was the fact that previous run-ins with drug cops had usually resulted in criminal prosecutions. I spent most of the ’80s in prison for smuggling marijuana. How would this ex-agent of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), forerunner of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), take to a retired outlaw writing a story about MK-ULTRA, the CIA’s highly secretive mind-control and drug-testing program?
Ira “Ike” Feldman is the only person still alive who worked directly under the legendary George Hunter White in MK-ULTRA. The program began in 1953 amid growing fear of the Soviet Union’s potential for developing alternative weaponry. The atomic bomb was a sinister threat, but more terrifying still were possible Soviet assaults on the mind and body from within — through drugs and disease. In an attempt to preempt foreign attacks and even wage its own assaults, the CIA funded a group of contract agents and scientists to develop a panoply of means to destroy or forever incapacitate a human being.
For years, Feldman had ducked reporters. He agreed to meet with me only after a private detective, a former New York cop who also did time for drugs, put in a good word. There was no guarantee Feldman would talk.
Feldman leveled a cold, lizard-like gaze on me when we sat down for lunch. He wielded a fat unlit cigar like a baton, pulled out a wad of bills that could have gagged a drug dealer, slipped a 20 to the waitress and told her to take good care of us.
“What’s this about?” Feldman demanded. “Who the f*ck are you?”
I explained I was a writer researching George White. White, a world-class drinker known to polish off a bottle of gin at a sitting and get up and walk away, died of liver disease in 1975, two years before MK-ULTRA was first made public.
“Why do you want to write about White? I suppose it’s this LSD sh*t.”
No, I said, not just the LSD. George White deserved to have his story told.
“White was a son of a bitch,” Feldman said. “But he was a great cop. He made that fruitcake Hoover look like Nancy Drew.”
Again he gazed stonily at me. “Lots of writers asked me to tell my story. Why should I talk to you?”
I decided to come clean. “I used to be part of your world,” I answered. “I did eight years for the Feds because I refused to rat when I got busted for pot.”
Feldman stared at me for a long time. “I know,” he said. “I checked you out. That’s why I’m here. Now get out your pencil.” He waved for the waitress and palmed her a 50 to cover the tab.
“The LSD,” Feldman began, “that was just the tip of the iceberg. Write this down. Espionage. Assassinations. Dirty tricks. Drug experiments. Sexual encounters and the study of prostitutes for clandestine use. That’s what I was doing when I worked for George White and the CIA.”
Top row left to right: Harry Anslinger, Ike Feldman and Allen Dulles. Bottom row: George White. Photo credit: (Spin Magazine / The Frank Olson Legacy Project)
It all began because the CIA knew the Russians had this LSD sh*t and they were afraid the KGB was using it to brainwash agents,” Feldman told me. “They wanted us to find out if we could actually use it as a truth serum.”
Actually, it all began with a mistake. In 1951, Allen Dulles, later appointed Director of Central Intelligence, received a report from military sources that the Russians had bought 50 million doses of a new drug from Sandoz Pharmaceuticals in Basel, Switzerland…. lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25), available for sale on the open market.
Dulles was alarmed. From the beginning, LSD was lauded by military and intelligence scientists working on chemical warfare compounds and mind-control experiments as the most potent mind-altering substance known to man. “Infinitesimally small amounts of LSD can completely destroy the sanity of a human being for considerable periods of time (or possibly permanently), stated an October 1953 CIA memo. In the wrong hands, 100 million doses would be enough to sabotage a whole nation’s mental equilibrium.”
Dulles convened a high-level committee of intelligence and military officials who agreed the agency should buy the entire Sandoz LSD supply lest the KGB acquire it first. Two agents were dispatched to Switzerland with a black bag containing $240,000.
In fact, Sandoz had produced only about 40 grams of LSD in the ten years since its psychoactive features were first discovered by Albert Hoffman. According to a 1975 CIA document, the U.S. Military attaché in Switzerland had miscalculated by a factor of one million in his CIA reports because he did not know the difference between a milligram (1/1,000 of a gram) and a kilogram (1,000 grams).
Nevertheless, a deal was struck. The CIA would purchase all of Sandoz’s potential output of LSD. (Later, when the Eli Lilly Company of Indianapolis perfected a process to synthesize LSD, agency officials insisted on a similar agreement.) An internal CIA memo to Dulles declared the agency would have access to “tonnage quantities.” All that remained was for agency heads to figure out what to do with it.
“The objectives were behavior control, behavior anomaly-production, and counter-measures for opposition application of similar substances,” states a heavily redacted CIA document on MK-ULTRA released under a 1977 Freedom of Information Act request.
The chill winds of the Cold War were howling across the land. Dulles was convinced that, as he told Princeton University’s National Alumni Conference, Russian and Chinese Communists had secretly developed “brain perversion techniques so subtle and so abhorrent to our way of life that we have recoiled from facing up to them.”
Pentagon strategists began to envision a day when battles would be fought on psychic terrain in wars without conventional weaponry. The terrifying specter of a secret army of “Manchurian Candidates,” outwardly normal operatives programmed to carry out political assassinations, was paraded before a gullible and easily manipulated public.
Ike Feldman remembers that time well. A Brooklyn boy, he was drafted into the Army in 1941. Army tests showed he had an unusual facility for language, so he was enrolled in a special school in Germany where he learned fluent Russian. By the end of the war, Feldman was a lieutenant colonel with a background in Military Intelligence. The army sent him to another language school, this time in Monterey, California, where he added Mandarin Chinese to his repertoire.
While with Military Intelligence in Europe, Feldman first heard of George White. “White was with the OSS [Office of Strategic Services, forerunner of the CIA]. I heard stories about him. White supposedly killed some Japanese spy with his bare hands while he was on assignment in Calcutta. He used to keep a picture of the bloody corpse on the wall in his office.”
In the early ’50s, after a stint in Korea working for the CIA under Army auspices, Feldman decided he’d had enough of military life. He settled in California. “I always wanted chickens,” Feldman recalled, “so I bought a chicken ranch. In the meantime, there wasn’t a hell of a lot to do with chickens.
What Feldman didn’t know at the time was that George White was still working for the CIA. White’s particular area of expertise was the testing of drugs on unwitting human guinea pigs. During the war, one of White’s projects for the OSS was the quest for a “truth drug,” a serum that could be administered to prisoners of war or captured spies during interrogation. After trying and rejecting several substances, the OSS scientists settled on a highly concentrated liquid extract of cannabis indica, a particularly potent strain of marijuana. Never one to shrink from the call of duty, White first tried the drug on himself. He downed a full vial of the clear, viscous liquid and soon passed out without revealing any secrets.
Meanwhile, at the CIA’s Technical Services Staff (TSS), the department specializing in unconventional weaponry such as poisons, biological warfare, psychoactive substances, and mind control, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb was searching for a candidate to head MK-ULTRA. Gottlieb, a club-footed scientist who overcame a pronounced stutter in his rise to head the TSS, had discovered White’s name while perusing old OSS files on the Truth Drug Experiments. White’s credentials were impeccable. A former crime reporter on the West Coast before he joined the narcotics bureau, White had soon become one of the top international undercover agents under FBN director Harry Anslinger, the grandfather of America’s war on drugs.
After meeting with Gottlieb, White noted his initiation into the world of psychedelics in his diary.
“Gottlieb proposes I become CIA consultant and I agree.”
Moonlighting for the CIA, with funds disbursed by Gottlieb, White rented two adjoining apartment safe houses at 81 Bedford Street in Greenwich Village. Using the alias Morgan Hall, he constructed an elaborate alter-identity as a seaman and artist in the Jack London mode. By night, CIA spy Morgan Hall metamorphosed into a drug-eating denizen of the bohemian coffeehouse scene. With a head full of acid and gin, White prowled downtown clubs and bars. He struck up conversations with strangers, then lured them back to the pad where he served drinks spiked with Sandoz’s finest.
“Gloria gets the horrors… Janet sky high,” White dutifully recorded in his diary. In another entry, he proudly noted, “Lashbrook at 81 Bedford Street — Owen Winkle and the LSD surprise — can wash.” In recognition of the often bizarre behavior brought on by the drug, White assigned LSD the code-name “Stormy.”
According to an agency memo, the CIA feared KGB agents might use psychedelics “to produce anxiety or terror in medically unsophisticated subjects unable to distinguish drug-induced psychosis from actual insanity.” In an effort to school “enlightened operatives” for that eventuality, Dulles and Gottlieb instructed high-ranking agency personnel, including Gottlieb’s entire staff at TSS, to take LSD themselves and administer it to their colleagues.
“There was an extensive amount of self-experimentation for the reason that we felt that a firsthand knowledge of the subjective effects of these drugs [was] important to those of us who were involved in the program,” Gottlieb explained at a Senate Subcommittee hearing years later. In truth, CIA spooks and scientists were tripping their brains out. “I didn’t want to leave it,” one CIA agent said of his first LSD trip. “I felt I would be going back to a place where I wouldn’t be able to hold on to this kind of beauty.”
But as covert LSD experiments proliferated, things down at CIA headquarters began to get out of hand.
“LSD favors the prepared mind,” wrote Dr. Oscar Janiger, a Los Angeles psychiatrist and early LSD devotee. Non-drug factors such as set and setting — a person’s mental state going into the experience and the surroundings in which the drug is taken — can make all the difference in reactions to a dose of LSD.
***
Frank Olson was a civilian biochemist working for the Army Chemical Corps’ Special Operations Division (SOD) at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. In another sub-project of MK-ULTRA code-named MK-NAOMI, the CIA had bankrolled SOD to produce and maintain vicious mutant germ strains capable of killing or incapacitating would-be victims. Olson’s specialty at Fort Detrick was delivering deadly diseases in sprays and aerosol emulsions.
Just before Thanksgiving in 1953, at a CIA retreat for a conference on biological warfare, Gottlieb slipped Olson and the other scientists a huge dose of LSD in an after-dinner liqueur. When Gottlieb revealed to the uproarious group that he’d laced the Cointreau, Olson suffered a psychotic snap. “You’re all a bunch of thespians!” Olson shouted at his fellow acid trippers, then spent a long night wandering around babbling to himself. Back at Fort Detrick, Olson lapsed in and out of depression, he began to have grave misgivings about his work, and believed the agency was out to get him. Ten days later, he crashed through a closed tenth-floor window of the Statler Hotel in New York and plummeted to his death on the sidewalk below.
“White had been testing the stuff in New York when that guy Olson went out the window and died,” Feldman said. “I don’t know if he jumped or he was pushed. They say he jumped. Anyway, that’s when they shut down the New York operation and moved it to San Francisco.” The Olson affair was successfully covered up by the CIA for over 20 years. White, who had been instrumental in the cover-up, was promoted to district supervisor.
***
Unfazed by the death of their colleague, the CIA’s acid enthusiasts were, in fact, more convinced of the value of their experiments. They would now focus on LSD as a potent new agent for offensive unconventional warfare. The drug-testing program resumed in the Bay Area under the cryptonym Operation Midnight Climax. It was then that White hired Feldman.
Posing as Joe Capone, junk dealer and pimp, Feldman infiltrated the seamy North Beach criminal demimonde. “I always wanted to be a gangster,” Feldman told me. “So I was good at it. Before long, I had half a dozen girls working for me. One day, White calls me into his office. ‘Ike,’ he says, ‘you’ve been doing one hell of a job as an undercover man. Now I’m gonna give you another assignment. We want you to test these mind-bending drugs.’ I said, ‘Why the hell do you want to test mind-bending drugs?’ He said, ‘Have you ever heard of The Manchurian Candidate?’ I know about The Manchurian Candidate. In fact, I read the book. ‘Well,’ White said, ‘that’s why we have to test these drugs, to find out if they can be used to brainwash people.’ He says, ‘If we can find out just how good this stuff works, you’ll be doing a great deal for your country.’”
These days, Feldman takes offense at how his work has been characterized by former cops who knew him. “I was no pimp,” Feldman insisted. Yet he freely admitted that his role in Midnight Climax was to supply whores. “These c*nts all thought I was a racketeer,” Feldman explained. He paid the girls $50 to $100 a night to lure johns to a safe house apartment that White had set up on Telegraph Hill with funds provided by the CIA. Unsuspecting clients were served cocktails laced with powerful doses of LSD and other concoctions the CIA sent out to be tested.
“As George White once told me, ‘Ike, your best information outside comes from the whores and the junkies. If you treat a whore nice, she’ll treat you nice. If you treat a junkie nice, he’ll treat you nice.’ But sometimes, when people had information, there was only one way you could get it. If it was a girl, you put her tits in a drawer and slammed the drawer. If it was a guy, you took his c*ck and you hit it with a hammer. And they would talk to you. Now, with these drugs, you could get information without having to abuse people.”
The “pad,” as White called the safe house, resembled a playboy’s lair, circa 1955. The walls were covered with Toulouse-Lautrec posters of French cancan dancers. In the cabinets were sex toys and photos of manacled women in black fishnet stockings and studded leather halters. White outfitted the place with elaborate bugging equipment, including microphones disguised as electrical outlets that were connected to tape recorders hidden behind a false wall. While Feldman’s hookers served mind-altering cocktails and frolicked with the johns, White sat on a portable toilet behind a two-way mirror, sipping martinis, watching the experiments, and scribbling notes for his reports to the CIA.
“We tested this stuff they called the Sextender,” Feldman went on. “There was this Russian ship in the harbor. I had a couple of my girls pick up these Russian sailors and bring ’em back to the pad. White wanted to know all kinds of crap, but they weren’t talking. So we had the girls slip ’em this sex drug. It gets your d*ck up like a rat. Stays up for two hours. These guys went crazy. They f*cked these poor girls until they couldn’t walk straight. The girls were complaining they couldn’t take any more screwing. But White found out what he wanted to know. Now this drug, what they call the Sextender, I understand it’s being sold as Viagra to guys who can’t get a hard-on.” Feldman claimed we have the CIA to thank for these and other medical breakthroughs
“White always wanted to try everything himself,” Feldman remembered. “Whatever drugs they sent out, it didn’t matter, he wanted to see how they worked on him before he tried them on anyone else. He always said he never felt a goddamn thing. He thought it was all bullsh*t. White drank so much, he couldn’t feel his own c*ck.
“This thing,” — Feldman held up the fountain pen gas gun — “the boys in Washington sent it out and told us to test the gas. White says to me, ‘C’mon, Ike. Let’s go outside. I’ll shoot you with it, then you shoot me.’ ‘F*ck that,’ I said. ‘You ain’t gonna shoot me with that crap.’ So we went outside and I shot George White with the gas. He coughed, his face turned red, his eyes started watering. He was choking. Turned out, that stuff was the prototype for Mace.”
I asked Feldman if he’d ever met Sidney Gottlieb, the elusive scientist who was the brains behind MK-ULTRA. “Several times Sidney Gottlieb came out,” Feldman assured me. “I met Gottlieb at the pad, and at White’s office. White used to send me to the airport to pick up Sidney and this other wacko, John Gittinger, the psychologist. Sidney was a nice guy. He was a f*ckin’ nut. They were all nuts. I says, ‘You’re a good Jewish boy from Brooklyn, like me. What are you doing with these crazy c*cksuckers?’ He had this black bag with him. He says, ‘This is my bag of dirty tricks.’ He had all kinds of crap in that bag. We took a drive out to Muir Woods out by Stinson Beach. Sidney says, ‘Stop the car.’ He pulls out a dart gun and shoots this big eucalyptus tree with a dart. Then he tells me, ‘Come back in two days and check this tree.’ So we go back in two days, the tree was completely dead. Not a leaf left on it. Now that was the forerunner of Agent Orange.
“I went back and I saw White, and he says to me, ‘What do you think of Sidney?’ I said, ‘I think he’s a f*ckin’ nut.’ White says, ‘Well, he may be a nut, but this is the program. This is what we do.’ White thought they were all assholes. He said, ‘These guys are running our intelligence?’ But they sent George $2,000 a month for the pad, and as long as they paid the bills, we went along with the program.
“Another time, I come back to the pad and the whole joint is littered with these pipe cleaners,” Feldman went on. “I said, ‘Who’s smokin’ a pipe?’ Gittinger, one of those CIA nuts, was there with two of my girls. He had ’em explaining all these different sex acts, the different positions they knew for humping. Now he has them making these little figurines out of the pipe cleaners — men and women screwing in all these different positions. He was taking pictures of the figurines and writing a history of each one. These pipe cleaner histories were sent back to Washington.”
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A stated goal of Project MK-ULTRA was to determine “if an individual can be trained to perform an act of attempted assassination involuntarily” while under the influence of various mind-control techniques, and then have no memory of the event later. Feldman told me that in the early ’60s, after the MK-ULTRA program had been around for over a decade, he was summoned to George White’s office. White and CIA director Allen Dulles were there.
“They wanted George to arrange to hit Fidel Castro,” Feldman said. “They were gonna soak his cigars with LSD and drive him crazy. George called me in because I had this whore, one of my whores was this Cuban girl and we were gonna send her down to see Castro with a box of LSD-soaked cigars.”
Dick Russell, author of a book on the Kennedy assassination titled The Man Who Knew Too Much, uncovered evidence to support the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald was a product of MK-ULTRA. One of the CIA’s overseas locations for LSD and mind-control experiments was Atsugi Naval Air base in Japan where Oswald served as a marine radar technician. Russell says that after his book was published, a former CIA counter-intelligence expert called him and said Oswald had been “viewed by the CIA as fitting the psychological profile of someone they were looking for in their MK-ULTRA program,” and that he had been mind-conditioned to defect to the USSR.
Robert Kennedy’s assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, while working as a horse trainer at the Santa Anita racetrack near Los Angeles, was introduced to hypnosis and the occult by a fellow groom with shadowy connections. Sirhan has always maintained he has no memory of the night he shot Kennedy.
One of the CIA’s mob contacts long suspected of involvement in John Kennedy’s assassination was the Los Angeles-based Mafioso John Roselli. Roselli had risen to prominence in the Mob by taking over the Annenberg-Ragen wire service at Santa Anita where Oswald’s killer, Jack Ruby, sold a handicapper’s tip sheet. Ike Feldman told me that Roselli was one of White’s many informants.
“On more than one occasion, White sent me to the airport to pick up John Roselli and bring him to the office or to the pad,” said Feldman. Roselli and White were close. Roselli had lived for most of his life in Chicago, where White had served as District Supervisor of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from 1945 through 1947. Following a big opium bust in 1947, Jack Ruby was picked up and hauled in for interrogation, then later let off the hook by none other than George White. Federal Bureau of Narcotics files indicate that Ruby was yet another of White’s legion of stool pigeons.
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The connection between MK-ULTRA mind-control experiments, the proliferation of the drug subculture, Mob/CIA assassination plots, and the emergence of new, lethal viruses go on and on. Fort Detrick in Maryland where Frank Olson worked experimenting with viral strains (such as the deadly microbes Sidney Gottlieb personally carried to Africa in an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Patrice Lumumba) was the locale of a near disaster involving an outbreak of a newly emerged virus. The event was chronicled in a lengthy article in the New Yorker.
Though the New Yorker writer did not make the connection between Fort Detrick, the Army SOD, Frank Olson, and MK-NAOMI, he told of a number of monkeys who had all died of a highly infectious virus known as Ebola that first appeared in 55 African villages in 1976, killing nine out of ten of its victims. Some epidemiologists believe AIDS originated in Africa. Feldman claimed the CIA used Africa as a staging ground to test germ warfare because “nobody gave a goddamn about any of this crap over there.”
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The MK-ULTRA program, then the largest domestic operation mounted by the CIA, continued well into the ’70s. According to Feldman and other CIA experts, it is still continuing today under an alphabet soup of different cryptonyms. Indeed, one ex-agent told me it would be foolish to think that a program as fruitful as MK-ULTRA would be discontinued. When the agency comes under scrutiny, it simply changes the name of the program and continues unabated.
The public first learned of MK-ULTRA in 1977, with the disclosure of thousands of classified documents and CIA testimony before a Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research chaired by Senator Edward Kennedy.
Previously, CIA director Richard Helms had ordered Sidney Gottlieb to destroy all of the MK-ULTRA files. What was ultimately declassified and made public revealed only a portion of the record. Ike Feldman was subpoenaed and appeared on a panel of witnesses, but the senators failed to ask him a single question.
Sidney Gottlieb, complaining of a heart condition, testified at a special semi-public session. He delivered a prepared statement and admitted to having destroyed MK-ULTRA files. The full extent of the CIA’s activities under the rubric of MK-ULTRA, MK-NAOMI, and a host of other covert domestic and foreign operations may never be known.
George White retired from the Narcotics Bureau and from his role as a CIA contract agent in 1965. The last ten years of his life he lived in Stinson Beach, California, where, known as Colonel White, he became chief of the volunteer fire department and regaled fellow drinkers in his favorite watering holes with his tales of daring do.
Local residents remember him for turning in kids for smoking pot, for spraying a preacher and his congregation with water at a beach picnic, and for terrorizing his neighbors by driving his jeep across the lawns when he’d had too much to drink.
After White’s death, his widow donated his papers, including his diaries, to an electronic surveillance museum. As information on MK-ULTRA entered the public domain, people who had known White only in his official FBN capacity were stunned to learn of his undercover role as Morgan Hall, his long employment as a CIA contract agent, and his close association with Mafiosi and intelligence agents suspected of involvement in political assassinations.
According to George Belk, a former head of the Drug Enforcement Agency in New York, Ike Feldman quit the drug agency after a probe by the internal security division. “Feldman was the sort of guy who didn’t have too many scruples,” said Dan Casey, a retired FBN agent who worked with Feldman in San Francisco. “For him, the ends justified the means.” A DEA flack confirmed Feldman “resigned under a cloud” at a time when a number of agents came under suspicion of a variety of offenses, none having to do with secret drug testing programs. When I interviewed him, Feldman asserted he still worked for the CIA on a contract basis, mostly in the Far East and Korea.
On the day of our last interview, over lunch at a restaurant in Little Italy, Feldman told me the CIA had contacted him and asked him why he was talking to me.
“F*ck them.” Feldman said. “I do what I want. I never signed any goddamn secrecy agreement.”
I asked him why he decided to tell his story after so many years of silence. “There’s too much bullsh*t in the world.” Feldman said. “The world runs on bullsh*t.
“To make a long story short,” he said, using one of his favorite verbal segues, “I want the truth of this to be known so that people understand that what we did was for the good of the country.”
We ambled down the street to a Chinese grocer, where Feldman carried on a lengthy conversation with the owner in Chinese. A couple of young girls, tourists, wanted to have their picture taken with Feldman. “Are you a gangster?” they asked.
“No,” Feldman replied with a wave of his cigar, “I’m a goddamn CIA agent.”
As we walked on, I asked Feldman to explain how his and George White’s work for the CIA had been helpful to the country.
“I learned that most of this stuff was necessary for the United States,” he said, “and even though it may have hurt somebody in the beginning, in the long run it was important. As long as it did good for the country.”
I pressed him. “How so? How was it good for the country?”
“Well, look,” Feldman gestured with his cigar at the throng of citizens in the streets of New York City.
“We’re goddamn free, aren’t we?”
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