MK-ULTRA was an illegal mind-control research program that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operated between 1953 and 1964.

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    5 hours ago

    Do you want an actual answer?

    MKUltra was shutdown long ago, but several fragmented research continued and still lives on. MKNAOMI, MKDELTA, MKSEARCH were immediate successors. Later, ruwre was StarGate. And many many more undisclosed human experimentation.

    Intelligence community behavioural science seems to be one such project, where they teach interrogating resistance, psychological profiling of adversaries, influence and propaganda analysis (not direct brain control).

    While modern variants don’t have any official names or are even disclosed, its safe to assume they still are conducting human experimentation. Just much better and much less fan fare.

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    6 hours ago

    The US was doing horrific shit 20 years ago, 20 years from now it will still have been doing horrific shit 20 years ago.

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    Well, yeah, it’s not that much of a mystery. I think it was even admitted that it existed.

    But what we don’t have, is all of the documentation related to the project. The CIA kinda did the Nazi thing, where, they don’t want specific shit to be known about what they’ve done to people, so they destroy what they can.

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    Black budget hits 100 billion. I’m certain there are people high up in the government who get warm fuzzy feelings from that type of stuff.

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    It’s important to understand exactly what MK Ultra actually was, because the goals of the program shifted more than once.

    MK Ultra at its heart, was an attempt by men who were more monstrous than competent to control reality. They acted as if consequences didn’t exist, and for decades, they didn’t.

    By those standards, this shit keeps happening.

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      I think an important corollary of this is that contemporary programs stand on the shoulders of MKULTRA, which did them the favor of testing a lot of hypotheses that didn’t pan out.

      There’s a reason why low-quality high-bias infotainment, social media echo chambers, and controlled opposition platforming are so prevalent, and the only satisfactorily complete answer in my mind is that it’s something a quorum of the population will stomach that also gives them the degree of control they think they need.

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    Yes, absolutely. Gabbard literally just revealed the existence of over 100 bio labs in foreign countries, including Ukraine. There’s literally nothing the US government isn’t doing to try to advance every aspect of their fucked up agenda. Epstein himself was convinced he was breeding better humans and he was literally protected by US intelligence

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      Fun fact, everyone already knew about those labs. They were built by the Soviets, and the US was invited in to help convert them to civilian use.

      This has all been public for decades.

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        The release from Gabbard covers 30 countries. Some of the Ukrainian sites were former Soviet labs. Some were not. All of them, it turns out, were housing deadly and dangerous agents, the extent of which was classified, and some were engaged in gain-of-function research on highly dangerous pathogens with no oversight. That’s what we call a bioweapon skunksworks.

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          Tulsi Gabbard is repeating Russian lies. All of these biolabs were openly listed on various government websites, and most of them were working on civilian stuff, like tracking the yearly flu virus and crime scene DNA sequencing.

          They all had oversight from the US and their host country, along with the occasional UN team.

          Again, Tulsi Gabbard is not a trustworthy source for anything.