I was channel surfing last night (Sunday) and came across a couple of specials on TBS. The first was called "Inside the CIA" (or something - I may be misremembering the title), the second "Mind control". They really didn't tell me much that I didn't already know, but I was astonished (make that flabbergasted) that they were showing this stuff on commercial TV. (A Turner network, no less!)
The first, "Inside the CIA" was a series of "case histories" of former CIA agents who quit and now work against the agency. They went into details about training torturers, overthrowing governments, killing children in Cuba, all the "dirty tricks". And all this with a refreshing lack of "balance": no hemming and hawing about how we were, of course, fighting the good fight, we just went a little overboard, etc. The producers of this show weren't accepting any excuses. I nearly fell off my chair when one the operatives explained, "The CIA isn't really an intelligence agency - its more of a terrorist organization".
The second show was a history of MK-Ultra, the CIA mind-control experiments. Now this did tell me some things I didn't know: I knew that CIA gave various kinds of psychoactive drugs to unknowing participants, but I didn't know about the more brutal experiments - like the electro shock therapy to see if it was possible to completly obliterate a person's memory (apparently, it is). Again, all this on commercial TV!
The times, they are a changin'...
Jim Baird
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