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john23
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 Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:03 pm Post subject: Cbswork and the Beatles |
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http://www.whale.to/b/cbs42.html
Lennon was murdered because in a Playboy interview, he clearly states the Beatles were a Tavistock creation to control the emerging and "freeing" energies into a direction sought after by the Illuminati.
When I was interning at Palomar studios - where 85% of all the world's rock videos are produced in Hollywod, CA - Execs would routinely come into the editing bay with orders to implant codes (11:11 was the most frequent one plugged in) for the bands. You'd be surprised which bands they put these into - and the bands NEVER knew what was happening, mostly. First, Paul McCartney died in 1966.
2nd, there are two pauls. Actually, three. The actor Shears and two vocalists.
Psychism aside, you can clearly see how prior to Sept '66, they were really a group of four very close friends. The body language, eye contact, spirit of joy, its all there. Fun, refreshing, easy to connect with on any level. |
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Fintan
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject: Who Killed John Lennon? |
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Just by the way.... in the only guest spot I ever did on the Alex Jones Show,
(on the topic of Nick Berg) the reference I made to the Berg Beheading
video being a classic construction of the Tavistock Institute was edited
out of the archived version of the show.
Tavistock comes up in this article below.
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Who Killed John Lennon?
It is quite ironic that the man who penned the words "Give peace a chance" and made it a mantra for the sixties generation should have come to such a violent and untimely death. It was, indeed, an assassination and not a murder.
But why? What made this man so important, gave him such influence, and, in the end, made him so dangerous to those who, ultimately, created him?
There are direct links which tie many pop music groups together in an ongoing project designed to control the development of human society in the most fundamental ways. It's not talent that allows our stars to rise to the top -- it's how they play the game. Scientific projects were taking place of an extremely advanced, esoteric nature that were exploring the possibility of the manipulation of consciousness, time, thought and, indeed, reality that were part of the Phoenix/Montaulk Project.
What is more powerful or influential than the music we listen to today? It's everywhere, it's all around us, in the car, in the elevator, at home, and even in the movies and television programs we watch. Our founding fathers would be incredulous at the music we take so for granted, it's availability, and its diversity.
But it is the "Top 40 Hits" we are primarily concerning ourselves with here, for it is with "Top 40" radio that much of our advertising and thought creation is linked.
The Beatles weren't the first musicians to create the phenomenon of hysterical, screaming crowds, but they certainly were the most proficient. The first musician that I am aware of that caused crowds of fans to cry hysterically, scream and faint was Frank Sinatra -- whose roots in organized crime are no mystery today. Another historical figure who was able to create such crowd hysteria was, of course, Adolf Hitler. A better tool for mind control than Top 40 radio doesn't exist. The words haunt us sometimes even when we don't want them to. We find ourselves humming little ditties in the shower, it surrounds us in the grocery store, at the mall, and everywhere else we go. People with portable "Walkmen" on their heads move through the streets ingesting all kinds of thoughts most don't take any responsibility for. We do have choices. Most of us don't make them in a conscious and responsible way, not when it comes to what we put into our heads.
When the Beatles came into power, the kind of choices we have today didn't even exist. They were created with the wave of popularity that was created around the Beatles -- four young men like anyone else with a fair amount of talent and a tremendous amount of support. The groundwork had been laid with the growth of television. Ed Sullivan and American Bandstand made it possible to create the audience that would create the groundswell that would change history.
The Beatles did not choose to be part of this plan. They had talent, and they wanted to be successful, what any musician/artist/writer wants. They got the support they needed. They had no idea what was in store for them.
The Beatles were part of the mass experimentation that contemporary society was being subjected to by the CIA, Britain's MI6 and the Tavistock Institute utilizing extraordinarily powerful mind-altering psychedelic/psychotropic drugs.
It didn't start out that way -- but that was the plan.
The Beatles came into America at the height of the Civil Rights movement. Protest music was in the air (Eve of Destruction; Abraham, Martin and John; Joe Hill; Cruel War; Society's Child, etc.) which was creating a massive counterculture that threatened everything that had been established by those who fought World War II. In spite of the fact that so many had been slaughtered during the Holocaust and the reign of Eugenics worldwide, allowing for the Baby Boom of the 1950s, what no one had anticipated was that increasing the number of white middle class children would result in a backlash against an establishment that considered them nothing more than cannon fodder for the next power move. Something had to be done.
John Lennon was one of the "big guns" in the CIA/Tavistock/MI6 aresenal. It was the Beatles who first started alluding to the "Magical Mystery Tour" that led our generation down the CIA created yellow-brick-road of LSD and marijuana, and no one even challenged the imagery. That in and of itself should smell suspicious, that the middle-class, straight-laced establishment didn't have them booted out of the country right then and there for being a danger to the American way of life. But of course not. They were doing exactly what they were supposed to be doing. It was the CIA, after all, that brought LSD into this country with the idea that it would enable those in power to more effiently control the rest of us. It didn't exactly work out the way they wanted it to, but hey, it came close enough. The Civil Rights movement came to a screeching hault as people began to heed the words, "Turn on, tune in, drop out."
The truly American fight for justice and equal rights was interfering far too much in the agenda for power and control that the United States was imposing on the rest of the world. Mind control experiments were at their height. It seemed the perfect solution for the "hippie" problem.
Not only did LSD grab hold of America's children, but the "Manson murders" and the Patty Hearst trial and the Jeffrey MacDonald trial took all the "peace, love and freedom" color out of the flower power movement as blood and violence was plastered across every newspaper and television screen in America and blamed on the hippies who, according to California's Governor Ronald Reagan, "looked like Tarzan, walked like Jane, and smelled like Cheetah."
Children did not trust parents who considered it their patriotic duty to send their children to Vietnam to die in a war that made no sense. Parents became afraid of their children who could become drug-crazed mind-controlled zombies and unpredictably come home and slaughter everyone.
The breakdown of the family began in earnest, which benefits none so much as Corporate Amerika, who encourages their wage-slaves to prioritize nothing, but nothing, over showing up to work every morning and producing profit for their stockholders.
It is interesting to note that the controlling stockholders of the world's second-largest multi-media corporation (Hachette Industries, Paris) are family members of Sadaam Hussein.
The daughter of privileged aristocracy, as a child in 1945 Yoko Ono huddled with her mother and father and two tiny siblings in an underground bunker while the largest number of American B29's to attack a single Japanese city rained incendiary bombs on Tokyo by the thousands. Eighty-three thousand people died; a quarter of the city burned. Yoko's mother and the three children joined many of their neighbors in a headlong flight away from the burning city, out into open country. Yoko's father was missing and feared dead in Hanoi. The Onos were reduced to foraging from farm to farm for food which they pulled along, with their few belongings, in an ancient-styled wheeled cart.
"I had a young brother and sister I had to find food for. I couldn't sleep, we were always evacuated. ... When the bombs dropped, I was living in this country town where the farmers didn't like city people, so they threw stones at you and wouldn't give you food. I went through a period when I was really skin and bones, going around begging. It's a long story, too long to tell."
Yoko's father survived, and when she was 19 she joined her family in Scarsdale, New York where she was tutored in classical piano and attended Sarah Lawrence College.
Soon after meeting Lennon, she was ordered back to Japan by her parents and institutionalized for a short time, prior to returning to New York, where she and Lennon reunited to become history's most enigmatic couple.
Shortly before his death, Lennon was interviewed by Playboy magazine, where he blatantly asserted, "We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom. ...look at the Government reports on acid..."
He also indicated his awareness that the Beatles themselves had literally been subjected to mind experimentation with respect to certain drugs they were induced to use; and further conveyed that he knew the Beatles and the entire "Beatlemania" phenomenon were to some extent at least just another aspect of some very wide-scale, globalist "social engineering and experimentation. More than any of the other boys in the band, John Lennon had become increasingly aware of the extent of corruption, co-opting and infiltration of the counterculture -- including the rock music scene -- by the covert government intelligence elements.
He had to be stopped.
In the same interview, Yoko stated, "I really think that what happened in the Seventies can be compared to what happened under Naziism with Jewish families. Only the force that split them came from the inside, not from the outside."
It was only more subtle, and far more effective.
Shortly after that interview, New World Order head honcho and Satanist, globalist, CIA director, Tavistock underling and then vice-president George Bush Sr. had Lennon slaughtered on the streets of New York utilizing yet another mind-controlled Delta slave Mark David Chapman. Mark Chapman is the victim of an artificially induced model psychosis.
Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act state and testify that various Federal Agencies of the US government had a several decade-long covert research project to develop a technique or method by which an involuntary, unwitting innocent individual could be covertly manipulated to hallucinate that he or she must carry out the assassination of a pre-selected target.
Who benefitted from that, even all these years later? The spirit of rebellion was kicked out of the Sixties Movement. If JFK's assassination didn't do it, of Malcolm X's assassination didn't do it, if Robert Kennedy's assassination didn't do it, of Martin Luther King's assassination didn't do it, if the government-created nightmare of Charles Manson didn't do it, if Jonestown didn't do it, John Lennon's assassination nailed the coffin closed on the Spirit of America for a long time. Our leaders were gone. Our soul was broken. We knew Evil had taken over America. We didn't know what to do. It hurt too much to move forward. We spent our adult years in drug addiction, depression, grieving and denial. We bought the Reagan-created empty vision of the "Yuppie," those of us who could, while the rest of us became "welfare whores," driving those imaginary Cadillacs.
But we're still here.
The primary red flag in this story is the fact that because Mark David Chapman, accused killer of John Lennon, pled guilty, there was no trial. This is the persistent link to so many of the cases that should raise questions immediately. No trial, no way for any of us to know what really happened ... ever. Case closed.
John Lennon, the most politically active rock star of his generation and militantly left-wing politically active at that, was shot down outside his own home by a killer who was merely a tool, a human gun used and controlled by others to destroy a uniquely powerful and radical figure who was likely to prove a rallying point for mass opposition to the policies soon to be implemented, both at home and abroad, by the new United States government headed by Ronald Reagan.
It is said that Mark David Chapman did it for publicity. An actual "syndrome" has been invented to explain the killers of high profile figures who are deemed to be "lone nut" characters with no tie to the victim other than their own need for acknowledgement due to "low self esteem." Convenient myth number one.
Inconveniently, Mark David Chapman turns down thirty to forty interviews a year. He has not interest in publicity.
The roots of even this story go back to the OSS/CIA connection. The OSS, sold to the public as restricted solely to activity outside the USA, in fact was prohibited, in its charter, written by Congress, from exercising "police, subpoena, or law-enforcement powers or internal security functions." It simply would not operate at home: any domestic work that needed to be done would be handled by the FBI.
But, from the very beginning, the OSS/CIA began to stretch the envelope. According to Admiral Stansfield Turner, appointed by President Carter as CIA director in the hope of cleaning up the organization during the four years of his administration (1977 to 1981), "Some 300,000 Americans considered to be potentially 'dangerous' to our national security were indexed in a CIA computer, and separate files were created on approximately 7,200" -- including John Lennon.
Former President Bush was such a popular CIA director in his time because he pretty much gave them carte blanche to do whatever they wanted. I suspect those policies are currently in place once again. In fact, its pretty obvious that they are, as their budget increases and their staff and power have ballooned to unimaginable proportions since the "Attack on America." Just who attacked America and why remain debatable, but there is absolutely no doubt that "National Security" has become a top priority budget item like never before -- and never before have we been more insecure as a nation.
From early in 1972 John Lennon knew he was under surveillance, being followed in the streets and with his telephone tapped. More ominously, in late 1972, he told Paul Krassner, a left-wing friend of Yoko Ono's in San Francisco from the early 1960s: "Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident."
What really got the CIA and FBI so all fired up about Lennon was the idea for a "revolutionary road show," starring Lennon and Yoko. This combination of rock music and radical politics was to barnstorm its way across America in the early summer and end up in a giant protest rally outside the Republican National Convention at San Diego, where President Nixon was almost certain to be nominated for re-election at the presidential elections that November. The aim was a huge "political Woodstock" that would successfully accomplish at San Diego in 1972 what Jerry Rubin and his colleagues had failed to achieve at Chicago in 1968: the disruption of a major party's national convention. An organization originally named the Allamuchy Tribe, and then the Election Year Strategy Information Committee, was set up with headquarters in the basement of Lennon and Yoko's apartment in Greenwich Village. No federal law was being broken in this, but it concerned a president of the United States, and was enough to get the FBI and the CIA crucially involved.
A little over three months after Lennon was murdered, newly inaugurated President Ronald Reagan was shot and nearly killed by John Hinckley, in New York City, again.
Hinckley's father, a Denver, Colorado resident, is a close personal friend of George Bush Sr. and sons.
For several weeks before attempting to assissinate Reagan, Hinckley prowled the streets of New York. Hinckley followed as exactly as he possibly could every single move that Mark David Chapman had made, in the days before Chapman murdered John Lennon. At the time of their respective arrests following both shooting incidents, John Hinckley and Mark David Chapman were each carrying on their person a paperback copy of the JD Salinger novel, Catcher in the Rye.
Author JD Salinger had substantial and enduring ties to the US intelligence community, in particular, the CIA.
Hinckley first came to New York well before his attempt to assassinate Reagan, in order to prepare himself for his assigned role by imitating Chapman's moves and actions of a few months before.
Reagan was wounded, but survived. His leadership ability, questionable at best, became even less credible as time wore on and the ability of the people to trust their leadership and believe their representation was being respected and honored withered away, particularly in the face of the Iran-Contra scandal.
Who was really pulling the strings? And who continues to benefit, even today?
America deserves better than what passes for democracy today. It isn't. And it's time to take it back.
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bornfree
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| Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:11 am Post subject: Lennon |
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The Beatles spent a lot of time in Germany. Their famous hair cut was German and in the song where Lennon lists things he no longer believes in he includes Hitler.
When someone asks why liberals haven't spoken out during this administration these are list of well known reasons, JFK, MLK, Malcom X, Bobby Kennedy and John Lennon just to name a few.
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john23 is correct...almost. Almost I say because Paul McCartney didn't die in 1966! But I digress. Fintan is as ever, firing on all cylinders; backandtotheleft is frontandtotheright on this one. So, why was John Lennon assassinated? One word: Tavistock.
'One week before he was murdered [sic], John Lennon revealed on an New York radio interview (which I've heard several times), that the Beatles [sic] were created by Tavistock to launch a new paradigm for youth to abandon traditonal values for sex, drugs, and rock n' roll. He said he was he was going to reveal the whole secret and had come out of hiding to do so. Aside from this astounding revelation, Lennon never got the chance to tell all he knew'.
Source: 'Was Hitler a"British" Agent?'
http://www.savethemales.ca/001399.html There's more:
POPULAR CULTURE = BRAINWASHING
'The 35-page Chapter "The Aquarian Conspiracy" is available on line at Anthony Grigor-Scott's excellent web site. I am merely highlighting the most pertinent points. Consider the following as Cliffs Notes.
"Popular culture" (music, TV, movies, books, fashion etc.) is NOT spontaneous but corporate controlled and manufactured. EIR compares it with the drug trade in general: "Today's mass culture operates like the opium trade: The supply determines the demand." (545) (Think of the talentless Ashlee Simpson, Paris Hilton etc..)
For example, the bankers' social engineering branch, the Tavistock Institute, manufactured the Beatles phenomenon. The screaming teenagers were bused in from a girl's school.
"In 1963 the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show. They combined rock and mystical music, long hair, and Hindu worship...Drugs were suggested in many of their songs: "Yellow Submarine" (a "submarine" is a "downer"), "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" (the initials of the main words are LSD), "Hey Jude" (a song about methadrine), "Strawberry Fields" (where opium is grown to avoid detection) and "Norwegian Wood" (a British term for marijuana).
John Lennon's song "Imagine" attacked religion ("Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky"), espoused a do-your-own-thing philosophy ("Imagine all the people, Living for today"), attacked nationalism ("Imagine there's no countries"), attacked religion ("It is isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too"), called for the abolition of private property ("Imagine no possessions").
It supported a new international order ("I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people, Sharing all the world") and advocated a one-world government ("You may say I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one, I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.") Lennon called for abolition of private property and then left his Japanese-born widow a $250 million estate." '
Source: 'Bankers' Are Behind The Counter-Culture'
http://www.savethemales.ca/000916.html
Just as John Lennon and The Beatles were manufactured -- as manufactured and bubble-wrapped as The Monkees -- so too were/are U2, The Boomtown Rats, in fact pretty much all of so-called popular- and counter- culture. Just look as the dance/ecstacy scene. Ever wondered why the street price of MDMA has dramatically fallen [I have it on good authority]? And we all keep falling for it, we're all fallable. It's a drug, it's got a funky beat, think I'll bug out to it.
Aerodynamic in the evening air, Lucy.
E's are good, Jude.
911 is a joke.
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devabarry
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| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:49 pm Post subject: Automaton Tavistock Messenger |
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Do I smell fake money here? Perhaps everything's bought and sold, including the glorious 60s, but the grandest schemes birth the seeds of their opposites; just ask the axis (bold as love). Meanwhile back at Tommy's holiday camp we trade in our hours for handfuls of dimes, bearing fleeting glimpses of gloried days when pipers called us at the gates of dawn. Was it all preordained? That, cat, is something I can't explain  .
But perhaps Pete described it for us years ago:
PUNK:
You declared you would be three inches taller
You only became what we made you.
Thought you were chasing a destiny calling
You only earned what we gave you.
You fell and cried as our people were starving,
Now you know that we blame you.
You tried to walk on the trail we were carving,
Now you know that we framed you.
G.F.:
I'm the guy in the sky
Flying high Flashing eyes
No surprise I told lies
I'm the punk in the gutter
I'm the new president
But I grew and I bent
Don't you know? don't it show?
I'm the punk with the stutter.
My my my my my mmmm my my my.
GGGGG-g-g-g-g generation.
PUNK:
We tried to speak between lines of oration
You could only repeat what we told you.
Your axe belongs to a dying nation,
They don't know that we own you.
You're watching movies trying to find the feelers,
You only see what we show you.
We're the slaves of the phony leaders
Breathe the air we have blown you.
G.F.:
I'm the guy etc.
I have to be careful not to preach
I can't pretend that I can teach,
And yet I've lived your future out
By pounding stages like a clown.
And on the dance floor broken glass,
The bloody faces slowly pass,
The broken seats in empty rows,
It all belongs to me you know.
PUNK:
You declared etc.
(Lyrics to The Punk and the Godfather - The Who, Quadrophenia)
A new punk president arisen from the gutter? Stutter, speech problem, whatever. |
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No beef with you atm, but if only Henry Makov didn't harp on relentlessly
that "London-based Masonic bankers" control the CIA, he would have
more credibility. (This London control paradigm is also a fave of
Jon Rappoport.) Like, don't blame the intelligence service of the world's
largest military power -blame London masons.
Ok, I get that Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll is less threatening to
the estalishment than burning barricades in the streets.
But then there is this from Makov:
| Quote: | John Lennon's song "Imagine" attacked religion
("Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky"),
Er.... I think he was attacking dualistic psychosis.
If that means religion, then way to go John. 
espoused a do-your-own-thing philosophy ("Imagine all the people, Living for today"),
Sounds like Lennon is advocating living in the immanence of today.
It's not a do-your-own-thing mantra. But even if it was, do your own thing
sounds to me like developing individuality outside the herd. Which is good.
attacked nationalism ("Imagine there's no countries"),
And nationalism is um.. good, eh?
attacked religion ("It is isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too"),
And religion isn't born out of the same dualistic psychosis which enables
the murder of another person because they are... enemy, or is it?
called for the abolition of private property ("Imagine no possessions").
It supported a new international order ("I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man, Imagine all the people, Sharing all the world")
and advocated a one-world government ("You may say I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one, I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.")....
This is not the first time I've seen Lennon's Imagine being touted as a
theme song for the Global Fascist One World Government.
But, that's way too simplistic an analysis.
Many people believe nationalism sucks. I'm one.
It's a one-size-fits-all territorial, culturally introspective dead-end.
As a child we believe first in God (i.e. we believe we are God and get
pissed when the world doesn't agree.) Then we grow up some. Then we
believe that Mom and Dad are God, and are pissed when other kids insist
their Dad is a Bigger God than ours. At this time we believe in
the nationalism of the family.
Then we try desperately to be cool in the ape-me teens. And we
invariably sell our potential to the mass instinct. Then we buy into a
national identity, and likely into the Big Dad in the sky.
Finally, after many years we flower as iconoclastic individuals.
And could give a s**t what our family or the national herd believe.
If we are lucky.
So, to sum up, I see growth as an escape from any kind of collectivism.
That's why I think nationalism sucks. And why I regard Makov's outrage
at attacks on nationalisn and religion as sadly misjudged.
And there's another point:
It's wrong to say the elitist one-worlder's are against nationalism.
They use nationalism and tribalism to divide, conquer and control.
They just want it to be a hollow shell --where national governments are
effectively subsumed into a security-council-controlled global market.
(for market: read corporate global state)
But others today want to see a global assembly of the people for the people.
Not a superpower sham which enables elite rule.
They want a cantonization of nations; want to see the diversification of
power. They want the States of the United States each with it's place in a
global assembly. They want each state to do those functions which the
cantons of which they are comprized cannot do.
That's the kind of stuff Lennon was on about.
Not easy to achieve. Gettng rid of parasites never is.
Bottom-up, global equity --not top-down global hegemony.
There's a big difference.
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I once heard that - way back when - when the Turks were getting ready to attack the Greeks they would infiltrate the Greek society with drugs to make them docile & malleable.
Same as has been going on in the USA since the 1960s! |
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Not surprising that George Bush Sr was behind Lennon's murder but another interesting point is that Bush was almost certainly behind the attempt on President Reagan's life shortly afterwards.
It was always obvious to me that a thoroughly and obviously malevolent creature such as Bush Sr could not be elected US President on his own. The way he got in was by forcing Reagan to put him on the ticket as VP. Not willing to wait very long to get the top job, Bush ordered Reagan taken out just a few months after the Innauguration! What a greedy turd. In 1989 the only reason Bush Sr was elected was that people were voting for four more years of Reagan. When he tried to run 'on his own' four years later he was beaten by his buddy 'Blowjob Bill' Clinton.
As a Californian who was a bit close to the situation I have always believed Ronald Reagan was basically a good person - who btw made his money fair and square by working for it in the private sector(something unknown to most of his predecessors and to all of his succesors). |
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| Pardon my oversimplification. Great reading! Thanks. |
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Fintan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:51 pm Post subject: Was Timothy Leary a CIA Agent? |
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| Quote: | Tinker, Tailor, Stoner, Spy: Was Timothy Leary a CIA Agent?
by Mark Riebling
Timothy Leary, the CIA, and LSD: A Narrative Chronology. Touches on Angleton, JFK, and the mysterious unsolved murder of Mary Meyer.
EXT. THE WHITE HOUSE -- SUNSET -- (JULY 1962)
Summer-bachelor Jack Kennedy stands on the Harry Truman balcony overlooking the rose-garden fountain, a soothing sight before him: prisms of lighted water shooting into darkness, the white spike of the Washington Monument, auto headlights flickering along Executive Avenue. He begins to feel a deep-seated goodness within, centered between his chest and throat. From the bedroom behind him, through white chiffon curtains in open french doors, float the chords of a Sinatra song -- "All I Need is the Girl." With strange clarity, JFK can suddenly make out every note...
Behind the curtains moves the shadow of a tall woman who is not his wife. She is deeply connected to CIA, and has just dispensed to the President of the United States a dose of LSD. In the next few hours she will be "brainwashing" him, and she will be doing so on the directions of a Harvard psychologist, Dr. Timothy Leary, whose colleagues are all taking CIA money, and who has himself designed a personality test used by CIA....
This, or something very much like this, actually happened. To understand how and why it happened requires cruising back a few years, digging through government documents, reading between the lines of Leary's autobiography, Flashbacks. It's a trip through the secret maze of the American pyschedelic underground, a journey that is its own destination, a mystery that must be solved by the reader's own detective work. What follows are the undisputed facts, the clues.
September 1942: The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), wartime precursor to CIA, begins searching for a drug that will force subjects of interrogation, such as captured Nazi U-boat crews, to reveal secrets. As project director Dr. Stanley Lovell will recall, the idea of a "truth drug" is "considered fantastic by the realists, unethical by the moralists, and downright ludicrous by the physicians." But according to OSS records, Lovell goes ahead and tests "mescaline, various barbiturates, scopolamine, benzedrine, cannabis indica (marijuana), etc." The best results are obtained with the marijuana: "A few minutes after administration, the subject gradually becomes relaxed, and experiences a sensation of well-being... thoughts flow with considerable freedom... conversation becomes animated and accelerated. Inhibitions fall away.... [the drug] makes manifest any strong characteristics of the individual.... Whatever the individual is trying to withhold will be forced to the top of his subconscious mind." To "administer" the pot without a subject's knowing it, OSS scientists dissolve marijuana leaves in acetone, then heat the result into a clear, odorless, viscous liquid -- tetrahydrocannabional acetate -- which can be "injected into any type of food, such as mashed potatoes, butter, salad dressing, or in such things as candy."
May 25, 1943: THC acetate is tested on an unknowing subject, Lower East Side mafioso August "Little Augie" Del Gaizo, who has been helping OSS smuggle agents into Nazi-held Sicily. Little Augie is considered an ideal subject because he has secrets he is "most anxious to conceal, the revelation of which might result in his imprisonment"; in fact, he prides himself on having never informed, and has even "been instrumental in killing some persons who have been informants." But after smoking two proffered cigarettes, laced with a total of .14 grams THC, Little Augie becomes "obviously 'high' and extremely garrulous" as he sits in the apartment of OSS officer George White, a former Treasury agent who had arrested him several times in the past. When White turns the subject to law enforcement, Little Augie "with no further encouragement" divulges the identities of city officials on the take; details of the criminal empire run by Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel; "and other information that subject would not give under ordinary circumstances. There is no question but that administration of the drug was responsible for loosening the subject's tongue." Henceforth, OSS refers to the THC acetate simply as "TD," a cryptonym for "Truth Drug."
1944: OSS uses "TD" in secret operations. Lovell reports that "Certain disclosures of the greatest value are in the possession of our military intelligence as a result of this treatment, which it is felt would otherwise not be known. Properly employed... it may be a national asset of incalculable importance." But OSS officials, fearing political backlash if use of the drug is revealed, shut the program down.
April-May 1945: Jack Kennedy, before entering politics, is working as a reporter for the Hearst newspaper chain. While covering the charter conference of the United Nations at San Francisco, he frequently sees an old flame from Choate, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and her husband, Cord Meyer, Jr., who is an assistant to the American delegation. A young Yale graduate and award-winning literary talent, Cord Meyer was badly wounded by a Japanese hand-grenade on Guam and has a glass eye; when he smokes cigarettes, the smoke slowly drifts up and into his open, nerveless, unblinking left eye, curling around the glass orb. The sight so disconcerts JFK that he finds himself rubbing his own left eye in a kind of sympathetic agony.
September 1946: Timothy Leary begins doctoral studies in psychology at Berkeley.
1947: Dr. Werner Stoll, a researcher at Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, publishes the first scientific articles on LSD-25, an extract of rye mold, noting that it accelerates thinking and blunts suspicion in schizophrenics.
1947-48: As a graduate student in psychology, Leary attends the first two national conventions of the American Veterans Committee (AVC), a left-wing veterans group, as a California state delegation leader. At the second AVC convention, in Milwaukee, Leary meets Cord Meyer, who is then spearheading an anti-communist purge of the organization. Meyer lectures Leary about communism, and the importance of liberal resistance to it. Leary will later credit Meyer with "helping me understand my political-cultural role more clearly."
Late 1950: Cord Meyer joins CIA and begins working in its International Relations Division, of which he is soon put in charge. The express purpose of this division is to covertly finance, infiltrate, and encourage noncommunist liberal-left movements and institutions, such as labor unions, creative-academic societies, and student groups.
April 13, 1953: CIA launches Operation MK/ULTRA, a major drug and mind-control program. Although THC acetate is studied as an interrogation aid, CIA is more concerned about reports of communist brainwashing experiments on American POWs in Korea, and focuses on stronger, hallucinogenic drugs. "Aside from the offensive potential, the development of a comprehensive capability in this field... gives a thorough knowledge of the enemy's theoretical potential, thus enabling us to defend ourselves against a foe who might not be as restrained in the use of these techniques as we are." Some CIA employees, including perhaps Meyer, volunteer for experiments. Through a front organization called The Society For Human Ecology, CIA begins sponsoring $25 million in research into the effects of mind-altering drugs -- LSD, psilocybin and mescaline -- at Harvard University and at several cites in the San Francisco-Oakland area, including Stanford and Berkeley.
1954-59: Leary is director of clinical research and psychology at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Oakland. He devises a personality test, "The Leary," which is used by CIA to test prospective employees. He has also become a close friend to Frank Barron, a graduate school classmate who has ben working for CIA since at least 1953. Barron works at the Berkeley Institute for Personality Assessment and Research, which Leary will later acknowledge is "funded and staffed by OSS-CIA psychologists."
1960-61: Barron founds the Harvard Pyschedelic Drug Research Center. Leary follows Barron to Harvard and becomes a lecturer in psychology. After Barron administers to him some CIA-supplied psilocybin and LSD, Leary begins tripping regularly. He also studies the effects of psycheledics on others in controlled experiments. He later admits to knowing, at the time, that "some powerful people in Washington have sponsored all this drug research." In addition to Barron, Leary's associates and assistants during this period include former OSS chief pyschologist Harry Murray, who had montiored military experiments on Truth-Drug brainwashing and interrogation, and Martin Orne, a researcher receiving funds from CIA. Leary also consults British philosopher Aldous Huxley, author of the psychedelic manifesto, The Doors of Perception (from which Jim Morrision would later take name his band). Huxley, who is at Harvard on a visiting professorship, urges Leary to form a secret order of LSD-Illuminati, to launch and lead a psychedelic conspiracy to brainwash influential people for the purposes human betterment. "That's how everything of culture and beauty and philosophic freedom has been passed on," Huxley tells him. "Initiate artists, writers, poets, jazz musicians, elegant courtesans. And they'll educate the intelligent rich."
Spring 1962: Mary Meyer, recently divorced from her CIA husband, visits Leary at Harvard. She leans against the door post, hip tilted provocatively, studying him with green-blue eyes. Leary will later recall here as "amused, arrogant, aristocratic." She tells him she has a "friend who's a very important man, who wants to try LSD for himself." At the time, though Leary does not know this, Mary is having an affair with President Kennedy, which will include more than thirty visits to the White House (later confirmed by Presidential Secretary Kenneth O'Donnell). Mary tells Leary that the government is studying ways to "use drugs for warfare, for espionage, for brainwashing." She asks him to "teach us how to run [LSD] sessions, use drugs to do good." Leary agrees. He provides her with drug samples and "session" reports, and is in touch with her every few weeks, advising her on how to be a "brainwasher." She swears him to secrecy.
Late July, 1962: While the First Lady is away at the Kennedy summer home in Hyannisport, Mary calls on JFK at the White House. She records the visit in her diary, and later describes it to her close friend James Truitt of the Washington Post. She and the President of the United States smoke two joints of marijuana, reportedly prompting the leader of the free world to say, "This isn't at all like cocaine. I'll get you some of that." Once he is suitably "loosened up" -- Leary has emphasized the need to put subjects in a "benevolent state" before turning them on -- Mary dispenses to Jack a dose of LSD. As it starts to "kick in," he goes out and stands on Harry Truman's balcony overlooking the rose-garden fountain, a soothing sight before him....
Fall 1962: Leary meets Mary Meyer in a room at Boston's Ritz Hotel. She alludes to her "hush-hush love affair," and tells him that "top people in Washington are turning on." According to Leary's recounting, she also says: "Do you remember the American Veterans Committee, that liberal veterans group you belonged to after the war? The CIA started that." She explains to him that "CIA creates the radical journals and student organizations and runs them with deep-cover agents.... dissident organizations in academia are also controlled." When Leary asks her how she knows all this, she explains: "I knocked you with those facts to get your attention. It's a standard intelligence trick." She confides that CIA has not only been running left-wing groups as fronts, but has been sponsoring more psychedelic research than he will ever know. "You are doing exploratory work the CIA tried to do in the 1950s. So they're more than happy to have you do their research for them. Since drug research is of vital importance to the intelligence agencies of this country, you'll be allowed to go on with your experiments as long as you keep it quiet," she advises.
Spring 1963: Leary again meets Mary Meyer at the Ritz. She says that her love affair has been exposed, although no publicity has resulted. "I don't trust the phones or the mail," she warns. He is to make no contact with her until further notice. May-June 1963: Mary warns Leary, who is conducting a psychedelic summer camp in Mexico, that their "sessions" are "in jeopardy" because he is attracting "too much publicity."
September 1963: Mary drives up to see Leary, now conducting experiments at a large private estate in Milbrook, New York. She gives him, for his experiments, a bottle of "the best LSD in the world," from the National Institute of Mental Health. She takes countersurveillance precautions, and says: "We had eight intelligent women turning on the most powerful men in Washington. And then we got found out.... I made a mistake in recruitment. A wife snitched on us... I've gotten mixed up in some dangerous matters."
December 1, 1963: Around this time Mary calls Leary, who had been "expecting a phone call from [her]... ever since the Kennedy assassination." According to Leary, she says: "They couldn't control him anymore. He was changing too fast. They've covered everything up.... I'm afraid. Be careful."
October 12, 1964: Mary Meyer is shot to death, execution-style, at 12:45 p.m., on a park towpath by the Georgetown Canal in Washington, D.C. Her body is identified by Ben Bradlee, Cord Meyer's brother-in-law, editor of the Washington Post. CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton confiscates and later burns the diary in which Mary has recorded her liaisons with JFK. A black laborer with a wife and five children, 26-year old Raymond Crump, Jr., is arrested on suspicion of murdering Mary in a robbery attempt, but she had not been carrying a purse, and there is no credible eyewitness testimony placing Crump at the site.
July 20, 1965. A jury deliberates only eleven hours before acquitting Crump in Mary Meyer's death. The murder weapon is never found; the crime is never solved.
1965-66: FBI agents openly surveil Leary's drug experimentation compound at Milbrook. Leary, intimidated, considers relocating to Mexico. For jurisdictional reasons, the Bureau turns the case over to former FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy, now a county prosecutor, who later says: "The word was that at Leary's lair the panties were dropping as fast as the acid." Liddy leads a raid by sheriffs in March 1966. Leary is charged with possession of illegal drugs, but the case is dropped on technicalities after the Supreme Court's Miranda decision in June. This series of events imprints on Leary a deep distrust of the FBI and of "cops" generally.
January-August 1967: Ramparts, a radical magazine, exposes CIA sponsorship of the National Student Association, a Cord Meyer project. Meyer's best friend, James Angleton, assigns CIA officer Richard Ober to begin a leak investigation into the Ramparts story. Ober's probe is soon expanded into a spy program on the countercultural and student-protests movements, code named CHAOS.]
September 1967: Just as CHAOS is launched, Leary moves from the isolation of upstate New York, where he has been philosophically contemplating the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and becomes a gregarious, media-hounding fixture of the Southern California countercultural scene, telling young people to "Tune in, Turn On, Drop Out."
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1968: While other New-Left leaders preach violent overthrow of the U.S. Government and creation of a Marxist dictatorship, Leary urges instead a nonviolent, drug-oriented "hippie capitalism," an artsy-craftsy, decentralized, libertarian sort of entrepeneurship that will also soon find its expression in the culture of the Grateful Dead. While Leary's position does constitute a rejection of the corporate world, it also embraces private property and the profit motive. Because of this, the Marxist Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) denounces Leary and his noncommunist followers for "limiting the revolution." The Progressive Labor Party (PLP), a Maoist "Old Left" group, goes so far as to claim that Leary is a CIA agent. But the PLP is accusing everyone it disgarees with of being CIA.
1969: Leary critics will eventually point with suspicion to his close connections during this time to an international LSD-smuggling cartel, the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, which is rumored to be a CIA front. The Brotherhood is controlled by Ronald Stark, whom an Italian High Court will later conclude has been a CIA agent since 1960, and the Brotherhood's funds are channeled through Castle Bank in the Bahamas, a known CIA "proprietary." For two years Leary lives at Brotherhood headquarters, located on a ranch in Laguna Beach. During this period, the Brotherhood corners the U.S. market on LSD and begins distributing only one variety of the drug, "Orange Sunshine." Stark says he plans to distribute the product to CIA-backed guerillas fighting Chinese occupation; he reportedly knows a high-placed Tibetan close to the Dalai Lama, and wants to provide enough LSD to dose all Chinese troops in Tibet. In the U.S., meanwhile, Stark provides enough Orange Sunshine to dose the hippie culture and radical left many times over. This is the "bad acid" on which Charles Manson's followers murder Sharon Tate, and on which Hell's Angels stab to death a black man during a concert by the Rolling Stones. The Summer of Love has been supplanted by a Season of Hate. Because of this, many countercultural insiders -- including William S. Burroughs, White Panther leader John Sinclair, and Merry Prankster Ken Kesey -- will eventually entertain the theory that Stark, Leary, and Orange Sunshine are all part of CIA plot to discredit and neutralize the radical left. According to former radicals Martin Lee and Bruce Shalin, widespread use of Orange Sunshine "contributed significantly to the demise of the New Left, for it heightened the metabolism of the body politic and accelerated all the changes going on... In its hyped-up condition, the New Left burned itself out."
Fall 1969: According to declassified government documents, CIA now has a CHAOS agent with "particularly good entree into the highest levels of the domestic radical community," who is providing "extremely personal data." It is decided to send this agent to infiltrate the overseas headquarters of the Black Panthers, but this will not be accomplished for many months. In the meantime, CIA will debrief him for purely domestic information about his associates, in part because he does not "wish to deal with the FBI." This description perfectly fits Leary. No one has better "entree" than Leary, who has recently been helicoptered in as the guest of honor at Woodstock. Few have more "personal" data on radical figures than the man who is personally turning them on. The overall pattern of Leary's career, his continual links to people who are linked to CIA, is certainly suggestive. So is the fact that, like CIA's "star agent," his willingness to mix with CIA-types does not extend to the FBI, which Leary has disliked since Liddy's raid on Milbrook.
1970: In February, Leary is convicted of marijuana possession and jailed at Lompoc, California. This seems clear evidence that he is not, after all, a CIA asset or government informant. Yet CIA has at times employed agents or infomrants who are later prosecuted for activities unrelated to their government work. For instance, Johnny Rosselli, and other Mafiosi hired by CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro in the early 1960s, are eventually taken down by the FBI, though over CIA protest. If then, Leary is working for CIA, this may complicate, but ultimately not preclude, his prosecution for other "crimes." In any case, Leary is not exactly chained to the wall in a dark cellar. Lompoc is a minimum-security, white-collar "joint," the plushest in the United States, and Leary is still able to get acid. His movements, moreoover, soon keep him in a position to provide valuable intelligence to the U.S. government.
September 12, 1970: Leary is "liberated" from Lompoc by members of the Weather Underground, an SDS offshoot named after Bob Dylan's lyric, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." The Weathermen have launched a Marxist guerilla struggle in the United States, and Leary pledges his solidarity in a a "POW Statement." It reads, in part: "Listen Americans! Your government is an instrument of totally lethal evil. Resist actively, sabotage, jam the computer... hijack planes, trash every lethal machine in the land.... To shoot a genocidal robot policeman in the defense of life is a sacred act.... Total war is upon us.... WARNING: I am armed and should be considered dangerous!" This especially provocative and hyperbolic communique has two main effects. It re-establishes Leary's bona fides in the radical underground, and it turns American opinion farther against the New Left.
October 1970: According to Angleton's deputy, Scott Miler, CIA is at this time trying quite hard to the answer the question: "What was Eldridge Cleaver doing in Algeria?" As it happens, Leary now flies to Algiers and joins up with Black Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver. Leary's travels, and the operation to spring him from jail, have been financed by Stark and the Brotherhood.
October 21, 1970: A CIA memo records that its prized CHAOS source -- Leary? -- is now overseas.
November 1970 -- May 1971: Cleaver grows suspicious of Leary, searches Leary's apartment "for documents proving that we [Leary and his wife] were CIA operatives," and imprisons him in the Panthers' Algerian compound as "white slaves."
February 12, 1971: A CIA document reports that "Eldridge Cleaver and his Algiers contingent have apparently become disenchanted with the antics of Tim Leary.... Electing to call their action protective custody, Cleaver and company, on their own authority, have put Tim and Rosemary under house arrest." Since Leary's condition is not publicly known, this report can only have come from penetration of Cleaver's entourage. Unless CIA has recruited black militants -- a sociologically unlikely scenario -- the information has most probably come from electronic surveillance on the Panther compound, or from secret communications by Leary or his wife. May 1971: Leary and his wife escape to Switzerland with the assistance, according to Leary, of an "Algerian bureaucrat named Ali," who "made no bones about his connection to the CIA." "Are you sure you can trust him?" Leary's wife asks him. "He's liberal CIA," Leary says, "and that's the best mafia you can deal with in the twentieth century." The escape operation is financed by the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, though checks drawn on CIA's Castle Bank.
June 18-19, 1972: G. Gordon Liddy, now working for Republicans' Campaign to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), oversees a break-in of the Democratic National Committe at Watergate. The burglars are caught and Liddy is arrested. The next day, top CIA officials meet secretly to discuss the burglary, in which Liddy has used some ex-CIA agents working for ex-CIA officer Howard Hunt at the White House. CIA director Richard Helms orders his deputies to carry out a "damage control" strategy, to deflect suspicion away from the Agency and toward the President's Men. This is exactly what is accomplished by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's key "intelligence community" source in the case, Deep Throat, who begins providing tips to Woodward this very day, a few hours after CIA's damage control meeting. The coincidence of timing suggests that Throat is someone who is at the CIA conference and who has close connections to the Post. Cord Meyer, now #2 man in CIA's Operations Directorate, is at the meeting, and is still close with his in-law Bradlee, the Post's editor. He also fits perfectly the many clues Woodward later drops as to Throat's identity, including chain smoking, a knowledge of literature (Meyer was an award-winning fiction writer before joining CIA) and a battle-scarred face (Meyer had a glass eye).
1973-78: After two years of "jet-setting" in Switzerland, Leary returns to the U.S. By his own account, this has occured through the machinations of CIA; Leary says they have "kidnapped" him. He is convicted on drug charges, and begins doing hard time at Folsom Prison. This seems clear evidence, again, that suspicions about his ultimate loyalties are merely left-wing paranoia. But after a few months out of public view, Leary comes into the open as a government informant. Under the code-name CHARLIE THRUSH, he turns State's evidence against the Weather Underground. Freed from prison, he is taken into custody for fear that radical revolutionaries have marked him for execution. His former colleagues in the movement form a group calling itself People Investigating Leary's Lies (PILL). Abbie Hoffmann declares that "Timothy Leary is a name worse than Benedict Arnold." Allen Ginsburg says that Leary is "like Zabbath Zvi, false Messiah, accepted by millions of Jews centuries ago."
1978-93: After his last offical contacts with security agencies, in 1978, Leary distances himself both from the government and the "movement" that no longer really exists. Out in the cold, he becomes a sophist in the true sense, a wise-man for rent or hire. Early in the Reagan years he "debates" G. Gordon Liddy, the Watergate burglar who once busted him at Milbrook, on a nationwide tour. Former sixties radicals disgustedly describe the event as "bogus," and say it is proof that Leary is "in with the fuzz." At the very least, Leary seems to the Left a lightweight, a one-man Madison Avenue scam, a functional part of the Establishment he once swore to subvert. He hangs out at Helena's, the trendy restaurant in which Jack Nicholson has an interest, and he occasionally philosophizes for a fee at Carlos and Charlie's, a local restaurant that also headlines Joan Rivers. He defends his New Style by saying, quite earnestly: "If Aristotle were alive today, he'd have a talk show." He also publishes Flashbacks: An Autobiography, recounting obliquely his dealings with Cord and Mary Meyer and his work as a government informant, touching only in passing on CIA's funding of LSD resarch. He designs computer software and hails the coming of the Information Superhighway. Though lacking family wealth, or any gainful employment since 1962, he has nevertheless managed to become a rich man. He lives in Benedict Canyon, only a doors away from the house where Manson's followers, and Orange Sunshine, did their worst. From his yard he can survey the whole City of Light, and he likes the symbolism of that.
April 14, 1994:
Leary, aged 73, visits Gainesville, Florida. He has come to present a multi-media lecture demonstration of electronic mind expansion, "How To Operate Your Brain." Three thousand people sit down to see him. He wears white Adidas, black polyester pants, and a psychedelic vest with a '93 Lollapalooza Guest Pass stuck on it.
In his warm-up remarks, he describes looking out the window of his plane on the way in, and comments that "the clouds in Gainseville have been constructed by George Lucas." He complains that it's hard to buy marijuana anymore, and says that pot causes short-term memory loss, but also "long-term memory gain." He says he will be trying to "brainwash" the audience, "not to resist or fight authority, but to engage it in a dialogue to force progressive change."
The lights go down, and some electronic funk comes on. Leary serves as narrator-guide while colors and words flicker and flash on a screen. He quotes Socrates and Ralph Waldo Emerson. People should think for themselves and question authority. Also, "Divinity resides within."
After the lights come on, Leary opens the gig up for questions -- but only after warning us, "You're not supposed to believe anything I say." People start queueing up for questions at two microphones, and I'm about fifth in line at one of them. I'm planning to ask him about his rumored connections to CIA. Most of the "questions" before mine are pretty uncool. A lot are from NORML activists: "If you wanna come over to my place afterward..." Then some crazy-eyed man says, "The state of Florida is shaped like a gun, and Gainesveille is the trigger -- look at a map. Anyway, I'm a schizophrenic and I think I'm Jesus Christ. So Dr. Leary, am I Jesus Christ?" He is serious. Leary dispenses with him by saying, "Just don't get yourself crucified."
Finally it's my turn. I step up to the mike. Leary looks at me, looks at his watch. "Sorry, no more time for questions." A fist-faced steroidal security guard gets between me and the mike. Leary disappears behind the curtain.
As fans mill about afterward, I hear there's some kind of VIP reception for Leary in a side-room, guarded by more fat-necks in blue blazers. I scam my way in: My girlfriend is a professor at the Univeristy, and she talks to some guy who talks to some guy. The side room is one of those harshly lit holding tanks, like where a record company's PR girl puts you when she doesn't know you're "with the band." People nibble nervously on peanut-butter cookies until Leary enters. There's an initial crush forward, but then everyone sort of hestitates, afraid to get too close to "the man," unsure what to say. He sits down at the far side of the room. What the hell, I go for mine -- I sit down right next to him.
He inscribes to me a copy of FLASHBACKS. I notice that his hands are weird in the way old people's hands are, with these corroding purple spots. He seems tired and distracted, so I try the standard espionage trick: Knock him with some facts to get his attention. "You know, my stepmother used to work for Cord Meyer." Which is true; she was for some years a secretary at CIA.
Leary's reaction is physical: He jerks, as if jolted by some alternating current for which he has no adapter. His eyes are bright with memory. "Cord Meyer was a pretty intense guy," he says, smiling. I ask a couple other questions, tacking around. Then I put it to Leary like this. "You say in your book that a lot of the LSD experiments at Harvard and Berkeley were, like, paid for by CIA. So I was wondering -- I mean, what were your connections with the Agency?"
Suddenly he seems tight and defensive, finds the adapter and plugs it in. "They never gave me a dime," he says.
I look into his eyes, the way you do when you try to tell if someone is lying. I don't see deception, exactly; only pain. He doesn't say anything to me after this, so I awkwardly say goodbye and leave.
Driving home, in the dark, I feel some journalistic guilt for having bothered this good-hearted sage, whose views on life are mostly right. Maybe he has actually told me the truth. The pain in his eyes was probably injured innocence, the kind I'd feel if I'd done a great life's work and some punk kid asked me, at the end of it, if I'd been funded all along by the KGB. On the other hand, if he did collaborate with CIA, he'd hardly be at liberty to say so, would he? Might he not also feel just a bit guilty; thus the pain? And if the Agency never gave him any money, how did they get the rights to use the personality test that bears his name?
I come to a red light. Flashing in my mind is a subliminal message from Leary's "brainwashing" session: "Think for yourself -- question authority." And then I remember his warning to us, before the question & answer period: "You're not supposed to believe anything I say."
INT. CYBERSPACE -- GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA -- DAY
An impossible transition is required here. Questions hang, uanswered, like bats on the ceiling of a cave. Was Timothy Leary CIA, or what? What was Mary Meyer trying to "brainwash" JFK to do, and why did both die such untimely, mysterious deaths? Was Orange Sunshine really part of a government-orchstrated plot? Is Leary's Online Tip a new way to free the mind, or merely the final phase of his one-man plot to hijack the history of the world?
Damn if I know. The secret world of intelligence and espionage has been called a "wilderness of mirrors," and rightly. You can spend a lot of time saying, "On the one hand.... On the other hand," especially if you are on Truth Drug....
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Fintan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:01 pm Post subject: Some more Bono Bits |
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Just a few more links fleshing out the role of Bono in the Sarajevo thing,
and Al-Qaida's 9/11 roots in Yugoslavia.
| Quote: | Bono In Conversation
Post-Sarajevo Popmart concert, September 26, 1997
by Andrew Mueller, the Independent
U2 in Sarajevo: Part 1 - The Stage is Set
What politicians and diplomats have failed to do for years, rock music might well accomplish Tuesday: end the division of Bosnia, at least for a few hours.
Fans from all over the bitterly divided country flocked to Sarajevo to hear the Irish rock band U2 in concert - the biggest spectacle the city has seen since the 1984 Winter Olympics.......
During the war, U2 dedicated a song, Miss Sarajevo, to the city's suffering. On his ZOO TV tour in 1993-94, Bono established a direct link with Sarajevo - bringing a glimmer of the outside world to a city that endured 3 1/2 years of siege, shelling and sniping by the Serbs.
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Fintan
I agree - Makow certainly does leaves a bad taste in the mouth more often than not with his constant harping about all the World's ills being born of the Square Mile (very Ickey). BTW always found that interpretation of Lennon's 'Imagine' skewy to say the least, but interesting just the same, so while we were on the topic I thought I'd chuck it in for, ahem, good measure.
Another faker put back to bed.
Good work
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Damian Flynn
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The fact that Lennon's Imagine song can be interpreted to support the NWO and one global goverrnment would explain why the song has always been heavily promoted by the mainstream, including the media. Imagine is Lennon's best known song because of this. In recent years, I've seen some efforts in the mainstream media to write off John Lennon as fairly insignificant and a psychologicaly disturbed and confused person. The spooks certainly wanted to contain or control people like John Lennon as much as possible, and they did so successfully, hence the NWO spin on Imagine.
One Lennon song I like, which isn't so easy to spin, and which hasn't been made so popular is "Bring On the Lucie". I believe the song is supposed to relate to Richard Nixon, but the words may apply to any puppet or corrupt leaders. It's from the Mind Games album and here are the lyrics.
http://www.john-lennon.com/songlyrics/songs/Bring_on_the_Lucie_Freeda_People.htm
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Damian Flynn
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Just to highlight my point, check out all the spooky links on this page. You can do anything you want to a guy after he's dead. It's quite sad to see that Yoko actively helps the C.I.A. use Lennon's work to promote genocidal PsyOps.
http://www.john-lennon.com/
Note the spooky banner at the very top of the page. Lovearth Network
It would be very difficult to find a website more spooky than this
http://www.lovearth.net/
They have a Crop Circle Year Book on the left hand side. rofl. Check the list of titles under the crop circle image. |
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bornfree
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| Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:58 am Post subject: John Lennon is my favorite |
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There's room at the top, they are telling you still
But first you must learn to smile as you kill
~John Lennon (Working Class Hero)
I've always assumed this was the Answer Lennon gave to the Controllers later in his life, he'd rather be a working class hero. ???
It would have been interesting to hear John Lennon speak on 9-11. If you want to know what Bono thinks, listen to GWBush, Hillary Clinton and the G8. |
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