In one of his last acts as director of central intelligence, Helms ordered all MK-ULTRA records destroyed. The chief of the CIA Records Center in Warrenton, Virginia, was alarmed. He called [Sidney] Gottlieb and asked for confirmation. Gottlieb took the matter seriously enough to drive to the Records Center, present the order in person, and insist that it be carried out forthwith. On January 30, 1973, seven boxes of documents were shredded.
“Over my stated objections, the MK-ULTRA files were destroyed by order of the DCI (Mr. Helms) shortly before his departure from office,” the chief of the Records Center wrote in a memo for his file.
Around the same time, Gottlieb directed his secretary to open his office safe, remove files marked “MK-ULTRA” or “Secret Sensitive,” and destroy them. She did as she was told. Later she said she had made no record of what she destroyed and “never thought for a moment to question my instructions.” With these blows, a historic archive was lost.
The only reason it came to light at all as anything more than a rumor, is that they hadn't been diligent enough in destroying all (then physical) files:
Senators also believed they were finished with MK-ULTRA. Nearly two years had passed since “Joseph Scheider” testified about it in secret. With documents destroyed and the few people who knew the truth resolved to stay silent, the case had gone cold.
A sudden discovery reopened it. In 1977 the newly installed director of central intelligence, Stansfield Turner, whom President Jimmy Carter had appointed with a mandate to bring transparency to the CIA, received a Freedom of Information Act request for any MK-ULTRA files that might have escaped destruction. He passed it on to an archivist and encouraged him to make a thorough search. The archivist, as Turner later put it, “did a very diligent job of Sherlock Holmesing.” In a depot where CIA financial records were stored, he found a collection of MK-ULTRA expense reports. Among them were references to various “subprojects.” The Washington-based researcher whose FOIA request had led to the discovery, John Marks, released a batch of the documents at a press conference.
“Central Intelligence Agency documents released yesterday revealed new details of experiments on unsuspecting citizens designed to control their behavior through exotic drugs, electroshock, radiation and other means,” the Washington Post reported. “More than 1,000 pages of documents obtained from the Agency under the Freedom of Information Act provided the details on the super-secret project, code-named MK-ULTRA.”
This is from Stephen Kinzer's excellent book on MK Ultra: Poisoner In Chief. It details a lot of deep state crimes. It has received positive coverage in some mainstream media outlets, in case someone shouts "CONSPIRACY THEORIST" at you.
Always keep the above in mind when people say 'Conspiracies can't really happen, someone would talk'.
The only reason we know about MK Ultra and what they confess to happening(we'll likely never know the full extent) is because of a fucking accident.
By “destroyed documents” they mean renaming them under Project 1234-XYZ and continued operating.
The CIA was one of the first organizations to buy and use a mainframe. They learned their lesson here.
Anyways.. who told you they "destroyed all the documents?" Was it the CIAs own testimony? Why would you believe that? They lie for a living.
Isn't that perfect? Exactly the thing you'd want to find to put it all to bed. "Sure it happened but the details are all missing! We just have the canceled checks!" Exceptionally convenient for them.
I know one of the guys who did the clairvoyant thing. Apparently his base was in a ghetto and looked bad. They were able to get stuff, but it had a 1 in 3 success rate and no one knew how to improve it.
Money Laundering at its finest.
Unfortunately, MK Ultra was not that. People were killed, driven mad and driven to suicide with this program. They helped some Nazi and Japanese 'doctors' performing revolting "experiments" on people to get free so they could come work for the deep state.
Some of these victims were American prisoners of war.
What happened to the guy responsible for this? His name was Ishii.
This is from the same book.
Remote Viewing? Besides wasting money I don't know that that program had any concrete negative consequences, whereas MK Ultra absolutely did. The unabomber for one. Also a documented case of a secretly drugged agent jumping out a window to his death. Ford pardoned the perpetrators of that one.
Very interesting, thank you. A FOIA request, an honest!!!! CIA director and a diligent archivist exposed what otherwise would have been buried forever.
In 1984, McDonalds had a promotion giving away scratch off cards with Olympic competitions. If the USA won a medal in the competition on your card, you could get free food. But it turns out the Soviet Union boycotted the Olympics over Afghanistan, along a boycott of other countries. This skewed the results from the expected 90 something medals for America and wound up with something like 150+ medals, nearly half of them were gold for the highest prize: a free Big Mac. The promotion easily cost them a small fortune. They also ran it a few more times, but you'd better believe they put circuit breakers on it by selecting for the games that would limit losses.
This story isn't as unrelated as you might think... if this post is copium for Mossad's victory protecting their asset in the largest child sex operation allowed to operate practically in the open.
Not really copium, but rather, to not have people assume that even if the documents aren't there, that they were never there.
But I don't quite get your McDonald's rexample.