The Main Scientist behind MK-Ultra - a book recommendation

[Mark Kohut]

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=MK--Ultra&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3

On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 7:36 PM Hübschräuber via Pynchon-l <
pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:

> I second that recommendation. One should read John Marks' "The Search for
> the 'Manchurian Candidate'" first, however. For the adventurous, there is
> also Hank Albarellis's "A Terrible Mistake" about the Frank Olson affair
> and God knows what else. See also the TV series "Wormwood". William
> Sargant, i.e. Pointsman, played a role in the events, Cheney and Rumsfeld
> were involved in the cover-up.
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> I am still wondering how Pynchon could have known about MK-ULTRA by the
> time he wrote COL49.
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> Sicher versendet mit Proton Mail.
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> ------- Original Message -------
> matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> schrieb am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2023 um
> 11:34:
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> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I hope you're all well. I see that LSD and MK-Ultra came up on the list
> > so I thought I might throw something in along with it. All of you Fortean
> > Times subscribers and Paranoids will generally know about that mad CIA
> > Project, but what do you know about Sydney Gottlieb? Not much, I suppose,
> > because there was a time that not even some CIA director's recognised the
> > name.
> >
> > If you want to know more you should check out "Poisoner in Chief: Sydney
> > Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind-Control". One blurb compared it to a
> > Tarantino movie but that's likely because that critic hasn't read
> Pynchon.
> > Insanely vile stuff. Uranium laced cereal fed to "developmentally
> disabled"
> > children - really.
> >
> > The irony of the CIA turning the world on to LSD in an attempt to control
> > minds would be funnier without knowing the rest.
> >
> > ciao
> > mc otis
> >
> >
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