Disinformation
dis·in·for·ma·tion (dĭs-ĭn′fər-mā′shən)
n.
1. Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government or especially by an intelligence agency in order to influence public opinion or the government in another nation.
2. Dissemination of such misleading information.
Yesterday, a recent acquaintance sent me a link to a New York Times book review titled “When the C.I.A. Was Into Mind Control” by Sharon Weinberger, author and the Washington bureau chief for Yahoo News.
(In other words, Weinberger is supposed to be a real, legit reporter)
There are a couple of things that really bother me with this article, aside from the fact that it can’t be read it in full anymore unless one purchases a subscription.
Good thing I screenshot things like this.
“When” and “Was”
The very title “When the C.I.A. Was Into Mind Control” irks me. There is a very strong suggestion just through the title alone that immediately causes the reader to begin to form a conclusion such as, “Well… sure, the C.I.A. used to be into some pretty nefarious stuff, but they don’t do stuff like that anymore. Weinberger, a real legit reporter, said so.”
🙄
Uh-huh. Sure. I’ve come across people who actually believe and defend, against all evidence to the contrary, that line of thinking. I just stay away from them. Their willful stupidity is not only frustrating to the nth degree, but also dangerous.
But where are the reporters who will actually report TRUTH? Instead, “legit” reporters and “legit” news sources are being used, among other things, to actually cover up illegal, immoral, and deviant disgusting activities, some of which are being perpetrated by those who are in very high levels of government.
This isn’t a surprise to many of us.
However, there’s an additional problem that this lack of reporters with integrity is creating. In an effort to find sources of news that will actually report facts and uncover the political lies that serve to keep the vast majority of the populace brainwashed with lies (therefore, more easily influenced and controlled), those truth seekers within the masses will often come across a type of alternative news source that I refer to as “fringe news.”
Now, I’m not suggesting that all alternative news sources are fringe sources. Some are legit, from podcasters and Youtubers, to streaming news outlets and cable news sources, and thank God for them! But, like mainstream fake news, lies, propaganda, and craftily constructed “news” stories that are carefully worded so as to lead the reader or listener to a false conclusion, there is an element of alternative news that I call “fringe news” that is just as bad.
While on the surface these fringe news sources appear to satisfy the need for people to find out what is really going on underneath the surface (of which there is much!), from what I have observed and experienced, it can easily begin a campaign of “fear porn” whereby every single thing is turned into a conspiracy. It has reached such a fever-pitch that “conspiracy” has become almost a parody, people are becoming desensitized and undiscerning, and actual conspiracy is overlooked, ignored, or delegitimized. Like the boy who cried “wolf,” fringe sources frantically and repetitively point to wolves when there are none around, doing a disservice to everyone.
And all of this for the sake of “truth seeking.”
The issues we have had in the United States with these fake news sources, both mainstream and fringe, has, as of the time I edited and reposted this article, finally started to be called out for what it is, and for that I’m thankful. But it’s still a problem, one that I doubt will ever be actually solved, and it’s more than simply frustrating. It’s a threat to the security of a free people.
So to the true seeker I say: verify everything, don’t worry about anything, and if you start feeling stressed out or notice you are becoming addicted, stop watching or listening for a period of time. Whether true news, fake news, or “I’m-not-sure” news, don’t let anyone steal your peace or take over your life. Most things in life are out of your control. Learn to be okay with that.
“Parapsychology”
But the biggest grievance I have with Weinberger’s article comes down to the last two paragraphs, where she writes:
Given that this is a biography, it’s worth noting there is one Gottlieb endeavor omitted from an otherwise comprehensive book, the poisoner in chief’s role in another equally questionable, though less harmful, endeavor: parapsychology. Near the end of his C.I.A. career, Gottlieb awarded a contract to the Stanford Research Institute to see whether “psychics” could be used to help spy on American enemies.
They couldn’t, but that didn’t stop American spies from pouring millions into psychic research for more than a decade, long after Gottlieb left the C.I.A. Perhaps the kindest thing that can be said about what may have been Gottlieb’s final contribution to secret science is that at least, in the end, no one died.
First of all, “Less harmful”…?!
And, “…at the least, in the end, no one died”… ?!
How nice that Weinberger has the luxury and the emotional/mental capacity to express such a cavalier attitude towards a C.I.A. program that a.) did exist, as Weinberger has at least admitted; and b.) negatively affected many lives, including those of children who were eventually part of this “psychic research.”
At the least, she owes the victims of such crimes an apology for her dismissive attitude expressed in her article, and ideally, a rewording of her article to clarify her viewpoint and to reflect at least a modicum of compassion for such victims.
Would that be so difficult? To express a smidgen of compassion for people who’s lives were ruined by military/C.I.A. experimentation?!
Please apologize, Sharon Weinberger.
Second, it is rather shocking, to say the least, that, in spite of Weinberger’s repugnant attitude, these last two paragraphs of her article actually validate what I experienced as a child in the 1980’s.
I haven’t heard anyone talk about this “astral spying” program before. Maybe they do talk about it, but since I left the fringe groups I used to be tangled in, I haven’t heard the latest talk. But I know for a fact that there was this “parapsychology” agenda, as Weinberger called it, within the greater mind-control experiments that were going on, because as a child, I was involved in it.
NO, it wasn’t called MK-Ultra. I’m too young to have been involved in that. But although I don’t know the name of what I was involved in, I do know that it was a project similar to the “Stargate Project” that was established in 1977, but instead of adult volunteers, they used children.
I’ve talked about some of the elements of this before, but I took down those pages in this blog. I might continue work on it at another time and republish, but for now, (update: you can read my abridged bio here), but here are the basics that relate to this particular project:
- As a child, I was under the control of the man I now refer to as “Dr. A,” since he was the main person who worked with me. From what I know of him, he was a self-proclaimed occultist, a military official of high rank, a member of special forces, and he worked alongside the C.I.A.
- I was “trained” and sent on assignment with a group of other children to “spy” on meetings that were supposedly taking place between key military leaders and government officials within a specific country.
(To be clear, the word “training” is such an innocuous sounding word that doesn’t really do justice to the trauma I experienced, but I’m not sure what other word to use. And anyway, it is an accurate word.)
- The small group I was in was composed of all girls. There were other children in other groups who reported back to their own handlers, and so there may have been boys in the other groups, but I’m not sure. All I know for sure is that in the group I was in, we were all girls.
- We would meet in the offices that were in the underground military facilities there in SoCal, and convene in a large room. We were given a target, and we would astral travel to that person in whatever meeting they were having at that moment (this is what Weinberger refers to in her article as “psychic” spying). We would then report back to our handler (in my case, Dr. A) with anything we could remember, including conversations that were had and the people who were there.
Now, it’s possible that these “meetings” were not real meetings. In other words, I have thought that it is possible that these “meetings” were, in fact, training sessions of an experimental nature to see how well this project would work in a real-life situation. This certainly seems to be a good possibility, especially if one considers it to be true that the C.I.A.-sponsored-and-run “psychic spying” endeavor was essentially a flop.
However, considering that the entire premise of Weinberger’s article is off (specifically, the strongly alluded-to assertion that the C.I.A. “doesn’t do stuff like that any more”), thus making Weinberger to be an unreliable source when it comes to the truth behind government-sponsored mind-control agendas, there is still a strong possibility that this program was successful.
What I do know is that I don’t think I was very good at it. At least, Dr. A didn’t seem happy with my progress with this particular assignment. Part of the problem was that I, as being ME, did not like to astral travel (“flying,” as I called it as a child). It frightened me. There were other parts of me Dr. A had created (through the traumatic “training” I mentioned above) who enjoyed such travel, and when I was “switched” to one of those parts of me, such as Arby or Skylark, there wasn’t a problem. But I would often switch back to myself in the middle of astral traveling, “coming to consciousness” so to speak, and when this happened, I would quickly go back inside my body, ending the astral event. So, this was one problem that made this particular assignment difficult for me to do well.
Dr. A did seem happy with at least one of the girls in our group, however, leading me to the conclusion that there may have been some level of success within the government’s foray into parapsychology as a way to gain intelligence.
But I don’t know one way or the other.
And, I daresay, neither does Weinberger, regardless of what disinformation she may have been fed and subsequently disseminated to the public.
This article, originally published 12/3/2019, has been edited on 5/7/2025, deleting old links as well as omitting irrelevant references to my spiritual perspectives that have now evolved (see my new blog: https://diaryofachristianmystic.com/).
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