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Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger.

For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #cia #mindcontrol #torture #lsd #mkultra #castro #nazis #oss #allenginsberg #lumumba #malcolmx #coltrane #jazz #imperialism #kenkesey #margaretmead #charlesmanson #mescaline #castro #soviet #coldwar #books #nonfiction #ussr #communism #film #documentary @bookstadon

Sidney Gottlieb approved of an MKUltra sub-project on LSD in this June 9, 1953, letter. By Dr. Sidney Gottlieb's approval of an w:en:MKULTRA subproject on LSD. - Transwiki approved by: w:en:User:Dmcdevit, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2699307
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I don't usually recommend #films but I've just watched an astounding documentary about #BarbaraRubin, the #1960s underground film maker. If you are into #film, #Dylan, #Warhol, #VelvetUnderground #AllenGinsberg or just have an open mind you really should watch "Barbara Rubin & The Exploding NY Underground" - currently available on Amazon Prime. Blurb: "Rubin's 1964 masterpiece “Christmas on Earth” announced a radical young voice in NYC's underground film scene. A female Zelig of the '60s, Barbara introduced Andy Warhol to Lou Reed, Bob Dylan to Kabbalah, and then vanished into thin air."

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Follow up to the last toot: Catherine Graindorge has a new album out this year, largely inspired by Allen Ginsberg's poem "A Dream Record" about Joan Vollmer, who was killed by her husband William Burroughs. This is absolute AOTY material, it's positively stunning.

FFO: GY!BE, Nick Cave

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Catherine GraindorgeSongs for the Dead, by Catherine Graindorge8 track album
#CatherineGraindorge#violin#postrock
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Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilyzed mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger. Margaret Mead's connection was discussed in the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen.

#cia #MindControl #torture #lsd #MKUltra #castro #nazis #oss #AllenGinsberg #kenkesey #margaretmead #charlesmanson #mescaline #castro #soviet #coldwar #books #nonfiction @bookstadon

Sidney Gottlieb approved of an MKUltra sub-project on LSD in this June 9, 1953, letter. By Dr. Sidney Gottlieb's approval of an w:en:MKULTRA subproject on LSD. - Transwiki approved by: w:en:User:Dmcdevit, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2699307
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#Bales2023FilmChallenge December 22: #mathematics on #MathematicsDay in India

Mahagonny (1980) is #film maker, artist, musicologist, & alchemist #HarrySmith's mathematical analysis of #MarcelDuchamp's masterpiece The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, aka The Large Glass (1923), set to #Brecht and #Weill's #opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, from 1930 ☞ write.underworld.fr/settima/ma

#AllenGinsberg #LotteLenya #JonasMekas #PattiSmith #CineMastodon #ExperimentalFilm @film @art_film

A kaleidoscopic New York street scene. Mahagonny requires two projectionists to screen it in its intended form.
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One of my projects these days has been to digitize my old Super 8 films from long ago and far away. Here's one I shot in California of Allen Ginsberg and his partner Peter Orlovsky. I had forgotten that Lawrence Ferlinghetti was even there that day until I saw this.

Unfortunately, there is no sound.
Hopefully this link takes you right there.

#Super8Film #AllenGinsberg #Film #8mm #Poet

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