Patriotism, MKUltra, & the Government Secrecy Complex | MTS #13
Is Mind Control Real?
We just released Episode 13 of the MTS Podcast featuring Kale Zelden and yours truly as we discuss the CIA’s Project MKUltra and the larger government secrecy complex in the context of American patriotism and a nation willing to use bad guys to do bad things so the good guys win.
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From the episode description:
Steve and Kale return for a massive Episode 13, beginning with World Cup tourists, July 4th patriotism, Heavy Pulp’s retro-Americana, and the difference between media narratives and lived reality.
From there, the conversation turns toward the darker machinery beneath the surface: the CIA, MKUltra, the Church Committee, Allen Dulles, Jolly West, Jack Ruby, Operation Midnight Climax, Epstein-style compromise, UFO disclosure, classified physics, the Manhattan Project, and the strange ways truth gets buried, distorted, or flooded out by noise.
The central question: how do you love a country honestly when you know it has real skeletons in the closet? And how do you pursue the truth without becoming swallowed by the search?
Full episode:
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