To put the role of "The Prisoner" into
historical perspective, consider that revelation of CIA's nefarious covert use
of drugs and mind-control experiments conducted against unwitting civilians
would not be revealed until the middle of the next decade.
(STARpod.org) -- In the 1960s, a British TV show called "The
Prisoner" broke new ground in the dust bowl of the American TV landscape. A
strange mix of spy sci-fi and allegory, "The Prisoner" painted a bizarre image
of the evil abuse of societal control and government manipulation.
Mind-control technology played a major role in the series: In the Village,
former spies are prisoners of an electronic surveillance machine run by shadow
"control" -- their minds subjected to all manner of invasive experiments, both
psychological and physical, without their consent.
To put the role of "The Prisoner" into historical perspective, consider that
revelation of CIA's nefarious covert use of drugs and mind-control experiments
conducted against unwitting civilians would not be revealed until the middle of
the next decade.
MKULTRA, and other related secret government programs conducted by the
Intelligence Community, had begun in the early 1950s. Sensing possible
revelation of their existence, CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the
destruction of the files a few years before a Congressional investigation
revealed a small part of the truth to the American public.
A handful of surviving files document an extensive program of mind-control
experimentation worthy of the dark evils of "The Prisoner." Eventually the
Intelligence Community mind-control effort was sent spinning into directions
resonant with science fiction: hypnosis, altered sates of consciousness,
psychotronic weaponry, telepathy, psychic "remote viewing," and even
mind-over-matter psychokinesis.
In late 1963, Richard Helms requested the investigation of hypnosis and
telepathy for the operational intelligence and counterintelligence cold war with
the Soviet Union.
Less than ten years later, his associate from Technical Services, Sidney
Gottlieb, was funding research at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). The
goal: determine how psychics, like Uri Geller and Ingo Swann, were able to
affect sensitive instrumentation and, if possible, develop an operational
"remote viewing" psychic spy.
As the effort unfolded, reports of very strange happenings slowly leaked from
the covert activity at SRI. For the most part, according to the historical
record found in U.S. government documents, the participants in the psychic spy
research at SRI were unaware of their CIA sponsor.
In a very real sense, the research at SRI was a kinder, gentler version of "The
Village" in "The Prisoner."
From the point of view of the CIA, the psychics represented persons capable of
accessing sensitive information. How they did this, and, most importantly, how
CIA might make use of their skills, was at the core of the operation.
An explicit threat quickly emerged from the SRI research when one of the CIA
test subjects provided classified information about a sensitive National
Security Agency location.
Ken Kress, one of the CIA officers assigned to the project, described how this
played out at CIA, in an article written in 1977 for CIA's classified internal
publication "Studies in Intelligence."
An SRI psychic, Pat Price, "who had no military or intelligence background,
provided a list of project titles associated with current and past activities
including one of extreme sensitivity. Also the code name of the site [the NSA
installation] was provided. Other information concerning the physical layout of
the site was accurate."
This provided the impetus to continue the secret research. Kress writes, "The
project proceeded on the premise that the phenomena existed; the objective was
to develop and utilize them."
Today, contacts in the Intelligence Community cite a possible return to the
unethical practices of mind control research from the early years of American
intelligence, this time by private intelligence organizations.
In part three I will explore the relationship of America's psychic mind-control
efforts to the Age of the Internet and the War on Terror.
For more information on America's mind-bending psychic espionage efforts,
including original declassified government documents, please visit STARpod.org.
AMC TV has produced a fabulous web site for their new version of "The Prisoner"
which includes video of all seventeen original episodes. Visit AMCTV.com for
more information.
Copyright (c) 2009 Gary S Bekkum and STARstream Research / STARpod.org -- All
rights reserved.
AMC TV's "reimagining" of the late Patrick McGoohan's
1960s cult TV classic "The Prisoner" is generating renewed interest
in the role of the individual trapped within a mind-controlling
surveillance society ...
Here's a very curious example of a possible "rogue"
intelligence operation similar to those portrayed on "The Prisoner":
The strange events which allegedly took place at Skinwalker Ranch in
Utah ...
As the cyber threat slowly rises into the focus of
our daily consciousness, it is worth reviewing the "white world"
side of the mind control issue, which remains closely related, as it
was in "The Prisoner" ...
The real-life business of the government's X-files remains hidden in
plain sight. The government claims "we can neither confirm nor deny"
that documents exist showing extraterrestrial objects have been
tracked as they enter the Earth's air space. Meanwhile a handful of
very high ranking intelligence officials play out spy games on the
Internet about reverse engineering alien technology and a former CIA
Deputy Director for Intelligence is implicated in the sordid affair.
The core of this story involves high level government intelligence
persons and SERPO, a "soap opera" about US government contact with
an extraterrestrial alien intelligence.
Knowing the Future
TO THE MOON AND BACK, WITH
LOVE
Secrets of the CORE STORY of
Extraterrestrial Alien Contact
His name is Ingo Swann. In the 1970s, he was one of America's secret
weapons brought to bear against the Soviet Union: a psychic spy,
personally tested by the CIA. In the 1980s, Swann held a TOP SECRET
clearance, and was instrumental in training Army and Defense
Intelligence Agency personnel. Swann's psychic methods were a key
component in the mind-war arsenal of the USAF, the Army, the Navy,
the Defense Intelligence Agency, and many others, hidden deep inside
compartments of the government.
A few years later Swann wrote one of the most bizarre accounts in
the history of the paranormal was effort, now documented by CIA
sanctioned release of the once super-secret programs known as STAR
GATE. According to Swann, a super-secret group led by a mysterious
"Mr. Axelrod" (his real name remains a closely held secret) put him
mind-to-mind and face-to-face against an extraterrestrial avatar in
human form.
The story of extraterrestrial human-mind to alien-mind telepathy,
dangerous personal encounters, and a near-death experience of coming
under laser fire from an extraterrestrial vehicle somewhere in the
northern wilderness of Alaska, sounds like pages torn from a science
fiction novel.
From the world of psychic spies, paranormal goat killers, and Skinwalkers
haunting remote regions of Utah, something wicked and wacky this way comes.
Drawn from the files of the private intelligence source STARstream Research:
A real-life tall-tale of espionage. At the core, a confrontation at CIA HQ
between a former CIA official and officers of the United States Air Force.
Twenty years later, the game continues where disturbing worlds collide. The
heart of the matter: a US Government UFO Working Group, dark secrets kept in
the shadows under the guise of counter-intelligence operations of the United
States Air Force, and decades-old rumors of extraterrestrial contact with
"something not of this world." The Official's concern: hidden within tales
of "Real Life X-Files" a potentially dangerous viral marketing scheme,
possibly intended to elicit real classified information from past and
present intelligence officers.
Stranger still, government files prove that the US government spent
decades exploring the paranormal psychic spying, in an effort to "know the
future" and beat the Russians, in a race to obtain technologies from beyond
our world.
This book is a collection of articles and materials originally published
on-line by STARstream Research, PR Web, and The American Chronicle, and at
the "Spies, Lies, and Polygraph Tape" blog. This is the first time they have
been made available in print. Included in this volume is the popular article
"To the Moon and Back, With Love," the story of CIA psychic Ingo Swann's
extraterrestrial encounters.
Also included in this volume: The sixteen part mini-book "Knowing the
Future: CIA, 9/11, UFOs, and the Extraterrestrial Presence," about the race
to obtain "alien" technologies.
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