THE PRISONER: GOING ROGUE

Mind Control, Then and Now

Part Three -- AMC TV's "reimagining" of the late Patrick McGoohan's 1960s cult classic "The Prisoner" is generating renewed interest in the role of the individual in society.

The Prisoner: Mind Control Then and Now

Part one  The evolution of consumer technology since the first broadcast of "The Prisoner" has put many of the once-exotic surveillance systems into the hands of everyman, but what about the bizarre sci-fi methods predicted in 1967?

Part two  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.

Part three  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.

Part four  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."

(STARpod.org) -- In the 1960s, film and TV star, occasional  writer and director Patrick McGoohan decided to revolt against the bland landscape of television by creating a revolutionary new television series called "The Prisoner."

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By "going rogue," McGoohan set into motion a shock wave that would ripple through pop culture for decades to come, culminating in the new AMC TV re-imagining of the original series.

In this series I have been examining how "The Prisoner" foreshadowed revelations of mind-control research involving the covert use of unwitting civilians by the American Intelligence Community.

Viewers of the original series in the 1960s were drawn into the mystery of "The Village," where mind-numbing experimentation was targeted against persons of interest to access the information locked inside of their minds.

Who were the mysterious "men in the blackness" -- the shadow figures presumed to be directing "Number Two" and his associates as they attempted to break McGoohan's character, "Number Six," and retrieve the state secrets locked up inside his brain?

Indeed, one might wish to ask who were (and are) the men behind rogue intelligence operations intended to break the human mind and spirit.

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.

The tale of the weirdness experienced by a rancher and his family is typically spun as a paranormal ghost story infected by the occasional UFO sighting. George Knapp, a well known paranormal and black technology investigator, co-wrote a book about the ranch with Dr. Colm Kelleher, who had been hired by billionaire Bob Bigelow to assist with an investigation of the site under the aegis of the "National Institute of Discovery Science."

The book is titled "Hunt for the Skinwalker."

Another person associated with the NIDS investigation group is Dr. Christopher "Kit" Green.

Dr. Green is a former very senior person at CIA, and is well known for his interests in unusual phenomena.  Although it has been generally assumed that Dr. Green has "gone rogue" by exploring these "otherworldly appearances" like psychic functioning (at Stanford Research Institute) and UFO phenomena, I suspect the truth may be closer to our home world.

In "The Prisoner," rogue scientists are encouraged to run with their alternative para-physics experimentation on human test subjects of "lesser importance" to the masters of "the Village."

During the notorious MKULTRA program, unwitting victims were administered drugs and subjected to various mind-altering methods inducing madness and altered states of reality.

As I pointed out in part two of this series, the MKULTRA program would not be revealed until the mid-1970s: "The Prisoner" truly had been ahead of its time.

The weirdly surreal carnivalesque atmosphere of 1960s era television displayed on "The Prisoner" is re-imagined in real life at Skinwalker Ranch. Odd happenings penetrate into the deepest fears and violate the human spirit in ways too strange to accept in the context of ordinary reality.

Even the odd white balloon "guardians" called "rover" in the 1960s TV show return in the form of strange orbs harassing the rancher: In one deadly incident, the rancher's dogs are said to have been "melted" when they chased after the invading orb.

For those inclined to dress a less than earthly explanation over the strangeness at the ranch, I would point out that the "experiments" experienced there remain uncomfortably close to the oddness portrayed on "The Prisoner."

One thing is certain: the involvement of persons like Dr. Green, along with the rumored discussions of "humans gone bad" and "aliens among us" points to a serious problem, one that will only get worse as our technology evolves.

In part four, I'll examine a recent report written by Dr. Green for the National Research Council about the state of the art white world research into minds, machines, and potentially, madness.

For more information about the Intelligence Community effort to secure human thoughts to their ends, please visit STARpod.org, where you may view real declassified government documents.

Copyright (c) 2009 Gary S. Bekkum / STARstream Research / STARpod.org -- All rights reserved.

The Prisoner: Mind Control Then and Now

Part one  The evolution of consumer technology since the first broadcast of "The Prisoner" has put many of the once-exotic surveillance systems into the hands of everyman, but what about the bizarre sci-fi methods predicted in 1967?

Part two  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.

Part three  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.

Part four  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."