DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Remember kids, the next time someone tells you the government wouldn’t do that... Oh yes, they would!

I’m going to go down another fun little rabbit hole this week.

It’ll be an interesting read for those people who are either awake and want to know more or those who are waking up and just ran across my column by chance (although as most people know – there are no “chance” happenings).

How many of you have heard of MK Ultra?

When I mention MK Ultra, many people look at me like I have two heads, then I begin to explain it and that’s often the end of the conversation.

How many times have I been called a “conspiracy theorist,” which is laughable because as Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana said, “We need more conspiracy theories because all the earlier ones have turned out to be true” (paraphrasing him).

I also keep hearing that popular expression in my mind that I heard a lot during the COVID pandemic: “Now remember kids, the next time someone tells you the government wouldn’t do that... Oh yes, they would!”

So, MK Ultra – here is a brief description.

In 1953, CIA Director Alan Dulles signed off on a program that was called MK Ultra.

The purpose of MK Ultra according to one report was “The research and development of chemical, biological and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior.”

This information was later declassified and that’s why we have this information at all. Well, we have the information that was not destroyed.

You can start your research here (www.cia.gov/readingroom/search/site/mk%20uLTRA) and then dig into the various document numbers pertaining to MK Ultra, the code name for a covert minded game of control – compliments of the U.S. government.

The information was only released because someone requested it through a freedom of information request after it was declassified.

And let me stop here and say to all those well-intentioned people who belly cry about the United States having a dictator or a king or being fascist – if that were the case people would not have the ability to request information like this and receive it.

And yes you can receive it, thus allowing anyone to understand this country’s past dark history.

And obviously no, the government should not be conducting this type of nonsense.

But yes, it does. Probably even today.

And it just takes a little awareness and common sense (and less obvious distractions feeding hate) to dig around and get the details of what is really going on or has gone on with “projects” like MK Ultra.

One piece of information that came out about this program was found through a submittal for funding described as “to study the possible synergistic action on drugs which may be appropriate for use in abolishing consciousness.”

Anyone feel like the consciousness of more than a few seems to be slipping lately (since COVID specifically), which leads me to wonder how many years these types of programs have consequences and if they’re still going on behind the scenes.

Or – here is another one submitted for funding, “To study methods for the administration of drugs without the knowledge of the patient.”

One purpose of the project statement was, “To make a critical review of the literature and scientific development related to the interpretation of bioelectrical signals from the human organism and activation of human behavior by remote means.”

Darn, those 5G towers just crossed my mind.

An MK Ultra report that was also uncovered indicated some research had been done at McGill University in Montreal fronted by the CIA through the Society of Investigations of Human Ecology.

The doctor in charge there put patients into drug induced comas for 22 hours a day and gave them electric shock and played recorded messages on a loop for 16 hours a day for weeks at a time. He locked patients in soundproof rooms with goggles, white noise, and cardboard tubes over their arms sometimes for as long as 35 days.

Patients had come to him with depression and came out unable to recognize their own children.

In 1973, all MK Ultra documents were supposed to be destroyed on request of the then CIA Director, Richard Helms.

A man named Sidney Gottlieb oversaw ALMOST all the shredding including the information files, subject’s names, and details of what was done. Fortunately, what did survive were the financial records of 20,000 pages of budgets, receipts, and proposals for spending. They survived because someone had filed them in the wrong place.

It was also written that all the documents should be destroyed because it was believed the release of the MK Ultra files could induce issues regarding public opinion.

MK Ultra was designed to be hard to believe – and that’s why it is so hard to believe.

Kind of like many other things people have denied over the years that are hard to believe, and here we are NOW.

Add to that the fact MK Ultra used psychiatric patients, prisoners, wards of the state, drug users, people in institutions, dying cancer patients – patients whose testimony would be taken less seriously.

Officially, the program ended in 1973.

And folks like Gottlieb lived on and his testimony was only declassified in 2025 – that’s right last year.

That includes the LSD testing, the assassination plots, domestic spying and “special interrogations.”

Helms went on to become a U.S. Ambassador to Iran.

My friends, what are you going to do about all this information we are discovering, not only MK Ultra, but the manipulation of weather, over surveillance and all types of “eyes” that know you better than you know yourself these days.

I will not go to the same tired suggestion I always offer: vote out the politicians who are a part of the mess. That has quickly become a waste of my breath since if you look at the primaries and the upcoming November election it’s the same tiring candidates who know most people are too lazy to do their research and look behind the mask.

I get it, people are becoming too mentally exhausted to keep trying – and that’s a form of mental abuse by those in charge.

It’s no one’s fault, but keep in mind just because it’s not happening to you, it doesn’t mean it will not happen to you in the future.

The mindless protesting to keep the division going is also a form of mental abuse as are the government shutdowns, the mainstream media’s constant parroting of mind-numbing information, and the list goes on.

I’ll go back to that statement discovered in the MK Ultra files: “The research and development of chemical, biological and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior.”

What do you think we have going on right now?

A recent mind-numbing experiment was COVID – and from there it’s the current pandemic we are living in now. Almost everyone I know is aware things are not what they were even five years ago on planet Earth, and it’s a bigger picture with not just one person or situation to blame.

The only thing humans have going for them in this regard now is that knowledge is power. There are all kinds of knowledge being exposed, but like MK Ultra the knowledge is hard to believe since it’s framed in half-truths so people will question what they know to be true.

The solution: well, my solution is from a soul place the same as always – stop dividing and come together through compromise, conversation, tolerance, compassion and love – because I promise you that will crash the entire “business as usual” system.

Rita Cook is a freelance writer for The Ellis County Press. She can be reached at rcook13@earthlink.net.