Luna’s hearing put MKULTRA back in the spotlightRep. Anna Paulina Luna’s House Oversight Task Force hearing on the declassification of federal secrets was built around a simple question that Washington usually hates most: what else did the government know, and when did it know it? Luna said the CIA’s MKULTRA program was not just a cold war oddity, but a deliberate operation that used LSD, hypnosis, electroshock, sensory deprivation, and other abuse on unwitting Americans, including hospital patients, prisoners, and veterans. She said Congress and the public were told for years that the program was a dead end, while the paper trail tells a much uglier story.https://twitter.com/RealAF_Patriot/status/2072053856947650950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/RyanTiedgen/status/2071973070269768050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/RepLuna/status/2071977059396595738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The file burn in 1973 did not help the trust problemLuna said then-CIA Director Richard Helms ordered MKULTRA records destroyed in 1973 as he left office, and that Sidney Gottlieb’s team spent a full day burning 152 files. Gottlieb’s own papers were also destroyed, and the head of the CIA records center objected in writing before being overruled. That is not exactly the kind of housekeeping that builds public confidence. No one went to prison, and no victims received formal compensation, which is how these stories so often end in Washington:…

MKULTRA returns to CongressRep. Anna Paulina Luna chaired a House Oversight Task Force hearing on the declassification of federal secrets, and the subject was MKULTRA, the CIA program that ran from 1953 to 1973. Lawmakers heard testimony about LSD, psychological torture, electroshock, hypnosis, and sensory deprivation used on unwitting people that included hospital patients, prisoners, veterans, and American citizens. Luna called the program crimes against American citizens and said the real scandal is not only what the CIA did, but how long Congress was kept in the dark. Bureaucracies love to talk about transparency right up until someone asks for the actual papers.https://twitter.com/RealAF_Patriot/status/2072053856947650950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/RyanTiedgen/status/2071973070269768050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/RepLuna/status/2071977059396595738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The records that went up in smokeLuna said CIA Director Richard Helms personally ordered MKULTRA records destroyed in 1973 as he left office. Sidney Gottlieb and his team spent a full day burning 152 files, then had Gottlieb’s personal papers destroyed as well. The head of the CIA’s records center objected in writing and was overruled, which is a neat reminder that internal objections often work like a note taped to a shredder. Luna said that was obstruction of justice and criminal destruction of federal records. No one went to prison, and no victims received…