| The next few paragraphs are extracted from Operation Mind Control, concerning Mary Pinchot. I include this next section to demonstrate that the CIA itself was divided on the inside between maintaining control and being a good partner in world affairs. While some were hell bent on mind control of others, some were hell bent on giving people back control over their own minds. Part of this was fueled by the belief that the Russians or Chinese would use it first as an operation of warfare and the only way to survive that warfare was to be familiar with its properties, and then be ahead of the learning curve: “In the spring of 1962, Leary was approached by Mary Pinchot Meyer, wife of CIA executive Cord Meyer. Leary says he looked up from his deck to see a good-looking women leaning against the door post with her hips tilted provocatively, studying him with a bold stare. “She appeared to be in her late thirties,” he said, “… flamboyant eyebrows, piercing green-blue eyes, fine-boned face. Amused, arrogant, aristocratic. (65) “Dr. Leary,” she said coolly. “I’ve got to talk to you.” She introduced herself to Leary as Mary Pinchot and told him, “I’ve come from Washington to discuss something very important. I want to learn how to run an LSD session. I have this friend who’s a very important man. He’s impressed with what I’ve told him about my own LSD experiences and what other people have told him. He wants to try it himself. So I’m here to learn how to do it. I mean, I don’t want to goof up or something.” Leary wanted her to bring her “friend” to him, but she remarked that he was a “well known public figure,” and it would be difficult, whereupon Leary remarked that “people involved in power don’t make the best subjects.” Mary replied, “Don’t you think that if a powerful person were to turn on with his wife or girlfriend it would be good for the world?” Later, while Leary and Mary were sharing a glass of wine, according to Leary, Mary said, “You poor innocent thing. You have no idea what you’ve gotten into. You really don’t understand what’s happening in Washington with drugs, do you?”… “It’s time you learned more… The guys who run things – I mean the guys who really run things in Washington – are very interested in psychology, and drugs in particular. These people play hardball, Timothy. They want to use drugs for warfare, for espionage, for brainwashing, for control.” Mary continues, “teach us how to run sessions, use drugs to do good,” Leary did some sessions with her and the next time he heard back from her, he claims she stated to him, “Everything is going beautifully. On all fronts in fact. I can’t give details of course, but top people in Washington are turning on. You’d be amazed at the sophistication of some of our leaders. And their wives. We’re getting a little group together, people who are interested in learning how to turn on.” |
At one point, Mary asks Leary, “Suppose a person wanted to be brainwashed in a certain direction… wanted to change himself?” Leary replied, “Easier yet… Our research is conclusive on this. Changing your mind, developing a new reality-fix, is a simple and straightforward proposition. Of course, altering your mind is one thing. Changing the outside world to conform to your new vision remains the difficult problem for us…” Mary then exclaimed, “Don’t you see what we can do? … We can do on a bigger scale what you are already doing with your students – use these drugs to free people. For peace, not war. We can turn on the Cabinet. Turn on the Senate. The Supreme Court. Do I have to explain further?” It was not long after this that Leary got fired from Harvard in 1963. In late, November, 963, Leary got a phone call from Mary and she was scared, and crying. She told him, “You must be very careful now. Don’t make any waves. No publicity. I’m afraid for you. I’m afraid for all of us.” The next call Leary got from Mary was the day after the assassination of John. F. Kennedy, on November 23, 1963. Leary says Mary stated: “They couldn’t control him anymore. He was changing too fast. He was learning too much. They’ll cover everything up. I gotta come see you. I’m scared. I’m afraid. Be careful.” That was the last time Leary heard from Mary. On October 13, 1964, Mary Pinchot was assassinated while walking alone. Leary recalls first reading about the connection in an article in the S.F. Chronicle. Bowart then cites Leary, paraphrasing the story, “James Truitt, former assistant to Philip Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, revealed that a woman named Mary Pinchot Meyer had conducted a two-year love affair with President John Kennedy and had smoked marijuana with him in the White House bedroom. A confidant of Meyer, Truitt told a Post correspondent that she and Kennedy had met about 30 times between January 1962 and November 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated.” (66) It appears to me that some people were bent on changing the status quo and the conservatives figured out what was going on, that Kennedy was smoking cannabis, taking LSD and deciding possibly to pull the troops out of Vietnam. Now there is one thing LSD and psychedelics do though, and that is allow one to see UFOs more easily. In there, lies the potential for abuse, but this is not something anyone is involved with consciously, except maybe for the operators of MK-Ultra. Because propaganda concerning this phenomenon can be used to control open minds. (65) Mind Control, p. 77 (66) Mind Control, p. 78-81 |