![]() ![]() ![]() For one thing, I was leaving Manhattan without permission from my parole officer. Driving out of the city, I was tense and paranoid. The meeting was set for noon at a suitably anonymous bastion of corporate America, a sprawling Marriott Hotel and convention center on Long Island. With the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest?” Where else could a red-bloodedĪmerican boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape, and pillage “I was a very minor missionary, actually a heretic,īut I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because In an exclusive interview, Ike Feldman, one of the operations kingpins, talks to Richard Stratton about deadly viruses, spy hookers, and bad trips. government purchased the world’s supply of LSD as just the first step in a debauched program code-named MK-ULTRA. ![]() The author of that vintage Spin article, Richard Stratton, has recently published his memoirs, Smuggler’s Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia (Arcade Publishing, April, 2016) Altered States in America This was originally published in Spin Magazine in 1994, and is just as relevant today. Here, you can witness the way he talks, the attitude he exhibits, the contradictions he ignores, and the self-justifications he declares. But the real value of this story is not so much the information it imparts it’s the character it reveals about a major player - even if we see him only from the outside. “‘Disturbance of memory discrediting by aberrant behaviour alteration of sex patterns eliciting of information suggestibility creation of dependence.”įrom all that has been written about the CIA, we find it easy to believe just about everything Feldman says on the subject. The project’s architect, Sidney Gottlieb, described in a 1953 memo the ways in which the drug could be used: They experimented on unsuspecting people, slipping them LSD without their consent, sometimes with devastating results. And the deeds he performed were for MK-ULTRA, the CIA’s program on mind control. ![]() The Penguin in question is Ira “Ike” Feldman. Robinson as gangster Johnny Rocco in Key Largo.” He actually performed some of the dirty, unthinkable deeds you read about in the various exposés on the CIA.Īccording to the author, the man “looks like Danny DeVito playing the Penguin, and talks like Edward G. The story below offers a rare close-up view of a man who is so creepy it’s fascinating. WhoWhatWhy Introduction by Milicent Cranor: ![]()
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