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How to Save PGP
Tomcat666 sends in: "The Register got some excerpts from an interview with Phil Zimmerman. He talks about how it might be possible to save PGP (Network Associates couldn't sell it, and will stop its development), OpenPGP and the future (industry-backed OpenPGP?)." A follow-up to our story yesterday about Network Associates mothballing PGP.
CIA
A bad start.
Experiments with Mind Control
It gets worse
on Children
Yep, gotta save 'dem chilluns! Where's the bastard! We'll lynch 'im!
by Jon Rappoport
Ok, if you didn't stop before this, you can now. This is the man who claims that AIDS is not a virus, but a secret weapon of the drug companies!
He's a real tin-foil-hat kinda guy (or just found a market among that crowd).
The CIA mind-control apparatus has been well known since 1975
Obviously, I failed to stop. Pardon me, but what is your definition of well known?
when 10 large boxes of documents were released pursuant to Freedom of Information Act requests.
Oh, well that's certainly an interesting metric for well known! (later he claims that J.R. is a highly respected journalist, but fails to indicate who respects him....)
Several good books were then written on the subject of the CIA program known as MK-ULTRA.
They were good books of course. Not like those powdery, tasteless books you serve your relatives!
LSD and more powerful compounds
I live that line. I'm going to have it framed.
In case you're wondering, as with most nutters, J.R. has hit on a thread of truth, and then run with it to the mythalogical end-zone of his own creation.
There really were CIA experiments on CIA agents and civilians alike with LSD in the 60s. The CIA thought that it might work out as a truth serum of sorts, but it was not very effective, and had very dangerous long-term consenquences.
However, much of the rest of this theory is based on these axioms: 1) If you testify about something to a government panel, it must be true 2) the CIA has nothing better to do with its time than recruit children to perform missions that there are scads of willing volunteers in the military for 3) events which have common themes are obviously linked.
I recommend that you do your own research here. Books like this one are aimed to scare and shock (that's how they sell). If the facts don't fit, they are often... re-shaped.
If you want to play "spot the loonies" just look for key phrases like "in [document/testemony/etc] the name [government or corporate figure] came up" cited as "proof" that linkage exists between an event and a group that the author wishes to accuse of wrong-doing.