With God On Our Side

"I was a very minor missionary, actually a heretic, but I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the all-highest?"

Those disturbing words were written by George Hunter White, AKA Morgan Hall, upon his retirement in 1966 from civil service in a farwell letter to his boss, co-conspirator, and co-pusher of ultra-refined, psycotropic alkaloids, Dr. Sidney Gottleib, director of the CIA run COINTELPRO (counterinteligence program) commonly known as MK-ULTRA.

I could pick any number of anecdotes to set the stage for what is to come here. But those words are particularly poignent.

White and Gottleib were real sweathearts crawing around in the underbelly of the 50's and 60's American counter-culture who's antics were sanctioned by the collective, denied fear of post WW TWO Americans poised at the threshold of the coming cold war. Shaking in our collective boots over the post-war threat of communism and deep into war with North Korea exacerbating the threat we turned our collective heads giving priviledge to worms like White and Gottleib.

Too busy in pursuit of our individual slice of the American Dream to look. Truth be known we DIDN'T WANNA LOOK!

Ya, we were naieve. And we didn't have the internet. But the evidence was there. Hidden in plain sight!

Adding to, further justifying, and further twisting this empowerment in the minds of White, Gottleib, and a long list of other "Great Ameicans" was one of the main principles of Hagelism... thesis, antithesis, synthesis... explaining the process of deliberately enacted social disorder and change as a road to power.

Gottleib's boss in the glory days of MK-ULTRA was none other than Allan Dulles , then director of the CIA. Dulles was directly responsible for launching the US government as the first ILLEGAL domestic manufacturer and distributor of LSD. According to the late Michael Kreca in his 2001 classic "How The US Government Created The 'Drug Problem' In The USA, Dulles is the one who persuaded pharmiceutical giant Eli Lilly to "synthesize the drug contrary to existing international patent accords" and make it available to the agency for their own discretinary distribution.

Where am I going with this?

Stay tuned for in the next post, The Rubber Meets The Road, Part I, we're on our way to explore where the yellow brick road never dared to go.

And where does that road lead?

I'll give you 3 guesses and the first two don't count!