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Harvard's #1 Mind Control Expert Fears MK-Ultra is STILL Active | Rebecca Lemov

2025-09-08 Entertainment
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Historical Foundations of Mind Control and Modern Hyper-Persuasion Techniques

Uncover the forgotten origins of social engineering, from early 20th-century behavioral labs to Cold War psychological warfare, and learn how these principles now manifest in digital reality.

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  • Analysts detail the ambitious, forgotten behavioral research funded by foundations and eventually the CIA, seeking to engineer compliant citizens.
  • The discussion traces CIA Operation MKUltra, revealing its diverse sub-projects, including pharmaceutical testing and animal manipulation experiments.
  • Key figures like Jolly West and Edward Bernays reveal historical attempts to control public perception and individual behavior through psychological framing.
  • Modern digital platforms weaponize emotional contagion, leveraging unresolved trauma to maximize engagement, potentially representing an uncontrolled evolution of historical control methods.

This conversation explores the deep history of attempts to control human behavior, starting with early 20th-century social engineers seeking to perfectly fit humans into fabricated social roles. Rebecca Lemov links this foundational work to the infamous MKUltra program, providing context on the psychological, military, and intelligence interests invested in altering human consciousness. The conversation culminates by comparing those clandestine efforts to today’s overwhelming ambient environmental and digital pressures.

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Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Rebecca Lemov is a historian of behavioral sciences, behavioral micro-control, and brainwashing. Her new book, "The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, Hyper-Persuasion" reveals how the idea of mind control has spread across the globe and penetrated courtrooms, secret labs, military schools, and today’s digital sites. SPONSORS https://irestore.com/danny - Use code DANNY to reverse hair loss & unlock HUGE savings on the iRestore Elite. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off EPISODE LINKS Rebecca's book: https://a.co/d/dcz03fj https://rebeccalemov.com https://x.com/rlemov FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny LISTEN ON Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4VTLG0HiIZaCjH9gE6NFPq Apple - https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1441238966 OUTLINE 00:00 - Brainwashing research 09:26 - Origins of MKUltra 15:24 - Chinese brainwashing techniques 22:41 - MKUltra's 149 sub-projects & John Lilly's NASA dolphin experiments 30:01 - Jolly West 42:21 - The moon landing 49:41 - Patty Hearst & the Symbionese Liberation Army 01:01:20 - The weird death of Jolly West 01:08:11 - Jolly West & Charles Manson connection 01:19:06 - Instability of truth 01:28:31 - Ambient chemicals are slowly killing us 01:44:34 - The Facebook experiment 01:59:53 - Why do cult leaders end themselves? 02:04:20 - Trauma & alien abductions 02:12:10 - Leonard Kille & experimental brain implants 02:26:29 - Creating super-soldiers with psychedelics 02:41:30 - What would MKUltra be doing today?

Top Comments (10)

@darienkinne1347 2025-09-08

I’m just waiting for everyone else to realize that our entire society is one big psyop and social engineering project. The music, movies/TV, news, politics, education, religion… nothing is sacred and everything is a tool used to control and manipulate the masses.

505 74 replies
@danielgriebling6123 2025-09-09

My whole life I believed that people can’t REALLY be brainwashed. After listening to experts and seeing how easy it is, I’ve come to believe we are ALL brainwashed. Our billionaire masters who own the govt, media, and all the resources use it to 1. Maintain and elevate their power and 2. Keep us compliant (easiest when we’re afraid and uncertain).

158 28 replies
@thitchin 2025-09-09

They did it to me at UCLA in 1991. Have spent 20 years trying to report it. My life was priceless, if only to me. Harvard is in on it. ALL Universities in the U.S. are in on it. No, it never ended, and 'Soylent Green is people!'.

103 35 replies
@TheLordCrane 2025-09-09

Who would think its not active. Everyone stares at screens all day long.

102 3 replies
@Herm-Anubis 2025-09-09

As an occultist i can tell you none of this is new and a lot of the ideas and lores in rooted in proto-civilizations. The lords and emperors were doing the same thing.

74 19 replies
@TurdFurgison-t3m 2025-09-08

100% they’re still doing this.

56 1 replies
@NotBadForATarget 2025-09-10

the fact that she can't/won't say how mkultra is being used today (obviously Havana Syndrome/targeted individuals/gangstalking) makes her at the very least, not the "#1 mind control expert", or worse, a disinformation agent.

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@HHC-1stTxFO 2025-09-10

The newest "Reeducation Camps" are 100% digital and labeled "social media"

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@dannyjones 2025-09-08

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@SharonElseWare 2025-09-09

"MK-Ultra Mind Control" is "STILL active." It's called the psych, or "mental health" industries today, and that comes from a decades long psychopharmacology researcher.

30 2 replies

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