CIA has always made up nonsense stories about Russia

Former Central Intelligence Agency Acting Director Michael Morell has claimed that the GOP presidential nominee is an unwitting intelligence agent for Russian President Vladimir Putin. Former CIA and National Security Agency director Michael Hayden believes Trump is not hostile enough against Russia. The Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign, in concert with the FBI, have accused Russia of being behind computer break-ins of the computers of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign.

The media will not call these charges for what they really are: unfounded kooky conspiracy theories. Of course, when the CIA, NSA, and FBI proffer conspiracy tales, they are not deemed as such by the corporate media, which has, for 70 years, echoed an endless stream of inane propaganda stories from the padded rooms of Langley, Virginia. The soundproofing of some conferences rooms at CIA headquarters actually make them appear “padded.”

Obama administration and intelligence agencies alternate between blaming cyber-attacks in the United States on, depending what day it is, Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. Never blamed is poor U.S. computer and network security, especially that brought about by inherently insecure “cloud computing.” Even the CIA has opened up insecure doors into highly-classified U.S. intelligence networks by outsourcing its cloud services to Amazon, whose owner, Jeff Bezos, owns The Washington Post. No wonder the Post likes to blame all the computer security hacking on Russia, China, and the rest. Bezos’s paper has no interest in blaming the true culprits, cloud services firms like Amazon, for U.S. hacking debacles.

As for the CIA pushing the meme that nefarious Russian cyber-warriors are penetrating American political- and election-oriented computer systems and stealing data, the CIA has always been known for making up “threat intelligence” to curry favor with the White House and Congress and increase their overly-inflated budgets.

In the late 1970s, the CIA suggested that U.S. intelligence personnel at various signals intelligence (SIGINT) stations, as well as U.S. military communications personnel, were being subjected to a barrage of Soviet “electrical, psychological, pharmacological, and other ingredients” to “cause death or severe capability degradation to site personnel.” The warning came in a CIA draft memo from the agency’s security office to the the deputy direction of communications. Although undated, the memo appears to have been drafted at some time between late 1978 and 1980.

But, the CIA let the cat out of the bag in the same memo. It states that a Dr. W. Ross Adey of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Loma Linda, California, discovered that low levels of microwave radiation, such as military radars, “have been shown to cause changes in brain chemistry.” The memo added, “it causes the release of a large amount of calcium ions which affects brain signal transmission.”

The CIA decided not to admit to higher echelons that all military personnel, not just American personnel at NSA and CIA listening stations and military communications centers, were affected by the military radars of all nations, including those of the United States. The CIA concocted a story that specific Russian offensive programs were making U.S. eavesdropping and communications personnel go crazy or become ill. However, there is no proof that the Soviets were engaged in such practices. However, there evidence that the U.S. was employing medical psychological warfare against its enemies, including the Soviets.

The very same CIA memo cites the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency having conducted a “Controlled Offensive Behavior Study” under the auspices of the Army’s Surgeon General Medical Intelligence Office at some period before 1972. The Army study mimicked “efforts at Soviet behavioral control involving drugs, physical abuse, electrical methods, and parapsychological and psychological methods of behavioral control or personality destruction.”

Against strong evidence to the contrary, the CIA suggests in the memo that the behavioral control operation by the People’s Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, involved “Soviet interactions with the Jonestown group” that “left many questions related to the range, diversity, and aggressiveness of Bloc intelligence to destabilize and disorient Western society and specific triggers.”

The massacre of 913 People’s Temple adherents on November 18, 1978, was not the work of the Soviets. The massacre came after U.S. Representative Leo Ryan (D-CA) and a party of investigators and reporters visited Jonestown to delve into rumors that people were being held there against their will and that the entire operation was a CIA MK-ULTRA “offensive behavior study,” as described in 1972 by the Army Surgeon General. Ryan couched the purpose of his visit to check into reports that U.S. Social Security checks were being fraudulently cashed by the church. Ryan’s staffers and his own daughter convinced him that Jonestown was a massive CIA mind control operation.

The CIA’s chief of station in Georgetown, Guyana, Richard Dwyer, accompanied Ryan and his party to Jonestown. Dwyer’s “official cover” portfolio was as the U.S. embassy’s Deputy Chief of Mission. After armed People’s Temple cadres shot at the departing congressional party at Port Kaituma airport, killing Ryan and others, People’s Temple leader Reverend Jim Jones, an old CIA operative, was heard on a tape recording shouting, “Keep Dwyer alive! . . . Get Dwyer out of here before something happens to him,” as Jones’s operatives began administering deadly poison to the hundreds of Americans gathered in the jungle town. Dwyer had just returned to Jonestown after witnessing the massacre of Ryan’s party at the airport when the killing started.

Later, Dwyer turned up in St. George’s, Grenada, the site of another MK-ULTRA research facility at the St. George’s Medical School. Leading primate expert Sir Geoffrey Bourne was vice chancellor at the school. Bourne’s son, Dr. Peter Bourne, a former CIA Phoenix Program operative in Southeast Asia, was the chief of psychiatry. Novelist Robert Ludlum’s choice of the name “Jason Bourne” for his CIA mind-controlled assassin was no coincidence.

In 1983, a post-Marxist coup in Grenada, in which the prime minister was assassinated, saw U.S. medical students stranded at the “medical school.” This was merely an excuse for a U.S. military invasion and occupation of Grenada. The U.S. attack on the island, which was aimed at freeing it from a pro-Cuban/Soviet government, saw the only major civilian casualties at the St. George’s Medical School’s psychiatric hospital. In fact, the attack was designed to eliminate any vestiges of horrible behavioral modification experiments conducted in Grenada and, before it, in Jonestown. Jones’s pal Dwyer was a key player in both venues.

Rather than admit its own involvement in Jonestown and other unknown behavioral modification experiments conducted by the U.S. Army, the CIA discovered the Soviets to be the convenient bogeyman. Today, rather than admit to its own cyber-penetration of U.S. computers, the CIA has found convenient scapegoats in Russia, primarily, but also China, Iran, North Korea, the Islamic State, Venezuela, and Cuba.

The most amazing thing about the 1970s CIA memo is that it proposes doing nothing if U.S. SIGINT and communications personnel were being attacked by psychotronic and/or other weapons by the Soviets. The memo states the priority for the CIA is to:

• “Survey sites for any significant drop in efficiency or production due to illness—physical or mental—over a four year period [emphasis added.]

• Study any site with such problems to determine specific disease symptoms and their relationship to expected rates and types of illnesses as predicted by medical authorities for this environment and health type of these personnel.

• Consider what the cycles of actual disease outbreaks are, and whether there seems to be a relationship between cycle and the reinforcement of a panic or strong fear effect to keep qualified people away from the site.

• Determine how the desease [sic] enters the environment.

• Determine if counterintelligence has any information concerning hostile CBR experts being either near the site area or in any contact with anyone who travels to the base.
• Check other deficient sites for similar problems.

• Determine if consistent hostile activity patterns are present and profile them.

• Report findings and recommend remedial measures if applicable.”

The CIA, by blaming the Soviets in the late 1970s for offensive behavioral modification warfare, got itself a nice fat four-year study using U.S. military and civilian personnel as guinea pigs.

When it comes to concocting fictional enemies and threats, Ian Fleming never had anything on the CIA. People like Morell, Hayden, and former CIA director Leon Panetta have mastered the art of spinning foes out of whole cloth.

Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.

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Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report (subscription required).