CIA MIND CONTROL: The Terrifying Truth About MKUltra, Remote Viewing & Psychic Spies

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

The CIA spent decades experimenting with psychic spies who could remotely view enemy secrets, and creating mind control programs that may have created assassins. The chilling possibility is that these programs never really ended.
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IN THIS EPISODE: It was kept secret for years that the U.S. government spent millions of dollars and decades of research and experiments looking into the paranormal, trying to weaponize psychic powers like remote viewing and mind control. We were told they didn’t find much success – but could that be part of an ongoing secret? What if they did succeed, but don’t want us to know due to “national security” reasons? And what if they aren’t just spying on our enemies, but also on us, the country’s citizens? And if they can do that… can they also control our minds to make us think and do whatever they wish? It’s a disturbing journey.
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CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Lead-In
00:02:09.494 = Show Open
00:03:39.057 = The U.S. Government Dabbles In The Occult
00:21:30.404 = Remote Viewing and the CIA
00:45:38.900 = Mind Control and MKUltra, Part 1
01:06:33.426 = Mind Control and MKUltra, Part 2
01:23:28.464 = Mind Control and MKUltra, Part 3
01:35:12.768 = Show Close
SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“The U.S. Government Dabbles In The Occult” by Colin Dickey for The New Republic: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckjnw39
“Remote Viewing and the CIA” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mte672ey
“Mind Control and MKUltra” by Marcus Lowth for UFO Insight: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p96m772
BOOK: “Phenomena – The Secret History of the U. S. Government’s Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis” by Annie Jacobsen: https://amzn.to/3QudCnX
BOOK: “Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Military Base” by Annie Jacobsen: https://amzn.to/3s3g3Uv
BOOK: “The Men Who Stare At Goats” by Jon Ronson: https://amzn.to/440YHox
BOOK: “The Pentagon’s Brain – An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top Secrete Military Research Agency” by Annie Jacobsen: https://amzn.to/3YmhQQH
BOOK: “Psychic Discoveries Behind The Iron Curtain” by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder: https://amzn.to/3DKmeiX
BOOK: “The Mystery Chronicles – More Real-Life X-Files” by Joe Nickell: https://amzn.to/43XgVHw
BOOK: “The Seventh Sense – The Secrets of Remote Viewing As Told By A Psychic Spy For The U.S. Military” by Lyn Buchanan: https://amzn.to/3s28ygD
BOOK: “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley: https://amzn.to/3Ylpue5
VIDEO: (Spoon Bending) Jack Houck PK Party at 1985 Psychotronics Assoc. Conference: https://youtu.be/wFsfaCIE34s
VIDEO: Roseanne Barr Reveals MKUltra In Hollywood: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p92cmz9
EPISODE: “Murdered By 1980s’s Video Games: The Truth Behind POLYBIUS and Berzerk”: https://weirddarkness.com/?s=polybius
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Originally aired: August 07, 2023
NOTE: Some of this content may have been created with assistance from AI tools, but it has been reviewed, edited, narrated, produced, and approved by Darren Marlar, creator and host of Weird Darkness — who, despite popular conspiracy theories, is NOT an AI voice.
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/CIAMindControl