Video•May 10, 2026
The CIA Testimony They Said Was Illegal to Watch
The video features John Stockwell, a former senior CIA case officer, who testifies that the agency has repeatedly violated U.S. law and ethical norms. He outlines a sprawling covert agenda that includes the MK‑Ultra mind‑control program—officially acknowledging 175 projects but only five publicly known—where unwitting Americans were dosed with psychedelics and deadly pathogens.
Stockwell details how the CIA systematically infiltrated academia, journalism, and publishing, paying scholars and writers to produce propaganda that still populates university libraries. He cites COINTELPRO‑style operations that surveilled and disrupted student groups, labor unions, and civic organizations, as well as a letter from a program founder boasting about “fun, fun, fun” in killing and stealing with government blessing.
Among the most striking examples are the agency’s collaboration with a Canadian psychiatrist who drugged patients, the settlement with McGill University victims, and the deliberate use of 1980s action movies like *Red Dawn* to condition teenagers for future wars. Stockwell also connects covert actions to the creation of modern drug cartels, tracing heroin pipelines from CIA‑backed operations in Southeast Asia to today’s opioid crises.
The testimony suggests that U.S. intelligence has shaped public opinion, policy, and even the drug market for decades, raising urgent questions about oversight, transparency, and the erosion of democratic trust.
