Long time no see - first a recap:

As you may or may not know, I cut my teeth in the manga scanlation scene by doing a stunt where I used the credit pages of my manga to point out that the staff of the site was enabling and perpetuating a toxic culture of hate speech.

It was kind of petty culture war BS that was mainly to rile the hogs (and since I have touched grass) - but it did lead to a political shift where people felt more empowered to call stuff out.

They implemented a rule banning "unrelated political speech" in credits because of me and had an aneurism when I poked the obvious hole in that line of reasoning (see photo)

Anyways - it's been like two years, and I kind of want to pick at that scab some more. I'm looking to translate a spy themed tiddy manga and want to use it to spread some very cool facts about CIA / spy related military industrial complex atrocities. Any ideas for some cool bits of info?

  • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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    3 years ago

    This is a good list to start with.

    MKULtra was particularly horrific. This is pretty well known, but I think a lot of people aren't fully aware of how terrible it really was:

    Once Project MKUltra got underway in April 1953, experiments included administering LSD to mental patients, prisoners, drug addicts, and sex workers – "people who could not fight back," as one agency officer put it.[47] In one case, they administered LSD to a mental patient in Kentucky for 174 days.[47] They also administered LSD to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, and members of the general public to study their reactions. LSD and other drugs were often administered without the subject's knowledge or informed consent, a violation of the Nuremberg Code the U.S. had agreed to follow after World War II. The aim of this was to find drugs which would bring out deep confessions or wipe a subject's mind clean and program them as "a robot agent."[48]

    In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels within agency safehouses in San Francisco to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, the brothels were equipped with one-way mirrors, and the sessions were filmed for later viewing and study.[49] In other experiments where people were given LSD without their knowledge, they were interrogated under bright lights with doctors in the background taking notes. They told subjects they would extend their "trips" if they refused to reveal their secrets. The people under this interrogation were CIA employees, U.S. military personnel, and agents suspected of working for the other side in the Cold War. Long-term debilitation and several deaths resulted from this.[48] Heroin addicts were bribed into taking LSD with offers of more heroin.[19][50]

    and

    In areas under American control in the early 1950s in Europe and East Asia, mostly Japan, Germany and the Philippines, the CIA created secret detention centers so that the U.S. could avoid criminal prosecution. The CIA captured people suspected of being enemy agents and other people it deemed "expendable" to undertake various types of torture and human experimentation on them. The prisoners were interrogated while being administered psychoactive drugs, electroshocked and subjected to extremes of temperature, sensory isolation and the like to develop a better understanding of how to destroy and to control human minds.[4]