Democratic presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy, Jr. has proven that he is fearless when it comes to talking about subjects some would say require tin foil to explore. Whether it’s the alleged side effects from scores of childhood vaccines or the untimely deaths of both his father, Robert Kennedy, and uncle, President John F. Kennedy, RFK Jr. has been candid about his controversial beliefs, including those surrounding the CIA’s notorious MK Ultra mind-control experiments.
In a Wednesday thread, Kennedy wrote, “CIA conspiracy theories are not just ‘right wing’ and they are not just theories.”
The candidate linked to a recent article from Truthout.org that he says is a “progressive publication.”
CIA conspiracy theories are not just “right wing” and they are not just theories. This article is in the progressive publication @truthout.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 28, 2023
The story, written by Orisanmi Burton, details the “medical torture of Indigenous children and Black prisoners” under MK Ultra, a program that “involved a range of grotesque experiments on unwitting test subjects within and beyond U.S. borders.”
Burton cites a lawsuit brought by “a group of Indigenous women known as the Kanien’kehà:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers)” against “several entities, including McGill University, the Canadian government and the Royal Victoria Hospital in Quebec.”
“The parties reached an agreement whereby archeologists and cultural monitors would begin the process of searching for unmarked graves, which the Mohawk Mothers believe are buried on the grounds of the hospital,” Burton reports. “Over the preceding two years, approximately 1,300 unmarked graves, most of them containing the remains of Indigenous children, have been discovered on the grounds of five of Canada’s former residential schools.”
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In October 2021, the author writes, “new evidence surfaced linking disappeared Indigenous children to MK Ultra experiments conducted by CIA-sponsored researchers.”
Burton continues:
A white Winnipeg resident named Lana Ponting testified in Quebec’s Superior Court that in 1958, when she was 16 years old, doctors from the Allan Memorial Institute, a former psychiatric hospital affiliated with McGill and the Royal Victoria Hospital, held her against her will, drugged her with LSD and other substances, subjected her to electroshock treatments, and exposed her to auditory indoctrination: playing a recording telling Ponting over and over again, that she was either “a bad girl” or “a good girl.”
Ponting also testified that “some of the children I saw there were Indigenous,” and that she befriended an Indigenous girl named Morningstar, who endured many of the same abuses, with the added indignity of being harassed because of her race. During a reprieve from her drug-induced haze, Ponting recalls sneaking out at night and happening upon “people standing over by the cement wall” with shovels and flashlights. She and other children had heard rumors that bodies were buried on the property. “I believe that some of them would be Indigenous people,” Ponting told the court.
Burton goes on to reveal details of “a little-known program of prison-based scientific experimentation that intersects with the Mohawk Mothers struggle.”
At the Dannemora State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, as part of a “partnership” launched between then New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and McGill University consultants in 1966, the criminally insane inmates became the subjects of “experimental studies of various aspects of criminal behavior.”
“[A]n attendee of a conference about the program noted that a large number of its participants were Black,” Burton writes.
The experiments that resulted in the subsequent years were described by one observer as “quite revolting both for those who watched and those who took part.”
In one instance, prisoners thought to be “sociopaths” were subjected to electric shocks after being injected with adrenaline to see if they suffered from a “deficiency that prevents them from learning from ‘fear-producing experiences,'” according to Burton.
“The state-sponsored experiments of the Cold War era employed a range of scandalous methods to test whether human thoughts and behavior could be predictably controlled,” Burton writes. “The outcome of this research and the fate of its victims remain obscure, but a common thread runs across different experimental contexts. Researchers targeted and assaulted vulnerable populations who were incapable of granting consent and who were viewed as disposable.”
“U.S. and Canadian military were also involved, along with nonprofits and university researchers,” Kennedy stated on Twitter. “The victims included indigenous children and incarcerated adults from the New York state prison system.”
“While oppression starts with the most marginalized and vulnerable,” he cautioned, “it rarely stops there.”
While oppression starts with the most marginalized and vulnerable, it rarely stops there. #Kennedy24
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 28, 2023
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