CIA, Shaken Not Stirred
June 27, 2007 at 9:05 pm
We learn this today from the release of CIA documents:
The CIA was eager to examine the use of dangerous pharmaceutical drugs to modify the behavior of targeted individuals, and so it asked commercial drug manufacturers to pass along samples of medicines rejected for commercial sale “because of unfavorable side effects,” according to an undated memorandum included in dozens of CIA documents released yesterday. …
Sidney Gottlieb, the chief of the CIA’s technical services division, who directed the mind-control experiments, retired from the government in 1973 and died in 1999.
We already knew this:
It was the height of the Cold War when Sidney Gottlieb arrived in Congo in September 1960. The CIA man was toting a vial of poison. His target: the toothbrush of Patrice Lumumba.
And we also already knew this: Sidney Gottlieb was the real-life inspiration for the James Bond gadgety character Q.
So let’s connect all the dots, take a drippy hallucinogenic, watch the walls melt, and imagine this conversation:
Gottlieb: “Do you expect me to talk?”
Goldfinger: “No, Mr. Lumumba, I expect you to die!”
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