LSD OKC 1953, Jolly West, Kesey Ginsberg

"IN 1954, around the same time as Chere Jo Horton’s murder, West began to split his time between Lackland and the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, where he would lead the psychiatry department.

West had told his prospective employer that his Lackland duties were “purely clinical” and that he’d “been doing no research, classified or otherwise” — and he asked the board of directors at Oklahoma for permission to accept money from the Geschickter Fund for Medical Research, which he called “a non-profit private research foundation.” In fact, as the CIA later acknowledged, Geschickter was another of Gottlieb’s fictions, a shell organization enabling him.

In 1956, West reported back to the CIA that the experiments he’d begun in 1953 had at last come to fruition.

In a 1956 paper titled “The Psychophysiological Studies of Hypnosis and Suggestibility,” he claimed to have achieved the impossible: 

He knew how to replace “true memories” with “false ones” in human beings without their knowledge."

https://theintercept.com/2019/11/24/cia-mkultra-louis-jolyon-west/



According to records in West’s files, his “crash pad” was funded by the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry, Inc., which had bankrolled a number of his other projects, too, across decades and institutions.

 Dr. Gordon Deckert, West’s successor as chair at the University of Oklahoma, told me that he found papers in West’s desk that revealed that the Foundations Fund was a front for the CIA.


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MKUltra was so highly classified that when John McCone succeeded Dulles as CIA director late in 1961, he was not informed of its existence until 1963. 

Fewer than half a dozen agency brass were aware of it at any period during its 20-year history.

"At the invitation of Stanford psychology graduate student Vik Lovell, an acquaintance of Richard Alpert and Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey volunteered to take part in what turned out to be a CIA-financed study under the aegis of MKUltra,"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra



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"n the 1950s, West, then an Air Force doctor at Lackland Air Force Base,[3] was appointed to a panel to discover why 36 of 59 airmen captured in the Korean War had confessed or co-operated in Korean allegations of war crimes committed by the United States. 

Amid speculation that the airmen had been brainwashed or drugged, West came to a simpler conclusion: "What we found enabled us to rule out drugs, hypnosis or other mysterious trickery," he said. "It was just one device used to confuse, bewilder and torment our men until they were ready to confess to anything. 

That device was prolonged, chronic loss of sleep." 


Died 2 January 1999 (aged 74)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Jolyon_West


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"KLICKITAT COUNTY: Police find knife, seek van in triple stabbing
Sun | Local

The Associated Press — Jan 2nd, 1999


KLICKITAT - This county's new sheriff says he has good leads but no suspects in the New Year's Eve stabbing deaths of two men and a pregnant woman."


https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/1999/01-02/0039_klickitat_county__police_find_kni.html___________

"Plea agreement reached in triple homicide
Sun | Local

AP — Apr 20th, 2001

YAKIMA - A young man accused, with his father, in the fatal stabbings of three people in a small Klickitat County town in 1998 has agreed to plead guilty to avoid a possible death sentence, an attorney said.

Billy Jean Neal Jr., 21, will enter the plea Monday in Klickitat County Superior Court, Mike Foister, a Vancouver lawyer, told the Yakima Herald-Republic.

"His statement will be that he acted with premeditation, that he inflicted injuries upon some of the people that are deceased," said Foister, who was appointed to represent the younger Neal.


He is expected to plead guilty to aggravated first-degree murder in the deaths of Carlos R. Mendoza, 30, and Dionna L. Gomez, 22, and guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Juan Olmos, 30. Mendoza, Olmos and Gomez, who was pregnant, were killed Dec. 31, 1998, in Klickitat."