Saturday, October 25, 2014

US Jazz musicians were drafted into CIA’s MK ULTRA

Here is a bit of US history that shows the reach of the CIA’s infamous mind-control program, MK ULTRA. During the 1940s and 50s, it was common knowledge that musicians who were busted for drug use were shipped, or volunteered to go, to Lexington, Kentucky. Lex was the first Narcotics Farm and US Health Dept. drug treatment hospital in the US. According to diverse sources, here’s a partial list of the reported “hundreds” of jazz musicians who went to Lex: Red Rodney, Sonny Rollins, Chet Baker, Sonny Stitt, Howard McGhee, Elvin Jones, Zoot Sims, Lee Morgan, Tadd Dameron, Stan Levey, Jackie McLean. It’s also reported that Ray Charles was there, and William Burroughs, Peter Lorre, and Sammy Davis, Jr. It was supposed to be a rehab center. A place for drying out. But it was something else too.



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