Former CIA Officer Drops Bombshell at MKULTRA Hearing: “I Don’t Believe the Research Stopped”

Former CIA Officer Drops Bombshell at MKULTRA Hearing: “I Don’t Believe the Research Stopped” — Luna Says Congress Was Lied to for 50 Years

Jim Hᴏft

Explosive testimony before the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets reveals decades of CIA crimes against unwitting Americans, evidence destruction, secret torture sites in Germany, and a continuing deep state effort to hide the truth from Congress and the American people.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) chaired a powerful hearing Tuesday titled “Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the Truth of the CIA’s MKULTRA Experiments,” dropping bombshell after bombshell on one of the darkest chapters in American intelligence history.

The CIA’s infamous MKULTRA program, which ran from 1953 to 1973, subjected countless unwitting victims, including American citizens, hospital patients, prisoners, and veterans, to LSD, psychological torture, electroshock, hypnosis, and sensory deprivation in a quest for mind control techniques.

In her opening remarks, Luna called the program “crimes committed by the Central Intelligence Agency against American citizens” and “crimes against humanity.”

“This was a deliberate, systematic governmental operation… authorized by the very top of U.S. intelligence apparatus,” Luna said.

She detailed how CIA Director Richard Helms personally ordered the destruction of MKULTRA records in 1973 as he left office. Sidney Gottlieb and his team spent an entire day burning 152 files.

Gottlieb then had his personal papers destroyed. The head of the CIA’s own records center protested in writing and was overruled.

“That is obstruction of justice. That is criminal destruction of federal records,” Luna stated. No one went to prison. No victims received formal compensation.

The CIA long claimed the program was a “failure,” but Luna and lawmakers argue Congress and the American people were intentionally misled for over 50 years.

Luna announced that the CIA is now working to declassify newly discovered documents tied to what she described as a previously unknown “forgery program.”

CIA whistleblower and former officer James Erdman III testified that approximately 40 boxes of sensitive records were removed from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) during declassification review efforts. This echoes his explosive May 2026 testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which The Gateway Pundit reported on at the time.

As we previously detailed, Erdman testified that the CIA “took back 40 boxes of JFK files and MKULTRA files being processed for declassification by DNI Tulsi Gabbard” in what he described as “documented efforts to circumvent oversight.”

Rep. Luna and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) responded by firing off a preservation letter demanding all records be preserved and returned. Luna later confirmed on X that the MKULTRA documents were specifically requested by her Task Force for its investigation.

Luna clarified that the incident was “not a raid,” but the removal of records still raises serious questions about the CIA’s willingness to comply with lawful oversight and declassification directives.

Luna also revealed she is investigating disturbing new allegations of a CIA facility in Germany where MKULTRA victims were allegedly tortured.

She questioned witnesses about potential locations of remains and announced plans to reach out to the German government for assistance, including possible law enforcement involvement to locate and identify victims.

A witness at the hearing claimed to have identified what may have been a secret CIA prison or black site in Germany connected to these experiments. Luna called the entire program “criminal in nature” and “horrifying,”noting it went “unvetted, unchecked and that there was no accountability.”

Adding to the alarm, a former CIA officer testified during the hearing that “I don’t believe that the research stopped” on MKULTRA.

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One of the most disturbing revelations came from historical documents referenced during the hearing. A participant in the original program documented the ability to replace true memories with false ones without the subject’s knowledge.

The exact description: “It’s feasible to take the memory of a definite event in the life of an individual, and through hypnotic suggestion, bring about the subsequent conscious recall to the effect that this event never actually took place. But that a different fictional event actually did occur.”

If the U.S. government could do this in the 1950s, the question hanging over the room was obvious. What can they do now with AI, brain-computer interfaces, and directed energy tools?

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Kremlin: EU Enters Path of Militarization, Devoting Itself to Confrontation With Russia

EU Enters Path of Militarization, Devoting Itself to Confrontation With Russia - Kremlin

Sputnik

The European Union has entered the path of militarization and is devoting itself to the topic of confrontation with Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.

"It is clear that as the European Union is developing its defense identity, it has entered the path of militarization and is, in fact, devoting itself to the topic of confrontation with Russia," Peskov told reporters, commenting on the escalation of tensions between Russia and European countries.

The EU is exacerbating tensions on the European continent, forcing Russia to take additional measures for its own security, the official added.

Russia will continue to increase pressure on Kiev to achieve its goals, Dmitry Peskov said.

Chief of the General Staff of the Russian armed forces Valery Gerasimov reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the results of the massive retaliatory strike this morning, Peskov said.

"Meetings [with Gerasimov on Ukraine] also take place regularly, almost on a daily basis, but they are usually not covered by broadcasters," Peskov said.

The security of Russia and its interests will be guaranteed in any case, the spokesman

Earlier in the day, the Russian armed forces, in response to Kiev's terrorist attacks on Russia's civilian infrastructure, have inflicted a massive strike on military enterprises and fuel and energy facilities in Kiev.

The topic of building the Power of Siberia-2 gas pipeline was discussed during Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to China, it will further be discussed at the corporate level, Peskov said.

Russia's Medvedev to Attend Farewell Ceremony With Former Iran Supreme Leader

Russian Deputy Security Council Chairman Dmitry Medvedev will attend a farewell ceremony for former supreme leader of Iran Ali Khamenei, Dmitry Peskov said.

Ali Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli strikes on Tehran on February 28. Following his death, his son Mojtaba was chosen as Iran's new supreme leader. He has not appeared in public since his appointment but has issued several statements to the Iranian people, which were published by official Iranian media outlets.

"Dmitry Anatolyevich [Medvedev] will be at the farewell ceremony," Peskov told reporters, answering a question about who will represent Russia at the farewell ceremony with Ali Khamenei.

Iran’s Ghalibaf calls for massive Khamenei funeral turnout to sound ‘nation’s call for vengeance’

Iran’s Ghalibaf calls for massive Khamenei funeral turnout to sound ‘nation’s call for vengeance’

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Iran’s chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf calls for massive turnout at Ali Khamenei’s funeral to avenge the supreme leader’s death in US-Israeli strikes at the start of the war.

“I invite all the Iranian people… to write a glorious page in the history of Islamic Iran through your presence” at the funeral ceremonies starting Saturday, says Ghalibaf, who is also Iran’s parliament speaker.

“The nation’s call for vengeance must ring in the ears of the whole world,” he adds in a statement.

Khamenei’s funeral, initially delayed at the height of the Middle East war, will take place as Iran and the United States observe a fragile ceasefire after signing a preliminary deal to halt the conflict.

Khamenei, a spiritual figure for many Shias, was killed at the age of 86 at his compound in the center of the Iranian capital on February 28, the first day of the war. His public funeral will begin on Saturday, with his body lying in state at the colossal Grand Mosalla complex in central Tehran that hosts major Friday prayers, official ceremonies and religious gatherings. The bodies of his slain relatives will also be presented.

The ceremonies are expected to draw between 15 and 20 million mourners, according to officials, which would make it the biggest state funeral in the country’s history.

“Iran… is preparing to experience one of the most significant moments in its history,” Ghalibaf says.

Tehran, as well as the holy cities of Qom and Mashhad, which will host later stages of the funeral and burial ceremonies, will observe public holidays while the events are underway.

Authorities have ordered public and private offices in Tehran to close from Saturday through Monday, while traffic restrictions will make much of the city center inaccessible to private vehicles.

Iran warns US, Israel against attacks ahead of funeral processions for Khamenei

An Iranian military commander warns the United States and Israel against any attack on Iran as it prepares for the state funeral of the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in airstrikes on the first day of the war.

“We warn the enemies of Iran, especially the US and the Zionist regime, to avoid any miscalculation and to think about the harsh retaliation our armed forces would make to any threat and aggression against our country,” Ali Abdollahi, commander of Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, says in a statement carried by state media.

Funeral processions for Khamenei will begin on July 4 in Tehran and conclude on July 9 with his burial in his hometown of Mashhad, with additional ceremonies planned in Qom and Iraq in-between these dates.

Yesterday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi gave a similar warning that Tehran would deliver an immediate and powerful response to any threat against its people or leadership after comments by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz that Iran’s current Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was “marked for death.”

Iranian media reported heightened security measures during the funeral period, while the head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organisation said that temporary airspace restrictions would be implemented over several cities, including Tehran and Mashhad.

It’s time: Red Heifer organization calls for national Temple movement

It’s time: Red Heifer organization calls for national Temple movement

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz

A red heifer born last month in the hills of the Galilee, sired by imported American semen and born to a black-coated mother, has reignited a coordinated national campaign among Israeli rabbis, breeders, and educators to restore the lost laws of ritual purity to the Jewish people. The campaign arrives at a moment when public appetite for Temple-related preparation appears to be surging: a recent survey found 55 percent of Israeli Jews now support rebuilding the Holy Temple on the Temple Mount, and a report published this week put the number of men enrolled in Temple service training at 150,000, out of a planned 200,000. “This is not a private event or private issue,” declared Yehuda Ben Tzvi, head of programming at the Mikdash Educational Center, in an interview with Joseph Good of Hatikva Ministries. The calf, he announced, is only one piece of a six-point national strategy the organization has spent the past year building, one Ben Tzvi insists must become “a national historical event” rather than the work of a small circle of activists. 

The campaign’s appeal to ordinary Israelis is no longer confined to grassroots circles. On Sunday, Israel365 News published an editorial by Yosef Eitan reporting that the government has quietly called for training 200,000 men in the procedures of Temple service, with 150,000 already enrolled. The Israeli government itself has not formally endorsed the broader Temple movement, but the figures Eitan cited suggest the Israeli public increasingly has. Last week, Israel365 News reported on a new survey commissioned by the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation and conducted by the Direct Polls Institute, which found that support among Israeli Jews for rebuilding the Beit HaMikdash (Holy Temple) on Har HaBayit (the Temple Mount) now stands at 55 percent.

Ben Tzvi, who lives in Jerusalem overlooking the Temple Mount and descends from a family of Leviim (Levites), opened the conversation by describing his life’s work. “I spend my nights and days reminding myself, the Jewish people, and the rest of the world to love Jerusalem, never forget Jerusalem,” he said, before turning to what he called “an epic historic two years” for the Jewish people. “It’s not all about arms and strength and the military effort,” Ben Tzvi said, “but it’s also about faith, about the inner strength, remembering who we are, why we are here, what is the destiny of the Jewish people.”

The centerpiece of the interview is the new calf, discovered by a team member of the National Red Heifer Institute who works at a breeding farm using semen imported from the United States. “Fascinatingly enough,” Ben Tzvi said, “a beautiful red heifer was born around a month ago, and she was, funnily enough, discovered by one of our team members from the National Red Heifer Institute.” He emphasized the unlikely genetics involved. “A red heifer born from a black Angus, but she was tip to toe 100 percent pure.” The calf has been named Tamima, meaning whole or unblemished. “We named her Tamima in a prayer that she will remain Tamim, whole, both in body and in redness of her coat,” Ben Tzvi said.

The law of the red heifer, parah adumah in Hebrew, comes directly from the book of Numbers: “This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, and on which never came a yoke” (Numbers 19:2).

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Why the Strait of Hormuz Matters More Than You Think

The Economic Catastrophe of Trump’s Iran War: Why the Strait of Hormuz Matters More Than You Think

Mike Adams

The war with Iran is not just a military misadventure but an economic catastrophe that will rival the financial fallout of 2008. The Strait of Hormuz closure has triggered shortages in oil, gas, helium, and fertilizer, leading to rising costs and supply chain chaos. We ignored the warnings, and now we are paying the price.

The mainstream media and the administration tried to spin this as a quick victory, but the reality is far darker. As I have been warning for months, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz cuts off roughly 20% of global oil trade and a third of agricultural inputs, driving up gas prices and food costs. [1] The situation was entirely predictable: the U.S. massed naval firepower in February 2026, Iran responded by closing the strait, and the global economy immediately seized up. [2] Our economy floats on oil, as Sharon Astyk wrote in Depletion and Abundance: “Our food is grown with oil, packaged in oil, and transported to our grocery stores with oil.” [3] That oil lifeline has been cut, and the consequences are only beginning.

Closing the Strait doesn’t just affect oil. Helium shortages threaten semiconductor production, medical MRIs, and the AI bubble. I have seen this firsthand in my lab, where helium supplies have been rationed by key gas suppliers and prices have skyrocketed. Critical commodities like sulfur and urea are also in short supply, impacting industries from microchips to fertilizers. [4] The administration’s spin that a quick deal will restore everything fails to account for the long-term deficit. Even if the Strait reopens, the International Energy Agency warns that it will take two years for oil and gas supplies to fully recover. [2]

Fertilizer shortages are already causing crop failures. The Al Jubail industrial complex in Saudi Arabia, which produces much of the world’s ammonia and petrochemicals, has been effectively shut down due to the conflict. [5] Without fertilizer, global food production will plummet, triggering a widening famine that will hit the poorest nations first. For some countries, their entire food system will be facing near-collapse conditions by mid-2027.

As I reported in my article “No Way Out,” the oil wells in the Persian Gulf have suffered permanent damage that cannot be quickly repaired. [6] Investors cheered when oil prices dropped on news of a deal, but that optimism is misplaced. The structural damage to energy infrastructure ensures that future price spikes are inevitable.

The Strait of Hormuz is not just a chokepoint for oil; it is the jugular of the entire modern economy.

Iran used a decentralized, strategic-depth approach – exactly what George Washington did – turning our blitzkrieg into a quagmire. They didn’t need a large navy; they just needed to credibly threaten the Strait. Iran’s control of that narrow passage, between two islands, allowed it to dictate global trade flows with relative impunity.

Through all this, the Iranians proved rational and disciplined, while we blundered into an unwinnable war. As Middle East Eye reported, the Islamabad agreement “reads less like terms imposed on a defeated state than like a retreat from the American-Zionist project to remake the region.” [10] Another analysis concluded bluntly: “We have lost.” [11] University of Tehran professor Mohammad Marandi described the outcome as a “decisive victory” for Iran. [12]

This is a historic defeat for American power. Dmitry Trenin wrote that the truce “marks a defeat for American power.” [13] The US-Israeli war has ended the dream of a “greater Israel” and elevated Iran as the regional superpower. [14] [15] We are witnessing the end of American hegemony in the Middle East, all because of a reckless war that Trump never should have started in the first place.

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