An investigative reporter has alleged that two of the most infamous figures of the 1960s may have been covert assets in the CIAs notorious MK-Ultra mind-control program.
According to the Daily Caller, journalist Tom ONeill testified before the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, asserting that convicted cult leader Charles Manson and Jack Ruby, the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, were likely tied to MK-Ultra, the Cold War-era program that experimented with hypnosis and powerful drugs such as LSD to manipulate human behavior.
ONeill told lawmakers, I theoretically, Manson Ive never been able to prove absolutely. Jack Ruby, I believe, this is something else on the Warren Commission investigation was Allen Dulles, the former CIA director who authorized and ran MK Ultra until he was fired by [former] President [John F.] Kennedy, directly linking Rubys case to the intelligence apparatus that oversaw the program.
ONeill further alleged that psychiatrist Dr. Louis Jolyon Jolly West, a figure long associated with controversial behavioral research, was placed in charge of examining Ruby in his jail cell, ostensibly to ensure he did not reveal details about alleged experimentation. Ruby shot Oswald on Nov. 24, 1963, just one day after Oswald allegedly assassinated former President John F. Kennedy, thereby silencing the only man who could have fully explained his role in the Dallas shooting.
Republican Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who chairs the declassification task force, signaled that Congress is not finished probing the CIAs activities. I will be personally following up with the director of the CIA on the MK-Ultra files that we do have. Also, as I noted earlier, there will be more that will be declassified, specifically pertaining to newly found records that were located that we were discussing earlier, Luna said, underscoring a push for transparency long demanded by conservatives skeptical of the security state.
ONeill argued that Congress has never been given the full story on MK-Ultra, pointing to Wests work and submitting a document he said contradicts a 1977 CIA filing to Congress about LSD experiments, and he urged lawmakers to reopen the investigation. Former CIA Director Allen Dulles authorized MK-Ultra in 1953 amid fears that communist regimes in the Soviet Union, China and North Korea had perfected brainwashing techniques, prompting U.S. researchers to deploy high doses of psychedelics, electroshock, and sleep deprivation on unwitting subjects.
In 1973, then-CIA Director Richard Helms allegedly ordered nearly all MK-Ultra files destroyed, a move that shielded the agency from public accountability and congressional oversight for decades. Only thousands of pages of misfiled financial records survived, enabling partial exposure during mid-1970s inquiries such as the Church Committee, but when the scandal finally surfaced in 1975, the CIA provided Congress with only limited information, leaving many questions about government overreach, abuse of power, and the integrity of past investigations unresolved to this day.
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