vyelkin posted:

imo it's for the same reason that the KGB archive exists even though it's never been opened to outsiders and in all likelihood never will be no matter who's sitting in the Kremlin. People on the inside want to keep records of things for internal use and consultation even if they also want to ensure they never see the light of day.

mdemone posted:

dang can you imagine what they got in there

Perry Mason Jar posted:

This isn't a scoop, it's really obvious? All of the KSA royal family does the same thing, MBS is just particularly power-hungry and much better at these things than his royal adversaries.

paul_soccer12 posted:

Yes he is

inconsequential posted:

. The possible reasoning behind Bannon using Alec Guiness as the name he checks into hotels with. Around the margins are very brief flirtations with hallucinogenic drugs and pederasty. A rumored overthrow of Venezuela. Lots of weird wild stuff in the world of political intrigue, even if Bannon did get jettisoned pretty early on.

MLSM posted:

MBS looks bizarre in a suit

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/ReutersScience/status/1452828600646914050

wow I guess this program is finally paying dividends

Femur posted:

Why does it look like bezos is only one with a tailor?

Stevie Lee posted:

Real hurthling! posted:

when you dont work out you want to blame the tailor for how you look

Stevie Lee posted:

Femur posted:

Why does it look like bezos is only one with a tailor?

Spergin Morlock posted:

lol that one of MBS's legs is almost as big around as jeff's torso

mdemone posted:

big hands too. guy is basically standard goon issue

mdemone posted:

big hands too. guy is basically standard goon issue

A Bakers Cousin posted:

My boney my boney my boney saw

mdemone posted:

here's a great article I stumbled across while browsing MKULTRA stuff:

https://www.salon.com/2012/12/02/better_than_bourne_who_really_killed_nick_deak/

An untraceable hit is the best hit, and the mind of a "nut" is all but untraceable. Hoffa associate Sheeran identified two high-profile examples in America. One took place during Hoffa's trial in Nashville in 1962, when, during a break in the trial, a young paranoid-schizophrenic named William Swanson rushed into the courthouse and began firing at Hoffa. Hoffa's attacker had been released from a California mental institution a few months before coming out to Nashville. "I had been struggling with something in me that told me I had to kill someone for over a year, but I didn't know who," Swanson told police after he was arrested. "Then a voice told me, 'You have to kill Hoffa' — it said it twice." Hoffa had always assumed that rival mobsters had trained Swanson to take him out. A few years later, in 1971, New York's top Mafia don, Joseph Colombo, was gunned down at an Italian-American pride rally by a 24-year-old African-American paranoid-schizophrenic, who was killed seconds later by someone in the crowd.

shame on an IGA posted:

the author's other work includes articles about Dr. David Thorpe and the Goon Island saga, so let's all smile for the group photo

theflyingexecutive posted:

when I'm a-ruling
I strut my stuff
and I'm so filled out

wealth high as a kite
I just might
stop to cut you up

The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

Wait, we have an island now?

The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

I’m starting to agree that the internet is the new MKULTRA

A Bakers Cousin posted:

America decided we were pro deth squads and anti providing homes for everyone

The Sausages posted:

Just finding out how hard the CIA worked to protect literal Nazis from prosecution for known war crimes while actively recruiting them as natural allies against communism and helped them attempt to construct a shadow government within post war Germany. Except a lot of these unrepentant Nazis hated the western powers more than they hated the Soviets and were double agents so after decades of intelligence failures the operation collapsed under its own absurdity. And even after the double agents were unmasked they continued to be protected from war crime prosecution. And even after the natural deaths of the perpetrators the CIA continues to maintain a narrative of their innocence of both war crimes and Nazism.

History used to be a fun interesting topic and now it's just

The Sausages posted:

And even after the natural deaths of the perpetrators the CIA continues to maintain a narrative of their innocence of both war crimes and Nazism.