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A question of torture
Book by Alfred W. McCoy
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Search complete. 23 mentions across 2 episodes found for "A question of torture".
Oct 8, 2026
Episode 582: Bird Penetration System
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26:43Robert SkvarlaGUEST
So you have these two conflicting visions that are born of the Holocaust.
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26:46Robert SkvarlaGUEST
And even then there are researchers like Alfred McCoy, who wrote a great book, A Question of Torture, about the CIA's torture program.
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26:53Robert SkvarlaGUEST
He connects the experiments of Stanley Milgram to possibly the CIA and MKUltra, Where, again, those are very much about authority and just carrying out orders.
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27:02Robert SkvarlaGUEST
So the idea of, can we make someone do this if we push them enough? So I think there was very much a school of thought about, can we create a programmable human on either an individual or a mass level? If you want to call it psychological warfare, you can.
MKULTRA: THE BLACK BOX (AE266)
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20:48Max ArvoGUEST
So I think when you add in the biological and chemical warfare side of it, that's pretty significant because also I think that can include kind of, by definition, lethal capabilities.
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21:01Max ArvoGUEST
um poisons which you know gotley was he had a some vast collection of poisons personally and stuff and then provided them for lamumba which they didn't use in the end but um uh so yeah that's kind of from the start specifically mk ultra so that's to say mk ultra was not from the start dallas putting in writing mk ultra as a program to create hypnoprogram assassins it was a mechanism to keep stuff off the books.
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21:28Max ArvoGUEST
And it was biological and chemical warfare and behavioral modification.
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21:33Max ArvoGUEST
And also
14 MINS LATER
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35:56Aaron GoodHOST
I didn't want to close the book on David's partnership with Bryce and me.
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36:00Aaron GoodHOST
I had hopes that he would return.
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36:02Aaron GoodHOST
David and I had planned to write two books together after 2024, one on the ultra-Zionist neocon takeover of U.S. foreign policy and another on the RFK assassination.
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36:13Aaron GoodHOST
It now seems very unlikely that David will return to podcasting or to writing.