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A question of torture

Book by Alfred W. McCoy

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Oct 8, 2026

Robert SkvarlaGUEST
26:43
So you have these two conflicting visions that are born of the Holocaust.
Robert SkvarlaGUEST
26:46
And even then there are researchers like Alfred McCoy, who wrote a great book, A Question of Torture, about the CIA's torture program.
Robert SkvarlaGUEST
26:53
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.
Robert SkvarlaGUEST
27:02
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.
Max ArvoGUEST
20:48
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.
Max ArvoGUEST
21:01
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.
Max ArvoGUEST
21:28
And it was biological and chemical warfare and behavioral modification.
Max ArvoGUEST
21:33
And also

14 MINS LATER

Aaron GoodHOST
35:56
I didn't want to close the book on David's partnership with Bryce and me.
Aaron GoodHOST
36:00
I had hopes that he would return.
Aaron GoodHOST
36:02
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.
Aaron GoodHOST
36:13
It now seems very unlikely that David will return to podcasting or to writing.

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