Stumbling upon the story of MK ULTRA

TL;DR: This Wikipedia article was deleted in 2008, Everipedia will attempt to decentralize the service preventing these kind of deletes.

Wikipedia is a website that I really enjoyed growing up. When your parents are watching over your shoulders clicking from link to link on Wikipedia is entertaining enough, was a lot funner than sitting in front of a television.

Inevitably you find extremely interesting topics clicking through the Wikipedia rabbit hole.

However as I got older I came to realize that Wikipedia had become big enough that it was part of the establishment. I know there have been a lot of articles removed, but this is one I came across and remember.

Following the Wikipedia and Google rabbit trails several years back I came across the conspiracy theory of MK Ultra. MK Ultra in short was a series of CIA experiments involving mind control, LSD, and possibly torture. The experiments were mainly performed on people from an insane asylum.

I didn't take it entirely serious at first, but after more research it seems like there is really something there. Even now I'm not 100% sure how much of the story is factual and how much exaggeration. Conspiracy theories often expand on what we know for sure, and say that out of these experiments "sleeper agents" were created, people who can be controlled by a handler when exposed to some stimulus for example a key phrase, image, or sound.

I live in Montreal, Canada which is the city where the MK Ultra experiments took place. These experiments have since been declassified. Here is a story from McGill University's student paper on the subject:

The Allan Memorial Institute is located in an ominous mansion, formerly known as Ravenscrag, that looms over Rue McTavish at the foot of Mont Royal. The sinister stone building, said to be haunted, is befitting of the grisly experiment that occurred within its walls from 1957 to 1964: Project MK ULTRA. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) mind control project used unconsenting patients to test the effects of sensory deprivation, LSD, electroshock therapy, and other methods of controlling the human psyche. Although it may sound like something out of a dystopian sci-fi novel, these experiments were conducted at McGill, with devastating effects on the patients involved. continued ...

It's a long story but one of the strangest characters in the whole story (and not mentioned at all in the article above) is Michael Aquino. Michael Aquino was a Lieutenant colonel in the US Army and also the leader of the Temple of Set. Apparently he was deeply involved in the project. Which makes a creepy government experiment all the more creepy ... literally the leader of the Church of Set.

Here is a clip of Aquino appearing on the Oprah show:

So here we have 3 facts about Aquino:

He is a high ranking Army Official He is the founder of a controversial religion He is famous enough to have appeared on Oprah

Yet despite this he didn't then and doesn't now have a Wikipedia entry. Except it's not because no one wrote about him. It is because the entry was deleted 17 August 2008, by group decision:

Additional research on S Marshall, the original reporter of this article.

Whether you think this entry should or shouldn't have been deleted from Wikipedia one thing is for sure, it will be welcomed on Everipedia.

I'm 100% behind the idea of Everipedia both as an investor and as an editor. As part of that I intend to restore this article once I get my Everipedia login.

If you want to know more about Everipedia I suggest listening to some of the interviews with Larry Sanger, here is one to get you started:

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