How the CIA Creates Mind Controlled Assassins

March 26, 2026

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Dr. Colin Ross, a psychiatrist specializing in dissociative identity disorder (DID, formerly multiple personality disorder), joins Jesse Michels to unpack declassified CIA documents on MKUltra and related mind control programs. Drawing from his book CIA Doctors, Ross details documented experiments on hypnosis, drugs, electroshock, sensory deprivation, and brain implants aimed at creating dissociated personalities for espionage, couriers, and programmable assassins—known as Manchurian candidates.

Ross's Path to MKUltra Documents

Ross stumbled into the topic in 1991 while treating DID patients in Texas. One handed him MKUltra papers, sparking his research. In 1992, he accessed 15,000 pages of the program's 149 subprojects at a CIA reading room in Virginia, amid military personnel and secure lines. These revealed psychiatrists funded via cutouts (unwitting fronts) or top-secret clearances conducting tests on unwitting subjects. Precursors like Bluebird (1950) and Artichoke explored hypnosis for tasks with amnesia; MKUltra ran from 1953 to the mid-1960s, evolving into MKSearch until the early 1970s. The 1975 Church Committee exposed abuses, but records were largely destroyed in a "limited hangout"—releasing select boxes to obscure more.

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1 (01:00) **MKUltra Overview** - Host introduces CIA mind control programs like MKUltra for creating split personalities, spies, and assassins
2 (05:20) **Dr. Ross's Background** - Psychiatrist Ross details entry via patient papers on MKUltra, reads 15k CIA documents
3 (11:18) **Pre-MKUltra Experiments** - Tuskegee syphilis study (1932-72) and radiation tests show government human experimentation precedent
4 (14:21) **Mind Control Origins** - WWII OSS leads to CIA (1947); Bluebird/Artichoke (1950s) test hypnosis for compartmentalized tasks
5 (17:24) **MKUltra Evolution** - Starts 1953, runs to 1960s; shifts to MKSearch (1970s); 149 projects, 1/3 unwitting
6 (20:07) **Key Figures: Gottlieb & Olson** - Gottlieb doses whistleblower Frank Olson with LSD; pushed from window (1953)
7 (23:22) **JFK Assassination Ties** - Oswald not lone gunman; mother reports impersonations; works for intel-linked figures

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Our American Alchemist this week is Dr. Colin Ross.

Dr. Colin Ross is a psychiatrist whose specialty is dissociative identity disorder. In 1992, he physically traveled to a classified reading room in northern Virginia, passed through keyed submarine doors and secure corridors full of uniformed military personnel, and spent a full day reviewing all 149 MKUltra subprojects. He ordered all 15,000 pages. Then he cross-referenced every named researcher against published medical journals, pulling papers from library shelves one volume at a time in the pre-internet era. The result is CIA Doctors, one of the most thoroughly sourced books on mind control ever written. He also presented new research on human electromagnetic extramission that has implications for medicine, agriculture, and surveillance. -------------------------- Support Our Other Projects Below! Grab Your American Alchemy Merch Here ➤ https://www.americanalchemymerch.com/ Join The American Alchemy Magazine Here ➤ https://americanalchemymagazine.substack.com/ Subscribe To Our Clips Channel (10 Minute Highlights!) ➤ https://www.youtube.com/@UC8ZKTXN9trt5dhixz6b6l6w -------------------------- JOIN OUR WHOP (Early Drops/Ad Free) ➤ https://whop.com/jessemichels Discord ➤https://discord.gg/crHc44m3kF Instagram ➤ https://www.instagram.com/jessemichelsofficial TikTok ➤ https://www.tiktok.com/@itsjessemichels X ➤ https://twitter.com/AlchemyAmerican Spotify ➤ https://tinyurl.com/jessemichelsspotify Clips Channel ➤ https://www.youtube.com/@JesseMichelsClips Apply For Jobs ➤ [email protected] Sponsor Inquiries ➤ [email protected] Media Inquiries ➤ [email protected] Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 4:20 Dr. Colin Ross 6:35 Personal Journey into MKUltra 10:18 The Tuskegee Experiment 13:59 The Birth of Mind Control 17:46 Early Experiments and Hypnotism 20:17 Connections to Lee Harvey Oswald 25:00 Assassinations and MKUltra 30:15 MKUltra Patients 36:17 Epstein and the Elite Network 43:29 Patty Hearst and Psychological Warfare 49:09 Unraveling the RFK Assassination 52:42 John Lennon and Mark David Chapman 57:09 Speculation and the Supernatural 1:00:24 The False Memory Syndrome Foundation 1:02:20 Guantanamo 1:04:56 Candy Jones and Mind Control 1:06:33 Gifted and Talented Education 1:11:27 Intelligence Operations 1:16:51 The Human Energy Field 1:22:15 Electromagnetic Frequencies and Healing