You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough

[Jan Klimkowski]

As a documentary filmmaker with producer & director credits for all BBC channels bar the children's channels, Channel 4 (UK), NatGeo and Discovery, I have great respect for Adam Curtis' body of work. He is one of the most important filmmakers still working, and his Pandora's Box series, in particular, is both an essential collection of historical essays and an outstanding example of avant garde documentary.

However, I disagree on factual grounds with the thesis contained in "You have used me as a fish...." for the reasons I articulated elsewhere on DPF:

In his documentary, "You Have Used Me as a Fish Long Enough", gifted film-maker Adam Curtis argues that mind control programmes such as MK-ULTRA ultimately proved unsuccessful.

As a result, Curtis' film argues, the military-industrial complex abandoned its dream of directly controlling the individual mind. Instead, it turned to ever more sophisticated forms of mass propaganda - such as the manipulation of the historical record and the shaping of contemporary reality as presented through network television news & current affairs.

Curtis' argument probably represents the consensus amongst those few academic historians who are interested in MK-ULTRA and its legacy. I believe that consensus to be wrong.

For more see the "MK-ULTRA Iceberg" thread here:

http://www.deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/....php?t=223