Naval Intelligence, MKUltra and the Hippie Movement

[Magda Hassan]

Kate - thanks for posting this link.

There is a lot of interesting information (some of it hearsay, some seemingly factual) in these pieces.

The military/naval intelligence background of many of the "hippie" artists continues to be provocative.

Tim Leary and the Yankees beseeching American youth to:

Turn on, tune in... to sex and drugs and rock and roll...

And drop out... of the anti-war movement...

Hmmmm.. :canabis:

Amongst the many nuggets in the pieces, the following has huge - yes genuinely huge - potential implications:

What would become known as Lookout Mountain Laboratory was originally envisioned as an air defense center. Built in 1941 and nestled in two-and-a-half secluded acres off what is now Wonderland Park Avenue, the installation was hidden from view and surrounded by an electrified fence. By 1947, the facility featured a fully operational movie studio. In fact, it is claimed that it was perhaps the world’s only completely self-contained movie studio. With 100,000 square feet of floor space, the covert studio included sound stages, screening rooms, film processing labs, editing facilities, an animation department, and seventeen climate-controlled film vaults. It also had underground parking, a helicopter pad and a bomb shelter.

Over its lifetime, the studio produced some 19,000 classified motion pictures – more than all the Hollywood studios combined (which I guess makes Laurel Canyon the real ‘motion picture capital of the world’). Officially, the facility was run by the U.S. Air Force and did nothing more nefarious than process AEC footage of atomic and nuclear bomb tests. The studio, however, was clearly equipped to do far more than just process film. There are indications that Lookout Mountain Laboratory had an advanced research and development department that was on the cutting edge of new film technologies. Such technological advances as 3-D effects were apparently first developed at the Laurel Canyon site. And Hollywood luminaries like John Ford, Jimmy Stewart, Howard Hawks, Ronald Reagan, Bing Crosby, Walt Disney and Marilyn Monroe were given clearance to work at the facility on undisclosed projects. There is no indication that any of them ever spoke of their work at the clandestine studio.

The facility retained as many as 250 producers, directors, technicians, editors, animators, etc., both civilian and military, all with top security clearances – and all reporting to work in a secluded corner of Laurel Canyon. Accounts vary as to when the facility ceased operations. Some claim it was in 1969, while others say the installation remained in operation longer. In any event, by all accounts the secret bunker had been up and running for more than twenty years before Laurel Canyon’s rebellious teen years, and it remained operational for the most turbulent of those years.

The existence of the facility remained unknown to the general public until the early 1990s, though it had long been rumored that the CIA operated a secret movie studio somewhere in or near Hollywood. Filmmaker Peter Kuran was the first to learn of its existence, through classified documents he obtained while researching his 1995 documentary, “Trinity and Beyond.” And yet even today, some 15 years after its public disclosure, one would have trouble finding even a single mention of this secret military/intelligence facility anywhere in the ‘conspiracy’ literature.

http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr96.html

At the url below, the photos and information about a 1933-45 American Nazi compound in Kalifornia, very close to where Their creature Charlie Manson was promulgating his race war Helter Skelter apocalyptic fantasies, is fascinating.

http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr102.html

I am reminded that Sharon Tate came from an Air Force family and lived in this area too when she was murdered. FWIW probably not much.