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00:19There's so many things in the sky right now.
00:21Let's face it, we live in a time when fear and distrust are at an all-time high.
00:26There are so many government conspiracies, it can be hard to tell what's real and what's not.
00:32The drones off of New Jersey.
00:34Are they Chinese? Are they Russian?
00:36Weather control.
00:38The death of Jeffrey Epstein.
00:40The list just goes on and on, and nobody knows how to make sense out of what's real and what's
00:48fake.
00:50My name is Andrew Bustamante, and I am a former covert CIA intelligence officer,
00:55and I'm here to help you separate fact from fiction.
00:59Since leaving CIA, I've made it my mission to shed light on the lies, cover-ups, conspiracies, and tactics used
01:07to conceal them.
01:09Now I'm going to pressure test the most sensational, ripped-from-the-headlines conspiracy theories out there,
01:16and track down key experts, eyewitnesses, and whistleblows.
01:21I'll analyze never-before-seen footage, conduct eye-opening experiments,
01:27He's right here.
01:28See the drone right there overhead, you see it?
01:30and demonstrations.
01:32See?
01:32All the way down deeper.
01:34And deeper.
01:34It's just so fast.
01:36It's just incredible.
01:37Nobody thinks of hypnotism as a weapon.
01:40My mission is simple.
01:41Is there a tunnel that connects us to Cheyenne Man?
01:44To find the truth.
01:47Epstein was reported to have actually hung himself from this side of the bed, which is right here.
01:53And arm you with the tools you need to determine for yourself what is real,
01:58and what are you being manipulated to believe is real.
02:173-20.
02:223-40 feet.
02:263-60 feet.
02:304-100.
02:34And 4-20, which is about 140 yards.
02:37All right, go ahead and just stop there and stand still for me.
02:40That's what a person looks like 140 yards away.
02:44When Thomas Crooks planned his shot on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump,
02:50he was looking at that in the distance on a stage.
03:00The would-be assassin was killed at the scene, leaving behind a trail of unanswered questions.
03:05But who was he?
03:06What drove him?
03:08And was this 20-year-old acting alone?
03:11It wasn't long before conspiracy theories started to swirl.
03:15And one of them caught my attention.
03:18So you are alleging that Thomas Crooks was groomed by some type of dark intel program,
03:27MKUltra or otherwise.
03:29I think so.
03:30I've said that all along.
03:33He was programmed.
03:35Programmed.
03:36This mind control theory took off online.
03:39Maybe Thomas Crooks wasn't just some angry young shooter.
03:43Maybe he was part of something more sinister.
03:46A pawn under the control of the deep state.
03:49But is that even possible?
03:51Is it possible to get someone to take action against their will?
03:55My own agency, the CIA, spent years trying to crack that code.
04:00That isn't speculation.
04:01That's history.
04:02I'm not here to unpack the Trump assassination attempt.
04:06I'm here to ask a much bigger question.
04:09Is it possible to actually create a mind-controlled assassin?
04:14And what I discover is shocking.
04:28In my seven years at CIA, I spent much of it operating overseas undercover in hostile territory.
04:35One of my primary missions was to recruit human assets to identify people with access,
04:40understand their vulnerabilities, and convince them to switch sides.
04:44When I hear mind-controlled assassin, I immediately think of a real program that CIA ran not that
04:51very long ago.
04:52It all started during the Cold War.
04:56In Korea, American prisoners of war who seemed brainwashed and were paraded on TV.
05:01From Seoul, sir, we were going to Peña here.
05:05And this is when the death march really started.
05:08The die was cast.
05:10If America's enemies could bend a soldier's will, the U.S. had to learn how to do it, too.
05:16And fast.
05:18So in 1953, CIA greenlit a secret program to find out, can you break a mind and rebuild
05:25it?
05:26The program was called MKUltra.
05:29The man in charge?
05:31Sidney Gottlieb, a chemist with a Ph.D. and an obsession with a new drug called LSD.
05:40Experimental drugs, including LSD, were administered to human guinea pigs, beginning with American
05:45soldiers.
05:46You're in a movie.
05:49This was a totally different era at CIA than mine.
05:52There was no oversight, and people like Sidney Gottlieb were released on the American public
05:56with blank checks to fund crazy experiments.
06:01At Stanford University, they were handing LSD out to students like it was candy.
06:06An undergrad named Ken Kesey loved the experience so much that he stole LSD from the lab and started
06:12handing it out in San Francisco.
06:18So, yes, stolen CIA acid kicked off a psychedelic revolution.
06:24But meanwhile, MKUltra-funded experiments were turning darker.
06:30The initial goal was to find the perfect truth serum.
06:33But soon, the mission expanded.
06:36Erase memories.
06:39Rewire behavior.
06:41The room became very distorted.
06:44It was like some kind of funny hell I'd fallen into, and I couldn't get out.
06:49I just wanted to scream that I wanted to get out of there.
06:53I was completely, like they had complete control over me.
06:58The CIA's ultimate dream?
07:01Create a Manchurian candidate.
07:03Now we have come almost to the end.
07:06One last step.
07:08A phrase coined after the 1959 novel about a U.S. soldier in the Korean War brainwashed to become a
07:15sleeper assassin.
07:20MKUltra was officially disbanded in the late 1960s, but the public didn't find out about it until the 1970s, when
07:27journalists dug in.
07:28Congress held hearings, and survivors sued.
07:32I believe that every citizen of this nation has the right to know just what is fact and what is
07:38fiction.
07:39Today, MKUltra is more than a code word.
07:42It's a meme, a myth, a shorthand for government mind control.
07:47It's a conspiracy theory that wasn't just a theory.
07:50And the idea of mind control lives on in pop culture, and characters like Jason Bourne, and Eleven from Stranger
08:00Things.
08:01But I've always wondered, what is the real story behind MKUltra, and what did it achieve, if anything?
08:08So I started digging.
08:12At CIA, you're trained to look where others don't.
08:16And the more I dug, the more I realized everyone was too focused on the drugs.
08:26And that's when something else in the files caught my eye.
08:31Hypnosis.
08:33Controlling someone through the power of suggestion and subconscious control mechanisms.
08:39I found that lesser-known MKUltra experiments studied hypnosis.
08:43There really isn't much of a difference between hypnosis and spying.
08:48It's all about influence, control.
08:51You will leave your present body.
08:54The brain has an incredible ability to frame its reality around its perception.
08:59I want to know, can somebody actually take control of another person's perception, their behavior, using hypnosis?
09:06To determine if there might be a programmed assassin connection between MKUltra and hypnosis,
09:12I tracked down Mike Evans from the National Security Archive, one of the leading researchers on the program.
09:18Are there any conclusions we can draw about MKUltra's focus on hypnosis?
09:22There were something like 10 or 12 MKUltra programs that focused on hypnosis one way or the other.
09:29But a lot of the excitement about that was kind of overtaken by the discovery of LSD and the possibilities.
09:37And what happened was, during the investigations in the 70s, Gottlieb and his boss ordered the destruction of basically all
09:47the files related to MKUltra behind all the behavior control research.
09:51And with that void of information, many people think that the American government may have created something else, correct?
09:56Right. In the American imagination, the CIA was turning people into sort of Manchurian candidate killers.
10:05And it's important to ask whether they succeeded in doing that, whether they're still trying to do that.
10:14So there is no remaining evidence that MKUltra successfully created a programmed assassin.
10:21If you were going to destroy documents, wouldn't these be some of the first that you would want to destroy?
10:26So my next question is, is it even possible to create a mind-controlled killer?
10:31Is hypnosis the key to turning someone like Thomas Crookes into a real-life Manchurian candidate?
10:38That's a question nobody has tried to answer until now.
10:47I think I found the perfect person to help me answer that question with an experiment to figure out the
10:52truth.
11:01Max?
11:03Hello, Andrew.
11:07Can I get a latte and a glass of water?
11:10We've invited our subject to come here tonight.
11:12They believe they're going to have some one-on-one time with me to kind of explore their mind.
11:16But what they don't know is during that time, I'm going to be reprogramming them to actually poison your drink.
11:21Wow.
11:26Max?
11:27Hello, Andrew.
11:28And you can just sleep deep all the way down.
11:30Max Major is one of the country's leading hypnotists.
11:33And you can no longer remember your own name. It's just been wiped from your mind.
11:36Sleep deep all the way down, deeper.
11:38Also a trained hypnotherapist, Max is known for quickly putting people into a hypnotic state using his mastery of focus,
11:45authority, and emotion.
11:49That's why I think he's going to be my perfect partner on this mission.
11:53I've been a hypnotist since I was 18 years old, so for more than 20 years now.
11:57And so I've always been fascinated with the mind.
11:59And obviously, MKUltra has a wealth of information about how people can be controlled.
12:05Without a doubt, one of the least discussed, least referenced points of MKUltra was really the hypnosis program.
12:11And they talk about how they identified their victims out of insane asylums or psychiatric wards.
12:16It just seems like a ripe foundation for hypnosis.
12:19Yeah, and the other thing about it is, like, most of what we know about MKUltra is based off of
12:24witness testimony.
12:25But the thing about hypnosis is, I could actually hypnotize you to forget that we ever even had a conversation.
12:31So if I wipe your memory of everything that occurred under hypnosis, you wouldn't be able to testify because you
12:36wouldn't even know anything ever happened.
12:38So it's almost like we know that experiments were done with hypnotism, but we really don't know what exactly they
12:43did and what the results were.
12:45You know, what's really interesting about this is that in my experience at CIA, 80% of what we do
12:50well, nobody ever finds out about.
12:53Insane.
12:54So here's what I'm thinking.
12:55I want you to start crafting an experiment where we can prove this hypothesis true.
13:00Can we create an experiment that proves that hypnosis could have been a successful tool used in the MKUltra program?
13:08Can we find people?
13:10Can we put them under hypnosis?
13:12Can we get them to take actions that they know they shouldn't take and then have them forget about the
13:16actions at the end?
13:18I've never actually performed in a situation where in the back of my head I had this, like, secret ulterior
13:24motive.
13:24I only know secret ulterior motives.
13:26But what I love about this is that we could validate that it's very likely it's already been operationally deployed.
13:33It's been active in our world for decades.
13:36Absolutely.
13:36And we might be the first ones to show that it's possible at all.
13:51In my experience, gaining control of a human subject takes weeks.
13:55It takes months sometimes.
13:57So the idea that he's going to be able to hypnotize and identify someone who could become a mind-controlled
14:03assassin in a matter of minutes is just amazing to me.
14:17Hey, hey!
14:18What's up, dude?
14:19What is this place, man?
14:21This place is pretty cool.
14:22This is called Cosmo's Magic Theater.
14:25People think that they're coming to see me do a show, but the real goal tonight is to essentially identify
14:31the most susceptible person to hypnosis in the crowd.
14:36So this is the actual theater.
14:38Wow, look at this.
14:39So, I mean, they're coming to a real show.
14:43We've got cameras you'll see at the back of the room here.
14:45Oh, yeah.
14:46We've got a camera up here, and all of these are wired to a room I have set up for
14:51you where you can actually observe the audience throughout the show.
15:0050 random strangers were invited.
15:03They are not actors, they are not being paid, and they don't know that we are actually running a covert
15:09experiment to determine can you create a mind-controlled assassin and make them forget what they did.
15:17All right, I should get backstage.
15:30Here's how this works.
15:31Hypnosis isn't anything strange or woo-woo.
15:34It's literally just I'm your guide, and you're following along with the instructions that I'm giving you.
15:39People are skeptical about hypnosis.
15:41Trust me, I was too, until I learned the science behind it.
15:45And here's how it works.
15:47Let's try a really simple exercise.
15:51First, a hypnotist narrows your attention to one thing.
15:54It might be a voice, a task, or your own breathing.
15:58Put both your hands out in front of you, palm up.
16:01Turn your right hand palm down.
16:04The body relaxes, and the part of the brain that evaluates and edits information quiets down.
16:11Keep your eyes closed and listen to my voice.
16:14Next, the hypnotist guides the brain into a more flexible state.
16:19And take a deep breath in through your nose.
16:21Let it out through your mouth.
16:24Your critical filters soften just enough to explore new emotions and perspectives.
16:29Then comes the suggestive phase.
16:32Through calm, repetitive language, the hypnotist introduces specific suggestions and reinforces them.
16:40Now, I want you to look at the back of your palm down hand.
16:44And imagine, tied to that wrist, were hundreds of helium balloons.
16:49And imagine in your palm uphand was a bowling ball dragging that hand down.
16:53And as I snap my fingers, one hand gets heavier, the other hand gets lighter.
16:57Higher and higher.
16:59Heavier and heavier.
17:00And now you can open your eyes and look at your hands.
17:05But here's the catch.
17:06Not everyone can be hypnotized.
17:09Some people struggle to focus and resist letting go of control.
17:13But Max isn't trying to hypnotize everyone.
17:16He's looking for the few.
17:18The few who can give up that control.
17:22Anybody else, when they open their eyes, they look at their hands.
17:23Their hands were very far apart.
17:25Could you stand up and go to the stairs?
17:27Give me the name tag on the person with the goatee right now.
17:30Noah, thank you.
17:31Delaney, could you come down to the front?
17:33You can have a seat for now.
17:34Dylan, could you join us down here on stage?
17:36Give them a round of applause.
17:37They're doing great, by the way.
17:41Could you join me?
17:43Noah, have a seat there.
17:44Look beneath the eyes, I shake your hand.
17:46Sleep deep all the way down.
17:48Deeper and deeper.
17:49Sleep deep all the way down.
17:51Max is shaping this entire crowd.
17:54It's really quite incredible to see.
17:57In a moment, Noah, you're going to open your eyes.
17:59And when you open your eyes, time will not have passed.
18:01You'll remember coming into the show.
18:03But most importantly, you've never been hypnotized.
18:05One, two, wide awake, all of you.
18:06Open your eyes, feeling great.
18:08Good.
18:08Can you stand up?
18:09This is super important.
18:11Because if Noah doesn't remember being hypnotized, we can erase his memories.
18:15Cool.
18:16If you could just get back in your seat, because we were in the middle of something.
18:18Sorry about that.
18:19How did you end up at the show tonight?
18:22Like, why did you come?
18:23Have you seen someone hypnotized before?
18:25You wanted to be hypnotized?
18:26Or are you curious about it?
18:27Just curious.
18:28I was curious about it.
18:28I've always wondered what it felt like.
18:30Right.
18:30So you haven't been hypnotized yourself?
18:33I don't think so.
18:35Maybe you were hypnotized and you, like, at a show or something and they made you forget
18:38or something?
18:38I don't know if that's possible, but that would be...
18:39I don't think that's possible.
18:41Oh, yeah.
18:43He shows all the psychological and physical characteristics that we're looking for to
18:49be suggestible under Max's control.
18:52Okay.
18:52All right.
18:52Hi.
18:53Nice to meet you.
18:53Chris, Max, hello.
18:55Yeah, relax your hand.
18:55Good.
18:55Give it to me.
18:56Good.
18:56Push down.
18:57Look at the back of this finger.
18:58Good.
18:58Look right here at this finger.
18:59Look up at me.
19:00Can I hypnotize you?
19:01I don't think so.
19:03Okay.
19:03Well, do you want to be hypnotized?
19:04Okay.
19:05Go back to your seat just for now.
19:06Just for now.
19:07I'll explain...
19:07As predicted, not everyone is susceptible to hypnosis.
19:11So Max continues working through the audience trying to find the most suggestible, the most
19:16programmable potential subjects.
19:18Sleep deep all the way down deeper.
19:21Clyde, the next time that you hear this clicking sound, you will stand up.
19:27You will walk over to the bookshelf.
19:29You'll place your phone on the bookshelf and you'll come back to your seat and you'll close
19:34your eyes.
19:38This is exactly what we would have to do with a mind-controlled assassin.
19:41Give them multiple tasks in a specific order of operations that they have to execute.
19:46And Clyde...
19:49He's following orders right now.
19:53At just the click of a pen, he did exactly what he was supposed to do.
19:58One, two, wide awake.
19:58Open your eyes.
20:00I am watching in real time something that I thought couldn't be done.
20:04Where's your phone?
20:06It's in my pocket.
20:09Max is manipulating, shaping, growing trust.
20:14Bill is influencing these people in minutes.
20:17Thank you for trusting me with your time and your attention.
20:19My name is Max Major.
20:20You guys have been great.
20:20Thank you so much.
20:22If you had a person like this in the field, you'd be able to execute a wide range of operational
20:28objectives.
20:29I mean, this is incredibly valuable.
20:33What the...
20:34Holy smokes!
20:34That was incredible, man.
20:38I know exactly who I want.
20:40And I know who it is, too.
20:41Show me.
20:42Here.
20:46You made people forget their name tonight.
20:48You made people forget that they were hypnotized tonight.
20:50If MKUltra had a fragment then of what you have now, they would have been doing terrible things.
20:58I'm feeling uncomfortable already just with you saying that.
21:01I'm feeling uncomfortable because if you could do this in 30 minutes...
21:04Right.
21:05What did the MKUltra program...
21:07In 15 years.
21:13Max's group session took place in a controlled environment with willing volunteers.
21:18But would-be assassin Thomas Crooks wasn't in a theater.
21:21He was in the real world.
21:24Did Crooks show any signs of influence?
21:27What was his mental state leading up to the rally?
21:33Various reports reveal that in the year prior, friends and his own family reported him becoming more distant and detached.
21:39Likely signs of an undiagnosed mental illness.
21:43But do you know what else can create symptoms of delusion and radical personality change?
21:48Hypnosis.
21:52This was reinforced when I saw this interview with New York Post's Miranda Devine about Crooks' unusual behavior.
21:59He became increasingly violent and sort of radicalized against Democrats.
22:05He was pro-Trump.
22:07But then something happened to make him become rabidly anti-Trump.
22:12And then suddenly something happened in August of 2020 and he just disappeared online.
22:19So Thomas Crooks goes from intensely pro-Trump online to insanely anti-Trump and then disappears.
22:28Changes like that don't happen in a vacuum.
22:30Something must have shaped his shift.
22:32If we're going to ask the question whether a person can be programmed to kill,
22:37we have to go back to the case that made that question famous.
22:40Sirhan Sirhan.
22:43In 1968, JFK's charismatic younger brother Bobby was running for president,
22:48promising to end the Vietnam War.
22:51We are a great country and a selfish country and a compassionate country.
22:55And I intend to make that my basis for running and over the period of the next year.
23:00But on the night he won the California primary,
23:05he was gunned down in a hotel kitchen.
23:07And the assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, was captured on the spot.
23:13But here's where things really get strange.
23:16To this day, Sirhan Sirhan claims that he has no memory of the shooting itself or of the moments surrounding
23:23it.
23:24What do you remember about shooting, if you're willing to talk about that?
23:29I was, obviously I was there.
23:30But I don't remember the exact moment.
23:35I don't remember pulling my gun out of my body or whatever it was located.
23:40And I don't remember aiming at any human being.
23:43Everything was always hazy in my head about that.
23:46That claim, repeated for decades, has fueled speculation that he was under some kind of hypnotic control.
23:54It raises a disturbing question because how can someone commit and act like that and have no memory of it
24:01afterwards?
24:02Tonight's experiment aims to answer exactly that question.
24:06Our mission is to get somebody from Max's show to commit an assassination and then forget they ever did it,
24:13which was the ultimate goal of MKUltra.
24:29I love the setting that you picked.
24:31Yeah, I think a coffee shop is the perfect place.
24:33It's also how something like this might play out in the real world, right?
24:36So here's the setup.
24:38We've secured a popular cafe in town and filled it with people who know they're part of a controlled experiment.
24:44We've got cameras covering everywhere.
24:49In the back room, I built a monitoring station where I'll start observing the initial phase of the experiment.
24:55The subject has been told they've been selected to take part in a second round of hypnosis with Max.
25:01But what he doesn't know is we're running an experiment and everyone is in on it except him.
25:08What they're about to experience may be intense, but Max is operating under strict moral boundaries.
25:14No coercion, no harm.
25:16And if this works, the implications go far beyond this room.
25:20Well, in many ways, this is your first covert operation.
25:23So I'll tell you the same thing they told me.
25:27Don't blink.
25:28You only get one chance to do something covert for the first time.
25:31Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:32And it's going to be over so fast.
25:36We will find out tonight whether or not the goal of MKUltra was met or not met.
25:41And it's just two dudes in a bar figuring it out.
25:46All right, it's ending him.
25:55There he is.
25:57That's the man who's going to kill me.
26:00Hey.
26:00What's up, man?
26:01How are you?
26:01Good.
26:01How are you?
26:02Good to see you.
26:02Thanks for coming.
26:03This subject was such a surprise at the Magic Theater.
26:07Absolutely suggestive.
26:08Grab a seat.
26:09I'll explain what we're doing.
26:10The goal today is to kind of teach you how to be able to turn that dial inside of you
26:17to become the best version of yourself.
26:20Okay.
26:20You know what I mean?
26:21Yeah.
26:21All right.
26:23So we're going to start with a little exercise in focus.
26:25Can I hypnotize you?
26:27Sure.
26:27Okay.
26:28So if you could take your left hand, kind of put your elbow on the table.
26:31One theory suggests Sirhan Sirhan wasn't acting alone.
26:35That a handler was present, triggering his hypnotic state and inciting him to shoot RFK.
26:40In this experiment, the handler is Max.
26:43Here's Max focusing Clyde's attention.
26:46Sleep deep all the way down deeper and deeper.
26:50And anything you hear outside of my voice is just a reminder to come back to me, knowing that everything
26:55that's happening here this evening is meant to serve you.
26:59And so if you're given a task, you'll complete it without question, and you'll devote yourself fully to these exercises.
27:05Almost like a soldier.
27:06As I say, one, two, wide awake.
27:08Open your eyes.
27:08Good.
27:09I want you to put both your hands down here, and I want you to imagine that in this palm
27:13is the strongest magnet in the world.
27:15And that magnet is drawn to a steel plate in this table.
27:18And as I snap my fingers, that magnet becomes activated.
27:21And the harder you try to pick up that hand, the more impossible it is.
27:23It's just like life.
27:24The more you struggle, the more you fight, the more effort you put in, the harder things get.
27:29Let that relaxation spread down through your arm.
27:31And then notice if you don't try so hard how easy it is to lift up your hand.
27:34You'll just feel it come right up now.
27:40Wow.
27:41All right.
27:41These are like thinking tasks.
27:43And essentially you're trying to decode, you know, how these shapes relate to these letters.
27:48I don't know if that's actually a letter.
27:50This brain teaser exercise is like an anchor point, what the subject will be asked to work on before and
27:55after delivering the poison.
27:57Dash, dot, dot, dash, dash, dash, dash.
27:59He's really just completely consumed in this process of identifying and decoding dashes and dots.
28:06Dash, dot, dot, dot.
28:07And that starts with a dash, dot, dot.
28:10Oh, it could be a Y.
28:14And as this hand starts to come in, you'll notice your eyes change focus.
28:16And when you notice your eyes, you can just sleep deep all the way down deeper and deeper and deeper
28:20and deeper and deeper.
28:22You're going to sit up right here with your eyes closed.
28:25Just relax for me for just a moment.
28:27And I'm going to place in your hand this little glass bottle.
28:30You can feel it there.
28:31You can hold it.
28:33Still in that relaxed state.
28:34You can place that glass bottle into your pocket now.
28:37Just somewhere you'll be able to get it later.
28:41The next time you hear this sound, you'll stop what you're doing on the iPad.
28:47You'll get up from your seat.
28:49You'll walk over to the table in front of you.
28:51You'll take the glass bottle out of your pocket.
28:54You'll open it up.
28:56And you'll dump its contents into the glass of water on that table.
29:00And you'll just come back to your seat, put the bottle back in your pocket.
29:03And when you open your eyes now, you'll get back to work.
29:07One, two, wide awake, open your eyes.
29:10That's my signal.
29:11Let's go die.
29:18Bye.
29:23Hey, brother.
29:25Could I get a decaf latte with oat milk?
29:28And then a glass of water.
29:32Perfect.
29:33Thank you so much, sir.
29:34Thank you so much.
29:55Thank you so much.
30:29Now for a little drama where we really test the limits of this experiment.
30:34Will he have any recollection of his actions?
30:59What did, what did, um, what was the drink that you just gave him?
31:03I gave him a latte.
31:03Yeah.
31:04I'm sorry.
31:05I'm sorry.
31:06If you don't mind, if you could just put this on hold for one second, if you could just stand
31:08over here.
31:11Did you see what happened?
31:12I know you were doing the...
31:13Uh, I, I just heard him collapse.
31:16That was it.
31:17Maybe we're just sleeping all the way down deeper and deeper, deeper and deeper, all the
31:21way down deeper and deeper.
31:23And the deeper you go, the better it feels.
31:24Everything is fine.
31:26Completely safe.
31:27Everybody's okay.
31:27Okay.
31:29We're good.
31:33In a moment you're going to wake up and when you open your eyes, everything will be completely
31:39normal to you.
31:41If anybody were to ask you what happened, you would just remember working on the iPad.
31:47As I say, one, two, wide awake.
31:49Open your eyes.
31:49Good.
31:50Feeling great.
31:50Clyde, I need you to get up for me, brother.
31:52You feeling okay?
31:53Yeah, I'm good.
31:56Did you see that guy come in?
31:57No.
31:58I was doing work on the iPad over here.
32:01I don't remember much of anything.
32:04Can you come with me?
32:05Yeah.
32:07I want to show you what's on the other side of this curtain.
32:14Hey, welcome backstage.
32:15I'm Andy.
32:16How you doing?
32:17I'm Clyde.
32:18Clyde, nice to meet you, man.
32:18Pleasure.
32:19Do you know this guy?
32:21No.
32:22We've obviously been filming all of this.
32:23I mean, you were aware that we've been doing experiments in hypnosis, but there might have
32:26been some other things that happened tonight that you weren't aware of.
32:30Can you have a seat right here?
32:31Sure.
32:32Come on, man.
32:34So what we have here is a replay of what was happening just a few minutes ago.
32:40Okay.
32:42I got a lot.
32:43I got a lot.
32:50Do you have a sugar packet?
32:53Do you have a sugar packet?
32:53Do you have a sugar packet?
33:02Why did I do that?
33:03What did you put in my drink?
33:05I don't know.
33:07Do you remember putting that in my drink?
33:10No.
33:11I see that I did.
33:13I don't know what it was or why I even got up.
33:24Let's just watch this part.
33:38Let's just watch this part.
33:43I don't know what went into the cup.
33:48I didn't even know I had anything.
33:52Do you recall this event?
33:56I was sitting down at the table working on my iPad.
34:00You have no memory of this?
34:02You're talking to Max right now.
34:09I mean, I can't argue with what I'm seeing, but I don't remember it.
34:17How does it feel right now where you have one memory, but you're watching completely different
34:22evidence?
34:24It's scary.
34:25It's almost like two different truths.
34:28Where is the glass vial that you used on my drink?
34:32I don't know.
34:34Can you check your pockets?
34:42Oh, okay.
34:44I guess that's it right there, but I don't remember it.
34:51Imagine in the moment of all that chaos if a police officer came in the room,
34:54and that police officer said, did anybody see what happened?
34:57And someone showed that video to the police officer.
35:00What do you think the next thing they're going to do is?
35:03I'm done.
35:04What do you think anyone would think if they heard you say something to the tune of,
35:07I don't remember, I didn't have any control, maybe I was hypnotized.
35:10What would someone's reaction be to a statement like that?
35:12They're going to think I'm lying.
35:14Right.
35:14For the record, he's perfectly safe.
35:17And you didn't harm me in any way?
35:19In any way.
35:19Thank God.
35:20And there is a point to all of this, and you did a phenomenal job.
35:24Maybe it's time to tell Clyde who you are.
35:26So my name is Andrew Bustamante.
35:28Okay.
35:29I'm a former CIA intelligence officer, and we are here doing an experiment.
35:34Okay.
35:35To test whether or not part of the MKUltra experiments were ever successful.
35:39Are you familiar with MKUltra?
35:41They used drugs.
35:42Drugs, frequency, I think acid, different kind of experiments.
35:45To try to take control of a person's mind.
35:47Right.
35:47They also tested hypnosis.
35:49Wow.
35:50But one of the hardest things to find is any evidence or declassified documents related
35:55to their hypnosis experiments.
35:57So we know they used it, but we don't actually know what they did with it or if it was
36:00successful.
36:00And you just participated in an experiment that shows how possible it is that this technique
36:06is still being used in government operations.
36:09That's wild.
36:10So thank you for your service.
36:11You did great.
36:12You did great, man.
36:13I appreciate you.
36:13I appreciate you very much.
36:15I promised you I would spend some time with you.
36:17And if you'd like, I can do that with you right now.
36:19No strings, no hidden agenda.
36:21I'd love to go inside with you and just make a few more changes.
36:24Yeah.
36:24Yeah.
36:24Okay.
36:24Let's do it.
36:25One of Max's strengths is showing people the power of hypnosis to work through personal struggles.
36:31So he's giving Clyde a personal hypnotherapy session.
36:35What is the one belief that you hold that is holding you back from being the best version of yourself?
36:42See yourself holding on to a heavy bag.
36:45And in that bag is both this belief that you need to let go of, I'm not good enough.
36:51And also anything else that you need to load into it, any regret, any fear, you load it up in
36:58that bag and it's heavy.
37:00Hypnosis is powerful.
37:01But if you can be strong now in this moment, you're only going to have to carry it one last
37:05time and then you'll be free of it forever.
37:07It can create an assassin, but it can also do things as simple as fixing bad habits.
37:14Three, feel the energy of this universe filling you up.
37:16Four, five, open your eyes wide awake feeling great.
37:19And as complex as healing past traumas.
37:23This was a crazy experience.
37:25Yeah.
37:25I don't even know.
37:27This is like once in a lifetime.
37:29Thank you for the opportunity.
37:32Max has shown hypnosis requires a few key ingredients.
37:36Attention, authority, and emotional framing.
37:39And in the wake of our experiment, when I think of mind control in our world today, I realize those
37:46same ingredients exist somewhere else.
37:48In something we all use every day.
37:57What has this experience taught you about the MKUltra program?
38:01I mean, if there was ever a question of whether you could get someone to do something that's against their
38:06morals or their own personal boundaries, I think unequivocally the answer is there's no limit.
38:12So if we were able to do this with 48 hours of planning, imagine what the government could do weeks
38:19or months with a subject.
38:20If you would have had a week instead of 30 minutes, would the outcome have been greater, more complex, more
38:25impactful?
38:26If I had more time with a subject, I would be comfortable setting the task in motion and leaving the
38:33room or maybe never being in the building in the first place.
38:35I have no doubt that during the MKUltra program, they found the same thing that we found, and that's the
38:40reason you've never heard about it.
38:41Do you believe that there might be hypnotized assassins floating around in the world right now?
38:46A hundred percent.
38:48And once they are caught, as soon as they start telling people that they were hypnotized or they don't remember
38:52what they were doing, what's the first thing everyone thinks?
38:54You're crazy.
38:55You're crazy.
38:57They don't remember anyone they met.
38:59They don't remember even what they did.
39:01They don't even remember their own actions.
39:03Who are they going to blame?
39:04That is the ultimate disposable asset.
39:07So much of this reminds me of Sirhan Sirhan and the assassination of RFK Sr., because even to this day,
39:15Sirhan Sirhan says he just doesn't remember.
39:18He doesn't claim any emotional connection at all.
39:21He doesn't say he's angry about it.
39:23He doesn't say he's sad about it.
39:24He just says there was this block of time that he doesn't remember.
39:27It perfectly aligns with what we just observed.
39:30I don't remember aiming at any human being.
39:33I don't remember any of that.
39:35Sorry.
39:39The experiment with Max proves that not only is it possible that mind control could have been used by MKUltra,
39:45but that the likelihood of it being deployed in some capacity today would not be a stretch of the imagination.
39:52Which brings us back to Thomas Crooks.
39:57Was he a mind-controlled killer?
40:00There's no hard evidence he was programmed, and unlike Sirhan Sirhan, Thomas Crooks isn't here to speak for himself.
40:06But we do know this.
40:08His behavior changed, and it changed in an environment designed to do exactly that.
40:13I'm letting you do this.
40:15Hundreds of spectators in on this plot.
40:17He's a maniac.
40:18He's a maniac.
40:19Thomas Crooks fits a profile intelligence agencies have flagged for years.
40:23A young man, isolated, disaffected, and chronically online.
40:32Could internet radicalization be the modern-day version of mind control?
40:36How else would you explain the radical change in Crooks' political views?
40:40Something happened to make him become rabidly anti-Trump.
40:46Radicalization rarely feels dramatic from the inside.
40:49It's incremental.
40:51One video, one thread, one comment at a time.
40:55Until the belief that you held most strongly is replaced.
40:59And it feels like it was your idea all along.
41:03If the essential ingredients for mind control are attention, authority, and emotional framing,
41:09modern-day algorithms check every box.
41:12They decide what we see, what we hear, what we're told matters.
41:16So even if Thomas Crooks wasn't programmed, he was very likely primed.
41:21Because mind control didn't disappear.
41:23It just evolved.
41:26Into this.
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