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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.
00:41The 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.
01:00Since 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 whistleblowers.
01:22I'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?
01:32He's all the way down deeper and deeper.
01:34It's just so fast. It'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.
02:17320.
02:18320.
02:23340 feet.
02:27360 feet.
02:31400.
02:34And 420, which is about 140 yards.
02:37All right, go ahead and just stop there and stand still for me.
02:41That'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,
03:02leaving behind a trail of unanswered questions.
03:05Who 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
03:23by 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.
03:36Programmed.
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?
04:13And what I discover is shocking.
04:28In my seven years at CIA,
04:30I spent much of it operating overseas undercover in hostile territory.
04:34One 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,
04:47I immediately think of a real program that CIA ran not that very 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,
05:23can you break a mind and rebuild it?
05:26The program was called MKUltra.
05:29The man in charge?
05:31Sidney Gottlieb, a chemist with a Ph.D.
05:34and an obsession with a new drug called LSD.
05:40Experimental drugs, including LSD,
05:42were administered to human guinea pigs,
05:44beginning with American soldiers.
05:46Everything's moving.
05:49This was a totally different era at CIA than mine.
05:52There was no oversight, and people like Sidney Gottlieb
05:55were released on the American public with blank checks
05:57to 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
06:09that he stole LSD from the lab and started handing it out in San Francisco.
06:18So yes, stolen CIA acid
06:21kicked 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.
06:40Rewire behavior.
06:41The room became very distorted.
06:44It was like some kind of funny hell I'd fallen into,
06:48and I couldn't get out.
06:49I just wanted to scream that I wanted to get out of there.
06:53I was completely, yeah,
06:57like 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
07:12about a U.S. soldier in the Korean War brainwashed
07:15to become a sleeper assassin.
07:20MKUltra was officially disbanded in the late 1960s,
07:23but the public didn't find out about it until the 1970s,
07:27when journalists dug in.
07:28Congress held hearings,
07:30and survivors sued.
07:32I believe that every citizen of this nation
07:36has the right to know just what is fact
07:38and what is fiction.
07:39Today, MKUltra is more than a code word.
07:42It's a meme, a myth,
07:44a shorthand for government mind control.
07:47It's a conspiracy theory that wasn't just a theory.
07:51And the idea of mind control lives on in pop culture.
07:55And characters like Jason Bourne.
07:59And Eleven from Stranger Things.
08:01But I've always wondered,
08:02what is the real story behind MKUltra?
08:05And 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
08:18everyone 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
08:36and subconscious control mechanisms.
08:39I found that lesser-known MKUltra experiments
08:42studied hypnosis.
08:44There really isn't much of a difference
08:46between hypnosis and spying.
08:48It's all about influence, control.
08:51You will leave your present body.
08:54The brain has an incredible ability
08:55to frame its reality around its perception.
08:59I want to know,
09:00can somebody actually take control
09:02of another person's perception,
09:03their behavior, using hypnosis?
09:06To determine if there might be
09:08a programmed assassin connection
09:10between MKUltra and hypnosis,
09:12I tracked down Mike Evans
09:14from the National Security Archive,
09:15one of the leading researchers on the program.
09:18Are there any conclusions we can draw
09:19about MKUltra's focus on hypnosis?
09:22There were something like 10 or 12
09:25MKUltra programs that focused on hypnosis
09:27one way or the other.
09:29But a lot of the excitement about that
09:31was kind of overtaken
09:32by the discovery of LSD
09:35and the possibilities.
09:37And what happened was,
09:40during the investigations in the 70s,
09:42Gottlieb and his boss
09:45ordered the destruction
09:46of basically all the files
09:47related to MKUltra
09:48behind all the behavior control research.
09:51And with that void of information,
09:53many people think that the American government
09:55may have created something else, correct?
09:57Right.
09:57In the American imagination,
09:59the CIA was turning people
10:01into sort of Anturian candidate killers.
10:05And it's important to ask
10:08whether they succeeded in doing that,
10:11whether they're still trying to do that.
10:14So there is no remaining evidence
10:16that MKUltra successfully created
10:18a programmed assassin.
10:21If you were going to destroy documents,
10:23wouldn't these be some of the first
10:24that you would want to destroy?
10:26So my next question is,
10:28is it even possible
10:29to create a mind-controlled killer?
10:31Is hypnosis the key
10:33to turning someone like Thomas Crooks
10:35into a real-life Manchurian candidate?
10:38That's a question nobody has tried to answer
10:41until now.
10:47I think I found the perfect person
10:49to help me answer that question
10:51with an experiment to figure out the truth.
11:02Max?
11:03Hello, Andrew.
11:07Can I get a latte and a glass of water?
11:09Yeah.
11:10We've invited our subject
11:11to come here tonight.
11:12They believe they're going to have
11:13some one-on-one time with me
11:14to kind of explore their mind.
11:16But what they don't know
11:16is during that time,
11:17I'm going to be reprogramming them
11:19to actually poison your drink.
11:21Wow.
11:25Max?
11:27Hello, Andrew.
11:28And you can just sleep deep
11:29all the way down.
11:30Max Major is one of the country's
11:32leading hypnotists.
11:33And you can no longer remember
11:34your own name.
11:34It's just been wiped from your mind.
11:36Sleep deep all the way down, deeper.
11:38Also a trained hypnotherapist,
11:40Max is known for quickly putting people
11:42into a hypnotic state
11:43using his mastery of focus,
11:45authority, and emotion.
11:47What?
11:48You can sleep deep all the way down.
11:49That's why I think he's going
11:50to be my perfect partner
11:52on this mission.
11:53I've been a hypnotist
11:54since I was 18 years old,
11:56so for more than 20 years now.
11:57And so I've always been
11:58fascinated with the mind.
12:00And obviously, MKUltra
12:01is a wealth of information
12:03about how people can be controlled.
12:05Without a doubt,
12:06one of the least discussed,
12:08least referenced points
12:09of MKUltra
12:10was really the hypnosis program.
12:11They talk about how they
12:12identified their victims
12:13out of insane asylums
12:15or psychiatric wards.
12:16It just seems like a ripe foundation
12:18for hypnosis.
12:19Yeah, and the other thing
12:20about it is like most of what
12:22we know about MKUltra
12:23is based off of witness testimony.
12:25But the thing about hypnosis
12:26is I could actually hypnotize you
12:28to forget that we ever
12:29even had a conversation.
12:31So if I wipe your memory
12:32of everything that occurred
12:34under hypnosis,
12:35you wouldn't be able to testify
12:36because you wouldn't even know
12:37anything ever happened.
12:38So it's almost like we know
12:39that experiments were done
12:40with hypnotism,
12:41but we really don't know
12:42what exactly they did
12:44and what the results were.
12:45You know what's really
12:45interesting about this
12:46is that in my experience
12:47at CIA,
12:4880% of what we do well,
12:51nobody ever finds out about.
12:53Insane.
12:54So here's what I'm thinking.
12:55I want you to start
12:57crafting an experiment
12:58where we can prove
12:59this hypothesis true.
13:01Can we create an experiment
13:02that proves that hypnosis
13:04could have been a successful tool
13:06used in the MKUltra program?
13:08Can we find people?
13:10Can we put them under hypnosis?
13:12Can we get them to take actions
13:13that they know they shouldn't take
13:15and then have them forget about
13:16the actions at the end?
13:18I've never actually performed
13:20in a situation
13:21where in the back of my head
13:22I had this like secret
13:23ulterior motive.
13:24I only know secret ulterior motives.
13:26But what I love about this
13:27is that we could validate
13:28that it's very likely
13:30it's already been
13:32operationally deployed.
13:33It's been active
13:34in our world for decades.
13:36Absolutely.
13:36And we might be the first ones
13:37to show that it's possible at all.
13:51In my experience,
13:52gaining control of a human subject
13:54takes weeks.
13:55It takes months sometimes.
13:57So the idea that he's going
13:59to be able to hypnotize
14:00and identify someone
14:01who could become
14:02a mind-controlled assassin
14:04in a matter of minutes
14:05is 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
14:22Cosmo's Magic Theater.
14:25People think that they're coming
14:27to see me do a show,
14:28but the real goal tonight
14:29is to essentially identify
14:31the most susceptible person
14:33to hypnosis in the crowd.
14:36So this is the actual theater.
14:38Wow, look at this.
14:39So, I mean,
14:40they're coming to a real show.
14:43We've got cameras,
14:44you'll see,
14:44at the back of the room here.
14:45Oh, yeah.
14:46We've got a camera up here.
14:47Okay.
14:48And all of these
14:48are wired to a room
14:50I have set up for you
14:51where you can actually observe
14:52the audience throughout the show.
15:0050 random strangers
15:01were invited.
15:03They are not actors,
15:04they are not being paid,
15:06and they don't know
15:07that we are actually running
15:08a covert experiment
15:09to determine
15:11can you create
15:12a mind-controlled assassin
15:14and make them forget
15:15what they did.
15:17All right,
15:18I should get backstage.
15:30Here's how this works.
15:32Hypnosis isn't anything
15:33strange or woo-woo.
15:34It's literally just
15:35I'm your guide
15:36and you're following along
15:37with the instructions
15:37that I'm giving you.
15:39People are skeptical
15:40about hypnosis.
15:41Trust me,
15:42I was too,
15:43until I learned
15:44the science behind it.
15:46And here's how it works.
15:47Let's try a really
15:48simple exercise.
15:51First,
15:52a hypnotist narrows
15:53your attention
15:53to one thing.
15:54It might be a voice,
15:56a task,
15:56or your own breathing.
15:58Put both your hands
15:59out in front of you,
16:00palm up.
16:01Turn your right hand
16:03palm down.
16:04The body relaxes
16:06and the part of the brain
16:07that evaluates
16:08and edits information
16:09quiets down.
16:11Keep your eyes closed
16:12and listen to my voice.
16:14Next,
16:15the hypnotist guides the brain
16:17into a more flexible state.
16:19And take a deep breath
16:20in through your nose.
16:21Let it out through your mouth.
16:24Your critical filters
16:25soften just enough
16:26to explore new emotions
16:27and perspectives.
16:30Then comes the suggestive phase.
16:32Through calm,
16:33repetitive language,
16:34the hypnotist introduces
16:36specific suggestions
16:37and reinforces them.
16:40I want you to look
16:41at the back
16:42of your palm down hand
16:44and imagine
16:45tied to that wrist
16:46were hundreds
16:47of helium balloons.
16:49And imagine
16:49in your palm up hand
16:50was a bowling ball
16:52dragging that hand down.
16:54And as I snap my fingers,
16:55one hand gets heavier,
16:56the other hand gets lighter.
16:57Higher and higher,
16:59heavier and heavier.
17:00And now you can open your eyes
17:02and look at your hands.
17:05But here's the catch.
17:07Not everyone
17:08can be hypnotized.
17:09Some people struggle
17:10to focus
17:10and resist letting go
17:12of control.
17:13But Max isn't trying
17:15to hypnotize everyone.
17:16He's looking for the few,
17:18the few who can give up
17:19that control.
17:21Anybody else,
17:22when they open their eyes,
17:23they look at their hands,
17:24their hands were very far apart.
17:25Could you stand up
17:25and go to the stairs?
17:27Give me the name tag
17:28on the person
17:29with the goatee right now.
17:30Noah, thank you.
17:31Delaney, could you come down
17:32to the front?
17:33You can have a seat for now.
17:34Dylan, could you join us
17:35down 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
17:45as 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
17:53this entire crowd.
17:54It's really quite incredible to see.
17:57In a moment, Noah,
17:58you're going to open your eyes,
17:59and when you open your eyes,
18:00time will not have passed.
18:01You'll remember coming into the show,
18:03but most importantly,
18:04you've never been hypnotized.
18:05One, two, wide awake,
18:06all of you, open your eyes,
18:07feeling great.
18:08Good.
18:08Can you stand up?
18:09This is super important
18:11because if Noah doesn't remember
18:12being hypnotized,
18:14we can erase his memories.
18:15Cool, if you could just get back
18:16in your seat because we were
18:17in the middle of something.
18:18Sorry about that.
18:19How did you end up
18:20at the show tonight?
18:22Like, why did you come?
18:23Have you seen someone
18:24hypnotized before?
18:25You wanted to be hypnotized,
18:26or you're curious about it?
18:27Just curious.
18:28I was curious about it.
18:28I've always wondered
18:29what it felt like.
18:30Right.
18:30So you haven't been
18:31hypnotized yourself?
18:33I don't think so.
18:35Maybe you were hypnotized
18:36and you, like,
18:37at a show or something
18:37and they made you forget or something?
18:38I don't know if that's possible,
18:39but that would be...
18:39I don't think that's possible.
18:41Oh, yeah.
18:43He shows all the psychological
18:46and physical characteristics
18:48that we're looking for
18:48to be suggestible
18:50under Max's control.
18:51Okay, all right.
18:52Hi, nice to meet you.
18:53Chris, Max, hello.
18:55Yeah, relax your hand.
18:55Good, give it to me.
18:56Good.
18:56Push down.
18:57Look at the back of this finger.
18:58Good, look right here
18:59at 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
19:04to be hypnotized?
19:05Okay, go back to your seat
19:06just for now.
19:06Just for now.
19:07I'll explain...
19:07As predicted,
19:08not everyone
19:09is susceptible to hypnosis,
19:10so Max continues
19:12working through the audience
19:13trying to find
19:14the most suggestible,
19:16the most programmable
19:17potential subjects.
19:19Sleep deep,
19:19all the way down deeper.
19:22Clyde,
19:22the next time
19:23that you hear
19:23this clicking sound,
19:25you will stand up,
19:27you will walk over
19:28to the bookshelf,
19:29you'll place your phone
19:30on the bookshelf,
19:31and you'll come back
19:32to your seat,
19:33and you'll close your eyes.
19:38This is exactly
19:39what we would have to do
19:40with a mind-controlled assassin,
19:41give them multiple tasks
19:42in a specific order
19:43of operations
19:44that they have to execute.
19:46and Clyde
19:49is following orders
19:51right now.
19:53At just the click
19:54of a pen,
19:55he did exactly
19:56what he was supposed
19:57to do.
19:58One, two, wide awake,
19:59open your eyes.
20:00I am watching
20:01in real time
20:02something that I thought
20:03couldn't be done.
20:04Where's your phone?
20:06It's in my pocket.
20:09Max is manipulating,
20:12shaping,
20:13growing trust,
20:14built,
20:14he's influencing
20:15these people
20:16in minutes.
20:17Thank you for trusting me
20:18with your time
20:18and 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
20:23like this in the field,
20:25you'd be able
20:25to execute
20:26a wide range
20:27of operational objectives.
20:29I mean,
20:30this is incredibly valuable.
20:33What the holy smokes!
20:35That was incredible, man.
20:39I know exactly
20:40who I want.
20:40And I know
20:41who it is, too.
20:41Show me.
20:42Here.
20:46You made people
20:46forget their name tonight.
20:48You made people forget
20:48that they were
20:48hypnotized tonight.
20:50If MKUltra had
20:51a fragment then
20:53of what you have now,
20:55they would have been
20:56doing terrible things.
20:58I'm feeling uncomfortable
20:59already,
21:00just with you saying that.
21:01I'm feeling uncomfortable
21:02because if you could do
21:03this in 30 minutes...
21:04Right.
21:05What did the
21:06MKUltra program do?
21:07In 15 years.
21:13Max's group session
21:14took place
21:15in a controlled environment
21:16with willing volunteers.
21:18But would-be assassin
21:19Thomas Crooks
21:19wasn't in a theater.
21:21He was in the real world.
21:24Did Crooks show
21:25any signs of influence?
21:27What was his mental state
21:29leading up to the rally?
21:33Various reports reveal
21:34that in the year prior,
21:35friends and his own family
21:37reported him becoming
21:38more distant and detached,
21:40likely signs of an
21:41undiagnosed mental illness.
21:43But do you know
21:44what else can create
21:45symptoms of delusion
21:46and radical personality change?
21:48Hypnosis.
21:49As my hand closes,
21:50your eyes will close
21:51and sleep deep
21:51all the way down deeper.
21:52This was reinforced
21:54when I saw this interview
21:55with New York Post's
21:56Miranda Devine
21:57about Crooks's
21:58unusual behavior.
21:59He became increasingly
22:01violent and sort of
22:03radicalized against Democrats.
22:05He was pro-Trump.
22:07But then,
22:07something happened
22:08to make him become
22:10rabidly anti-Trump.
22:12And then,
22:13suddenly,
22:13something happened
22:14in August of 2020,
22:15and he just
22:17disappeared online.
22:19So Thomas Crooks
22:20goes from intensely
22:21pro-Trump online
22:23to insanely anti-Trump
22:25and then disappears.
22:27Changes like that
22:28don't happen in a vacuum.
22:30Something must have
22:31shaped his shift.
22:32If we're going to
22:33ask the question
22:34whether a person
22:35can be programmed to kill,
22:37we have to go back
22:38to the case that made
22:39that question famous.
22:40Sirhan Sirhan.
22:43In 1968,
22:45JFK's charismatic
22:46younger brother Bobby
22:47was running for president,
22:48promising to end
22:49the Vietnam War.
22:51We are a great country
22:52and a selfish country
22:53and a compassionate country.
22:55And I intend to make
22:56that my basis for running
22:58and over the period
22:59of the next year.
23:00But on the night
23:01he won the California primary,
23:05he was gunned down
23:06in a hotel kitchen.
23:08And the assassin,
23:10Sirhan Sirhan,
23:10was captured on the spot.
23:13But here's where things
23:15really get strange.
23:16To this day,
23:18Sirhan Sirhan claims
23:19that he has no memory
23:20of the shooting itself
23:21or of the moments
23:23surrounding it.
23:24What do you remember
23:25about the shooting
23:26if you're willing
23:27to talk about that?
23:27I was,
23:29obviously I was there,
23:31but I don't remember
23:33the exact moment
23:34or I don't remember
23:35pulling my gun
23:37out of my body
23:38or whatever it was located.
23:40And I don't remember
23:41aiming at any human being.
23:43Everything was always
23:45hazy in my head
23:46about that.
23:47That claim,
23:48repeated for decades,
23:49has fueled speculation
23:51that he was under
23:51some kind of hypnotic control.
23:53It raises a disturbing question
23:56because how can someone
23:57commit and act like that
23:59and have no memory
24:00of it afterwards?
24:02Tonight's experiment
24:03aims to answer
24:04exactly that question.
24:06Our mission is to get
24:08somebody from Max's show
24:09to commit an assassination
24:11and then forget
24:12they ever did it,
24:13which was the ultimate goal
24:15of MKUltra.
24:29I love the setting
24:30that you picked.
24:31Yeah, I think a coffee shop
24:32is the perfect place.
24:33It's also how something
24:34like this might play out
24:35in the real world, right?
24:36So here's the setup.
24:38We've secured
24:39a popular cafe in town
24:41and filled it with people
24:42who know they're part
24:43of a controlled experiment.
24:45We've got cameras
24:46covering everywhere.
24:49In the back room,
24:50I built a monitoring station
24:51where I'll start observing
24:52the initial phase
24:53of the experiment.
24:55The subject has been told
24:56they've been selected
24:57to take part
24:58in a second round
24:59of hypnosis with Max.
25:01But what he doesn't know
25:02is we're running an experiment
25:03and everyone is in on it
25:05except him.
25:08What they're about to experience
25:09may be intense,
25:11but Max is operating
25:12under strict moral boundaries.
25:14No coercion, no harm.
25:16And if this works,
25:18the implications go far
25:19beyond this room.
25:20In many ways,
25:21this is your first
25:22covert operation.
25:23So I'll tell you
25:24the same thing
25:25they told me.
25:27Don't blink.
25:28You only get one chance
25:29to do something covert
25:30for the first time.
25:31Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:32And it's going to be
25:33over so fast.
25:36We will find out tonight
25:38whether or not
25:38the goal of MKUltra
25:40was met or not met.
25:41And it's just two dudes
25:42in a bar figuring it out.
25:46All right, let's end again.
25:55There he is.
25:57That's the man
25:58who'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
26:05at the Magic Theater.
26:07Absolutely suggestive.
26:08Grab a seat.
26:09I'll explain what we're doing.
26:10The goal today
26:12is to kind of teach you
26:14how to be able
26:15to turn that dial inside of you
26:17to become the best version
26:19of yourself.
26:20Okay.
26:20You know what I mean?
26:21Yeah.
26:21All right.
26:23So we're going to start
26:23with a little exercise in focus.
26:25Can I hypnotize you?
26:27Sure.
26:27Okay.
26:28So if you could take
26:29your left hand
26:29and kind of put your elbow
26:30on the table.
26:31One theory suggests
26:32Sirhan Sirhan wasn't acting alone.
26:35That a handler was present
26:36triggering his hypnotic state
26:38and inciting him
26:39to shoot RFK.
26:40In this experiment,
26:41the handler is Max.
26:44Here's Max focusing
26:45Clyde's attention.
26:47Sleep deep.
26:47All the way down deeper
26:48and deeper.
26:50And anything you hear
26:51outside of my voice
26:52is just a reminder
26:53to come back to me
26:53knowing that everything
26:55that's happening here
26:56this evening
26:57is meant to serve you.
26:59And so if you're given a task,
27:00you'll complete it
27:01without question
27:02and you'll devote yourself
27:03fully to these exercises
27:04almost like a soldier.
27:06So I say one, two,
27:07wide awake, open your eyes.
27:08Good.
27:10I want you to put
27:10both your hands down here
27:11and I want you to imagine
27:12that in this palm
27:14is the strongest magnet
27:15in the world
27:15and that magnet
27:16is drawn to a steel plate
27:17in this table.
27:18And as I snap my fingers,
27:19that magnet becomes activated.
27:21And the harder you try
27:22to pick up that hand,
27:23the more impossible it is.
27:24It's just like life.
27:24The more you struggle,
27:25the more you fight,
27:26the more effort you put in,
27:27the harder things get.
27:29Let that relaxation
27:30spread down through your arm.
27:31And then notice
27:32if you don't try so hard
27:33how easy it is
27:33to lift up your hand.
27:34You'll just feel it
27:34come right up now.
27:40Wow.
27:41All right.
27:41These are like thinking tasks
27:43and essentially
27:44you're trying to decode,
27:46you know,
27:46how these shapes
27:47relate to these letters.
27:48I don't know
27:49if that's actually a letter.
27:50This brain teaser exercise
27:51is like an anchor point,
27:52what the subject
27:53will be asked to work on
27:54before and after
27:55delivering the poison.
27:57Dash, dot, dot,
27:58dash, dash, dash.
27:59He's really just
28:00completely consumed
28:01in this process
28:03of identifying
28:04and decoding
28:04dashes and dots.
28:06Dash, dot, dot, dot.
28:07And that starts with
28:09a dash, dot, dot.
28:10Oh, it could be a Y.
28:14And as this hand
28:14starts to come in,
28:15you'll notice your eyes
28:16change focus.
28:16And when you notice your eyes,
28:17you can just sleep deep
28:18all the way down deeper.
28:19Deeper and deeper.
28:20Deeper and deeper.
28:22You're going to sit up
28:23right here
28:24with your eyes closed.
28:25Just relax for me
28:26for just a moment.
28:27And I'm going to place
28:28in your hand
28:29this 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
28:35into your pocket now.
28:37Just somewhere you'll be able
28:38to get it later.
28:41The next time
28:42you hear this sound,
28:44you'll stop what you're doing
28:45on the iPad.
28:47You'll get up from your seat.
28:49You'll walk over
28:50to the table in front of you.
28:51You'll take the glass bottle
28:53out of your pocket.
28:54You'll open it up
28:56and you'll dump its contents
28:57into the glass of water
28:59on that table.
29:00And you'll just come back
29:01to your seat,
29:02put the bottle back
29:02in your pocket.
29:03And when you open
29:04your eyes now,
29:05you'll get back to work.
29:07One, two, wide awake,
29:08open your eyes.
29:10That's my signal.
29:11Let's go die.
29:13Okay.
29:23Hey, brother.
29:25Could I get a decaf latte
29:27with oat milk?
29:28And then a glass of water.
29:32Perfect.
29:33Thank you so much, sir.
29:58A sugar packet?
30:00Wow.
30:20Slash, block, slash.
30:29Now for a little drama
30:30where we really test
30:31the limits of this experiment.
30:34Will he have any recollection
30:36of his actions?
31:00What was the drink
31:02that you just gave him?
31:05I'm sorry.
31:06If you don't mind,
31:06if you could just put this
31:07on hold for one second,
31:08if you could just stand
31:08over here.
31:11Did you see what happened?
31:12I know you were doing the...
31:13Uh, I just heard him collapse.
31:16That was it.
31:17Maybe we're just sleeping
31:18all the way down deeper
31:19and deeper, deeper,
31:20and deeper, all the way down
31:22deeper, and deeper.
31:23And the deeper you go,
31:24the better it feels.
31:24Everything is fine.
31:26Completely safe.
31:27Everybody's okay.
31:28Okay.
31:29We're good.
31:33In a moment,
31:34you're going to wake up,
31:35and when you open your eyes,
31:38everything will be
31:39completely normal to you.
31:41If anybody were to ask you
31:42what happened,
31:43you would just remember
31:45working on the iPad.
31:47As I say,
31:48one, two, wide awake.
31:49Open your eyes.
31:49Good.
31:50Feeling great.
31:50Clyde, I need you to get up
31:51for me, brother.
31:52You feeling okay?
31:53Yeah, I'm good.
31:56Did you see that guy come in?
31:58No.
31:58I was doing work
32:00on the iPad over here.
32:01I don't remember
32:03much of anything.
32:04Can you come with me?
32:05Yeah.
32:07I want to show you
32:08what's on the other side
32:08of the skirt.
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
32:22been filming all of this.
32:23I mean, you were aware
32:24that we've been doing
32:25experiments in hypnosis,
32:26but there might have been
32:27some other things
32:27that happened tonight
32:29that 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
32:35is a replay
32:37of what was happening
32:38just a few minutes ago.
32:40Okay.
33:02Why did I do that?
33:04What did you put in my drink?
33:05I don't know.
33:07Do you remember
33:08putting that in my drink?
33:10No, I see that I did.
33:13I don't know what it was
33:15or why I even got up.
33:18I don't know.
33:24Let's just watch this part.
33:35911, wait.
33:37Did somebody call?
33:39So this just happened to you?
33:43I don't know
33:45what went
33:46into the cup.
33:48I didn't even know
33:49I had anything.
33:52Do you recall this event?
33:54No.
33:56I was sitting down
33:58at the table
33:58working on my iPad.
34:00You have no memory of this?
34:02You're talking to Max
34:03right now.
34:05Yeah.
34:06And you were just sleeping
34:07all the way down deeper
34:08and deeper, deeper.
34:10I mean,
34:10I can't argue
34:11with what I'm seeing.
34:12In a moment,
34:13you're gonna wake up
34:14and open your eyes.
34:14But I don't remember it.
34:17How does it feel
34:18right now
34:19where you have
34:20one memory
34:21but you're watching
34:21completely different evidence?
34:24It's scary.
34:25It's almost like
34:26two different truths.
34:28Where is the glass vial
34:30that you used
34:30on my drink?
34:32I don't know.
34:34Can you check
34:35your pockets?
34:42Oh,
34:43okay.
34:45I guess
34:45that's it
34:46right there.
34:48But I don't
34:49remember it.
34:51Imagine
34:51in the moment
34:52of all that chaos
34:53if a police officer
34:54came in the room
34:54and that police officer
34:56said,
34:56did anybody see
34:56what happened?
34:57And someone showed
34:58that video
34:59to the police officer.
35:00What do you think
35:01the next thing
35:01they're gonna do is?
35:03I'm done.
35:04What do you think
35:04anyone would think
35:05if they heard you
35:06say something
35:06to the tune of,
35:07I don't remember,
35:08I didn't have any control,
35:09maybe I was hypnotized?
35:10What would someone's reaction
35:11be to a statement
35:12like that?
35:12They're gonna think
35:13I'm lying.
35:14Right.
35:14For the record,
35:15he's perfectly safe.
35:17And you didn't harm me
35:18in any way.
35:19In any way.
35:20Thank God.
35:20And there is a point
35:21to all of this
35:22and you did
35:22a phenomenal job.
35:24Maybe it's time
35:25to tell Clyde
35:25who you are.
35:26So my name
35:27is Andrew Bustamante.
35:28Okay.
35:29I'm a former
35:29CIA intelligence officer
35:31and we are here
35:32doing an experiment.
35:34Okay.
35:35To test
35:36whether or not
35:36part of the MKUltra
35:38experiments
35:38were ever successful.
35:39Are you familiar
35:40with MKUltra?
35:41They use drugs.
35:42Drugs,
35:42frequency,
35:43I think acid,
35:44different kinds of experiments.
35:45To try to take control
35:46of a person's mind.
35:47Right.
35:47They also tested hypnosis.
35:49Wow.
35:50But one of the hardest
35:51things to find
35:52is any evidence
35:53or declassified documents
35:54related
35:55to their hypnosis experiments.
35:57So we know
35:57they used it
35:58but we don't actually
35:58know what they did
35:59with it
35:59or if it was successful.
36:00And you just
36:01participated in an experiment
36:02that shows
36:03how possible
36:04it is
36:05that this technique
36:06is still being used
36:07in government operations.
36:09That's wild.
36:10Thank you for your service.
36:12You did great, man.
36:13I appreciate you.
36:13I appreciate you very much.
36:15I promised you
36:15I would spend some time with you
36:16and if you'd like
36:18I can do that with you right now.
36:19No strings,
36:20no hidden agenda.
36:21I'd love to go inside with you
36:22and just make a few more changes.
36:24Yeah.
36:24Yeah.
36:24Okay, let's do it.
36:25One of Max's strengths
36:27is showing people
36:27the power of hypnosis
36:29to work through
36:30personal struggles.
36:30So he's giving Clyde
36:32a personal hypnotherapy session.
36:35What is the one belief
36:36that you hold
36:37that is holding you back
36:39from being the best version
36:40of yourself?
36:42See yourself holding on
36:43to a heavy bag
36:45and in that bag
36:47is both this belief
36:49that you need to let go of
36:50I'm not good enough
36:51and also anything else
36:53that you need to load into it.
36:54Any regret,
36:55any fear,
36:57you load it up in that bag
36:58and it's heavy.
37:00hypnosis is powerful.
37:02But if you can be strong now
37:03in this moment,
37:03you're only going to have
37:04to carry it one last time
37:05and then you'll be free
37:06of it forever.
37:07It can create an assassin,
37:10but it can also do things
37:12as simple as fixing bad habits.
37:14Three, feel the energy
37:15of this universe
37:16filling you up.
37:16Four, five,
37:17open your eyes
37:17wide awake feeling great.
37:19And as complex
37:20as healing past traumas.
37:23This was a crazy experience.
37:25Yeah.
37:26I don't even know.
37:27This is like once in a lifetime.
37:29Thank you for the opportunity.
37:32Max has shown hypnosis
37:33requires a few key ingredients.
37:36Attention, authority,
37:37and emotional framing.
37:39And in the wake of our experiment,
37:41when I think of mind control
37:42in our world today,
37:44I realize those same ingredients
37:46exist somewhere else
37:48in something we all use every day.
37:58What has this experience taught you
37:59about the MKUltra program?
38:01I mean, if there was ever
38:02a question of whether you could
38:04get someone to do something
38:05that's against their morals
38:07or their own personal boundaries,
38:08I think unequivocally,
38:09the answer is there's no limit.
38:12So if we were able to do this
38:14with 48 hours of planning,
38:17imagine what the government
38:18could do weeks or months
38:20with a subject.
38:20If you would have had a week
38:21instead of 30 minutes,
38:23would the outcome have been
38:24greater, more complex,
38:25more impactful?
38:26If I had more time
38:27with a subject,
38:28I would be comfortable
38:30setting the task in motion
38:32and leaving the room
38:33or maybe never being
38:34in the building
38:34in the first place.
38:35I have no doubt
38:36that during the MKUltra program,
38:38they found the same thing
38:39that we found,
38:39and that's the reason
38:40you've never heard about it.
38:41Do you believe
38:42that there might be
38:43hypnotized assassins
38:44floating around
38:45in the world right now?
38:47100%.
38:48And once they are caught,
38:49as soon as they start
38:50telling people
38:51that they were hypnotized
38:52or they don't remember
38:52what they were doing,
38:53what's the first thing
38:54everyone thinks?
38:55You're crazy.
38:55You're crazy.
38:57They don't remember
38:58anyone they met.
38:59They don't remember
39:00even what they did.
39:01They don't even remember
39:02their own actions.
39:03Who are they going to blame?
39:04That is the ultimate
39:07disposable asset.
39:08So much of this
39:09reminds me of
39:10Sirhan Sirhan
39:11and the assassination
39:12of RFK Sr.
39:13because even to this day
39:15Sirhan Sirhan
39:16says he just
39:17doesn't remember.
39:18He doesn't claim
39:19any emotional connection
39:21at all.
39:21He doesn't say
39:22he's angry about it.
39:23He doesn't say
39:23he's sad about it.
39:24He just says
39:24there was this block
39:26of time that he
39:27doesn't remember.
39:28It perfectly aligns
39:29with what we just observed.
39:30I don't remember
39:31aiming at any human being.
39:33I don't remember
39:34any of that.
39:35I'm sorry.
39:36And I've said that
39:38from the get-go.
39:39The experiment with Max
39:40proves that not only
39:42is it possible
39:42that mind control
39:43could have been used
39:44by MKUltra
39:45but that the likelihood
39:46of it being deployed
39:47in some capacity today
39:48would not be a stretch
39:50of the imagination.
39:52Which brings us back
39:53to Thomas Crooks.
39:57Was he a mind-controlled killer?
40:00There's no hard evidence
40:01he was programmed
40:02and unlike Sirhan Sirhan
40:04Thomas Crooks
40:05isn't here to speak
40:05for himself.
40:06But we do know this.
40:08His behavior changed
40:09and it changed
40:10in an environment
40:11designed to do
40:12exactly that.
40:13I'm not a human speaker.
40:15You get hundreds
40:15of spectators
40:16in on this plot.
40:17He's a maniac.
40:18He's a maniac.
40:19Thomas Crooks
40:20fits a profile
40:21intelligence agencies
40:22have flagged for years.
40:24A young man,
40:26isolated,
40:27disaffected,
40:27and chronically online.
40:31Could internet radicalization
40:33be the modern-day
40:35version of mind control?
40:36How else would you explain
40:37the radical change
40:38in Crooks's political views?
40:41Something happened
40:42to make him become
40:43rabidly anti-Trump.
40:46Radicalization rarely feels
40:47dramatic from the inside.
40:49It's incremental.
40:51One video,
40:52one thread,
40:53one comment
40:53at a time.
40:55Until the belief
40:57that you held most strongly
40:58is replaced.
40:59And it feels like
41:01it was your idea
41:01all along.
41:03If the essential ingredients
41:04for mind control
41:05are attention,
41:07authority,
41:07and emotional framing,
41:09modern-day algorithms
41:10check every box.
41:12They decide what we see,
41:14what we hear,
41:15what we're told matters.
41:16So even if Thomas Crooks
41:18wasn't programmed,
41:19he was very likely primed.
41:21Because mind control
41:22didn't disappear,
41:24it just evolved
41:26into this.
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