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The Only Way to Tell the Truth is in Fiction

on YouTube 01h 13m
Talkat CODE BLUE 2015 · 2015-10-28..10-29· [computing-history, policy-and-regulation]

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name:Richard Thieme
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video:https://youtu.be/ij6igy4T6Y4
slides:none on file

summary

Argument: fiction becomes the only vehicle to state sensitive realities because official secrecy and media manufacture public belief. Examples: 35 stories collected as Mind Games prefigure Snowden revelations; CIA covert cultural programs bankroll books and films; the invented brainwashing panic spawns CIA programs like MKUltra; the deep‑sea retrieval cover called Project Azorian (Glomar Explorer) shows layers of deception; 850,000 Americans hold top‑secret clearances and Robertson Panel actions turn 1952 Washington UFO sightings into a public debunking while parallel research continues.

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chapters (14)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 2:00The Sources of Truth at the Level of Society
  3. 7:53Mind Games
  4. 13:23The Covert Sphere
  5. 17:36The War on Drugs
  6. 19:18The Cia
  7. 24:03Edward Hunter
  8. 25:31Brainwashing during the Korean War
  9. 31:40Project Azorian
  10. 41:34The Robertson Panel
  11. 46:40Allen Hynek
  12. 47:59Jack Bauer
  13. 1:04:29The U2 Flights
  14. 1:07:57The National Enquirer

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