{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Unrefined Podcast .com","title":"E177 The C👁️‍🗨️A's Greatest Hits","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/7ac2d45c\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2658,"description":"Brandon and Lindsy welcome a guest who cracks open a hidden dossier on culture-war psyops—where protest songs, psychedelics, and carefully scripted narratives intertwine. Listeners are led through a labyrinth of acid parties that weren’t so “free,” Laurel Canyon salons doubling as distribution hubs, and elite families underwriting a psychedelic renaissance that looks far less organic than advertised. From Lennon to Hendrix, Cobain to Tupac, the names you thought were untouchable are revealed as pawns in a much bigger game. This conversation pulls the velvet curtain back on COINTELPRO echoes in hip-hop, the strange survival of “sex & rock ’n’ roll” while “no drugs” artists vanished, and the shift from vinyl manipulation to viral manipulation.  Guiding us through this maze of evidence and implication is researcher and filmmaker John Potash.\nGet his books---https://amzn.to/3Wizkgn\nhttps://www.johnpotash.com/\nTimestamps\n 00:52 Setting up today’s topic – hidden war through drugs & culture\n 02:00 John Potash joins \n 03:15 John’s personal story with LSD and realization\n 05:20 Counseling, corruption & activism background\n 07:45 Oligarch fingerprints on U.S. intelligence\n 10:00 How John got sources on Tupac & COINTELPRO\n 12:10 CIA whistleblowers & early articles\n 14:30 Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain & LSD distribution\n 16:50 MKULTRA documents & acid in colleges/prisons\n 19:10 Timothy Leary, Millbrook Mansion & the Mellons\n 21:25 Ken Kesey, Merry Pranksters & the psychedelic bus\n 23:50 Crisis-actor rumors about Tupac\n 26:15 The Grateful Dead & acid tests\n 28:30 How psychedelics weaken emotional control\n 31:20 John Lennon’s story, Yoko Ono & manipulation\n 33:35 Heroin as a control tactic & parallels with other artists\n 36:00 Psychedelics today, ketamine, and medical narrative\n 38:15 Funding links: MAPS, Heffter Institute & billionaires\n 40:35 Church abuse, MKULTRA techniques still active\n 42:55 John’s website, books & projects / closing thoughts","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/SEi08kDnmS3ucXi-RfuKquACTpfh-Kjws-EHkJR3Eps/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mYjhk/MGY5YjJhYTVlZGM1/ZDZhOWQ0MzNiMjIx/NWE4Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}