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The story below offers a rare close-up view of a man who is so creepy it\u2019s fascinating. He actually performed some of the dirty, unthinkable deeds you read about in the various expos\u00e9s on the CIA.<\/p>\n
According to the author, the man \u201clooks like Danny DeVito playing the Penguin, and talks like Edward G. Robinson as gangster Johnny Rocco in Key Largo.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The Penguin in question is Ira \u201cIke\u201d Feldman.\u00a0 And the deeds he performed were for MK-ULTRA, the CIA\u2019s program on mind control. They experimented on unsuspecting people, slipping them LSD without their consent, sometimes with devastating results. The project\u2019s architect, Sidney Gottlieb, described in a 1953 memo<\/a> the ways in which the drug could be used:<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Disturbance of memory; discrediting by aberrant behaviour; alteration of sex patterns; eliciting of information; suggestibility; creation of dependence.\u201d<\/p>\n From all that has been written about the CIA, we find it easy to believe just about everything Feldman says on the subject. But the real value of this story is not so much the information it imparts; it\u2019s the character it reveals about a major player \u2014 even if we see him only from the outside. Here, you can witness the way he talks, the attitude he exhibits, the contradictions he ignores, and the self-justifications he declares.<\/p>\n This was originally published in Spin Magazine<\/em> in 1994, and is just as relevant today.<\/p>\n The author <\/em>of that vintage Spin <\/em>article, Richard Stratton, <\/em>has recently published his memoirs, \u00a0<\/em>Smuggler\u2019s Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia<\/em><\/a> (Arcade Publishing, April, 2016)<\/em><\/p>\n