What if the entire counterculture of the 1960s — the music, drugs and "free love" — wasn’t a spontaneous youth rebellion… but a military-intelligence operation?
I thought this short interview with Frank Zappa (in video above) was a nice addition to the video.
There’s this guy from the CIA, and he’s creepin’ around Laurel Canyon…
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) was a prolific American composer and guitarist known for his genre-defying career, and his Laurel Canyon home that nutured some of rock n' roll's most famous stars.
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
He wasn't wrong.
CIA Social Control Through Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n Roll
It’s more than just an urban legend now, the story of how the CIA created the “Hippie Movement”, and introduced the counter-culture via the Laurel Canyon scene in Los Angeles.
Links with with the underworld of organized crime and the mob, this is about well-established channels involving drug dealing and distribution, murder, prostitution, child pornography, snuff movies and black magic – all part of a system of control and manipulation of high-profile personalities – a system which still thrives to this day…
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