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@seriations.bsky.social
Historian of science, espionage, and the occult in the Cold War.
"Voice from the Swamp", John Heartfield, 1936

"Three thousand years of consistent inbreeding proves the superiority of my race!"
April 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
From "lobotomies again" by Tacie Dejanikus in Off Our Backs, Vol. 2, No. 9 (May/June, 1972), pp. 2-3
December 21, 2024 at 2:31 AM
The Qanon extended universe belief that Trump is one such “walk-in” originates with Montgomery’s 1985 book, in which she predicts that America would soon elect a “walk-in” president. She was a rising star in Hearst’s news empire until pivoting to psychic phenomena in the 1960s.
November 19, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Early in her career, Ruth Montgomery, journalist who popularized “walk-ins” — alien souls who take over someone’s body following trauma or an NDE, imbuing them with a cosmic mission & changing their personality — went undercover in the white supremacist cop-filled “Black Legion” to solve a murder.
November 19, 2024 at 3:05 AM
@themountaingoats.bsky.social It's a crazy & deeply sad tale. If the episode is too long (very understandable) you can read Belita's own version here, but the version I tell on the episode is much easier to follow & really went deep: web.archive.org/web/20220828...
June 16, 2024 at 3:15 AM
@themountaingoats.bsky.social since you named Satanic Corpse as one of your influences back in 2009, please listen to my episode on frontwoman Belita Adair's wild life story: tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/programmed...
June 16, 2024 at 2:56 AM
New on Getting Spooked: An early release of a forthcoming 7-part Programmed to Chill podcast series on starseeds featuring myself & Jimmy Falun Gong. First 5 episodes are out now and the appendices will drop over the next 2 weeks.

tannerfboyle.substack.com/p/programmed...
April 15, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Dream manipulation is one of the oldest forms of magic, dating back at least 5000 years. Today, with surveillance devices on every nightstand and telemedicine on the rise, adtech firms & intelligence agencies combine these methods with unprecedented access to your dreaming mind
October 6, 2023 at 6:48 PM
Important to note she’s a practiced liar all the way back to her time as a spy in college. This globe & mail article treats the idea as a joke, but it’s obvious. She was already fluent in Ukrainian, she had cash, computers, & cameras to hand out, and she was allowed to use a diplomatic pouch
September 23, 2023 at 10:12 PM
Deputy PM & Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland must’ve known Hunka’s Waffen SS background and likely orchestrated this standing ovation herself. Just like she lied about her grandpa’s nazi collaboration despite knowing about it and saying she was “proud” of him. She’s an intergenerational fascist
September 23, 2023 at 10:10 PM
The virgin 2023 "shield your tiny dick from wifi" boxers vs. the chad 1897 "zap your balls with vitalizing electricity" jock strap
September 19, 2023 at 6:36 PM
World's Fairs were sus because they were festivals of imperialism. They had "human zoos" at these things putting imprisoned indigenous people on display! Whole eugenics exhibits! Fairs were demonic because the advanced civilization they covered up were the indigenous ones ravaged by colonization!
September 4, 2023 at 9:06 PM
Stay the hell out of my airspace
August 9, 2023 at 5:58 AM
This story is from his 1997 memoir Secrets: A Writer in the Cold War. Very interesting guy https://archive.org/details/secretswriterinc00brod/page/13/mode/1up?view=theater
August 2, 2023 at 7:03 PM
Before that he was a (one-time) document courier for the Miami mob just as he entered high school at Phillips Academy
August 2, 2023 at 7:01 PM
Got a copy myself! It's very interesting. Curious though how Brodeur was in the Counterintelligence Corps in West Germany for a few years starting in 1953, initially stationed at a nuke warhead facility
August 2, 2023 at 6:59 PM
Full PDF of the 1999 book MILABs: Military Mind Control & Alien Abduction by geophysicist Helmut Lammer & lawyer Marion Lammer. Not digitized anywhere else so get it while it's hot

files.catbox.moe/omqoc6.pdf
July 20, 2023 at 2:25 AM
Everyone's heard of the CIA's heart attack gun but nobody talks about Canada's germ bullet. Designed in 1940 by insulin co-discoverer Frederick Banting, it was one of his many projects for Canada's WWII biochem warfare program

From Deadly Allies by John Bryden, p. 90
July 19, 2023 at 10:25 PM
According to a NICAP bio, Stringfield investigated UFO incidents for the USAF from 1953-1957. In the 1970s Stringfield claimed he couldn’t remember how he learned of Ed Mootz’s 1955 experience. Was he sent by the USAF to interview Mootz because the incident was a defoliant test?
July 16, 2023 at 4:27 AM
Prior to joining CUFOS Stringfield was also a member of NICAP. And before NICAP, in the mid-1950s, Stringfield was the director of CRIFO. Jack Brewer argues in Wayward Sons: NICAP and the IC, Stringfield was promoting early narratives of US Gov UFO “disclosure” (p. 1)
July 16, 2023 at 4:27 AM
A few weeks after the incident Mootz was visited by Leonard Stringfield, who questioned him about his experience. In the 1970s Stringfield becuame an investigator for Hynek’s CUFOS. Curiously, Stringfield was also a public relations & marketing executive for DuBois Chemical.
July 16, 2023 at 4:26 AM
In 1955, while tending to his peach tree, Ed Mootz was doused in a red liquid sprayed by a UFO passing overhead. The liquid smelled like benzene and caused his arms and neck to tingle. By the next morning his peach tree, which had also been sprayed, had withered and died.
July 16, 2023 at 4:25 AM
That being said, there’s a few articles about an “aerial catamaran” patented by one Charles E. Bechtel of Udall, Kansas. I wonder if he’s related to the Bechtel family of Bechtel Corporation infamy, who were originally from Peabody, Kansas 🤔
July 15, 2023 at 12:46 AM
This 1896 article includes an illustration of an airship supposedly for the Coast Guard. I haven’t found evidence of such a project, so it’s interesting that it’s labelled 1892, the implication being: “if we had something this sleek 4 years ago, imagine what we have now”.
July 15, 2023 at 12:45 AM
Articles from the time often included interviews & statements from purported legal representatives for an airship inventor, including ex-Cali Attorney General W. H. H. Hart who specifically claimed the airships would be used to aid Cuban rebels against Spanish rule.
July 15, 2023 at 12:44 AM