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  "description": "The indictment of Dr Morens will not suddenly repair all. But a bit of accountability is at least a step in the right direction.",
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  "textContent": "Sovereign Man\n\nIn April 1953, CIA Director Allen Dulles tasked a chemist named Sidney Gottlieb with finding out whether the United States could do what the Soviets were rumored to have figured out: control human minds with drugs.\n\nHis methods were absolutely insane: Gottlieb set up a brothel in San Francisco where CIA-paid prostitutes dosed unsuspecting men while government agents watched through one-way mirrors.\n\nHe also authorized CIA officers to dose their own colleagues with LSD – without their knowledge – just to see what would happen.\n\nOne of Gottlieb’s own colleagues, a biochemist named Frank Olson, was slipped LSD at a work retreat in November 1953. Olsen went out a 10th-floor window of the Statler Hotel in New York.\n\nThe program became known as MK-Ultra, and for the next 20 years it ran almost entirely in the dark. Congress did not know. The press did not know. Even most of the CIA did not know.\n\nBy 1973, Watergate convinced CIA Director Richard Helms that the press was finally willing to dig into the intelligence agencies. So he gave one last order on his way out the door: destroy the MK-Ultra files.\n\nTwenty years of records – experiments, payments, deaths – were fed into burn bags and shredders.\n\nBy the time the government held hearings two years later, almost no evidence remained. Fortunately an incompetent clerk had misplaced the program’s financial records, so eventually roughly 16,000 pages emerged about MK-Ultra. Everything we know about the program today is because of those misplaced financial records.\n\nYet no one was ever punished for the experiments… or for the federal crime of destroying the documents.\n\nSo it’s a tiny step in the right direction that, recently, the Justice Department indicted Dr David Morens, a former senior advisor to Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Health, on charges of obstructing a federal investigation into the origins of Covid-19.\n\nThe NIH gave roughly $8 million in grants to a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance (run by Peter Daszak) which in turn routed some of that money to gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.\n\nYet the NIH had publicly insisted, for years, that it was not funding any gain-of-function research.\n\nAs the lab leak hypothesis gained traction in 2020, the indictment alleges that Dr Morens instructed EcoHealth’s president to send all correspondence to his personal Gmail.\n\nDr Morens also told colleagues that he had “learned from our foia lady here how to make emails disappear after I am foia’d but before the search starts.” Yet when a Senate document request arrived in June 2021, Dr Morens claimed that he had “retained very few documents on these matters.”\n\nFederal records law requires every one of his emails to be preserved.\n\nNow we know why Francis Collins, then director of NIH, was so determined in early 2020 to crush any public discussion of a possible lab origin. In April of that year, Collins emailed Fauci calling the lab leak hypothesis a “very destructive conspiracy” and asking what NIH could do to “put it down.”\n\nHe was not asking a scientific question. He was asking how to suppress an inquiry that pointed back at money his own agency had distributed.\n\nThis is one of the premier institutions Americans were told to “trust the science” on.\n\nThe behavior across NIH, the CDC, and the FDA destroyed public trust in institutions that should have been protecting public health. The agencies served a narrative instead, and they wanted higher case numbers to scare the public into compliance.\n\nPatients hospitalized for car accidents or hip replacements were logged as Covid if a routine swab came back positive. Patients who arrived testing positive were counted as Covid deaths even when something else (like a motorcycle accident) had killed them.\n\nThese “experts” said masks worked, after months of telling people they did not.\n\nThey said natural immunity was not a real factor, contradicting decades of immunology.\n\nThey said ivermectin was a “horse dewormer,” though it had been an FDA-approved human medication for decades.\n\nThey told the public that vaccinated people could NOT transmit the virus, when the data clearly showed they could.\n\nMeanwhile, the pandemic’s collateral damage piled up.\n\nThe CDC’s own 2021 survey of high school students found 44 per cent reporting persistent sadness or hopelessness, 55 per cent emotionally abused at home, and more than one in 10 physically abused.\n\nOne in four had experienced hunger. Not to mention the alcoholism, the record overdose deaths, the diseases that went undiagnosed and the learning loss the next generation will not catch up from.\n\nDr Morens deleted his emails to protect an industrial level of deceit which incalculably harmed the US economy and American society.\n\nAnd it wasn’t just the technical question of whether NIH funded dangerous research; it’s the broader implication that the institutions Americans were told to trust, had, in reality, spent two years telling lies.\n\nAnd the costs of those lies were paid by teenagers locked in their bedrooms, small business owners watching their savings evaporate, and the roughly 1.2 million Americans who died.\n\nThe indictment of Dr Morens will not suddenly repair all of that. But a bit of accountability is at least a step in the right direction.\n\nThis article was originally published by Sovereign Man.",
  "title": "Trust the Science Says the Guy Deleting Emails",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-14T02:00:01.700Z"
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