Dr. Sidney Gottlieb
CIA TSD Director #CIA #MKULTRA #LSD
Introduction
Who was Dr. Sidney Gottlieb
Dr. Sidney Gottlieb (Sid) was a scientist and chemist working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that ran the Technical Services Division (TSD) and before that position he ran the Chemical Division within TSD.
As director of TSD, Sid was like the character “Q” in the James Bond movies.
TSD was tasked with providing case officers with technology and services to reach their goals of effective espionage and intelligence collection.
Sid was educated at Arkansas Tech University, University of Wisconsin, and California Institute of Technology, where he received his Doctorate in Biochemistry in June 1943.
Sid worked at Department of Agriculture, FDA, and then the CIA.
His three mentors were Allen Dulles, Ira Baldwin, and Richard Helms.
TSD provided the following services to CIA agents (case officers) in the field:
Disguises: Masks, clothing, voice changers
Forged documents: passports, visas, drivers licenses, birth certificates, travel papers
Spy “gadgets”:
Specialized weapons: suppressed firearms, dart guns, covert needles
Communication devices
Secret writings, codes: invisible ink, one time pads (OTP)
Microdot readers
Photographic devices: miniature cameras, long-range telephoto lens
Surveillance and Counter surveillance
Flaps and seals: covertly opening mail and sealed diplomatic pouches
Black bag jobs - surreptitious entry: covertly entering into foreign embassies and consulates
Electronic eavesdropping devices
Audio surveillance: listening through walls, microwave snooping of conversations reading the vibrations of the glass window in the room
Lock picking
Vault and safe opening
Alarm system bypass
Poisons: suicide pills, assassination chemicals
Chemicals: powdered tear gas, powder or gas that causes flatulence, diarrhea, itching
Computer hacking
Electronic bugs: concealed into computers and other consumer devices
Concealment of devices: hide currency inside of toothpaste tube
Black, white, gray propaganda: influence the public into the targeted mindset
Black, white, gray projects: make an agent look like a Chinese solider doing something embarrassing and take pictures in public
Explosives: explosive seashells
And many other services and devices.
What was Sid famous for?
Sid was famous for running MK/ULTRA (mind control and brainwashing), Operation Mongoose (Operation to assassinate Castro) and being director of TSD.
MK is a cryptonym that the CIA that uses to notate the project is assigned to TSD.
The proper format of a cryptonym is all caps with a forward slash, MK/ULTRA.
Congressional Investigations
The Church Committee investigated what they could, but no one knew the right questions to ask.
The Select Intelligence Committee also floundered to get to real truths.
CIA Director William Colby sacrificed a few tidbits called the Family Jewels.
Assassination Dart Gun built by the CIA Technical Services Division (TSD) and Special Operations Division (SOD) Army Fort Detrick.
My father used this dart gun to temporarily put guard dogs to sleep while working on surreptitious entries, covertly entering into foreign embassies and consulates
He also brought this gun home in Vientiane Laos to kill a very large Tokay gekco that was stalking our family. At dinnertime, the gekco would hang on the glass that was part of the breezeway between the kitchen and the dining room. This beast was huge and scared us all, including my father. I remember when he fired it almost point blank at it’s head, and the noise was pfffff and the gekco retreated to the attic, never to be seen again. At the time I thought it was a surpressed (silenced) pistol.
Results of the investigation
On August 17, 1975 Senator Frank Church appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, and discussed the NSA, without mentioning it by name:
In the need to develop a capacity to know what potential enemies are doing, the United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air. (...) Now, that is necessary and important to the United States as we look abroad at enemies or potential enemies. We must know, at the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left: such is the capability to monitor everything—telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide.
If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology. (...)
I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.[23][24]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
Sid and my Family
Sid was my father's boss when my father worked for CIA Technical Services Division (TSD).
He often came to our house for diners and was constantly mentioned around our house when he was not at our house.
My father and I wondered if we were dosed with LSD because of Sid’s history of dosing other Agents, with and without consent.
After working for Sid, my father had considerable mental issues that could have been caused or contributed to by the drug.
After leaving Laos, I also had PTSD like symptoms, including vivid dreams that could have been caused or contributed to by the drug. My PTSD could have come from living on the edge of a war zone for two years as a pre-teen.
Retirement and Death
When Helms was about to retire and Sid knew that he was about to be pushed out, he drove to the CIA archives building and ordered the MK/ULTRA documents destroyed.
Helms testified to Congress that he gave the order to destroy documents orally.
Sid testified the same thing, nothing written down.
Good spies never write anything down.
Limited MK/ULTRA documents survive today.
Gottlieb retired from the CIA in 1973, saying he did not believe his work had been effective. Visited in retirement by the son of his late colleague Frank Olson, he was residing in an "ecologically correct" home in Culpeper, Virginia, where he raised goats, ate yogurt and advocated peace and environmentalism.[13] He and his wife spent two years traveling Australia, Africa and India before settling down for several months to run a leper hospital in India. He had two sons and two daughters.[2]
On October 7, 1975, Gottlieb testified before the Church Committee under the alias "Joseph Schneider." He did not reveal much in his testimony, besides saying he had destroyed nearly all records of what he did during his time at the agency. Gottlieb was never convicted of any crimes. Few historical studies mention his name.[14]
On March 7, 1999, Gottlieb died at his home in Washington, Virginia.[15] He was reported to have a history of heart problems,[15] but his wife declined to give the cause of death.[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb
CIA Technical Services Division (TSD)