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He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust."
– Thomas Aquinas
The year was 1998. I was 47 years old, a survivor of CIA black ops, including the nefarious MK Ultra program, designed to “create the perfect spy” during the Cold War era.
I was one of four people interviewed by journalist Ryan Elliott of Chicago Health Television, following a seminar we presented at the Global Sciences Congress in Daytona Beach, Florida, titled, Insider Secrets of Government Corruption. MK Ultra was one among several of the topics covered.
The presenters were former FBI Senior Special Agent-in-Charge, Ted Gunderson, former CIA, Chip Tatum, former CIA, Barbara Hartwell, and a woman using the pseudonym, Brice Taylor (real name Susan Ford), who claimed to be a survivor of MK Ultra, of “Monarch”, a “sex slave” and victim of “Satanic Ritual Abuse”.
The real nature and purpose of MK Ultra has been buried beneath a ton of false information; hidden behind smoke screens, obscured by misdirection to side shows, especially the “Monarch” sex slaves and satanism version promoted by Susan Ford, Cathy O'Brien, Mark Phillips, Fritz Springmeier...and many others.
[See reports on this site exposing these characters and their ilk.]
Among the most unjust, grievous assaults perpetrated against my good name are the totally false accusations linking me to the false “stories”, testimonies, and claims of these odious characters. I have exposed them repeatedly for their outrageous lies and sensationalist propaganda, and I've provided detailed documentation and evidence, much of which may be found on this website. I have no commonalities with them and there is absolutely no basis for comparison.
As I have stated many times, “Monarch” was not a CIA operation under MK Ultra. Anyone promoting it as such is either parroting the common falsehood out of ignorance, or is purposely serving a government-sponsored evil agenda to obscure the truth. Period.
Most damaging to the truth, the MK Ultra program has been subsequently exploited and promoted by hordes of ambitious, aggressive, ignorant people, seeking fame and fortune at the expense of authentic survivors, who are far fewer than those who fraudulently make the claim of having been a part of it – unfortunately, they are legion.
Many are merely parroting the false information promoted by self-appointed (and self-important) 'experts', in the foolish belief it will make them appear to be genuine victims/survivors. These attention-seekers only muddy the waters around the entire subject. As for serious professional investigators on the subject, they are fewer even than the actual survivors.
And so those interested in finding the truth and the facts about CIA's MK Ultra are facing the incredibly difficult task of separating out the rare legitimate sources, those promoting factual information and documentation, from the plethora of charlatans, grifters, government shills and con artists promoting various brands of sensationalist misinformation, as well as those parroting carefully crafted CIA-issue disinformation. What a convoluted mess!
The reason I have chosen to focus on this video is that I find it necessary to set the record straight, at least about my own case. Unfortunately for me, due to the long-running promotion of this particular video, far and wide, my name has come to be associated with certain individuals with whom I have long ceased to be in any association, and whom I have found it necessary to expose and denounce for their dissemination of defamatory falsehoods against me.
I don't presume to speak for others, never have done, only for myself. I am the one and only person alive today who knows the truth about my own background. All the perpetrators are gone now, the CIA handlers who hijacked my life right from the cradle. As for those who may have access to the remaining classified files, created before they were even born, they are unlikely ever to know but a fraction of what there is to know. Obviously, this applies not only to my case, but to any others who were recruited into the program, whether in early childhood, or at a later time.
Over the years, I have repeatedly issued public statements in which I have provided at least some of the facts of my own case, at my own discretion, and for my own reasons. I have refuted as many of the outrageous lies and plethora of false information as possible, promoted by my CIA-issue enemies and their stooges, minions and toadies.
From the time I went public as a CIA Black Ops survivor and whistleblower (3 decades ago), I have issued disclaimers and made it clear that my reports (print, radio, TV, public lectures) are FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. The readers/listeners may make of my reports what they will.
To my great frustration, my disclaimers have been ignored, or arrogantly disregarded, by journalists, by news outlets, by the hordes of amateurs posting on social media – by just about everyone who has exploited my name for any agenda. The massive exploitation of this video is probably the most notable example.
And as any true advocate for justice will understand, I am indeed very angry about this, for as stated by Thomas Aquinas, my righteous anger comes from the suffering of grievous injustices, by me, members of my family, and any number of others I have known, or known of, over a period of many years.
During the course of my life, there are a few particular types of injustices for which I seek to be vindicated, as they have caused more pain and suffering than almost anything else:
Being falsely accused of offenses I have not committed.
Having a plethora of false information promoted in connection with my name: gossip, misrepresentation, false light, defamation, libel, slander.
Interference, intrusions, invasions, meddling and exploitation by aggressive busybodies, having no respect for my privacy and personal boundaries.
I seem to be a lightning rod for these types of injurious offenses. And being that I have never known anyone who is more introverted and reclusive than I, being assaulted with unwanted attention is as close to pure hell as I can imagine.
I do not seek publicity, or the proverbial fame and fortune which seems to motivate the majority of those who cover these subjects, nor do I harbor any worldly ambition. My purposes for exposing crimes and corruption have only to do with pursuing justice for the victims/targets and defending the God-given rights and liberties of all and sundry.
To put a finer point on it, my dream (had the Lord allowed it) is to live in a monastery, far removed from the aggression and conflict of the world.
Over the years, the video of this interview has made the rounds all over the Internet and has appeared on nearly every platform in existence. And it has caused a world of trouble, at least for me. There are a number of reasons why this is so.
Problem Number One: I signed a release solely to Chicago Health Television to use this interview. It was deemed too incendiary by the TV station and was never aired. Of course, it was clear to me who actually prevented it from being used by the station...
No one else had my consent to publish or use my interview, and they had no right to do so. And yet, it was pirated and even sold by mail order, first by Susan Ford (aka Brice Taylor), Ted Gunderson, his videographer, Jon Gentry, who simultaneously recorded it without my consent, and later by many others, including a well-known charlatan named David Icke, who actually sold it from his New Age, government-disinfo website, and made tons of money, along with his accomplices.
Susan Ford incorporated it into a video called Mind Control Goes Public, which she promoted and sold far and wide. This video was filled with government-sponsored false information and propaganda on “mind control”. And all this, exploiting my name and my work, while grossly misrepresenting me in the process.
Of course, I was never offered a penny from the illegal sales; though I would never have been a party to the massive deception by accepting payment.
(An aside: New Age author David Icke appeared as a speaker at some of the same conferences where I was invited to speak. I thought it outrageous that Icke demanded a speaking fee of $10,000, and got it. Meanwhile, a genuine government whistleblower like me, having been driven to destitution by government persecution, asked for nothing. My motive was never about money – it was about the pursuit of justice.)
Problem Number Two: The video was published all over the Internet, and was used to grossly misrepresent and defame Barbara Hartwell, accusing me of being a “CIA plant”, a “ shadow government spook”, a “CIA disinfo agent”...and on and on in this vein. I was the only person defamed in this way; it was made to look as if I were a CIA infiltrator, planted among real whistleblowers.
In my opinion, based on my own subsequent investigations and experience, the plants were in actuality FBI chief Ted Gunderson and his mind-controlled minion, Susan Ford (aka Brice Taylor). Chip Tatum was a real whistleblower, and unlike Gunderson and Ford, treated me with kindness and respect, and never tried to exploit me.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
CIA is in many respects a cult. It is like the Mafia. It tends to recruit its own from family bloodlines. And if you've been chosen, they think they own you. If you don't agree, you are going to be in for some serious trouble.
I was born into a CIA/Military Intelligence family, on both sides, going back to Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
My father was Military Intelligence (Army, G-2), a cryptographer stationed in the Philippines during WW2. His continued involvement in intelligence was something of a mystery (at least to me), which was concurrent with his employment as a professional classical musician, working for the Metropolitan Opera Company for 25 years, until his death in 1976.
It was he who began my training in intelligence work, beginning at the age of 3. It was a form of “home-schooling”, more like a combination military boot camp/charm school. Over the years of my childhood, I had lessons in fencing, archery, horseback riding, ballet, music, and probably other disciplines I don't even remember. Because, the truth is, as an unwitting recruit into MK Ultra, much of my memory has been wiped by my CIA trainers and handlers.
My mother's side of the family (the Percivals, late of Virginia) were also Military (Army), OSS, CIA, attorneys. My grandfather, Andrew Jackson Percival. My uncle, Andrew Jackson Percival Jr. and his wife, career CIA. As well as other siblings and in-laws, whose names I will decline to mention out of respect for their privacy. I have always been extremely concerned with my own privacy, as well as that of others, especially my family. I only reveal what has already been made public, and/or if I have been given permission, though there is some information in the public domain over which I've had no control.
I should also mention that out of three generations of intelligence professionals, I am the only person in my family to have got out and gone public as a whistleblower. This has unfortunately caused disruption and estrangement in my family, for which I am very sorry; but in good conscience I could not have done otherwise, knowing, as I did, the terrible crimes and corruption perpetrated by CIA (and other government agencies) and the toll of destruction of lives I witnessed and experienced.
I also regret that as a result of me going public, members of my family (some CIA, some not) have suffered being threatened, harassed, slandered, misrepresented, victimized by the promotion of false information and horrible invasions of privacy, simply due to their blood relation to me.
Some of the perpetrators of these offenses have been CIA agents (in particular one Ronald Cerra, of North Carolina, a loathsome reprobate whose persecution of my family lasted decades) but most have been government stooges, as minions of COINTELPRO operatives, merely repeating the lies, parroting the false accusations against me and my family they have been told by their masters. Again, I can't express how sorry I am. Despite disagreements, and estrangement, I love them all and always have. They are always in my heart and in my prayers. Bottom line: CIA destroys families, and those families are usually their own.
ENTER COINTELPRO KINGPIN TED GUNDERSON
I was first invited to be a speaker (billed in advance as a “mystery guest”) by the late Dean Stonier, at the Global Sciences Congress (Denver, Colorado) in 1997. At that time I had been out of CIA operations for three years (since 1994). It was there that I first met former FBI Chief (Senior Special Agent in Charge) Ted Gunderson. I had never heard of Ted Gunderson. I did not travel in the same circles and I did not know at that time that this was a set-up, that Ted had been planted on me.
The invitation to Global Sciences seemed to come out of the blue. Apparently an associate of Global Sciences, an acquaintance of mine who'd attended one of my lectures in New York City, made contact with Stonier and recommended me as a speaker.
And so started the saga of my relationship with Ted Gunderson, as a professional colleague, personal friend (1997-2000), and later, after I had broken off the association, for cause, as an adversary.
The damages done to me by Ted Gunderson's subsequent defamation campaign are inestimable.
Ted Gunderson's "warning" against Barbara Hartwell
Here, a recent report which covers some of the facts.
CELEBRITY SUPER SPOOK, FBI CHIEF, COINTELPRO KINGPIN TED GUNDERSON: A Personal & Professional Memoir
https://barbarahartwellvscia.blogspot.com/2024/06/celebrity-super-spook-fbi-chief.html
EXCERPT
TED GUNDERSON AS PROFESSIONAL COLLEAGUE & PERSONAL FRIEND
Some background: I first met Ted Gunderson in 1997, at the Global Sciences Congress in Denver, CO, where we both had been invited as speakers. At that time I had never heard of him, and little did I know that Gunderson had been planted on me, which I later learned after three years of professional collaboration and personal friendship.
I worked cases with Ted, appeared on the lecture circuit, did radio and TV interviews, presented seminars, such as Insider Secrets of Government Corruption (1998), also the subject of an interview with Chicago Health Television, deemed too incendiary for publication by the TV station, but later bootleg copies were posted all over the Internet), at times with other former government agents such as Chip Tatum (CIA).
Ted Gunderson was a charismatic celebrity, a media darling in the tabloids and on talk shows, such as Geraldo Rivera. He was probably best known for his investigations of Satanism, of child trafficking, of the death of Marilyn Monroe and the Kennedy assassination.
What he was not widely known for: His role as Hoover's COINTELPRO Kingpin. During all the time I knew him (1997-2011) he publicly denied ever being involved in counterintelligence operations. As you read on (or, if you have read earlier reports), you will see that this was the accusation he slapped on me (“CIA disinfo agent”), his desperate ploy to discredit the truth I had exposed about him and his FBI/CIA cronies.
He only admitted to his prominent role in COINTELPRO shortly before his death in 2011. At least Alex Jones got that one thing right, even as he continues to cover for Gunderson and promote his falsehoods about so many others.
Then, there was Ted's solicitation of Porn King Larry Flynt, of Hustler Magazine, for so-called “legal” counterintelligence operations (1996).
His black budget sale of Stinger Missiles to Osama Bin Laden (1979).
His marriage to Diana Rively, ex-wife of Anton LaVey, founder of The Church of Satan (1998).
Larry Flynt. Osama Bin Laden. Anton LaVey.
Might you be hard-pressed to imagine three more detestable characters? You can't make it up....
I call it the Ted Gunderson Trifecta. If you're looking for a winning ticket in the cause of Justice, you won't see the cashier's window by placing your bet on this one.
These were among the activities of Ted Gunderson which I began to expose, a few years after I broke off my association with him. I had documents (some of which were stolen in home invasions, black bag jobs), some hand written memos and letters, plus typed proposals, authored by Ted himself. Some of the documents I received from CIA sources and former Gunderson associates, which will remain unnamed.
I managed to save some of the documents, which I still have in my evidence files, most unpublished. I don't think anyone really cares anymore, now that so much of this stuff has been placed in the public domain, and since Gunderson and most of his accomplices are deceased.
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THE EXPOITATION OF BARBARA HARTWELL: FALSE INFO, SENSATIONALISM GALORE
This video, based on Insider Secrets of Government Corruption, has been massively exploited by hordes of ambitious, aggressive people, seeking fame and fortune for themselves, at the expense of the grievous injustices against Barbara Hartwell.
It has been incorporated into all sorts of “documentaries”, and has served to promote the agendas of charlatans and grifters worldwide, while they rake in the bucks, profiting off a type of pain and suffering they can't begin to imagine.
These reprobates have falsely linked my name with some of the most notorious sleazy, whackjob “celebrities”, such as Britney Spears, whom they claim is a victim of “Monarch”.
"Barbara Hartwell & Britany Spears; Project Monarch Victims"
http://cgi.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=38770
[NOTE: The link to this site is defunct. I'm sure the video is still out there, still doing major damage to my good name.]
Here, as just one example, a report which refutes their malicious defamation, falsely linking my name to Britney Spears.
Government-sponsored Disinfo Video Targets Barbara Hartwell: More Libelous Falsehoods
https://barbarahartwellvscia.blogspot.com/2013/05/government-sponsored-disinfo-video.html
EXCERPT
Jon Gentry, Ted Gunderson, Susan Ford (and others) violated the copyright, and illegally exploited my name. Later, numerous minions of Gunderson used the video in attempts to discredit Barbara Hartwell, posting it all over the Internet, with the caption "Barbara Hartwell CIA Plant on Mind Control".
How typical for these unscrupulous individuals to violate the copyright, shamelessly exploit my name, and then use it to discredit me, and of course, raking in the money from sales.
But back to the latest video mentioned above. The segment containing ONLY the isolated testimony of Barbara Hartwell (why me?) was followed by more about Britney Spears. Lurid scenes of hospitals, of hysteria, and scandal-mongering by commentators (including on CNN) in what passes as "the news".
This was also interspersed with text on the screen, describing "Monarch", and the "slaves" (Britney Spears) and their handlers. There were images of tattoos, including a monarch butterfly, which is said to identity the "slaves".
And so on and so forth....
But none of any of the "Monarch" material (including the tattoos, or being a "slave') has anything whatsoever to do with the experiences, the background, or the life of Barbara Hartwell, in any way, shape or form.
In refuting the lies and disinformation, here are just some of the most salient facts.
1) The correct spelling is Britney Spears, NOT "Britany" Spears.
2) I, Barbara Hartwell, was never involved in any project called "Monarch", nor was a "victim" of such. I was never any kind of "slave" either.
3) "Monarch", touted by charlatans such as Fritz Springmeier, Mark Phillips, Cathy O'Brien, Susan Ford, Ken Adachi, "True" Ott, Doug Millar et al, was NOT a CIA operation, under MK Ultra, but a smokescreen, a side show, meant to deflect attention away from the real CIA black operations and the genuine survivors of such, including Barbara Hartwell.
[See my reports on this site exposing Monarch.]
4) There is NO commonality whatsoever between Britney Spears and Barbara Hartwell. This is the worst sort of libelous/slanderous falsehood, which attempts to paint Barbara Hartwell in a completely false light.
Just more sensationalism, more misdirection, more outrageous lies. The claim that Barbara Hartwell is a "victim of Monarch", and comparing me to a person (Britney Spears) who is clearly mentally/emotionally unbalanced; who is not, and never has been, any kind of government agent (CIA or otherwise), is, aside from being ludicrous, one of the most insulting hit pieces I have ever seen, defaming my name.
How dare you! You morally bankrupt S.O.B.s!
Now, a number of other links to the video, exploited by any number of unscrupulous persons.
Brice Taylor, Ted Gunderson, Chip Tatum and Barbara Hartwell on MKULTRA MIND CONTROL
https://www.bitchute.com/video/q5fEhKWh4K7B/
Barbara Hartwell, CIA Whistleblower
by National Library for Targeted Individuals
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzhGbYK3mbr5jCskxP7_WVfsKIeYAXz4J
FACT: I am NOT a so-called “targeted individual”, the label used by groups of people making claims of harassment and attacks with directed energy weaponry. I am a CIA whistleblower, targeted for political persecution, retaliation by the government. There is a BIG difference. But they will never stop exploiting my name in connection with their “cause” and I have no way to stop them.
And on the same page was posted this video:
Barbara Hartwell CIA Exposed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Nb9w3Z8rM&list=PLzhGbYK3mbr5jCskxP7_WVfsKIeYAXz4J&index=2&t=257s
Published by a despicable grandstander named Aaron James, who falsely accused “CIA Agent Barbara Hartwell” of targeting him and his family, of being in collusion with John McCain (whom I did not know) and some FBI agents I never heard of. I was also accused of being a racist.
This old photo (1997, credit Hudson Valley Magazine) was used by Aaron James with headline: AGENT HARTWELL EXPOSED
And here is yet another version of the video, posted by some nameless moron, making comments which show she has no idea what she is talking about.
Ted Gunderson and Gene "Chip" Tatum interviewing CIA MK-Ultra victims
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3fqc9bKkS4
"Two brave CIA MK-Ultra victims speaking out. Brice Taylor and Barbara Hartwell. Interview 1998."
"Feel free to like, subscribe and share. If any producer/label or photographer has an issue with this upload, please contact us (mail in info)"
Yes, indeed, I have a very major "issue". A very serious problem. I, Barbara Hartwell, whose name and work are being grossly exploited by idiots like you. And you are inviting everyone to "feel free" to continue the exploitation! Shame on you!
FACTS
Ted Gunderson and Chip Tatum were not the interviewers. The journalist was Ryan Elliott.
I, Barbara Hartwell, was not a “victim” of MK Ultra at the time of this interview. I was a survivor of it, and a former CIA agent turned whistleblower.
Brice Taylor (aka Susan Ford) is far from "brave", in fact she is one of the most cowardly people I have ever known. And at the time of this video she was still in thrall to mind control handlers.
And to know that I will probably never be able to clear my name from all the false accusations, all the character assassination, the sensationalism, the fraudulent connections and comparisons...going on now for the past three decades...
All I can do is to continue to state the facts and refute the lies for the public record.
It matters to me, a great deal, that the truth be known. It is not just my righteous anger and outrage against liars and evildoers on a personal level, even though the damages to my life which have resulted are horrendous.
To
promote falsehoods about those such as myself who have dedicated our
lives to exposing the truth, and doing so in the pursuit of JUSTICE,
that makes it all the more likely that others, including past victims
and possible future victims of hideous abuses by government, are
unable to free themselves, or get the support they need. Because they are having to fight the ever-rising tide of false information.
Before the government-sponsored programs such as MK Ultra can be stopped, they must be exposed.
This can only happen when truthful, trustworthy sources prevail over the media frenzy of extravagant, sensationalist stories by those claiming to be victims, who are in fact frauds seeking public attention in the pursuit of fame and fortune. And this, at the expense of the unimaginable suffering due to the injustices perpetrated against the genuine victims, survivors, legitimate expositors and whistleblowers.
Barbara Hartwell
FORMER (not current) CIA, since 1994
December 9, 2024
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