MKULTRA and "What's the Deal With Vacaville?" (Manson, Leary, Donald DeFreeze) Found this interesting, Vacaville and MKULTRA  https://www.scribd.com/document/54238607/What-s-the-Deal-With-Vacaville Supposedly though, Vacaville is one of those locations that was implicated in the MK-ULTRA documents as having been a testing ground for behavioral modification and “brain-washing” by the CIA. I’ll have to look around for some documentation of that though. In any event, this bit on Leary Quote […] horrendous experiments such as “anectine therapy” had been conducted on non-volunteer  inmates under CIA covert guidance. Anectine stops the respiratory functions of the body and the “subject” feels as if they are dying. An attendant must keep them breathing with a machine. As the panic sets in when the involuntary muscles quit, an attendant says, “This is what will happen if you break the law .” And just before the “subject” loses consciousness, the respiratory is turned on the the “subject” is brought back from the brink of death. W.H. Bowart, the author of that article, apparently was acquainted with Leary, and upon Leary’s release from there thought to himself upon seeing Leary’s sorry state: “He’s been the victim of  one of the secret prison mind control programs.” ...Again, it’s all pretty speculative. The other twist that ties into all this is one Donald “Cinque” DeFreeze, leader of the SLA which kidnapped and brainwashed heiress Patty Hearst only a year  later in 1974. Rigorous Intuition has a great article about this, so I’ll quote from there. DeFreeze was a petty criminal who worked as an informer for the LAPD, until… Quote He found himself incarcerated at Vacaville State Prison “at the same time the CIA was conducting mind control experiments there under MKSEARCH Subproject 3,” writes Dr Colin Ross in his Bluebird: The Deliberate Creation of Multiple Personalities by Psychiatrists. “These experiments involved administration of the drug pemoline [apparently researching memory function]… While there, DeFreeze came under the tutelage of CIA psychological warfare expert Colston Westbrook who gained the trust of DeFreeze and other African-American inmates under the guise of the Black Cultural Association. It’s alleged that Westbrook is the source of DeFreeze’s guerilla name, “Cinque” and the designer of the seven-headed cobra of the SLA. After two years of heavy programming, DeFreeze’s mentors at Vacaville apparently decided that he was ready for the next step in the script: his “escape.” DeFreeze was transferred from Vacaville to Soledad Prison, near Salinas, California, in December, 1973. Four months later, in March, 1974, DeFreeze “escaped” from Soledad. But using the word “escape” is misleading; the facts are, that DeFreeze was placed in a situation at Soledad where all he had to do was walk  away from the prison. DeFreeze then kidnapped Patty Hearst. Hearst later claimed that she was subjected to torture typical of so-called mind control victims. She assumed the identity of “Tania” and aided the SLA in robbing a bank. Oddly enough, she was eventually pardoned by Bill Clinton on the last day of  his presidency.