Project Willow wrote:coffin_dodger wrote:As wonderful and exciting as this story is, I can't help but assume that his father was involved in the military in some way - and that LSD was being extensively tested in those days. What LSD might do to a 7 year-old mind is anybody's guess.
I was 4 or 5, and I'm doing alright, relatively.
This looks like another MC vic spinning a crazy screen mem story. His age, the fact that he was a kid, and the bit about the presidents are tells. The network most definitely grooms some subjects to hold future high office, those whom they think might be in a position to rise to that level one day.
Yes, you're right, it's a possibility to take seriously. "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate" is on my desk, recently finished, and from a today perspective it clearly only scratched the surface, or delivered the original limited hangout (properly defined as a forced partial disclosure, in that case truthful in detail but with omissions, in the hope of avoiding full disclosure).
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