WAS GEN. DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR RIGHT? TIME TO RETHINK?

WAS GEN. DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR RIGHT?        

             TIME TO RETHINK?      

 As reward for keeping his promise to FDR to enter the war against Japan, the US had promised rewards to Stalin.  At the time of the promise, Germany had been defeated, but super bombs were still fantasies of scientists.  The fantasies became reality, first in the New Mexico desert, then in Hiroshima.  Stalin rushed to get more troops to the borders of Asia, and entered the war against Japan.  A 2nd new bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, and though many high-ranking Japanese wanted to continue the war, the news of 2 horribly destroyed cities, and the news that neutral Stalin had now joined the Americans in a war to defeat Japan, these realities were pusing the Japanese to surrender.  Emperor Hirohito spoke to the people for the first time on radio - it is time to surrender.

     POWs and enemy aliens would not be killed, but returned to their homelands, Britain, France, Netherlands, America, etc.  Russian troops looted factories in Manchukwo, and soon gave weapons to Mao's guerrillas in China, as Imperial troops retreated to sea ports for repatriation.  Without much thought an American drew a line along the 38th parallel, dividing Korea into the north for Soviet and the south for American occupations.

     The North would be headed by Kim Il Sung, a communist guerrilla fighter during the war; the South would be led by Syngman Rhee. chosen in hasty elections.  There was a major civil war in China, and the new Pres. Truman sent Gen. Marshall to demand that it stop, and both sides form a coalition government.  Nationalist leader Chiang Kai Check rejected such a compromise, so the Americans stopped supplying Chiang with supplies, while the Soviets aided Mao.  By 1949 Mao declared victory from a balcony in Beijing, and almost all the mainland was now led by the Communists.

     Korean Communist leader Kim Il Sung thought he could take all of Korea, and asked Stalin for his permission to invade South Korea.  Stalin gave Kim the green light, and North Koreans swarmed down the peninsular.  Suddenly, only a small area around Pusan remained beyond Kim's power.

    Should America help?  Alone or with allies?  The Soviets were then boycotting the new UN's Security Council because Nationalist China was still recognized as China.  Without the vote of the USSR, the UN voted to join in the American defense of South Korea.  Gen. Mac Arthur responded by landing troops near Inchon, behind communist lines.  They were cut off from supplies and had to retreat or surrender.  They did both,  The Americans did not stop at the 38th parallel, and marched north.  The UN forces - small contingent from other UN nations aided the Americans.  As we approached the Yalu River, that is the border with China, and a little also with the USSR.  Mao called upon Chinese volunteers to help the communist cause in Korea.  Massive numbers of Chinese "volunteers" now joined the fight against the Americans.  Soon, a very cold winter.  Many Koreans, Chinese, Americans and others fighting in misery and dying in larger numbers.  What to do?

     Gen. Mac Arthur had the solution - use the A-bomb.    We can try to endure a painful war of attrition, deadly to both sides, or we can drop the A-bomb behind the enemy lines, totally disrupting their supply lines, which would give us a quick victory.  Yes, it's a terrible weapon, but that can be said of all effective weapons.  The question, we have the power to end the war, IN VICTORY, or the war can continue one way or another (it continues to this day, 74 years later!!).  If we have a weapon that can end a war, it is our duty to use it.  That, in essence was the demand of Gen. Mac Arthur.

     President Truman opposed Mac Arthur's solution.  Truman was President and relieved Mac Arthur of his command.  The war continued till cease fires and prisoner exchanges.  The two Koreas remain unfriendly neighbors.  Different today North Korea has it's own A-bomb, and works on missiles and hypersonic weapons.  Seemingly there is little freedom in the North.  Had America used the bomb, the North would probably have surrendered to the South, and Kim Jong Un, instead of continuing a dynasty, might have become a K-pop entertainer.  Meanwhile, Gen. Mac Arthur, like other old soldiers, faded away.

    Should America have used the bomb to end the war in Korea in 1950? Or in other no-end wars since?  Or now in Iran??   A QUESTION FOR TODAY    

     Hugh Murray

THUGS VS SPORTLERS? ARGENTINA V ENGLAND IN 2026 WORLD CUP

 JAY BUSBEE writing on Yahoo had an article praising the Argentine victory over England in today's World Cup.  Though he and I agree on basic facts, we disagree on their meaning.  He was my comment on his article -

To some extent I agree with the author's first paragraphs, but put it in a different context.The word for the Argentinians is INTIMIDATION. Beginning before the game, when all asked to stand for the national anthems of both contending nations, the Argentines shouted so loud, no one could hear the English anthem. Then the game began. Wolverines, no. Just Argentines determined to foul, knock down and opponent, stop the game, and keep it up with a beweildered set of refs. This is how they stole the previous game against Egypt, one which Egypt should have won, but the refs stole a beautiful Egyptian goal. When heat did it's job on the players near game's end, Messi wound up and scored, against Egypt the other day; against England today. But the real reason Argentina won, - sympathetic refs with a Messianic complex. Hope they are barred from the 2030 World Cup. Better still; give the final to Spain!----  I admit, I am no expert, just a spectator.   Hugh Murray

HAPPY JULY 4TH, AS AMERICA CELEBRATES ITS 250TH BIRTHDAY

THERE will be all kinds of celebrations, for the nation that started as 13 different colonies, with slightly different populations and religious traditions, laws, etc. It grew to become a world power, the richest on earth, the freest of the great powers, where few starve, and a large proportion of the population lives comfortably. This weekend, everywhere celebrations, and on July 5, America plays Belgium in the World Cup. In another country the question of freedom may be on trial also this July 4 and 5. In Germany, it's largest political party according to polls, the Alternative for Germany party, will hold a convention in Erfurt. An NGO, allegedly funded by George Soros, may be sponsoring thousands of protestors to travel to the town of about 200,000 to disrupt the proceedings. The major government parties, CDU/CSU and SPD, moderate conservatives and mild social democrats keep losing voters as they led Germany into Green policies that killed much of its industry, and are now seeking to expand the military to provide jobs, while continuing the welfare state for millions of immigrants, many of whose children know little German. Will some 70,000 Soros type protestors succeed in disrupting the AfD convention on July 4-5? Or will freedom of speech and assembly be allowed for a political party the "respectables' dislike. The AfD is like the Trump party of Germany. No wonder the Soros crowd hates it. I hope we, and the Germans can celebrate this July 4 and July 5.       Hugh Murray

RT REPORT ON NAZI/CIA COLLABORATION AFTER WWII, TO SILENCE JACK RUBY iRE JFK) etc.

 About the time that Tulsi Gabbard resigned from her post in intelligence with the Trump Administration, National Public Radio (pol. normally left of center) ran a strange report that someone from the CIA had entered Gabbard's office and taken a JFK file, that had been on her desk, he took that file out of the building.  No other details.

The report below, from RT (Russian Television), though I use its website, mentions Jack Ruby, and how Intel leaders in the US sought to use psychological methods to prevent Jack Ruby from telling his story to the American people.  Will the US ever release all the pertinent info re who really killed JFK?----Hugh Murray

The article below comes from RT

CIA to release new files on Nazi-linked mind-control program – GOP Rep.

New details on the agency’s notorious MKUltra program have been revealed at a Congressional hearing

Published 1 Jul, 2026 19:45 | Updated 1 Jul, 2026 20:50

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The CIA is declassifying a new trove of documents relating to its ‘MKUltra’ program, Representative Anna Paulina Luna said on Tuesday. Nazi scientists were involved in the agency’s mind-control experiments.

Last month, Luna ordered CIA Director John Ratcliffe to preserve 40 boxes of “JFK files and MKUltra files” which it had taken from the offices of former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. After reported back-and-forth arguments between Ratcliffe and Gabbard over the files, the CIA has since agreed to declassify and release them, Luna revealed at a hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

“The documents – I feel comfortable enough to share here – pertain to a forgery program that was being housed under MKUltra,” Luna said. 

MKUltra was a program of illegal human experimentation run by the CIA and a web of collaborating medical facilities and universities between 1953 and 1973. Participants were dosed with psychoactive drugs and subjected to torture – including sleep deprivation and sexual abuse – as CIA scientists attempted to ‘break’ their minds so that they could be controlled.

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Then-CIA Director Richard Helms ordered MKUltra shut down and all related documents burned in 1973. However, one box of 20,000 files survived the fire and was discovered in 1977. Almost everything that is now known about MKUltra is based on this document cache. According to these files, MKultra snowballed into 149 subprojects, including experiments with remote-controlled dogs.

MKUltra was discussed by lawmakers during the 1975 Church Committee hearings, and drug testing on human subjects without informed consent was banned by President Gerald Ford the following year. However, neither Helms nor program director Sidney Gottlieb were ever prosecuted for their role in MKUltra.

The CIA has since acknowledged that most of its MKUltra experiments had little scientific rationale.

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According to Luna, these revelations were the tip of a sinister iceberg. Testifying at Tuesday’s hearing, investigative journalist Tom O’Neill told Luna that Jack Ruby – who murdered alleged JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald – was treated by psychiatrist Louis Jolyon West, who conducted experiments with LSD and hypnosis on behalf of the CIA and was a confidant of Gottlieb.

West, O’Neill alleged, was ordered by Helms and Gottlieb to declare Ruby insane “to keep Jack Ruby from telling his story.”

Charles Manson – whose followers murdered actress Sharon Tate in 1969 – also sought treatment from West before the murders. However, O’Neill said that he has “never been able to prove absolutely” that Gottlieb was responsible for altering Manson’s mental state.

Were Nazi scientists involved in MKUltra?

MKUltra was preceded by Project Artichoke, a similar program aimed at developing truth serums and altering human behavior with drugs, hypnosis, and chemical agents. The project was built on research carried out by Nazi scientists at Dachau concentration camp, and used North Korean prisoners of war, as well as US and Canadian citizens, as guinea pigs.

Some of these scientists, including Nazi biological warfare director Kurt Blome, were among the 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians given amnesty and taken to the US under ‘Operation Paperclip’. While it is already well known that Blome and other Nazi researchers worked on Project Artichoke and MKUltra, their collaboration was deeper than previously reported, researcher and journalist Dr. Stephen Kinzer told Luna at the hearing.

According to Kinzer, the CIA and a group of Nazi scientists operated a secret prison in the basement of a West German chalet, where human experiments were carried out “in continuation of the experiments the Nazis had been conducting just a few years earlier right down the road.”

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Tuesday’s hearing was the first Congressional session dedicated to MKUltra in 49 years, and according to Luna, is aimed at making the “complete and truthful record” of the program public. “The American people deserve the complete record,” she said. “The victims and their families deserve acknowledgment, accountability, and justice.”

It is unlikely that any officials will be prosecuted over their involvement in the program. Gottlieb died in 1999, Helms died in 2002, and it is unclear if any MKUltra scientists are still alive. 

However, Luna apparently has a secondary political goal: to use her witnesses to cast doubt over the official narratives surrounding the 2024 assassination attempt against President Donald Trump, and the successful assassination of Charlie Kirk last year. 

Asked whether the American public should believe that the CIA halted its mind control experiments when MKUltra shut down, O’Neill said that while he had no knowledge of either shooter being “programmed with radio waves or through their computer activity,” the CIA “developed means that we’ve never been told about many years ago, and I’d imagine they’ve evolved to be much more effective now.”

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