CIA Drugs R Us! A Drugs As Weapons... Sequel
(Benjamin Crump, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Bill Burr, et al / DVD / PG-13 / 2024 / MVD Visual)
Overview: CIA Drugs R Us is a comic sequel to the film, Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA War on Musicians and Activists. The film continues focusing on U.S. intelligence’s use of drugs for social control and in the murderous targeting of activists.
DVD Verdict: This sequel particularly covers John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, and Tupac Shakur. The film further details the CIA’s Project MK-Ultra involvement with The Manson Family regarding activist actors and The Black Panthers. It also details examples regarding U.S. intelligence, drugs and the antiwar Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
The film then discusses the CIA’s MK-Ultra front group, The Human Ecology Fund, continuation, along with Maryland’s Catholic Church sex abuse scandal featured in the Emmy-nominated documentary series, The Keepers.
In what is a fundamentally engrossing documentary, whether it be for comical effect or not, ok, sure, it makes a lot of statements about many people, and we all know that there is simply no meaningful, reliable way to check their credibility, especially when there supposedly is such an interest to hide the truth, in general, but regardless, what we have here in the sequel is every bit as visually alluring as the original was.
Furthermore, documentaries like these are a great example of how conspiracy propaganda is made. This one seems to be well researched. But in its smoothness, as aforementioned, it lulls you into ignoring what should be obvious - proving the details and substantiating the linkages. Conspiracy theories always fail in this, as in the 911 conspiracies and such, but I digress.
That all said, it does (to the best of my limited understanding) have a lot of accurate information. Therefore, I think I can say that the premise of the documentary and what it proclaims is (mostly) true. I mean, I think we all know that the CIA was involved with drugs and celebrities, and that the CIA is involved in lots of things that people don’t know about, even today.
In closing, and as much as my only (personal) problem with this documentary was that the narrator is an Artificial Intelligence, like Siri, meaning super monotone, this sequel comes with 18+ minutes of bonus features!
CIA Drugs R Us! A Drugs As Weapons... Sequel [Official Trailer]
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