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4.12 And When I Die, CIA, Conspiracies, MK-Ultra, Tara Thornton, Terry Bellefleur, True Blood character studies, True Blood scene interpretation
You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
Throughout season 4 of True Blood Terry Bellefleur dealt with a wife who thought their baby Mikey was possessed, a pair of down-home exorcists, a Creole ghost named Mavis who set fire to their house, said ghost possessing his co-worker Lafayette and abducting Mikey, a siege cum exorcism, and a drug-addicted cousin for whom he staged a Southern fried intervention.
A few darker things we suspected about Terry were brought to light, such as the fact that after he came home from Iraq he lived in a treehouse called ‘Fort Bellefleur’ like an ‘insane squirrel’, [that tree house is quite interesting in itself] and was addicted to ‘smack, meth, and crack’. Most intriguing in light of later events we learned that Terry is not just a crack shot but a world class sniper level shot.
Up until the unexpected arrival of Patrick, a Marine buddy whom Terry thought was dead, we were comfortable with Terry, secure in the knowledge that nothing could ever upset our view of him as the most heart-breakingly messed up but loveable character on True Blood.
“Scrambled. Scrambled Terry, scrambled”
Our love for Terry hasn’t changed but with the arrival of Patrick we’re beginning to perceive a new dimension, again possibly confirming something we suspected about him in the darkest corners of our minds but didn’t want to admit. While we saw Eric explicitly acting out the premise of a Manchurian Candidate in Burning Down the House, we got the barest hint of it when ‘Zombie Terry’ introduces Patrick to Arlene. Watch Terry zone out beginning at the 1:40 mark:
Another hint came when the veil lifted between the living and the dead and Ghost!Rene not only warned Arlene about ghosts from Terry’s past but explicitly associated his warning with the Tolerance Rally Manchurian Candidate by loudly urging her to ‘RUN!’
Then came the assassination of Tara. It happened so quickly we barely had time to register the impossibilities inherent in the shooting:
Let’s take a more focused look at that shot, shall we?:
The first thing you realize when viewing this .gif is that as evidenced by the direction of the blood spray the bullet exited the back of Tara’s head. When she pulled the trigger on her shotgun, Debbie was positioned behind Tara. It is impossible to shoot a person in the back of the head and have the bullet also exit the back of the head. In addition, shotgun ammunition consists of pellet filled shells that explode and disperse on contact. Tara should not even HAVE a face after a shotgun blast from that short range. On top of which she should have been thrown into the sink by the force and trajectory of the blast but instead she was spun around and FACED the irresistible force:
Ballistics aren’t a matter of faith but of physics. If someone tells you a person was shot from behind but you can SEE them reacting to a forceful impact from the front, you do not have to take it on faith that the someone is lying to you. The window glass raining inward is also a testament to the direction of the shot.
Tara was shot in precisely the same manner as Marnie. From the front with a high powered rifle:
Does this mean Terry was the mind-controlled assassin outside that window? Who else could it be? And mind controlled assassins need a trigger to galvanize them into action, and triggers are pulled by handlers. Patrick sure has suspicious timing.
Why was Debbie there? Because there must always be a Patsy on hand to take the blame for shooting the victim in the front from behind. Especially when the assassinations happen in a kitchen.
‘The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and MInd Control’ by John Marks. Link.*
*Edited 1/7/12
Thought provoking as always sunny.
I sooo don’t want Terry to be put through this.
It was also interesting that Rene gave Arlene the warning in a Cajun accent, when supposedly he wasn’t Cajun. But you are absolutely right when you pointed out that Terry zoned out after introducing his wife to Patrick.
The only question I have is; would the programming he [Terry] would have gone through still work effectively? It’s been quite a number of years. Do the trigger words still have the full effect?
Would Terry have had to have some sort of reinforcement to triggers over the years?
Paddling frantically down de Nile…..
Possibly Patrick is the assassin brought in to kill people and Terry is just having a ptsd moment when encountering Patrick again. Which will no doubt cause him to relive past assignments and doubt himself.
There was one other time that Terry had a strange reaction. He didn’t quite zone out in the same way, but he did react.
S1 at the DoGD meeting when Bill was speaking about the battlefield experiences Terry was visibly shaken and tense.
Thanks BG.
Would Terry have had to have some sort of reinforcement to triggers over the years?
Yes. The MA orgy/rituals could have masked [and probably did] all sorts of programming and programming reinforcement.
Possibly Patrick is the assassin brought in to kill people and Terry is just having a ptsd moment when encountering Patrick again.
But there is a good reason why Terry as opposed to Patrick would receive Delta [assassin] programming–he’s a good, no make that great, shot.
No doubt Sookie is/has been receiving Theta as well as Beta programming:
http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/operatio.htm#PROJECT%20MONARCH%20PROGRAMMING%20DEFINITIONS
I know, just wishful hoping on my part.
There is the statement that Patrick makes about Terry saving his life twice. It is reminiscent of the statements made by platoon members in the movie Manchurian Candidate that Raymond was the best, bravest blah blah……..
Patrick said Terry ‘Saved’ his life. Saved. Safe. Keep you safe. For your safety. Clearly Sookie’s programmer is connected with Terry’s.
Holy smoke….that “saved” is just before he zoned out.
Exactly, and it’s such a perfect word for TB to use as a trigger. How many people in our world today are reflexively willing to trade freedom for safety?
As always, Sunny, you have a great gift for tying the loose ends together. The only other time I remember someone yelling “Run” is Season 3 after the pack starts to shift at Debbie’s engagement party, Alcide yells “Run!” to Sookie.
Good point lucasa. In all three instances deaths seem imminent.
This is very off topic as I’ve not seen the films or read the book but I have read I Claudius and watched the TV series.
According to the Prof, the author of The Manchurian candidate plagiarised long passages from I Claudius and I agree with the blurb on the cover that calls it a “magnificent reconstruction of the grandeur, folly and vileness of Imperial Rome”.
Forgot to write the most important thing, it’s a great post, thank you!
Thanks anna!
According to the Prof,
When it comes to ANYTHING dealing with mind control, the Prof. is ruthlessly edited by individuals who seemingly have an agenda to debunk the whole notions of gov’t mind control programs..
Fortunately, we do not have to rely on Condon’s book for info on mind-controlled assassins. Much of what we know relies on the findings of several post-Watergate Intelligence investigations, most notably the Church Committee:
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=144938
anna, I don’t know why but I failed to make the distinction between Richard Condon’s novel ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ and John Mark’s non-fiction book ‘The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and MInd Control’. You can read it in full here:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm
John Marks’s outstanding book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate documents an important chapter in the history of psychoactive drugs in the twentieth century. Marks explores the CIA’s covert experiments in mind control technology, including their extensive research into LSD and other psychoactive drugs.
For readers unfamiliar with the events described in Marks’s book, its revelations may sound like the stuff of spy novels or conspiracy theory. Sadly, the facts are a matter of public record (see Senate Committee Joint Hearing proceedings at http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1950/mkultra/index.htm). The CIA formally began investigating mind control in 1950 with Project BLUEBIRD, which evolved into projects ARTICHOKE and MKULTRA. During these operations, CIA operatives routinely committed serious crimes including covertly administering LSD to thousands of unwitting civilians in New York City, San Francisco, and Marin County, California, in an eleven-year operation that began in 1953. MKULTRA is associated with numerous serious human rights violations and is known to be directly involved in at least one death.
Two senate investigations in 1974 and 1975 brought much of this disgraceful material to light, but the full revelation came later. Journalist John Marks filed a Freedom of Information Act suit against the CIA and received seven boxes of documents pertaining to MKULTRA. The destruction of these records had been ordered by CIA head Richard Helms and MKULTRA director Sidney Gottlieb in 1972, but they were spared through a clerical error. Marks reviewed the heavily-redacted material and supplemented his research with extensive interviews of numerous key figures. The results of his investigation are documented in this book.
CIA interest in mind control was based on their desire for three things: 1) a reliable “truth serum” for use in interrogation, 2) techniques for inducing amnesia, and 3) brainwashing techniques to force people to carry out complex instructions against their will. In pursuit of these goals, several avenues of mind control were pursued by the US military and intelligence during the Cold War. These included torture, blackmail, sleep deprivation, extreme heat and cold, electroshock treatment, and drug research.
http://www.erowid.org/library/review/review.php?p=227
“at least on death” refers to Frank Olson:
A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments
H.P. Albarelli, Jr. has written a fully detailed, compelling account of the murder of CIA-linked 1950s Army biochemist Frank Olson. The somewhat surprising death of an otherwise little-known Midwestern scientist would become for contemporary historians, journalists, and researchers — years after the event — a crucial nexus providing a gathering point for the multitudinous strands connecting a welter of secretive Cold War intelligence and military programs.
The Olson case burst upon the public’s consciousness in the mid-1970s, along with other revelations at the time concerning CIA and military domestic spying and medical experimentation upon unwitting victims, thanks in part to a landmark expose by then-New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh. Pursued by Olson’s family, attorneys, government commissions, newspaper reporters, and even some CIA agents, the truth behind Olson’s death after a hundred-foot fall from a Manhattan hotel window on November 28, 1953, has been obscured over the years by a combination of myth, government misdirection, amateurish or hack “research,” and, crucially, a lack of access to essential documentation. Now, after almost a decade of research, writer and researcher Albarelli has produced his magnum opus on Olson’s death, and it has been well worth the wait.
“A Terrible Mistake” is part history book, part biography, part memoir, and part mystery tale. In order to understand the story of Frank Olson’s life and death, and the cover-up surrounding that death, Mr. Albarelli must take the reader on a journey into the history of Cold War experimentation on mind and behavioral control, implemented by a welter of CIA and military programs whose names have passed into the iconic nomenclature regarding the underworld of American covert activities: Project Bluebird, Project MKULTRA, Project Artichoke, MKNAOMI, and others. In addition, because Olson was a government scientist with top secret clearance working on biological weaponry programs for the Special Operations Division at Fort Detrick, the book also offers a peek into this very little reported corner of U.S. history.
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Thread at RI:
Explosive New Book Exposes the CIA, LSD Experiments and Murder
Most Americans remember vague details of a person who had been given LSD and subsequently jumped out a window of a New York hotel back in the Fifties. They might also recall that it had something to do with the CIA. It certainly did. It was murder.
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?p=322239
French Government Queries U.S. State Dept. about LSD Attack, Prompted by New Book Release
Prompted by a new book release, the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research has received a confidential inquiry from the office of Erard Corbin de Mangoux, head of the French intelligence agency, Directorate General for External Security (DGSE), concerning a recent account of American government complicity in a mysterious 1951 incident of mass insanity in France. The DGSE is the French counterpart of the CIA.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/A_Terrible_Mistake/Albarelli/prweb3549024.htm
Thanks for all the links Sunny.
I mentioned the plagiarism because I Claudius is about ancient Rome and one of its themes is the conflict between liberty and stability and a lot of people end up getting assassinated by those who want power.
“The CIA bought my services from my grandfather in 1952 starting at the tender age of four,” wrote Carol Rutz of her experiences.
“Over the next 12 years, I was tested, trained, and used in various ways. Electroshock, drugs, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and other types of trauma were used to make me complain and split my personality (to create multiple personalities for specific tasks). Each alter or personality was created to respond to a post-hypnotic trigger, then perform an act and (I would) not remember it later.
“This Manchurian Candidate program was just one of the operational uses of the mind-control scenario by the CIA.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/agencys-strangeloves-altered-mind-of-a-girl-aged-4/story-e6frg6so-1111113841072
From this thread:
http://sunnynala.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/exposing-the-controllers/
Yep…Sunny. You nailed it. Thanks for posting that gif. I wasn’t able to see the magic bullet before.
It never ceases to amaze me how many references AB & Co can pack into this story.
Are we all liking season 4 a little better now?
I know I am.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned or asked about the significance of ‘like a duck in a noose’. Google it, is all I’m saying. Eye opening.
Aha. References to MkUltra and the Illuminati again.
Looking up Illuminati on the Prof I noticed this under ‘Symbols’
“The Illuminati only used one symbol for their “Secret School of Wisdom”, the owl of Minerva.”
A little bird…….
BG, ‘like a duck in a noose’ is suspected to be a trigger phrase used by the Montgomery County police chief in the DC Sniper case.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=27984
Yes, I read that part and then it led to other stuff, and I got all excited.
Sorry, I should have stuck to the “triggers”.
Does make you wonder though, how many more are out there waiting for triggers to do whatever they have been programmed for.
how many more are out there waiting for triggers to do whatever they have been programmed for.
Just off the top of my head I can think of several dozen words that seem to trigger millions into frothing madness–words like socialist, Muslim, Islam, liberal, taxes, gun control, abortion; haha, you get the picture.
****Originally posted by ‘Project Willow’ at RI:
Richard Condon’s impassioned forward to Operation Mind Control by Walter Bowart
From here: http://sites.google.com/site/mcrais/vomc
If Firefox balks, use Safari.
Sunny…so glad you posted the execution of Tara. A few weeks back I noticed the glass blowing the wrong way and asked you if I was nut?
True Blood has to be watched for the details…question everything. Glad I found your site or I would have given up on TB after season 4. Now my inquiring mind wants to know where Alan Ball is taking us…especially after season 4 seemed to be such a let down at face value with the characters.
Thanks Hootie. Glad I can contribute to your understanding!
“Glad I found your site or I would have given up on TB after season 4.”
It’s a fact–True Blood would be intolerable to me if I were only watching and listening to the surface narrative. The way it’s constructed it practically forces the viewer to ‘dig deeper, much much deeper’ or give up in massive frustration.
I don’t know how people who think this show is just a paranormal romance and nothing more can continue to hang in there. I know I wouldn’t.
After nearly 5 months of not being quite sure about the bullet theory, I finally see it!!! There are definitely two things going on in at once: Tara is definitely shot from outside and Debbie’s shot appears to have hit the cupboards. But the kitchen windows are still intact, apparently due to the narrative?
Debbie is shot from the front, and her brain matter is all over the cupboards, behind her. The same should have happened to Tara. Her brain matter should have been all over the kitchen sink and windows.
That whole spinning around Tara did was to symbolize the ‘spin’ of the narrative!
Tara is definitely shot from outside and Debbie’s shot appears to have hit the cupboards.
It was a deliberate crossfire. No way two shooters was a coincidence.
But the kitchen windows are still intact, apparently due to the narrative?
That’s the only explanation I have at the moment. We SAW the glass shatter inward. Either the windows or cupboards should be destroyed just from DEBBIE’S shot much less from the outside shooter but neither seems to be the case. However, I’m not sure we got a good look at the cupboards, so we’ll have to wait and see.
Wait, I take back about Debbie’s shot hitting the glass cupboards. It’s so weird, it looks like the gunshot is coming from the cupboard. Wow, now that my head is in a better place, I can’t wait to re-watch S4!
In the gif it looks like the outside shot is coming from the little side window. It CLEARLY shatters inward. However, it’s not in the correct position for the shot to Tara’s head that we saw. A shot coming from that window would have entered her left temple—which it appears there is an entrance wound in that location—but it would not have exited the back of her head as it did, it would have exited the opposite side of her head/temple.
“”A shot coming from that window would have entered her left temple—which it appears there is an entrance wound in that location—but it would not have exited the back of her head as it did, it would have exited the opposite side of her head/temple.”
That sure sounds like the Warren Commission magic bullet. 1 magic bullet that ricocheted all over the place.
The magic bullet supposedly: Entered the back of Kennedy’s neck, exited out the front of his throat [after traversing upward through his body for several inches] flew into the air in an UPWARD trajectory, having reversed itself inside K’s body for if Oswald was ABOVE him it must needs to start out in a DOWNWARD trajectory. THEN it reversed itself again whereupon it dive bombed Gov. Connelly entering into, then out of, his wrist after which it still had enough power to take a sharp turn and embed itself in his thigh where most of it remains to this day, only Connelly is dead and buried. We do know there is more bullet shrapnel in his thigh than is missing from the magic bullet.
I do hope Eric takes a GOOD look around that crime scene.
sunny – this is, in and of itself, IMO – a Magnum Opus! you should be referencing this more! especially now, with Terry (and Patrick) coming to the fore! this piece should be somewhere in a ‘True Blood Hall of Fame’…it really is outstanding and i believe some of your best work (that i have read thus far)
i think that what you’ve written here will surely prove useful in discerning and understanding with deeper clarity, Terry’s upcoming story-line.
After re-reading this, I’m now more concerned than ever about the fate of my much beloved Terry Bellefleur.
keep’em comin’ !
Thanks you so much, angie! If there’s one thing I know about, it’s assassinations. LOL.
Here’s a connection I cannot BELIEVE I failed to make. Upthread here, I provided a link and some excerpts about John Mark’s ‘The Search for the Manchurian Candidate’, in which Project Bluebird is mentioned:
IOW, Bluebird was the genesis of MKULTRA. Now, look at this:
http://sunnynala.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/teapot-lookey-is-gone.jpg
From this post:
http://sunnynala.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/where-are-my-lookeys-part-ii-sookies-little-teapot/
This has a parallel in Jason doing the limbo under a string of PAPERCLIPS.
OMG- PAPER CLIPS! and i’d read about that project, i dunno-maybe months ago…if i listen closely, i’m sure i can hear that clue go whizzing by me. *forehead slap*
Here ya go!
http://sunnynala.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/conspiracy-101-true-blood-is-connecting-the-paperclips/
sunny-i just got a flashback of Bill (as uncle bartlett) sitting in the chair in Sookie’s living room. i can hear uncle bartlett’s voice saying: ‘so smooth’…i think i just skeeved myself out! sookie’s programming has been YEARS in the making, IMO-and ALL these lookeys are lining up even more so for me now! once i get over the “ick factor” i’ll be able to thank you for that.
the MK Ultra symbolism on the show has been pretty out in the open from the beginning, IMO-but then again, i’m pretty comfortable in the knowledge of what to look for/what i’m looking at…so many in the audience are still – i dunno quite how to describe it- asleep? unaware? drinking the kool-aid? YKWIM?
this Opus that you’ve written is so very pertinent, not only to the show and how we view it – but also to ALL media we are subject to on a daily basis. you MUST reference this more! people need to be awake to really SEE this show!
sookie’s programming has been YEARS in the making
Yes, I’m afraid so. I believe, due to his later remorse, that Uncle Bartlett’s suppressed tendency to pedophilia was ‘exploited’ so to speak, in order to begin Sookie’s programming process with a severe shock to her system. Unfortunately this is not at all an unusual occurrence in real life. Generational pedophilia cults have been exploited by Intelligence Agencies for quite some time now, and the child victims of these cults, after meeting certain criteria for intelligence and ‘abilities’, are precisely the kind of children they TAKE–yes, TAKE—and mold into assassins and other kinds of mind controlled ‘operatives’.
This is exactly what Sookie is, an unwitting mind controlled operative. She’s unknowingly helped Bill kill his enemies and he used her as a honeypot and as a human/Fairy shield against Eric’s wrath. If not for her ‘condition’ Eric could have killed Bill ages ago.
watching the gif of Tara’s shooting again…I’ve found a clip on youtube of this scene. at the 41 second marker-glass is breaking inward into the kitchen from the cupboards, but no damage to Tara at that moment…odd, right. here’s the thing: if you are looking straight on at the cupboards-which are glass fronted…to the left of the cupboards is a small glass window with the shade pulled down half-way. Debbie shoots and hits the cupboards…Debbie MISSED Tara. Glass from the cupboards sprays into the kitchen at the 41sec as the shot is going off from the shotgun-LOOK TO THE LEFT AT THAT LITTLE WINDOW. This is the window through which Tara was shot. at the 42 sec mark, the small window is shattering, Tara’s head is hit by a bullet and she begins to spin – just AFTER the glass in the cupboards has ALREADY been shattered from the spray of the shotgun. by the 43 sec mark, the glass from the small window is no more.
the timing – the small window – in the dark: all of that adds up to a ‘crack shot’ . i’m now questioning if Tara was indeed the intended target.
here’s the vid link if you’re interested (don’t forget to adjust the quality to highest available): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMohA9EeyBQ