Len Wiseman Quotes
It's more going back into, I've always been really interested in the MKULTRA program and some of the programs and the fact that we really tried to create an actual, I guess you could call it an energy force of yourself. And you know, there were test subjects that were killed during the process. It have a huge ordeal, this huge congressional hearing that shut the whole thing down.
Weintraub, Steve. "Director Len Wiseman Talks TOTAL RECALL, UNDERWORLD, and SPY HUNTER." Collider, 7 Aug. 2012.
Central Intelligence Agency. The MKULTRA scandal involved testing LSD on unwitting American subjects. Under the influence of the powerful drug people did all kinds of unwholesome and illegal things with the CIA agents observing and in some cases participating. Several American citizens suffered permanent damage.
This covert project — PBSUCCESS — to destabilize Guatemala was exposed by the Guatemalan government. To minimize the embarrassment in the U. S., the PBSUCCESS CIA staff asked headquarters to fabricate sensational stories to keep newspapers and the fledgling TV news busy and distracted from covering the Guatemala story that the CIA was trying to destabilize the government in order to bring about regime change. The CIA was prohibited by law from doing this but the agency at that time ignored many laws. It is not known if the phony stories were actually planted at that time.
The Ayatollah reverses logic. Iranian feminists protest not because America tells them to but because Iran is terribly discriminatory and cruel to women. Students are dissatisfied because they have been trained as professionals and the government policies do not encourage the kind of economic growth that would be able to employ them.
The Athanasian Creed is a particular religious doctrine.
The British, despite Clinton’s correct perception of its importance, could not capture the “hearts and minds” of the American colonists. The importance of the quotation lies in the fact that it appears to be the first time the phrase was used in a political context. Click http://politicalquotes.org/search/node/Hearts%20and%20Minds to see other, later, political quotations that use the phrase. See especially {628753} which became one of the most famous quotations to come out of the Vietnam War.
Len Ryan Wiseman is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his work on the Underworld series, Live Free or Die Hard, and the 2012 film Total Recall. Wiseman runs the production company Sketch Films.
