The Marquis & MK-ULTRA
The Marquis & MK-ULTRA 'The 120 Days of Sodom' & its Analogues to CIA Mind Control Allegations Commendable Commotion “The extensive wars that Louis XIV had to wage throughout the course of his reign, while exhausting the state’s finances and the people’s resources, nevertheless uncovered the secret to enriching an enormous number of those leeches always lying in wait for the public calamities they provoke rather than quell in order to profit from them all the more.” 1 So begins an unfinished manuscript by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, written while he was imprisoned in the Bastille in 1785. More commonly known by his noble title, the Marquis de Sade scribbled The 120 Days of Sodom on a makeshift scroll for several weeks before being transferred to a mental asylum. The text was eventually published in 1904, almost a century after Sade’s death. His manuscript still provokes debate regarding its literary merit (or lack thereof). Its first sentence above is ...