Crazy Rulers of the World

Jon Ronson2004

Crazy Rulers of the World is a series that investigates what happens when chiefs of the United States intelligence agencies and the army began believing in very strange things. With first-hand access to the leading characters in the story, filmmaker Jon Ronson examines the extraordinary and bizarre national secrets at the core of the war on terror.

Series

Part 1 — The Men Who Stare At Goats

Uncovers the army and intelligence services involvement with paranormal activities such as ‘mind reading,’ out of body experiences and ‘thought-death’ experiments carried out on goats at Fort Bragg.

Part 2 — Funny Torture

How New Age spirituality and the movement of the 1980s influenced interrogation and torture at Guantánamo Bay and in Iraq.

Part 3 — Psychic Footsoldiers

Final programme looks into the military’s involvement with “remote viewing” and “mind control” experiments, the history of such going back to secret programs CIA, such as MKULTRA.