On December 8, 1980, former Beatle John Lennon was gunned down outside his home in New York. Mark David Chapman, arrested at the scene, was portrayed as a lone gunman. He said The Catcher in the Rye, a novel about youthful alienation by J. D. Salinger, was his statement. Or, at least, that's the official story. Chapman was in Beirut, Lebanon, when the CIA ran an assassination program there. It’s well-known the agency worked to create brainwashed assassins with its MKUltra program. Researchers believe Catcher in the Rye may have been the trigger used to set Chapman in motion. Sirhan Sirhan's trigger was the girl in a polka dot dress. Chapman worked with Vietnamese refugees at a resettlement camp at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas following his visit to Lebanon. The program was run by World Vision. World Vision collaborated on CIA black projects. John Lennon was considered a threat to the national security state. His leftist and antiwar political views influenced millions.The national security state wasn't about to let that happen again.
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Show Notes
Was John Lennon's murderer Mark Chapman a CIA hitman? Thirty years on, there's an extraordinary new theory
Mideast assassination plot a secret, until it's time to take credit
The Terrifying Background of the Man Who Ran a CIA Assassination Unit
The CIA tried mind control to create the perfect assassin
Convicted RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan says girl in polka-dot dress manipulated him
The woman in the polka-dot dress
In the Shadows a Killer Waited
Project Walrus and the Murder of John Lennon
John Lennon and the FBI