The Erdman Disclosures Cause an Uproar
On May 13th of this year, a man named James Erdman, who worked for the CIA, dropped some rather startling revelations in front of Senator Rand Paul’s Senate Homeland Security Committee. He first said that the CIA knew that the CV-19 pandemic was caused by a lab leak. Secondly, that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s cover-up of this fact was intentional. But then, third, and rather unexpectedly, Erdman said that the CIA had taken back 40 boxes of JFK and MK/Ultra files from the offices of Homeland Security Director Tulsi Gabbard. These files were undergoing review for declassification.
Upon hearing this, House representatives James Comer and Anna Luna sent what is called a preservation letter to CIA Director John Ratcliffe, requesting the return of the documents. Luna said the alleged act was in defiance of President Donald Trump’s executive order for the declassification of all JFK documents. Luna also said that she had planned on holding hearings with her sub-committee on Declassification of Federal Secrets about MK/Ultra experiments. Luna said on the News Nation network that the CIA had stated about MK/Ultra that, “…all documents were released and other documents had been destroyed, so these are allegedly those documents that apparently never existed, and so very troubling.” (Lesley Abravanel, AOL.com, 5/15/26)
She added that she had talked to Chairman James Comer, then called into the White House, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe himself. She added that, “…as this develops, we will keep everyone up to date, but strange times we’re living in, that’s for sure.” (ibid) She then stated that:
When Congress is notified of conflicting narratives from different agencies, i.e., the CIA and ODNI, it is our job to follow through to ensure documents are preserved and not destroyed. This is not an issue with Ratcliffe or Gabbard. For people to act like the CIA doesn’t have a history of destroying documents is BIZARO-WORLD[sic].” (Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 5/14/26)
Luna made the last comments in apparent reply to Olivia Coleman as DNI’s official spokesperson--who denied the specific accusation. She called the implication that there was some kind of raid by CIA on Gabbard’s office as being inaccurate.
In a further report by Katie Pavlich of News Nation, she stated that people from the CIA took documents related to the JFK murder from the National Reconnaissance Office months ago during the government shutdown. They have not been returned yet and are being withheld from ODNI. And because they are being withheld by the Agency, they cannot be declassified or scanned for public release. (Rachel Cohen, NJ.com, 5/14/26)
Whatever the true circumstances of this story, Luna should try to get to the bottom of it. A good person to talk to would be Mr. Erdman himself. Where and when did he get this information, and from whom? And just what documents was he talking about, what did they detail? Rand Paul should be questioned on whether or not his staff examined the information beforehand, prior to Erdman divulging it before Congress. If not, they should have because one cannot find two more controversial subjects to say such things about than the JFK murder and the MK/Ultra program. Especially since the latter figures in a major way to the Robert Kennedy assassination. As many writers on that subject have concluded, it appears that Sirhan Sirhan was under some kind of post-hypnotic suggestion the night he fired into the crowd at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Lisa Pease has written extensively on this subject, and in an upcoming article, will show how the CIA disguised its real knowledge about Sirhan and the RFK assassination, a cover-up that went up to the level of Richard Helms and his Director of Plans, Thomas Karamessines.
The Erdmann reveal caused some background information to be published in the MSM about the infamous MK/Ultra program run by the CIA, allegedly for about 20 years. For example, on May 15th, News Nation said the object of MK/Ultra was to find ways to extract secrets via drugs and hypnosis from an uncooperative source. They also disclosed that another purpose was to create a Manchurian Candidate, “…sleeper agents that could be triggered with a key phrase to supposedly carry out assassination missions.” What was left out was the fact that another object was to create a programmed patsy. Which, as one CIA psychologist told author John Marks, would take longer than a programmed assassin. And which is what Sirhan had all the indications of being.
We hope Luna clears up all of this conflicting dialectic about the Erdman testimony. We also hope she holds the MK/Ultra hearing and couples it with an RFK hearing--which she has not done yet. We would recommend Lisa Pease as a witness.
