MONTHLY BRIEF Disney’s Dark Mirror: Is the Magic Kingdom an MKULTRA Lab? They say it’s the happiest place on Earth. A place of magic, innocence, imagination. But if you’ve ever had the sense that something darker flickers just beneath the surface of Disney’s meticulously polished fantasy world, you’re not alone. I remember the first time I truly saw it. Not the talking mice or the princesses or the shimmering castles, but the mask. The carefully constructed veneer designed to enchant the public and obscure something ancient, occult, and sinister.