Experiments: This literally went on for twenty years.

This actor was permanently A list.

For the last several decades of his career, he didn’t act much, but was still A list for everything else he did.

Back when the CIA first started their MK Ultra experiments, they got together with the actor because they wanted him to try some things.

Our actor spent much of his life entertaining military crowds.

This was his thing. The CIA and MI-6 wanted to see whether they could combine entertainment with mind control.

They brought in acts that specialized in hypnosis and then our actor would use key words during the show to try and reinforce what the hypnotist had said.

This literally went on for twenty years.

They would use the women in the show and have them meet with the soldiers in small groups of ten and see if they reacted to the code words.

This all seems like it didn’t work at all, but there is one woman who starred in the show for a couple of years and she said she was a victim of it all, so there must have been some successes for the government to keep doing it.

Bob Hope

USO involvement

While aboard the RMS Queen Mary when World War II began in September 1939, Hope volunteered to perform a special show for the passengers, during which he sang “Thanks for the Memory” with rewritten lyrics. He performed his first USO show on May 6, 1941, at March Field in California, and continued to travel and entertain troops for the rest of World War II, later during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the third phase of the Lebanon Civil War, the latter years of the Iran–Iraq War, and the 1990–91 Persian Gulf War. His USO career lasted a half-century during which he headlined 57 times.

He had a deep respect for the men and women who served in the military, and this was reflected in his willingness to go anywhere to entertain them.[50] However, during the highly controversial Vietnam War, Hope had trouble convincing some performers to join him on tour, but he was accompanied on at least one USO tour by Ann-Margret. Anti-war sentiment was high, and his pro-troop stance made him a target of criticism from some quarters. Some shows were drowned out by boos, others were listened to in silence.

The tours were funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, Hope’s television sponsors, and by NBC, the network that broadcast the television specials created after each tour from footage shot on location. However, the footage and shows were owned by Hope’s own production company, which made them very lucrative ventures for him, as outlined by writer Richard Zoglin in his 2014 biography “Hope: Entertainer of the Century”.

Hope sometimes recruited his own family members for USO travel. His wife, Dolores, sang from atop an armored vehicle during the Desert Storm tour, and granddaughter Miranda appeared alongside him on an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean.[50] Of Hope’s USO shows in World War II, novelist John Steinbeck, who then was working as a war correspondent, wrote in 1943:

When the time for recognition of service to the nation in wartime comes to be considered, Bob Hope should be high on the list. This man drives himself and is driven. It is impossible to see how he can do so much, can cover so much ground, can work so hard, and can be so effective. He works month after month at a pace that would kill most people. – Source