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_The Controllers_ by Martin Cannon
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Substantial evidence exists linking members of this country's intelligence
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community (including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Advanvced
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Research Projects Agency, and the Office of Naval Intelligence) with the
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esoteric technology of MIND CONTROL. For decades, "spy-chiatrists" working
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behind the scenes -- on college campuses, in CIA-sponsored institutes, and
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(most heinously) in prisons -- have experimented with the erasure of memory,
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hypnotic resistance to torture, truth serums, post-hypnotic suggestion, rapid
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induction of hypnosis, electronic stimulation of the brain, non-ionizing
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radiation, microwave induction of intracerebral "voices," and a host of even
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more disturbing technologies. Some of the projects exploring these areas were
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ARTICHOKE, BLUEBIRD, PANDORA, MKDELTA, MKSEARCH and the infamous MKULTRA.
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I have read nearly every available book on these projects, as well as the
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relevant congressional testimony[5]. I have also spent much time in university
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libraries researching relevant articles, contacting other researchers (who have
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graciously allowed me access to their files), and conducting interviews.
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Moreover, I traveled to Washington, DC to review the files John Marks compiled
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when he wrote THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE"[6]. These files
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include some 20,000 pages of CIA and Defense Department documents, interviews,
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scientific articles, letters, etc. The views presented here are the result of
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extensive and ongoing research.
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As a result of this research, I have come to the following conclusions:
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1. Although misleading (and occasionally perjured) testimony before
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Congress indicated that the CIA's "brainwashing" efforts met with little
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success[7], striking advances were, in fact, made in this field. As CIA
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veteran Miles Copeland once admitted to a reporter, "The congressional
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subcommittee which went into this sort of thing got only the barest glimpse."
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[8]
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2. Clandestine research into thought manipulation has NOT stopped, despite
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CIA protestations that it no longer sponsors such studies. Victor Marchetti,
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14-year veteran of the CIA and author of the renown expose, THE CIA AND THE
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CULT OF INTELLIGENCE, confirmed in a 1977 interview that the mind control
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research continues, and that CIA claims to the contrary are a "cover story."[9]
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3. The Central Intelligence Agency was not the only government agency
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involved in this research[10]. Indeed, many branches of our government took
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part in these studies -- including NASA, the Atomic Energy Commission, as well
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as all branches of the Defense Department.
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II. The Technology
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A BRIEF OVERVIEW
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In the early days of World War II, George Estabrooks, of Colgate University,
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wrote to the Department of War, describing in breathless terms the possible
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uses of hypnosis in warfare[12]. The Army was intrigued; Estabrooks had a
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job. The true history of Estabrooks' wartime collaboration with the CID,
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FBI[13] and other agencies may never be told: After the war, he burned his
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diary pages covering the years 1940-45, and thereafter avoided discussing his
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continuing government work with anyone, even close members of the family[14].
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Occasionally, he strongly intimated that his work involved the creation of
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hypno-programmed couriers and hypnotically-induced split personalities, but
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whether he succeeded in these areas remains a controversial point. Neverthe-
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less, the eccentric and flamboyant Estabrooks remains a pivotal figure in the
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early history of clandestine behavioral research.
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Which is not to say that he worked alone. World War II was the first
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conflict in which the human brain became a field of battle, where invading
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forces were led by the most notable names in psychology and pharmacology. On
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both sides, the war spurred furious efforts to create a "truth drug" for use
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in interrogating prisoners. General William "Wild Bill" Donovan, director of
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the OSS, tasked his crack team -- including Dr. Winifred Overhulser, Dr.
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Edward Strecker, Harry J. Anslinger and George White -- to modify human
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perception and behavior through chemical means; their "medicine cabinet"
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included scopolamine, peyote, barbiturates, mescaline, and marijuana. (This
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research had its amusing side: Donovan's "psychic warriors" conducted many
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extensive and expensive trials before deciding that the best method of
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administering tetrahydrocannibinol, the active ingredient in marijuana, was
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via the cigarette. Any jazz musician could have told them as much[15].)
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Simultaneously, the notorious NAZI doctors at Dachau experimented with
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mescaline as a means of eliminating the victim's will to resist. Jews, slavs,
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gypsies, and other "Untermenschen" in the camp were surreptitiously slipped the
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drug; later, mescaline was combined with hypnosis[16]. The results of these
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tests were made available to the United States after the War. [cf. Operation
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PAPERCLIP, which transferred thousands of German and Japanese intelligence
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researchers directly into the U.S. intelligence community. "Our Germans are
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BETTER than their Germans!" - DR. STRANGELOVE -jpg]
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In 1947, the Navy conducted the first known post-war mind control program,
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Project CHAPTER, which continued the drug experiments. Decades later,
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journalists and investigators still haven't uncovered much information about
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this project -- or, indeed, about any of the military's other excursions into
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this field. We know that the Army eventually founded operations THIRD CHANCE
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and DERBY HAT; other project names remain mysterious, though the existence of
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these programs is unquestionable.
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The newly-formed CIA plunged into this cesspool in 1950, with Project
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BLUEBIRD, rechristened ARTICHOKE in 1951. To establish a "cover story" for
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this research, the CIA funded a propaganda effort designed to convince the
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world that the Communist Bloc had devised insidious new methods of re-shaping
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the human will; the CIA's own efforts could therefore, if exposed, be explained
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as an attempt to "catch up" with Soviet and Chinese work. The primary promoter
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of this "line" was one Edward Hunter, a CIA contract employee operating under-
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cover as a journalist, and, later, a prominent member of the John Birch
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society. (Hunter was an OSS veteran of the China theatre -- the same spawning
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grounds which produced Richard Helms, Howard Hunt, Mitch WerBell, Fred
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Chrisman, Paul Helliwell and a host of other noteworthies who came to
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dominate that strange land where the worlds of intelligence and right-wing
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extremism meet[17].) Hunter offered "brainwashing" as the explanation for the
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numerous confessions signed by American prisoners of war during the Korean War
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and (generally) UN-recanted upon the prisoners' repatriation. These confes-
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sions alleged that the United States used germ warfare in the Korean conflict,
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a claim which the American public of the time found impossible to accept. Many
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years later, however, investigative reporters discovered that Japan's germ
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warfare specialists (who had wreaked incalculable terror on the conquered
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Chinese during WWII) had been mustered into the American national security
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apparat -- and that the knowledge gleaned from Japan's horrifying germ
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warfare experiments probably WAS used in Korea, just as the "brainwashed"
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soldiers had indicated[18]. Thus, we now know that the entire brainwashing
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scare of the 1950s constituted a CIA hoax perpetrated upon the American
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public: CIA deputy director Richard Helms admitted as much when, in 1963,
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he told the Warren Commission that Soviet mind control research consistently
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lagged years behind American efforts[19].
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When the CIA's mind control program was transferred from the Office of
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Security to the Technical Services Staff (TSS) in 1953, the name changed
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again -- to MKULTRA[20]. Many consider this wide-ranging "octopus" project --
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whose tentacles twined through the corridors of numerous universities and
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around the necks of an army of scientists -- the most ominous operation in
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CIA's catalogue of atrocity. Through MKULTRA, the Agency created an umbrella
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program of a positively Joycean scope, designed to ferret out all possible
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means of invading what George Orwell once called "the space between our ears"
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(Later still, in 1962, mind control research was transferred to the Office
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of Research and Development; project cryptonyms remain unrevealed[21].)
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What was studied? Everything -- including hypnosis, conditioning, sensory
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deprivation, drugs, religious cults, microwaves, psychosurgery, brain implants,
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and even ESP. When MKULTRA "leaked" to the public during the great CIA
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investigations of the 1970s, public attention focused most heavily on drug
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experimentation and the work with ESP[22]. Mystery still shrouds another area
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of study, the area which seems to have most interested ORD: psychoelectronics.
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IMPLANTS
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... a device known as a "stimoceiver," invented in the late '50s-
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early '60s by a neuroscientist named Jose Delgado. The stimoceiver is a
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miniature depth electrode which can receive and transmit electronic signals
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over FM radio waves. By stimulating a correctly-positioned stimoceiver, an
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outside operator can wield a surprising degree of control over the subject's
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responses.
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The most famous example of the stimoceiver in action occurred in a Madrid
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bull ring. Delgado "wired" the bull before stepping into the ring, entirely
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unprotected. Furious for gore, the bull charged toward the doctor -- then
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stopped, just before reaching him. The technician-turned-toreador had halted
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the animal by simply pushing a button on a black box, held in the hand[24].
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Delgado's PHYSICAL CONTROL OF THE MIND: TOWARD A PSYCHOCIVILISED SOCIETY[25]
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remains the sole, full-length, popularly-written work on intracerebral implants
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and electronic stimulation of the brain (ESB). (The book's ominous title and
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unconvincing philosophical rationales for mass mind control prompted an
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unfavorable public reaction -- which may have deterred other researchers from
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publishing on this theme for a general audience.) While subsequent work has
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long since superceded the techniques described in this book, Delgado's
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achievements were seminal. His animal and human experiments clearly demon-
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strate that the experimenter can electronically induce emotions and behavior:
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Under certain conditions, the extremes of temperament -- rage, lust, fatigue,
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etc. -- can be elicited by an outside operator as easily as an organist might
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call forth a C-major chord.
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Delgado writes: "Radio stimulation of different points in the amygdala and
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hippocampus in the four patients produced a variety of effects, including
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pleasant sensations, elation, deep, thoughtful concentration, odd feelings,
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super relaxation, colored visions, and other responses."[26] The evocative
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phrase "colored vision" clearly indicates remotely-induced hallucination; we
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will detail later how these hallucinations may be "controlled" by an outside
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operator.
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Speaking in 1966 -- and reflecting research undertaken years previous --
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Delgado asserted that his experiments "support the distasteful conclusion that
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motion, emotion, and behavior can be directed by electrical forces and that
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humans can be controlled like robots by push buttons."[27] He even prophesied
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a day when brain control could be turned over to non-human operators, by
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establishing two-way radio communication between the implanted brain and a
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computer[28].
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Of one experimental subject, Delgado notes that "the patient expressed the
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successive sensations of fainting, fright and floating around. These
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'floating' feelings were repeatedly evoked on different days by stimulation
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of the same point..."[29]
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...
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In a fascinating series of experiments, Delgado attached the stimoceiver
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to the tympanic membrane, thereby transforming the ear into a sort of micro-
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phone. An assistant would whisper "How are you?" into the ear of a suitably
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"fixed" cat, and Delgado could hear the words over a loudspeaker in the next
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room. The application of this technology to the spy trade should be readily
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apparent. According to Victor Marchetti, The Agency once attempted a highly-
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sophisticated extension of this basic idea, in which radio implants were
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attached to a cat's cochlea, to facilitate the pinpointing of specific
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conversations, freed from extraneous surrounding noises[31]. Such "advances"
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exacerbate the already-imposing level of Twentieth-Century paranoia: Not only
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can our phones be tapped and mail checked, but even TABBY may be spying on us!
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Yet the ramifications of this technology may go even deeper than Marchetti
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indicates. I presume that if a suitably-wired subject's inner ear can be made
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into a microphone, it can also be made into a loudspeaker -- one possible
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explanation for ... "voices" ... . ... Indeed, not many years after Delgado's experiments with the cat,
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Ralph Schwitzgebel devised a "bug-in-the-ear" via which the therapist -- odd
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term, under the circumstances -- can communicate with his subject[33].
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Other researchers have made notable contributions to this field.
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Robert G. Heath, of Tulane University, who has implanted as many as 125
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electrodes in his subjects, achieved his greatest notoriety by attempting to
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"cure" homosexuality through ESB. In his experiments, he discovered that he
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could control his patients' memory ... ; he could also
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induce sexual arousal, fear, pleasure, and hallucinations[34].
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Heath and another researcher, James Olds[35], have independently illustrated
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that areas of the brain in and near the hypothalamus have, when electronically
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stimulated, what has been described as "rewarding" and "aversive" effects.
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Both animals and men, when given the means to induce their own ESB of the
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brain's pleasure centers, will stimulate themselves at a tremendous rate,
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ignoring such basic drives as hunger and thirst[36]. (Using fixed electrodes
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of his own invention, John C. Lilly had accomplished similar effects in the
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early 1950s[37].) ... B.F. Skinner-esque aversive therapy,
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remotely appiled, was Heath's prescription for "healing" homosexuality[38].
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Ralph Schwitzgebel and his brother Robert have produced a panoply of
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devices for tracking individuals over long ranges; they may be considered
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the creators of the "electronic house arrest" devices recently approved by
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the courts[39]. Schwitzgebel devices could be used for tracking all the
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physical and neurological signs of a "patient" within a quarter of a mile[40],
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thereby lifting the distance limitations which restricted Delgado.
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In Ralph Schwitzgebel's initial work, application of this technology to
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ESB seems to have been limited to cumbersome brain implants with protruding
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wires. But the technology was soon miniaturized, and a scheme was proposed
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whereby radio receivers would be mounted on utility poles throughout a
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given city, thereby providing 24-hour-a-day monitoring capability[41]. Like
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Heath, Schwitzgebel was much exercised about homosexuality and the use of
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intracranial devices to combat sexual deviation. But he has also spoken
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ominously about applying his devices to "socially troublesome persons"...
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which, of course, could mean anyone[42].
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Bryan Robinson, of the Yerkes primate laboratory has conducted fascinating
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simian research on the use of remote ESB in a social context. He could cause
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mothers to ignore their offspring, despite the babies' cries. He could turn
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submission into dominance, and vice-versa[43].
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Perhaps the most disturbing wanderer into this mind-field is Joseph A.
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Meyer, of the National Security Agency, the most formidable and secretive
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component of America's national security complex. Meyer has proposed implant-
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ing roughly half of all Americans arrested -- not necessarily convicted --
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of any crime; the numbers of "subscribers" (his euphemism) would run into the
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tens of millions. "Subscribers" could be monitored continually by computer
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wherever they went. Meyer, who has carefully worked out the economics of his
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mass-implantation system, asserts that taxpayer liability should be reduced
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by forcing subscribers to "rent" the implant from the State. Implants are
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cheaper and more efficient than police, Meyer suggests, since the call to crime
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is relentless for the poor "urban dweller" -- who, this spook-scientist admits
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in a surprisingly candid aside, is fundamentally unnecessary to a post-
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industrial economy. "Urban dweller" may be another of Meyer's euphemisms: He
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uses New York's Harlem as his model community in working out the details of his
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mind-management system[44].
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... a Florida doctor named Daniel Man ...
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recently proposed a draconian solution to the overblown "missing children
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problem," by suggesting a program wherein America's youngsters would be
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implanted with tiny transmitters in order to track the children continuously.
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Man brags that the operation can be done right in the office -- and would take
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less than 20 minutes[45].
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Conceivably, it might take a tad longer in the field.
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A QUESTION OF TIMING
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The history of brain implantation, as gleaned from the open literature, is
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certainly disquieting. Yet this history has almost certainly been censored,
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and the dates manipulated in a nigh-Orwellian fashion. When dealing with
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research funded by the engines of national security, one can never know the
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true origin date of any individual scientific advance. However, if we listen
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carefully to the scientists who have pioneered this research, we may hear
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whispers, faint but unmistakable, hinting that remotely-applied ESB originated
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earlier than published studies would indicate.
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In his autobiography THE SCIENTIST, John C. Lilly (who would later achieve
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a cultish reknown for his work with dolphins, drugs and sensory deprivation)
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records a conversation he had with the director of the National Institute
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of Mental Health -- in 1953. The director asked Lilly to brief the CIA, FBI,
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NSA and the various military intelligence services on his work using electrodes
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to stimulate directly the pleasure and pain centers of the brain. Lilly
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refused, noting, in his reply:
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Dr. Antoine Remond, using our techniques in Paris, has
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demonstrated that this method of stimulation of the brain
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can be applied to the human without the help of the neuro-
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surgeon; he is doing it in his office in Paris without neuro-
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surgical supervision. This means that anybody with the proper
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apparatus can carry this out on a person covertly, with no
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external signs that electrodes have been used on that person.
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I feel that if this technique got into the hands of a secret
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agency, they would have total control over a human being and
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be able to change his beliefs extremely quickly, leaving
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little evidence of what they had done[46].
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Lilly's assertion of the moral high ground here is interesting. Despite
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his avowed phobia against secrecy, a careful reading of THE SCIENTIST reveals
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that he continued to do work useful to this country's national security appar-
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atus. His sensory deprivation experiments expanded upon the work of ARTICHOKE's
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Maitland Baldwin, and even his dolphin research has -- perhaps inadvertently
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proved useful in naval warfare[47]. One should note that Lilly's work on
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monkeys carried a "secret" classification, and that NIMH was a common CIA
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funding conduit.
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But the most important aspect of Lilly's statement is its date. 1953?
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How far back does radio-controlled ESB go? Alas, I have not yet seen Remond's
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work -- if it is available in the open literature. In the documents made
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available to Marks, the earliest reference to remotely-applied ESB is a 1959
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financial document pertaining to MKULTRA subproject 94. The general subproject
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descriptions sent to the CIA's financial department rarely contain much
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information, and rarely change from year to year, leaving us little idea as to
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when this subproject began.
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Unfortunately, even the Freedom of Information Act couldn't pry loose much
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information on electronic mind control techniques, though we know a great deal
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of study was done in these areas. We have, for example, only four pages on
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subproject 94 -- by comparison, a veritable flood of documents were released on
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the use of drugs in mind control. (Whenever an author tells us that MKULTRA
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met with little success, the reference is to drug testing.) On this point, I
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must criticize John Marks: His book never mentions that roughly 20-25 percent
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of the subprojects are "dark" -- i.e., little or no information was ever made
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available, despite lawyers and FOIA requests. Marks seems to feel that the
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only information worth having is the information he received. We know,
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however, that research into psychoelectronics was extensive indeed, statements
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of project goals dating from ARTICHOKE and BLUEBIRD days clearly identify this
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area as a high priority. Marks' anonymous informant, jocularly named "Deep
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Trance," even told a previous interviewer that, beginning in 1963, CIA and the
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military's mind control efforts strongly emphasized electronics[49]. I
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therefore assume -- not rashly, I hope -- that the "dark" MKULTRA subprojects
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concerned matters such as brain implants, microwaves, ESB, and related
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technologies.
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I make an issue of the timing and secrecy involved in this research to
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underscore three points: 1. We can never know with certainty the true origin
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dates of the various brainwashing methods -- often, we discover that techniques
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which seem impossibly futuristic actually originated in the 19th century.
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(Pioneering ESB research was conducted in 1898, by J.R. Ewald,
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professor of physiology at Straussbourg[50].) 2. The open literature almost
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certainly gives a bowdlerized view of the actual research. 3. Lavishly-funded
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clandestine researchers -- unrestrained by peer review or the need for strict
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controls -- can achieve far more rapid progress than scientists "on the
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outside."
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We have amply demonstrated, then, that as far back as the 1960s -- and
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possibly earlier still -- scientists have had the capability to create implants ... . Indeed, we have no notion just how advanced this technology has become,
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since the popular press stopped reporting on brain implantation in the 1970s.
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The research has no doubt continued, albeit in a less public fashion.
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In fact, scientists such as Delgado have cast their eye far beyond the
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implants; ESB effects can now be elicited with microwaves and other forms
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of electromagnetic radiation, used with and without electrodes.
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REMOTE HYPNOSIS
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One thing we know with certainty:
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Since the earliest days of project BLUEBIRD, the CIA's spy-chiatrists spent
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enormous sums mastering Mesmer's art.
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I cannot here give even a brief summary of hypnosis, nor even of the CIA's
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studies in this area. (Fortunately, FOIA requests were rather more successful
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in shaking loose information on this topic than in the area of psycho-
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electronics.) Here, we will concentrate on a particularly intriguing
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allegation -- one heard faintly, but persistently, for the past twenty years
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by those who would investigate the shadow side of politics.
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If this allegation proves true, hypnosis is NOT necessarily a person-to-
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person affair.
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The ... mind control victim ... need not have physical
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contact with a hypnotist for hypnotic suggestion to take effect; trance could
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be induced, and suggestions made, via the intracerebral transmitters described
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above. The concept sounds like something out of Huxley's or Orwell's most
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masochistic fantasies. Yet remote hypnosis was first reported -- using
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allegedly parapsychological means -- in the early 1930s, by L.L. Vasilev,
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Professor of Physiology in the University of Leningrad[52]. Later, other
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scientists attempted to accomplish the same goal, using less mystic means.
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Over the years, certain journalists have asserted that the CIA has mastered
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a technology call RHIC-EDOM. RHIC means "Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral
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Control." EDOM stands for "Electronic Dissolution of Memory." Together, these
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techniques can -- allegedly -- remotely induce hypnotic trance, deliver
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suggestions to the subject, and erase all memory for both the instruction
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period and the act which the subject is asked to perform.
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RHIC uses the stimoceiver, or a microminiaturized offspring of that tech-
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nology to induce a hypnotic state. ... this technique is also
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reputed to involve the use of INTRAMUSCULAR implants... . Apparently,
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these implants are stimulated to induce a post-hypnotic suggestion.
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EDOM is nothing more than missing time itself -- the erasure of memory from
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consciousness through the blockage of synaptic transmission in certain areas of
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the brain. By jamming the brain's synapses through a surfeit of acetocholine,
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neural transmission along selected pathways can be effectively stilled.
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According to the proponents of RHIC-EDOM, acetocholine production can be
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affected by electromagnetic means. (Modern research in the psycho-physio-
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logical effects of microwaves confirm this proposition.)
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Does RHIC-EDOM exist? In our discussion of Delgado's work, I have already
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cited a strange little book (published in 1969) titled WERE WE CONTROLLED?,
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written by one Lincoln Lawrence, a former FBI agent turned journalist. (The
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name is a pseudonym; I know his real identity.) This work deals at length with
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RHIC-EDOM; a careful comparison of Lawrence's work with MKULTRA files declas-
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sified ten years later indicates a strong possibility that the writer did
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indeed have "inside" sources.
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Here is how Lawrence describes RHIC in action:
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It is the ultra-sophisticated application of post-hypnotic
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suggestion TRIGGERED AT WILL [italics in original] by radio
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transmission. It is a recurring hypnotic state, re-induced
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automatically at intervals by the same radio control. An
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individual is brought under hypnosis. This can be done either
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with his knowledge -- or WITHOUT it by use of narco-hypnosis,
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which can be brought into play under many guises. He is then
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programmed to perform certain actions and maintain certain
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attitudes upon radio signal[53].
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Other authors have mentioned this technique -- specifically Walter Bowart
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(in his book OPERATION MIND CONTROL) and journalist James Moore, who, in a
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1975 issue of a periodical called MODERN PEOPLE, claimed to have secured a
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350-page manual, prepared in 1963, on RHIC-EDOM[54]. He received the manual
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from CIA sources, although -- interestingly -- the technique is said to have
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originated in the military.
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Medically, these radio signals are directed to certain
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parts of the brain. When a part of your brain receives a
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tiny electrical impulse from outside sources, such as vision,
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hearing, etc.,an emotion is produced -- anger at the sight of
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a gang of boys beating an old woman, for example. The same
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emotion of anger can be created by artificial radio signals
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sent to your brain by a controller. You could instantly feel
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the same white-hot anger without any apparent reason[55].
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Lawrence's sources imparted an even more tantalizing -- and frightening --
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revelation:
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...there is already in use a small EDOM generator-transmitter
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which can be concealed on the body of a person. Contact with
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this person -- a casual handshake or even just a touch --
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transmits a tiny electronic charge plus an ultra-sonic signal
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tone which for a short while will disturb the time orientation
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of the person affected[56].
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At present, I cannot claim conclusively that RHIC-EDOM is real. To my
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|
knowledge, the only official questioning of a CIA representive concerning
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these techniques occurred in 1977, during Senate hearings on CIA drug testing.
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Senator Richard Schweicker had the following interchange with Dr. Sidney
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|
Gottlieb, an important MKULTRA administrator:
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SCHWEICKER: Some of the projects under MKULTRA involved
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hypnosis, is that correct?
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GOTTLIEB: Yes.
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SCHWEICKER: Did any of these projects involve something
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called radio hypnotic intracerebral control, which is a
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combination, as I understand it, in layman's terms, of radio
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transmissions and hypnosis.
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GOTTLIEB: My answer is "No."
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SCHWEICKER: None whatsoever?
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GOTTLIEB: Well, I am trying to be responsive to the
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terms you used. As I remember it, there was a current
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|
interest, running interest, all the time in what effects
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people's standing in the field of radio energy have, and
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|
it could easily have been that somewhere in many projects,
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|
someone was trying to see if you could hypnotize someone
|
|
easier if he was standing in a radio beam. That would
|
|
seem like a reasonable piece of research to do.
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Schweicker went on to mention that he had heard testimony that radar (i.e.,
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microwaves) had been used to wipe out memory in animals; Gottlieb responded,
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"I can believe that, Senator."[57]
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Gottlieb's blandishments do not comfort much. For one thing, the good
|
|
doctor did not always provide thoroughly candid testimony. (During the same
|
|
hearing he averred that 99 percent on the CIA's research had been openly
|
|
published; if so, why are so many MKULTRA subprojects still "dark," and why
|
|
does the Agency still go to great lengths to protect the identities of its
|
|
scientists?[58]) We should also recognize that the CIA's operations are
|
|
compartmentalized on a "need-to-know" basis; Gottlieb may not have had access
|
|
to the information requested by Schweicker. Note that the MKULTRA rubric
|
|
circumscribed Gottlieb's statement: RHIC-EDOM might have been the focus of
|
|
another program. (There were several others: MKNAOMI, MKACTION, MKSEARCH,
|
|
etc.) Also keep in mind the revelation by "Deep Trance" that the CIA
|
|
concentrated on psychoelectronics AFTER the termination of MKULTRA in 1963.
|
|
Most significantly: RHIC-EDOM is described by both Lawrence and Moore as a
|
|
product of MILITARY research; Gottlieb spoke only of matters pertaining to CIA.
|
|
He may thus have spoken truthfully -- at least in a strictly technical sense --
|
|
while still misleading the Congressional interlocutors.
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|
Personally, I believe that the RHIC-EDOM story deserves a great deal of
|
|
further research. I find it significant that when Dr. Petter Lindstrom
|
|
examined X-rays of Robert Naesland, a Swedish victim of brain-implantation, the
|
|
doctor authoritatively cited WERE WE CONTROLLED? in his letter of response[59].
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|
This is the same Dr. Lindstrom noted for his pioneering use of ultrasonics in
|
|
neurosurgery[60]. Lincoln Lawrence's book has received a strong endorsement
|
|
indeed.
|
|
Bowart's OPERATION MIND CONTROL contains a significant interview with an
|
|
intelligence agent knowledgeable in these areas. Granted, the reader has every
|
|
right to adopt a skeptical attitude toward information culled from anonymous
|
|
sources; still, one should note that this operative's statements confirm, in
|
|
pertinent part, Lawrence's thesis[61].
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|
Most importantly: The open literature on brain-wave entrainment and the
|
|
behavioral effects of electromagnetic radiation substantiates much of the RHIC-
|
|
EDOM story -- as we shall see.
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|
THAT'S ENTRAINMENT
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|
|
|
Robert Anton Wilson, an author with a devoted cult following, recently has
|
|
taken to promoting a new generation of "mind machines" designed to promote
|
|
creativity, stimulate learning, and alter consciousness -- i.e., provide a
|
|
drug-less high. Interestingly, these machines can also induce "Out-of-Body-
|
|
Experiences," in which the percipient mentally "travels" to another location
|
|
while his body remains at rest[62]. This rapidly-developing technology has
|
|
spawned a technological equivalent to the drug culture; indeed, the aficionados
|
|
of the electronic buzz even have their own magazine, REALITY HACKERS. [Now
|
|
defunct. -jpg] I strongly suspect that we will hear much of these machines in
|
|
the future.
|
|
One such device is called the "hemi-synch." This headphone-like invention
|
|
produces slightly different frequences in each ear; the brain calculates the
|
|
difference between these frequencies, resulting in a rhythm known as the
|
|
"binaural beat." The brain "entrains" itself to this beat -- that is, the
|
|
subject's EEG slows down or speeds up to keep pace with its electronic
|
|
running partner[63].
|
|
The brain has a "beat" of its own.
|
|
This rhythm was first discovered in 1924 by the German psychiatrist Hans
|
|
Berger, who recorded cerebral voltages as part of a telepathy study[64]. He
|
|
noted two distinct frequencies: alpha (8-13 cycles per second), associated
|
|
with a relaxed, alert state, and beta (14-30 cycles per second), produced
|
|
during states of agitation and intense mental concentration. Later, other
|
|
rhythms were noted, which are particularly important for our present purposes:
|
|
theta (4-7 cycles per second), a hypnogogic state, and delta (.5 to 3.5 cycles
|
|
per second), generally found in sleeping subjects[65].
|
|
The hemi-synch -- and related mind-machines -- can produce alpha or theta
|
|
waves, on demand, according to the operator's wishes. A suitably-entrained
|
|
brain is much more responsive to suggestion, and is even likely to experience
|
|
vivid hallucinations.
|
|
|
|
...
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|
|
|
There's more than one way to entrain a brain. Michael Hutchison's excellent
|
|
book MEGA BRAIN details the author's personal experiences with many such
|
|
devices -- the Alpha-stim, TENS, the Synchro-energizer, Tranquilite, etc. He
|
|
recounts dazzling, Dali-esque hallucinations, as a result of using this mind-
|
|
expanding technology; moreover, he offers a seductive argument that these
|
|
devices may represent a true breakthrough in consciousness-control, thereby
|
|
fulfilling the dashed dream of the hallucinogenic '60s.
|
|
I wish to avoid a knee-jerk Luddite response to these fascinating wonder-
|
|
boxes. At the same time, I recognize the dangers involved. What about the
|
|
possibility of an outside operator literally "changing our minds" by altering
|
|
our brainwaves without our knowledge or permission? If these machines can
|
|
induce a hypnotic state, what's to stop a skilled hypnotist from making use
|
|
of this state?
|
|
Granted, most of these devices require some physical interaction with the
|
|
subject. But a tool called the Bio-Pacer can, according to its manufacturer,
|
|
produce a number of mood altering frequencies -- WITHOUT attachment to the
|
|
subject. Indeed, the Bio-Pacer III (a high-powered version) can affect an
|
|
entire room. This device costs $275, according to the most recent price
|
|
sheet available[66]. What sort of machine might $27,500 buy? Or $275,000?
|
|
What effects, what ranges might a million-dollar machine be capable of?
|
|
The military certainly has that sort of money.
|
|
And they're certainly interested in this sort of technology, according to
|
|
Michael Hutchison. His interview with an informant named Joseph Light elicited
|
|
some particularly provocative revelations. According to Light:
|
|
|
|
There are important elements in the scientific community,
|
|
powerful people, who are very much interested in these areas...
|
|
but they have to keep most of their work secret. Because as
|
|
soon as they start to publish some of these sensitive things,
|
|
they have problems in their lives. You see, they work on
|
|
research grants, and if you follow the research being done,
|
|
you find that as soon as these scientists publish something
|
|
about this, their research funds are cut off. There are areas
|
|
in bioelectric research where very simple techniques and
|
|
devices can have mind-boggling effects. Conceivably, if you
|
|
have a crazed person with a bit of a technical background, he
|
|
can do a lot of damage[67].
|
|
|
|
This last statement is particularly evocative. In 1984, a violent neo-NAZI
|
|
group called The Order (responsible for the murder of talk-show host Alan Berg)
|
|
established contact with two government scientists engaged in clandestine
|
|
research to project chemical imbalances and render targeted individuals docile
|
|
via certain frequencies of electronic waves. For $100,000 the scientists were
|
|
willing to deliver this information[68].
|
|
Thus, at least one group of crazed individuals almost got the goods.
|
|
|
|
|
|
WAVE YOUR BRAIN GOODBYE
|
|
|
|
Every Senator and Congressional representative has a "wavie" file. So do
|
|
many state representatives. Wavies have even pled their case to private
|
|
institutions such as the Christic Institute[69].
|
|
And who are the wavies?
|
|
They claim to be victims of clandestine bombardment with non-ionizing
|
|
radiation -- or microwaves. They report sudden changes in psychological
|
|
states, alteration of sleep patterns, intracerebral voices and other sounds,
|
|
and physiological effects. Most people never realize how many wavies there are
|
|
in this country. I've spoken to a number of wavies myself.
|
|
Are these troubled individuals seeking an exterior rationale for their
|
|
mental problems? Maybe. Indeed, I'm sure that such is the case in many
|
|
instances. But the fact is that the literature on the behavioral effects of
|
|
microwaves, extra-low-frequencies (ELF) and ultra-sonics is such that we
|
|
cannot blithely dismiss ALL such claims.
|
|
For decades, American science and industry tried to convince the population
|
|
that microwaves could have no adverse effects on human beings at sub-thermal
|
|
levels -- in other words, the attitude was, "If it can't burn you, it can't
|
|
hurt you." This approach became increasingly difficult to defend as reports
|
|
mounted of microwave-induced physiological effects. Technicians described
|
|
"hearing" certain radar installations; users of radar telescopes began
|
|
developing cataracts at an appallingly high rate[70]. The Soviets had long
|
|
recognized the strange and sometimes subtle effects of these radio frequencies,
|
|
which is why their exposure standards have always been much stricter.
|
|
Soviet microwave bombardment of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow prompted the
|
|
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Project PANDORA (later renamed),
|
|
whose ostensible goal was to determine whether these pulsations (reportedly
|
|
10 cycles per second, which puts them in the alpha range) could be used for the
|
|
purposes of mind control. I suspect that the "war on Tchaikowsky Street," as
|
|
I call it[71], was used, at least in part, as a cover story for DARPA mind
|
|
control research, and that the stories floated in the news (via, for example,
|
|
Jack Anderson's column) about Soviet remote brainwashing served the same
|
|
propaganda purposes as did the bleatings of Edward Hunter during the 1950s.[72]
|
|
What can low-level microwaves do to the mind?
|
|
According to a DIA report released under the Freedom of Information Act[73],
|
|
microwaves can induce metabolic changes, alter brain functions, and disrupt
|
|
behavior patterns. PANDORA discovered that pulsed microwaves can create leaks
|
|
in the blood/brain barrier, induce heart seizures, and create behavioral
|
|
disorganization[74]. In 1970, a RAND Corporation scientist reported that
|
|
microwaves could be used to promote insomnia, fatigue, irritability, memory
|
|
loss, and hallucinations[75].
|
|
Perhaps the most significant work in this area has been produced by Dr. W.
|
|
Ross Adey at the University of Southern California. He determined that
|
|
behavior and emotional states can be altered without electrodes -- simply by
|
|
placing the subject in an electromagnetic field. By directing a carrier
|
|
frequency to stimulate the brain and using amplitude modulation to "shape" the
|
|
wave into a mimicry of a desired EEG frequency, he was able to impose a 4.5
|
|
cps theta rhythm on his subjects -- a frequency which he previously measured
|
|
in the hippocampus during avoidance learning. Thus, he could externally
|
|
condition the mind towards an aversive reaction[76]. (Adey has also done
|
|
extensive work on the use of electrodes in animals[77].) According to another
|
|
prominent microwave scientist, Allen Frey, other frequencies could -- in
|
|
animal studies -- induce docility[78]. [cf USP #3,884,218 by Robert
|
|
Monroe, METHOD OF INDUCING AND MAINTAINING VARIOUS STAGES OF SLEEP IN THE
|
|
HUMAN BEING, granted 20 May 1975; ABSTRACT: A method of inducing sleep in the
|
|
human being wherein an audio signal is generated comprising a familiar pleasing
|
|
repetitive sound modulated by an EEG sleep pattern. -jpg]
|
|
The controversial researcher Andrijah Puharich asserts that "a weak (1 mW)
|
|
4 Hz magnetic sine wave will modify human brain waves in 6 to 10 seconds. The
|
|
psychological effects of a 4 Hz sine magnetic wave are negative -- causing
|
|
dizzyness, nausea, headache, and can lead to vomiting." Conversely, an 8 Hz
|
|
magnetic sine wave has beneficial effects[79]. Though some writers question
|
|
Puharich's integrity (perhaps correctly, considering his involvement in the
|
|
confused tale of Uri Geller), his claims here seem in line with the findings of
|
|
less-flamboyant experimenters.
|
|
As investigative journalist Anne Keeler writes:
|
|
|
|
Specific frequencies at low intensities can predictably
|
|
influence sensory processes...pleasantness-unpleasantness,
|
|
strain-relaxation, and excitement-quiescence can be created
|
|
with the fields. Negative feelings and avoidance are strong
|
|
biological phenomena and relate to survival. Feelings are
|
|
the true basis of much "decision-making" and often occur as
|
|
subthreshold [i.e. subliminal -jpg] impressions...Ideas
|
|
INCLUDING NAMES [my italics] [Cannon's italics -jpg] can be
|
|
synchronized with the feelings that the fields induce[80].
|
|
|
|
Adey and compatriots have compiled an entire library of frequencies and
|
|
pulsation rates which can affect the mind and nervous system. Some of these
|
|
effects can be extremely bizarre. For example, engineer Tom Jarski, in an
|
|
attempt to replicate the seminal work of F. Cazzamali, found that a particular
|
|
frequency caused a ringing sensation in the ears of his subjects -- who felt
|
|
strangely compelled to BITE the experimenters![81]. On the other hand, the
|
|
diet-conscious may be intrigued by the finding that rats exposed to ELF waves
|
|
failed to gain weight normally[82].
|
|
For our present purposes, the most significant electromagnetic research
|
|
findings concern microwave signals modulated by hypnoidal EEG frequencies.
|
|
Microwaves can act much like the "hemi-synch" device previously described --
|
|
that is, they can entrain the brain to theta rhythms[83]. I need not emphasize
|
|
the implications of remotely synchronizing the brain to resonate at a frequency
|
|
conducive to sleep, or to hypnosis.
|
|
Trance may be remotely induced -- but can it be directed? Yes. Recall the
|
|
intracerebral voices mentioned earlier in our discussion of Delgado. The same
|
|
effect can be produced by "the wave." Frey demonstrated in the early 1960s
|
|
that microwaves could produce booming, hissing, buzzing, and other intra-
|
|
cerebral static (this phenomenon is now called "the Frey effect"); in 1973,
|
|
Dr. Joseph Sharp, of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, expanded on
|
|
Frey's work in an experiment where the subject -- in this case, Sharp himself--
|
|
"heard" and understood spoken words delivered via a pulsed-microwave analog of
|
|
the speaker's sound vibrations[84].
|
|
Dr. Robert Becker comments that "Such a device has obvious applications in
|
|
covert operations designed to drive a target crazy with 'voices' or deliver
|
|
undetectable instructions to a programmed assassin."[85] In other words, we
|
|
now have, AT THE PUSH OF A BUTTON, the technology either to inflict an
|
|
electronic GASLIGHT -- or to create a true MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. Indeed, the
|
|
former capability could effectively disguise the latter. Who will listen to
|
|
the victims, when electronically-induced hallucinations they recount exactly
|
|
parallel the classical signals of paranoid schizophrenia and/or temporal lobe
|
|
epilepsy?
|
|
Perhaps the most ominous revelations, however, concern the mysterious work
|
|
of J.F. Schapitz, who in 1974 filed a plan to explore the interaction of
|
|
radio frequencies and hypnosis. He proposed the following:
|
|
|
|
In this investigation it will be shown that the spoken
|
|
word of the hypnotist may be conveyed by modulated electro-
|
|
magnetic energy DIRECTLY INTO THE SUBCONSCIOUS PARTS OF THE
|
|
HUMAN BRAIN [my italics] -- i.e., without employing any
|
|
technical devices for receiving or transcoding the messages
|
|
and without the person exposed to such influence having a
|
|
chance to control the information input consciously.
|
|
|
|
He outlined an experiment, innocent in its immediate effects yet chilling
|
|
in its implications, whereby subjects would be implanted with the subconscious
|
|
suggestion to leave the lab and buy a particular item; this action would be
|
|
triggered by a certain cue word or action. Schapitz felt certain that the
|
|
subjects would rationalize the behavior -- in other words, the subject would
|
|
seize upon any excuse, however thin, to chalk up his actions to the working of
|
|
free will[86]. His instincts on this latter point coalesce perfectly with
|
|
findings of professional hypnotists[87].
|
|
Schapitz's work was funded by the Department of Defense. Despite FOIA
|
|
requests, the results have never been publicly revealed[88].
|
|
|
|
|
|
FINAL THOUGHTS ON "THE WAVE"
|
|
|
|
I must again offer a caveat about possible disparities between the
|
|
"official" record of electromagnetism's psychological effects and the hidden
|
|
history. Once more, we face a question of timing. How long ago did this
|
|
research REALLY begin?
|
|
In the eary years of this century, Nikola Tesla seems to have stumbled
|
|
upon certain of the behavioral effects of electromagnetic exposure[89].
|
|
Cazamalli, mentioned earlier, conducted his studies in the 1930s. In 1934,
|
|
E.L. Chaffe and R.U. Light published a paper on "A Method for the Remote
|
|
Control of Electrical Stimulation of the Nervous System."[90] From the very
|
|
beginning of their work with microwaves, the Soviets explored the more subtle
|
|
physiological effects of electromagnetism -- and despite the bleatings of
|
|
certain right-wing alarmists[91] that an "electromagnetic gap" separates us
|
|
from Soviet advances, East European literature in this area has been closely
|
|
monitored for decades by the West. ARTICHOKE/BLUEBIRD project outlines,
|
|
dating from the early 1950s, prominently mention the need to explore all
|
|
possible uses of the electromagnetic spectrum.
|
|
Another point worth mentioning concerns the combination of EMR and miniature
|
|
brain electrodes. The father of the stimoceiver, Dr. J.M.R. Delgado, has
|
|
recently conducted experiments in which monkeys are exposed to electromagnetic
|
|
fields, thereby eliciting a wide range of behavioral effects -- one monkey
|
|
might fly into a volcanic rage while, just a few feet away, his simian partner
|
|
begins to nod off. Fascinatingly, when monkeys with brain implants felt "the
|
|
wave," the effects were greatly intensified. Apparently, these tiny electrodes
|
|
can act as AMPLIFIERS of the electromagnetic effect[92].
|
|
... Critics
|
|
might counter that any burst of microwave energy powerful enough to have truly
|
|
remote effects would probably also create a thermal reaction. That is, if a
|
|
clandestine operator propagated a "wave" ... from a low-flying helicopter, or from a truck travelling alongside the
|
|
subject's car ... the power necessary to do the job might be such that the
|
|
microwave would cook the target before it got a chance to launder his thoughts.
|
|
...
|
|
It's a fair criticism. But Delgado's work may give us our solution.
|
|
... the chip-in-the-brain would act an an intensifier of the signal.
|
|
Furthermore, recent reports indicate that a "waver" can achieve pinpoint
|
|
accuracy without the use of Delgado-style implants. In 1985, volunteers at the
|
|
Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, were exposed to microwave
|
|
beams as part of an experiment sponsored by the Department of Energy and the
|
|
New York State Department of Health. As THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC[93] described the
|
|
experiment, "A matched control group sat IN THE SAME ROOM without being
|
|
bombarded by non-ionizing radiation." [My italics.] Apparently, one can focus
|
|
"the wave" quite narrowly ... .
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
III. Applications
|
|
|
|
So we now have some idea of the tools available to the "spy-chiatrists."
|
|
How have these tools been used?
|
|
This question necessarily involves some detective work. The Central
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Intelligence Agency, under duress, provided some, though not enough, documen-
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tation of its efforts to commandeer "the space between our ears." We know that
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these efforts were extensive, long-term, and at least partially successful. We
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know also that these experiments used human subjects. But who? When?
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One paradox of this line of inquiry is that, for many readers, the victims
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elicit sympathy only insofar as they remain anonymous. Intellectually, we
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realize that MKULTRA and its allied projects must have affected hundreds,
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probably thousands, of individuals. Yet we react with deep suspicion
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whenever one of these individuals steps forward and identifies himself, or
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whenever an independent investigator argues that mind control has directed some
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newsworthy person's otherwise inexplicable actions. Where, the skeptic may
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rightfully ask, is the documentation supporting such accusations? Most of the
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MKULTRA "paper trail" was (allegedly) burnt at Richard Helms' order; what's
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left has been censored, leaving black ink smudges wherever the names originally
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appeared. Claimed mind control victims can, for the most part, only give us
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testimony -- and how reliable can such testimony be, especially in light of the
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fact that one purpose of MKULTRA was to induce insanity? Anyone asserting that
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he was victimized by the program might well be seeking an extrinsic excuse for
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his own psychopathology. If you say that you are a manufactured madman, you
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were probably mad to begin with: Catch 22.
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When John Marks wrote THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE" he received
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numerous letters from people insisting that they had been drugged, "waved," or
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otherwise abused by the CIA or the military. Most of these communications went
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directly into his crank file. Perhaps many deserved that destination; I know
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of at least one that did not[94].
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Marks did, however, devote much attention to Val Orlikov, a former "patient"
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of perhaps the most notorious figure in the annals of American medical crime:
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Dr. Ewen Cameron, a CIA-funded scientist heading the Allan Memorial
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Institute at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Cameron, a highly-respected
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mental health researcher[95], experimented with a technique he called "psychic
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driving," a brainwashing program which involved inflicting upon a subject an
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endless tape loop blaring selected messages, 16-to-24 hours a day, combined
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with massive electroshock and LSD. The project's "guinea pigs" were patients
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who had come to Allan Memorial with relatively minor psychological complaints.
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Cameron's experiments failed and his theories were discredited, which may
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explain why the CIA and its apologists now feel relatively comfortable
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discussing the Frankensteinian efforts at Allan Memorial, as opposed to more
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successful work elsewhere.
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Orlikov's testimony has received much respectful attention from those
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writers who have examined MKULTRA, and correctly so. When I studied the files
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at the National Security Archives, I was particularly keen to read her original
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letters to John Marks, for these pages had led to the unmasking of an
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especially heinous CIA project. The letters, interestingly enough, proved just
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as vague, disjointed, and bizarre as similar correspondence which researchers
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routinely dismiss. Orlikov can't be blamed for the hazy nature of her
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recollections; a certain amount of fog is to be expected, given the nature of
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the crime perpetrated against her. The important point is that her story,
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ultimately, was found to be true. All of which leads me to wonder: Why did
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HER claims prompt investigation when those of others prompt only dismissal?
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Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that Orlikov's husband became a Canadian
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Member of Parliament. Any victims of CIA experimentation who wish to be taken
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seriously ought, perhaps, first make sure to marry well.
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Of course, we can easily forgive previous writers and readers whose
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researches into MKULTRA have been biased in favor of complacency[96]. But we
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can't let this natural prejudice cripple our present investigation. Let us
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examine, then, a few of the "horror stories" from the mind control literature ... .
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PALLE HARDRUP'S "GUARDIAN ANGEL"
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As mentioned previously, I have not delved much into the subject of hypnosis
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in this paper -- primarily because of space and time limitations, but also
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because discussions of the possibilities of hypnosis PER SE tend to cloud the
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issue of its use in conjunction with the above-mentioned electronic techniques.
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Obviously, however, hypnosis is a major weapon in the mind controller's
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armament; in a forthcoming full-length work, I intend to deal with this subject
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at much greater length.
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Needless to say, one of the primary objectives of MKULTRA and related
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projects was to determine whether one could hypnotically induce someone to
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commit an anti-social act. This possibility remains one of the most hotly-
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debated issues in hypnosis, for conventional wisdom asserts that no individual
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can be hypnotized to commit an action which violates his interior moral code.
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Martin Orne, editor of the presitigious INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND
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EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS agrees with this axiom[97], and he is in a position to
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codify much of the established view on this topic. Orne, however, is a
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veteran of MKULTRA, and furthermore seems to have lied -- at least in his
|
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original communications -- to author John Marks about his witting involvement
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in subproject 94[98]. While I respect much of Orne's ground-breaking work,
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his pronouncements do not hold, for this layman, an Olympian unassailability.
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To be sure, many other hypnosis experts, untainted by Company connections,
|
|
also discount the possibility that anti-social actions can be induced. But a
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number of highly-experienced professionals -- including Milton Kline, William
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Kroger, George Estabrooks, John Watkins, and Herbert Spiegel -- have argued
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that such actions can, at least to some degree, be elicited by an outside
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manipulator.
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Occasionally, claims of hypnotically-induced anti-social behavior find
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their way into the courtroom; one such case, which led to the incarceration of
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the hypnotist, was the Palle Hardrup affair. This incident occurred in
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Denmark in 1951[99]. Palle Hardrup robbed a bank, killing a guard in the
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process, and later claimed that he had been instructed to do so by the
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hypnotist Bjorn Nielsen. Nielsen eventually confessed to having engineered
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the crime as a test of his hypnotic abilities.
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The most significant aspect of this incident concerns the "pose" Nielsen
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adopted to work his malicious designs. During the hypnosis sessions, Nielsen
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hypnotically suggested that he was Hardrup's "guardian angel," represented
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by the letter X. Hardrup testified that "There is another room next door
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where Nielsen and I go and talk on our own. It is there that my guardian
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spirit usually comes and talks to me. Nielsen says that X has a task for me."
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One of these tasks was arranging for Hardrup's girlfriend to have sex with
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the hypnotist. The other tasks, he mentioned, included robbery and murder.
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Nielsen convinced his victim that "X" wanted the robbery funds to be used for
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worthwhile political goals. The end, Hardrup was told, justified the means.
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...
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Thus we have one possible means of overcoming the proposition that hypnosis
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cannot induce anti-social behavior. If a hypnotist lacks scruples, and has
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access to a particularly susceptible subject, he can induce a MISPERCEIVED
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REALITY. Actions which we would abhor in an everyday context become acceptable
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|
in specialized circumstances: A citizen who could never commit murder on a
|
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surburban street might, if drafted into an army, kill on the field of battle.
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In hypnosis, the mind becomes that battlefield. In the words of Dr. John
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|
Watkins,
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We behave on the basis of our perceptions. If our perceptions
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|
of a situation can be altered so as to cause us to misconstrue it,
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|
or to develop a false belief, then our behavior in relation to it
|
|
will be drastically altered. It is precisely in the area of
|
|
changing perceptions that the hypnotic modality demonstrates its
|
|
most powerful effects. Hallucinations both under hypnosis, and
|
|
posthypnotic, can easily be induced in the suggestible subject.
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He can be made to ignore painful stimuli, be apparently unable
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to hear loud sounds, AND "SEE" INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE NOT PRESENT
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[my italics]. Moreover, attitudes and beliefs can be initiated
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in him which are quite abnormal and often contrary to those
|
|
which he previously held[100].
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If traditional hypnosis, unaided, can achieve such changes in perception,
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one can only imagine the possibilities inherent in the combination of hypnotic
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techniques with the psychoelectronic research previously described.
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Scientists such as Orne and Milton Erickson[101] have taken issue with
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Watkins' assertions. But the Hardrup case would appear to bear Watkins out.
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If someone can be convinced that he, like Jeanne D'Arc, acts under the
|
|
influence of a supernatural higher power, then previously unthinkable
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|
capabilitites may be evinced and "impossible" actions carried forth. Indeed,
|
|
when we consider the extreme personality changes -- and occasionally, the
|
|
heinous actions, elicited by leaders of certain cults, and occult groups[102],
|
|
we understand the desirability of installing a hypnotic "cover story" within a
|
|
supernatural matrix. People will do for God ... what they would not do otherwise.
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|
The date of the Hardrup affair corresponds to the institution of BLUEBIRD/
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ARTICHOKE; it doesn't require much imagination to see how this case could have
|
|
served as a model to the scientists researching those and subsequent projects.
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SCREEN MEMORY
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|
According to declassified documents in the Marks files, a major difficulty
|
|
faced by the MKULTRA researchers concerned the "disposal problem." What to do
|
|
with the victims of CIA-sponsored electroshock, hypnosis, and drug experiment-
|
|
ation? The Company resorted to distressing, but characteristic, tactics: They
|
|
disposed of their human guinea pigs by incarcerating them in insane asylums, by
|
|
performing icepick lobotomies, and by ordering "executive actions."[103]
|
|
A more sophisticated solution had to be found. One of the goals of the
|
|
CIA's mind control efforts was the erasure of memory via hypnosis (and drugs,
|
|
electronics, lobotomies, etc.); not only would this hide what occurred during
|
|
the experimental indoctrination/programming sessions, it would prove useful in
|
|
the field. "Amnesia was a big goal," confirms Victor Marchetti, who points out
|
|
its usefulness in dealing with contract agents: "After you've done it, the
|
|
agent doesn't even know what he's done...you send him in, he does the job.
|
|
When he comes out, you clean his head out."[104]
|
|
The big problem: Despite hypnotically-induced amnesia, there would be memory
|
|
leaks -- snippets of the repressed material would arise spontaneously, in
|
|
dreams, as flashbacks, etc. A proposed solution: Give the subject a "screen
|
|
memory," a false story; thus, even if he starts to recall the material, he will
|
|
recall it incorrectly.
|
|
Even the conservative Dr. Orne notes that:
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|
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A S [subject] who is able to develop good posthypnotic amnesia
|
|
will also respond to suggestions to remember events which did not
|
|
actually occur. On awakening, he will fail to recall the real
|
|
events of the trance and will instead recall the suggested events.
|
|
If anything, this phenomenon is easier to produce than total
|
|
amnesia, perhaps because it eliminates the subjective feeling of
|
|
an empty space in memory.[105]
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|
|
|
Not only would the screen memories fill in the uncomfortable blanks in the
|
|
subjects' recollection, they would protect against revelation. One fear of
|
|
the MKULTRA scientists was that a hypno-programmed individual used as, say, a
|
|
courier, could be un-programmed by another hypnotist, perhaps working for the
|
|
enemy. Thus, the MKULTRA scientists decided to instill multiple personalities
|
|
-- multiple cover stories, if you will -- to confuse any "unauthorized"
|
|
hypnotist.[106]
|
|
One case using this technique centered on an assassin named Luis Castillo,
|
|
who, after his capture in the Philippines, was extensively de-briefed and
|
|
studied by experts in the employ of the National Bureau of Investigation, that
|
|
country's equivalent to our FBI. Castillo was discovered to have had at least
|
|
FOUR separate personalities hypnotically instilled; each personality could be
|
|
triggered by a specific cue. In one state, he claimed to be Sgt. Manuel Angel
|
|
Ramirez, of the Strategic Air Tactical Command in South Vietnam; supposedly,
|
|
"Ramirez" was the illegitimate son of a certain pipe-smoking, highly-placed CIA
|
|
official whose initials were A.D.[107] Another personality claimed to be one
|
|
of John F. Kennedy's assassins.
|
|
The main hypnotist involved with this case labelled these hypnotic alter-
|
|
egos "Zombie states." The report on the case stated that "The Zombie pheno-
|
|
menon referred to here is a somnambulistic behavior displayed by the subject
|
|
in a conditioned response to a series of words, phrases, and statements,
|
|
apparently unknown to the subject during his normal waking state."
|
|
Upon Castillo's repatriation to the United States, the FBI claimed that he
|
|
had fabricated the story. In his book OPERATION MIND CONTROL, Walter Bowart
|
|
makes a convincing case against the FBI's claims. Certainly, many aspects of
|
|
the Castillo affair argue for his sincerity -- including his hypnotically-
|
|
induced insensitivity to pain[108], his maintenance of the story (or stories)
|
|
even when severly inebriated, and his apparently programmed suicide attempts.
|
|
If Castillo told the truth, as I believe he did, then he manifested both
|
|
hypnotically-induced multiple personality and pseudomemory. The former remains
|
|
controversial; the latter has been repeatedly replicated in experimental
|
|
situations[109].
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
THE SUPER SPY
|
|
|
|
Among the released BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE/MKULTRA papers was the following
|
|
handwritten memorandum, unsigned and undated:
|
|
|
|
I have developed a technic which is safe and secure (free
|
|
from international censorship). It has to do with the
|
|
conditioning of our own people. I can accomplish this as a
|
|
one-man job.
|
|
The method is the production of hypnosis by means of
|
|
simple oral medication. Then (with NO further medication)
|
|
the hypnosis is re-enforced daily during the following three
|
|
or four days.
|
|
Each individual is conditioned against revealing any
|
|
information to an enemy, even though subjected to hypnosis
|
|
or drugging. If preferable, he may be conditioned to give
|
|
FALSE information rather than NO information.
|
|
|
|
In the margin of this document, one of Marks' assistants wrote, "Is this
|
|
Wendt?" The reference here is to G. Richard Wendt, a professor
|
|
employed by project CHATTER who, in 1951, led both his Naval employers and the
|
|
CIA on a mind control merry-goose-chase, when an experiment similar to that
|
|
described above failed to produce results[113]. Even if the above memorandum
|
|
DOES describe an operational failure (and the tactics described in this memo
|
|
do not seem very feasible to me), we should not rest complacent. We now know
|
|
that, in at least ONE case, more sophisticated techniques made the above
|
|
scenario a reality.
|
|
I refer to the case of Candy Jones.
|
|
Her story has filled at least one book[114] and ought, one day, to give rise
|
|
to another. Obviously, I cannot here give all the details of this fascinating
|
|
and frightening narrative. But a precis is mandatory.
|
|
Ms. Jones (born Jessica Wilcox) achieved star status as a model during
|
|
World War II, and later established her own modelling agency. An FBI man
|
|
requested her to allow her place of business to be used as a "mail drop" for
|
|
the Bureau and "another government agency" (presumably, the CIA); Candy, deeply
|
|
patriotic, accepted the proposition gladly. Toiling on the fringes of the
|
|
clandestine world, Candy eventually came into contact with a "Dr. Gilbert
|
|
Jensen," who worked, in turn, with a "Dr. Marshall Burger." (Both names are
|
|
pseudonyms.) Unknown to her, these doctors had been employed as "spy-
|
|
chiatrists" by the CIA. Using a job interview as a cover, Jensen induced
|
|
hypnosis, found Candy to be a particularly responsive subject -- and proceeded
|
|
to use her as other scientists would use a rhesus monkey. She became a test
|
|
subject for the CIA's mind control program.
|
|
Her job -- insofar as it is known -- was to provide a clandestine courier
|
|
service[115]. Estabrooks had outlined the basic idea years earlier: Induce
|
|
hypnosis via a disguised technique, give the messenger information to
|
|
memorize, hypnotically "erase" the message from conscious memory, and install
|
|
a post-hypnotic suggestion that the message (now buried within the sub-
|
|
conscious) will be brought forth only upon a specific cue. If the hypnotist
|
|
can create such a courier, ultra-security can be guaranteed; even torture won't
|
|
cause the messenger to tell what he knows -- because he doesn't know that he
|
|
knows it[116]. According to the highly respected Dr. Milton Kline, "Evidence
|
|
really does exist that has not been published" proving that Estabrooks' perfect
|
|
secret agent could be successfully evoked[117].
|
|
Candy was one such success story. Success, in this context, means that she
|
|
could be -- and was -- brutally tortured and abused while running assignments
|
|
for the CIA. All the MKULTRA toys were brought into play: hypnosis, drugs,
|
|
conditioning -- and electronics. Using these devices, Jensen and Burger
|
|
managed to:
|
|
|
|
-- install a "duplicate personality,"
|
|
|
|
-- create amnesia of both the programming sessions and the field assignments,
|
|
|
|
-- turn Candy into a vicious, hate-mongering bigot, the better to isolate her
|
|
from the rest of humanity (previously, her associates considered her
|
|
noteworthy for her racial tolerance; her modelling agency was one of the
|
|
first to break the color barrier), and
|
|
|
|
-- program her to commit suicide at the end of her usefulness to the Agency.
|
|
|
|
The programming techniques used on her were flawed. She breached security
|
|
when she married famed New York radio personality John Nebel, who, using
|
|
hypnotic regression, elicited the long-repressed truth. Eventually, the
|
|
"Other Candy" was bade farewell, and the programming broken.
|
|
... I feel that the veracity
|
|
of her narrative has been established beyond reasonable doubt. In her hypnotic
|
|
regression sessions, she recalled being programmed at a government-connected
|
|
institute in northern California -- which, as John Marks' investigators later
|
|
proved, was indeed heavily involved with government-funded brainwashing
|
|
research[119]. Marks himself believes Candy's story -- not least, because the
|
|
details of the programming methods used on her were substantiated by documents
|
|
released AFTER her book was published[120]. Interviews with Milton Kline,
|
|
Dr. Frances Jakes, John Watkins and others provided the testimony that the
|
|
programming of Candy Jones was feasible -- and Deep Trance substantiated the
|
|
story[121].
|
|
Recently, the case has received important "indirect" confirmation:
|
|
Investigators interested in follow-up research have filed FOIA requests with
|
|
the CIA for all papers relating to Candy Jones. The agency admits that it has
|
|
a substantial file on her, but refuses to release any part of it. If her tale
|
|
is false, then why would the CIA be so reluctant to deliver the information?
|
|
Indeed, why would they have a file in the first place?[122]
|
|
The final confirmation of Candy's tale requires a revelation -- one which I
|
|
make with some trepidation, even though the individual named is dead.
|
|
"Marshall Burger" was really Dr. William Kroger[123].
|
|
Kroger, long associated with the espionage establishment, had written the
|
|
following in 1963:
|
|
|
|
...a good subject can be hypnotized to deliver secret
|
|
information. The memory of this message could be covered
|
|
by an artificially-induced amnesia. In the event that he
|
|
should be captured, he naturally could not remember that he
|
|
had ever been given the message...however, since he had
|
|
been given a post-hypnotic suggestion, the message would be
|
|
subject to recall through a specific cue.[124]
|
|
|
|
If Candy confabulated her story, why did she name this particualr scientist,
|
|
who, writing theoretically in 1963, predicted the subsequent events in her
|
|
life?[125]
|
|
After L'AFFAIR JONES, Kroger transferred his base of operations to UCLA --
|
|
specifically, to the Neuropsychiatric Institute run by Dr. Louis Jolyon West,
|
|
an MKULTRA veteran. There he wrote HYPNOSIS AND BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION[126],
|
|
with a preface by Martin Orne (another MKULTRA veteran) and H.J. Eysenck (still
|
|
another MKULTRA veteran). The finale of this opus contains chilling hints
|
|
of the possibilites inherent in combining hypnosis with ESB, implants, and
|
|
conditioning -- though Kroger is careful to point out that "we are not
|
|
concerned that man might be conditioned by rewards and punishments through
|
|
electronic brain stimulation to be controlled like robots."[127] HE may not
|
|
be concerned -- but perhaps WE ought to be.
|
|
|
|
|
|
... Because the Controllers did not
|
|
establish a hypnotic cover story, or pseudomemory, the true facts of the case
|
|
managed to percolate into her conscious mind. No matter how thorough the post-
|
|
hypnotic amnesia, leaks will occur -- hence the need for a false memory, to
|
|
fill the gap of recollection. The CIA learns from its mistakes. ...
|
|
(Milton Kline accepted the Candy Jones story, but considered the job amateurish
|
|
and inconsistent with the best work done at that time[133]. Perhaps the major
|
|
fault was the lack of a pseudomemory cover story?)
|
|
|
|
...the story of Dr. Louis Jolyon West, now notorious for
|
|
his participation in MKULTRA experiments with LSD[138]. Inspired by VIOLENCE
|
|
AND THE BRAIN (a book by Drs. Frank Ervin and Vernon H. Mark
|
|
which ascribed inner city turmoil to a "genetic defect" within rebellious
|
|
blacks), West proposed, in 1973, a Center for the Study and Reduction of
|
|
Violence, where potentially violent individuals could be dealt with
|
|
prophylactically.
|
|
And who were these individuals? According to West's proposal, the note-
|
|
worthy factors indicating a violent predisposition were "sex (male), age
|
|
(youthful), ethnicity (black) and urbanicity." How to deal with them? "...by
|
|
implanting tiny electrodes deep within the brain, electrical activity can be
|
|
followed in areas that cannot be measured from the surface of the scalp...it is
|
|
even possible to record bioelectrical changes in the brains of freely-moving
|
|
subjects, through the use of remote monitoring techniques..." By monitoring
|
|
the subjects' EEGs remotely, potentially violent episodes could be identified.
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
THE SCANDINAVIAN CONNECTION
|
|
|
|
|
|
Two cases in point: Martti Koski and Robert Naeslund.
|
|
Koski, a Finnish citizen, claims to have been a victim of mind control
|
|
experimentation while visiting Canada. Shortly after his experience began, he
|
|
attempted to broadcast his situation to the world and draw attention to his
|
|
plight. Few listened. Many of his details were bizarre, and not being a
|
|
native speaker of English, he could not express himself convincingly to those
|
|
he approached for help. Yet many aspects of his story correspond closely to
|
|
known details of MKULTRA and related programs.
|
|
Naeslund, a Swedish citizen, tells a similar story. Moreover, his claims
|
|
were backed by special evidence: X-rays revealed an implant in his brain.
|
|
Naeslund actually went to the extreme of having his implant tested by
|
|
electronic technicians employed by Hewlett-Packard. A Greek surgeon performed
|
|
the necessary trepanation to remove the device.
|
|
...
|
|
Naeslund's implant was originally placed through his nasal cavity. He first
|
|
realized that something terrible had happened to him after an experience of
|
|
missing time, followed by an INEXPLICABLE NOSEBLEED.
|
|
I have located a reference in the open literature to the use, in
|
|
animal study, of nasally-implanted electrodes for the measurement of electro-
|
|
magnetic radiation effects[143].
|
|
There are other claimed mind control victims bearing evidence of implants;
|
|
note, especially, the fascinating case of James Petit, a CIA-connected pilot
|
|
and alleged brainwashing alumnus ... . [144]
|
|
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HELICOPTERS AND DISKS
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The bizarre story of Rex Niles and his sister (not named in news accounts) ... Niles, the high-rolling owner of a Woodland
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Hills defense subcontracting firm (Rex Rep) was fingered by authorities
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investigating defense industry kickbacks. He became an extraordinarily
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cooperative witness in the investigation -- until he was targeted by his
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enemies, who allegedly used psychoelectronics as harassment.
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The following excerpt from [a] LOS ANGELES TIMES article [145] on Niles
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is particularly compelling:
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He [Niles] produced testimony from his sister, a Simi
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Valley woman who swears that helicopters have repeatedly
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circled her home. An engineer measured 250 watts of
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microwaves in the atmosphere outside Niles' house and
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found a RADIOACTIVE DISK UNDERNEATH THE DASH OF HIS CAR
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[my italics].
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A former high school friend, Lyn Silverman, claimed
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that her home computer went haywire when Niles stepped
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close to it.
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...
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As former FBI agent
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Ted Gunderson recently explained to my associate Alexander Constantine,
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magnetic radioactive discs have long been used by the clandestine services as
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cancer-inducing "silent killers" -- i.e., as tools of assassination.
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THE MILITARY AND MIND CONTROL
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Some time ago, I attended hypnotic regression sessions in which the
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subject ... recalled undergoing a mysterious "brain operation" at a veteran's
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hospital in California. ... this same hospital was mentioned in two other
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cases I encountered.
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One of these claimants, a former Navy SEAL who undertook numerous dangerous
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missions in Vietnam, favorably impressed me with the wealth of detail in his
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story[147]. This individual -- I've taken to calling him "the trained SEAL"--
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had received specialized combat training at a military base in California; he
|
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claims that at one point during this training he was drugged, hypnotized,
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possibly placed under some form of electronic control, and subjected to the
|
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extremes of pain/pleasure operant conditioning. One peculiar detail of his
|
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story concerns the "reward" aspect of the conditioning: When properly
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acquiescent, he was given unlimited sexual access to a woman who, the SEAL
|
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avers, was herself the victim of brainwashing.
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Unbelievable as this last claim may seem, I found it oddly resonant when I
|
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later interviewed a [Southern California woman], who
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bravely offered me details on a puzzling, albeit quite delicate, incident in
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her past. Still an attractive woman, she recalled for me -- indeed, seemed
|
|
strangely compelled to describe -- an early love affair with a young soldier
|
|
training at a military base near her home. She cannot recall the soldier's
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name. All she remembers is that one day he started LIVING AT HER FAMILY'S
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HOUSE; she has no memory of how the arrangement began, and her parents have
|
|
never felt comfortable discussing the matter. Although unattracted to this
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|
soldier, she felt compelled to become intimate with him, adopting a pliant,
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|
obeisant attitude that was quite out of character for her. Later, the soldier
|
|
went on to covert missions in Vietnam.
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Of course, a young person's psycho-sexual development is never smooth, and
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the incident related above may merely have represented one peculiarly upsetting
|
|
bump in that notoriously rough road. Still, some of the details of this story
|
|
-- particularly the parents' attitude, the woman's personality shift, and her
|
|
subsequent memory lapses -- are striking, and I treat with respect [her] intuition that this minor enigma in her personal history could, if
|
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properly understood, shed light on her later "missing time" experiences.
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Could the "trained SEAL" have been right? Was there, IS there, a coterie
|
|
of hypno-programmed soldiers conducting particularly hazardous missions? And
|
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do the programmers have at their disposal a "ladies' auxiliary," so to speak,
|
|
of hypnotized camp followers?
|
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If the SEAL's story stood alone, skeptics could easily dismiss it
|
|
(provided they did not sit, as I did, face-to-face with the story's teller,
|
|
listening to all the grisly and unsettling details). But other veterans have
|
|
added their voices to this grim tale. Daniel Sheehan, of the Christic
|
|
Institute, claims that his organization has spoken to half-a-dozen individuals
|
|
with narratives similar to my SEAL informant. All had received "processing,"
|
|
so to speak, within the context of standard military training; after pro-
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|
gramming and specialized combat instruction by mercenaries, the recruits were
|
|
placed "on hold," to be used as situations arose -- and some of those
|
|
situations occurred within the United States[148].
|
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Walter Bowart began his own researches into mind control by placing an ad in
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|
SOLDIER-OF-FORTUNE-style publications, asking for correspondence from veterans
|
|
who experienced inexplicable lapses in memory or strange behavior modification
|
|
techniques while serving in Vietnam; he received over 100 replies. Bowart
|
|
devoted an entire chapter to one of these respondents -- an Air Force veteran
|
|
named David, who ended his four-year tour of duty recalling only that he had
|
|
spent the time "having fun, skin diving, laying on the beach, collecting
|
|
shells...It never dawned on me until later that I must have DONE something
|
|
while I was in the service." (An obvious example of screen memory.) He was
|
|
also "assigned" a girlfriend whose name he cannot now recall, despite the
|
|
length and deep intimacy of the affair[149]. ...
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|
We even have a confession, of sorts, from a scientist who specialized in one
|
|
aspect of this sort of training. Lt. Commander Thomas Narut, of the
|
|
U.S. Naval Hospital at the NATO headquarters in Naples, Florida, admitted
|
|
during a lecture in Oslo that recruits in Naples underwent CLOCKWORK-ORANGE-
|
|
style behavior modification sessions. Trainees would be strapped into chairs
|
|
with their eyelids clamped open while watching films of industrial accidents
|
|
and African circumcision ceremonies -- films frequently used by psychologists
|
|
as a means of inducing stress in experimental situations. Unlike the
|
|
protagonist in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, who learned revulsion at the sight of
|
|
violence, Narut's soldiers were taught to accept and enjoy bloodshed, to view
|
|
it with equanimity. Similar techniques were used to dehumanize potential
|
|
enemies. Graduates of this program became, in Narut's words, "hit men and
|
|
assassins," to be placed in American embassies throughout the world.
|
|
When questioned by reporters about these claims, the American government
|
|
denied the story; Narut -- after a long incommunicado period and apparent
|
|
coercion -- later explained to journalists that he had merely spoken
|
|
theoretically. If so, why did he originally describe the behavior modification
|
|
procedure as an ongoing program?[150]
|
|
...
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|
Narut, of course, concentrated on selective programming of individual
|
|
American soldiers; on the other side of the mind control spectrum, Defense
|
|
Department specialists have also concentrated on methods to render entire
|
|
enemy battalions "combat ineffective." Electromagnetic weaponry, intended to
|
|
wipe out the aggression of the enemy, is the province of DARPA, under the
|
|
direction of Dr. Jack Verona. These projects remain fairly
|
|
mysterious; we do know, however, that one operation, SLEEPING BEAUTY, employed
|
|
the services of Dr. Michael Persinger ... .
|
|
Persinger discovered a method of using ELF waves to induce the brain's MAST
|
|
cells to release histamine; should a battlefield commander wish to subject his
|
|
enemy to mass bouts of vomiting, Persinger's trick could do the job even
|
|
faster than a Tobe Hooper movie. The method works on animals. "The question,"
|
|
writes mind control researcher Larry Collins, "is how to get from point A to
|
|
point B without violating one of the most rigorous commandments of Government
|
|
ethics -- thou shalt not conduct experiments like that on human beings."[151]
|
|
If Collins had studied the record a little more carefully, he might realize
|
|
that the government hasn't always regarded this commandment as something
|
|
graven in stone. As Milton Kline put it:
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|
|
|
Ethical factors involved in most research would preclude
|
|
having positive results. Those ethical factors don't always
|
|
hold with government research. THE RESEARCH WHICH HAS GIVEN
|
|
REALLY POSITIVE RESULTS HAS NOT BEEN LIMITED BY ETHICAL
|
|
CONSTRAINTS[152]. [my italics]
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THE ULTIMATE MOTIVE FOR MIND CONTROL
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|
|
|
Hypnosis hard-liners of the Orne school would almost certainly dismiss the
|
|
foregoing veterans' accounts of the use of hypnosis, drugs and behavioral
|
|
conditioning on American fighting men. Why, the skeptics would ask, would
|
|
anyone attempt to create a "Manchurian Candidate" when the military services,
|
|
using entirely conventional means, can create a "Rambo"? There have always
|
|
been recruits for even the most hazardous duties; what need of hypnosis?
|
|
The need, in fact, is absolute.
|
|
The modern battlefield has little place for the traditional soldier.
|
|
Advanced weaponry requires an increasing level of technical sophistication,
|
|
which in turn requires a cool-headed operator. But the all-too-human
|
|
combatant -- though capable of extraordinary acts of courage under the most
|
|
stressful conditions imaginable -- does not possess inexhaustible reserves of
|
|
SANG-FROID. Eventually, breakdowns will occur. Per-capita psychiatric
|
|
casualties have increased dramatically in each successive American conflict.
|
|
As Richard Gabriel, the excellent historian of the role of psychiatry in
|
|
warfare, writes:
|
|
|
|
Modern warfare has become so lethal and so intense that
|
|
only the already insane can endure it...Modern war requiring
|
|
continuous combat will increase the degree of fatigue on the
|
|
soldier to heretofore unknown levels. Physical fatigue --
|
|
especially the lack of sleep -- will increase the rate of
|
|
psychiatric casualties enormously. Other factors -- high
|
|
rates of indirect fire, night fighting, lack of food, constant
|
|
stress, large numbers of casualties -- will ensure that the
|
|
number of psychiatric casualties will reach disastrous pro-
|
|
portions. And the number of casualties will overburden the
|
|
medical structure to the point of collapse.
|
|
The ability to treat psychiatric casualties will all but
|
|
disappear. There will be no safe forward areas in which to
|
|
treat soldiers debilitated by mental collapse. The technology
|
|
of modern war has made such locations functionally obsolete...[153]
|
|
|
|
According to Gabriel, the military intends to meet this challenge by
|
|
creating "the chemical soldier," a designer-drugged zombie in fighting man's
|
|
uniform:
|
|
|
|
On the battlefields of the future we will witness a true
|
|
clash of ignorant armies, armies ignorant of their own
|
|
emotions and even of the reasons for which they fight.
|
|
Soldiers on all sides will be reduced to fearless chemical
|
|
automatons who fight simply because they can do nothing
|
|
else...Once the chemical genie is out of the bottle, the
|
|
full range of human mental and physical actions become
|
|
targets for chemical control...Today it is already possible
|
|
by chemical or electrical stimulation to increase the
|
|
aggression levels of the human being by stimulating the
|
|
amygdala, a section of the brain known to control aggression
|
|
and rage. Such "human potential engineering" is already a
|
|
partial reality and the necessary technical knowledge
|
|
increases every day[154].
|
|
|
|
While this passage speaks of drugs and electronics, we can safely assume
|
|
that the planners of battle would not refrain from using any other promising
|
|
technique.
|
|
Gabriel writes primarily of large-scale battle scenarios, but based on
|
|
his information, we can fairly deduce that the mind-controlled soldier will
|
|
also play a role in the surgical strike, the covert operation, the infiltration
|
|
behind enemy lines by units of the Special Forces. On such missions, United
|
|
States personnel have increasingly relied on torture as a means of interro-
|
|
gation and intimidation[155], and as such barbarism becomes standard procedure
|
|
the American fighting man of the future will need to find within himself
|
|
unprecedented reserves of brutality. Will the average recruit, culled from the
|
|
nation's suburbs and reared on traditional ideals, possess such reserves?
|
|
Vietnam proved that the soldier, despite a barrage of propaganda intended to
|
|
cloud his discernment, will sense the difference between fighting for legit-
|
|
imate defense interests and fighting to protect political hegemony. To
|
|
forestall this realization, or to render it irrelevant, military planners must
|
|
withdraw the human combatant and replace him with a new species of warrior.
|
|
The soldier of the future will not discern; he will merely do. He will not be
|
|
a butcher; he will be the butcher's KNIFE -- a tool among tools, thoughtless
|
|
and effective.
|
|
And it is my contention that to create this soldier of the future, the
|
|
controllers will need a continuing program, one designed to test each new
|
|
method and combination of methods for conquering the human mind.
|
|
One primary goal of this program must include expanding the human capacity
|
|
for stress and violence. Subjects enrolled in such experimental procedures
|
|
will experience pain, and will learn to accept the pain. Eventually, they will
|
|
learn to inflict it, without remorse or even remembrance. The nation who first
|
|
creates this new soldier will possess a decisive advantage on the "conven-
|
|
tional" battlefield -- as will the nation which first develops a means of using
|
|
mass mind control techniques to disable entire enemy platoons. [And to placate
|
|
whole civilian populations, both those of the enemy and those at home. -jpg]
|
|
This paramount military necessity is the reason why I will never believe any
|
|
unconvincing reassurances that our nation's clandestine scientists have fore-
|
|
gone or will forego research into behavior modification. This research will
|
|
never be mere history. What's past is present, and today's covert experiment-
|
|
ation will become tomorrow's basic training.
|
|
A prototype of the future warrior may already be with us. The Navy SEAL
|
|
I interviewed spoke in horrifying detail of dismemberment without emotion, of
|
|
rape as routine, of killing without affect. And then FORGETTING THAT HE HAD
|
|
KILLED. Even years later, he could not recall the stories behind many of the
|
|
wounds on his own body. He claims that whenever he would need the services of
|
|
the veteran's hospital, doctors would re-hypnotize him shortly after his
|
|
admission, while a physician specifically cleared for such work would examine
|
|
his medical history, which was highly classified and kept under lock and key.
|
|
According to the SEAL's testimony, his memory block cracked little by
|
|
little, as a result of events too complex to recount here. Finally, years
|
|
after Vietnam, he was able to remember what he did.
|
|
Amnesia was a blessing.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A spectre haunts the democratic nations -- the spectre of TECHNOFASCISM.
|
|
All the powers of the espionage empire and the scientific establishment have
|
|
entered into an unholy alliance to evoke this spectre: Psychiatrist and spy,
|
|
Dulles and Delgado, microwave specialists and clandestine operators.
|
|
A mind is a terrible thing to waste -- and a worse thing to commandeer.
|
|
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|
NOTES
|
|
|
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5. See bibliography.
|
|
6. New York: Bantam Books, 1979.
|
|
7. See generally PROJECT MKULTRA, THE CIA'S PROGRAM OF RESEARCH IN
|
|
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION, joint hearing before the Select Committee on Health and
|
|
Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, Unites States Senate
|
|
(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1977).
|
|
8. Robert Eringer, "Secret Agent Man," ROLLING STONE, 1985.
|
|
9. John Marks interview with Victor Marchetti (Marks files, available at
|
|
the National Security Archives, Washington, D.C.).
|
|
10. In an interview with John Marks, hypnosis expert Milton Kline, a
|
|
veteran of clandestine experimentation in this field, averred that his work
|
|
for the government continued. Since the interview took place in 1977, years
|
|
after the CIA allegedly halted mind control research, we must conclude either
|
|
that the CIA lied, or that another agency continued the work. In another
|
|
interview with Marks, former Air Force-CIA liaison L. Fletcher Prouty con-
|
|
firmed that the Department of Defense ran studies either in conjunction with
|
|
or parallel to those operated by the CIA. (Marks files.)
|
|
12. A copy of this letter can be found in the Marks files.
|
|
13. Estabrooks attracted an eclectic group of friends, including J.
|
|
Edgar Hoover and Alan Watts.
|
|
14. Interview with daughter Doreen Estabrooks, Marks files, Washington,
|
|
D.C.
|
|
15. Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain, ACID DREAMS (New York: Grove Press,
|
|
1985) 3-4; Marks, THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE", 6-8
|
|
16. Marks, ibid. 4-6.
|
|
17. Edward Hunter, BRAINWASHING IN RED CHINA (New York: Vanguard Press,
|
|
1951.). Hunter invented the term "brainwashing" in a September 24, 1950 Miami
|
|
NEWS article.
|
|
18. "Japan's Germ Warfare Experiments," THE GLOBE AND MAIL (Toronto),
|
|
May 19, 1982.
|
|
19. Walter Bowart, OPERATION MIND CONTROL (New York: Dell, 1978), 191-2,
|
|
quoting Warren Commission documents. We cannot fairly derive from this state-
|
|
ment a sanguine attitude about PRESENT Soviet capabilities; in this field,
|
|
even outdated technology suffices for mischief.
|
|
20. Marks, THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE", 60-61. A folk
|
|
entymology has it that the "MK" of MKULTRA stands for "Mind Kontrol." Accord-
|
|
ing to Marks, TSS prefixed the cryptonyms of all its projects with these
|
|
initials. Note, though, that MKULTRA was preceded by a still-mysterious TSS
|
|
program called QKHILLTOP.
|
|
21. Marks, THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE", 224-229. Seven
|
|
MKULTRA subprojects were continued, under TSS supervision, as MKSEARCH. This
|
|
project ended in 1972. CIA apologists often proclaim that "brainwashing"
|
|
research ceased in either 1962 or 1972; these blandishments refer to the TSS
|
|
projects, not to the ORD work, which remains TERRA INCOGNITA for independent
|
|
researchers. Marks discovered that the ORD research was so voluminous that
|
|
retrieving documents via FOIA would have proven unthinkably expensive.
|
|
22. For a description of the research into parapsychology, see Ronald
|
|
M. McRae's MIND WARS (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984). The best book
|
|
available on a subject which awaits a truly authoritative text.
|
|
24. Allegedly, the experiment took place in 1964. However, in WERE WE
|
|
CONTROLLED? (New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1967), the pseudonymous
|
|
"Lincoln Lawrence" makes an interesting argument (on page 36) that the
|
|
demonstration took place some years earlier.
|
|
25. New York: Harper and Row, 1969. Much of Delgado's work was funded
|
|
by the Office of Naval Intelligence, a common conduit for CIA funds during the
|
|
1950s and '60s. (Gordon Thomas' JOURNEY INTO MADNESS (New York: Bantam, 1989)
|
|
misleadingly implies that CIA interest in Delgado's work began in 1972.)
|
|
26. J.M.R. Delgado. "Intracerebral Radio Stimulation and Recording
|
|
in Completely Free Patients," PSYCHOTECHNOLOGY (Robert L. Schwitzgebel and
|
|
Ralph K. Schwitzgebel, editors; New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973):
|
|
195.
|
|
27. David Krech, "Controlling the Mind Controllers," THINK 32 (July-
|
|
August), 1966.
|
|
28. Delgado, PHYSICAL CONTROL OF THE MIND
|
|
29. Delgado, "Intracerebral Radio Stimulation and Recording in Completely
|
|
free patients," 195.
|
|
31. John Ranleigh, THE AGENCY (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1986): 208.
|
|
Marchetti casts this story in the form of an amusing anecdote: After much time
|
|
and expense, a cat was suitably trained and prepared -- only, on its first
|
|
assignment, to be run over by a taxi. Marchetti neglects to point out that
|
|
nothing stopped the Agency from getting another cat. Or from using a human
|
|
being.
|
|
33. Alan W. Scheflin and Edward M. Opton, Jr., THE MIND MANIPULATORS
|
|
(London: Paddington Press, 1978), 347.
|
|
34. Thomas, JOURNAY INTO MADNESS, 276.
|
|
35. James Olds, "Hypothalamic Substrates of Reward," PHYSIOLOGICAL
|
|
REVIEWS, 1962, 42:554; "Emotional Centers in the Brain," SCIENCE JOURNAL,
|
|
1967, 3 (5).
|
|
36. Vernon Mark and Frank Ervin, VIOLENCE AND THE BRAIN (New York:
|
|
Harper and Row, 1970), chapter 12, excerpted in INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND THE
|
|
FEDERAL ROLE IN BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION, prepared by the Staff of the Subcom-
|
|
mittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee of the Judiciary, United
|
|
States Senate (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1974).
|
|
37. John Lilly, THE SCIENTIST (Berkeley, Ronin Publishing, 1988 [revised
|
|
edition]), 90. Monkeys allowed to stimulate themselves continually via ESB
|
|
brought themselves to orgasm once every three minutes, sixteen hours a day.
|
|
Scientific gatherings throughout the world saw motion pictures of these
|
|
experiments, which surely made spectacular cinema.
|
|
38. Scheflin and Opton, THE MIND MANIPULATORS, 336-337. Heath even
|
|
monitored his patient's brain responses during the subject's first heterosexual
|
|
encounter. Such is the nature of the brave new world before us.
|
|
39. Robert L. Schwitzgebel and Richard M. Bird, "Sociotechnical Design
|
|
Factors in Remote Instrumentation with Humans in Natural Environments,"
|
|
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS AND INSTRUMENTATION, 1970, 2, 99-105.
|
|
40. Thomas, JOURNEY INTO MADNESS, 277. In the BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
|
|
AND INSTRUMENTATION article referenced above, Schwitzgebel details how the
|
|
radio signals may be fed into a telephone via a modem and thus analyzed by a
|
|
computer anywhere in the world.
|
|
41. Scheflin and Opton, THE MIND MANIPULATORS, 347-349.
|
|
42. Louis Tackwood and the Citizen's Research and Investigation Commit-
|
|
tee, THE GLASS HOUSE TAPES (New York: Avon, 1973), 226.
|
|
43. Perry London, BEHAVIOR CONTROL (New York: Harper and Row, 1969), 145
|
|
44. Scheflin and Opton, THE MIND MANIPULATORS, 351-353; Tackwood, THE
|
|
GLASS HOUSE TAPES, 228.
|
|
45. "Beepers in kids' heads could stop abductors," Las Vegas SUN, Oct.
|
|
27, 1987.
|
|
46. Lilly, THE SCIENTIST, 91.
|
|
47. Marks, THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE", 151-154.
|
|
49. The story of Deep Trance, an MKULTRA "insider" who provided
|
|
invaluable information, is somewhat involved. I do not know who Trance is/was
|
|
and Marks may not know either. He contacted Trance via the writer of an
|
|
article published shortly before research on THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN
|
|
CANDIDATE" began, addressing his informant "Dear Source whose anonymity I
|
|
respect." I respect it too -- hence my reticence to name the aforementioned
|
|
article, which may mark a trail to Trance. The fact that I have not followed
|
|
this trail would not prevent others from doing so. [And if Trance were a
|
|
CIA disinformation source a la William Cooper, this is precisely the behavior
|
|
they would count on. -jpg]
|
|
50. London, BEHAVIOR CONTROL, 139.
|
|
52. Lawrence, WERE WE CONTROLLED?, 36-37; Anita Gregory, "Introduction
|
|
to Leonid L. Vasilev's EXPERIMENTS IN DISTANT INFLUENCE," PSYCHIC WARFARE:
|
|
FACT OR FICTION (editor: John White) (Nottinghamshire: Aquarian, 1988) 34-57.
|
|
53. Lawrence, WERE WE CONTROLLED?, 38.
|
|
54. Bowart, OPERATION MIND CONTROL, 261-264.
|
|
55. Ibid. 263.
|
|
56. Lawrence, WERE WE CONTROLLED?, 52.
|
|
57. HUMAN DRUG TESTING BY THE CIA, 202.
|
|
58. Note especially the Supreme Court's decision in CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
|
|
AGENCY ET Al. V. SIMS, ET AL. (No. 83-1075; decided April 16, 1986). The
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egregious and dangerous majority opinion in this case held that disclosure of
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the names of scientists and institutions involved in MKULTRA posed an
|
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"unacceptable risk of revealing 'intelligence sources.' The decisions of the
|
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[CIA] Director, who must of course be familiar with 'the whole picture,' as
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judges are not, are worthy of great deference...it is conceivable that the
|
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mere explanation of why information must be withheld can convey valuable
|
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information to a foreign intelligence agency." How do we square this continu-
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|
ing need for secrecy with the CIA's protestations that MKULTRA achieved little
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success, that the studies were conducted within the Nueremberg statues govern-
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ing medical experiments, and that the research was made available in the open
|
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literature?
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59. Letter, P.A. Lindstrom to Robert Naeslund, July 27, 1983; copy
|
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available from Martti Koski, Kiilinpellontie 2, 21290 Rusko, Finland. Lind-
|
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strom writes that he fully agrees with Lincoln Lawrence, author of WERE WE
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CONTROLLED?
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60. Bowart, OPERATION MIND CONTROL, 265. I have attempted without
|
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success to contact Dr. Lindstrom.
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61. Bowart, OPERATION MIND CONTROL, 233-249. This interview was
|
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repinted without attribution in a bizarre compendium of UFO rumors called
|
|
THE MATRIX, compiled by "Valdamar Valerian" (actually John Grace, allegedly
|
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a captain working for Air Force intelligence).
|
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62. Robert Anton Wilson, "Adventures with Head Hardware," MAGICAL BLEND,
|
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23 [of course], July 1989.
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63. Michael Hutchison, MEGA BRAIN (New York: Ballantine, 1986); Gerald
|
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Oster, "Auditory Beats in the Brain," SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, September, 1973.
|
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64. Marilyn Ferguson, THE BRAIN REVOLUTION (New York: Taplinger, 1973),
|
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90.
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65. Ibid., 91-92. The presence of delta in a waking subject can
|
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indicate pathology.
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66. Bio-Pacer promotional and price sheet, available from Lindemann
|
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Laboratories, 3463 State Street, #264, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.
|
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67. Hutchison, MEGA BRAIN, 117-118. Compare Light's observations about
|
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"the grant game" to Sid Gottlieb's protestations that nearly all "mind con-
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trol" research was openly published.
|
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68. Thomas Martinez and John Gunther, THE BROTHERHOOD OF MURDER (New
|
|
York: McGraw-Hill, 1988), 230.
|
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69. Interview, Sandy Monroe of the Los Angeles office of the Christic
|
|
Institute.
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70. See generally Paul Brodeur, THE ZAPPING OF AMERICA (Toronto, George
|
|
J. MacLeod, 1977).
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71. Until recently, the American Embassy was on a street named after the
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composer.
|
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72. It was finally determined that the microwaves were used to receive
|
|
transmissions from bugs planted within the embassy. DARPA director George H.
|
|
Heimeier went on record stating that PANDORA was never designed to study
|
|
"microwaves as a surveillance tool." See Anne Keeler, "Remote Mind Control
|
|
Technology," FULL DISCLOSURE #15. I would note that the Soviet embassy was
|
|
"bugged and waved" in Canada during the 1950s, and according to the Los
|
|
Angeles TIMES (June 5, 1989), the Soviet embassy in Britain had been similarly
|
|
affected.
|
|
73. Ronald I. Adams R.A. Williams, BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC
|
|
RADIATION (RADIOWAVES AND MICROWAVES) EURASIAN COMMUNIST COUNTRIES, (Defense
|
|
Intelligence Agency, March 1976.) Brodeur notes that much of the work ascribed
|
|
to the Soviets in this report was actually first accomplished by scientists in
|
|
the United States. Keeler argues that this report constitutes an example of
|
|
"mirror imaging" -- i.e., parading domestic advances as a foreign threat, the
|
|
better to pry funding from a suitably-fearful Congress.
|
|
74. Keeler, "Remote Mind Control Technology."
|
|
75. R.J. MacGregor, "A Brief Survey of Literature Relating to Influence
|
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of Low Intensity Microwaves on Nervous Function" (Santa Monica: RAND Corpor-
|
|
ation, 1970).
|
|
76. Keeler, "Remote Mind Control Technology."
|
|
77. Larry Collins, "Mind Control," PLAYBOY, January 1990.
|
|
78. Allan H. Frey, "Behavioral Effects of Electromagnetic Energy,"
|
|
SYMPOSIUM ON BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS AND MEASUREMENTS OF RADIO FREQUENCIES/MICRO-
|
|
WAVES, DeWitt G. Hazzard, editor (U.S. Department of Health, Education and
|
|
Welfare, 1977).
|
|
79. quoted in THE APPLICATION OF TESLA'S TECHNOLOGY IN TODAY'S WORLD
|
|
(Montreal: Lafferty, Hardwood & Partners, Ltd., 1978).
|
|
80. Keeler, "Remote Mind Control Technology."
|
|
81. L. George Lawrence, "Electronics and Brain Control," POPULAR
|
|
ELECTRONICS, July 1973.
|
|
82. Susan Schiefelbein, "The Invisible Threat," SATURDAY REVIEW,
|
|
September 15, 1979.
|
|
83. E. Preston, "Studies on the Nervous System, Cardiovascular Function
|
|
and Thermoregulation," BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF RADIO FREQUENCY AND MICROWAVE
|
|
RADIATION, edited by H.M. Assenheim (Ottawa, Canada: National Research Council
|
|
of Canada, 1979), 138-141.
|
|
84. Robert O. Becker, THE BODY ELECTRIC (New York: William Morrow, 1985)
|
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318-319.
|
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85. Ibid.
|
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86. Ibid., 321.
|
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87. See Bowart's OPERATION MIND CONTROL, page 218, for an interesting
|
|
example of this "rationalization" process at work in the case of Sirhan
|
|
Sirhan, who was convicted for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. In
|
|
prison, Sirhan was hypnotized by Dr. Bernard Diamond, who instructed Sirhan
|
|
to climb the bars of his cage like a monkey. He did so. After the trance
|
|
was removed, Sirhan was shown tapes of his actions; he insisted that he "acted
|
|
like a monkey" of his own free will -- he claimed he wanted the exercise.
|
|
88. Keeler suggests that the proposal was revealed only because
|
|
Schapitz' sensationalistic implications may have worked to his discredit --
|
|
and therefore hide -- the REAL research. Personally, I don't accept this
|
|
argument, but I respect Keeler's instincts enough to repeat her caveat here.
|
|
89. Margaret Cheney's TESLA: A MAN OUT OF TIME (New York: Dell, 1981),
|
|
the most reliable book in the sea of wild speculation surrounding this
|
|
extraordinary scientist, confirms Tesla's early work with the psychological
|
|
effects of electromagnetic radiation. See especially pages 101-104; note also
|
|
the afterword, in which we learn that certain government agencies have kept
|
|
important research by Tesla hidden from the general public.
|
|
90. Noted in Lawrence, WERE WE CONTROLLED?, 29.
|
|
91. Particularly one Thomas Bearden of Huntsville, Alabama; I have in my
|
|
possession a document written by Bearden associate Andrew Michrowski which
|
|
identifies Bearden as an intelligence agent for an undisclosed agency.
|
|
92. Kathleen McAuliffe, "The Mind Fields," OMNI magazine, February 1985.
|
|
93. May 5, 1985.
|
|
94. I refer to an individual who later wrote a very clear-headed and
|
|
thoughtful letter to Dr. Paul Lowinger, who has graciously made his files
|
|
available to me. For now, I feel compelled to withhold this person's name.
|
|
95. Cameron became president of the American Psychiatric Association,
|
|
the Canadian Psychiatric Association, and the World Association of Psychia-
|
|
trists, He previously sat on the Nueremberg panel, helping to draw up the
|
|
statutes governing ethical medical behavior!
|
|
96. In particular, Opton and Scheflin's overview, though excellent in
|
|
scope and detail, continually seeks reassurring interpretations of evidence
|
|
which points toward more distressing conclusions.
|
|
97. Martin T. Orne, "Can a hypnotized subject be compelled to carry out
|
|
otherwise unacceptable behavior?" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERI-
|
|
MENTAL HYPNOSIS, 1972, Vol. 20, 101-117.
|
|
98. Marks mentions, in a letter to Orne, the latter's claim to have been
|
|
an unwitting participant in subproject 84. Yet the papers released concerning
|
|
subproject 84 clearly establish the Agency's willingness to put Orne in the
|
|
know; Orne later admitted to Marks that he was made aware of his CIA sponsor-
|
|
ship (Marks, THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE", 172-173). In an
|
|
interview with Marks, Orne discounted the story of Candy Jones (which we shall
|
|
recount later) by insisting that if such an experiment had occurred "someone
|
|
in some agency would have come to me." Why would they come to him about a
|
|
super-secret project, unless Orne had a high security clearance and worked
|
|
extensively with intelligence agencies? Note also that Orne conducted exten-
|
|
sive studies for the Office of Naval Research from June 1, 1968 to May 31,
|
|
1971. He has also been funded by DARPA. Moreover, I consider noteworthy the
|
|
fact that Orne somehow became president of the Society for Clinical and
|
|
Experimental Hypnosis despite the fact that the organization had decided not
|
|
to have a president. (This fact was related to Marks by a prominent hypnosis
|
|
specialist in an off-the-record interview that I probably wasn't supposed to
|
|
see.)
|
|
99. The story has been told many times. See Turner and Christian's THE
|
|
KILLING OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY, 207-208; also Peter J. Reiter, ANTISOCIAL OR
|
|
CRIMINAL ACTS AND HYPNOSIS (Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1958).
|
|
100. John G. Watkins, "Antisocial behavior under hypnosis: Possible or
|
|
impossible?" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS,
|
|
1972, Vol. 20, 95-100.
|
|
101. Milton H. Erickson, "An experimental investigation of the possible
|
|
anti-social use of hypnosis," PSYCHIATRY, 1939, vol. 2. Erickson argues that
|
|
if a hypnotist has convinced his subject to misperceive reality, then result-
|
|
ing actions cannot be considered "anti-social," for the actions would be
|
|
acceptable within the subject's internal reality construct. This argument
|
|
strikes me as semantic quibbling. [not me -jpg]
|
|
102. See generally Flo Conway and Jim Seigelman, SNAPPING (New York:
|
|
Lippincott, 1978).
|
|
103. Lee and Schlain, ACID DREAMS, 8-9.
|
|
104. John Marks interview with Victor Marchetti, December 19, 1977
|
|
(Marks files).
|
|
105. Martin T. Orne, "On the Mechanisms of Posthypnotic Amnesia," THE
|
|
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS, 1966, vol. 14,
|
|
121-134. Orne's work with post-hypnotic amnesia was funded by NIMH, the Air
|
|
Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Office of Naval Research. I
|
|
should like to hear what innocent explanation, if any, the Air Force has to
|
|
offer to explain their interest in post-hypnotic amnesia. ["We must not allow
|
|
a post-hypnotic-amnesia gap!" of course. -jpg]
|
|
106. Bowart, OPERATION MIND CONTROL, 242-243.
|
|
107. Obviously Allan Dulles. This may have been a hypnotically-induced
|
|
delusion; on the other hand, Dulles' legendary sexual rapacity makes this claim
|
|
rather less unlikely than one might first assume.
|
|
108. Always the best indicator of whether or not hypnosis is genuine;
|
|
I can't understand why Orne didn't use this test in the Blanchi case.
|
|
109. Herbert Spiegel, "Hypnosis and evidence: Help or hindrance," ANN.
|
|
N.Y. ACAD. SCI.; 1980, 347, 73-85.
|
|
113. Marks, THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE", 34-37.
|
|
114. Donald Bain, THE CONTROL OF CANDY JONES (Chicago, Playboy Press,
|
|
1976).
|
|
115. The use of hypnotized couriers in warfare goes back to the 19th
|
|
century.
|
|
116. Estabrooks, HYPNOTISM, 193-214.
|
|
117. John Marks interview with Milton Kline, December 22, 1977 (Marks
|
|
files). In another interview, Professor Clare Young (a colleague of Esta-
|
|
brooks' at Colgate University) confirmed that Estabrooks' hypnosis work for
|
|
the government has never been published.
|
|
119. Marks files. John Marks did excellent work on the Candy Jones story;
|
|
he erred -- almost unforgivably -- on the side of conservatism when he refused
|
|
to include information about this incident in his book. I know the name of
|
|
the institute involved; however, since Candy saw fit to keep this aspect of
|
|
her story secret (probably for sound legal reasons), I shall follow her lead.
|
|
120. Scheflin and Opton, THE MIND MANIPULATORS, 446-447.
|
|
121. Interviews, Marks files. One of Marks' informants offered the
|
|
interesting speculation that Candy's torture sessions were not conducted in
|
|
the field, but in the lab -- her entire mission might have been a hypno-
|
|
programmed fantasy.
|
|
122. The information about Candy's CIA files stems from a telephone
|
|
interview with Candy Jones. A problem looms here: CIA cover stories unravel
|
|
like the skin of an onion; once you remove the outer layer, the next lie is
|
|
revealed. [For this reason, I don't think this paper "reveals" the whole
|
|
truth; that, I suspect, is far worse. -jpg] In the case of Candy Jones, the
|
|
substrata of buncombe involves allegations that she WILLINGLY complied with
|
|
the CIA, and used Jensen's hypnosis experiments as a rationalization for her
|
|
compliance. Such is the explanation offered by certain of Marks' informants;
|
|
alas, Opton and Scheflin seem to have bought this line. Anyone familiar with
|
|
the vile acts of self-degradation to which Candy's programmers subjected her
|
|
will laugh this story out of court. No one, short of a severely psychotic
|
|
masochist, would willingly undergo what she went through.
|
|
123. Marks files.
|
|
124. William Kroger, CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS (Philadelphia:
|
|
Lippincott, 1963), 299.
|
|
125. Recently, ufologist Jim Moseley, an acquaintance of Candy's, has
|
|
claimed that an unidentified source on Nebel's "inner circle" once, off-the-
|
|
record, pronounced Candy's story "a crock." This assertion deserves careful
|
|
and respectful consideration. Still, Moseley won't identify his source, and
|
|
we have no way of telling if this insider spoke from instinct or certain
|
|
knowledge, or indeed, what he really meant. Did he feel Candy was fantasizing
|
|
or fibbing? If the former, why did her hallucinations match details of
|
|
MKULTRA released only after publication of her book? If the latter, how are
|
|
we to explain the many hypnotic regression tapes, at least some of which were
|
|
made available to outside investigators? (Fairly elaborate, for a hoax.) In
|
|
any case, how could Candy have known the fact (confirmed by Marks' associates)
|
|
that Kroger taught "Jensen" at a certain West-coast institute? Why, if the
|
|
story was "a crock," would Candy risk libel suits by naming -- to associates
|
|
and investigators, if not to the general public -- real-life hypnotherapists?
|
|
All in all, I would suggest that Moseley's "insider" was speaking glibly, and
|
|
did not know the true facts. [Or was speaking disinformationally. -jpg]
|
|
126. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1976.
|
|
127. Ibid., 415.
|
|
133. John Marks interview with Milton Kline, December 22, 1977 (Marks
|
|
files).
|
|
138. Some have also raised questions about his psychiatric treatment
|
|
of Oswald assassin Jack Ruby. I find it odd that a CIA mind control veteran
|
|
-- who did NOT reside or practice in Dallas -- should have been assigned to the
|
|
Ruby case.
|
|
143. Chung-Kwang Chou and Arthur W. Guy, "Quantization of Microwave
|
|
Biological Effects," SYMPOSIUM OF BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS AND MEASUREMENT OF RADIO
|
|
FREQUENCY/MICROWAVES, edited by Dewitt G. Hazzard (U.S. Department of Health,
|
|
Education and Welfare, 1977).
|
|
144. MIAMI HERALD, May 28, 1984 and June 6, 1984 ...
|
|
145. Los Angeles TIMES, March 28, 1988.
|
|
147. A mutual friend described for me an incident in which the former
|
|
SEAL, mistakenly perceiving a threat, almost instantly felled, and nearly
|
|
killed, a man twice his size. Whatever the truth of my informant's other
|
|
statements, he certainly has received advanced combat training.
|
|
148. Fenton Bresler, WHO KILLED JOHN LENNON? (New York: St. Martin's
|
|
Press, 1989), 45-46.
|
|
149. Bowart, OPERATION MIND CONTROL, 27-42.
|
|
150. Denise Winn, THE MANIPULATED MIND (London, Octagon Press, 1983),
|
|
72-73; Bresler, WHO KILLED JOHN LENNON?, 41; see generally: Peter Watson,
|
|
WAR ON THE MIND (London: Hutchison, 1978) (Watson broke the story on Narut
|
|
for the London TIMES).
|
|
151. Larry Collins, "Mind Control," PLAYBOY, January 1990.
|
|
152. John Marks interview with Milton Kline, December 22, 1977 (Marks
|
|
files).
|
|
153. Richard A. Gabriel, NO MORE HEROES (New York: Hill and Wang, 1987),
|
|
124.
|
|
154. Ibid., 150-151.
|
|
155. See generally: Mark Lane, CONVERSATIONS WITH AMERICANS (Simon and
|
|
Shuster, 1970); A.J. Langguth, HIDDEN TERRORS (New York: Pantheon, 1978).
|
|
|
|
|
|
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON MIND CONTROL
|
|
|
|
ACID DREAMS, by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain (Grove, 1985). Outstanding
|
|
work on MKULTRA and drugs.
|
|
|
|
THE BODY ELECTRIC, by Robert Becker (Morrow, 1985). Important.
|
|
|
|
THE BRAIN CHANGERS, by Maya Pines (Signet, 1973). Outdated, but an excellent
|
|
chapter on the stimoceiver and related technologies.
|
|
|
|
BRAIN CONTROL, by Elliot Valenstein (John Wiley and Sons, 1973). Highly
|
|
conservative; outdated; still worth reading.
|
|
|
|
CIA PAPERS, compiled by Capitol Information Associates (POB 8275, Ann Arbor,
|
|
Michigan, 48107). Interesting selection of MKULTRA documents.
|
|
|
|
THE CONTROL OF CANDY JONES, by Donald Bain (Playboy Press, 1976). Mandatory
|
|
reading.
|
|
|
|
HUMAN DRUG TESTING BY THE CIA, hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and
|
|
Scientific Research on the Committee on Human Resources, United States
|
|
Senate (Government Printing Office, 1977).
|
|
|
|
HYPNOTISM, by George Estabrooks (Dutton, 1957). See especially the chapters
|
|
on hypnosis in warfare and crime. Some modern experts in clinical
|
|
hypnosis decry Estabrooks' work. These "experts" tend to have a history
|
|
of funding by CIA cut-outs and military intelligence. I suspect they
|
|
denounce Estabrooks not because his work was shoddy, but because he let
|
|
the cat out of the bag.
|
|
|
|
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND THE FEDERAL ROLE IN BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION, by the Staff
|
|
of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee of the
|
|
Judiciary, United States Senate (Government Printing Office, 1974).
|
|
|
|
MEGABRAIN, by Michael Hutchison (Ballantine, 1986). The only popular book
|
|
on modern mind machines.
|
|
|
|
MESSENGERS OF DECEPTION, by Jacques Vallee (And/Or, 1979). Vallee has been
|
|
criticized, correctly, for including in this book invented "conver-
|
|
sations" with a composite character he calls Major Murphy. But the
|
|
section on cults in this book bears a haunting resemblance to stories
|
|
I have heard in my own investigations.
|
|
|
|
THE MIND MANIPULATORS, by Opton and Scheflin (Paddington Press, 1978). Con-
|
|
servative, but extremely useful as a reference work.
|
|
|
|
MIND WARS, by Ronald McCrae (St. Martin's Press, 1984).
|
|
|
|
OPERATION MIND CONTROL, by Walter Bowart (Dell, 1978). The best single volume
|
|
on the subject. Difficult to find; indeed, this book's rapid disappear-
|
|
ance from bookstores and libraries has aroused the suspicions of some
|
|
researchers. (Tom David Books, POB 1107, Aptos, CA 95001, carries this
|
|
work.)
|
|
|
|
PHYSICAL CONTROL OF THE MIND, by Jose Delgado (Harper and Row, 1969). Outdated
|
|
but still essential.
|
|
|
|
PROJECT MKULTRA, joint hearing before the Select Committee on Health and
|
|
Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, United States
|
|
Senate (Government Printing Office, 1977).
|
|
|
|
PSYCHIC WARFARE: FACT OR FICTION? edited by John White (Aquarian, 1988). See
|
|
especially Michael Rossman's contribution.
|
|
|
|
PSYCHOTECHNOLOGY, Robert L. Schwitzgebel and Ralph K. Schwitzgebel (Holt,
|
|
Rhinehart and Winston, 1973).
|
|
|
|
THE SCIENTIST, by John Lilly (expanded edition: Ronin, 1988). Bizarre --
|
|
Lilly is an ex-"brainwashing" specialist who claims to be in contact
|
|
with aliens. Is he controlled or controlling?
|
|
|
|
THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE", by John Marks (Bantam, 1978). An
|
|
invaluable book. However, many people have made the mistake of assuming
|
|
it tells the full story. It does not.
|
|
|
|
WERE WE CONTROLLED? by Lincoln Lawrence (University Books, 1967). Explores
|
|
possible connections to the JFK assassination. Dr. Petter Lindstrom's
|
|
endorsement of this work makes it mandatory reading.
|
|
|
|
WHO KILLED JOHN LENNON? by Fenton Bresler (St. Martin's Press, 1989).
|
|
Interesting thesis concerning the possible use of mind control on Mark
|
|
David Chapman. Better in its analysis of Chapman than in its history
|
|
of mind control. In my own work, I have encountered data which may
|
|
help confirm Bresler's theory.
|
|
|
|
THE ZAPPING OF AMERICA, by Paul Brodeur (MacLeod [Canadian edition], 1976).
|
|
Contains a good chapter on microwave mind control technology.
|
|
|
|
The important stories of Martti Koski and Robert Naeslund can be obtained by
|
|
sending three dollars to Martti Koski, Kiilinpellontie 2, 21290 Rusko,
|
|
FINLAND. Koski's description of his "programming" sessions should not be
|
|
taken at face value; we cannot always trust the perception of someone whose
|
|
perception has been altered. His research into the technology of mind control
|
|
is solid.
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