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SUBJECT: THEY'RE NOT FROM ZETI RETICULI                      FILE: UFO3038


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Date: 25 Jul 93 13:50:34 CDT 
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From: jpg3196@eafs000.ca.boeing.com (James P. Galasyn) 
Subject: They're not from Zeti Reticuli 
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 19:38:00 GMT 
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                              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  
Intelligence Agency, under duress, provided some, though not enough, documen- 
tation of its efforts to commandeer 'the space between our ears.'  We know that 
these efforts were extensive, long-term, and at least partially successful.  We 
know also that these experiments used human subjects.  But who?  When? 
   One paradox of this line of inquiry is that, for many readers, the victims 
elicit sympathy only insofar as they remain anonymous.  Intellectually, we 
realize that MKULTRA and its allied projects must have affected hundreds,  
probably thousands, of individuals.  Yet we react with deep suspicion  
whenever one of these individuals steps forward and identifies himself, or 
whenever an independent investigator argues that mind control has directed some 
newsworthy person's otherwise inexplicable actions.  Where, the skeptic may 
rightfully ask, is the documentation supporting such accusations?  Most of the 
MKULTRA 'paper trail' was (allegedly) burnt at Richard Helms' order; what's 
left has been censored, leaving black ink smudges wherever the names originally 
appeared.  Claimed mind control victims can, for the most part, only give us 
testimony -- and how reliable can such testimony be, especially in light of the 
fact that one purpose of MKULTRA was to induce insanity?  Anyone asserting that 
he was victimized by the program might well be seeking an extrinsic excuse for 
his own psychopathology.  If you say that you are a manufactured madman, you 
were probably mad to begin with: Catch 22. 
   When John Marks wrote THE SEARCH FOR 'THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE' he received 
numerous letters from people insisting that they had been drugged, 'waved,' or 
otherwise abused by the CIA or the military.  Most of these communications went 
directly into his crank file.  Perhaps many deserved that destination; I know  
of at least one that did not[94]. 
   Marks did, however, devote much attention to Val Orlikov, a former 'patient' 
of perhaps the most notorious figure in the annals of American medical crime: 
Dr. Ewen ('BoB') Cameron, a CIA-funded scientist heading the Allan Memorial 
Institute at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.  Cameron, a highly-respected 
mental health researcher[95], experimented with a technique he called 'psychic 
driving,' a brainwashing program which involved inflicting upon a subject an 
endless tape loop blaring selected messages, 16-to-24 hours a day, combined 
with massive electroshock and LSD.  The project's 'guinea pigs' were patients 
who had come to Allan Memorial with relatively minor psychological complaints. 
Cameron's experiments failed and his theories were discredited, which may 
explain why the CIA and its apologists now feel relatively comfortable  
discussing the Frankensteinian efforts at Allan Memorial, as opposed to more 
successful work elsewhere. 
   Orlikov's testimony has received much respectful attention from those 
writers who have examined MKULTRA, and correctly so.  When I studied the files 
at the National Security Archives, I was particularly keen to read her original 
letters to John Marks, for these pages had led to the unmasking of an  
especially heinous CIA project.  The letters, interestingly enough, proved just 
as vague, disjointed, and bizarre as similar correspondence which researchers 
routinely dismiss.  Orlikov can't be blamed for the hazy nature of her 
recollections; a certain amount of fog is to be expected, given the nature of 
the crime perpetrated against her.  The important point is that her story,  
ultimately, was found to be true.  All of which leads me to wonder: Why did  
HER claims prompt investigation when those of others prompt only dismissal?   
Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that Orlikov's husband became a Canadian 
Member of Parliament.  Any victims of CIA experimentation who wish to be taken 
seriously ought, perhaps, first make sure to marry well. 
   Of course, we can easily forgive previous writers and readers whose 
researches into MKULTRA have been biased in favor of complacency[96].  But we 
can't let this natural prejudice cripple our present investigation.  Let us  
examine, then, a few of the 'horror stories' from the mind control literature 
and highlight possible correlations to abductee testimony. 
 
 
PALLE HARDRUP'S 'GUARDIAN ANGEL' 
 
   As mentioned previously, I have not delved much into the subject of hypnosis 
in this paper -- primarily because of space and time limitations, but also  
because discussions of the possibilities of hypnosis PER SE tend to cloud the 
issue of its use in conjunction with the above-mentioned electronic techniques. 
Obviously, however, hypnosis is a major weapon in the mind controller's  
armament; in a forthcoming full-length work, I intend to deal with this subject 
at much greater length. 
   Needless to say, one of the primary objectives of MKULTRA and related  
projects was to determine whether one could hypnotically induce someone to 
commit an anti-social act.  This possibility remains one of the most hotly- 
debated issues in hypnosis, for conventional wisdom asserts that no individual 
can be hypnotized to commit an action which violates his interior moral code. 
Martin Orne, editor of the presitigious INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND 
EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS agrees with this axiom[97], and he is in a position to 
codify much of the established view on this topic.  Orne, however, is a 
veteran of MKULTRA, and furthermore seems to have lied -- at least in his 
original communications -- to author John Marks about his witting involvement 
in subproject 94[98].  While I respect much of Orne's ground-breaking work, 
his pronouncements do not hold, for this layman, an Olympian unassailability. 
   To be sure, many other hypnosis experts, untainted by Company connections, 
also discount the possibility that anti-social actions can be induced.  But a 
number of highly-experienced professionals -- including Milton Kline, William 
Kroger, George Estabrooks, John Watkins, and Herbert Spiegel -- have argued  
that such actions can, at least to some degree, be elicited by an outside 
manipulator. 
   Occasionally, claims of hypnotically-induced anti-social behavior find 
their way into the courtroom; one such case, which led to the incarceration of 
the hypnotist, was the Palle Hardrup affair.  This incident occurred in 
Denmark in 1951[99].  Palle Hardrup robbed a bank, killing a guard in the 
process, and later claimed that he had been instructed to do so by the  
hypnotist Bjorn Nielsen.  Nielsen eventually confessed to having engineered  
the crime as a test of his hypnotic abilities. 
   The most significant aspect of this incident concerns the 'pose' Nielsen 
adopted to work his malicious designs.  During the hypnosis sessions, Nielsen 
hypnotically suggested that he was Hardrup's 'guardian angel,' represented 
by the letter X.  Hardrup testified that 'There is another room next door  
where Nielsen and I go and talk on our own.  It is there that my guardian  
spirit usually comes and talks to me.  Nielsen says that X has a task for me.' 
   One of these tasks was arranging for Hardrup's girlfriend to have sex with 
the hypnotist.  The other tasks, he mentioned, included robbery and murder. 
Nielsen convinced his victim that 'X' wanted the robbery funds to be used for 
worthwhile political goals.  The end, Hardrup was told, justified the means. 
   Compare this scenario to that encountered in the typical contactee case,  
in which alien 'guardians' convince their victims/subjects that the encounter 
will eventually serve some unspecified 'higher purpose.'  Indeed, in my  
interviews with abductees who have established a 'long-term' relationship with 
their visitors, I have found that some of them originally believed themselves 
in contact with Hardrup-like angelic guardians.  Only in recent years was the 
'angel' pose discarded and the true 'alien' form revealed. 
   Thus we have one possible means of overcoming the proposition that hypnosis 
cannot induce anti-social behavior.  If a hypnotist lacks scruples, and has 
access to a particularly susceptible subject, he can induce a MISPERCEIVED 
REALITY.  Actions which we would abhor in an everyday context become acceptable 
in specialized circumstances: A citizen who could never commit murder on a 
surburban street might, if drafted into an army, kill on the field of battle. 
In hypnosis, the mind becomes that battlefield.  In the words of Dr. John 
Watkins, 
 
         We behave on the basis of our perceptions.  If our perceptions 
      of a situation can be altered so as to cause us to misconstrue it, 
      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. 
      He can be made to ignore painful stimuli, be apparently unable  
      to hear loud sounds, AND 'SEE' INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE NOT PRESENT 
      [my italics].  Moreover, attitudes and beliefs can be initiated 
      in him which are quite abnormal and often contrary to those  
      which he previously held[100]. 
 
   If traditional hypnosis, unaided, can achieve such changes in perception, 
one can only imagine the possibilities inherent in the combination of hypnotic 
techniques with the psychoelectronic research previously described. 
   Scientists such as Orne and Milton Erickson[101] have taken issue with 
Watkins' assertions.  But the Hardrup case would appear to bear Watkins out. 
If someone can be convinced that he, like Jeanne D'Arc, acts under the  
influence of a supernatural higher power, then previously unthinkable  
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 -- or the Devil, or the Space 
Brothers -- what they would not do otherwise. 
   The date of the Hardrup affair corresponds to the institution of BLUEBIRD/ 
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. 
    
 
SCREEN MEMORY 
 
   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: 
 
         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] 
 
   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]. 
   This point is vitally important for students of the abduction phenomenon.  
We CANNOT assume the accuracy of abduction descriptions given during subsequent 
hypnotic regression.  Moreover, we cannot even assume the accuracy of spon- 
taneously-arising recollections (i.e., abduction memories not elicited through 
hypnotic regression).  Indeed, responsible skeptics have argued that hypnotic 
regression may prove inadvertently harmful, in that it may lock in place a 
false remembrance.  (Note, however, that other psychiatric professionals  
consider hypnotic regression the best technique, however flawed, in unlocking 
amnesia[110].  For my part, I maintain an ambivalent and cautious attitude 
toward the use of hypnosis in abductee work.) 
   Granted, it is all too easy for the debunkers to cry 'confabulation' to 
dismiss hypnotic testimony which does not conform to our preconceptions about 
the possible; I do not intend to make this same error.  Whenever skeptics 
offer the phenomenon of pseudomemory to rationalize abduction claims, they cite 
experimental situations in which PSEUDOMEMORY WAS ORIGINALLY CREATED BY A 
HYPNOTIST[111].  These experiments can not be cited as proof that an individual 
abductee spontaneously conjured up a fantasy (which just happens to correspond 
to the details of hundreds of similar 'fantasies').  Rather, laboratory studies 
of pseudomemory creation prove MY point: Pseudomemory can be induced BY  
PREVIOUS HYPNOSIS[112].             
   In other words, an abductee may talk of aliens -- when the reality was 
something else entirely. 
   In correspondence with me, a noted abduction researcher wrote of an instance 
in which an abductee recounted seeing a helicopter during his experience; as  
the abductee testimony progressed, the helicopter turned into a UFO. During one 
of the (quite few) regression sessions I attended, I heard an exactly similar 
narrative.  Hopkins would argue that the helicopter was a 'screen memory'  
hiding the awful reality of the UFO encounter.  But does Occam's razor really 
cut that way?  Shouldn't we also consider the possibility that the object in 
question really WAS a helicopter -- which the abductee was instructed to recall 
as a UFO? 
 
 
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 ('BoB') 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[118], who, using 
hypnotic regression, elicited the long-repressed truth.  Eventually, the 
'Other Candy' was bade farewell, and the programming broken. 
   Skeptics might find Candy's story as incredible as the abduction accounts-- 
after all, an amateur had conducted her hypnotic regression, and the possi- 
bility of confabulation always lurks.  Nevertheless, 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. 
   The control of Candy Jones gives us much information useful to our 'alien 
abduction' hypothesis. 
   1. Her torture sessions -- inflicted during her programming by her CIA 
masters, and on missions by as-yet mysterious persons -- seem strikingly like 
the otherwise senselessly painful 'examinations' allegedly conducted aboard 
alien spacecraft. 
   2. Her personality shifts roughly parallel those experienced by certain UFO 
abductees. 
   3. Despite her brutalization, she remained 'loyal' to Drs. Jensen and  
Burger.  This bewildering behavior reminds me of my first abductee interviews, 
during which I heard ghastly descriptions of UFO torture sessions -- followed 
by protestations of limitless love for the alien pain-mongers. 
   4. Like many abductees, Candy had to attend regular 'conditioning' sessions. 
Repeated exposure to the programming is necessary to effect continuous control. 
   5. To maintain their hammerlock on her mind, Candy's handlers programmed her 
to remain isolated.  Specifically, they instilled a deep paranoia toward other 
human beings; 'outsiders' were probable enemies, out to use or abuse her. I  
have seen this pattern consistently in my own work with abductees[128].  Skep- 
tics would argue that unreasonable abductee fears probably indicate paranoid 
schizophrenia--one symptom of which can, indeed, be hallucinatory experiences. 
But most abductees are easily hypnotized, while paranoid schizophrenics are 
extremely difficult to 'put under,' according to Dr. Edward Simpson-Kallas, a 
psychiatrist with wide experience in the area of forensic hypnosis[129].  If, 
however, those unreasonable fears had been hypnotically induced, the contra- 
diction is resolved. 
   6. Candy was the product of an unhappy childhood, hence her propensity  
toward multiple personality[130].  Many of the 'repeater' abductees I have  
interviewed had similarly depressing family histories[131]. 
   7. The story of Candy Jones also has what we might call a 'negative  
relevance' to the abduction accounts.  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.  Candy's  
hypno-programming broke down in early 1973 -- the year the 'alien disguise' 
became (if my hypothesis proves correct) standard operating procedure[132]. 
(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?) 
 
 
BASES OF SUSPICION 
 
   'Underground base' rumors are as hot as jalapenos in the UFO field right  
now, and several of these stories involve abductions. 
   For example, a sideshow of the famous Bentwaters UFO case involves the 
abduction of an airman named Larry Warren to an underground cavity beneath the 
military base.  There, while in what he later described as 'a bit of a drugged 
state,' he saw aliens and human beings -- military figures -- working side-by- 
side[134]. 
   I have spoken to another abductee, Nancy Wright, who was allegedly taken to 
an underground chamber ten miles north of Edwards AFB, California.  As this 
was a multiple-witness event, and Ms. Wright has not attempted to capitalize on  
the story for financial gain, I tend to credit her story[135].  According to 
abduction researcher Miranda Parks, an elderly couple living in the vicinity 
was also abducted in an exactly similar fashion[136]. 
   In 1979, Paul Bennewitz and Leo Sprinkle researched a particularly  
controversial abduction involving a young woman (name unrevealed) who was 
apparently taken to a facility where aliens processed fluids and body parts 
from a cattle mutilation.  This investigation seems to have led to the  
government harassment of Bennewitz, in which some form of mind control (or, as 
I have previously referred to it, 'electronic GASLIGHT') may have played a  
part[137]. 
   How do we account for these tales of alleged alien skullduggery carried out 
in conjunction with the military?  I, for one, cannot credit the generally- 
unsubstantiated tales of 'cosmic conspiracy' now promulgated by ex-intelligence 
agents such as John Lear and William Cooper.  While I cannot assert insincerity 
on the part of these men, I often wonder if they have been used as conduits -- 
witting or unwitting -- in a sophisticated disinformation scheme.   
   A simpler, though no less chilling, explanation for the 'base' abductions 
may be found in the story of Dr. Louis Jolyon ('boB') West, now notorious for 
his participation in MKULTRA experiments with LSD[138].  Inspired by VIOLENCE 
AND THE BRAIN (a book by Drs. Frank ('Bob') Ervin and Vernon H. ('BoB') 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.  ['I was cured, all right.' - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE  -jpg] 
   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. 
   For our purposes, the most significant aspect of this proposal had to do 
with location.  In a secret communication to Dr. J.M. ('BoB') Stubblebine, 
director of the California State Department of Health (fortunately, this 
missive was 'leaked' to the public), West disclosed that he intended to house 
his Center in an abandoned Nike missile base, whose location was accessible 
yet relatively remote.  'The site is securely fenced,' West wrote.  'Compara- 
tive studies could be carried out there, in an isolated but convenient  
location, of experimental model programs, for the alteration of undesirable 
behavior.'[139] 
   Public outcry stopped these plans.  But was this scheme truly eliminated?  
Or was it merely modified, stripped (temporarily) of its overtly racial  
overtones and relocated to some less-accessible spot? 
   One thing is certain: A CIA 'spy-chiatrist' favored secret behavior control 
experimentation in a remote military installation.  Perhaps someone within the 
espionage establishment's mind-modification divisions still thinks highly of 
the idea.  If so, the disposal problem would once again rear its ugly head, 
should 'visitors' to these installations ever reappear in outside society. 
Again, a hypno-programmed cover story -- the less believable, the better -- 
would prove invaluable. 
 
 
THE SCANDINAVIAN CONNECTION 
 
   Many books have been written about abductees, yet few exist about the  
victims of mind control.  I cannot understand this situation; the reality of 
UFOs is still controversial, yet the existence of mind control was verified 
in two (heavily compromised) congressional investigations and in thousands of 
FOIA documents.  Nevertheless, the abductees find many a sympathetic ear, while 
those few who dare to proclaim themselves the victims of known government 
programs rarely find anyone to hear them out.  Our prejudices on this score are 
regrettable, for if we listened to the 'controllees' we would hear many details 
strikingly similar to those mentioned by UFO abductees. 
   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. 
   Many aspects of the Koski and Naeslund stories correspond to my hypothesis. 
Koski, for example, was at one point told that the doctors afflicting him were 
actually 'aliens from Sirius.'  At another point, he was led to believe that 
he was under direction of 'the Lord.'  (As I previously indicated, manipulation 
of religious imagery could help induce anti-social behavior; the subject's  
super-ego can be nullified if he believes that he follows commands from on  
high.  Such manipulation may explain the more bizarre aspects of Betty 
Andreasson Luca's abduction[140].) 
   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. 
   This detail will be instantly familiar to anyone who has studied abductions; 
I have encountered it in my own conversations with abductees.  For an excellent 
example in the UFO literature, I refer the reader to the case of Susan Ransted, 
as detailed in Kevin D. Randle's THE UFO CASEBOOK[141]; the background of 
alleged contactee Diane Tessman is also noteworthy in this regard[142].  
Intriguingly, 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; X-rays of his cranium have revealed abductee- 
style implants -- fitting, perhaps, since his body bears abductee-style scars. 
[144]  Conversely, certain abductees will, if allowed a thorough and sympa- 
thetic hearing, deliver testimony strongly agreeing with Koski's narrative. 
 
 
HELICOPTERS AND DISKS 
 
   The bizarre story of Rex Niles and his sister (not named in news accounts) 
may shed interesting light on a variety of abductee cases, particularly that 
of Betty and Barney Hill[145].  Niles, the high-rolling owner of a Woodland 
Hills defense subcontracting firm (Rex Rep) was fingered by authorities  
investigating defense industry kickbacks.  He became an extraordinarily 
cooperative witness in the investigation -- until he was targeted by his 
enemies, who allegedly used psychoelectronics as harassment. 
   The following excerpt from the LOS ANGELES TIMES article on Niles is 
particularly compelling: 
 
         He [Niles] produced testimony from his sister, a Simi 
      Valley woman who swears that helicopters have repeatedly 
      circled her home.  An engineer measured 250 watts of 
      microwaves in the atmosphere outside Niles' house and 
      found a RADIOACTIVE DISK UNDERNEATH THE DASH OF HIS CAR 
      [my italics].   
         A former high school friend, Lyn Silverman, claimed 
      that her home computer went haywire when Niles stepped 
      close to it. 
 
   No aliens in this story -- yet how similar it is to tales of alien  
abduction!  The low-flying helicopters, of course, are frequently reported 
by abduction victims -- the Betty Andreasson Luca case provides the best- 
known example[146].  The haywire electronics equipment is also frequently 
encountered in putative abduction cases; I have spoken (independently) to 
three women who claimed to have been able to disturb or shut off televisions 
and stereos simply by walking past the devices; one woman even claimed she  
had switched off her TV simply by pointing at it. 
   But the radioactive disc is especially intriguing.  As former FBI agent 
Ted Gunderson recently explained to my associate Alexander Constantine, 
magnetic radioactive discs have long been used by the clandestine services as 
cancer-inducing 'silent killers' -- i.e., as tools of assassination.  Not only 
that.  The disc calls to mind one little-remembered detail of the Hill case -- 
the dozen-or-so circular 'shiny spots,' each the size of a silver dollar, found 
on the trunk of her car directly after the abduction.  A compass needle reacted 
wildly when placed near these spots.  Could they have marked the location where 
an electromagnetic or radioactive device, similar to that found by Niles, was 
placed on the car?  (Such a device might have been held to the spot magnetic- 
ally, hence the circular impressions.)  If so, then the disorienting EMR could  
have helped induce the Hills' 'UFO sighting.' 
 
 
THE MILITARY AND MIND CONTROL 
 
   Some time ago, I attended hypnotic regression sessions in which the  
subject -- a claimed UFO abductee -- recalled undergoing a mysterious 'brain 
operation' at a veteran's hospital in California.  The operation was performed 
by human beings, not aliens.  Interestingly, this same hospital was mentioned 
in two other cases I encountered.  These other claims were not made by 
abductees, but by people alleged to have been victims of mind control experi- 
mentation. 
   One of these claimants, a former Navy SEAL who undertook numerous dangerous 
missions in Vietnam, favorably impressed me with the wealth of detail in his 
story[147].  This individual -- I've taken to calling him 'the trained SEAL'-- 
had received specialized combat training at a military base in California; he 
claims that at one point during this training he was drugged, hypnotized,  
possibly placed under some form of electronic control, and subjected to the 
extremes of pain/pleasure operant conditioning.  One peculiar detail of his 
story concerns the 'reward' aspect of the conditioning: When properly  
acquiescent, he was given unlimited sexual access to a woman who, the SEAL  
avers, was herself the victim of brainwashing. 
   Unbelievable as this last claim may seem, I found it oddly resonant when I 
later interviewed a prominent abductee in the Southern California area, who 
bravely offered me details on a puzzling, albeit quite delicate, incident in 
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  
name.  All she remembers is that one day he started LIVING AT HER FAMILY'S 
HOUSE; she has no memory of how the arrangement began, and her parents have 
never felt comfortable discussing the matter.  Although unattracted to this 
soldier, she felt compelled to become intimate with him, adopting a pliant, 
obeisant attitude that was quite out of character for her.  Later, the soldier 
went on to covert missions in Vietnam. 
   Of course, a young person's psycho-sexual development is never smooth, and 
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 the abduc- 
tee's intuition that this minor enigma in her personal history could, if 
properly understood, shed light on her later 'missing time' experiences. 
   Could the 'trained SEAL' have been right?  Was there, IS there, a coterie 
of hypno-programmed soldiers conducting particularly hazardous missions?  And 
do the programmers have at their disposal a 'ladies' auxiliary,' so to speak, 
of hypnotized camp followers? 
   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- 
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]. 
   Walter Bowart began his own researches into mind control by placing an ad in 
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].  The parallels to the SEAL's story 
and the abductee's account should be obvious. 
   We even have a confession, of sorts, from a scientist who specialized in one 
aspect of this sort of training.  Lt. Commander Thomas ('Bob') 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] 
   And while it may seem frivolous to return to the subject of abductions after 
examining such grim data, I should remind the reader of the many abduction 
accounts in which abductees recall being forced to watch certain stress- 
inducing motion pictures.  The aliens, it seems, have learned a few lessons 
from Dr. Narut. 
   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 ('Bob' Dobbs) Verona.  These projects remain fairly 
mysterious; we do know, however, that one operation, SLEEPING BEAUTY, employed 
the services of Dr. Michael ('BoB') Persinger, a scientist who has expressed 
interesting views regarding UFOs. 
   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: 
 
         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] 
 
 
THE ULTIMATE MOTIVE FOR MIND CONTROL                          
 
   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. 
 
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