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SUBJECT: THE CONTROLLERS: A NEW HYPOTHESIS OF ALIEN ABDUCTION FILE: UFO1957
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THE CONTROLLERS:
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A New Hypothesis of Alien Abduction
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by
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Martin Cannon
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I. Introduction
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One wag has dubbed the problem "Terra and the Pirates."
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The pirates, ostensibly, are marauders from another solar system; their
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victims include a growing number of troubled human beings who insist that
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they've been shanghaied by these otherworldly visitors. An outlandish
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scenario -- yet through the works of such authors as Budd Hopkins[1] and
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Whitley Strieber[2], the "alien abduction" syndrome has seized the public
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imagination. Indeed, tales of UFO contact threaten to lapse into fashion-
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ability, even though, as I have elsewhere noted[3], they may still inflict a
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formidable social price upon the claimant.
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Some time ago, I began to research these claims, concentrating my studies
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on the social and political environment surrounding these events. As I
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studied, the project grew and its scope widened. Indeed, I began to feel as
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though I'd gone digging through familiar terrain only to unearth Gomorrah.
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These excavations may have disgorged a solution.
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THE PROBLEM
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Among ufologists, the term "abduction" has come to refer to an
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infinitely-confounding experience, or matrix of experiences, shared by a
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dizzying number of individuals, who claim that travellers from the stars
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have scooped them out of their beds, or snatched them from their cars, and
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subjected them to interrogations, quasi-medical examinations, and
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"instruction" periods. Usually, these sessions are said to occur within
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alien spacecraft; frequently, the stories include terrifying details
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reminiscent of the tortures inflicted in Germany's death camps. The
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abductees often (though not always) lose all memory of these events; they
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find themselves back in their cars or beds, unable to account for hours of
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"missing time." Hypnosis, or some other trigger, can bring back these
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haunted hours in an explosion of recollection -- and as the smoke clears,
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an abductee will often spot a trail of similar experiences, stretching all
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the way back to childhood.
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Perhaps the oddest fact of these odd tales: Many abductees, for all their
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vividly-recollected agonies, claim to love their alien tormentors. That's
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the word I've heard repeatedly: love.
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Within the community of "scientific ufologists" -- those lonely, all-too
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little-heard advocates of reasonable and open-minded debate on matters
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saucerological -- these claims have elicited cautious interest and a
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commend-able restraint from conclusion-hopping. Outside the higher realms
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of scientific ufology, the situation is, alas, quite different. In the
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popular press, in both the "straight" and sensationalist media, within that
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journalistic realm where issues are defined and public opinion solidified
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(despite a frequently superficial approach to matters of evidence and
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investigation) abduction scenarios have elicited two basic reactions: that
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of the Believer and the Skeptic.
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The Believers -- and here we should note that "Believers" and "abductees"
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are two groups whose memberships overlap but are in no way congruent --
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accept such stories at face value. They accept, despite the seeming
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absurdity of these tales, the internal contradictions, the askew logic of
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narrative construction, the severe discontinuity of emotional response to
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the actions described. The Believers believe, despite reports that their
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beloved "space brothers" use vile and inhuman tactics of medical
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examination -- senseless procedures most of us (and certainly the vanguard
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of an advanced race) would be ashamed to inflict on an animal. The
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Believers believe, despite the difficulty of reconciling these unsettling
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tales with their own deliriums of benevolent off-worlders.
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Occasionally, the rough notes of a rationalization are offered: "The
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aliens don't know what they are doing," we hear; or "Some aliens are bad."
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Yet the Believers confound their own reasoning when they insist on ascribing
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the wisdom of the ages and the beneficence of the angels to their beloved
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visitors. The aliens allegedly know enough about our society to go about
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their business undetected by the local authorities and the general public;
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they communicate with the abductees in human tongue; they concern themselves
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with details of the percipients' innermost lives -- yet they remain so
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ignorant of our culture as to be unaware of the basic moral precepts
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concerning the dignity of the individual and the right to
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self-determination. Such dichotomies don't bother the Believers; they are
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the faithful, and faith is assumed to have its mysteries. SANCTA
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SIMPLICITAS.
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Conversely, the Skeptics dismiss these stories out of hand. They
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dismiss, despite the intriguing confirmatory details: the multiple witness
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events, the physical traces left by the ufonauts, the scars and implants
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left on the abductees. The skeptics scoff, though the abductees tell
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stories similar in detail -- even certain tiny details, not known to the
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general public.
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Philip Klass is a debunker who, through his appearances on such
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television programs as NOVA and NIGHTLINE, has been in a position to affect
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much of the public debate on UFOs. In his interesting but
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poorly-documented work on abductions[4], Klass claims that "abduction" is a
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psychological disease, spread by those who write about it. This argument
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exactly resembles the professional press-basher's frequent assertion that
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terrorism metastasizes through media exposure. Yet for all the millions of
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words expectorated by newsfolk on the subject of terrorism, terrorist
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actions remain quite rare, as any statistician (though few politicians)
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will admit, and verifiable linkage between crimes and their coverage
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remains to be found. For that matter, there have been books --
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bestsellers, even -- on unicorns and gnomes. People who claim to see those
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creatures are few. Abductees are plentiful.
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Both Believer and Skeptic, in my opinion, miss the real story. Both make
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the same mistake: They connect the abduction phenomenon to the forty-year
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history of UFO sightings, and they apply their prejudices about the latter
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to the controversy about the former.
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At first sight, the link seems natural. Shouldn't our thoughts about
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UFOs color our thoughts about UFO abductions?
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NO.
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They may well be separate issues. Or, rather, they are connected only
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in this: The myth of the UFO has provided an effective cover story for an
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entirely different sort of mystery. Remove yourself from the
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Believer/Skeptic dialectic, and you will see the third alternative.
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As we examine this alternative, we will, of necessity, stray far from the
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saucers. We must turn our face from the paranormal and concentrate on the
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occult -- if, by "occult," we mean SECRET.
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I posit that the abductees HAVE been abducted. Yet they are also spewing
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fantasy -- or, more precisely, they have been given a set of lies to repeat
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and believe. If my hypothesis proves true, then we must accept the
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following: The kidnapping is real. The fear is real. The pain is real.
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The instruction is real. But the little grey men from Zeti Reticuli are
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NOT real; they are constructs, Halloween masks meant to disguise the real
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faces of the con-trollers. The abductors may not be visitors from Beyond;
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rather, they may be a symptom of the carcinoma which blackens our body
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politic.
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The fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves.
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THE HYPOTHESIS
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Substantial evidence exists linking members of this country's
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intelligence community (including the Central Intelligence Agency, the
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Defense Advanvced Research Projects Agency, and the Office of Naval
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Intelligence) with the esoteric technology of MIND CONTROL. For decades,
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"spy-chiatrists" working behind the scenes -- on college campuses, in
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CIA-sponsored institutes, and (most heinously) in prisons -- have
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experimented with the erasure of memory, hypnotic resistance to torture,
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truth serums, post-hypnotic suggestion, rapid induction of hypnosis,
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electronic stimulation of the brain, non-ionizing radiation, microwave
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induction of intracerebral "voices," and a host of even more disturbing
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technologies. Some of the projects exploring these areas were ARTICHOKE,
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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
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university libraries researching relevant articles, contacting other
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researchers (who have graciously allowed me access to their files), and
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conducting interviews. Moreover, I traveled to Washington, DC to review
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the files John Marks compiled when he wrote THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN
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CANDIDATE"[6]. These files include some 20,000 pages of CIA and Defense
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Department documents, interviews, scientific articles, letters, etc. The
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views presented here are the result of 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
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glimpse." [8]
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2. Clandestine research into thought manipulation has NOT stopped,
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despite CIA protestations that it no longer sponsors such studies. Victor
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Marchetti, 14-year veteran of the CIA and author of the renown expose, THE
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CIA AND THE CULT OF INTELLIGENCE, confirmed in a 1977 interview that the
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mind control research continues, and that CIA claims to the contrary are a
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"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
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well as all branches of the Defense Department.
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To these conclusions I would append the following -- NOT as firmly-
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established historical fact, but as a working hypothesis and grounds for
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investigation:
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4. The "UFO abduction" phenomenon MIGHT be a continuation of clandestine
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mind control operations.
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I recognize the difficulties this thesis might present to those readers
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emotionally wedded to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, or to those whose
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political WELTANSHAUUNG disallows any such suspicions. Still, the open-
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minded student of abductions should consider the possibilities. Certainly,
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we are not being narrow-minded if we ask researchers to exhaust ALL
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terrestrial explanations before looking heavenward.
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Granted, this particular explanation may, at first, seem as bizarre as
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the phenomenon itself. But I invite the skeptical reader to examine the
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work of George Estabrooks, a seminal theorist on the use of hypnosis in
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warfare, and a veteran of Project MKULTRA. Estabrooks once amused himself
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during a party by covertly hypnotizing two friends, who were led to believe
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that the Prime Minister of England had just arrived; Estabrooks' victims
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spent an hour conversing with, and even serving drinks to, the esteemed
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visitor[11]. For ufologists, this incident raises an inescapable question:
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If the Mesmeric arts can successfully evoke a non-existent Prime Minister,
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why can't a represent-ative from the Pleiades be similarly induced?
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But there is much more to the present day technology of mind control than
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mere hypnosis -- and many good reasons to suspect that UFO abduction
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accounts are an artifact of continuing brainwashing/behavior modification
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experiments.
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Moreover, I intend to demonstrate that, by using UFO mythology as a cover
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story, the experimenters may have solved the major problem with the work
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conducted in the 1950s -- "the disposal problem," i.e., the question of
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"What do we do with the victims?"
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If, in these pages, I seem to stray from the subject of the saucers, I
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plead for patience. Before I attempt to link UFO abductions with mind
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control experiments, I must first show that this technology EXISTS. Much
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of the forthcoming is an introduction to the topic of mind control -- what
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it is, and how it works.
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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
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University, wrote to the Department of War, describing in breathless terms
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the possible uses of hypnosis in warfare[12]. The Army was intrigued;
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Estabrooks had a job. The true history of Estabrooks' wartime
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collaboration with the CID, FBI[13] and other agencies may never be told:
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After the war, he burned his diary pages covering the years 1940-45, and
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thereafter avoided discussing his continuing government work with anyone,
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even close members of the family[14]. Occasionally, he strongly intimated
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that his work involved the creation of hypno-programmed couriers and
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hypnotically-induced split personalities, but whether he succeeded in these
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areas remains a controversial point. Neverthe-less, the eccentric and
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flamboyant Estabrooks remains a pivotal figure in the early history of
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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.
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On both sides, the war spurred furious efforts to create a "truth drug" for
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use in interrogating prisoners. General William "Wild Bill" Donovan,
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director of the OSS, tasked his crack team -- including Dr. Winifred
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Overhulser, Dr.Edward Strecker, Harry J. Anslinger and George White -- to
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modify human perception and behavior through chemical means; their
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"medicine cabinet" included scopolamine, peyote, barbiturates, mescaline,
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and marijuana. (This research had its amusing side: Donovan's "psychic
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warriors" conducted many extensive and expensive trials before deciding
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that the best method of administering tetrahydrocannibinol, the active
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ingredient in marijuana, was via the cigarette. Any jazz musician could
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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,
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slavs, gypsies, and other "Untermenschen" in the camp were surreptitiously
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slipped the drug; later, mescaline was combined with hypnosis[16]. The
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results of these tests were made available to the United States after the
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War. [cf. Operation PAPERCLIP, which transferred thousands of German and
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Japanese intelligence researchers directly into the U.S. intelligence
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community. "Our Germans are BETTER than their Germans!" - DR. STRANGELOVE
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In 1947, the Navy conducted the first known post-war mind control
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program, Project CHAPTER, which continued the drug experiments. Decades
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later, journalists and investigators still haven't uncovered much
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information about this project -- or, indeed, about any of the military's
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other excursions into this field. We know that the Army eventually founded
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operations THIRD CHANCE and DERBY HAT; other project names remain
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mysterious, though the existence of 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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