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SUBJECT: THE CONTROLLERS: A NEW HYPOTHESIS OF ALIEN ABDUCTION
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FILE: UFO2541
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PART 1
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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 infinitely-
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confounding experience, or matrix of experiences, shared by a dizzying number
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of individuals, who claim that travellers from the stars have scooped them out
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of their beds, or snatched them from their cars, and subjected them to
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interrogations, quasi-medical examinations, and "instruction" periods.
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Usually, these sessions are said to occur within alien spacecraft; frequently,
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the stories include terrifying details reminiscent of the tortures inflicted
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in Germany's death camps. The abductees often (though not always) lose all
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memory of these events; they find themselves back in their cars or beds,
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unable to account for hours of "missing time." Hypnosis, or some other
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trigger, can bring back these haunted hours in an explosion of recollection --
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and as the smoke clears, an abductee will often spot a trail of similar
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experiences, stretching all 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 commend-
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able restraint from conclusion-hopping. Outside the higher realms of
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scientific ufology, the situation is, alas, quite different. In the popular
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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 the
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actions described. The Believers believe, despite reports that their beloved
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"space brothers" use vile and inhuman tactics of medical examination --
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senseless procedures most of us (and certainly the vanguard of an advanced
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race) would be ashamed to inflict on an animal. The Believers believe,
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despite the difficulty of reconciling these unsettling tales with their own
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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 concerning
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the dignity of the individual and the right to self-determination. Such
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dichotomies don't bother the Believers; they are the faithful, and faith is
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assumed to have its mysteries. SANCTA SIMPLICITAS.
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Conversely, the Skeptics dismiss these stories out of hand. They dismiss,
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despite the intriguing confirmatory details: the multiple witness events,
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the physical traces left by the ufonauts, the scars and implants left on the
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abductees. The skeptics scoff, though the abductees tell stories similar in
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detail -- even certain tiny details, not known to the general public.
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Philip Klass is a debunker who, through his appearances on such television
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programs as NOVA and NIGHTLINE, has been in a position to affect much of the
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public debate on UFOs. In his interesting but poorly-documented work on
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abductions[4], Klass claims that "abduction" is a psychological disease,
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spread by those who write about it. This argument exactly resembles the
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professional press-basher's frequent assertion that terrorism metastasizes
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through media exposure. Yet for all the millions of words expectorated by
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newsfolk on the subject of terrorism, terrorist actions remain quite rare,
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as any statistician (though few politicians) will admit, and verifiable
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linkage between crimes and their coverage remains to be found. For that
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matter, there have been books -- bestsellers, even -- on unicorns and gnomes.
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People who claim to see those 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 Believer/Skeptic
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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 following:
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The kidnapping is real. The fear is real. The pain is real. The instruction
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is real. But the little grey men from Zeti Reticuli are NOT real; they are
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constructs, Halloween masks meant to disguise the real faces of the con-
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trollers. The abductors may not be visitors from Beyond; rather, they may be
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a symptom of the carcinoma which blackens our body 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 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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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 terrestrial
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explanations before looking heavenward.
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Granted, this particular explanation may, at first, seem as bizarre as the
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phenomenon itself. But I invite the skeptical reader to examine the work of
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George Estabrooks, a seminal theorist on the use of hypnosis in warfare, and
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a veteran of Project MKULTRA. Estabrooks once amused himself during a party
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by covertly hypnotizing two friends, who were led to believe that the Prime
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Minister of England had just arrived; Estabrooks' victims spent an hour
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conversing with, and even serving drinks to, the esteemed visitor[11]. For
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ufologists, this incident raises an inescapable question: If the Mesmeric arts
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can successfully evoke a non-existent Prime Minister, why can't a represent-
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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 accounts
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are an artifact of continuing brainwashing/behavior modification 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 plead
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for patience. Before I attempt to link UFO abductions with mind control
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experiments, I must first show that this technology EXISTS. Much of the
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forthcoming is an introduction to the topic of mind control -- what it is, and
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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 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. [? -jpg]
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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.
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[Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, murdered President Kennedy. -jpg] 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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This research may prove key to our understanding of the UFO abduction
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phenomenon.
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IMPLANTS
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Perhaps the most interesting pieces of evidence surrounding the abduction
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phenomenon are the intracerebral implants allegedly visible in the X-rays and
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MRI scans of many abductees[23]. Indeed, abductees often describe operations
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in which needles are inserted into the brain; more frequently still, they
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report implantation of foreign objects through the sinus cavities. Many
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abduction specialists assume that these intracranial incursions must be the
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handiwork of scientists from the stars. Unfortunately, these researchers
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have failed to familiarize themselves with certain little-heralded advances
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in terrestrial technology.
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The abductees' implants strongly suggest a technological lineage which can
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be traced to a device known as a "stimoceiver," invented in the late '50s-
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early '60s by a neuroscientist named Jose "Bob" 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] Ufologists may recognize the similarity of this
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sequence of events to abductee reports of the opening minutes of their
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experiences[30]. Under subsequent hypnosis, the abductee could be instructed
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to misremember the cause of this floating sensation.
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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 the "voices" heard by abductees[32]. Indeed, I have personally
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viewed a strange, opalescent implant within the ear canal of an abductee. I
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see no reason to ascribe this device to alien intrusion -- more than likely,
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the "intruders" in this case were the technological inheritors of the Delgado
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legacy. 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. "Bob" Heath, of Tulane University, who has implanted as many as
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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, (a feat which, applied in the ufological
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context, may account for the phenomenon of "missing time"); 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].) Anyone who has studied the abduction phenomenon will find
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himself on familiar territory here, for the abductee accounts are replete with
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stories of bewildering and inappropriate sexual response countered by extremely
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painful stimuli -- operant conditioning, at its most extreme, and most
|
|
insidious, for here we see a form of conditioning in which the manipulator
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renders himself invisible. Indeed, 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 rougly 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
|
|
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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ABDUCTEE IMPLANTS
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If we are to take seriously abductee accounts of brain implants, we must
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consider the possibility that the implanters, properly perceived, DON'T look
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much like the "greys" pictured on Strieber's dustjackets. Instead, the
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visitors may resemble Dr. Meyer and his brethren. We would thus have an
|
|
explanation for both the reports of abductee brain implants and, as we shall
|
|
see, the "scoop marks" and other scars visible on other parts of the abductees'
|
|
bodies. We would also have an explanation for the reports of individuals
|
|
suffering personality change after contact with the UFO phenomenon.
|
|
Skeptics might counter that the time factor of UFO abductions disallows
|
|
this possibility. If estimates of "missing time" are correct, the abductions
|
|
rarely take longer than one-to-three hours. Wouldn't a brain surgeon,
|
|
operating under less-than-ideal conditions (perhaps in a mobile unit) need
|
|
more time?
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NO -- not if we accept the claims of a Florida doctor named Daniel Man.
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He recently proposed a draconian solution to the overblown "missing children
|
|
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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|
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|
The history of brain implantation, as gleaned from the open literature, is
|
|
certainly disquieting. Yet this history has almost certainly been censored,
|
|
and the dates manipulated in a nigh-Orwellian fashion. When dealing with
|
|
research funded by the engines of national security, one can never know the
|
|
true origin date of any individual scientific advance. However, if we listen
|
|
carefully to the scientists who have pioneered this research, we may hear
|
|
whispers, faint but unmistakable, hinting that remotely-applied ESB originated
|
|
earlier than published studies would indicate.
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|
In his autobiography THE SCIENTIST, John C. Lilly (who would later achieve
|
|
a cultish reknown for his work with dolphins, drugs and sensory deprivation)
|
|
records a conversation he had with the director of the National Institute
|
|
of Mental Health -- in 1953. The director asked Lilly to brief the CIA, FBI,
|
|
NSA and the various military intelligence services on his work using electrodes
|
|
to stimulate directly the pleasure and pain centers of the brain. Lilly
|
|
refused, noting, in his reply:
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|
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|
Dr. Antoine Remond, using our techniques in Paris, has
|
|
demonstrated that this method of stimulation of the brain
|
|
can be applied to the human without the help of the neuro-
|
|
surgeon; he is doing it in his office in Paris without neuro-
|
|
surgical supervision. This means that anybody with the proper
|
|
apparatus can carry this out on a person covertly, with no
|
|
external signs that electrodes have been used on that person.
|
|
I feel that if this technique got into the hands of a secret
|
|
agency, they would have total control over a human being and
|
|
be able to change his beliefs extremely quickly, leaving
|
|
little evidence of what they had done[46].
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|
|
|
Lilly's assertion of the moral high ground here is interesting. Despite
|
|
his avowed phobia against secrecy, a careful reading of THE SCIENTIST reveals
|
|
that he continued to do work useful to this country's national security appar-
|
|
atus. His sensory deprivation experiments expanded upon the work of ARTICHOKE's
|
|
Maitland Baldwin, and even his dolphin research has -- perhaps inadvertently
|
|
proved useful in naval warfare[47]. One should note that Lilly's work on
|
|
monkeys carried a "secret" classification, and that NIMH was a common CIA
|
|
funding conduit[48].
|
|
But the most important aspect of Lilly's statement is its date. 1953?
|
|
How far back does radio-controlled ESB go? Alas, I have not yet seen Remond's
|
|
work -- if it is available in the open literature. In the documents made
|
|
available to Marks, the earliest reference to remotely-applied ESB is a 1959
|
|
financial document pertaining to MKULTRA subproject 94. The general subproject
|
|
descriptions sent to the CIA's financial department rarely contain much
|
|
information, and rarely change from year to year, leaving us little idea as to
|
|
when this subproject began.
|
|
Unfortunately, even the Freedom of Information Act couldn't pry loose much
|
|
information on electronic mind control techniques, though we know a great deal
|
|
of study was done in these areas. We have, for example, only four pages on
|
|
subproject 94 -- by comparison, a veritable flood of documents were released on
|
|
the use of drugs in mind control. (Whenever an author tells us that MKULTRA
|
|
met with little success, the reference is to drug testing.) On this point, I
|
|
must criticize John Marks: His book never mentions that roughly 20-25 percent
|
|
of the subprojects are "dark" -- i.e., little or no information was ever made
|
|
available, despite lawyers and FOIA requests. Marks seems to feel that the
|
|
only information worth having is the information he received. We know,
|
|
however, that research into psychoelectronics was extensive indeed, statements
|
|
of project goals dating from ARTICHOKE and BLUEBIRD days clearly identify this
|
|
area as a high priority. Marks' anonymous informant, jocularly named "Deep
|
|
Trance," even told a previous interviewer that, beginning in 1963, CIA and the
|
|
military's mind control efforts strongly emphasized electronics[49]. I
|
|
therefore assume -- not rashly, I hope -- that the "dark" MKULTRA subprojects
|
|
concerned matters such as brain implants, microwaves, ESB, and related
|
|
technologies.
|
|
I make an issue of the timing and secrecy involved in this research to
|
|
underscore three points: 1. We can never know with certainty the true origin
|
|
dates of the various brainwashing methods -- often, we discover that techniques
|
|
which seem impossibly futuristic actually originated in the 19th century.
|
|
(Pioneering ESB research was conducted in 1898, by J.R. ("Bob" Dobbs) Ewald,
|
|
professor of physiology at Straussbourg[50].) 2. The open literature almost
|
|
certainly gives a bowdlerized view of the actual research. 3. Lavishly-funded
|
|
clandestine researchers -- unrestrained by peer review or the need for strict
|
|
controls -- can achieve far more rapid progress than scientists "on the
|
|
outside."
|
|
Potential critics should keep these points in mind should they attempt to
|
|
invalidate the "mind control" thesis of UFO abductions by citing an abduction
|
|
account which antedates Delgado.
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|
|
|
|
|
THE QUANDARY
|
|
|
|
We have amply demonstrated, then, that as far back as the 1960s -- and
|
|
possibly earlier still -- scientists have had the capability to create implants
|
|
similar to those now purportedly visible in abductee MRI scans. Indeed, we
|
|
have no notion just how advanced this technology has become, since the popular
|
|
press stopped reporting on brain implantation in the 1970s. The research
|
|
has no doubt continued, albeit in a less public fashion. In fact, scientists
|
|
such as Delgado have cast their eye far beyond the implants; ESB effects can
|
|
now be elicited with microwaves and other forms of electromagnetic radiation,
|
|
used with and without electrodes.
|
|
So why -- if we take UFO abduction accounts at face value -- are the
|
|
"advanced aliens" using an old technology, an EARTH technology, a technology
|
|
which may soon be rendered obsolescent, if it hasn't been so rendered already?
|
|
I am reminded of the charming anachronisms in the old Flash Gordon serials,
|
|
where swords and spaceships clashed continually.
|
|
Do they also watch black-and-white television on Zeta Reticuli?
|
|
|
|
|
|
REMOTE HYPNOSIS
|
|
|
|
Hypnosis provides the (highly controversial) key which opens the door to
|
|
many abduction accounts[51]. And obviously, if my thesis is correct, hypnosis
|
|
plays a large part in the abduction itself. One thing we know with certainty:
|
|
Since the earliest days of project BLUEBIRD, the CIA's spy-chiatrists spent
|
|
enormous sums mastering Mesmer's art.
|
|
I cannot here give even a brief summary of hypnosis, nor even of the CIA's
|
|
studies in this area. (Fortunately, FOIA requests were rather more successful
|
|
in shaking loose information on this topic than in the area of psycho-
|
|
electronics.) Here, we will concentrate on a particularly intriguing
|
|
allegation -- one heard faintly, but persistently, for the past twenty years
|
|
by those who would investigate the shadow side of politics.
|
|
If this allegation proves true, hypnosis is NOT necessarily a person-to-
|
|
person affair.
|
|
The abductee -- or the mind control victim -- need not have physical
|
|
contact with a hypnotist for hypnotic suggestion to take effect; trance could
|
|
be induced, and suggestions made, via the intracerebral transmitters described
|
|
above. The concept sounds like something out of Huxley's or Orwell's most
|
|
masochistic fantasies. Yet remote hypnosis was first reported -- using
|
|
allegedly parapsychological means -- in the early 1930s, by L.L. Vasilev,
|
|
Professor of Physiology in the University of Leningrad[52]. Later, other
|
|
scientists attempted to accomplish the same goal, using less mystic means.
|
|
Over the years, certain journalists have asserted that the CIA has mastered
|
|
a technology call RHIC-EDOM. RHIC means "Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral
|
|
Control." EDOM stands for "Electronic Dissolution of Memory." Together, these
|
|
techniques can -- allegedly -- remotely induce hypnotic trance, deliver
|
|
suggestions to the subject, and erase all memory for both the instruction
|
|
period and the act which the subject is asked to perform.
|
|
RHIC uses the stimoceiver, or a microminiaturized offspring of that tech-
|
|
nology to induce a hypnotic state. Interestingly, this technique is also
|
|
reputed to involve the use of INTRAMUSCULAR implants, a detail strikingly
|
|
reminiscent of the "scars" mentioned in Budd Hopkins MISSING TIME. Apparently,
|
|
these implants are stimulated to induce a post-hypnotic suggestion.
|
|
EDOM is nothing more than missing time itself -- the erasure of memory from
|
|
consciousness through the blockage of synaptic transmission in certain areas of
|
|
the brain. By jamming the brain's synapses through a surfeit of acetocholine,
|
|
neural transmission along selected pathways can be effectively stilled.
|
|
According to the proponents of RHIC-EDOM, acetocholine production can be
|
|
affected by electromagnetic means. (Modern research in the psycho-physio-
|
|
logical effects of microwaves confirm this proposition.)
|
|
Does RHIC-EDOM exist? In our discussion of Delgado's work, I have already
|
|
cited a strange little book (published in 1969) titled WERE WE CONTROLLED?,
|
|
written by one Lincoln Lawrence, a former FBI agent turned journalist. (The
|
|
name is a pseudonym; I know his real identity.) This work deals at length with
|
|
RHIC-EDOM; a careful comparison of Lawrence's work with MKULTRA files declas-
|
|
sified ten years later indicates a strong possibility that the writer did
|
|
indeed have "inside" sources.
|
|
Here is how Lawrence describes RHIC in action:
|
|
|
|
It is the ultra-sophisticated application of post-hypnotic
|
|
suggestion TRIGGERED AT WILL [italics in original] by radio
|
|
transmission. It is a recurring hypnotic state, re-induced
|
|
automatically at intervals by the same radio control. An
|
|
individual is brought under hypnosis. This can be done either
|
|
with his knowledge -- or WITHOUT it by use of narco-hypnosis,
|
|
which can be brought into play under many guises. He is then
|
|
programmed to perform certain actions and maintain certain
|
|
attitudes upon radio signal[53].
|
|
|
|
Other authors have mentioned this technique -- specifically Walter Bowart
|
|
(in his book OPERATION MIND CONTROL) and journalist James Moore, who, in a
|
|
1975 issue of a periodical called MODERN PEOPLE, claimed to have secured a
|
|
350-page manual, prepared in 1963, on RHIC-EDOM[54]. He received the manual
|
|
from CIA sources, although -- interestingly -- the technique is said to have
|
|
originated in the military.
|
|
|
|
The following quote by Moore on RHIC should prove especially intriguing
|
|
to abduction researchers who have confronted odd "personality shifts" in
|
|
abductees:
|
|
|
|
Medically, these radio signals are directed to certain
|
|
parts of the brain. When a part of your brain receives a
|
|
tiny electrical impulse from outside sources, such as vision,
|
|
hearing, etc.,an emotion is produced -- anger at the sight of
|
|
a gang of boys beating an old woman, for example. The same
|
|
emotion of anger can be created by artificial radio signals
|
|
sent to your brain by a controller. You could instantly feel
|
|
the same white-hot anger without any apparent reason[55].
|
|
|
|
Lawrence's sources imparted an even more tantalizing -- and frightening --
|
|
revelation:
|
|
|
|
...there is already in use a small EDOM generator-transmitter
|
|
which can be concealed on the body of a person. Contact with
|
|
this person -- a casual handshake or even just a touch --
|
|
transmits a tiny electronic charge plus an ultra-sonic signal
|
|
tone which for a short while will disturb the time orientation
|
|
of the person affected[56].
|
|
|
|
If RHIC-EDOM exists, it goes a long way toward providing an earthbound
|
|
rationale for alien abductions -- or, at least, certain aspects of them. The
|
|
phenomenon of "missing time" is no longer mysterious. Abductee implants,
|
|
both intracerebral and otherwise, are explained. And note the reference to
|
|
"recurring hypnotic state, reinduced automatically by the same radio command."
|
|
This situation may account for "repeater" abductees who, after their initial
|
|
encounter, have regular sessions of "missing time" and abduction -- even while
|
|
a bed-mate sleeps undisturbed.
|
|
At present, I cannot claim conclusively that RHIC-EDOM is real. To my
|
|
knowledge, the only official questioning of a CIA representive concerning
|
|
these techniques occurred in 1977, during Senate hearings on CIA drug testing.
|
|
Senator Richard Schweicker had the following interchange with Dr. Sidney
|
|
Gottlieb, an important MKULTRA administrator:
|
|
|
|
SCHWEICKER: Some of the projects under MKULTRA involved
|
|
hypnosis, is that correct?
|
|
GOTTLIEB: Yes.
|
|
SCHWEICKER: Did any of these projects involve something
|
|
called radio hypnotic intracerebral control, which is a
|
|
combination, as I understand it, in layman's terms, of radio
|
|
transmissions and hypnosis.
|
|
GOTTLIEB: My answer is "No."
|
|
SCHWEICKER: None whatsoever?
|
|
GOTTLIEB: Well, I am trying to be responsive to the
|
|
terms you used. As I remember it, there was a current
|
|
interest, running interest, all the time in what effects
|
|
people's standing in the field of radio energy have, and
|
|
it could easily have been that somewhere in many projects,
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
Schweicker went on to mention that he had heard testimony that radar (i.e.,
|
|
microwaves) had been used to wipe out memory in animals; Gottlieb responded,
|
|
"I can believe that, Senator."[57]
|
|
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.
|
|
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].
|
|
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].
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
THAT'S ENTRAINMENT
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
I have spoken to several UFO abductees who describe a "stereophonic sound"
|
|
effect -- EXACTLY SIMILAR TO THAT PRODUCED BY THE HEMI-SYNCH -- preceding many
|
|
"encounters." Of course, one usually administers the hemi-synch via head-
|
|
phones, but I see no reason why the effect cannot be transmitted via the above-
|
|
described stimoceiver. Again, I remind the reader of the abductee with an
|
|
implant just inside her ear canal.
|
|
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
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devices may represent a true breakthrough in consciousness-control, thereby
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fulfilling the dashed dream of the hallucinogenic '60s.
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I wish to avoid a knee-jerk Luddite response to these fascinating wonder-
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boxes. At the same time, I recognize the dangers involved. What about the
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possibility of an outside operator literally "changing our minds" by altering
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our brainwaves without our knowledge or permission? If these machines can
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induce a hypnotic state, what's to stop a skilled hypnotist from making use
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of this state?
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Granted, most of these devices require some physical interaction with the
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subject. But a tool called the Bio-Pacer can, according to its manufacturer,
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produce a number of mood altering frequencies -- WITHOUT attachment to the
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subject. Indeed, the Bio-Pacer III (a high-powered version) can affect an
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entire room. This device costs $275, according to the most recent price
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sheet available[66]. What sort of machine might $27,500 buy? Or $275,000?
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What effects, what ranges might a million-dollar machine be capable of?
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