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SUBJECT: THE CONTROLLERS: A NEW HYPOTHESIS OF ALIEN ABDUCTION
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FILE: UFO2543
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PART 3
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THE ULTIMATE MOTIVE FOR MIND CONTROL
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Hypnosis hard-liners of the Orne school would almost certainly dismiss the
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foregoing veterans' accounts of the use of hypnosis, drugs and behavioral
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conditioning on American fighting men. Why, the skeptics would ask, would
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anyone attempt to create a "Manchurian Candidate" when the military services,
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using entirely conventional means, can create a "Rambo"? There have always
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been recruits for even the most hazardous duties; what need of hypnosis?
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The need, in fact, is absolute.
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The modern battlefield has little place for the traditional soldier.
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Advanced weaponry requires an increasing level of technical sophistication,
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which in turn requires a cool-headed operator. But the all-too-human
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combatant -- though capable of extraordinary acts of courage under the most
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stressful conditions imaginable -- does not possess inexhaustible reserves of
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SANG-FROID. Eventually, breakdowns will occur. Per-capita psychiatric
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casualties have increased dramatically in each successive American conflict.
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As Richard Gabriel, the excellent historian of the role of psychiatry in
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warfare, writes:
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Modern warfare has become so lethal and so intense that
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only the already insane can endure it...Modern war requiring
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continuous combat will increase the degree of fatigue on the
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soldier to heretofore unknown levels. Physical fatigue --
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especially the lack of sleep -- will increase the rate of
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psychiatric casualties enormously. Other factors -- high
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rates of indirect fire, night fighting, lack of food, constant
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stress, large numbers of casualties -- will ensure that the
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number of psychiatric casualties will reach disastrous pro-
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portions. And the number of casualties will overburden the
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medical structure to the point of collapse.
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The ability to treat psychiatric casualties will all but
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disappear. There will be no safe forward areas in which to
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treat soldiers debilitated by mental collapse. The technology
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of modern war has made such locations functionally obsolete...[153]
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According to Gabriel, the military intends to meet this challenge by
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creating "the chemical soldier," a designer-drugged zombie in fighting man's
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uniform:
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On the battlefields of the future we will witness a true
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clash of ignorant armies, armies ignorant of their own
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emotions and even of the reasons for which they fight.
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Soldiers on all sides will be reduced to fearless chemical
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automatons who fight simply because they can do nothing
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else...Once the chemical genie is out of the bottle, the
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full range of human mental and physical actions become
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targets for chemical control...Today it is already possible
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by chemical or electrical stimulation to increase the
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aggression levels of the human being by stimulating the
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amygdala, a section of the brain known to control aggression
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and rage. Such "human potential engineering" is already a
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partial reality and the necessary technical knowledge
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increases every day[154].
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While this passage speaks of drugs and electronics, we can safely assume
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that the planners of battle would not refrain from using any other promising
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technique.
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Gabriel writes primarily of large-scale battle scenarios, but based on
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his information, we can fairly deduce that the mind-controlled soldier will
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also play a role in the surgical strike, the covert operation, the infiltration
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behind enemy lines by units of the Special Forces. On such missions, United
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States personnel have increasingly relied on torture as a means of interro-
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gation and intimidation[155], and as such barbarism becomes standard procedure
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the American fighting man of the future will need to find within himself
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unprecedented reserves of brutality. Will the average recruit, culled from the
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nation's suburbs and reared on traditional ideals, possess such reserves?
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Vietnam proved that the soldier, despite a barrage of propaganda intended to
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cloud his discernment, will sense the difference between fighting for legit-
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imate defense interests and fighting to protect political hegemony. To
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forestall this realization, or to render it irrelevant, military planners must
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withdraw the human combatant and replace him with a new species of warrior.
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The soldier of the future will not discern; he will merely do. He will not be
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a butcher; he will be the butcher's KNIFE -- a tool among tools, thoughtless
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and effective.
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And it is my contention that to create this soldier of the future, the
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controllers will need a continuing program, one designed to test each new
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method and combination of methods for conquering the human mind.
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One primary goal of this program must include expanding the human capacity
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for stress and violence. Subjects enrolled in such experimental procedures
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will experience pain, and will learn to accept the pain. Eventually, they will
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learn to inflict it, without remorse or even remembrance. The nation who first
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creates this new soldier will possess a decisive advantage on the "conven-
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tional" battlefield -- as will the nation which first develops a means of using
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mass mind control techniques to disable entire enemy platoons. [And to placate
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whole civilian populations, both those of the enemy and those at home. -jpg]
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This paramount military necessity is the reason why I will never believe any
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unconvincing reassurances that our nation's clandestine scientists have fore-
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gone or will forego research into behavior modification. This research will
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never be mere history. What's past is present, and today's covert experiment-
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ation will become tomorrow's basic training.
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A prototype of the future warrior may already be with us. The Navy SEAL
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I interviewed spoke in horrifying detail of dismemberment without emotion, of
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rape as routine, of killing without affect. And then FORGETTING THAT HE HAD
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KILLED. Even years later, he could not recall the stories behind many of the
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wounds on his own body. He claims that whenever he would need the services of
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the veteran's hospital, doctors would re-hypnotize him shortly after his
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admission, while a physician specifically cleared for such work would examine
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his medical history, which was highly classified and kept under lock and key.
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According to the SEAL's testimony, his memory block cracked little by
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little, as a result of events too complex to recount here. Finally, years
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after Vietnam, he was able to remember what he did.
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Amnesia was a blessing.
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IV. Abductions
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Press and public now regard abductees as tony curiosities, yet science, for
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the most part, still banishes their tales to the domain of the damned, as
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Charles Fort defined damnation. So too with claimed victims of mind control.
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The Voice of Authority tells us that MKULTRA belongs to history; like Hasdrubal
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and Hitler, it threatened once, but no more. Anyone insisting otherwise must
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be silenced by glib rationalization and selective inattention.
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Yet these two topics -- UFO abductions and mind control -- have more in
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common than their mutual ostracization. The data overlap. If we could chart
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these phenomena on a Venn diagram, we would see a surprisingly large inter-
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section between the two circles of information. It is this overlap I seek to
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address.
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Note, however, that I can NOT address all the other interesting and
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important issues raised by the UFO abduction experience. For exmaple, I have
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written, admittedly rather vaguely, of nasal implants reported by abductees --
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the sort of detail which might place an account in the "high strangeness"
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category, and of course, a detail central to my thesis. But what percentage
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of the percipients speak of such implants? A truly scientific analysis would
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provide a figure. Unfortunately, I haven't the resources to compile a
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sufficiently large abductee sample from which one could draw statistics. Nor
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can I make an over-arching qualitative analysis, measuring the value of "high
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strangeness" reports against other abductee claims. All I can do is note the
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available literature, and leave the reader to wonder, as I do, whether the
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compilers of that literature concentrated on exceptional cases or were biased
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in favor of the less fantastic abductee accounts. I have supplemented readings
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of the abduction literature with my own interviews with percipients -- which,
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since abductees tend to know other abductees, can give a surprisingly wide view
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of the phenomenon. This view has been broadened still further by my talks and
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correspondence with other members of the UFO community.
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Of course, we must recognize the difference between testimony and proof. No
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one can state definitively that abduction reports have a basis in objective
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reality (however misperceived). Ultimately, all we have are stories. Some of
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these stories may be of questionable veracity; others may be contaminated by
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investigator bias; many are insufficiently detailed. No one research paper can
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resolve all abduction controversies, and many necessary battles must be fought
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on other fields.
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Still, the testimony won't go away -- and we certainly have enough to allow
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for comparisons. I maintain that an unprejudiced overview of abduction reports
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in the popular press and the less-familiar material on mind control will
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demonstrate a striking correlation. Once other abduction researchers have been
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educated in the ways of MKULTRA (and this paper is intended as an introductory
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text) they may note a similar pattern. If so, we can then begin to write a
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revisionist history of the phenomenon.
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The abduction enigma contains within it sub-mysteries that slide into the
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mind control scenario with surprising ease, even elegance -- mysteries which
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fit the E.T. hypothesis as uncomfortably as a size 10 foot fits into a size 8
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shoe. As we have seen, the MKULTRA thesis explains the reports of abductee
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intracerebral implants (particularly reports involving nosebleeds), unusual
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scars, "telepathic" communication (i.e., externally induced intracerebral
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voices) concurrent with or following the abduction encounter, allegations that
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some abductees hear unusual sound effects (similar to those created by the
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hemi-synch and cognate devices), haywire electronic devices in abductee homes,
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personality shifts, "training films," manipulation of religious imagery, and
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missing time. Needless to say, the thesis of clandestine government experi-
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mentation readily accounts for abductee claims of human beings "working" with
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the aliens, and for the government harassment that plays so prominent a role in
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certain abductee reports.
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Let's look at some more correlations.
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According to Hopkins, "The aliens said 'Fine. Very good.' They took the
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gun from him; the man [presumably, the captive] got up, walked away, dis-
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appeared, and they went on to the next thing." Obviously, this little drama
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had been staged -- a test of some sort.
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I submit that this surreal incident is incomprehensible as either an
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example of alien incursion or of "Klass-ical" confabulation. The scenario
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described here EXACTLY parallels numerous experiments in the hypnotic induction
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of anti-social action as revealed both in the standard hypnosis literature and
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in declassified ARTICHOKE/MKULTRA documents. For example, compare Hopkins'
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account to the following, in which Ludwig Mayer, a prominent German hypnosis
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researcher, describes a classic experiment in the hypnotic induction of
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criminal action:
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I gave a revolver to an elderly and readily suggestible
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man whom I had just hypnotized. The revolver had just been
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loaded by Mr. H. with a percussion cap. I explained to
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[the subject], while pointing to Mr. H., that Mr. H. was a
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very wicked man whom he should shoot to kill. With great
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determination he took the revolver and fired a shot directly
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at Mr. H. Mr. H. fell down pretending to be wounded. I
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then explained to my subject that the fellow was not yet
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quite dead, and that he should give him another bullet,
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which he did without further ado[167].
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Of course, if a conservative hypnosis specialist were asked to comment on
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the above account, he would quickly point out that hypnotic suggestions which
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work in an experimental situation would not easily succeed outside the lab-
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oratory; on some level, the subject will probably sense whether or not he's
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playing the game for real[168]. Similarly, a conservative abduction researcher
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would, in reviewing Hopkins' material, emphasize the problems inherent in using
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testimony derived during regression, where the threat of confabulation lurks.
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I'll concede both arguments -- for the moment -- only to insist that they are
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beside the point. The matter of primary importance, the sticking point which
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neither Klass nor Hopkins can comfortably confront, is the convergence of
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detail between Mayer's hypnosis experiment and the testing event related by
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Hopkins' abductee. WHY ARE THESE TWO STORIES SO SIMILAR? Did the good Dr.
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Mayer take pupils from Sirius?[169].
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Hopkins says he knows of other instances in which abductees found themselves
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in similar crucibles. So do I.
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One person I spoke to can remember (SANS hypnosis) being handed a gun inside
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a ziplock baggy and receiving instructions that she will have to use this
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weapon "on a job." Early in my interviews with her (and with no prompting from
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me) she recited an apparent cue drilled into her consciousness by the "enti-
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ties" (as she calls them): "When you see the light, do it tonight," followed by
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the command, "Execute." (One can only speculate as to how such commands would
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be used in the field; we will discuss later the use of photovoltaic hypnotic
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induction.) Though her personal feelings toward firearms are decidedly
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negative, she vivdly describes periods in her "everyday" life when she feels an
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uncharacteristic, yet overpowering urge to be near a gun -- a quasi-sexual
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desire to pick one up and touch the metal[170].
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She is not alone. Another has been so affected by gun fever that he became
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a security guard, just to be near the things[171]. The abductees I have spoken
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to connect this sudden surge of Ramboism to the UFO experience. But I suggest
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that the UFO experience may be merely a cover story for another type of
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training entirely.
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One of the primary goals of BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, and MKULTRA was to
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determine whether mind control could be used to faciliate "executive action"--
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i.e., assassination[172].
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It isn't difficult to imagine the media's reaction if a public figure were
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murdered by someone acting at the behest of the "space brothers." Who would
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dare to speak of conspiracy under such circumstances? The hidden controllers
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could choose a myth structure that conform's to the abductee's personality,
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then pose as higher beings, who would whisper violence into the ear of the
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percipient. Using this ruse, the trick that scientists such as Ludwig Mayer
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could perform in the lab might now be accomplished in the field. As
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Estabrooks' associate Jack Tracktir (professor of hypnotherapy at Baylor
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University) explained to John Marks, anti-social acts can be induced with
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"no conscience involved" once the proper pretext has been created[173].
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"THEY WILL THINK IT'S FLYING SAUCERS"
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Jenny Randles contributes an anecdote from Great Britain which dovetails
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nicely with this hypothesis.
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In 1965, "Margary" (a pseudonym) lived in Birmingham with her husband, who
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one night told her to prepare for a "shock and a test." As Randles describes
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what she calls a "rogue case":
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They got into his car and drove off, although her memory
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of the trip became hazy and confused and she does not know
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where they went. Then she was in a room that was dimly lit
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and there were people standing around a long table or flat
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bed. She was out on it and seemed "drugged" and unable to
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resist. The most memorable of the men was tall and thin with
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a long nose and white beard. He had thick eyebrows and
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supposedly said to Margary, "Remember the eyebrows, honey."
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A strange medical examination, using odd equipment, was
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performed on her.
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Both the husband and the scientists, using (apparently) hypnotic techniques,
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flooded her mind with images that, she was told, would be understood only in
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the future. According to Randles, "At one point one of the 'examiners' in the
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room said to Margary in a tone that made it seem as if he were amused, "THEY
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WILL THINK IT'S FLYING SAUCERS." The husband also revealed that he had a
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second identity. After the abduction, this husband (am I going too far to
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assume his employment with MI6 or some cognate agency?) left, never to be seen
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again[174]. Margary did not recall the abduction until 1978.
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This affair can only baffle a researcher who insists on fitting all
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abduction accounts into the ET hypothesis; once we free ourselves from that
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set of assumptions, explanations come easily. I interpret this incident as a
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case in which the controllers applied the flying saucer cover story sloppily,
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or to an insufficiently receptive subject. If my thesis is correct, the UFO
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"hypnotic hoax" technique would still have been fairly new in 1965, particular-
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ly outside the United States; perhaps the manipulators hadn't yet got the hang
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of it. The odd comment about the scientist's eyebrows may refer to an item of
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disguise donned for the occasion. The unscrupulous hypnotist, unsure about his
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ability to induce an impenetrable amnesia -- and mindful of the price paid by
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his forerunners in mesmeric criminality[175] -- would understandably want to
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hedge his bets; by indulging in the British penchant for theatrics, he could
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further protect his anonymity.
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A similar incident was brought to my attention by researcher Robert Durant.
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The relevant excerpt of his letter follows:
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Now I want to turn to a case that I have been investigating
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for several months. The subject is an abductee. Standard
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abduction scenario. Twice regressed under hypnosis, the first
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time by a well-known abduction researcher, the second time by
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a psychologist with parapsychology connections.
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In the course of many hours of listening to the subject, I
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discovered that she has had close personal contact over a long
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period of time with several individuals who have federal
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intelligence connections. She was hypnotized many years ago
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as part of a TV program devoted to hypnosis. Her abductions
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began shortly after she attended several long sessions at a
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laboratory where, ostensibly, she was being tested for ESP
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abilities. Two other people who were "tested" at this same
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laboratory have also had abductions. All three were told by
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the lab to join a local UFO group. During her abductions, the
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principal alien spoke to the subject in the English language
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in a normal manner, not via telepathy. She recognized the
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voice, which was at one time that of her very close friend of
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yesteryear who was then and is now employed by the CIA. The
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other voice was that of an individual who works in Washington,
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has what I will call very strong federal connections as well
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as a finger in every ufological pie, and who just happened to
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bump into her at the aforementioned laboratory. He also
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anticipated, in the course of telephone conversations, her
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abductions. When the subject confronted him about this and
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the voice, he claimed to be psychic. (!)[176]
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The "ESP" connection is suggestive; the MKULTRA documents betray an
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astonishing interest on the part of the intelligence agencies in matters
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parapsychological.
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Some researchers would object that examples such as this are rare; most
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abductions contain no such overt indications of intelligence involvement.
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But have investigators looked for them? As mentioned in the introduction,
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a false dichotomy limits much ufological thought; as long as the abduction
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argument swings between the ET hypothesis and purely psychological theories,
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researchers will not recognize the relevance of certain key items of back-
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ground data.
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GLIMPSES OF THE CONTROLLERS
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In an interview with me, a northern-California abducteee -- call him "Peter"
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-- reported an experience which was conducted NOT by a small grey alien, but by
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a human being. The percipient called this man a "doctor." He gave a descrip-
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tion of this individual, and even provided a drawing.
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Some time after I gathered this information, a southern-California abductee
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told me her story -- which included a description of this very same "doctor."
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The physical details were so strikingly similar as to erase coincidence. This
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woman is a leading member of a Los Angeles-based UFO group; three other women
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in this group report abduction encounters with the same individual[177].
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Perhaps those three women were fantasists, attaching themselves to another's
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narrative. But my northern informant never met these people. Why did he
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describe the same "doctor"?
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One of the abductees I have dealt with insisted, under hypnosis, that her
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abduction experience brought her to a certain house in the Los Angeles area.
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She was able to provide directions to the house, even though she had no
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conscious memory of ever being there. I later learned that this house is
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indeed occupied by a scientist who formerly (and perhaps currently) conducted
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clandestine research on mind control technology.
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This same abductee described a clandestine brain operation of some sort she
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underwent in childhood. The neurosurgeon was a human being, not an alien.
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She even recalled the name. (Note: This is not the same individual referred to
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above.) When I heard the name, it meant nothing to me -- but later I learned
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that there really was a scientist of that name who specialzed in electrode
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implant research.
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Licia Davidson is a thoughtful and articulate abductee, whose fascinating
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story closely parallels many found in the abductee literature -- except for one
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unusual detail. In an interview with me, described an unsettling recollection
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of a human being, dressed normally, holding a black BoX with a protruding
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antenna. This odd snippet of memory did NOT coincide with the general thrust
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of her abduction narrative. Could this remembrance represent an all-too-brief
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segment of accurately-perceived reality interrupting her hypnotically-induced
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"screen memory"? Peter clearly recalls seeing a similar BoX during his
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abduction.
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Interestingly, Licia resides in the Los Angeles suburb of Tujunga Canyon, a
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prominent spot on the abduction map; Many of the abductees I have spoken to
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first had unusual experiences while living in this area. Near Tujunga Canyon,
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in Mt. Pacifico, is a hidden former Nike missile base; more than one abductee
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has described odd, seemingly inexplicable military activity around this
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location[178]. The reader will recall the connection of Nike missile bases to
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the disturbing story of Dr. L. Jolyon ("BoB") West, a veteran of MKULTRA.
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CULTS
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Some abductees I have spoken to have been directed to join certain
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religious/philosophical sects. These cults often bear close examination.
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The leaders of these groups tend to be "ex"-CIA operatives, or Special
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Forces veterans. They are often linked through personal relations, even
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though they espouse widely varying traditions. I have heard unsettling
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reports that the leaders of some of these groups have used hypnosis, drugs,
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or "mind machines" on their charges. Members of these cults have reported
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periods of missing time during ceremonies or "study periods."
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I strongly urge abduction researchers to examine closely any small "occult"
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groups an abductee might join. For example, one familiar leader of the UFO
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fringe -- a man well-known for his espousal of the doctrine of "love and light"
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-- is Virgil Armstrong, a close personal friend of General John Singlaub, the
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notorious Iran-Contra player, who recently headed the neo-fascist World Anti-
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Communist League. Armstrong, who also happens to be an ex-Green Beret and
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former CIA operative, figured into my inquiry in an interesting fashion: An
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abductee of my acquaintance was told -- by her "entities," naturally -- to seek
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out this UFO spokesman and join his "sky-watch" activities, which, my source
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alleges, included a mass channelling session intended to send debilitating
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"negative" vibrations to Constantine Chernenko, then the leader of the Soviet
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Union. Of course, intracerebral voices may have a purely psychological origin,
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so Armstrong can hardly be held to task for the abductee's original "direct-
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ive."[179] Still, his past associations with military intelligence inevitably
|
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bring disturbing possibilities to mind.
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Even more ominous than possible ties between UFO cults and the intelligence
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community are the cults' links with the shadowy I AM group, founded by Guy
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Ballard in the 1930s[180]. According to researcher David Stupple, "If you look
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at the contactee groups today, you'll see that most of the stable, larger ones
|
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are actually neo-I AM groups, with some sort of tie to Ballard's organization."
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[181] This cult, therefore, bears investigation.
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Guy Ballard's "Mighty I AM Religious Activity," grew, in large part, out of
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William Dudley Pelly's Silver Shirts, an American NAZI organization[182].
|
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Although Ballard himself never openly proclaimed NAZI affiliation, his movement
|
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was tinged with an extremely right-wing political philosophy, and in secret
|
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meetings he "decreed" the death of President Franklin Roosevelt[183]. The I AM
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philosophy derived from Theosophy, and in this author's estimation bears a
|
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more-than-cursory resemblance to the Theosophically-based teachings that
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informed the proto-NAZI German occult lodges[184].
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After the war, Pelley (who had been imprisoned for sedition during the
|
|
hostilities) headed an occult-oriented organization call Soulcraft, based in
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Noblesville, Indiana. Another Soulcraft employee was the controversial
|
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contactee George Hunt Williamson (real name: Michel d'Obrenovic), who co-
|
|
authored UFOs CONFIDENTIAL with John McCoy, a proponent of the theory that a
|
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Jewish banking conspiracy was preventing disclosure of the solution to the UFO
|
|
mystery[185]. Later, Williamson founded the I AM-oriented Brotherhood of the
|
|
Seven Rays in Peru[186]. Another famed contactee, George Van Tassel, was
|
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associated with Pelley and with the notoriously anti-Semitic Reverend Wesley
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Swift (founder of the group which metamorphosed into the Aryan nations).[187]
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The most visible offspring of I AM is Elizabeth Clare Prophet's Church
|
|
Universal and Triumphant, a group best-known for its massive arms caches in
|
|
underground bunkers. CUT was recently exposed in COVERT ACTION INFORMATION
|
|
BULLETIN as a conduit of CIA funds[188], and according to researcher John
|
|
Judge, has ties to organizations allied to the World Anti-Communist League[189]
|
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Prophet is becoming involved in abduction research and has sponsored present-
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|
ations by Budd Hopkins and other prominent investigators. In his book THE
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|
ARMSTRONG REPORT: ETs AND UFOs: THEY NEED US, WE DON'T NEED THEM[sic][190],
|
|
Virgil Armstrong directs troubled abductees toward Prophet's group. (Perhaps
|
|
not insignificantly, he also suggests that abductees plagued by implants
|
|
alleviate their problem by turning to "the I AM force" within.[191])
|
|
Another UFO channeller, Frederick Von Mierers, has promulgated both a cult
|
|
with a strong I AM orientation[192] and an apparent con-game involving over-
|
|
appraised gemstones. Mierers is an anti-Semite who contends that the Holocaust
|
|
never happened and that the Jews control the world's wealth.
|
|
UFORUM is a flying saucer organization popular with Los Angeles-area
|
|
abductees; its founder is Penny Harper, a member of a radical Scientology
|
|
breakaway group which connects the teachings of L. Ron ("Bob") Hubbard with
|
|
pronouncements against "The Illuminati" (a mythical secret society) and other
|
|
BETES NOIR familiar from right-wing conspiracy literature. Harper directs
|
|
members of her group to read THE SPOTLIGHT, an extremist tabloid (published by
|
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Willis Carto's Liberty Lobby) which denies the reality of the Holocaust and
|
|
posits a "Zionist" scheme to control the world[193].
|
|
More than one unwary abductee has fallen in with groups such as those listed
|
|
above. It isn't difficult to imagine how some of these questionable groups
|
|
might mold an abductee's recollection of his experience -- and perhaps help
|
|
direct his future actions.
|
|
Some modern abductees, with otherwise-strong claims, claim encounters with
|
|
blond, "Nordic" aliens reminiscent of the early contactee era. Surely, the
|
|
"Nordic" appearance of these aliens sprang from the dubious spiritual tradition
|
|
of Van Tassell, Ballard, Pelley, McCoy, etc. Why, then, are some modern
|
|
abductees seeing these very same other-worldly UEBERMENSCHEN?
|
|
One abductee of my acquaintance claims to have had beneficial experiences
|
|
with these "blond" aliens -- who, he believes, came originally from the
|
|
Pleiades. Interestingly, in the late 1960s, the psychopathically anti-Semitic
|
|
Rev. Wesley Swift predicted this odd twist in the abduction tale. In a
|
|
broadcast "sermon," he spoke at length about UFOs, claiming that there were
|
|
"good" aliens and "bad" aliens. The good ones, he insisted, were tall, blond
|
|
Aryans -- WHO HAILED FROM THE PLEIADES. He made this pronouncement long before
|
|
the current trends in abduction lore.
|
|
Could some of the abductions be conducted by an extreme right-wing element
|
|
within the national security establishment? Disagreeable as the possibility
|
|
seems, we should note that the "lunatic right" is represented in all other
|
|
walks of life; certainly hard-rightists have taken positions within the
|
|
military-intelligence complex as well.
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|
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|
GROUNDS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
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John Keel's ground-breaking OPERATION TROJAN HORSE, written in an era when
|
|
abductees still came under the category of "contactees," includes the following
|
|
intriguing data, gleaned from Keel'a extensive field work:
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|
|
|
Contactees often find themselves suddenly miles from home
|
|
without knowing how they got there. They either have induced
|
|
amnesia, wiping out all memory of the trip, or they were taken
|
|
over by some means and made the trip in a blacked-out state.
|
|
Should they encounter a friend on the way, the friend would
|
|
probably note that their eyes seemed glassy and their behavior
|
|
seemed peculiar. But if the friend spoke to them, he might
|
|
receive a curt reply.
|
|
In the language of the contactees this process is called
|
|
being used...I have known silent contactees to disappear from
|
|
their homes for long periods, and when they returned, they
|
|
had little or no recollection of where they had been. One
|
|
girl sent me a postcard from the Bahama Islands -- which
|
|
surprised me because I knew she was very poor. When she
|
|
returned, she told me that she had only one memory of the
|
|
trip. She said she remembered getting off a jet at an air-
|
|
port -- she souldn't recall getting on the jet or making the
|
|
trip -- and there "Indians" met her and took her baggage...
|
|
The next thing she knew she was back home again[194].
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|
Puzzling indeed -- unless one has read THE CONTROL OF CANDY JONES, which
|
|
speaks of Candy's "blacked out" periods, during which she travelled to Taiwan
|
|
as a CIA courier, adopting her second personality. The mind control explana-
|
|
tion perfectly solves all the mysteries in the above excerpt -- save, perhaps,
|
|
the odd remark about "Indians."
|
|
Hickson and Mendez' UFO CONTACT AT PASCAGOULA contains the interesting
|
|
information that Charles Hickson awakes at night feeling that he is on the
|
|
verge of re-awakening some terribly important memory connected with his
|
|
encounter -- yet ostensibly he can account for every moment of his adventure.
|
|
Hickson also received a letter from an apparent abductee who claims that
|
|
the grey aliens are actually automatons of some sort -- perhaps an unconscious
|
|
recognition of the unreality of the hypnotically-induced "cover story."[195]
|
|
In this light, the film version of COMMUNION -- whose screenplay was written
|
|
by Whitley Strieber -- takes on a new interest: The abduction sequences contain
|
|
inexplicable images indicating that the "greys" are really props, or masks.
|
|
COMMUNION and TRANSFORMATION contain passages detailing what seems to be a
|
|
hazily-recalled Candy-Jones-style espionage adventure, in which Strieber was
|
|
shanghaied by a "coach" and a "nurse" (both human beings) who apparently
|
|
drugged him[196]. Recall the example of Keel's informants. Moreover,
|
|
TRANSFORMATION contains lengthy descriptions of alien beings working in
|
|
apparent collusion with human beings.
|
|
Abductee Christa Tilton also recalls both human beings and aliens playing
|
|
a part in her experience. Ever since her abduction, she claims, she has been
|
|
"shadowed" by a mysterious federal agent she calls John Wallis[197]. Christa's
|
|
husband, Tom Adams, has confirmed Wallis' existence[198].
|
|
In his REPORT ON COMMUNION, Ed Conroy -- who seems to have become a
|
|
participant in, and not merely an observer of, the phenomenon -- describes
|
|
harassment by helicopters, which as we have already noted, seems to be quite
|
|
a common occurrence in abductee situations[199]. Researchers blithely assume
|
|
that these incidents represent governmental attempts to spy on UFO percipients.
|
|
But this assertion is ridiculous. Helicopters are extremely expensive to
|
|
operate, and the engines of espionage have perfected numerous alternative
|
|
methods to gather information. After all, we now have a fairly extensive
|
|
bibliography of FBI, CIA, and military efforts to spy on numerous movements
|
|
favoring domestic social change. Why have no veterans of CHAOS or COINTELPRO
|
|
(either victim or victimizer) spoken of helicopters? Obviously the choppers
|
|
serve some other purpose beyond mere surveillance. One possibility might be
|
|
the propagation of electromagnetic waves which might affect the perceptions/
|
|
behaviors of an implanted individual. (Indeed, I have heard rumors of heli-
|
|
copters being used in electronic "crowd control" operations in Vietnam and
|
|
elsewhere; alas, the information is far from hard.)
|
|
Contactee Eldon Kerfoot has written of his suspicions that human mani-
|
|
pulators, not aliens, may be the ultimate puppeteers engineering his
|
|
experiences. He describes a sudden compulsion to kill a fellow veteran of
|
|
the Korean conflict -- a man Kerfoot had no logical reason to distrust or
|
|
dislike, yet whom he "sensed" to have been a traitor to his country. For-
|
|
tunately, the assassination never materialized[200]. But the situation exactly
|
|
parallels incidents described in released ARTICHOKE documents concerning the
|
|
remote hypnotic induction of anti-social behavior.
|
|
One last speculation:
|
|
Renato Vesco's INTERCEPT BUT DON'T SHOOT[201] outlines a fascinating
|
|
scenario for the "secret weapon" hypothesis of UFOs. Vesco points out that
|
|
if these devices are one day to be used in a superpower conflict [or in
|
|
suppression of civilian revolution, against, say, S&L taxation -jpg], the
|
|
attacking power would be well-served by the myth of the UFO as an extra-
|
|
terrestrial craft, for the besieged nation would not know the true nature of
|
|
its opponent. Perhaps, then, one purpose of the UFO abductions is to engender
|
|
and maintain the legend of the little grey aliens. For the hidden manipula-
|
|
tors, the abductions could be, in and of themselves, a propaganda coup.
|
|
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|
FINAL THOUGHTS
|
|
|
|
I do not insist dogmatically on the scenario that I have outlined. I do not
|
|
wish to dissuade abduction researchers from exploring other avenues -- indeed,
|
|
I strongly encourage such work to continue. Nor can I easily account for some
|
|
aspects of the abduction narratives -- for example, any suggestions I could
|
|
offer concerning the reports of genetic experimentation would be extremely
|
|
speculative.
|
|
But I DO insist on a fair hearing of this hypothesis. Criticism is
|
|
encouraged; that which does not destroy my thesis will make it stronger. I ask
|
|
only that my critics refrain from intellectual laziness; mere differences in
|
|
world-view do not constitute a valid attack. God is found in the details.
|
|
I recognize the dangers inherent in making this thesis public. New and
|
|
distressing abductee confabulations may result. I would prefer that the
|
|
audience for this paper be restricted to abduction RESEARCHERS, not victims,
|
|
who might be unduly influenced. However, in a society that prides itself on
|
|
ostensibly free press, such restrictions are unthinkable. Therefore, I can
|
|
only beg any abduction victims who might read this paper to attempt a super-
|
|
human objectivity. The thesis I have outlined is promising, and (should
|
|
trepanation ever provide us with an example of an actual abductee implant)
|
|
susceptible of proof. But mine is not the only hypothesis. The abductee's
|
|
unrewarding task is to report what he or she has experienced as truthfully as
|
|
possible, untainted by outside speculation.
|
|
Whether or not future investigation proves UFO abductions to be a product
|
|
of mind control experimentation, I feel that this paper has, at least,
|
|
provided evidence of a serious danger facing those who hold fast to the ideals
|
|
of individual freedom. We cannot long ignore this menace.
|
|
A spectre haunts the democratic nations -- the spectre of TECHNOFASCISM.
|
|
All the powers of the espionage empire and the scientific establishment have
|
|
entered into an unholy alliance to evoke this spectre: Psychiatrist and spy,
|
|
Dulles and Delgado, microwave specialists and clandestine operators.
|
|
A mind is a terrible thing to waste -- and a worse thing to commandeer.
|
|
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|
NOTES
|
|
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1. Budd Hopkins, MISSING TIME (New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1981)
|
|
and INTRUDERS (New York: Random House, 1987).
|
|
2. Whitley Strieber, COMMUNION (New York: Beech Tree Books, 1987).
|
|
3. Cannon, "Psychiatric Abuse of UFO Witness," UFO magazine, vol. 3,
|
|
no. 5 (December, 1988)
|
|
4. Philip Klass, UFO ABDUCTIONS: A DANGEROUS GAME (Buffalo: Prometheus
|
|
Books, 1988). Klass makes some sharp observations, which are undercut by his
|
|
refusal to interview abductees directly. The work has no footnotes and
|
|
depends heavily on the work of Dr. Martin "Bob" Orne -- of whom more anon.
|
|
5. See bibliography.
|
|
6. New York: Bantam Books, 1979.
|
|
7. See generally PROJECT MKULTRA, THE CIA'S PROGRAM OF RESEARCH IN
|
|
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION, joint hearing before the Select Committee on Health and
|
|
Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, Unites States Senate
|
|
(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1977).
|
|
8. Robert Eringer, "Secret Agent Man," ROLLING STONE, 1985.
|
|
9. John Marks interview with Victor Marchetti (Marks files, available at
|
|
the National Security Archives, Washington, D.C.).
|
|
10. In an interview with John Marks, hypnosis expert Milton Kline, a
|
|
veteran of clandestine experimentation in this field, averred that his work
|
|
for the government continued. Since the interview took place in 1977, years
|
|
after the CIA allegedly halted mind control research, we must conclude either
|
|
that the CIA lied, or that another agency continued the work. In another
|
|
interview with Marks, former Air Force-CIA liaison L. Fletcher Prouty con-
|
|
firmed that the Department of Defense ran studies either in conjunction with
|
|
or parallel to those operated by the CIA. (Marks files.)
|
|
11. Estabrooks, HYPNOSIS (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1957
|
|
[revised edition]), 13-14.
|
|
12. A copy of this letter can be found in the Marks files.
|
|
13. Estabrooks attracted an eclectic group of friends, including J.
|
|
Edgar Hoover and Alan Watts.
|
|
14. Interview with daughter Doreen Estabrooks, Marks files, Washington,
|
|
D.C.
|
|
15. Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain, ACID DREAMS (New York: Grove Press,
|
|
1985) 3-4; Marks, THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE", 6-8
|
|
16. Marks, ibid. 4-6.
|
|
17. Edward Hunter, BRAINWASHING IN RED CHINA (New York: Vanguard Press,
|
|
1951.). Hunter invented the term "brainwashing" in a September 24, 1950 Miami
|
|
NEWS article.
|
|
18. "Japan's Germ Warfare Experiments," THE GLOBE AND MAIL (Toronto),
|
|
May 19, 1982.
|
|
19. Walter Bowart, OPERATION MIND CONTROL (New York: Dell, 1978), 191-2,
|
|
quoting Warren Commission documents. We cannot fairly derive from this state-
|
|
ment a sanguine attitude about PRESENT Soviet capabilities; in this field,
|
|
even outdated technology suffices for mischief.
|
|
20. Marks, THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE", 60-61. A folk
|
|
entymology has it that the "MK" of MKULTRA stands for "Mind Kontrol." Accord-
|
|
ing to Marks, TSS prefixed the cryptonyms of all its projects with these
|
|
initials. Note, though, that MKULTRA was preceded by a still-mysterious TSS
|
|
program called QKHILLTOP.
|
|
21. Marks, THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE", 224-229. Seven
|
|
MKULTRA subprojects were continued, under TSS supervision, as MKSEARCH. This
|
|
project ended in 1972. CIA apologists often proclaim that "brainwashing"
|
|
research ceased in either 1962 or 1972; these blandishments refer to the TSS
|
|
projects, not to the ORD work, which remains TERRA INCOGNITA for independent
|
|
researchers. Marks discovered that the ORD research was so voluminous that
|
|
retrieving documents via FOIA would have proven unthinkably expensive.
|
|
22. For a description of the research into parapsychology, see Ronald
|
|
M. McRae's MIND WARS (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984). The best book
|
|
available on a subject which awaits a truly authoritative text.
|
|
23. Abduction researcher and hypnotherapist Miranda Park, of Lancaster,
|
|
California, reports that she has viewed such anomalies in abductee MRI scans.
|
|
See also Whitley Strieber, TRANSFORMATION (New York: Beech Tree Books, 1988)
|
|
246-247. At this writing, both Strieber and Hopkins report initially promising
|
|
results in their efforts to document the presence of these "extras" in
|
|
abductees.
|
|
24. Allegedly, the experiment took place in 1964. However, in WERE WE
|
|
CONTROLLED? (New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1967), the pseudonymous
|
|
"Lincoln Lawrence" makes an interesting argument (on page 36) that the
|
|
demonstration took place some years earlier.
|
|
25. New York: Harper and Row, 1969. Much of Delgado's work was funded
|
|
by the Office of Naval Intelligence, a common conduit for CIA funds during the
|
|
1950s and '60s. (Gordon Thomas' JOURNEY INTO MADNESS (New York: Bantam, 1989)
|
|
misleadingly implies that CIA interest in Delgado's work began in 1972.)
|
|
26. J.M.R. "Bob" Delgado. "Intracerebral Radio Stimulation and Recording
|
|
in Completely Free Patients," PSYCHOTECHNOLOGY (Robert L. Schwitzgebel and
|
|
Ralph K. Schwitzgebel, editors; New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973):
|
|
195.
|
|
27. David Krech, "Controlling the Mind Controllers," THINK 32 (July-
|
|
August), 1966.
|
|
28. Delgado, PHYSICAL CONTROL OF THE MIND
|
|
29. Delgado, "Intracerebral Radio Stimulation and Recording in Completely
|
|
free patients," 195.
|
|
30. Note, for example, Charles Hickson's account of the Pascagoula
|
|
Incident. Charles Hickson and William Mendez, UFO CONTACT AT PASCOGOULA
|
|
(Tuscon: Wendelle C. Stevens, 1983).
|
|
31. John Ranleigh, THE AGENCY (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1986): 208.
|
|
Marchetti casts this story in the form of an amusing anecdote: After much time
|
|
and expense, a cat was suitably trained and prepared -- only, on its first
|
|
assignment, to be run over by a taxi. Marchetti neglects to point out that
|
|
nothing stopped the Agency from getting another cat. Or from using a human
|
|
being.
|
|
32. Of course, this suggestion raises the knotty question of whether the
|
|
abductees suffer from a form of schizophrenia, which may also be characterized
|
|
by "voices." I refer the reader to the work of Hopkins, Strieber, Thomas
|
|
Bullard, and others who have described the difficulties of ascribing all
|
|
abductions to psychotic states.
|
|
33. Alan W. Scheflin and Edward M. Opton, Jr., THE MIND MANIPULATORS
|
|
(London: Paddington Press, 1978), 347.
|
|
34. Thomas, JOURNAY INTO MADNESS, 276.
|
|
35. James Olds, "Hypothalamic Substrates of Reward," PHYSIOLOGICAL
|
|
REVIEWS, 1962, 42:554; "Emotional Centers in the Brain," SCIENCE JOURNAL,
|
|
1967, 3 (5).
|
|
36. Vernon Mark and Frank Ervin, VIOLENCE AND THE BRAIN (New York:
|
|
Harper and Row, 1970), chapter 12, excerpted in INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND THE
|
|
FEDERAL ROLE IN BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION, prepared by the Staff of the Subcom-
|
|
mittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee of the Judiciary, United
|
|
States Senate (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1974).
|
|
37. John Lilly, THE SCIENTIST (Berkeley, Ronin Publishing, 1988 [revised
|
|
edition]), 90. Monkeys allowed to stimulate themselves continually via ESB
|
|
brought themselves to orgasm once every three minutes, sixteen hours a day.
|
|
Scientific gatherings throughout the world saw motion pictures of these
|
|
experiments, which surely made spectacular cinema.
|
|
38. Scheflin and Opton, THE MIND MANIPULATORS, 336-337. Heath even
|
|
monitored his patient's brain responses during the subject's first heterosexual
|
|
encounter. Such is the nature of the brave new world before us.
|
|
39. Robert L. Schwitzgebel and Richard M. Bird, "Sociotechnical Design
|
|
Factors in Remote Instrumentation with Humans in Natural Environments,"
|
|
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS AND INSTRUMENTATION, 1970, 2, 99-105.
|
|
40. Thomas, JOURNEY INTO MADNESS, 277. In the BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
|
|
AND INSTRUMENTATION article referenced above, Schwitzgebel details how the
|
|
radio signals may be fed into a telephone via a modem and thus analyzed by a
|
|
computer anywhere in the world.
|
|
41. Scheflin and Opton, THE MIND MANIPULATORS, 347-349.
|
|
42. Louis Tackwood and the Citizen's Research and Investigation Commit-
|
|
tee, THE GLASS HOUSE TAPES (New York: Avon, 1973), 226.
|
|
43. Perry London, BEHAVIOR CONTROL (New York: Harper and Row, 1969), 145
|
|
44. Scheflin and Opton, THE MIND MANIPULATORS, 351-353; Tackwood, THE
|
|
GLASS HOUSE TAPES, 228.
|
|
45. "Beepers in kids' heads could stop abductors," Las Vegas SUN, Oct.
|
|
27, 1987.
|
|
46. Lilly, THE SCIENTIST, 91.
|
|
47. Marks, THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE", 151-154.
|
|
48. Interestingly, Lilly has come out of the closet as a sort of proto-
|
|
Strieber; THE SCIENTIST recounts his close interaction with alien (though not
|
|
necessarily extraterrestrial) forces which he labels "solid state entities."
|
|
49. The story of Deep Trance, an MKULTRA "insider" who provided
|
|
invaluable information, is somewhat involved. I do not know who Trance is/was
|
|
and Marks may not know either. He contacted Trance via the writer of an
|
|
article published shortly before research on THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN
|
|
CANDIDATE" began, addressing his informant "Dear Source whose anonymity I
|
|
respect." I respect it too -- hence my reticence to name the aforementioned
|
|
article, which may mark a trail to Trance. The fact that I have not followed
|
|
this trail would not prevent others from doing so. [And if Trance were a
|
|
CIA disinformation source a la William Cooper, this is precisely the behavior
|
|
they would count on. -jpg]
|
|
50. London, BEHAVIOR CONTROL, 139.
|
|
51. See generally, UFO magazine, Vol. 4, No. 2; especially the
|
|
interesting contribution by Whitley Strieber.
|
|
52. Lawrence, WERE WE CONTROLLED?, 36-37; Anita Gregory, "Introduction
|
|
to Leonid L. Vasilev's EXPERIMENTS IN DISTANT INFLUENCE," PSYCHIC WARFARE:
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FACT OR FICTION (editor: John White) (Nottinghamshire: Aquarian, 1988) 34-57.
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53. Lawrence, WERE WE CONTROLLED?, 38.
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54. Bowart, OPERATION MIND CONTROL, 261-264.
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55. Ibid. 263.
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56. Lawrence, WERE WE CONTROLLED?, 52.
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57. HUMAN DRUG TESTING BY THE CIA, 202.
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58. Note especially the Supreme Court's decision in CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
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AGENCY ET Al. V. SIMS, ET AL. (No. 83-1075; decided April 16, 1986). The
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egregious and dangerous majority opinion in this case held that disclosure of
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the names of scientists and institutions involved in MKULTRA posed an
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"unacceptable risk of revealing 'intelligence sources.' The decisions of the
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[CIA] Director, who must of course be familiar with 'the whole picture,' as
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judges are not, are worthy of great deference...it is conceivable that the
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mere explanation of why information must be withheld can convey valuable
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information to a foreign intelligence agency." How do we square this continu-
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ing need for secrecy with the CIA's protestations that MKULTRA achieved little
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success, that the studies were conducted within the Nueremberg statues govern-
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ing medical experiments, and that the research was made available in the open
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literature?
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59. Letter, P.A. Lindstrom to Robert Naeslund, July 27, 1983; copy
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available from Martti Koski, Kiilinpellontie 2, 21290 Rusko, Finland. Lind-
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strom writes that he fully agrees with Lincoln Lawrence, author of WERE WE
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CONTROLLED?
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60. Bowart, OPERATION MIND CONTROL, 265. I have attempted without
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success to contact Dr. Lindstrom.
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61. Bowart, OPERATION MIND CONTROL, 233-249. This interview was
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repinted without attribution in a bizarre compendium of UFO rumors called
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THE MATRIX, compiled by "Valdamar Valerian" (actually John Grace, allegedly
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a captain working for Air Force intelligence).
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62. Robert Anton Wilson, "Adventures with Head Hardware," MAGICAL BLEND,
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23 [of course], July 1989.
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63. Michael Hutchison, MEGA BRAIN (New York: Ballantine, 1986); Gerald
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Oster, "Auditory Beats in the Brain," SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, September, 1973.
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64. Marilyn Ferguson, THE BRAIN REVOLUTION (New York: Taplinger, 1973),
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90.
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65. Ibid., 91-92. The presence of delta in a waking subject can
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indicate pathology.
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66. Bio-Pacer promotional and price sheet, available from Lindemann
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Laboratories, 3463 State Street, #264, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.
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67. Hutchison, MEGA BRAIN, 117-118. Compare Light's observations about
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"the grant game" to Sid Gottlieb's protestations that nearly all "mind con-
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trol" research was openly published.
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68. Thomas Martinez and John Gunther, THE BROTHERHOOD OF MURDER (New
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York: McGraw-Hill, 1988), 230.
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69. Interview, Sandy Monroe of the Los Angeles office of the Christic
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Institute.
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70. See generally Paul Brodeur, THE ZAPPING OF AMERICA (Toronto, George
|
|
J. MacLeod, 1977).
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71. Until recently, the American Embassy was on a street named after the
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composer.
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72. It was finally determined that the microwaves were used to receive
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transmissions from bugs planted within the embassy. DARPA director George H.
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Heimeier went on record stating that PANDORA was never designed to study
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"microwaves as a surveillance tool." See Anne Keeler, "Remote Mind Control
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|
Technology," FULL DISCLOSURE #15. I would note that the Soviet embassy was
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|
"bugged and waved" in Canada during the 1950s, and according to the Los
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|
Angeles TIMES (June 5, 1989), the Soviet embassy in Britain had been similarly
|
|
affected.
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|
73. Ronald I. Adams R.A. Williams, BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC
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RADIATION (RADIOWAVES AND MICROWAVES) EURASIAN COMMUNIST COUNTRIES, (Defense
|
|
Intelligence Agency, March 1976.) Brodeur notes that much of the work ascribed
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to the Soviets in this report was actually first accomplished by scientists in
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the United States. Keeler argues that this report constitutes an example of
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|
"mirror imaging" -- i.e., parading domestic advances as a foreign threat, the
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better to pry funding from a suitably-fearful Congress.
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|
74. Keeler, "Remote Mind Control Technology."
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75. R.J. MacGregor, "A Brief Survey of Literature Relating to Influence
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of Low Intensity Microwaves on Nervous Function" (Santa Monica: RAND Corpor-
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|
ation, 1970).
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76. Keeler, "Remote Mind Control Technology."
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77. Larry Collins, "Mind Control," PLAYBOY, January 1990.
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|
78. Allan H. Frey, "Behavioral Effects of Electromagnetic Energy,"
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SYMPOSIUM ON BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS AND MEASUREMENTS OF RADIO FREQUENCIES/MICRO-
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|
WAVES, DeWitt G. Hazzard, editor (U.S. Department of Health, Education and
|
|
Welfare, 1977).
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79. quoted in THE APPLICATION OF TESLA'S TECHNOLOGY IN TODAY'S WORLD
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(Montreal: Lafferty, Hardwood & Partners, Ltd., 1978).
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80. Keeler, "Remote Mind Control Technology."
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81. L. George Lawrence, "Electronics and Brain Control," POPULAR
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ELECTRONICS, July 1973.
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82. Susan Schiefelbein, "The Invisible Threat," SATURDAY REVIEW,
|
|
September 15, 1979.
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83. E. Preston, "Studies on the Nervous System, Cardiovascular Function
|
|
and Thermoregulation," BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF RADIO FREQUENCY AND MICROWAVE
|
|
RADIATION, edited by H.M. Assenheim (Ottawa, Canada: National Research Council
|
|
of Canada, 1979), 138-141.
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84. Robert O. Becker, THE BODY ELECTRIC (New York: William Morrow, 1985)
|
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318-319.
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85. Ibid.
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86. Ibid., 321.
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87. See Bowart's OPERATION MIND CONTROL, page 218, for an interesting
|
|
example of this "rationalization" process at work in the case of Sirhan
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|
Sirhan, who was convicted for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. In
|
|
prison, Sirhan was hypnotized by Dr. Bernard Diamond, who instructed Sirhan
|
|
to climb the bars of his cage like a monkey. He did so. After the trance
|
|
was removed, Sirhan was shown tapes of his actions; he insisted that he "acted
|
|
like a monkey" of his own free will -- he claimed he wanted the exercise.
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88. Keeler suggests that the proposal was revealed only because
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Schapitz' sensationalistic implications may have worked to his discredit --
|
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and therefore hide -- the REAL research. Personally, I don't accept this
|
|
argument, but I respect Keeler's instincts enough to repeat her caveat here.
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89. Margaret Cheney's TESLA: A MAN OUT OF TIME (New York: Dell, 1981),
|
|
the most reliable book in the sea of wild speculation surrounding this
|
|
extraordinary scientist, confirms Tesla's early work with the psychological
|
|
effects of electromagnetic radiation. See especially pages 101-104; note also
|
|
the afterword, in which we learn that certain government agencies have kept
|
|
important research by Tesla hidden from the general public.
|
|
90. Noted in Lawrence, WERE WE CONTROLLED?, 29.
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91. Particularly one Thomas Bearden of Huntsville, Alabama; I have in my
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possession a document written by Bearden associate Andrew Michrowski which
|
|
identifies Bearden as an intelligence agent for an undisclosed agency.
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92. Kathleen McAuliffe, "The Mind Fields," OMNI magazine, February 1985.
|
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93. May 5, 1985.
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94. I refer to an individual who later wrote a very clear-headed and
|
|
thoughtful letter to Dr. Paul Lowinger, who has graciously made his files
|
|
available to me. For now, I feel compelled to withold this person's name.
|
|
95. Cameron became president of the American Psychiatric Association,
|
|
the Canadian Psychiatric Association, and the World Association of Psychia-
|
|
trists, He previously sat on the Nueremberg panel, helping to draw up the
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|
statutes governing ethical medical behavior!
|
|
96. In particular, Opton and Scheflin's overview, though excellent in
|
|
scope and detail, continually seeks reassurring interpretations of evidence
|
|
which points toward more distressing conclusions.
|
|
97. Martin T. Orne, "Can a hypnotized subject be compelled to carry out
|
|
otherwise unacceptable behavior?" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERI-
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|
MENTAL HYPNOSIS, 1972, Vol. 20, 101-117.
|
|
98. Marks mentions, in a letter to Orne, the latter's claim to have been
|
|
an unwitting participant in subproject 84. Yet the papers released concerning
|
|
subproject 84 clearly establish the Agency's willingness to put Orne in the
|
|
know; Orne later admitted to Marks that he was made aware of his CIA sponsor-
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|
ship (Marks, THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE", 172-173). In an
|
|
interview with Marks, Orne discounted the story of Candy Jones (which we shall
|
|
recount later) by insisting that if such an experiment had occurred "someone
|
|
in some agency would have come to me." Why would they come to him about a
|
|
super-secret project, unless Orne had a high security clearance and worked
|
|
extensively with intelligence agencies? Note also that Orne conducted exten-
|
|
sive studies for the Office of Naval Research from June 1, 1968 to May 31,
|
|
1971. He has also been funded by DARPA. Moreover, I consider noteworthy the
|
|
fact that Orne somehow became president of the Society for Clinical and
|
|
Experimental Hypnosis despite the fact that the organization had decided not
|
|
to have a president. (This fact was related to Marks by a prominent hypnosis
|
|
specialist in an off-the-record interview that I probably wasn't supposed to
|
|
see.)
|
|
99. The story has been told many times. See Turner and Christian's THE
|
|
KILLING OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY, 207-208; also Peter J. Reiter, ANTISOCIAL OR
|
|
CRIMINAL ACTS AND HYPNOSIS (Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1958).
|
|
100. John G. Watkins, "Antisocial behavior under hypnosis: Possible or
|
|
impossible?" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS,
|
|
1972, Vol. 20, 95-100.
|
|
101. Milton H. Erickson, "An experimental investigation of the possible
|
|
anti-social use of hypnosis," PSYCHIATRY, 1939, vol. 2. Erickson argues that
|
|
if a hypnotist has convinced his subject to misperceive reality, then result-
|
|
ing actions cannot be considered "anti-social," for the actions would be
|
|
acceptable within the subject's internal reality construct. This argument
|
|
strikes me as semantic quibbling. [not me -jpg]
|
|
102. See generally Flo Conway and Jim Seigelman, SNAPPING (New York:
|
|
Lippincott, 1978).
|
|
103. Lee and Schlain, ACID DREAMS, 8-9.
|
|
104. John Marks interview with Victor Marchetti, December 19, 1977
|
|
(Marks files).
|
|
105. Martin T. Orne, "On the Mechanisms of Posthypnotic Amnesia," THE
|
|
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HYPNOSIS, 1966, vol. 14,
|
|
121-134. Orne's work with post-hypnotic amnesia was funded by NIMH, the Air
|
|
Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Office of Naval Research. I
|
|
should like to hear what innocent explanation, if any, the Air Force has to
|
|
offer to explain their interest in post-hypnotic amnesia. ["We must not allow
|
|
a post-hypnotic-amnesia gap!" of course. -jpg]
|
|
106. Bowart, OPERATION MIND CONTROL, 242-243.
|
|
107. Obviously Allan Dulles. This may have been a hypnotically-induced
|
|
delusion; on the other hand, Dulles' legendary sexual rapacity makes this claim
|
|
rather less unlikely than one might first assume. [WRONG! Obviously, this
|
|
reference is to J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, chief MC of the Church of SubGenius; the
|
|
initials A.D. refer to one of his pseudonyms, Adman Destructor. "Bob"'s
|
|
sexual rapacity is the stuff of SubLegend. -jpg]
|
|
108. Always the best indicator of whether or not hypnosis is genuine;
|
|
I can't understand why Orne didn't use this test in the Blanchi case.
|
|
109. Herbert Spiegel, "Hypnosis and evidence: Help or hindrance," ANN.
|
|
N.Y. ACAD. SCI.; 1980, 347, 73-85.
|
|
110. See, for example, Kroger, HYPNOSIS AND BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION, 21-22
|
|
111. See especially Klass, UFO ABDUCTIONS: A DANGEROUS GAME, 60-61.
|
|
Orne, interviewed here, makes reference to the work summarized in his article
|
|
"The use and misuse of hypnosis in court" (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL
|
|
HYPNOSIS, 1979, vol. 27, 311-341.)
|
|
112. Klass argues that ufologists, in conducting hypnotic regression
|
|
sessions, inadvertently cue their subjects. A close reading of his text
|
|
reveals that he never proves or claims that such "cues" have taken place in
|
|
any individual instance; he simply believes that cueing MIGHT have occurred.
|
|
Had Klass been more willing to deal with abductees directly, he might have
|
|
found evidence of cause and effect; as it stands, his argument really amounts
|
|
to no more than a suggestion. For all that, I find his ideas regarding the
|
|
running of "clean" hypnotic regression sessions potentially valuable.
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