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Am I Brainwashed????

Cole — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 03:18:36 GMT

I did not bote for Bush ... but ... I didn't vote against him either ....

I figured it didn't matter ... What do you think? .... I probably would not have mattered ..... Maybe I am brainwashed ....

After all ....

Although .... I am thinking things are not looking too good over there in IRAQ ... and I just can't understand why the American People bought that weapons of Mass Destruction rhetoric ....

Your input is appreciated ...

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Brain Wash reposted from S

Killa Cham — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:31:51 GMT

For YOUR sake, your future, your LIFE..

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How Revivalist Preachers Work

If you'd like to see a revivalist preacher at work, there are probably several in your city. Go to the church or tent early and sit in the rear, about three-quarters of the way back.

Most likely repetitive music will be played while the people come in for the service. A repetitive beat, ideally ranging from 45 to 72 beats per minute (a rhythm close to the beat of the human heart), is very hypnotic and can generate an eyes-open altered state of consciousness in a very high percentage of people.

And, once you are in an alpha state, you are at least 25 times as suggestible as you would be in full beta consciousness. The music is probably the same for every service, or incorporates the same beat, and many of the people will go into an altered state almost immediately upon entering the sanctuary. Subconsciously, they recall their state of mind from previous services and respond according to the post-hypnotic programming.

Watch the people waiting for the service to begin. Many will exhibit external signs of trance--body relaxation and slightly dilated eyes. Often, they begin swaying back and forth with their hands in the air while sitting in their chairs. Next, the assistant pastor will probably come out. He usually speaks with a pretty good "voice roll."

The "Voice Roll" Technique

A "voice roll" is a patterned, paced style used by hypnotists when inducing a trance. It is also used by many lawyers, several of whom are highly trained hypnotists, when they desire to entrench a point firmly in the minds of the jurors. A voice roll can sound as if the speaker were talking to the beat of a metronome or it may sound as though he were emphasizing every word in a monotonous, patterned style. The words will usually be delivered at the rate of 45 to 60 beats per minute, maximizing the hypnotic effect.

The Build-up Process: Inducing Altered States

Now the assistant pastor begins the "build-up" process. He induces an altered state of consciousness and/or begins to generate the excitement and the expectations of the audience. Next, a group of young women in "sweet and pure" chiffon dresses might come out to sing a song. Gospel songs are great for building excitement and involvement. In the middle of the song, one of the girls might be "smitten by the spirit" and fall down or react as if possessed by the Holy Spirit. This very effectively increases the intensity in the room. At this point, hypnosis and conversion tactics are being mixed. And the result is the audience's attention span is now totally focused upon the communication while the environment becomes more exciting or tense.

Assured Continuation: Fleecing the Flock

Right about this time, when an eyes-open mass-induced alpha mental state has been achieved, they will usually pass the collection plate or basket. In the background, a 45-beat-per-minute voice roll from the assistant preacher might exhort, "Give to God...Give to God...Give to God...." And the audience does give. God may not get the money, but his already-wealthy representative will.

Bonding by Fear and Suggestion

Next, the fire-and-brimstone preacher will come out. He induces fear and increases the tension by talking about "the devil," "going to hell," or the forthcoming Armegeddon.

In the last such rally I attended, the preacher talked about the blood that would soon be running out of every faucet in the land. He was also obsessed with a "bloody axe of God," which everyone had seen hanging above the pulpit the previous week. I have no doubt that everyone saw it--the power of suggestion given to hundreds of people in hypnosis assures that at least 10 to 25 percent would see whatever he suggested they see.

Testimony: Creating Community Spirit

In most revivalist gatherings, "testifying" or "witnessing" usually follows the fear-based sermon. People from the audience come up on stage and relate their stories. "I was crippled and now I can walk!" "I had arthritis and now it's gone!" It is a psychological manipulation that works. After listening to numerous case histories of miraculous healings, the average guy in the audience with a minor problem is sure he can be healed. The room is charged with fear, guilt, intense excitement, and expectations.

Miracles

Now those who want to be healed are frequently lined up around the edge of the room, or they are told to come down to the front. The preacher might touch them on the head firmly and scream, "Be healed!" This releases the psychic energy and, for many, catharsis results. Catharsis is a purging of repressed emotions. Individuals might cry, fall down or even go into spasms. And if catharsis is effected, they stand a chance of being healed. In catharsis (one of the three brain phases mentioned earlier), the brain-slate is temporarily wiped clean and the new suggestion is accepted.

For some, the healing may be permanent. For many, it will last four days to a week, which is, incidentally, how long a hypnotic suggestion given to a somnambulistic subject will usually last. Even if the healing doesn't last, if they come back every week, the power of suggestion may continually override the problem...or sometimes, sadly, it can mask a physical problem which could prove to be very detrimental to the individual in the long run.

The Grey Area of Legitimacy

I'm not saying that legitimate healings do not take place. They do. Maybe the individual was ready to let go of the negativity that caused the problem in the first place; maybe it was the work of God. Yet I contend that it can be explained with existing knowledge of brain/mind function.

A Game in Which the Rules Keep Changing

The techniques and staging will vary from church to church. Many use "speaking in tongues" to generate catharsis in some while the spectacle creates intense excitement in the observers.

The use of hypnotic techniques by religions is sophisticated, and professionals are assuring that they become even more effective. A man in Los Angeles is designing, building, and reworking a lot of churches around the country. He tells ministers what they need and how to use it. This man's track record indicates that the congregation and the monetary income will double if the minister follows his instructions. He admits that about 80 percent of his efforts are in the sound system and lighting.

Powerful sound and the proper use of lighting are of primary importance in inducing an altered state of consciousnes--I've been using them for years in my own seminars. However, my participants are fully aware of the process and what they can expect as a result of their participation.

Six Conversion Techniques

Cults and human-potential organizations are always looking for new converts. To attain them, they must also create a brain-phase. And they often need to do it within a short space of time--a weekend, or maybe even a day. The following are the six primary techniques used to generate the conversion.

Isolation Intimidation, Deprivation and Indoctrination

The meeting or training takes place in an area where participants are cut off from the outside world. This may be any place: a private home, a remote or rural setting, or even a hotel ballroom where the participants are allowed only limited bathroom usage. In human-potential trainings, the controllers will give a lengthy talk about the importance of "keeping agreements" in life.

The participants are told that if they don't keep agreements, their life will never work. It's a good idea to keep agreements, but the controllers are subverting a positive human value for selfish purposes. The participants vow to themselves and their trainer that they will keep their agreements. Anyone who does not will be intimidated into agreement or forced to leave. The next step is to agree to complete training, thus assuring a high percentage of conversions for the organizations.

They will usually have to agree not to take drugs, smoke, and sometimes not to eat...or they are given such short meal breaks that it creates tension. The real reason for the agreements is to alter internal chemistry, which generates anxiety and hopefully causes at least a slight malfunction of the nervous system, which in turn increases the conversion potential.

The "Sell It By Zealot" Technique

Before the gathering is complete, the agreements will be used to ensure that the new converts go out and find new participants. They are intimidated into agreeing to do so before they leave. Since the importance of keeping agreements is so high on their priority list, the converts will twist the arms of everyone they know, attempting to talk them into attending a free introductory session offered at a future date by the organization. The new converts are zealots. In fact, the inside term for merchandising the largest and most successful human-potential training is, "sell it by zealot!"

At least a million people are graduates and a good percentage have been left with a mental activation button that assures their future loyalty and assistance if the guru figure or organization calls. Think about the potential political implications of hundreds of thousands of zealots programmed to campaign for their guru.

Be wary of an organization of this type that offers follow-up sessions after the seminar. Follow-up sessions might be weekly meetings or inexpensive seminars given on a regular basis which the organization will attempt to talk you into taking--or any regularly scheduled event used to maintain control. As the early Christian revivalists found, long-term control is dependent upon a good follow-up system.

Wearing Down Resistance

Alright. Now, let's look at the second tip-off that indicates conversion tactics are being used. A schedule is maintained that causes physical and mental fatigue. This is primarily accomplished by long hours in which the participants are given no opportunity for relaxation or reflection.

Increasing Tension

The third tip-off: techniques used to increase the tension in the room or environment.

Introducing Uncertainty About Identity

Number four: Uncertainty. I could spend hours relating various techniques to increase tension and generate uncertainty. Basically, the participants are concerned about being "put on the spot" or encountered by the trainers, guilt feelings are played upon, participants are tempted to verbally relate their innermost secrets to the other participants or forced to take part in activities that emphasize removing their masks. One of the most successful human-potential seminars forces the participants to stand on a stage in front of the entire audience while being verbally attacked by the trainers. A public opinion poll, conducted a few years ago, showed that the number one most-fearful situation an individual could encounter is to speak to an audience. It ranked above window washing outside the 85th floor of an office building.

So you can imagine the fear and tension this situation generates within the participants. Many faint, but most cope with the stress by mentally going away. They literally go into an alpha state, which automatically makes them many times as suggestible as they normally are. And another loop of the downward spiral into conversion is successfully effected.

Jargon

The fifth clue that conversion tactics are being used is the introduction of jargon--new terms that have meaning only to the "insiders" who participate. Vicious language is also frequently used, purposely, to make participants uncomfortable.

Lack of Humor: No Release, No Resistance

The final tip-off is that there is no humor in the communications...at least until the participants are converted. Then, merry-making and humor are highly desirable as symbols of the new joy the participants have supposedly "found."

Not Always a Bad Thing

I'm not saying that good does not result from participation in such gatherings. It can and does. But I contend it is important for people to know what has happened and to be aware that continual involvement may not be in their best interest.

Over the years, I've conducted professional seminars to teach people to be hypnotists, trainers, and counselors. I've had many of those who conduct trainings and rallies come to me and say, "I'm here because I know that what I'm doing works, but I don't know why." After showing them how and why, many have gotten out of the business or have decided to approach it differently or in a much more loving and supportive manner.

Many of these trainers have become personal friends, and it scares us all to have experienced the power of one person with a microphone and a room full of people. Add a little charisma and you can count on a high percentage of conversions. The sad truth is that a high percentage of people want to give away their power--they are true "believers"!

Cults: A Captive Course in Stockholm Syndrome

Cult gatherings or human-potential trainings are an ideal environment to observe first-hand what is technically called the "Stockholm Syndrome." This is a situation in which those who are intimidated, controlled, or made to suffer, begin to love, admire, and even sometimes sexually desire their controllers or captors.

But let me inject a word of warning here: If you think you can attend such gatherings and not be affected, you are probably wrong. A perfect example is the case of a woman who went to Haiti on a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Haitian Voodoo. In her report, she related how the music eventually induced uncontrollable bodily movement and an altered state of consciousness. Although she understood the process and thought herself above it, when she began to feel herself become vulnerable to the music, she attempted to fight it and turned away. Anger or resistance almost always assures conversion. A few moments later she was possessed by the music and began dancing in a trance around the Voodoo meeting house. A brain phase had been induced by the music and excitement, and she awoke feeling reborn.

The Only Hope of Immunity

The only hope of attending such gatherings without being affected is to be a Buddha and allow no positive or negative emotions to surface. Few people are capable of such detachment.

The US Marines as a Brainwashing Cult

Before I go on, let's go back to the six tip-offs to conversion. I want to mention the United States Government and military boot camp. The Marine Corps talks about breaking men down before "rebuilding" them as new men--as marines! Well, that is exactly what they do, the same way a cult breaks its people down and rebuilds them as happy flower sellers on your local street corner. Every one of the six conversion techniques are used in boot camp. Considering the needs of the military, I'm not making a judgement as to whether that is good or bad. IT IS A fact that the men are effectively brainwashed. Those who won't submit must be discharged or spend much of their time in the brig.

Steps in the Decognition Process

Once the initial conversion is effected, cults, armed services, and similar groups cannot have cynicism among their members. Members must respond to commands and do as they are told, otherwise they are dangerous to the organizational control. This is normally accomplished as a three-step ˜ Decognition Process.

Alertness reduction

Step One is alertness reduction: The controllers cause the nervous system to malfunction, making it difficult to distinguish between fantasy and reality. This can be accomplished in several ways. poor diet is one; watch out for Brownies and Koolaid. The sugar throws the nervous system off. More subtle is the "spiritual diet" used by many cults. They eat only vegetables and fruits; without the grounding of grains, nuts, seeds, dairy products, fish or meat, an individual becomes mentally "spacey." Inadequate sleep is another primary way to reduce alertness, especially when combined with long hours of work or intense physical activity. Also, being bombarded with intense and unique experiences achieves the same result.

Programmed Confusion
Step Two is programmed confusion: You are mentally assaulted while your alertness is being reduced as in Step One. This is accomplished with a deluge of new information, lectures, discussion groups, encounters or one-to-one processing, which usually amounts to the controller bombarding the individual with questions. During this phase of decognition, reality and illusion often merge and perverted logic is likely to be accepted.

Thought Stopping
Step Three is thought stopping: Techniques are used to cause the mind to go "flat." These are altered-state-of-consciousness techniques that initially induce calmness by giving the mind something simple to deal with and focusing awareness. The continued use brings on a feeling of elation and eventually hallucination. The result is the reduction of thought and eventually, if used long enough, the cessation of all thought and withdrawal from everyone and everything except that which the controllers direct. The takeover is then complete. It is important to be aware that when members or participants are instructed to use "thought-stopping" techniques, they are told that they will benefit by so doing: they will become "better soldiers" or "find enlightenment."

Thought Stopping Techniques

Marching
There are three primary techniques used for thought stopping. The first is marching: the thump, thump, thump beat literally generates self-hypnosis and thus great susceptibility to suggestion.

Meditation
The second thought stopping technique is meditation. If you spend an hour to an hour and a half a day in meditation, after a few weeks, there is a great probability that you will not return to full beta consciousness. You will remain in a fixed state of alpha for as long as you continue to meditate. I'm not saying this is bad--if you do it yourself. It may be very beneficial. But it is a fact that you are causing your mind to go flat. I've worked with meditators on an EEG machine and the results are conclusive: the more you meditate, the flatter your mind becomes until, eventually and especially if used to excess or in combination with decognition, all thought ceases. Some spiritual groups see this as nirvana--which is bullshit. It is simply a predictable physiological result. And if heaven on earth is non-thinking and non-involvement, I really question why we are here.

Chanting
The third thought-stopping technique is chanting, and often chanting in meditation. "Speaking in tongues" could also be included in this category.

All three-stopping techniques produce an altered state of consciousness. This may be very good if you are controlling the process, for you also control the input. I personally use at least one self-hypnosis programming session every day and I know how beneficial it is for me. But you need to know if you use these techniques to the degree of remaining continually in alpha that, although you'll be very mellow, you'll also be more suggestible.

True Believers and Mass Movements
Before ending this section on conversion, I want to talk about the people who are most susceptible to it and about Mass Movements. I am convinced that at least a third of the population is what Eric Hoffer calls "true believers." They are joiners and followers...people who want to give away their power. They look for answers, meaning, and enlightenment outside themselves.

Hoffer, who wrote "The True Believer", a classic on mass movements, says, "true believers are not intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but are those craving to be rid of unwanted self. They are followers, not because of a desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy their passion for self-renunciation!" Hoffer also says that true believers "are eternally incomplete and eternally insecure"!

I know this from my own experience. In my years of communicating concepts and conducting trainings, I have run into them again and again. All I can do is attempt to show them that the only thing to seek is the True Self within. Their personal answers are to be found there and there alone. I communicate that the basics of spirituality are self-responsibility and self-actualization. But most of the true believers just tell me that I'm not spiritual and go looking for someone who will give them the dogma and structure they desire.

Never underestimate the potential danger of these people. They can easily be molded into fanatics who will gladly work and die for their holy cause. It is a substitute for their lost faith in themselves and offers them as a substitute for individual hope. The Moral Majority is made up of true believers. All cults are composed of true believers. You'll find them in politics, churches, businesses, and social cause groups. They are the fanatics in these organizations.

Mass Movements will usually have a charismatic leader. The followers want to convert others to their way of living or impose a new way of life--if necessary, by legislating laws forcing others to their view, as evidenced by the activities of the Moral Majority. This means enforcement by guns or punishment, for that is the bottomline in law enforcement.

A common hatred, enemy, or devil is essential to the success of a mass movement. The Born-Again Christians have Satan himself, but that isn't enough--they've added the occult, the New Age thinkers and, lately, all those who oppose their integration of church and politics, as evidenced in their political reelection campaigns against those who oppose their views. In revolutions, the devil is usually the ruling power or aristocracy. Some human-potential movements are far too clever to ask their graduates to join anything, thus labeling themselves as a cult--but, if you look closely, you'll find that their devil is anyone and everyone who hasn't taken their training.

There are mass movements without devils but they seldom attain major status. The True Believers are mentally unbalanced or insecure people, or those without hope or friends. People don't look for allies when they love, but they do when they hate or become obsessed with a cause. And those who desire a new life and a new order feel the old ways must be eliminated before the new order can be built.

Persuasion Techniques
Persuasion isn't technically brainwashing but it is the manipulation of the human mind by another individual, without the manipulated party being aware what caused his opinion shift. I only have time to very basically introduce you to a few of the thousands of techniques in use today, but the basis of persuasion is always to access your right brain. The left half of your brain is analytical and rational. The right side is creative and imaginative. That is overly simplified but it makes my point. So, the idea is to distract the left brain and keep it busy. Ideally, the persuader generates an eyes-open altered state of consciousness, causing you to shift from beta awareness into alpha; this can be measured on an EEG machine.

"Yes Set"
First, let me give you an example of distracting the left brain. Politicians use these powerful techniques all the time; lawyers use many variations which, I've been told, they call "tightening the noose."

Assume for a moment that you are watching a politician give a speech. First, he might generate what is called a "yes set." These are statements that will cause listeners to agree; they might even unknowingly nod their heads in agreement. Next come the truisms. These are usually facts that could be debated but, once the politician has his audience agreeing, the odds are in the politician's favor that the audience won't stop to think for themselves, thus continuing to agree. Last comes the suggestion. This is what the politician wants you to do and, since you have been agreeing all along, you could be persuaded to accept the suggestion. Now, if you'll listen closely to my political speech, you'll find that the first three are the "yes set," the next three are truisms and the last is the suggestion.

"Ladies and gentlemen: are you angry about high food prices? Are you tired of astronomical gas prices? Are you sick of out-of-control inflation? Well, you know the Other Party allowed 18 percent inflation last year; you know crime has increased 50 percent nationwide in the last 12 months, and you know your paycheck hardly covers your expenses any more. Well, the answer to resolving these problems is to elect me, John Jones, to the U.S. Senate."

Embedded Commands
And I think you've heard all that before. But you might also watch for what are called embedded commands. As an example: On key words, the speaker would make a gesture with his left hand, which research has shown is more apt to access your right brain. Today's media-oriented politicians and spellbinders are often carefully trained by a whole new breed of specialist who are using every trick in the book--both old and new--to manipulate you into accepting their candidate.

The Power of NLP
The concepts and techniques of Neuro-Linguistics [Programming] are so heavily protected that I found out the hard way that to even talk about them publicly or in print results in threatened legal action. Yet Neuro-Linguistic training is readily available to anyone willing to devote the time and pay the price. It is some of the most subtle and powerful manipulation I have yet been exposed to. A good friend who recently attended a two-week seminar on Neuro-Linguistics found that many of those she talked to during the breaks were government people.

Interspersal Technique
Another technique that I'm just learning about is unbelievably slippery; it is called an interspersal technique and the idea is to say one thing with words but plant a subconscious impression of something else in the minds of the listeners and/or watchers.

Practical Examples
Let me give you an example: Assume you are watching a television commentator make the following statement: Senator Johnson is assisting local authorities to clear up the stupid mistakes of companies contributing to the nuclear waste problems." It sounds like a statement of fact, but, if the speaker emphasizes the right word, and especially if he makes the proper hand gestures on the key words, you could be left with the subconscious impression that Senator Johnson is stupid. That was the subliminal goal of the statement and the speaker cannot be called to account for anything.

Persuasion techniques are also frequently used on a much smaller scale with just as much effectiveness. The insurance salesman knows his pitch is likely to be much more effective if he can get you to visualize something in your mind. This is right-brain communication [E.g. generates emotions]. For instance, he might pause in his conversation, look slowly around your livingroom and say, "Can you just imagine this beautiful home burning to the ground?" Of course you can! It is one of your unconscious fears and, when he forces you to visualize it, you are more likely to be manipulated into signing his insurance policy.

Shock and Confusion
The Hare Krishnas, operating in every airport, use what I call shock and confusion techniques to distract the left brain and communicate directly with the right brain. While waiting for a plane, I once watched one operate for over an hour. He had a technique of almost jumping in front of someone. Initially, his voice was loud then dropped as he made his pitch to take a book and contribute money to the cause. Usually, when people are shocked, they immediately withdraw. In this case they were shocked by the strange appearance, sudden materialization and loud voice of the Hare Krishna devotee. In other words, the people went into an alpha state for security because they didn't want to confront the reality before them.

In alpha, they were highly suggestible so they responded to the suggestion of taking the book; the moment they took the book, they felt guilty and responded to the second suggestion: give money. We are all conditioned that if someone gives us something, we have to give them something in return--in that case, it was money. While watching this hustler, I was close enough to notice that many of the people he stopped exhibited an outward sign of alpha--their eyes were actually dilated.

Subliminal Programming
Subliminals are hidden suggestions that only your subconscious perceives. They can be audio, hidden behind music, or visual, airbrushed into a picture, flashed on a screen so fast that you don't consciously see them, or cleverly incorporated into a picture or design.

Most audio subliminal reprogramming tapes offer verbal suggestions recorded at a low volume. I question the efficacy of this technique--if subliminals are not perceptible, they cannot be effective, and subliminals recorded below the audible threshold are therefore useless. The oldest audio subliminal technique uses a voice that follows the volume of the music so subliminals are impossible to detect without a parametric equalizer. But this technique is patented and, when I wanted to develop my own line of subliminal audiocassettes, negotiations with the patent holder proved to be unsatisfactory.

My attorney obtained copies of the patents which I gave to some talented Hollywood sound engineers, asking them to create a new technique. They found a way to psycho-acoustically modify and synthesize the suggestions so that they are projected in the same chord and frequency as the music, thus giving them the effect of being part of the music. But we found that in using this technique, there is no way to reduce various frequencies to detect the subliminals. In other words, although the suggestions are being heard by the subconscious mind, they cannot be monitored with even the most sophisticated equipment.

If we were able to come up with this technique as easily as we did, I can only imagine how sophisticated the technology has become, with unlimited government or advertising funding. And I shudder to think about the propaganda and commercial manipulation that we are exposed to on a daily basis. There is simply no way to know what is behind the music you hear. It may even be possible to hide a second voice behind the voice to which you are listening.

The series by Wilson Bryan Key, Ph.D., on subliminals in advertising and political campaigns well documents the misuse in many areas, especially printed advertising in newspapers, magazines, and posters.

The big question about subliminals is: do they work? And I guarantee you they do. Not only from the response of those who have used my tapes, but from the results of such programs as the subliminals behind the music in department stores. Supposedly, the only message is instructions to not steal: one East Coast department store chain reported a 37 percent reduction in thefts in the first nine months of testing.

A 1984 article in the technical newsletter, "Brain-Mind Bulletin," states that as much as 99 percent of our cognitive activity may be "non-conscious," according to the director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Psychophysiology at the University of Illinois. The lengthy report ends with the statement, "these findings support the use of subliminal approaches such as taped suggestions for weight loss and the therapeutic use of hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming."

Mass Misuse of Subliminal Programming
I could relate many stories that support subliminal programming, but I'd rather use my time to make you aware of even more subtle uses of such programming.

I have personally experienced sitting in a Los Angeles auditorium with over ten thousand people who were gathered to listen to a current charismatic figure. Twenty minutes after entering the auditorium, I became aware that I was going in and out of an altered state. Those accompanying me experienced the same thing. Since it is our business, we were aware of what was happening, but those around us were not. By careful observation, what appeared to be spontaneous demonstrations were, in fact, artful manipulations. The only way I could figure that the eyes-open trance had been induced was that a 6- to 7-cycle-per-second vibration was being piped into the room behind the air conditioner sound. That particular vibration generates alpha, which would render the audience highly susceptible. Ten to 25 percent of the population is capable of a somnambulistic level of altered states of consciousness; for these people, the suggestions of the speaker, if non-threatening, could potentially be accepted as "commands."

Vibrato
This leads to the mention of vibrato. Vibrato is the tremulous effect imparted in some vocal or instrumental music, and the cyle-per-second range causes people to go into an altered state of consciousness. At one period of English history, singers whose voices contained pronounced vibrato were not allowed to perform publicly because listeners would go into an altered state and have fantasies, often sexual in nature.

People who attend opera or enjoy listening to singers like Mario Lanza are familiar with this altered state induced by the performers.

Extra-low Frequency Vibrations (ELFs)
Now, let's carry this awareness a little farther. There are also inaudible ELFs (extra-low frequency waves). These are electromagnetic in nature. One of the primary uses of ELFs is to communicate with our submarines. Dr. Andrija Puharich, a highly respected researcher, in an attempt to warn U.S. officials about Russian use of ELFs, set up an experiment. Volunteers were wired so their brain waves could be measured on an EEG. They were sealed in a metal room that could not be penetrated by a normal signal.

Puharich then beamed ELF waves at the volunteers. ELFs go right through the earth and, of course, right through metal walls. Those inside couldn't know if the signal was or was not being sent. And Puharich watched the reactions on the technical equipment: 30 percent of those inside the room were taken over by the ELF signal in six to ten seconds.

When I say "taken over," I mean that their behavior followed the changes anticipated at very precise frequencies. Waves below 6 cycles per second caused the subjects to become very emotionally upset, and even disrupted bodily functions. At 8.2 cycles, they felt very high...an elevated feeling, as though they had been in masterful meditation, learned over a period of years. Eleven to 11.3 cycles induced waves of depressed agitation leading to riotous behavior.

[note from Ken Adachi:: Joe Vialls reported that the CIA and Air Force employed this technique using large dish transmitters beaming down from the back cargo ramps of C135 cargo planes to incite opposing tribal factions in Rwanda to become enraged and engage in mindless slaughter and barbarism]

The Neurophone
Dr. Patrick Flanagan is a personal friend of mine. In the early 1960s, as a teenager, Pat was listed as one of the top scientists in the world by "Life" magazine. Among his many inventions was a device he called the Neurophone--an electronic instrument that can successfully programm suggestions directly through contact with the skin. When he attempted to patent the device, the government demanded that he prove it worked. When he did, the National Security Agency confiscated the neurophone. It took Pat two years of legal battle to get his invention back.

In using the device, you don't hear or see a thing; it is applied to the skin, which Pat claims is the source of special senses. The skin contains more sensors for heat, touch, pain, vibration, and electrical fields than any other part of the human anatomy.

In one of his recent tests, Pat conducted two identical seminars for a military audience--one seminar one night and one the next night, because the size of the room was not large enough to accommodate all of them at one time. When the first group proved to be very cool and unwilling to respond, Patrick spent the next day making a special tape to play at the second seminar. The tape instructed the audience to be extremely warm and responsive and for their hands to become "tingly." The tape was played through the neurophone, which was connected to a wire he placed along the ceiling of the room. There were no speakers, so no sound could be heard, yet the message was successfully transmitted from that wire directly into the brains of the audience. They were warm and receptive, their hands tingled and they responded, according to programming, in other ways that I cannot mention here.

Technological Tools for Mass Manipulation
The more we find out about how human beings work through today's highly advanced technological research, the more we learn to control human beings. And what probably scares me the most is that the medium for takeover is already in place. The television set in your livingroom and bedroom is doing a lot more than just entertaining you.

Before I continue, let me point out something else about an altered state of consciousness. When you go into an altered state, you transfer into right brain, which results in the internal release of the body's own opiates: enkephalins and Beta-endorphins, chemically almost identical to opium. In other words, it feels good...and you want to come back for more.

Recent tests by researcher Herbert Krugman showed that, while viewers were watching TV, right-brain activity outnumbered left-brain activity by a ratio of two to one. Put more simply, the viewers were in an altered state...in trance more often than not. They were getting their Beta-endorphin "fix."

To measure attention spans, psychophysiologist Thomas Mulholland of the Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts, attached young viewers to an EEG machine that was wired to shut the TV set off whenever the children's brains produced a majority of alpha waves. Although the children were told to concentrate, only a few could keep the set on for more than 30 seconds!

Most viewers are already hypnotized. To deepen the trance is easy. One simple way is to place a blank, black frame every 32 frames in the film that is being projected. This creates a 45-beat-per-minute pulsation perceived only by the subconscious mind--the ideal pace to generate deep hypnosis.

The commercials or suggestions presented following this alpha-inducing broadcast are much more likely to be accepted by the viewer. The high percentage of the viewing audience that has somnambulistic-depth ability could very well accept the suggestions as commands--as long as those commands did not ask the viewer to do something contrary to his morals, religion, or self-preservation.

The medium for takeover is here. By the age of 16, children have spent 10,000 to 15,000 hours watching television--that is more time than they spend n school! In the average home, the TV set is on for six hours and 44 minutes per day--an increase of nine minutes from last year and three times the average rate of increase during the 1970s.

It obviously isn't getting better...we are rapidly moving into an alpha-level world--very possibly the Orwellian world of "1984"--placid, glassy-eyed, and responding obediently to instructions.

A research project by Jacob Jacoby, a Purdue University psychologist, found that of 2,700 people tested, 90 percent misunderstood even such simple viewing fare as commercials and "Barnaby Jones." Only minutes after watching, the typical viewer missed 23 to 36 percent of the questions about what he or she had seen. Of course they did--they were going in and out of trance! If you go into a deep trance, you must be instructed to remember--otherwise you automatically forget.

In Closing
I have just touched the tip of the iceberg. When you start to combine subliminal messages behind the music, subliminal visuals projected on the screen, hypnotically produced visual effects, sustained musical beats at a trance-inducing pace . . . you have extremely effective brainwashing. Every hour that you spend watching the TV set you become more conditioned. And, in case you thought there was a law against any of these things, guess again. There isn't! There are a lot of powerful people who obviously prefer things exactly the way they are. Maybe they have plans for...?

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Rick Ross Institute on Brainwashing and Coersion/Conversion Techniques

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www.rickross.com/brainwashing.html

More about MIND CONTROL:
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New Tribe called: Hoax or Real?

janathemama — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:10:03 GMT

Who was behind it? How do they do it? Truth or not? Come and help sort the wheat from the chaff in

http://tribes.tribe.net/hoaxorreal

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Best political multimedia resource on Tribe.net?

Abraxas2k12 — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:46:01 GMT

Could it possibly be... the Info Bunker?

http://tribes.tribe.net/infobunker

Documentaries: http://tribes.tribe.net/infobunker/thread/46e3e76f-20d1-4c76-9d21-f9c9e2bfac23
Music videos: http://tribes.tribe.net/infobunker/thread/ed4d8ee3-8f03-449c-9679-f63b040d4e72
Misc. media: http://tribes.tribe.net/infobunker/thread/3148ee1c-2e00-4a16-a977-8b9b42c4c5b0

Constructive contributions welcome!

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AIDS come from? humans? NWO? population control.

lion stargate — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:08:30 GMT

An alliance of all of the powers on earth, open and hidden, decieded that individual freedoms could no longer be tolerated in the interest of the preservation of the human race. Studies were made during WWII to detirmine impact on economy of returning soldiers(Baby Boom), leading to more secret sudies conducted in 1957 by Special Operations Division scientists meeting in Huntsville, Alabama. The conclusions of which were that, civilization as we know it would collapse shortly after the year 2000 unless population was seriously curtailed. The study expressed concern that since atomic weapons existed they would ultimately be used. Disarmament was urged, and study after study by the likes of the Bilderberg Group and the Club of Rome were made. It was detirmined that an immediate attack on the population problem would be impementing programs to lower birth rate and increase death rate. The development of positive birth-control methods using mechanical(diaphragm & condom), chemical (foam, birth control pills), and medical (sterilization, abortion, and hysterectomy) procedures, were implemented. The womens Liberation movement was started with the demand for free abortions using "pro-choice" rally cry. Homosexuals were encouraged (no children) and Gay Liberation was born. To increase the death rate, something had to be done that would absolve the decision makers of guilt and place blame on those who did not live clean lives. Something that could be blamed on mother nature. Top Secret recommendations were made by Dr. Aurelio Peccei of the Club of Rome that a plague be introduced that would have same effect as the famous "Black Death" of history. The chief recomendation was to develop a microbe which would attack the auto immune system and thus render the development of a vacciene impossible. Orders were given to develop the microbe, and the cure. The microbe would be used against the general population and would be introduced by vaccine. The cure will be anounced as newly developed when in fact it has existed all along, when it is decided that enough people have died. This plan is a part of the Global 2000 Report to the President written by Dr. Aurelio Peccei. Funding was obtained from the US Congress under H.B. 15090 (1969), where $10 million was given to DOD's 1970 budget. Testimony before the Senate comittee revealed that they intended to produce "a synthetic biological agent, an agent that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity may be acquired. Within next 5-10 years it would probably be possible to make a new infective micro=organism which would differ in certain importaint aspects from any known disease-causing organisms." The project, called MK-NAOMI, was carried out at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Since large populations were to be decimated, the ruling elite decided to target "undesierable" elements in society. Specifically targeted were Black, Hispanic, and homosexual populations. The African continent was infected via smallpox vaccine in 1977 administered by the World Health Organization. Wonder why there arn't condoms in Africa? The U.S. population was infected in 1978 with the Hepatitis B vaccine. Dr. Wolf Szmuness, the ex-roomate of Pope John Paul II, was the mastermind behind theNov/78 to Oct/79 and Mar/80 to Oct/81 experimental Hep B vaccine trials conducted by the Centers for Disease Control, in New York, San Fransisco, and four other american cities. The ads for participants specifically asked for promiscuous homosexual male volunteers. Whatever caused AIDS was in the vaccine. The vaccine was manufactured and bottled in Phoenix, Arizona. The order was given by the POLICY COMITTEE of THE BILDERBERG GROUP based in Switzerland. Other measures were also ordered. The one you will be able to check the easiest is the Haig-Kissinger Depopulation Policy, which is administered by the State Department. This policy dictates that Third World nations take positive and effective steps to decrease their population and keep it in check or no aid will come from the U.S. If they refuse, civil war usually breaks out andthe rebels are usually found to be trained, armed, and financed by the CIA. This is why many more civilians(especially young fertile femals) than soldiers have been killed in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and other places. To aid in your reasearch: THE POPULATION BOMB by Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich, THE LIMITS OF GROTH, A REPORT FOR THE CLUB OF ROME'S PROJECT ON THE PREDICAMENT OF MANKIND. Referances to MK-NAOMI can be found in THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY by Fain et al., Bowker, 1977.

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Intelcenter.com

Killa Cham — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 04:29:31 GMT

http://www.intelcenter.com/

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One (often ignored) answer. Take back your life, help the environment, save money.

Planet-Doctor — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:34:20 GMT

Actually there is a very direct answer to the bulk of the questions and concerns people raise here, the problem is getting more people to hear it and practice it. Yet there is great freedom and power over your own life once you embrace it.

This has been around for quite some time and every once in a while I find I have to remind people it exists. The website is useful, the PBS show/tape even more so for many.

The biggest point for many is: The POWER is YOURS.

http://affluenza.org/

Af-flu-en-za n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused by dogged pursuit of the American Dream. 3. An unsustainable addiction to economic growth.

This is so important I think I will post it as a separate thread and in other related tribes.

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Bush ends rule of law; Americans continue to shop, enjoy TV.

artistftw — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:08:53 GMT

Today's Boston Globe has an article by Charlie Savage that I think you should read. And I'd like you to read it in conjunction with this diary by Jeffrey Feldman of "Frameshop" fame, which diary is itself based on this remarkable article from the Wired magazine blog.

Why? Well, I was going to title this diary "On the Necessity of Impeachment -- Part IV," but there are just too many Daily Kos readers who are still so turned off by the mere thought of impeachment that they won't read a diary with the I word in the title. But these two articles together are, I think, something every American should read and consider. Especially if you're in the "focus on the elections and win back Congress" camp.

Kagro X's diary :: ::
Here's why:

WASHINGTON -- President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.

Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ''whistle-blower" protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.

The Bush administration has quietly -- quietly! -- claimed the authority to disobey more than seven hundred and fifty laws enacted by Congress.

Win back the Congress? What Congress?

What exactly is it you hope to do with a Democratic Congress, given the fact that Bush ignores the existing Republican one at his convenience?

Oversight? Subpoena power?

Many laws Bush has asserted he can bypass involve requirements to give information about government activity to congressional oversight committees.

In December 2004, Congress passed an intelligence bill requiring the Justice Department to tell them how often, and in what situations, the FBI was using special national security wiretaps on US soil. The law also required the Justice Department to give oversight committees copies of administration memos outlining any new interpretations of domestic-spying laws. And it contained 11 other requirements for reports about such issues as civil liberties, security clearances, border security, and counternarcotics efforts.

After signing the bill, Bush issued a signing statement saying he could withhold all the information sought by Congress.

Likewise, when Congress passed the law creating the Department of Homeland Security in 2002, it said oversight committees must be given information about vulnerabilities at chemical plants and the screening of checked bags at airports.

It also said Congress must be shown unaltered reports about problems with visa services prepared by a new immigration ombudsman. Bush asserted the right to withhold the information and alter the reports.

On several other occasions, Bush contended he could nullify laws creating ''whistle-blower" job protections for federal employees that would stop any attempt to fire them as punishment for telling a member of Congress about possible government wrongdoing.

When Congress passed a massive energy package in August, for example, it strengthened whistle-blower protections for employees at the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The provision was included because lawmakers feared that Bush appointees were intimidating nuclear specialists so they would not testify about safety issues related to a planned nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada -- a facility the administration supported, but both Republicans and Democrats from Nevada opposed.

When Bush signed the energy bill, he issued a signing statement declaring that the executive branch could ignore the whistle-blower protections.

So what are you going to do? Sue? I don't think so:

SAN FRANCISCO, April 29 - The U.S. government has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by a San Francisco civil liberties group against AT&T because it says the case could reveal military and state secrets.

The class-action suit by the group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on behalf of AT&T customers accuses the company of unlawful collaboration with the National Security Agency in its surveillance program to intercept telephone and e-mail communications between the United States and people linked to al Qaeda and affiliated organizations.

President George W. Bush authorized the intercepts following the September 11 attacks without court approval.

In a "Statement of Interest" filed on Friday, the government asked U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker to throw out the suit, saying the government "cannot disclose any information that may be at issue in this case."

"The government intends to assert the military and state secrets privilege (that) permits the government to protect against the unauthorized disclosure in litigation of information that may harm national security interests," it said.

"In addition to asserting the state secrets privilege, the U.S. also intends to file a motion to intervene for the purpose of seeking dismissal of this case," the filing said.

The Bush administration is intervening in a private entity's lawsuit against a corporation, asserting a (previously) little-used "state secrets" precedent, saying not only that it seeks to block the release of supposedly "sensitive" material, but that the suit shouldn't be permitted to proceed in any capacity.

So, what about passing some strongly-worded and explicit legislation, whether on specific programs, or on the whole concept of presidential nullification?

Congress has also twice passed laws forbidding the military from using intelligence that was not ''lawfully collected," including any information on Americans that was gathered in violation of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches.

Congress first passed this provision in August 2004, when Bush's warrantless domestic spying program was still a secret, and passed it again after the program's existence was disclosed in December 2005.

On both occasions, Bush declared in signing statements that only he, as commander in chief, could decide whether such intelligence can be used by the military.

In October 2004, five months after the Abu Ghraib torture scandal in Iraq came to light, Congress passed a series of new rules and regulations for military prisons. Bush signed the provisions into law, then said he could ignore them all. One provision made clear that military lawyers can give their commanders independent advice on such issues as what would constitute torture. But Bush declared that military lawyers could not contradict his administration's lawyers.

Other provisions required the Pentagon to retrain military prison guards on the requirements for humane treatment of detainees under the Geneva Conventions, to perform background checks on civilian contractors in Iraq, and to ban such contractors from performing ''security, intelligence, law enforcement, and criminal justice functions." Bush reserved the right to ignore any of the requirements.

The new law also created the position of inspector general for Iraq. But Bush wrote in his signing statement that the inspector ''shall refrain" from investigating any intelligence or national security matter, or any crime the Pentagon says it prefers to investigate for itself.

Bush had placed similar limits on an inspector general position created by Congress in November 2003 for the initial stage of the US occupation of Iraq. The earlier law also empowered the inspector to notify Congress if a US official refused to cooperate. Bush said the inspector could not give any information to Congress without permission from the administration.

What about Arlen Specter's idea? Cutting off funding for NSA if there's no oversight compliance?

Bush has also said he can bypass laws requiring him to tell Congress before diverting money from an authorized program in order to start a secret operation, such as the ''black sites" where suspected terrorists are secretly imprisoned.

Whoopie-daisie!

Well, we all know about Bush's claims -- ridiculous as they are -- with respect to his supposed powers as "Commander in Chief." But that's as far as his claims go, right?

In November 2002, for example, Congress, seeking to generate independent statistics about student performance, passed a law setting up an educational research institute to conduct studies and publish reports ''without the approval" of the Secretary of Education. Bush, however, decreed that the institute's director would be ''subject to the supervision and direction of the secretary of education."

Similarly, the Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld affirmative-action programs, as long as they do not include quotas. Most recently, in 2003, the court upheld a race-conscious university admissions program over the strong objections of Bush, who argued that such programs should be struck down as unconstitutional.

Yet despite the court's rulings, Bush has taken exception at least nine times to provisions that seek to ensure that minorities are represented among recipients of government jobs, contracts, and grants. Each time, he singled out the provisions, declaring that he would construe them ''in a manner consistent with" the Constitution's guarantee of ''equal protection" to all -- which some legal scholars say amounts to an argument that the affirmative-action provisions represent reverse discrimination against whites.

[NYU law professor David] Golove said that to the extent Bush is interpreting the Constitution in defiance of the Supreme Court's precedents, he threatens to ''overturn the existing structures of constitutional law."

A president who ignores the court, backed by a Congress that is unwilling to challenge him, Golove said, can make the Constitution simply ''disappear."

Darn.

But really, maybe I'm overreacting. After all, last I checked there are still 31 flavors at Baskin-Robbins, and American Idol is still on the air, right? So the sky's not falling.

Some administration defenders say that concerns about Bush's signing statements are overblown. Bush's signing statements, they say, should be seen as little more than political chest-thumping by administration lawyers who are dedicated to protecting presidential prerogatives.

Defenders say the fact that Bush is reserving the right to disobey the laws does not necessarily mean he has gone on to disobey them.

Ah, so there you go. I mean, look at this:

Indeed, in some cases, the administration has ended up following laws that Bush said he could bypass. For example, citing his power to ''withhold information" in September 2002, Bush declared that he could ignore a law requiring the State Department to list the number of overseas deaths of US citizens in foreign countries. Nevertheless, the department has still put the list on its website.

He gave up the list. And I'm sure it's totally accurate, too. Right? Of course, if it wasn't, even if the statistics cited were blatent lies, it still wouldn't be illegal, because the administration had the "right" to withhold that information, anyway. They're just "withholding" it by substituting other "information" that isn't the real stuff. See? No harm, no foul, you Bush-haters.

Besides, we all know he's doing this stuff now. What's he really hiding from us, anyway?

On at least four occasions while Bush has been president, Congress has passed laws forbidding US troops from engaging in combat in Colombia, where the US military is advising the government in its struggle against narcotics-funded Marxist rebels.

After signing each bill, Bush declared in his signing statement that he did not have to obey any of the Colombia restrictions because he is commander in chief.

Dang. He's got the "right" to commit US troops to combat without Congressional approval. Even in the face of explicit Congressional prohibitions.

Rats. Pooh. Gosh.

Well, back to "concentrating on the elections," folks. After all, don't we want it to be our laws being ignored next year?

No Constitutional crisis to see here, folks. Move along.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/92922/6097

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Success in Iraq

richardlowe — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:40:36 GMT

Bush Didn't Bungle Iraq, You Fools
THE MISSION WAS INDEED ACCCOMPLISHED
By Greg Palast
for The Guardian

20 March 2006

Get off it. All the carping, belly-aching and complaining about George Bush's incompetence in Iraq, from both the Left and now the Right, is just dead wrong.

On the third anniversary of the tanks rolling over Iraq's border, most of the 59 million Homer Simpsons who voted for Bush are beginning to doubt if his mission was accomplished.

But don't kid yourself -- Bush and his co-conspirator, Dick Cheney, accomplished exactly what they set out to do. In case you've forgotten what their real mission was, let me remind you of White House spokesman Ari Fleisher's original announcement, three years ago, launching of what he called,

"Operation Iraqi Liberation."

O.I.L. How droll of them, how cute. Then, Karl Rove made the giggling boys in the White House change it to "OIF" -- Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the 101st Airborne wasn't sent to Basra to get its hands on Iraq's OIF.

"It's about oil," Robert Ebel told me. Who is Ebel? Formerly the CIA's top oil analyst, he was sent by the Pentagon, about a month before the invasion, to a secret confab in London with Saddam's former oil minister to finalize the plans for "liberating" Iraq's oil industry. In London, Bush's emissary Ebel also instructed Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, the man the Pentagon would choose as post-OIF oil minister for Iraq, on the correct method of disposing Iraq's crude.

And what did the USA want Iraq to do with Iraq's oil? The answer will surprise many of you: and it is uglier, more twisted, devilish and devious than anything imagined by the most conspiracy-addicted blogger. The answer can be found in a 323-page plan for Iraq's oil secretly drafted by the State Department. Our team got a hold of a copy; how, doesn't matter. The key thing is what's inside this thick Bush diktat: a directive to Iraqis to maintain a state oil company that will "enhance its relationship with OPEC."

Enhance its relationship with OPEC??? How strange: the government of the United States ordering Iraq to support the very OPEC oil cartel which is strangling our nation with outrageously high prices for crude.

Specifically, the system ordered up by the Bush cabal would keep a lid on Iraq's oil production -- limiting Iraq's oil pumping to the tight quota set by Saudi Arabia and the OPEC cartel.

There you have it. Yes, Bush went in for the oil -- not to get MORE of Iraq's oil, but to prevent Iraq producing TOO MUCH of it.

You must keep in mind who paid for George's ranch and Dick's bunker: Big Oil. And Big Oil -- and their buck-buddies, the Saudis -- don't make money from pumping more oil, but from pumping LESS of it. The lower the supply, the higher the price.

It's Economics 101. The oil industry is run by a cartel, OPEC, and what economists call an "oligopoly" -- a tiny handful of operators who make more money when there's less oil, not more of it. So, every time the "insurgents" blow up a pipeline in Basra, every time Mad Mahmoud in Tehran threatens to cut supply, the price of oil leaps. And Dick and George just LOVE it.

Dick and George didn't want more oil from Iraq, they wanted less. I know some of you, no matter what I write, insist that our President and his Veep are on the hunt for more crude so you can cheaply fill your family Hummer; that somehow, these two oil-patch babies are concerned that the price of gas in the USA is bumping up to $3 a gallon.

No so, gentle souls. Three bucks a gallon in the States (and a quid a litre in Britain) means colossal profits for Big Oil, and that makes Dick's ticker go pitty-pat with joy. The top oily-gopolists, the five largest oil companies, pulled in $113 billion in profit in 2005 -- compared to a piddly $34 billion in 2002 before Operation Iraqi Liberation. In other words, it's been a good war for Big Oil.

As per Plan Bush, Bahr Al-Ulum became Iraq's occupation oil minister; the conquered nation "enhanced its relationship with OPEC;" and the price of oil, from Clinton peace-time to Bush war-time, shot up 317%.

In other words, on the third anniversary of invasion, we can say the attack and occupation is, indeed, a Mission Accomplished. However, it wasn't America's mission, nor the Iraqis'. It was an Mission Accomplished for OPEC and Big Oil.

**********
On June 6, Penguin Dutton will release GREG PALAST'S NEW BOOK, "ARMED MADHOUSE: DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF THE CLASS WAR." Order it today - - and view his investigative reports for Harper's Magazine and BBC television's Newsnight -- at www.GregPalast.com.

Palast returns to the pages of the Guardian today with this column. Catch his commentaries weekly.

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A necessary Post

Killa Cham — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 06:08:20 GMT

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/

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What the FUKKK

Killa Cham — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:00:57 GMT

http://www.hermes-press.com/BushSaud.htm

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My Lecture and Documentary Collection

Abraxas2k12 — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:30:53 GMT

Thanks to the wonders of the internet and BitTorrent, over the last year I have acquired over 125 various documentaries and lectures.

The topics include:
General Politics
9/11
Alex Jones
Banking and Finance
The CIA
"Drug" Related
Energy Systems
Health
Nazis
Chemtrails
Jordan Maxwell
and "Beyond"

I'd like to spread this information to anyone interested, and have started a tribe to help facilitate that. The tribe page displays the current list of presentations I have available. C'mon over and check it out.

http://tribes.tribe.net/infobunker

And if you've seen any of the videos and would prefer to discuss them here, that would be great as well!

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Just a goddamned piece of paper...

thejc — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:04:23 GMT

GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

"I don't give a goddamn,"; Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way."

"Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution."

"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!

read the full story here

tinyurl.com/9d8fw

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911 try it you'll buy it

Killa Cham — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 06:20:55 GMT

Type in Q33 NY in capitals (this is the flight number of the 1st plane to hit the World Trade Center) 3. Highlight it. 4. Change the font size to 48. 5. Change the actual font to wingdings (1).

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what really brought down the towers?

richardlowe — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 18:55:20 GMT

EX-CIA AGENTS HAVE DEVULGED THE FACT THAT OUR OWN ADMINISTRATION WAS BEHIND 9/11 TO START A FALSE WAR, SINCE THEY ARE PROFITEERING ON THE OIL AND HALLEBURTON. TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE BLASTS, UNDERCOVER AGENTS WERE SENT INTO THE TWIN TOWERS TO PLANT ALL THE EXPOLOSIVES ON THE FLOORS WERE THE BUILDINGS IMPLODED- AS WE SAW ON FILM. WHY AREN'T PEOPLE SCREAMING FROM THE RAFTERS ABOUT BLDG #7 GOING DOWN??!! THAT WAS THE CIA BLDG, WHICH WAS CLEARED TWO WEEKS IN ADVANCE, THEN DETONATED AND COLLAPSED HOURS AFTER THE PLANES HAD BEEN FLOWN INTO THE TOWERS. THE FIRE DEPT WAS INCENSED WHEN 'SPECIAL OP'S' MEN IMMEDIATELY PUSHED THEIR WAY INTO THE SITE- CARRIED AWAY ALL THE EVIDENCE AND PUT THE DEBRIS ON WAITING BARGES- SAYING THAT CHINA HAD BOUGHT ALL THE STEEL! IF THAT AND THE FACT THAT NO PLANE HIT THE PENTAGON AREN'T A RED FLAG.... WHAT IS??? THANKS TO KARL ROVE AND HIS ARROGANT CRONIES, THE REAL STORY BEHIND THE FABRICATED SELF SERVING WAR- HAS BECOME PUBLIC- http://bellaciao.org/en/IMG/jpg/Nigery7580.jpg
12132. Barbara Bjornsen Scottsdale AZ 85254 THE WORLD BANK'S PUPPETS, OUR CURRENT ADMINISTRATION, ARE MAKING FOOLS OF ALL OF US. LET'S STAND UP FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY. NO MORE COVER-UP'S!

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Illuminati Strike Again

twan — Thu, 13 May 2004 06:03:16 GMT

(Please go back and read the very first posting to this list titled "Brainwashing 101", to bone-up on some basic mass manipulation techniques that are discussed in the following article.

Twan

http://www.illuminati-news.com/torturing-iraqi-prisoners.htm

Why Are Our Soldiers Torturing People in Iraq?

Lately, the Media have exposed horrible pictures of what American and British soldiers are doing with Iraqi prisoners in Iraq. How come? Aren't the Media supposed to cover up for their Masters, the Illuminati Lords? Are they suddenly in disobedience with their superiors?

Not at all. Like President Franklin D. Roosevelt so well put it: "In politics nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can be sure it was planned that way". So also this time. To understand what is happening, and why, we must understand the Illuminati motto:

PROBLEM - REACTION - SOLUTION.

The Big Plan, the Work of the Ages, is to create a One World Government and a New World Order, which will be a slave society where the former Soviet Union will look like a paradise. To accomplish this, the Illuminati need to plan their actions well. They deal with the problem of brainwashing 5 billion people into thinking "their way", and that's not an easy task. Therefore they need to be very covert, convincing, and use the best propaganda they know (which happens to be the Nazi Propaganda developed by the propaganda genius Josef Göbbles). With the above quote from President Roosevelt in mind, let's figure out how those sick people plan the future for us:

PROBLEM #1: The Illuminati create the War on Terror, culminating with the 9/11 incident.

REACTION #1: People, shocked, want something to be done about it.

SOLUTION #1: The War on Terror, which also justifies the Iraqi invasion, takes enormous proportions. There are several reasons for the invasion of Iraq, but one of the less mentioned is that the USA and Great Britain need a solid base in the Middle East to plan for future wars and conflicts in the area. This is the reason why the United States is shipping lots of weapons to Iraq. Everything has a purpose, and everything leads toward a One World Government.

PROBLEM #2: The Media suddenly show disturbing pictures and tell us how our soldiers, our "heroes" are breaking all the rules by torturing Iraqi prisoners in the same way Saddam once did. What happened to our glorious liberators?

REACTION #2: People are shocked and demand that something is being done about it.

SOLUTION #2: Military officers speak before the Media, reassuring us that the abusers will be penalized. We are told that what was done is NOT tolerable! However, soon enough more disturbing news reach us in our living-rooms. The torture seems to have been ordered by Military Intelligence and the CIA(!). Wow! What is going on here? So this was not an isolated incident orchestrated by a small group of soldiers acting independently? We are all confused. But we shouldn't be. Remember Roosevelt again. Who owns the Media? The Illuminati does. Therefore the Media would never release those disturbing stories if there wasn't a purpose behind it. The purpose is this:

1. The Illuminati work towards Globalism. To achieve that goal they need people to start thinking globally. One way to accomplish that is to have us lose faith in our country. The torture scenes and the revelation that the incidents were all planned help them in the right direction. Incidents like these, one after the other, affect us psychologically into thinking globally by losing faith in our country and the concept of nationalism.

2. Kofi Annan says that the United Nations will go into the area after June 30, 2004 to help bringing peace and order (ORDER OUT OF CHAOS, which is the Freemasonic concept of achieving hidden goals). This will calm people down and give them the illusion that a global organization takes care of the problem when in fact all the UN is doing is to convince us that Globalism is good and help the Illuminati king pins to faster achieve the goal for a One World Government.

This is all very clever, but it is time for us to show them that WE are not stupid either. This is a wake-up call to everybody everywhere on this planet. We need to start recognizing the Illuminati Agenda when shown right before our eyes. Only our joined efforts can help solving the world situation ...

So get off your fucking asses and do something about it. Either that or you, your children, grandchildren, etc. will get yheir come-uppance.

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BrainWash?

Killa Cham — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 06:03:28 GMT

http://www.anvari.org/fun/World_Trade_Center/Brainwash.html

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Pretty cool link (Conspiracy Theory)

spicolli — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:58:28 GMT

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/

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Just joined

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:14:34 GMT

I am new to the group and wanted to say hi.

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American Nation Brainwashed

twan — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 03:55:31 GMT

http://207.44.245.159/article8113.htm

Pharisee Nation

American Nation Brainwashed

by John Dear

02/17/05 "CommonDreams" - - Last September, I spoke to some 2,000 students during their annual lecture at a Baptist college in Pennsylvania. After a short prayer service for peace centered on the Beatitudes, I took the stage and got right to the point. “Now let me get this straight,” I said. “Jesus says, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers,’ which means he does not say, ‘Blessed are the warmakers,’ which means, the warmakers are not blessed, which means warmakers are cursed, which means, if you want to follow the nonviolent Jesus you have to work for peace, which means, we all have to resist this horrific, evil war on the people of Iraq.”

With that, the place exploded, and 500 students stormed out. The rest of them then started chanting, “Bush! Bush! Bush!”

So much for my speech. Not to mention the Beatitudes.

I was not at all surprised that George W. Bush was reelected president. As I travel the country speaking out against war, injustice and nuclear weapons, I see many people consciously siding with the culture of war, choosing the path of violence, supporting corporate greed, rampant militarism, and global domination. I see many others swept up in the raging current of patriotism. Since most of these people, beginning with the president, claim to be Christian, I am ashamed and appalled that they support war and systemic injustice, that they do it in the name of God, and that they feign fidelity to the nonviolent Jesus who gave his life resisting institutionalized injustice.

I am reminded of Flannery O’Connor’s great book, “Wise Blood,” where her outrageous character Hazel Motes is so fed up with Christian hypocrisy that he forms his own church, the “Church of Christ without Christ,” “where the lame don’t walk, the blind don’t see, and the dead don’t rise.” That’s where we are headed today.

I used to think these all-American Christians never read the Gospel, that they simply chose not to be authentic disciples of the nonviolent Jesus. Now, alas, I think they have indeed chosen discipleship, but not to the hero of the Gospels, Jesus. Instead, through their actions, they have become disciples of the devout, religious, all-powerful, murderous Pharisees who killed him.

A Culture of Pharisees

We have become a culture of Pharisees. Instead of practicing an authentic spirituality of compassion, nonviolence, love and peace, we as a collective people have become self-righteous, arrogant, powerful, murderous hypocrites who dominate and kill others in the name of God. The Pharisees supported the brutal Roman rulers and soldiers, and lived off the comforts of the empire by running an elaborate banking system which charged an exorbitant fee for ordinary people just to worship God in the Temple. Since they taught that God was present only in the Temple, they were able to control the entire population. If anyone opposed their power or violated their law, the Pharisees could kill them on the spot, even in the holy sanctuary.

Most North American Christians are now becoming more and more like these hypocritical Pharisees. We side with the rulers, the bankers, and the corporate millionaires and billionaires. We run the Pentagon, bless the bombing raids, support executions, make nuclear weapons and seek global domination for America as if that was what the nonviolent Jesus wants. And we dismiss anyone who disagrees with us.

We have become a mean, vicious people, what the bible calls “stiff-necked people.” And we do it all with the mistaken belief that we have the blessing of God.

In the past, empires persecuted religious groups and threatened them into passivity and silence. Now these so-called Christians run the American empire, and teach a subtle spirituality of empire to back up their power in the name of God. This spirituality of empire insists that violence saves us, might makes right, war is justified, bombing raids are blessed, nuclear weapons offer the only true security from terrorism, and the good news is not love for our enemies, but the elimination of them. The empire is working hard these days to tell the nation--and the churches--what is moral and immoral, sinful and holy. It denounces certain personal behavior as immoral, in order to distract us from the blatant immorality and mortal sin of the U.S. bombing raids which have left 100,000 Iraqis dead, or our ongoing development of thousands of weapons of mass destruction. Our Pharisee rulers would have us believe that our wars and our weapons are holy and blessed by God.

In the old days, the early Christians had big words for such behavior, such lies. They were called “blasphemous, idolatrous, heretical, hypocritical and sinful.” Such words and actions were denounced as the betrayal, denial and execution of Jesus all over again in the world’s poor. But the empire needs the church to bless and support its wars, or at least to remain passive and silent. As we Christians go along with the Bush administration and the American empire, we betray Jesus, renounce his teachings, and create a “Church of Christ without Christ,“ as Flannery O’Connor foresaw.

Troublemaking Nonviolence, the Measure of the Gospel

The first thing we Christians have to do in this time is not to become good Pharisees. Instead, we have to try all over again to follow the dangerous, nonviolent, troublemaking Jesus. I believe war, weapons, corporate greed and systemic injustice are an abomination in the sight of God. They are the definition of mortal sin. They mock God and threaten to destroy God’s gift of creation. If you want to seek the living God, you have to pit your entire life against war, weapons, greed and injustice--and their perpetrators. It is as simple as that.

Every religion, including Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism, is rooted in nonviolence, but I submit that the only thing we know for sure about Jesus is that he was nonviolent and so, nonviolence is the hallmark of Christianity and the measure of authentic Christian living. Jesus commands that we love one another, love our neighbors, seek justice, forgive those who hurt us, pray for our persecutors, and be as compassionate as God. But at the center of his teaching is the most radical declaration ever uttered: “love your enemies.”

If we dare call ourselves Christian, we cannot support war or nuclear weapons or corporate greed or executions or systemic injustice of any kind. If we do, we may well be devout American citizens, but we no longer follow the nonviolent Jesus. We have joined the hypocrites and blasphemers of the land, beginning with their leaders in the White House, the Pentagon and Los Alamos.

Jesus resisted the empire, engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience in the Temple, was arrested by the Pharisees, tried by the Roman governor and executed by Roman soldiers. If we dare follow this nonviolent revolutionary, we too must resist empire, engage in nonviolent civil disobedience against U.S. warmaking and imperial domination, and risk arrest and imprisonment like the great modern day disciples, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day and Philip Berrigan.

If we do not want to be part of the Pharisaic culture and do want to follow the nonviolent Jesus, we have to get in trouble just as Jesus was constantly in trouble for speaking the truth, loving the wrong people, worshipping the wrong way, and promoting the wrong things, like justice and peace. We have to resist this new American empire, as well as its false spirituality and all those who claim to be Christian yet support the murder of other human beings. We have to repent of the sin of war, put down the sword, practice Gospel nonviolence, and take up the cross of revolutionary nonviolence by loving our enemies and discovering what the spiritual life is all about.

Just because the culture and the cultural church have joined with the empire and its wars does not mean that we all have to go along with such heresy, or fall into despair as if nothing can be done. It is never too late to try to follow the troublemaking Jesus, to join his practice of revolutionary nonviolence and become authentic Christians. We may find ourselves in trouble, even at the hands of so-called Christians, just as Jesus was in trouble at the hands of the so-called religious leaders of his day. But this very trouble may lead us back to those Beatitude blessings.

John Dear is a Jesuit priest and the author/editor of 20 books including most recently, “The Questions of Jesus” and “Living Peace” both published by Doubleday. He lives in New Mexico where he is working on a campaign to disarm Los Alamos. For info, see: www.johndear.org

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Psychological Warfare: U.S. Media Style

twan — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 04:53:23 GMT

In a way it's sad to see that we have fallen so deeply
asleep as a whole that only in the wake of
life-shattering events, individually and collectively
do we suddenly remember, at least in a fleeting
glimpse, who we really are and why we are really here.

Everyone in the world, but especially in America right
now...the power focus of the "New World Order" which
controls the most pervasive military-industrial
complex, the most destructive war machine ever
assembled, needs to be acutely aware of the extent to
which we have been mentally conditioned and
manipulated by these powers, our whole lives, and
mainly through the ideas, beliefs, and world-view fed
to us via mass-media, in particular, television.

America in particular is receiving the heaviest doses
of a full-spectrum of psychological warfare and
"perception management" techniques. Much of it is in
the form of stuff that you are accustomed to consuming
every day...and would probably feel lost without it:
in particular, the news.

My new website regainyourbrain.org is devoted to the
awareness and understanding of this whole
scenario...what the Nazi scientists called
"weltanschauungskrieg", or "world-view attack." This
has been going on ever since the aftermath of World
War Two.

Almost EVERYTHING you get on mainstream tv is
infected. "Truth is our weapon" is how they work.
These are very tricky times to exist, from a
psychological perspective. Over the past fifty years,
the hardest core sciences funded by almost infinite
black budgets have brought to bear an extremely
insidious psy-war/propaganda machine, in the service
of what Aldous Huxley called the "scientific
dictatorship", of which the Nazis were the first.
After WW2, thousands of Nazi scientists and
researchers were imported into all areas of the U.S.
science and technology arena, universities and the
MIC. What we are experiencing today is the beginning
of their big move for total global domination...and
the biggest battlefield is THE HUMAN MIND. If you
don't think outside their box, they never even need
guns: you are the perfect sheep, the obedient
consumer.

To me, THE most important thing in anyone's life right
now is becoming extremely aware of how they are
targeted by all this stuff ALL THE TIME. It is reason
to do an EXTREMELY SERIOUS re-evaluation of your
entire belief structures...what you think is real,
what you think is important, what you live for, what
your most cherished beliefs are...your own life, your
children's life and health, your ethnic group, your
country, your planet?

ONLY when you free yourself of the externally-imposed
illusions we have all been conditioned to accept
unquestioningly...only then can you really begin to
know yourself, who you are and why you are here.

You ARE the ultimate technology. All living beings
are. You are a hologram of the creative divinity, a
special and unique part of the total whole of the
cosmos.

It is more powerful to LIVE for what you believe than
to DIE for what you believe!!!

www.regainyourbrain.org

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Rationalization

Killa Cham — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:24:35 GMT

1: The cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason

2: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening

3: systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale

A lawyer sent me this:
I WAS IN CRIMINAL COURT THE OTHER DAY DEFENDING A CLIENT CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON.

I told the jury it was a case of justified pre-emptive self defense.

The complainant was a person with a violent history. He probably had a gun; at least he might have, he was known for having guns.

Some witnesses even lied. They swore they had seen a gun; or maybe it was just that the complainant knew how to make guns, or where to get them, or something like that... ... ....

My client had a right to be scared. He knew this guy was potentially dangerous. He heard stuff about guns. So my client found the guy and he shot him first.

What was the jury's verdict?

What is the world's verdict?

Now if BUSH can rationalize going to war this defense should be used for all those who commit murder.

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Consumerism and capitalism

thejc — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 23:10:55 GMT

An interesting note from an article on consumerism:

3. Capitalism requires sexual repression. In its drive to stamp out individuality, capitalism denies the full range of human expression, which includes sexual freedom. Because sexuality is erratic and unpredictable, it is a threat to the established order. This is why some people thought the sexual revolution would undermine capitalism.

The full article is here:
http://www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2002/11/rebelsell.php

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Have not had time to investigate all of this further, but pretty funny none the less

Killa Cham — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:15:28 GMT

From a site. I have not hadthe time to look into this further, by checking if the cases are listed in the westlaw database, but I will.
For info, try using the FOIA. If you are a reporter you do not get hassled, others do. Many people do not know how to use the FOIA for "un-classified" info.

Mind Control
http://www.sonic.net/sentinel/gvcon8.html
By Harry V. Martin and David Caul

Copyright FreeAmerica and Harry V. Martin, 1995

There was just a small news announcement on the radio in early July after a short heat wave, three inmates of Vacaville Medical Facility had died in non-air conditioned cells. Two of those prisoners, the announcement said, may have died as a result of medical treatment. No media inquiries were made, no major news stories developed because of these deaths.

But what was the medical treatment that may have caused their deaths? The Medical Facility indicates they were mind control or behavior modification treatments. A deeper probe into the death of these two inmates unravels a mind-boggling tale of horror that has been part of California penal history for a long time, and one that caused national outcries two decades ago.

Mind control experiments have been part of California for decades and permeate mental institutions and prisons. But, it is not just in the penal society that mind control measures have been used. Minority children were subjected to experimentation at abandoned Nike Missile Sites, veterans who fought for American freedom were also subjected to the programs. Funding and experimentations of mind control have been part of the U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Department, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Central Intelligence Agency through the Phoenix Program, the Stanford Research Institute, the Agency for International Development, the Department of Defense, the Department of Labor, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, and the National Science Foundation.

California has been in the forefront of mind control experimentation. Government experiments also were conducted in the Haight-Ashbury District in San Francisco at the height of the Hippy reign. In 1974, Senator Sam Erwin, of Watergate fame, headed a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights studying the subject of "Individual rights and the Federal role in behavior modification." Though little publicity was given to this committee's investigation, Senator Erwin issued a strong condemnation of the federal role in mind control. That condemnation, however, did not halt mind control experiments, they just received more circuitous funding.

Many of the case histories concerning individuals of whom the mind control experiments were used, show a strange concept in the minds of those seeking guinea pigs. Those subject to the mind control experiments would be given indefinite sentences, his freedom was dependent upon how well the experiment went. One individual, for example, was arrested for joyriding, given a two-year sentence and held for mind control experiments. He was held for 18 years.

Here are just a few experiments used in the mind control program:

* A naked inmate is strapped down on a board. His wrists and ankles are cuffed to the board and his head is rigidly held in place by a strap around his neck and a helmet on his head. He is left in a darkened cell, unable to remove his body wastes. When a meal is delivered, one wrist is unlocked so he could feel around in the dark for his food and attempt to pour liquid down his throat without being able to lift his head.

* Another experiment creates a muscle relaxant. Within 30 to 40 seconds paralysis begins to invade the small muscles of the fingers, toes, and eyes and then the inter costal muscles and diaphragm. The heart slows down to about 60 beats per minute. This condition, together with respiratory arrests, sets in for as long as two to five minutes before the drug begins to wear off. The individual remains fully conscious and is gasping for breath. It is "likened to dying, it is almost like drowning" the experiment states.

* Another drug induces vomiting and was administered to prisoners who didn't get up on time or caught swearing or lying, or even not greeting their guards formally. The treatment brings about uncontrolled vomiting that lasts from 15 minutes to an hour, accompanied by a temporary cardio vascular effect involving changes in the blood pressure.

* Another deals with creating body rigidness, aching restlessness, blurred vision, severe muscular pain, trembling and fogged cognition.

The Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the U.S. Army have admitted mind control experiments. Many deaths have occurred.

In tracing the steps of government mind control experiments, the trail leads to legal and illegal usages, usage for covert intelligence operations, and experiments on innocent people who were unaware that they were being used.

By Harry V. Martin and David Caul

Second in a Series

Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991

EDITOR'S NOTE: The Sentinel commenced a series on mind control in early August and suspended it until September because of the extensive research required after additional information was received.

In July, two inmates died at the Vacaville Medical Facility. According to prison officials at the time, the two may have died as a result of medical treatment, that treatment was the use of mind control or behavior modification drugs. A deeper study into the deaths of the two inmates has unraveled a mind-boggling tale of horror that has been part of California penal history for a long time, and one that caused national outcries years ago.

In the August article, the Sentinel presented a graphic portrait of some of the mind control experiments that have been allowed to continue in the United States. On November 1974 a U.S. Senate Sub committee on Constitutional Rights investigated federally-funded behavior modification programs, with emphasis on federal involvement in, and the possible threat to individual constitutional rights of behavior modification, especially involving inmates in prisons and mental institutions.

The Senate committee was appalled after reviewing documents from the following sources:

* Neuro-Research Foundation's study entitled The Medical Epidemiology of Criminals.

* The Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence from UCLA.

* The closed adolescent treatment center.

A national uproar was created by various articles in 1974, which prompted the Senate investigation. But after all these years, the news that two inmates at Vacaville may have died from these same experiments indicates that though a nation was shocked in 1974, little was done to correct the experimentations. In 1977, a Senate subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, chaired by Senator Ted Kennedy, focussed on the CIA's testing of LSD on unwitting citizens. Only a mere handful of people within the CIA knew about the scope and details of the program.

To understand the full scope of the problem, it is important to study its origins. The Kennedy subcommittee learned about the CIA Operation M.K.-Ultra through the testimony of Dr. Sidney Gottlieb. The purpose of the program, accord ing to his testimony, was to "investigate whether and how it was possible to modify an individual's behavior by covert means". Claiming the protection of the National Security Act, Dr. Gottlieb was unwilling to tell the Senate subcommittee what had been learned or gained by these experiments.

He did state, however, that the program was initially engendered by a concern that the Soviets and other enemies of the United States would get ahead of the U.S. in this field. Through the Freedom of Information Act, researchers are now able to obtain documents detailing the M.K.-Ultra program and other CIA behavior modification projects in a special reading room located on the bottom floor of the Hyatt Regency in Rosslyn, VA.

The most daring phase of the M.K.-Ultra program involved slipping unwitting American citizens LSD in real life situations. The idea for the series of experiments originated in November 1941, when William Donovan, founder and director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA during World War Two. At that time the intelligence agency invested $5000 for the "truth drug" program. Experiments with scopolamine and morphine proved both unfruitful and very dangerous. The program tested scores of other drugs, including mescaline, barbituates, benzedrine, cannabis indica, to name a few.

The U.S. was highly concerned over the heavy losses of freighters and other ships in the North Atlantic, all victims of German U-boats. Information about German U-boat strategy was desperately needed and it was believed that the information could be obtained through drug-influenced interrogations of German naval P.O.W.s, in violation of the Geneva Accords.

Tetrahydrocannabinol acetate, a colorless, odorless marijuana extract, was used to lace a cigarette or food substance without detection. Initially, the experiments were done on volunteer U.S. Army and OSS personnel, and testing was also disguised as a remedy for shell shock. The volunteers became known as "Donovan's Dreamers". The experiments were so hush-hush, that only a few top officials knew about them. President Franklin Roosevelt was aware of the experiments. The "truth drug" achieved mixed success.

The experiments were halted when a memo was written: "The drug defies all but the most expert and search analysis, and for all practical purposes can be considered beyond analysis." The OSS did not, however, halt the program. In 1943 field tests of the extract were being con ducted, despite the order to halt them. The most celebrated test was conducted by Captain George Hunter White, an OSS agent and ex-law enforcement official, on August Del Grazio, aka Augie Dallas, aka Dell, aka Little Augie, a New York gangster. Cigarettes laced with the acetate were offered to Augie without his knowledge of the content. Augie, who had served time in prison for assault and murder, had been one of the world's most notorious drug dealers and smugglers. He operated an opium alkaloid factory in Turkey and he was a leader in the Italian underworld on the Lower East Side of New York. Under the influence of the drug, Augie revealed volumes of information about the under world operations, including the names of high ranking officials who took bribes from the mob. These experiments led to the encouragement of Donovan. A new memo was issued: "Cigarette experiments indicated that we had a mechanism which offered promise in relaxing prisoners to be interrogated."

When the OSS was disbanded after the war, Captain White continued to administer behavior modifying drugs. In 1947, the CIA replaced the OSS. White's service record indicates that he worked with the OSS, and by 1954 he was a high ranking Federal Narcotics Bureau officer who had been loaned to the CIA on a part-time basis.

White rented an apartment in Greenwich Village equipped with one-way mirrors, surveillance gadgets and disguised himself as a seaman. White drugged his acquaintances with LSD and brought them back to his apartment. In 1955, the operation shifted to San Francisco. In San Francisco, "safehouses" were established under the code name Operation Midnight Climax. Midnight Climax hired prostitute addicts who lured men from bars back to the safehouses after their drinks had been spiked with LSD. White filmed the events in the safehouses. The purpose of these "national security brothels" was to enable the CIA to experiment with the act of lovemaking for extracting information from men. The safehouse experiments continued until 1963 until CIA Inspector General John Earman criticized Richard Helms, the director of the CIA and father of the M.K.-Ultra project. Earman charged the new director John McCone had not been fully briefed on the M.K.-Ultra Project when he took office and that "the concepts involved in manipulating human behavior are found by many people within and outside the Agency to be distasteful and unethical." He stated that "the rights and interest of U.S. citizens are placed in jeopardy". The Inspector General stated that LSD had been tested on individuals at all social levels, high and low, native American and foreign."

Earman's criticisms were rebuffed by Helms, who warned, "Positive operation capacity to use drugs is diminishing owing to a lack of realistic testing. Tests were necessary to keep up with the Soviets." But in 1964, Helms had testified before the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President John Kennedy, that "Soviet research has consistently lagged five years behind Western research".

Upon leaving government service in 1966, Captain White wrote a startling letter to his superior. In the letter to Dr. Gottlieb, Captain White reminisced about his work in the safehouses with LSD. His comments were frightening. "I was a very minor missionary, actually a heretic, but I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun," White wrote. "Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the all-highest?"

(NEXT: How the drug experiments helped bring about the rebirth of the mafia and the French Connection.)

By Harry V. Martin and David Caul

Part Three in a Series

Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991

Though the CIA continued to maintain drug experiments in the streets of America after the program was official cancelled, the United States reaped tremendous value from it. With George Hunter Whites connection to underworld figure Little Augie, connections were made with Mafia king-pin Lucky Luciano, who was in Dannemore Prison.

Luciano wanted freedom, the Mafia wanted drugs, and the United States wanted Sicily. The date was 1943. Augie was the go-between between Luciano and the United States War Department.

Luciano was transferred to a less harsh prison and began to be visited by representatives of the Office of Naval Intelligence and from underworld figures, such as Meyer Lansky. A strange alliance was formed between the U.S. Intelligence agencies and the Mafia, who controlled the West Side docks in New York. Luciano regained active leadership in organized crime in America.

The U.S. Intelligence community utilized Luciano's underworld connections in Italy. In July of 1943, Allied forces launched their invasion of Sicily, the beginning push into occupied Europe. General George Patton's Seventh Army advanced through hundreds of miles of territory that was fraught with difficulty, booby trapped roads, snipers, confusing mountain topography, all within close range of 60,000 hostile Italian troops. All this was accomplished in four days, a military "miracle" even for Patton.

Senate Estes Kefauver's Senate Sub committee on Organized Crime asked, in 1951, how all this was possible. The answer was that the Mafia had helped to protect roads from Italian snipers, served as guides through treacherous mountain terrain, and provided needed intelligence to Patton's army. The part of Sicily which Patton's forces traversed had at one time been completely controlled by the Sicilian Mafia, until Benito Mussolini smashed it through the use of police repression.

Just prior to the invasion, it was hardly even able to continue shaking down farmers and shepherds for protection money. But the invasion changed all this, and the Mafia went on to play a very prominent and well-documented role in the American military occupation of Italy.

The expedience of war opened the doors to American drug traffic and Mafia domination. This was the beginning of the Mafia-U.S. Intelligence alliance, an alliance that lasts to this day and helped to support the covert operations of the CIA, such as the Iran-Contra operations. In these covert operations, the CIA would obtain drugs from South America and Southeast Asia, sell them to the Mafia and use the money for the covert purchase of military equipment. These operations accelerated when Congress cut off military funding for the Contras.

One of the Allies top occupation priorities was to liberate as many of their own soldiers from garrison duties so that they could participate in the military offensive. In order to accomplish this, Don Calogero's Mafia were pressed into service, and in July of 1943, the Civil Affairs Control Office of the U.S. Army appointed him mayor of Villalba and other Mafia officials as mayors of other towns in Sicily.

As the northern Italian offensive continued, Allied intelligence became very concerned over the extent to which the Italian Communists resistance to Mussolini had driven Italian politics to the left. Community Party membership had doubled between 1943 and 1944, huge leftist strikes had shut down factories and the Italian underground fighting Mussolini had risen to almost 150,000 men. By mid-1944, the situation came to a head and the U.S. Army terminated arms drops to the Italian Resistance, and started appointing Mafia officials to occupation administration posts. Mafia groups broke up leftists rallies and reactivated black market operations throughout southern Italy.

Lucky Luciano was released from prison in 1946 and deported to Italy, where he rebuilt the heroin trade. The court's decision to release him was made possible by the testimony of intelligence agents at his hearing, and a letter written by a naval officer reciting what Luciano had done for the Navy. Luciano was supposed to have served from 30 to 50 years in prison. Over 100 Mafia members were similarly deported within a couple of years.

Luciano set up a syndicate which transported morphine base from the Middle East to Europe, refined it into heroin, and then shipped it into the United States via Cuba. During the 1950's, Marseilles, in Southern France, became a major city for the heroin labs and the Corsican syndicate began to actively cooperate with the Mafia in the heroin trade. Those became popularly known as the French Connection.

In 1948, Captain White visited Luciano and his narcotics associate Nick Gentile in Europe. Gentile was a former American gangster who had worked for the Allied Military Government in Sicily. By this time, the CIA was already subsidizing Corsican and Italian gangsters to oust Communist unions from the Port of Marseilles. American strategic planners saw Italy and southern France as extremely important for their Naval bases as a counterbalance to the growing naval forces of the Soviet Union. CIO/AFL organizer Irving Brown testified that by the time the CIA subsidies were terminated in 1953, U.S. support was no longer needed because the profits from the heroin traffic was sufficient to sustain operations.

When Luciano was originally jailed, the U.S. felt it had eliminated the world's most effective underworld leader and the activities of the Mafia were seriously damaged. Mussolini had been waging a war since 1924 to rid the world of the Sicilian Mafia. Thousands of Mafia members were convicted of crimes and forced to leave the cities and hide out in the mountains.

Mussolini's reign of terror had virtually eradicated the international drug syndicates. Combined with the shipping surveillance during the war years, heroin trafficking had become almost nil. Drug use in the United States, before Luciano's release from prison, was on the verge of being entirely wiped out.

By Harry V. Martin and David Caul

Part Four in a Series

Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991

The U.S. government has conducted three types of mind-control experiments:

* Real life experiences, such as those used on Little Augie and the LSD experiments in the safehouses of San Francisco and Greenwich Village.

* Experiments on prisoners, such as in the California Medical Facility at Vacaville.

* Experiments conducted in both mental hospitals and the Veterans Administration hospitals.

Such experimentation requires money, and the United States government has funnelled funds for drug experiments through different agencies, both overtly and covertly.

One of the funding agencies to contribute to the experimentation is the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), a unit of the U.S. Justice Department and one of President Richard Nixon's favorite pet agencies. The Nixon Administration was, at one time, putting together a program for detaining youngsters who showed a tendency toward violence in "concentration" camps. According to the Washington Post, the plan was authored by Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch was told by John Erlichman, Chief of Staff for the Nixon White House, to implement the program. He proposed the screening of children of six years of age for tendencies toward criminality. Those who failed these tests were to be destined to be sent to the camps. The program was never implemented.

LEAA came into existence in 1968 with a huge budget to assist various U.S. law enforcement agencies. Its effectiveness, however, was not considered too great. After spending $6 billion, the F.B.I. reports general crime rose 31 percent and violent crime rose 50 percent. But little accountability was required of LEAA on how it spent its funds.

LEAA's role in the behavior modification research began at a meeting held in 1970 in Colorado Springs. Attending that meeting were Richard Nixon, Attorney General John Mitchell, John Erlichman, H.R. Haldemann and other White House staffers. They met with Dr. Bertram Brown, director fo the National Institute of Mental Health, and forged a close collaboration between LEAA and the Institute. LEAA was a product of the Justice Department and the Institute was a product of HEW.

LEAA funded 350 projects involving medical procedures, behavior modification and drugs for delinquency control. Money from the Criminal Justice System was being used to fund mental health projects and vice versa. Eventually, the leadership responsibility and control of the Institute began to deteriorate and their scientists began to answer to LEAA alone.

The National Institute of Mental Health went on to become one of the greatest supporters of behavior modification research. Throughout the 1960's, court calenders became blighted with lawsuits on the part of "human guinea pigs" who had been experimented upon in prisons and mental institutions. It was these lawsuits which triggered the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights investigation, headed by Senator Sam Erwin. The subcommittee's harrowing report was virtually ignored by the news media.

Thirteen behavior modification programs were conducted by the Department of Defense. The Department of Labor had also conducted several experiments, as well as the National Science Foundation. The Veterans' Administration was also deeply involved in behavior modification and mind control. Each of these agencies, including LEAA, and the Institute, were named in secret CIA documents as those who provided research cover for the MK-ULTRA program.

Eventually, LEAA was using much of its budget to fund experiments, including aversive techniques and psychosurgery, which involved, in some cases, irreversible brain surgery on normal brain tissue for the purpose of changing or controlling behavior and/or emotions.

Senator Erwin questioned the head of LEAA concerning ethical standards of the behavior modification projects which LEAA had been funding. Erwin was extremely dubious about the idea of the government spending money on this kind of project without strict guidelines and reasonable research supervision in order to protect the human subjects. After Senator Erwin's denunciation of the funding polices, LEAA announced that it would no longer fund medical research into behavior modification and psychosurgery. Despite the pledge by LEAA's director, Donald E. Santarelli, LEAA ended up funding 537 research projects dealing with behavior modification. There is strong evidence to indicate psychosurgery was still being used in prisons in the 1980's. Immediately after the funding announcement by LEAA, there were 50 psychosurgical operations at Atmore State Prison in Alabama. The inmates became virtual zombies. The operations, according to Dr. Swan of Fisk University, were done on black prisoners who were considered politically active.

The Veterans' Administration openly admitted that psychosurgery was a standard procedure for treatment and not used just in experiments. The VA Hospitals in Durham, Long Beach, New York, Syracuse and Minneapolis were known to employ these products on a regular basis. VA clients could typically be subject to these behavior alteration procedures against their will. The Erwin subcommittee concluded that the rights of VA clients had been violated.

LEAA also subsidized the research and development of gadgets and techniques useful to behavior modification. Much of the technology, whose perfection LEAA funded, had originally been developed and made operational for use in the Vietnam War. Companies like Bangor Punta Corporation and Walter Kidde and Co., through its subsidiary Globe Security System, adapted these devices to domestic use in the U.S. ITT was another company that domesticated the warfare technology for potential use on U.S. citizens. Rand Corporation executive Paul Baran warned that the influx back to the United State of the Vietnam War surveillance gadgets alone, not to mention the behavior modification hardware, could bring about "the most effective, oppressive police state ever created".

By Harry V. Martin and David Caul

Fifth in a Series

Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991

One of the fascinating aspects of the scandals that plague the U.S. Government is the fact that so often the same names appear from scandal to scandal. From the origins of Ronald Reagan's political career, as Governor of California, Dr. Earl Brian and Edward Meese played key advisory roles.

Dr. Brian's name has been linked to the October Surprise and is a central figure in the government's theft of PROMIS soft ware from INSLAW. Brian's role touches from the Cabazon Indian scandals to United Press International. He is one of those low-profile key figures.

And, alas, his name appears again in the nation's behavior modification and mind control experiments. Dr. Brian was Reagan's Secretary of Health when Reagan was Governor. Dr. Brian was an advocate of state subsidies for a research center for the study of violent behavior. The center was to begin operations by mid-1975, and its research was intended to shed light on why people murder or rape, or hijack aircraft. The center was to be operated by the University of California at Los Angeles, and its primary purpose, ac cording to Dr. Brian, was to unify scattered studies on anti-social violence and possibly even touch on socially tolerated violence, such as football or war. Dr. Brian sought $1.3 million for the center.

It certainly was possible that prison inmates might be used as volunteer subjects at the center to discover the unknowns which triggered their violent behavior. Dr. Brian's quest for the center came at the same time Governor Reagan concluded his plans to phase the state of California out of the mental hospital business by 1982. Reagan's plan is echoed by Governor Pete Wilson today, to place the responsibility of rehabilitating young offenders squarely on the shoulders of local communities.

But as the proposal became known more publicly, a swell of controversy surrounded it. It ended in a fiasco. The inspiration for the violence center came from three doctors in 1967, five years before Dr. Brian and Governor Reagan unveiled their plans. Amidst urban rioting and civil protest, Doctors Sweet, Mark and Ervin of Harvard put forward the thesis that individuals who engage in civil disobedience possess defective or damaged brain cells. If this conclusion were applied to the American Revolution or the Women's Rights Movement, a good portion of American society would be labeled as having brain damage.

In a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association, they stated: "That poverty, unemployment, slum housing, and inadequate education underlie the nation's urban riots is well known, but the obviousness of these causes may have blinded us to the more subtle role of other possible factors, including brain dysfunction in the rioters who engaged in arson, sniping and physical assault.

"There is evidence from several sources that brain dysfunction related to a focal lesion plays a significant role in the violent and assaultive behavior of thoroughly studied patients. Individuals with electroencephalographic abnormalities in the temporal region have been found to have a much greater frequency of behavioral abnormalities (such as poor impulse control, assaultiveness, and psychosis) than is present in people with a normal brain wave pattern."

Soon after the publication in the Journal, Dr. Ervin and Dr. Mark published their book Violence and the Brain, which included the claim that there were as many as 10 million individuals in the United States "who suffer from obvious brain disease". They argued that the data of their book provided a strong reason for starting a program of mass screening of Americans.

"Our greatest danger no longer comes from famine or communicable disease. Our greatest danger lies in ourselves and in our fellow humans...we need to develop an 'early warning test' of limbic brain function to detect those humans who have a low threshold for impulsive violence...Violence is a public health problem, and the major thrust of any program dealing with violence must be toward its prevention," they wrote.

The Law Enforcement Assistance Administration funded the doctors $108,000 and the National Institute of Mental Health kicked in another $500,000, under pressure from Congress. They believed that psychosurgery would inevitably be performed in connection with the program, and that, since it irreversibly impaired people's emotional and intellectual capacities, it could be used as an instrument of repression and social control.

The doctors wanted screening centers established throughout the nation. In California, the publicity associated with the doctors' report, aided in the development of The Center for the study and Reduction of Violence. Both the state and LEAA provided the funding. The center was to serve as a model for future facilities to be set up throughout the United States.

The Director of the Neurophyschiatric Institute and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA, Dr. Louis Jolyon West was selected to run the center. Dr. West is alleged to have been a contract agent for the CIA, who, as part of a network of doctors and scientists, gathered intelligence on hallucinogenic drugs, including LSD, for the super-secret MK-ULTRA program. Like Captain White (see part three of the series), West conducted LSD experiments for the CIA on unwitting citizens in the safehouses of San Francisco. He achieved notoriety for his injection of a massive dose of LSD into an elephant at the Oklahoma Zoo, the elephant died when West tried to revive it by administering a combination of drugs.

Dr. West was further known as the psychiatrist who was called upon to examine Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald's assassin. It was on the basis of West's diagnosis that Ruby was compelled to be treated for mental disorders and put on happy pills. The West examination was ordered after Ruby began to say that he was part of a right-wing conspiracy to kill President John Kennedy. Two years after the commencement of treatment for mental disorder, Ruby died of cancer in prison.

After January 11, 1973, when Governor Reagan announced plans for the Violence Center, West wrote a letter to the then Director of Health for California, J. M. Stubblebine.

"Dear Stub:

"I am in possession of confidential in formation that the Army is prepared to turn over Nike missile bases to state and local agencies for non-military purposes. They may look with special favor on health-related applications.

"Such a Nike missile base is located in the Santa Monica Mountains, within a half-hour's drive of the Neuropsychiatric Institute. It is accessible, but relatively remote. The site is securely fenced, and includes various buildings and improvements, making it suitable for prompt occupancy.

"If this site were made available to the Neurophyschiatric Institute as a research facility, perhaps initially as an adjunct to the new Center for the Prevention of Violence, we could put it to very good use. Comparative studies could be carried out there, in an isolated but convenient location, of experimental or model programs for the alteration of undesirable behavior.

"Such programs might include control of drug or alcohol abuse, modification of chronic anti-social or impulsive aggressiveness, etc. The site could also accommodate conferences or retreats for instruction of selected groups of mental-health related professionals and of others (e.g., law enforcement personnel, parole officers, special educators) for whom both demonstration and participation would be effective modes of instruction.

"My understanding is that a direct request by the Governor, or other appropriate officers of the State, to the Secretary of Defense (or, of course, the President), could be most likely to produce prompt results."

Some of the planned areas of study for the Center included:

* Studies of violent individuals.

* Experiments on prisoners from Vacaville and Atascadero, and hyperkinetic children.

* Experiments with violence-producing and violent inhibiting drugs.

* Hormonal aspects of passivity and aggressiveness in boys.

* Studies to discover and compare norms of violence among various ethnic groups.

* Studies of pre-delinquent children.

It would also encourage law enforcement to keep computer files on pre-delinquent children, which would make possible the treatment of children before they became delinquents.

The purpose of the Violence Center was not just research. The staff was to include sociologists, lawyers, police officers, clergymen and probation officers. With the backing of Governor Reagan and Dr. Brian, West had secured guarantees of prisoner volunteers from several California correctional institutions, including Vacaville. Vacaville and Atascadero were chosen as the primary sources for the human guinea pigs. These institutions had established a reputation, by that time, of committing some of the worst atrocities in West Coast history. Some of the experimentations differed little from what the Nazis did in the death camps.

(NEXT: What happened to the Center?)

By Harry V. Martin and David Caul

Sixth in a Series

Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991

Dr. Earl Brian, Governor Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Health, was adamant about his support for mind control centers in California. He felt the behavior modification plan of the Violence Control Centers was important in the prevention of crime.

The Violence Control Center was actually the brain child of William Herrmann as part of a pacification plan for California. A counter insurgency expert for Systems Development Corporation and an advisor to Governor Reagan, Herrmann worked with the Stand Research Institute, the RAND Corporation, and the Hoover Center on Violence. Herrman was also a CIA agent who is now serving an eight year prison sentence for his role in a CIA counterfeiting operation. He was also directly linked with the Iran-Contra affair according to government records and Herrmann's own testimony.

In 1970, Herrmann worked with Colston Westbrook as his CIA control officer when Westbrook formed and implemented the Black Cultural Association at the Vacaville Medical Facility, a facility which in July experienced the death of three inmates who were forcibly subjected to behavior modification drugs. The Black Cultural Association was ostensibly an education program designed to instill black pride identity in prisons, the Association was really a cover for an experimental behavior modification pilot project designed to test the feasibility of programming unstable prisoners to become more manageable.

Westbrook worked for the CIA in Vietnam as a psychological warfare expert, and as an advisor to the Korean equivalent of the CIA and for the Lon Nol regime in Cambodia. Between 1966 and 1969, he was an advisor to the Vietnamese Police Special Branch under the cover of working as an employee of Pacific Architects and Engineers.

His "firm" contracted the building of the interrogation/torture centers in every province of South Vietnam as part of the CIA's Phoenix Program. The program was centered around behavior modification experiments to learn how to extract information from prisoners of war, a direct violation of the Geneva Accords.

Westbrook's most prominent client at Vacaville was Donald DeFreeze, who be tween 1967 and 1969, had worked for the Los Angeles Police Department's Public Disorder Intelligence unit and later became the leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Many authorities now believe that the Black Cultural Association at Vacaville was the seedling of the SLA. Westbrook even designed the SLA logo, the cobra with seven heads, and gave De Freeze his African name of Cinque. The SLA was responsible for the assassination of Marcus Foster, superintendent of School in Oakland and the kidnapping of Patty Hearst.

As a counterinsurgency consultant for Systems Development Corporation, a security firm, Herrmann told the Los Angeles Times that a good computer intelligence system "would separate out the activist bent on destroying the system" and then develop a master plan "to win the hearts and minds of the people". The San Francisco-based Bay Guardian, recently identified Herrmann as an international arms dealer working with Iran in 1980, and possibly involved in the October Surprise. Herrmann is in an English prison for counterfeiting. He allegedly met with Iranian officials to ascertain whether the Iranians would trade arms for hostages held in Lebanon.

The London Sunday Telegraph confirmed Herrmann's CIA connections, tracing them from 1976 to 1986. He also worked for the FBI. This information was revealed in his London trial.

In the 1970's, Dr. Brian and Herrmann worked together under Governor Reagan on the Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence, and then, a decade later, again worked under Reagan. Both men have been identified as working for Reagan with the Iranians.

The Violence Center, however, died an agonizing death. Despite the Ervin Senate Committee investigation and chastation of mind control, the experiments continued. But when the Watergate scandal broke in the early 1970's, Washington felt it was too politically risky to continue to push for mind control centers.

Top doctors began to withdraw from the proposal because they felt that there were not enough safeguards. Even the Law Enforcement Assistance Agency, which funded the program, backed out, stating, the proposal showed "little evidence of established research ability of the kind of level necessary for a study of this cope".

Eventually it became known that control of the Violence Center was not going to rest with the University of California, but instead with the Department of Corrections and other law enforcement officials. This information was released publicly by the Committee Opposed to Psychiatric Abuse of Prisoners. The disclosure of the letter resulted in the main backers of the program bowing out and the eventual demise of the center.

Dr. Brian's final public statement on the matter was that the decision to cut off funding represented "a callous disregard for public safety". Though the Center was not built, the mind control experiments continue to this day.

(NEXT: What these torturous drugs do.)

By Harry V. Martin and David Caul

Seventh in a Series

Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991

The Central Intelligence Agency held two major interests in use of L.S.D. to alter normal behavior patterns. The first interest centered around obtaining information from prisoners of war and enemy agents, in contravention of the Geneva Accords. The second was to deter the effectiveness of drugs used against the enemy on the battlefield.

The MK-ULTRA program was originally run by a small number of people within the CIA known as the Technical Services Staff (TSS). Another CIA department, the Office of Security, also began its own testing program. Friction arose and then infighting broke out when the Office of Security commenced to spy on TSS people after it was learned that LSD was being tested on unwitting Americans.

Not only did the two branches disagree over the issue of testing the drug on the unwitting, they also disagreed over the issue of how the drug was actually to be used by the CIA. The office of Security envisioned the drug as an interrogation weapon. But the TSS group thought the drug could be used to help destabilize another country, it could be slipped into the food or beverage of a public official in order to make him behave foolishly or oddly in public. One CIA document reveals that L.S.D. could be administered right before an official was to make a public speech.

Realizing that gaining information about the drug in real life situations was crucial to exploiting the drug to its fullest, TSS started conducting experiments on its own people. There was an extensive amount of self-experimentation. The Office of Security felt the TSS group was playing with fire, especially when it was learned that TSS was prepared to spike an annual office Christmas party punch with LSD, the Christmas party of the CIA. L.S.D. could produce serious insanity for periods of eight to 18 hours and possibly longer.

One of the "victims" of the punch was agent Frank Olson. Having never had drugs before, L.S.D. took its toll on Olson. He reported that, every automobile that came by was a terrible monster with fantastic eyes, out to get him personally. Each time a car passed he would huddle down against a parapet, terribly frightened. Olson began to behave erratically. The CIA made preparation to treat Olson at Chestnut Lodge, but before they could, Olson checked into a New York hotel and threw himself out from his tenth story room. The CIA was ordered to cease all drug testing.

Mind control drugs and experiments were torturous to the victims. One of three inmates who died in Vacaville Prison in July was scheduled to appear in court in an attempt to stop forced administration of a drug, the very drug that may have played a role in his death.

Joseph Cannata believed he was making progress and did not need forced dosages of the drug Haldol. The Solano County Coroner's Office said that Cannata and two other inmates died of hyperthermia, extremely elevated body temperature. Their bodies all had at least 108 degrees temperature when they died. The psychotropic drugs they were being forced to take will elevate body temperature.

Dr. Ewen Cameron, working at McGill University in Montreal, used a variety of experimental techniques, including keeping subjects unconscious for months at a time, administering huge electroshocks and continual doses of L.S.D.

Massive lawsuits developed as a result of this testing, and many of the subjects who suffered trauma had never agreed to participate in the experiments. Such CIA experiments infringed upon the much-honored Nuremberg Code concerning medical ethics. Dr. Camron was one of the members of the Nuremberg Tribunal.

L.S.D. research was also conducted at the Addiction Research Center of the U.S. Public Health Service in Lexington, Kentucky. This institution was one of several used by the CIA. The National Institute of Mental Health and the U.S. Navy funded this operation. Vast supplies of L.S.D. and other hallucinogenic drugs were required to keep the experiments going. Dr. Harris Isbell ran the program. He was a member of the Food and Drug Administration's Advisory Committee on the Abuse of Depressant and Stimulants Drugs. Almost all of the inmates were black. In many cases, L.S.D. dosage was increased daily for 75 days.

Some 1500 U.S. soldiers were also victims of drug experimentation. Some claimed they had agreed to become guinea pigs only through pressure from their superior officers. Many claimed they suffered from severe depression and other psychological stress.

One such soldier was Master Sergeant Jim Stanley. L.S.D. was put in Stanley's drinking water and he freaked out. Stanley's hallucinations continued even after he returned to his regular duties. His service record suffered, his marriage went on the rocks and he ended up beating his wife and children. It wasn't until 17 years later that Stanley was informed by the military that he had been an L.S.D. experiment. He sued the government, but the Supreme Court ruled no soldier could sue the Army for the L.S.D. experiments. Justice William Brennen disagreed with the Court decision. He wrote, "Experimentation with unknowing human subjects is morally and legally unacceptable."

Private James Thornwell was given L.S.D. in a military test in 1961. For the next 23 years he lived in a mental fog, eventually drowning in a Vallejo swimming pool in 1984. Congress had set up a $625,000 trust fund for him. Large scale L.S.D. tests on American soldiers were conducted at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, Fort Benning, Georgia, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, and in Europe and the Pacific. The Army conducted a series of L.S.D. tests at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The purpose of the tests were to ascertain how well soldiers could perform their tasks on the battlefield while under the influence of L.S.D. At Fort McClellan, Alabama, 200 officers in the Chemical Corps were given L.S.D. in order to familiarize them with the drug's effects. At Edgewood Arsenal, soldiers were given L.S.D. and then confined to sensory deprivation chambers and later exposed to a harsh interrogation sessions by intelligence people. In these sessions, it was discovered that soldiers would cooperate if promised they would be allowed to get off the L.S.D.

In Operation Derby Hat, foreign nationals accused of drug trafficking were given L.S.D. by the Special Purpose Team, with one subject begging to be killed in order to end his ordeal. Such experiments were also conducted in Saigon on Viet Cong POWs. One of the most potent drugs in the U.S. arsenal is called BZ or quinuclidinyl benzilate. It is a long-lasting drug and brings on a litany of psychotic experiences and almost completely isolates any person from his environment. The main effects of BZ last up to 80 hours compared to eight hours for L.S.D. Negative after-effects may persist for up to six weeks.

The BZ experiments were conducted on soldiers at Edgewood Arsenal for 16 years. Many of the "victims" claim that the drug permanently affected their lives in a negative way. It so disorientated one paratrooper that he was found taking a shower in his uniform and smoking a cigar. BZ was eventually put in hand grenades and a 750 pound cluster bomb. Other configurations were made for mortars, artillery and missiles. The bomb was tested in Vietnam and CIA documents indicate it was prepared for use by the U.S. in the event of large-scale civilian uprisings.

In Vacaville, psychosurgery has long been a policy. In one set of cases, experimental psychosurgery was conducted on three inmates, a black, a Chicano and a white person. This involved the procedure of pushing electrodes deep into the brain in order to determine the position of defective brain cells, and then shooting enough voltage into the suspected area to kill the defective cells. One prisoner, who appeared to be improving after surgery, was released on parole, but ended up back in prison. The second inmate became violent and there is no information on the third inmate.

Vacaville also administered a "terror drug" Anectine as a way of "suppressing hazardous behavior". In small doses, Anectine serves as a muscle relaxant; in huge does, it produces prolonged seizure of the respiratory system and a sensation "worse than dying". The drug goes to work within 30 to 40 seconds by paralyzing the small muscles of the fingers, toes, and eyes, and then moves into the the intercostal muscles and the diaphragm. The heart rate subsides to 60 beats per minute, respiratory arrest sets in and the patient remains completely conscious throughout the ordeal, which lasts two to five minutes. The experiments were also used at Atascadero.

Several mind altering drugs were originally developed for non-psychoactive purposes. Some of these drugs are Phenothiazine and Thorzine. The side effects of these drugs can be a living hell. The impact includes the feeling of drowsiness, disorientation, shakiness, dry mouth, blurred vision and an inability to concentrate. Drugs like Prolixin are described by users as "sheer torture" and "becoming a zombie".

The Veterans Administration Hospital has been shown by the General Accounting Office to apply heavy dosages of psychotherapeutic drugs. One patient was taking eight different drugs, three antipsychotic, two antianxiety, one antidepressant, one sedative and one anti-Parkinson. Three of these drugs were being given in dosages equal to the maximum recommended. Another patient was taking seven different drugs. One report tells of a patient who refused to take the drug. "I told them I don't want the drug to start with, they grabbed me and strapped me down and gave me a forced intramuscular shot of Prolixin. They gave me Artane to counteract the Prolixin and they gave me Sinequan, which is a kind of tranquilizer to make me calm down, which over calmed me, so rather than letting up on the medication, they then gave me Ritalin to pep me up."

Prolixin lasts for two weeks. One patient describes how the drug does not calm or sedate nerves, but instead attacks from so deep inside you, you cannot locate the source of the pain. "The drugs turn your nerves in upon yourself. Against your will, your resistance, your resolve, are directed at your own tissues, your own muscles, reflexes, etc.." The patient continues, "The pain grinds into your fiber, your vision is so blurred you cannot read. You ache with restlessness, so that you feel you have to walk, to pace. And then as soon as you start pacing, the opposite occurs to you, you must sit and rest. Back and forth, up and down, you go in pain you cannot locate. In such wretched anxiety you are overwhelmed because you cannot get relief even in breathing."

By Harry V. Martin and David Caul

Eighth in a Series

Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991

October 15, 1991

"We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated.

"The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective.

"Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain." These were the remarks of Dr. Jose Delgado as they appeared in the February 24, 1974 edition of the Congressional Record, No. 26., Vol. 118.

Despite Dr. Delgado's outlandish statements before Congress, his work was financed by grants from the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Aero-Medical Research Laboratory, and the Public Health Foundation of Boston.

Dr. Delgado was a pioneer of the technology of Electrical Stimulation of the Brain (ESB). The New York Times ran an article on May 17, 1965 entitled Matador With a Radio Stops Wild Bull. The story details Dr. Delgado's experiments at Yale University School of Medicine and work in the field at Cordova, Spain. The New York Times stated:

"Afternoon sunlight poured over the high wooden barriers into the ring, as the brave bull bore down on the unarmed matador, a scientist who had never faced fighting bull. But the charging animal's horn never reached the man behind the heavy red cape. Moments before that could happen, Dr. Delgado pressed a button on a small radio transmitter in his hand and the bull braked to a halt. Then he pressed another button on the transmitter, and the bull obediently turned to the right and trotted away. The bull was obeying commands in his brain that were being called forth by electrical stimulation by the radio signals to certain regions in which fine wires had been painlessly planted the day before."

According to Dr. Delgado, experiments of this type have also been performed on humans. While giving a lecture on the Brain in 1965, Dr. Delgado said, "Science has developed a new methodology for the study and control of cerebral function in animals and humans."

The late L.L. Vasiliev, professor of physiology at the University of Leningrad wrote in a paper about hypnotism: "As a control of the subject's condition, when she was outside the laboratory in another set of experiments, a radio set was used. The results obtained indicate that the method of using radio signals substantially enhances the experimental possibilities." The professor continued to write, "I.F. Tomaschevsky (a Russian physiologist) carried out the first experiments with this subject at a distance of one or two rooms, and under conditions that the participant would not know or suspect that she would be experimented with. In other cases, the sender was not in the same house, and someone else observed the subject's behavior. Subsequent experiments at considerable distances were successful. One such experiment was carried out in a park at a distance. Mental suggestions to go to sleep were complied with within a minute."

The Russian experiments in the control of a person's mind through hypnosis and radio waves were conducted in the 1930s, some 30 years before Dr. Delgado's bull experiment. Dr. Vasiliev definitely demonstrated that radio transmission can produce stimulation of the brain. It is not a complex process. In fact, it need not be implanted within the skull or be productive of stimulation of the brain, itself. All that is needed to accomplish the radio control of the brain is a twitching muscle. The subject becomes hypnotized and a muscle stimulant is implanted. The subject, while still under hypnosis, is commanded to respond when the muscle stimulant is activated, in this case by radio transmission.

Lincoln Lawrence wrote a book entitled Were We Controlled? Lawrance wrote, "If the subject is placed under hypnosis and mentally programmed to maintain a determination eventually to perform one specific act, perhaps to shoot someone, it is suggested thereafter, each time a particular muscle twitches in a certain manner, which is then demonstrated by using the transmitter, he will increase this determination even more strongly. As the hypnotic spell is renewed again and again, he makes it his life's purpose to carry out this act until it is finally achieved. Thus are the two complementary aspects of Radio-Hypnotic Intracerebral Control (RHIC) joined to reinforce each other, and perpetuate the control, until such time as the controlled behavior is called for. This is done by a second session with the hypnotist giving final instructions. These might be reinforced with radio stimulation in more frequent cycles. They could even carry over the moments after the act to reassure calm behavior during the escape period, or to assure that one conspirator would not indicate that he was aware of the co-conspirator's role, or that he was even acquainted with him."

RHIC constitutes the joining of two well known tools, the radio part and the hypnotism part. People have found it difficult to accept that an individual can be hypnotized to perform an act which is against his moral principles. Some experiments have been conducted by the U.S. Army which show that this popular perception is untrue. The chairman of the Department of Psychology at Colgate University, Dr. Estabrooks, has stated, "I can hypnotize a man without his knowledge or consent into committing treason against the United States." Estabrooks was one of the nation's most authoritative sources in the hypnotic field. The psychologist told officials in Washington that a mere 200 well trained hypnotists could develop an army of mind-controlled sixth columnists in wartime United States. He laid out a scenario of an enemy doctor placing thousands of patients under hypnotic mind control, and eventually programming key military officers to follow his assignment. Through such maneuvers, he said, the entire U.S. Army could be taken over. Large numbers of saboteurs could also be created using hypnotism through the work of a doctor practicing in a neighborhood or foreign born nationals with close cultural ties with an enemy power.

Dr. Estabrooks actually conducted experiments on U.S. soldiers to prove his point. Soldiers of low rank and little formal education were placed under hypnotism and their memories tested. Surprisingly, hypnotists were able to control the subjects' ability to retain complicated verbal information. J. G. Watkins followed in Estabrooks steps and induced soldiers of lower rank to commit acts which conflicted not only with their moral code, but also the military code which they had come to accept through their basic training. One of the experiments involved placing a normal, stable army private in a deep trance. Watkins was trying to see if he could get the private to attack a superior officer, a cardinal sin in the military. While the private was in a deep trance, Watkins told him that the officer sitting across from him was an enemy soldier who was going to attempt to kill him. In the private's mind, it was a kill or be killed situation. The private immediately jumped up and grabbed the officer by the throat. The experiment was repeated several times, and in one case the man who was hypnotized and the man who was attacked were very close friends. The results were always the same. In one experiment, the hypnotized subject pulled out a knife and nearly stabbed another person.

Watkins concluded that people could be induced to commit acts contrary to their morality if their reality was distorted by the hypnotism. Similar experiments were conducted by Watkins using WACs exploring the possibility of making military personnel divulge military secrets. A related experiment had to be discontinued because a researcher, who had been one of the subjects, was exposing numerous top-secret projects to his hypnotist, who did not have the proper security clearance for such information. The information was divulged before an audience of 200 military personnel.

(NEXT: School for Assassins)

Mind Control: a Navy school for assassins

By Harry V. Martin and David Caul

Ninth in a Series

Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991

Tuesday, October 22, 1991

In mans quest to control the behavior of humans, there was a great breakthrough established by Pavlov, who devised a way to make dogs salivate on cue. He perfected his conditioning response technique by cutting holes in the cheeks of dogs and measured the amount they salivated in response to different stimuli. Pavlov verified that "quality, rate and frequency of the salivation changed depending upon the quality, rate and frequency of the stimuli."

Though Pavlov's work falls far short of human mind control, it did lay the groundwork for future studies in mind and behavior control of humans. John B. Watson conducted experiments in the United States on an 11-month-old infant. After allowing the infant to establish a rapport with a white rat, Watson began to beat on the floor with an iron bar every time the infant came in contact with the rat. After a time, the infant made the association between the appearance of the rat and the frightening sound, and began to cry every time the rat came into view. Eventually, the infant developed a fear of any type of small animal. Watson was the founder of the behaviorist school of psychology.

"Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings or stone or wood. I'll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any direction are almost endless. Even gross differences in anatomical structure limits are far less than you may think. Make him a deaf mute, and I will build you a Helen Keller. Men are built, not born," Watson proclaimed. His psychology did not recognize inner feelings and thoughts as legitimate objects of scientific study, he was only interested in overt behavior.

Though Watson's work was the beginning of mans attempts to control human actions, the real work was done by B.F. Skinner, the high priest of the behaviorists movement. The key to Skinner's work was the concept of operant conditioning, which relied on the notion of reinforcement, all behavior which is learned is rooted in either a positive or negative response to that action. There are two corollaries of operant conditioning" Aversion therapy and desensitization.

Aversion therapy uses unpleasant reinforcement to a response which is undesirable. This can take the form of electric shock, exposing the subject to fear producing situations, and the infliction of pain in general. It has been used as a way of "curing" homosexuality, alcoholism and stuttering. Desensitization involves forcing the subject to view disturbing images over and over again until they no longer produce any anxiety, then moving on to more extreme images, and repeating the process over again until no anxiety is produced. Eventually, the subject becomes immune to even the most extreme images. This technique is typically used to treat people's phobias. Thus, the violence shown on T.V. could be said to have the unsystematic and unintended effect of desensitization.

Skinnerian behaviorism has been accused of attempting to deprive man of his free will, his dignity and his autonomy. It is said to be intolerant of uncertainty in human behavior, and refuses to recognize the private, the ineffable, and the unpredictable. It sees the individual merely as a medical, chemical and mechanistic entity which has no comprehension of its real interests.

Skinner believed that people are going to be manipulated. "I just want them to be manipulated effectively," he said. He measured his success by the absence of resistance and counter control on the part of the person he was manipulating. He thought that his techniques could be perfected to the point that the subject would not even suspect that he was being manipulated.

Dr. James V. McConnel, head of the Department of Mental Health Research at the University of Michigan, said, "The day has come when we can combine sensory deprivation with the use of drugs, hypnosis, and the astute manipulation of reward and punishment to gain almost absolute control over an individual's behavior. We want to reshape our society drastically."

A U.S. Navy psychologist, who claims that the Office of Naval Intelligence had taken convicted murderers from military prisons, used behavior modification techniques on them, and then relocated them in American embassies throughout the world. Just prior to that time, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee had censured the CIA for its global political assassination plots, including plots against Fidel Castro. The Navy psychologist was Lt. Commander Thomas Narut of the U.S. Regional Medical Center in Naples, Italy. The information was divulged at an Oslo NATO conference of 120 psychologists from the eleven nation alliance. According to Dr. Narut, the U.S. Navy was an excellent place for a researcher to find "captive personnel" whom they could could use as guinea pigs in experiments. The Navy provided all the funding necessary, according to Narut.

Dr. Narut, in a question and answer session with reporters from many nations, revealed how the Navy was secretly programming large numbers of assassins. He said that the men he had worked with for the Navy were being prepared for commando-type operations, as well as covert operations in U.S. embassies worldwide. He described the men who went through his program as "hit men and assassins" who could kill on command.

Careful screening of the subjects was accomplished by Navy psychologists through the military records, and those who actually received assignments where their training could be utilized, were drawn mainly from submarine crews, the paratroops, and many were convicted murderers serving military prison sentences. Several men who had been awarded medals for bravery were drafted into the program.

The assassins were conditioned through "audio-visual desensitization". The process involved the showing of films of people being injured or killed in a variety of ways, starting with very mild depictions, leading up to the more extreme forms of mayhem. Eventually, the subjects would be able to detach their feelings even when viewing the most horrible of films. The conditioning was most successful when applied to "passive-aggressive" types, and most of these ended up being able to kill without any regrets. The prime indicator of violent tendencies was the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Dr. Narut knew of two Navy programming centers, the neuropsychiatric laboratory in San Diego and the U.S. Regional Medical Center in Italy, where he worked.

During the audio-visual desensitization programming, restraints were used to force the subject to view the films. A device was used on the subjects eyelids to prevent him from blinking. Typically, the preliminary film was on an African youth being ritualistically circumcised with a dull knife and without any anesthetic. The second film showed a sawmill scene in which a man accidentally cut off his fingers.

In addition to the desensitization films, the potential assassins underwent programming to create prejudicial attitude in the men, to think of their future enemies, especially the leaders of these countries, as sub-human. Films and lectures were presented demeaning the culture and habits of the people of the countries where it had been decided they would be sent.

After his NATO lecture, Dr. Narut disappeared. He could not be located. Within a week of so after the lecture, the Pentagon issued an emphatic denial that the U.S. Navy had "engaged in psychological training or other types of training of personnel as assassins." They disavowed the programming centers in San Diego and Naples and stated they were unable to locate Narut, but did provide confirmation that he was a staff member of the U.S. Regional Medical Center in Naples.

Dr. Alfred Zitani, an American delegate to the Oslo conference, did verify Narut's remarks and they were published in the Sunday Times.

Sometime later, Dr. Narut surfaced again in London and recanted his remarks, stating that he was "talking in theoretical and not practical terms." Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Naval headquarters in London issued a statement indicating that Dr. Narut's remarks at the NATO conference should be discounted because he had "personal problems". Dr. Narut never made any further public statements about the program.

During the NATO conference in Oslo, Dr. Narut had remarked that the reason he was divulging the information was because he believed that the information was coming out anyway. The doctor was referring to the disclosure by a Congressional subcommittee which were then appearing in the press concerning various CIA assassination plots. However, what Dr. Narut had failed to realize at the time, was that the Navy's assassination plots were not destined to be revealed to the public at that time.

(To be continued.)

Soviets, U.S. both using mind control methods

By Harry V. Martin and David Caul

Tenth in a Series

Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991

November 5, 1991

There were three scientists who pioneered the work of using an electromagnetic field to control human behavior. Their work began 25 years ago. These three were Dr. Jose Delgado, psychology professor at Yale University; Dr. W. Ross Adey, a physiologist at the Brain Research Institute at UCLA; and Dr. Wilder Penfield, a Canadian.

Dr. Penfield's experiments consisted of the implantation of electrodes deep into the cortexes of epilepsy patients who were to undergo surgery; he was able to drastically improve the memories of these patients through electrical stimulation. Dr. Adey implanted transmitters in the brains of cats and chimpanzees that could send signals to a receiver regarding the electrical activity of the brain; additional radio signals were sent back into the brains of the animals which modified their behavior at the direction of the doctor. Dr. Delgado was able to stop and turn a charging bull through the use of an implanted radio receiver.

Other experiments using platinum, gold and stainless steel electrode implants enabled researchers to induce total madness in cats, put monkeys into a stupor, or to set human beings jerking their arms up and down. Much of Delgado's work was financed by the CIA through phony funding conduits masking themselves as charitable organizations.

Following the successes of Delgado's work, the CIA set up their own research program in the field of electromagnetic behavior modification under the code name Sleeping Beauty. With the guidance of Dr. Ivor Browning, a laboratory was set up in New Mexico, specializing in working with the hypothalamus or "sweet spot" of the brain. Here it was found that stimulating this area could produce intense euphoria.

Dr. Browning was able to wire a radio receiver-amplifier into the "sweet spot" of a donkey which picked up a five-micro-amp signal, such that he could create intense happiness in the animal. Using the jolts of happiness as an "electronic carrot", Browning was able to send the donkey up a 2000 foot New Mexico mountain and back to its point of origin. When the donkey was proceeding up the path toward its destination, it was rewarded; when it deviated, the signal stopped. "You've never seen a donkey so eager to keep on course in your whole life," Dr. Browning exclaimed.

The CIA utilized the electronic carrot technique in getting trained pigeons to fly miniature microphone-transmitters to the ledge of a KGB safe house where the devices monitored conversations for months. There was a move within the CIA to conduct further experiments on humans, foreigners and prisoners, but officially the White House vetoed the idea as being unethical.

In May 1989, it was learned by the CIA that the KGB was subjecting people undergoing interrogation to electromagnetic fields, which produced a panic reaction, thereby bringing them closer to breaking down under questioning. The subjects were not told that they were being placed under the influence of these beams. A few years earlier, Dr. Ross Adey released photographs and a fact sheet concerning what he called the Russian Lida machine. This consisted of a small transmitter emitting 10-hertz waves which makes the subject susceptibile to hypnotic suggestion. The device utilized the outmoded vacuum-tube design. American POWs in Korea have indicated that similar devices had been used for interrogation purposes in POW camps.

The general, long term goal of the CIA was to find out whether or not mind control could be achieved through the use of a precise, external, electromagnetic beam. The electrical activity of the brain operates within the range of 100 hertz frequency. This spectrum is called ELF or Extremely Low Frequency range. ELF waves carry very little ionizing radiation and very low heat, and therefore do not manifest gross, observable physical effects on living organisms. Published Soviet experiments with ELFs reveal that there was a marked increase in psychiatric and central nervous system disorders and symptoms of stress for sailors working close to ELF generators.

In the mid-1970s, American interest in combining EMR techniques with hypnosis was very prominent. Plans were on file to develop these techniques through experiments on human volunteers. The spoken word of the hypnotist could be conveyed by modulated electromagnetic energy directly into the subconscious parts of the human brain without employing any technical devices for receiving or transacting the messages and without the person exposed to such influence having a chance to control the information input consciously.

In California, it was discovered by Dr. Adey that animal brain waves could be altered directly by ELF fields. It was found that monkey brains would fall in phase with ELF waves. These waves could easily pass through the skull, which normally protected the central nervous system from outside influence.

In San Leandro, Dr. Elizabeth Rauscher, director of Technic Research Laboratory, has been doing ELF/brain research with human subjects for some time. One of the frequencies produces nausea for more than an hour. Another frequency, she calls it the marijuana frequency, gets people laughing. "Give me the money and three months,"she says, "and I'll be able to affect the behavior of eighty percent of the people in this town without their knowing it."

In the past, the Soviet Union has invested large sums of time and money investigating microwaves. In 1952, while the Cold War was showing no signs of thawing, there was a secret meeting at the Sandia Corporation in New Mexico between U.S. and Soviet scientists involving the exchange of information regarding the biological hazards and safety levels of EMR. The Soviets possessed the greater preponderance of information, and the American scientists were unwilling to take it seriously. In subsequent meetings, the Soviet scientists continued to stress the seriousness of the risks, while American scientists downplayed their importance. Shortly after the last Sandia meeting, the Soviets began directing a microwave beam at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, using embassy workers as guinea pigs for low-level EMR experiments. Washington, D.C. was oddly quiescent, regarding the Moscow embassy bombardment. Discovered in 1962, the Moscow signal was investigated by the CIA, which hired a consultant, Milton Zaret, and code named the research Project Pandora. According to Zaret, the Moscow signal was composed of several frequencies, and was focussed precisely upon the Ambassador's office. The intensity of the bombardment was not made public, but when the State Department finally admitted the existence of the signal, it announced that it was fairly low.

There was consensus among Soviet EMR researchers that a beam such as the Moscow signal was destined to produced blurred vision and loss of mental concentration. The Boston Globe reported that the American ambassador had not only developed a leukemia-like blood disease, but also suffered from bleeding eyes and chronic headaches. Under the CIA's Project Pandora, monkeys were brought into the embassy and exposed to the Moscow signal; they were found to have developed blood composition anomalies and unusual chromosome counts. Embassy personnel were found to have a 40 percent higher than average white blood cell count. While Operation Pandora's data gathering proceeded, embassy personnel continued working in the facility and were not informed of the bombardment until 10 years later. Embassy employees were eventually granted a 20 percent hardship allowance for their service in an unhealthful post. Throughout the period of bombardment, the CIA used the opportunity to gather data on psychological and biological effects of the beam on American personnel.

The U.S. government began to examine the affects of the Moscow signal. The job was turned over to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DARPA is now developing electromagnetic weaponry. The man in charge of the DARPA program, Dr. Jack Verona, is so important and so secretive that he doesn't even return President George Bush's telephone calls.

(To be continued.)

By Harry V. Martin and David Caul

Eleventh in a Series

Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991

Friday, November 8, 1991

The American public was never informed that the military had planned to develop electromagnetic weapons until 1982, when the revelation appeared in a technical Air Force magazine.

The magazine article stated, "....specifically generated radio-frequency radiation (RFR) fields may pose powerful and revolutionary anti-personnel military trends." The article indicated that that it would be very easy to use electromagnetic fields to disrupt the human brain because the brain, itself, was an electrically mediated organ. Iftfurther indicated that a rapidly scanning RFR system would have a stunning or killing capability over a large area. The system was developable.

Navy Captain Dr. Paul E. Taylor read a paper at the Air University Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Dr. Taylor was responsible for the Navy's Radiation Laboratory and had been studying radiation effects on humans. In his paper, Dr. Taylor stated, "The ability of individuals to function (as soldiers) could be degraded to such a point that would be combat ineffective." The system was so sophisticated that it employed microwaves and millimeter waves and was transportable by a large truck.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the South Bay, are working on the development of a "brain bomb". A bomb could be dropped in the middle of a battlefield which would produce microwaves, incapacitating the minds of soldiers within a circumscribed area.

Applications of microwave technology in espionage were available for over 25 years. In a meeting in Berkeley of the American Association for the Advancement of Science as early as 1965, Professor J. Anthony Deutsch of New York University, provided an important segment of research in the field of memory control. In layman terms, Professor Deutsch indicated that the mind is a transmitter and if too much information is received, like too many vehicles on a crowded freeway, the brain ceases to transmit. The Professor indicated that an excess of acetyl choline in the brain can interfere with the memory process and control. He indicated excess amounts of acetyl choline can be artificially produced, through both the administration of drugs or through the use of radio waves. The process is called Electronic Dissolution of Memory (EDOM). The memory transmission can be stopped for as long as the radio signal continues.

As a result, the awareness of the person skips over those minutes during which he is subjected to the radio signal. Memory is distorted, and time-orientation is destroyed.

According to Lincoln Lawrence, author of Were We Controlled, EDOM is now operational. "There is already in use a small EDOM generator/transmitter which can be concealed on the body of the 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 period will disturb the time-orientation of the person affected....it can be a potent weapon for hopelessly confusing evidence in the investigation of a crime."

Thirty years ago, Allen Frey discovered that microwaves of 300 to 3000 megahertz could be "heard" by people, even if they were deaf, if pulsed at a certain rate. Appearing to be originating just in back of the head, the sound boomed, clicked, hissed or buzzed, depending upon the frequency. Later research has shown that the perception of the waves take place just in front of the ears. The microwaves causes pressure waves in the brain tissue, and this phenomenon vibrates the sound receptors in the inner ear through the bone structure. Some microwaves are capable of directly stimulating the nerve cells of the auditory pathways. This has been confirmed with experiments with rats, in which the sound registers 120 decibels, which is equal to the volume of a nearby jet during takeoff. Aside from having the capability of causing pain and preventing auditory communication, a more subtle effect was demonstrated at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research by Dr. Joseph C. Sharp. Dr. Sharp, himself, was the subject of an experiment in which pulsed microwave audiograms, or the microwave analog of the sound vibrations of spoken words, were delivered to his brain in such a way that he was able to understand the words that were spoken. Military and undercover uses of such a device might include driving a subject crazy with inner voices in order to discredit him, or conveying undetectable instructions to a programmed assassin.

But the technology has been carried even a step further. It has been demonstrated by Dr. Ross Adey that microwaves can be used to directly bring about changes in the electrical patterns of different parts of the brain. His experiments showed that he could achieve the same mind control over animals as Dr. Delgado did in the bull incident. Dr. Delgado used brain implants in his animals, Dr. Adey used microwave devices without preconditioning. He made animals act and look like electronic toys.

(Conclusion next week.)

Mind control origins found in Nazi Germany

By Harry V. Martin and David Caul

Twelfth in a Series

Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991

Tuesday, November 19, 1991

At the conclusion of World War Two, American investigators learned that Nazi doctors at the Dachau concentration camp in Germany had been conducting mind control experiments on inmates. They experimented with hypnosis and with the drug mescaline.

Mescaline is a quasi-synthetic extract of the peyote cactus, and is very similar to LSD in the hallucinations which it produces. Though they did not achieve the degree of success they had desired, the SS interrogators in conjunction with the Dachau doctors were able to extract the most intimate secrets from the prisoners when the inmates were given very high doses of mescaline.

There were fatal mind control experiments conducted at Auschwitz. The experiments there were described by one informant as "brainwashing with chemicals". The informant said the Gestapo wasn't satisfied with extracting information by torture. "So the next question was, why don't we do it like the Russians, who have been able to get confessions of guilt at their show trials?" They tried various barbiturates and morphine derivatives. After prisoners were fed a coffee-like substance, two of them died in the night and others died later.

The Dachau mescaline experiments were written up in a lengthy report issued by the U.S. Naval Technical Mission, whose job it was at the conclusion of the war to scour all of Europe for every shred of industrial and scientific material that had been produced by the Third Reich. It was as a result of this report that the U.S. Navy became interested in mescaline as an interrogation tool. The Navy initiated Project Chatter in 1947, the same year the Central Intelligence Agency was formed. The Chatter format included developing methods for acquiring information from people against their will, but without inflicting harm or pain.

At the conclusion of the war, the OSS was designated as the investigative unit for the International Military Tribunal, which was to become known as the Nuremberg Trials. The purpose of Nuremberg was to try the principal Nazi leaders. Some Nazis were on trial for their experiments, and the U.S. was using its own "truth drugs" on these principal Nazi prisoners, namely Goring, Ribbentrop, Speer and eight others. The Justice in charge of the tribunal had given the OSS permission to use the drugs.

The Dachau doctors who performed the mescaline experiments also were involved in aviation medicine. The aviation experiments at Dachau fascinated Heinrich Himmler. Himmler followed the progress of the tests, studied their findings and often suggested improvements. The Germans had a keen interest in several medical problems in the field of flying, they were interested in preventing pilots from slowly becoming unconscious as a result of breathing the thin air of the high altitudes and there was interest in enhancing night vision.

The main research in this area was at the Institute of Aviation in Munich, which had excellent laboratories. The experiments in relationship to the Institute were conducted at Dachau. Inmates had been immersed in tubs of ice water with instruments placed in their orifices in order to monitor their painful deaths. Dr. Hubertus Strughold, who ran the German aviation medicine team, confirmed that he had heard humans were used for the Dachau experiments. Hidden in a cave in Hallein were files recording the Dachau experiments.

On May 15, 1941, Dr. Sigmund Rascher wrote a letter to Himmler requesting permission to use the Dachau inmates for experiments on the physiology of high altitudes. Rascher lamented the fact that no such experiments have been done using human subjects. "The experiments are very dangerous and we cannot attract volunteers," he told Himmler. His request was approved.

Dachau was filled with Communists and Social Democrats, Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies, clergymen, homosexuals, and people critical of the Nazi government. Upon entering Dachau, prisoners lost all legal status, their hair was shaved off, all their possessions confiscated, they were poorly fed, and they were used as slaves for both the corporations and the government. The SS guards were brutal and sadistic. The idea to test subjects at Dachau was really the brain child of Erich Hippke, chief surgeon of the Luftwaffe.

Between March and August of 1942 extensive experiments were conducted at Dachau regarding the limits of human endurance at high altitudes. These experiments were conducted for the benefit of the German Air Force. The experiments took place in a low-pressure chamber in which altitudes of up to 68,000 feet could be simulated. The subjects were placed in the chamber and the altitude was raised, many inmates died as a result. The survivors often suffered serious injury. One witness at the Nuremberg trails, Anton Pacholegg, who was sent to Dachau in 1942, gave an eyewitness account of the typical pressure test:

"The Luftwaffe delivered a cabinet constructed of wood and metal. It was possible in the cabinet to either decrease or increase the air pressure. You could observe through a little window the reaction of the subject inside the chamber. The purpose of these experiments was to test human energy and the subject's capacity...to take large amounts of pure oxygen, and then to test his reaction to a gradual decrease in oxygen. I have personally seen through the observation window of the chamber when a prisoner inside would stand a vacuum until his lungs ruptured. Some experiments gave men such pressure in their heads that they would go mad and pull out their hair in an effort to relieve the pressure. They would tear their heads and face with their fingers and nails in an attempt to maim themselves in their madness. They would beat the walls with their hands and head and scream in an effort to relieve pressure in their eardrums. These cases of extreme vacuums generally ended in the death of the subjects." The former prisoner also testified, "An extreme experiment was so certain to result in death that in many instances the chamber was used for routine execution purposes rather than an experiment." A minimum 200 prisoners were known to have died in these experiments.

The doctors directly involved with the research held very high positions: Karl Brandt was Hitler's personal doctor; Oskar Schroeder was the Chief of the Medical Services of the Luftwaffe; Karl Gebhardt was Chief Surgeon on the Staff of the Reich Physician SS and Police and German Red Cross President; Joachim Mrugowsky was Chief of the Hygienic Institute of the Waffen SS; Helmut Poppendick was a senior colonel in the SS and Chief of the Personal Staff of the Reich Physicians SS and Police; Siegfried Ruff was Director of the Department of Aviation Medicine.

The first human guinea pig was a 37 year old Jew in good health. Himmler invited 40 top Luftwaffe officers to view a movie of an inmate dying in the pressure chamber. After the pressure chamber tests, the cold treatment experiments began. The experiments consisted of immersing inmates in freezing water while their vital signs were monitored. The goal was to discover the cause of death. Heart failure was the answer. An inmate described the procedures:

"The basins were filled with water and ice was added until the water measured 37.4 F and the experimental subjects were either dressed in a flying suit or were placed in the water naked. The temperature was measured rectally and through the stomach. The lowering of the body temperature to 32 degrees was terrible for experimental subjects. At 32 degrees the subject lost consciousness. They were frozen to 25 degrees. The worst experiment was performed on two Russian officer POWs. They were placed in the basin naked. Hour after hour passed, and while usually after a short time, 60 minutes, freezing had set in, these two Russians were still conscious after two hours. After the third hour one Russian told the other, 'Comrade, tell that officer to shoot us.' The other replied, 'Don't expect any mercy from this Fascist dog.' Then they shook hands and said goodbye. The experiment lasted at least five hours until death occurred.

Dry freezing experiments were also carried out a Dachau. One subject was put outdoors on a stretcher at night when it was extremely cold. While covered with a linen sheet, a bucket of cold water was poured over him every hour. He was kept outdoors undersub-freezing conditions. In subsequent experiments, subjects were simply left outside naked in a court under freezing conditions for hours. Himmler gave permission to move the experiments to Auschwitz, because it was more private and because the subjects of the experiment would howl all night as they froze. The physical pain of freezing was terrible. The subjects died by inches, heartbeat became totally irregular, breathing difficulties and lung endema resulted, hands and feet became frozen white."

As the Germans began to lose the war, the aviation doctors began too keep their names from appearing in Himmler's files for fear of future recriminations.

(To be concluded Friday.)

America made it to the moon with Dachau research

By Harry V. Martin and David Caul

Last of a Thirteen Part Series

Copyright, Napa Sentinel, 1991

Friday, November 22, 1991

The Nazi doctors who experimented on the inmates of prison camps during World War Two were tried for murder at the Nuremberg Tribunal. The accused were educated, trained physicians, they did not kill in anger or in malice, they were creating a science of death.

Ironically, in 1933, the Nazi's passed a law for the protection of animals. The law cited the prevention of cruelty and indifference to animals as one of the highest moral values of a people, animal experimentation was unthinkable, but human experimentations were acceptable. The victims of the crime of these doctors numbered into the thousands.

In 1953, while the Central Intelligence Agency was still conducting mind control and behavior modification on unwitting humans in this country, the United States signed the Nuremberg Code, a code born out of the ashes of war and human suffering. The document was a solemn promise never to tolerate such human atrocities again. The Code maintains three fundamental principles:

* The subjects of any experimentation must be volunteers who thoroughly understand the purpose and the dangers of the experiments. They must be free to give consent and the consent must be without pressure and they must be free to quit the experiments at any time.

* The experiments must be likely to yield knowledge which is valuable to everyone. The knowledge must be such that it could not be gained in any other way.

* The experiments must be conducted by only the most competent doctors, and they must exercise extreme care.

The Nazi aviation experiments met none of these conditions. Most inmates at Dachau knew that the experiments in the pressure chamber were fatal. From the very beginning, control of the experiments was largely in the hands of the SS, which was later judged to be a criminal organization by the Nuremberg Tribunal.

Despite our lessons from Nuremberg and the death camps, the CIA, U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army Chemical Corps targeted specific groups of people for experimentation who were not able to resist, prisoners, mental patients, foreigners, ethnic minorities, sex deviants, the terminally ill, children and U.S. military personnel and prisoners of war. They violated the Nuremberg Code for conducting and subsidizing experiments on unwitting citizens. The CIA began its mind control projects in 1953, the very year that the U.S. signed the Nuremberg Code and pledged with the international community of nations to respect basic human rights and to prohibit experimentation on captive populations without full and free consent.

Dr. Cameron, a CIA operative, was one of the worst offenders against the Code, yet he was a member of the Nuremberg Tribunal, with full knowledge of its testimony. In 1973, a three judge court in Michigan ruled, "...experimental psychosurgery, which is irreversible and intrusive, often leads to the blunting of emotions, the deadening of memory, the reduction of affect, and limits the ability to generate new ideas. Its potential for injury to the creativity of the individual is great and can infringe on the right of the individual to be free from interference with his mental process.

"The state's interest in performing psychosurgery and the legal ability of the involuntarily detained mental patient to give consent, must bow to the First Amendment, which protects the generation and free flow of ideas from unwarranted interference with one's mental processes." Citing the Nuremberg Code, the court found that "the very nature of the subject's incarceration diminishes the capacity to consent to psychosurgery." In 1973, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted regulations which would require informed written consent from voluntary patients before electroshock treatment could be performed.

Senator Sam Ervin's Committee lashed out bitterly at the mind control and behavior modification experiments and ordered them discontinued, they were not. But the New England Journal of Medicine states, that the consent provisions are "no more than an elaborate ritual." They called it "a device that when the subject is uneducated and uncomprehending, confers no more than a semblance of propriety on human experimentation."

The Nuremberg Tribunal brought to light that some of the most respected figures in the medical profession were involved in the vast crime network of the SS. Only 23 persons were charged with criminal activity in this area, despite the fact that hundreds of medical personnel were involved. The defendants were charged with crimes against humanity. They were found guilty of planning and executing experiments on humans without their consent, in a cruel and brutal manner which involved severe torture, deliberate murder and with the full knowledge of the gravity of their deeds. Only seven of the defendants were sentenced to death and hanged, others received life sentences. Five who were involved in the experiments were not tried. Ernest Grawitz committed suicide, Carl Clauberg was tried in the Soviet Union, Josef Mengele escaped to South America and was later captured by Israeli agents, Horst Schumann disappeared and Siegmund Rascher was executed by Himmler.

There were 200 German medical doctors conducting these medical experiments. Most of these doctors were friends of the United States before the war, and despite their inhuman experiments, the U.S. attempted to rebuild a relationship with them after the war. The knowledge the Germans had accumulated at the expense of human life and suffering, was considered a "booty of war", by the Americans and the Russians.The Americans tracked down Dr. Strughold, the aviation doctor who was in charge of the Dachau experiments. With full knowledge that the experiments were conducted on captive humans, the U.S. recruited the doctors to work for them. General Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his personal approval to exploit the work and research of the Nazi's in the death camps.

Within weeks of Eisenhower's order, many of these notorious doctors were working for the U.S. Army at Heidelberg. Army teams scoured Europe for scientific experimental apparatus such as pressure chambers, compressors, G-force machines, giant centrifuges, and electron microscopes. These doctors were wined and dined by the U.S. Army while most of Germany's post-war citizens virtually starved.

The German doctors were brought to the U.S. and went to work for Project Paperclip. All these doctors had been insulated against war crime charges. The Nuremberg prosecutors were shocked that U.S. authorities were using the German doctors despite their criminal past.

Under the leadership of Strughold, 34 scientists accepted contracts from Project Paperclip, and were moved to Randolph Air Force Base at San Antonio, Texas. The authorization to hire these Nazi scientists came directly for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The top military brass stated that they wished to exploit these rare minds. Project Paperclip, ironically, would use Nazi doctors to develop methods of interrogating German prisoners of war.

As hostilities began to build after the war between the Americans and the Russians, the U.S. imported as many as 1000 former Nazi scientists.

In 1969, Americans landed on the moon, and two groups of scientist in the control center shared the credit, the rocket team from Peenemunde, Germany, under the leadership of Werner von Braun, these men had perfected the V-2s which were built in the Nordhausen caves where 20,000 slave laborers from prison camp Dora had been worked to death. The second group were the space doctors, lead by 71-year-old Dr. Hubertus Strughold, whose work was pioneered in Experimental Block No. 5 of the Dachau concentration camp and the torture and death of hundreds of inmates. The torture chambers that was used to slowly kill the prisoners of the Nazi's were the test beds for the apparatus that protected Neil Armstrong from harm, from lack of oxygen, and pressure, when he walked on the moon.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: The Napa Sentinel would like to acknowledge the exceptional contribution of radio commentator David Emory and his extensive archives. Other source material included:

Acid Dreams by Martin Lee & Bruce Shlain

From the Belly of the Beast, Jack Henry Abbott

Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118, Feb. 24, 1974, testimony of Jose Delgado

The Glass House Tapes, by Louis Tackwood

The Great Heroin Coup, by Henrik Kruger

Individual Rights and the Federal Role in Behavior Modification, 93rd Congress, 2nd Session, 1974. Sam Ervin Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional 'Rights

The Last Hero, Wild Bill Donovan, by Anthony Cave Brown

Mind Control, by Peter Schrag

The Mind Stealers, by Samuel Chavkin

Matador with a radio stops wild bull, New York Times, May 17, 1965

Operation Mind Control, Water Bowart

The Phoenix Program, Douglas Valentine

The Physical Control of the Mind, Jose M. R. Delgado, MD

The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, Alfred McCoy

Role of Brain Disease in Riots and urban Violence, by Vernon H. Mark, Frank R. Ervin, and William H. Sweet. Journal of the American Medical Association, September 11, 1967.

San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 28, 1991

Convict Talks of 1984 Arms Talks With Iran, San Francisco Chronicle, December 29, 1986

San Francisco Chronicle, January 13, 1973

Guy Wright Column, San Francisco Chronicle, July 5, 1987

Sunday Times, July 1975.

Violence and the Brain, by Vernon H. Mark and Frank R. Ervin

War on the Mind: The Military Uses and Abuses of Psychology, by Peter Watson

Were We Controlled? - by Lincoln Lawrence

Why Was Patricia Hearst Kidnapped? - by Mae Brussell, The Realist.

and other select readings.

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MIND-CONTROL EXPERIMENTATION
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by, Julianne McKinney
Director, Electronic Surveillance Project
Association of National Security Alumni
December 1992

Whither the KGB?

In February 1974, Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS) hosted discussions on the plight of
dissenters in the Soviet Union, and on a means by which the U.S.
Government might most effectively intervene. highlights of these
discussions are reported in "Understanding the Solzhenitzyn Affair:
Dissent and its Control in the USSR," (CSIS, 1974).

KGB strategies were addressed in some detail during these
discussions. It was noted that the KGB's success depended on the
extensive use of informant networks and agent provocateurs; and,
following Brezhnev's rise to power, on the use of drugs and
psychiatrists for further purpose of manipulation and control.
Shadowing, bugging, slandering, blacklisting and other related
tactics were also cited as serving KGB purpose. Participants in
the conference agreed that the KGB's obvious intent was to divide
and isolate the populace, to spread fear, and to silent dissenters.

Agencies of our own government are on record as having employed
precisely these same tactics on a recurrent basis. The Church and
Rockefeller Committee Hearings in the mid-70's purportedly put an
end to these practices. Based on recent developments, it would
appear that the CIA's and FBI's Operations MKULTRA, MHCHAOS and
COINTELPRO (the focus of these Senate Committee and Vice-President-
level Hearings) were instead merely driven underground. We are now
in contact with a total of 25 individuals, scattered throughout the
United states, who firmly believe they are being harassed by
agencies of the U.S. Government. Others have been brought to our
attention whom we will be contacting in the future. The majority
of these individuals claim that their harassment and surveillance
began in 1989.

The methods reportedly employed in these harassment campaigns bear
a striking resemblance to those attributed to the CIA and FBI
during Operations MKULTRA, MHCHAOS and COINTELPRO. The only
difference now is that electronic harassment and experimentation
also appear to be (more blatantly) involved.

The Berlin Wall is down, Communism is in the midst of a death
rattle, and the KGB no longer poses the threat which purportedly
served to justify the U.S. Government's resort to such operations
as MKULTRA, MHCHAOS and COINTELPRO. The KGB, since 1989, has been
reduced to an increasingly distant memory.

Reactivation of surveillance/harassment/mind-control operations in
this country suggest that the KGB, as an institution, was never the
real threat. A KGB "mentality," which is underlying pragmatic
contempt for civil liberties, appears, instead, to have been the
driving force behind MKULTRA, MHCHAOS and COINTELPRO, and the
operations now being reported to us.

The KGB "mentality" is a matter of personal predilection, not
ideology. Its objective is power and control, regardless of human
cost. It is a corrupting, cancerous influence, which feeds on
fear, conformity and government funding.

Four months ago, when this Project commenced, we approached these
complaints of government harassment and experimentation with an
admitted "high degree of caution." We are no longer skeptical.
The growing numbers of independent complaints and the similarities
between those complaints cannot be ignored. Under the
circumstances, the KGB should be proud of itself. As a
"mentality," the KGB appears to be accomplishing more in "burying
this country" from within, than it could ever have hoped to have
achieved as an institution. It would appear that this country has
a serious problem on its hands which needs to be resolved.

Part I of this report, which is reprinted from the June-July
edition of the association's publication, Unclassified,
preliminarily addresses the complaints brought to our attention as
of July 1992. Our objective, as noted, was to weigh the legitimacy
of those complaints in terms of the directed-energy technologies
reportedly involved. Part II discusses the overt and covert
patterns of harassment identified as a result of our
investigations, to date. A part of our objective, here, is to
limit the success of such operations in the future, by according
them widespread publicity.

In Part II, we do not identify individuals by name, both to honor
their privacy and because our investigations have not been
completed. Part II, like Part I, is a preliminary finding. Our
focus is on the similarities of the complaints being received --
similarities which Federal and State legislators, the courts, the
FBI, local law enforcement agencies, the medical and psychiatric
professions, and organizations such as the ACLU and Amnesty
International have so far chosen to ignore.

We frankly find it curious that more attention and creditability is
being accorded purported victims of UFO experiences and spectral
visitations, than to persons who complain of systematic harassment
and experimentation by the U.S. Government, involving technologies
which the U.S. Government is only now grudgingly admitting to
possess. These complaints require investigation. In due course
(and provided financial support is obtained), we hope to be able to
acquire the technology and supportive medical expertise to
substantiate the claims being made. We also hope to alter the
institutional mindset that U.S. Intelligence can be trusted.
History, repeatedly, has proven otherwise.

PART 1 - THE PROBLEM SURFACES

[Reprinted from the June-July 1992 edition of UNCLASSIFIED (Vol.
IV, No. 3), published by The Association of National Security
Alumni, Washington, D.C.]

The August-September 1991 issue of UNCLASSIFIED reviewed Hamline
University's "Public Administration" report on the resolution of
MKULTRA cases in 1988. Although the shocking details of medical
ethics abuses by the U.S. and Canadian governments were amply
detailed, Washington and Ottawa -- citing national security and
government privilege -- stalled for so long that cases never came
to trial. the surviving victims settled for a pittance in an out-
of-court settlement.

Since no individuals or agencies were held legally accountable, the
door was left open for possible resumption of similar "mind-
control" activities.

In the context of that article, we mentioned briefly that some
half-dozen people had contacted us with appeals for assistance in
ending what they believe to be electronic harassment and mind-
control experimentation, possibly involving the CIA. We decided to
take a closer look at the situation.

We are now in touch with approximately a dozen individuals
throughout the United States who appear to be targets of harassment
and mind-control experimentation involving directed-energy
technologies. [By mid-November 1992, the number had increased to
25.]

Typically, persons who complain of being "zapped by radio waves"
and of "hearing voices" are stigmatized as psychotic, delusional or
schizophrenic. Being mindful of this, as well as aware of the
treatment accorded UFO and psychic phenomena "freaks," we approach
this subject with a high degree of caution. Based on our
preliminary investigation, including interviews with the affected
individuals, we conclude that the matter is serious and should be
pursued further.

The Existing Directed-Energy Arsenal

Our first step was to determine what, if any technology exists
which might be used for electronic harassment. The information was
found in a "white paper" published in 1991 by the U.S. Global
Strategy Council -- a Washington-based organization, under the
chairmanship of Ray Cline, former Deputy Director of the CIA, who
maintains very close ties with the U.S. Intelligence community.
The "white paper" describes the foreign and domestic uses foreseen
for laser weapons, isotropic radiators, infrasound, non-nuclear
electromagnetic pulse generators, and high-powered microwave
emitters.

The term, "non-lethal," used to describe this technology is
misleading. the energy emitted from all of these weapons can kill
people when appropriately amplified. At lower levels of amplified,
they can cause extreme forms of physical discomfort and
debilitation.

The Department of the Army (DA) identifies these same weapons as
"non-conventional." They were so identified in an exhibit at a DA-
sponsored symposium on "The Soldier As A System," in Crystal City,
VA, on June 30, 1992. Beta wave incapacitators were separately
mentioned during the symposium as being particular interested to
the U.S. Marine Corps.

We discussed these "non-conventional" directed-energy weapons with
Mr. Vernon Shisler, manager of the exhibit and the Army's delegate
to NATO in matters pertaining to "The Soldier As A System." Mr.
Shisler acknowledged not only that directed-energy weapons are in
the Dod's arsenal, but also that the American soldier will remain
vulnerable to their effects, should they be employed in the
battlefield.

The U.S. Global Strategy Council recognizes the issue of
vulnerability, as well, and urges ongoing research into effective
countermeasures.

Interested readers may want to send for the U.S. Global Strategy
Council's complete project proposal on this subject: (Title:
Nonlethality: Development of a National Policy and Employing
Nonlethal Means in a New Strategic Era, prepared by Janet Morris).
A number of references in this Proposal to unidentified, elusive
"enemies" of the U.S. Government and the potential domestic
applications of this "non-lethal" technology invite serious
consideration by the public at large.

The Council's address is 1800 K Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
20006, (202) 466-6029.

BIOEFFECTS OF MICROWAVE RADIATION

Research into biological and psychological effects of exposure to
microwave radiation is voluminous. The U.S. public has been led to
believe that the former Soviet Union leads in this research. The
fact is, the CIA and DoD [Department of Defense] have jointly
pursued precisely the same research since commencement of Project
Pandora in the 1950's. The current primary users of this research
appear to be the CIA, DoD, the National Security Agency (NSA) and
the Department of Energy (DoE).

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) has participated
in this research since Project Pandora. In 1973, WRAIR discovered
that externally-induced auditory input could be achieved by means
of pulsed microwave audiograms, or analogs of spoken words' sounds.
The effect on the receiving end is the (schizophrenic) sensation of
"hearing voices" which are no part of the recipients' own thought
processes.

The experiment prompted the following comment in "The Body
Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life," by Robert
O. Becker, M.D., and Gary Selden (Wm. Morrow & Company, NY, 1985):
"Such a device has obvious applications in covert operations
designed to drive a target crazy with 'voices' or deliver
undetected instructions to a programmed assassin."

This research has continued, and the results are published in
various publicly available scientific and technical journals.
Interested readers might consult, for example: Lin, James C.,
Electromagnetic Interaction With Biological Systems (Plenum Press,
NY, 1989). Professor Lin, then with the Department of
Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, has published a
number of books and articles on this subject. [He has more recently
informed us that he had designed the experiment referred above in
Dr. Becker's book.]

WRAIR has more recently been studying the biological effects of
exposure to high power microwave radiation. WRAIR presented a
paper on this subject to a DoD-sponsored symposium on "MW
[microwave] Weapons" at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,
CA, in mid-1989.

A matter of interest to us is why WRAIR should be experimenting
with auditory effects of pulsed microwave audiograms. Also, recent
statements by an Army psychiatrist assigned to the Walter Reed Army
Medical Center (WRAMC) suggest that WRAIR may be experimenting upon
select psychiatric inpatients with microwaves. This, too, is a
matter to us.

CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT

The Government's past record of abuses in the area of civil rights
is well documented. Within the past 30 years alone, we have
witnessed the effects of Operations MKULTRA, MHCHAOS and
COINTELPRO.

Primarily because of MKULTRA, MHCHAOS and COINTELPRO, Executive
Orders and implementing regulations were published which prohibited
military and CIA domestic covert intelligence operations.
Experiments on involuntary human subjects, and the surveillance
of/collection of personal information on U.S. citizens, except
under strictly regulated conditions were also prohibited.

Congressional committees were created to oversee compliance with
these (quasi-) legal prohibitions. We have evidence that this is
not being done. Moreover, where there are laws and, in this case,
no laws enacted, there are loopholes, as well as individual and
institutions who deliberately capitalize upon the existence of
loopholes. Iran-Contra is one of the more blatant recent examples.
Loopholes are also found in government resort to "black"
intelligence and weapons programs, in the use of contractors, and in
the absence of clear definitions of such terms as "national
security" and "national security risk."

Executive Orders and regulations which currently limit U.S.
Intelligence activities do not extend to non-intelligence
government agencies or to their contractors. If fact, Executive
Order 12333 specifies that government contractors do not need to
know that their services support U.S. Intelligence objectives.

In its report of July 8, 1992, the Senate Subcommittee on Oversight
of Government Management addresses the problem of tracking funds
granted to government-contracted research and development (R&D)
centers. The report notes that the problem is compounded by DoD's
penchant for creating hard-to-monitor "shell" contractors as
disbursement centers for funding programs.

Neither shell contractors nor their subcontractors are directly
accountable to Congress. Being beyond Congressional oversight,
they have the license to operate as Government surrogates in
intelligence operations about which, "officially" they know
nothing.

In this context, a publication disseminated at DA's "The Soldier As
A System" symposium noted that the Army's Research and Technology
Program sponsors 42 laboratories and R & D centers, employing
approximately 10,000 scientists and engineers. The annual budget
of $1.3 billion is only a small part of overall DoD research
spending.

Weapons research, which includes the development and testing of
"non-lethal" weapons, is not governed by laws restricting the
activities of U.S. Intelligence agencies, though it may be presumed
that these agencies contribute to and benefit from such research.

PRELIMINARY FINDINGS

1. The technology exists for the types of harassment and
experimentation reported to us.

2. About a dozen U.S. citizens have informed us of continuing
experiments with effects which directed-energy weapons are
designed to produce.

3. U.S. Government-sponsored research into the bioeffects of
exposure to microwave radiation is extensive and
continuing.

4. The U.S. Government has a past record of having engaged in
mind-control experimentation; and various agencies of the
Government have a record of circumventing legal
restrictions upon their activities.

5. Neither Congress nor the courts appear willing to look
closely into "black" intelligence and weapons procurement
programs.

6. A number of U.S. Government agencies might have interest
in testing directed-energy technologies on U.S. citizens
under non-clinical/non-controlled circumstances -- DoD, to
test ranges and degrees of "non-lethality"; DoE, to
explore "safety" limits; CIA, to test "mind-control"
capabilities, and NSA, for technological refinement.

PART II -- OVERT AND COVERT HARASSMENT

Since publication of the preceding article less than four months
ago, the association of National Security Alumni/Electronic
Surveillance Project has heard from an additional 13 individuals
who report both overt harassment and a range of symptoms which
coincide with the known effects of exposure to microwaves,
electromagnetic/radio frequency (RF) radiation and/or infrasound.

The similarity of these symptoms will be addressed in greater
detail in future Project reports. Suffice it to say, at this point,
that the physical and psychological symptoms being reported to us
are consistent with the effects which directed-energy weapons are
designed to produce. Indeed, the numerous afflictions (or
"inflictions") being reported appear to parallel standard torture
"sequelae,"(1) (aftereffects).

OVERT HARASSMENT

Overt Harassment -- which obviously is meant to be observed -- may
be intended to "precondition" individuals for eventual long-term
electronic harassment. Persons terrified by unexplained overt
harassment are not likely to cope with the sudden onset of
electronic harassment in any more reasoned fashion. This phased
pattern of harassment is apparent in all of the cases now being
investigated. The fact that the overt harassment continues in
these cases even after the electronic targeting commences suggest
that the objective is to maintain long-term extremes of stress.

Many of the overt harassment tactics discussed below are surfacing
in cases which (so far) have not involved discernible forms of
electronic harassment. These are cases involving so-called
"whistleblowers" who, because of their inside knowledge of certain
potentially newsworthy events, pose particular threats of
embarrassment to the Government or to government-affiliated
employers. We have noticed that electronic harassment is beginning
to surface as a form of retaliation against persons who try to
assist electronic "harassees." Retaliation suggest loss of
control. Under these circumstances, we are not entirely confident
that "whistleblowers" will continue to be exempted from this type
of harassment in the long term.

The individuals now in touch with the Project describe their
circumstances as involving most, if not all, of the following overt
forms of harassment:

* Sudden, bizarrely-rude treatment, isolation and acts of
harassment and vandalism by formerly friendly neighbors.

* Harassing telephone calls, which continue even after the
targeted individual obtains new, unlisted telephone
numbers.

* Mail interception, theft and tampering.

* Noise campaigns.

While unrelenting harassing telephone calls might be considered in
this context, other tactics are employed. Blaring horns, whistles,
sirens, garbage disposal (run concurrently in apartment settings,
for excessively prolonged periods of time), and amplified
transmissions of recorded "general racket" have been used on a
recurrent basis under circumstances intended to persuade the
individual that he or she is under surveillance.

In all of these cases, the individuals' neighbors apparently
pretend to be oblivious and/or indifferent to these sudden,
continuous explosions of noise.

Door slamming is also a popular pastime, particularly in apartment
buildings. One individual reported that, during a peak period of
harassment, the neighbor across the hall began entering and leaving
his apartment every 10 minutes, slamming his door loudly on each
occasion. This was a daily occurrence, encompassing periods of
several hours, over a period of several months. It is apparently
served to trigger a door-slamming "chain reaction" on the part of
neighbors both on that floor and on the floors immediately above
and below. When our contact politely asked her immediate neighbor
to close her door more quietly, he slammed the door in her face.
Prior to commencement of this harassment, the neighbor had
apparently been quite friendly and courteous.

In another case, the primary door-slammer is an employee of Radix
Systems, Inc., Rockville, MD, a DoD contractor engaged in the
"super-secret" research and development of some type of electronic
equipment.

Several individuals reported recurrent, loud, strange noises in
their ventilation systems during the preliminary stages of their
harassment. One individual complained of being recurrently
awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of wires being fed
into his (independent) ventilation system. On checking further, he
found that a tubular construction had been built into his vent
system which appears to lead to the apartment upstairs. His
upstairs neighbor is employed by the Department of Justice.

A number of individuals report that occupants of upstairs and
downstairs apartments appear to follow them from room to room,
tapping on the floor or engaging in other activities which appear
intended to advertise an ongoing surveillance.

The Justice Department employee mentioned above went as far as to
offer an unsolicited apology to her downstairs neighbor for an all-
night "pacing about" in her bedroom (in the event he had happened
to notice it). She claimed to be an insomniac. The pacing-about
continued during her recent 36-hour absence from the area. When
her contact politely alerted her to the fact that her apartment had
apparently been entered during her absence, she told him, in
effect, to mind his own business and then immediately complained to
the building manager that he was stalking her.

She conveniently forgot to inform the building manager that she had
assiduously "courted" this individual for several months, without
success; and that she had been stealing his newspapers on a regular
basis. (On one occasion, she handed him a week's accumulation of
those papers, claiming that they had been left outside the door of
another apartment. Her reason for collecting and saving the
newspapers which had not been delivered to her directly is
unknown.)

* Recurrent confrontations by unusually hostile strangers;
and comments by strangers which appear intended to evoke
"paranoid" reactions.

In this context, we note that several individuals have reported
confrontations with "homeless" people who, on closer examination,
were found to be fastidiously clean, though garbed in offbeat
fashion (wigs included). The same "eccentric" confronted two of
the individuals in contact with us, at separate distant locations.
He is reported as having feigned mental illness on both occasions,
and as having apparently enjoyed creating a public scene.

* Entries into the individual's residence, during late-night
hours while he/she is sleeping, and/or during the day when
the individual is elsewhere.

In virtually all such cases, the burglars leave evidence of their
visits, such as relocating objects, or by committing petty and not-
so=petty acts of vandalism. In two cases, the burglar's "calling
card" was to slaughter caged pets, leaving the mangled carcasses
inside their locked cages.

In one case, the burglar stole several pieces of correspondence and
left a packet of crack cocaine behind as a "calling card." Our
contact in this case -- an individual who has no criminal record
and no history of experimentation with drugs -- is also being
harassed (stalked) by a police officer of her community. One of
his recent acts was to "frame" her with a drug possession charge.
After pulling her off the road (a frequent pastime) and subjecting
her to an illegal search (done, twice, so far), he conveniently
managed to find a glassine packet of cocaine eight feet away, in
front of his squad car. He retrieved the packet with his fingers
and then charged her with Possession. Our contact found the packet
of crack cocaine in her apartment shortly after this investigator
reminded the attorney handling her case that the police officer had
smudged his only piece of evidence with his own fingerprints. It
would appear that someone is interested in correcting that police
officer's oversight.

In another case, the individual reports that a tremendous amount of
money has been stolen from a hiding place in her apartment, within
hours after she had withdrawn the money from her bank. There was
no obvious signs of entry into her apartment. The police conducted
a cursory inquiry which failed to produce evidence of a crime
worthy of investigation. (This case is an anomaly. Money is
usually not stolen. Documents appear to be the preferred objects
of theft, when theft occur.)

In another case, the burglars replaced installed lightbulbs with
"exploding" bulbs, many of which were 'Made in Hungary.' The
lightbulbs are now in our possession.

* Rapidly deteriorating health, generally of a digestive
nature.

In two cases of the cases reported, massive rectal bleeding
accompanied the sudden onset of sever gastrointestinal
disturbances. One of these individuals abruptly terminated the
deteriorative process simply by changing the locks on her door.

* Sleep disruption/deprivation

This is achieved by means of overt and electronic harassment.
Sleep deprivation, as a tactic, invariably surfaces when the
targeted individual begins exhibiting a strong emotional and
irrational response to the other forms of harassment.

* Vandalism of privately-owned vehicles

Vehicles invite peculiarly ferocious attacks in these harassment
campaigns -- slashed tires, smashed windows, oil drainage, oil
contamination, destruction of electronic components and batteries
(frequently involving wildly fluctuating, grounded fuel gages,
often within range of weapons research facilities and/or other
microwave emitters); and suddenly failed brakes and clutches
(possible involving anti-traction polymers, which are also in DoD's
"non-lethal" weapons arsenal). Recurrent auto thefts have also
been reported.

Two individuals reported finding their oil contaminated immediately
after having the oil changed by reputable mechanics. In one of
these cases, the oil viscosified (thickened) while the individual
was driving through a remote rural area. Her car ground to a halt.
Getting the "gunk" cleaned out of her engine proved to be an
expensive ordeal. (Viscosification agents are also lauded by the
U.S. Global Strategy Council as serving "non-lethal" strategic
purposes -- a topic discussed in Part I of this publication. Had
this woman been assaulted while awaiting help in the said isolated
area, the "non-lethal" attributes of viscosfication agents might
have required redefinition.)

Most of those who have experienced these attacks on a recurring
basis have abandoned driving all together -- an objective
apparently sought by their tormentors as a means of increasing
their isolation.

* Staged accidents.

The majority of those in touch with us have reported these types of
experiences. One individual, for example, was tailgated at a high
rate of speed by two vehicles, while concurrently being threatened
with a gun by one of the vehicles' occupants. Two others narrowly
avoided what happened to be deliberately attempted collisions by
drivers who quickly sped away from the scene. One avoided three
attempts in four days at being run off the road. One survived by
being run off the road in two incidents within a one-week period,
which resulted in "totaling" of her two vehicles. Another narrowly
avoided being crushed into an expressway retaining wall, on four
occasions, by an off-duty metro bus, as well as, within the same
time frame, being "fried" by two suddenly-malfunctioned household
appliances which subsequently repaired themselves. It should be
noted that, in some of these cases, "accidental" deaths do occur.
One individual in contact with us reported that his mother drove
off a cliff to her death, during a period when he was researching
evidence that a still-respected, high level State Department
official had passed A-bomb secrets to the Soviet Government during
World War II. The accident occurred shortly after her car had
undergone routine maintenance. She was returning from a dental
appointment when the accident occurred. Witnesses state that it
appeared that she had suddenly stepped on the accelerator before
running off the road. The accident served to terminate this
person's research project.

We also look into the recent death of a woman in Lexington, MO, who
was killed when the brakes on her tractor failed. We are informed
that she had been collecting affidavits from persons who believe
they are the targets of government harassment and experimentation
when her "accident" occurred. We are also informed that these
affidavits have disappeared.

Suicides might also qualify as "staged accidents,"particularly
where "plausibly deniable" government involvement has been
surfaced. We are currently looking into the recent suicide of a
man in Trappe, PA, who, as early as 1981, had asked the FBI and CIA
to intervene in his case. We have copies of that early
correspondence. The man, a former U.S. Army radar technician, had
a highly technical and -- given date of his correspondence --
"precocious" grasp of the experimental objectives apparently being
sought in his case. It is apparent from his correspondence that he
had wanted to believe that the Soviets were conducting these
experiments. The FBI and CIA, of course, did not intervene. We
are informed that members of his family have also been targets of
this experimentation.

* Isolation of the individual from members of his/her family
-- virtually assured when highly focused forms of
electronic harassment commence.

The exception to this is when elderly parents and young children in
the family become targets for apparent purposes of intimidation.
This situation has been reported in eight of our cases, to date.

One individual (driven to extremes of stress by ongoing electronic
harassment focusing on her children) killed one child in an effort
to protect her from further pain.(2) It appears that lasers were
being used in this individual's case. The targeting intensified
after she called the Soviet Embassy to report the harassment, which
she believed to be U.S. Government-sponsored. It became even more
deadly when, in a further show of defiance, she then called the
representative of the Iraqi Government to portray the U.S.
Government's war in the Middle East as "hypocritical." She is now
hospitalized in a midwestern facility, where, apparently, the
experimentation is now continuing.

(That psychiatric facility is in a State where a disproportionate
number of complaints of electronic harassment are beginning to
surface. It is also within range of a U.S. Air Force base which
houses a "super secret" research facility. We are currently
looking into information that spouses and children of persons
employed on that USAF base may be the targets of involuntary
experimentation involving direct-energy weapons technologies.)

Another individual, during a telephone conversation, was told by an
employee of a local power company that, if she valued the lives of
her children, she would drop her public opposition to the company's
installation of high power lines. Since receiving that threat, the
individual's 11-year-old daughter has been reduced to extremes of
pain, resulting in her recurrent hospitalization for treatment of
illnesses which cannot be diagnosed. It is also apparent to this
individual that her three-year-old son is on the receiving end of
externally-induced auditory input. (DoE figures prominently in
this case.)

* Progressive financial impoverishment, brought on by
termination of the individual's employment, and compounded
by expenses associated with the harassment.

The majority of those now in contact with the Project -- educated,
white-collar professionals -- have lost their jobs. Termination of
employment in many of these cases involved prefatory harassment by
the employer and co-workers, which coincided with the other overt
forms of harassment discussed above.

The overt harassment tactics are being described as recurrent, non-
sequential and overlapping. As noted above, the overt harassment
continues even after the electronic harassment commences.

FAILURE OF "ESTABLISHMENT" SUPPORT SYSTEMS

Those individuals who have tried to resolve their respective
situations through resort to "establishment" channels have
invariably encountered the following:

* Apathy, indifference and/or professed helplessness on the
part of members of Congress and state legislators.

* Dismissal and/or attempted discrediting by psychiatrists
who refuse to include the terms, "government harassment,"
"mind-control experimentation" and "torture" in their
vocabulary.

Several individuals, thinking the psychiatrists might help to
alleviate the extreme stress associated with their harassment, and
accorded "treatment" which clearly pointed to corporation between
their psychiatrists and members of the U.S. Intelligence community.
One such psychiatrist, in fact, bragged about being a member of the
U.S. Intelligence "inner circle," informing our contact that her
harassment was a "Pavlovian Experiment," intended to "break" her.

* Lack of interest, courage and/or competency in legal
circles.

Few of those in contact with us have been able to acquire legal
assistance -- not helped by their straitened financial
circumstances. Most have found that few attorneys are willing to
risk their careers by pursuing cases involving what is believed to
be government-sponsored harassment or experimentation.

A few attorneys reportedly engaged in egregious violations of codes
of professional conduct, in what appear to have been deliberate
efforts at sabotaging our contacts' cases. Subsequent attempts by
two individuals at obtaining legal redress were met with
stonewalling, obstruction, and high-level denials of wrongdoing.

* Refusal of the mass media to address this topic, except in
those cases where suspected experimentees have been driven
to committing murder or suicide.

Such cases (particularly where an individual has claimed to be a
victim of CIA-directed mind-control involving auditory input) are
treated by the press as "curiosities." Am example of this is the
individual who shot a Navy officer outside the Pentagon in mid-
1991.(3) He claimed to be a victim of CIA mind control, involving
auditory input. According to the press, "he worried 'about being
run over by trains'..." (ref. incident described in following
paragraph). He is now permanently residing in a psychiatric
facility. He, being institutionalized, and others in the
preliminary stages of his predicament are no longer of interest to
the media.

Another recent case which received short-lived press attention(4)
involved a woman diagnosed as having "suffered from periods of
confusion" who climbed over a fence onto a railroad track and
walked into an oncoming train. Because the incident occurred in a
community in which an unusually large number of mind-control
experiments have been reported, we are looking into the situation.
The woman was reportedly "under a physician's care" because of her
"periods of confusion." A family member described the physician to
this investigator as "a psychiatrist." We find that the alleged
"psychiatrist" is a General Practitioner, otherwise non-accredited,
practicing out of his home. We find also that the suicide may have
been witnessed under peculiarly-timed circumstances by an alleged
"homeless" person who has since disappeared. Needless to say, our
interest has been whetted.

* Refusal and/or inability of local police to intervene.

The tendency of local police is to dismiss an individual's
complaints of government harassment as the ravings of a
"fruitcake." In one case, discussed above, it is apparent that one
police officer is actively cooperating in the harassment. Some
police agencies, while acknowledging the reality of the situation,
hesitate to intervene in cases involving what they believe to be
U.S. Intelligence. On a few occasions, certain police officials
did attempt to intervene, based on what they perceived to be
evidence of a systematic harassment/illegal surveillance campaign.
Absent a clear mandate to prosecute "stalkers" acting under the
aegis of U.S. Intelligence, the police obviously had their hands
tied.

* Refusal of the FBI to intervene in any of the cases brought
to our attention thus far.

FBI spokesmen do acknowledge that they have received a large number
of requests for assistance from "mentally disturbed persons" who
believe that they are being "zapped by radio waves" and/or "are
hearing voices..." "from Mars, that is."

In one case, an FBI spokesman reacted in a angry, defensive and
bizarre fashion when our contact briefly alluded to PROJECT SLAMMER
as possibly being related to her surveillance. (PROJECT SLAMMER is
a CIA-funded study, managed by CIA and FBI behavioral scientist,
which explores the "mental make-up" of alleged security risks,
along with their family members and close associates. Participants
in PROJECT SLAMMER include NSA, DIA, and Army, Navy and Air Force
Intelligence.)

Until PROJECT SLAMMER was mentioned, the FBI spokesman's approach
in this case was to politely and redundantly explain that the law,
as currently constructed, prevents the FBI's intervening in this
individual's case. What she briefly pointed out that the
surveillance activities might fall under the purview of PROJECT
SLAMMER, the spokesman's response was to abruptly and angrily
declaim, "You don't know who is conducting that surveillance! You
don't know if that is a state police surveillance!...or a local
police surveillance! It could be a totally unrelated operation!
You don't know who is conducting that surveillance! [etc., etc.]!"

It was apparent from that response that the FBI was at least
acknowledging the existence of a surveillance, if in somewhat
emotional fashion. The individual in question subsequently
furnished acquired evidence to the local police, who made it clear
that they are no participants in the surveillance which, based on
the evidence, pointedly suggest that our contact is the target.

* Refusal of inability of the ACLU and Amnesty International
to intervene.

Both organizations acknowledge receiving many complaints from
persons claiming to be the targets of some type of electronic
harassment. An ACLU spokes-woman characterized the complaints as
appearing to be rational, except in a few cases. The complaints
are not being investigated, she said, because of "limited
resources." We have to wonder, of course, why the ACLU could
recently find resources to defend the rights of prostitutes and the
Ku Klux Klan, yet remains incapable of intervening in cases such as
we are now pursuing.

Amnesty International recently informed one of our contacts that
they could not intervene in her case because their focus is on the
U.S. Government's treatment of prison inmates. While incarceration
does appear to be one sought-for objective in this harassment/mind
control experiments, we would like to think that protection by such
organizations as Amnesty International can be achieved beforehand.

RELATED COVERT METHODOLOGIES

The persons engaged in this harassment tend to become careless,
possibly the result of arrogance born of an assumption that nobody
can stop them. "Harassees" who have noted this carelessness have
furnished us with the following insights into the covert side of
these harassment activities.

* Impersonation of military officers.

One individual found that her next-door neighbor had claimed to be
a military intelligence officer, assigned to a space technology
unit in California, on year-long "TDY" (temporary duty) in the
individual's apartment building. It is subsequently determined
that this alleged officer is not in fact a member of the U.S. Armed
Forces; and that he had used this bogus status to acquire
information from a major defense contractor. Our contact is
certain that this person's apartment was used as a base of
harassment operations.

* Use of concealment devices, and emitters detected to date.

Several individuals and supportive associates report having seen
some of the electronic devices being used in these harassment
campaigns.

One saw electronic equipment concealed inside a false-front upright
piano being moved out of her apartment building. She had
previously noted that all of her surrounding neighbors had
identical upright pianos in their apartments, not one of which was
ever played.

Other suspected participants in the harassment may be concealing
devices in oversized stereo speakers, measuring approximately 5' in
height x 3'x3'. Several of our contacts have noted the presence of
such speakers in adjacent dwellings.

One individual was told by a resident of her building that her
upstairs neighbor has "microwave ovens" in his bedroom and
livingroom, but none in the kitchen.

Another individual, while standing outside, looked in her
neighbor's window to find that her bedroom appeared to be the
target of a gray-colored, elongated box-like device, measuring
approximately 1' in length x 5" in height (side view). A large,
black-framed lens protruded from the end facing her window. The
electrical cord, if any, was not visible from that vantage point.
The equipment was being operated by a stranger in a three-piece
suit, who appeared to be quite startled to find that he was being
observed.

Another was given strong reason to believe that portable emitters
are being concealed in oversized, extremely heavy, sometimes
expandable "briefcases" for use in places of public assembly, such
as meeting halls, auditoriums and restaurants. Smaller varieties
are apparently being used on aircraft.

On a 3-hour flight, our contact noticed that the man sitting next
to her seemed peculiarly intent on keeping the attache case on his
lap propped open with his fingertips, while he gazed "blankly" into
the distance during the entire flight. She believed that she was
being electronically harassed while on a flight (a common
complaint, in most of these cases now being investigated).

Our contact reports that, when they prepared to land, the man
opened his attache case to hastily check his contents, thus
disclosing the presence of a raised, built-in "concealment device"
covering the entire bottom surface of the attache case. The low-
slung, lift-off cover did not appear to be capable of concealing a
laptop computer. At one point during the flight -- apparently
aware that his "reverie" was inviting attention, -- the man devoted
approximately ten minutes to scribbling assorted entries on a sheet
of lined paper, which he had placed on top of the briefcase two
hours previously. He devoted roughly ten minutes to the effort
(obviously preferring a pen to a laptop computer). His attache
case remained ajar during this process.(5)

One individual reports that mobile emitters may be installed in
certain oversized, non-attributed medical emergency vehicles,
possibly for the eventual use in civil disturbances. Her
unsuccessful attempts at following the "medical emergency" vehicle
which had surfaced in her case ended with a high-speed chase.

The phony military intelligence officer, when recently moving out
of our contact's apartment building, was found to possess a device
which resembles an oversized microwave oven, measuring
approximately 4' in width x 2' in height x 2 1/2' in depth. A
subsequent examination of his apartment revealed that he had tapped
numerous additional lines into existing, in-house telephone and TV
cables; and that he had gone to great pains to conceal a major
excavation into one wall abutting the "harassee's." Judging from
photographs taken immediately after this person's departure, the
wiring suggests that he was hooked by modem into a computer
network, and at least of some of his electronic equipment was
situated in a large walk-in closet, again abutting the
"harassee's."

When the alleged officer moved out, his equipment (except for the
oversized "microwave oven") was packaged in boxes identifying the
contents only as stereo components. During his year-long residency
in this building, no sounds emanated from his apartment to indicate
use of this "stereo" equipment.

* Use of modified license plates and vehicle look-alikes.

Some individuals have noted that their neighbors' vehicles are
periodically replaced (during peak periods of harassment) by others
which qualify as "rough look-alikes." These tags on the latter
closely resemble those on the homeowners' vehicles, with a
difference being noted in only one digit or one letter. These
modified plates appear to have been acquired through State DMV
channels, thus suggesting government/intelligence agency
involvement.

In one case, where the individual has obtained police assistance,
tracking of one plate surfaced evidence of a drug connection. The
plate rapidly disappeared from the vehicle in question, to be
replaced by another, again bearing a one-letter modification.

* Use of neighbors' residences as bases of operation and
training.

One individual recently saw a team of "technicians" in the house
behind hers -- a consequence of the team's failure to close the
curtains and/or dim the lights when puttering around the kitchen at
5:00 in the morning. The three men (strangers to this individual,
all stripped down to their T-shirts) behaved as if they were
unaware that they were being watched. Their observer had long
suspected that this house was being used as a base of electronic
harassment operations. The harassment had been going on throughout
the night.

To provoke a response from these men, the individual eventually
commented aloud on their activities. They responded immediately by
turning the lights off and switching to the use of flashlights.
Why they failed to close the curtain is unknown.

This individual is working with the police in a effort at ending
this surveillance and harassment, with mixed results.

***

Another individual, paying a surprise visit to the apartment
upstairs, overheard one of her own telephone conversations being
played on a tape recorder inside that apartment. Lacking both a
legitimate pretext to enter the apartment and the support of the
building's management personnel and/or the police, she was
prevented from pursuing this further. Her upstairs neighbor is
purportedly employed by Stanford University Hospital, in Stanford,
CA.

The target of surveillance and harassment in this case is still
also trying to recover from the effects of exposure to potentially
lethal doses of radiation, administered in the 1970's by a
dangerously "incompetent" dentist. This might explain the
involvement of alleged Stanford University Hospital personnel in
her situation.

The government is on record as having experimented on unwitting
U.S. citizens with radioactive materials during the 1970's (and
earlier).(6) The House Subcommittee on Energy and Commerce based
their investigation into this matter on a 30-year accumulation of
documents maintained by the Department of Energy. Under the
circumstances, it will come as no surprise if it is ultimately
found that DoE has been involved in this woman's surveillance and
harassment.

***

Another individual paid a surprise visit to the apartment
immediately below hers, in the attempt to identify the source of
tremendous racket in her ventilation system. Standing outside the
door, she could hear an individual moving around, a short distance
from the door. She also heard the sound of rustling paper and the
steady, sonar-like "pinging" of some type of electronic device. In
response to her repeated knockings on the door, the person inside
simply stopped moving about. The sound of rustling paper (perhaps
a printout of some type) and the steady "...pin-ng!...pin-ng!"
sound continued. The occupant of this apartment resumed moving
about only after it was (incorrectly) believed that our contact had
departed the area. Typically, this situation could not be pursued
further.

***

All of those who live in apartment buildings report unusual
patterns of occupancy in the apartments surrounding their own;
i.e., upstairs, downstairs and on all sides. They have become
quite convinced -- if only because of the highly focused nature of
the systems being experienced -- that these surrounding apartments
are being used as bases of operation. Perhaps this encirclement
facilities studies of holographic human telemetries; or perhaps it
is intended to increase the prospect of brain entrainment by
electronic means ("entrainment" being one published objective
sought in mind control experiments).(7)

In examining this situation more closely, a number of individuals
have found that surrounding apartments are either permanently
vacant, for unknown reasons, or that they have been "sub-let" by
the original occupants to persons who are purportedly unknown to
the buildings' management personnel. In one case, the surrounding
renters all list two residences in the local telephone book. No
one lives in the apartment building in question, though the address
is identified as one of the renters' places of residence. One
individual suspects that the original occupants of apartments
surrounding hers have been simply relocated to other apartments in
the same (large) building. Another suspects that an adjacent
apartment, which has been permanently rented to the U.S. Government
for use by "visitors" is also being used as a base of operations.

One individual found that an immediate neighbor's housemate has the
same (unusual) name of a university professor who has engaged in
extensive research on behalf of the government, studying the
bioeffects of exposure to microwave radiation.

* Use of informants/agents provocateurs, frequently members
of the opposite sex.

As noted in the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Interior
and Insular Affair's draft report, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
Covert Operation (July 1992), the Wackenhut Corporation's Special
Investigations Division adopted this tactic when pursuing Alyeska's
critics.

A number of individuals in touch with us report a range of
experiences with new "friends" who -- apparently posing as
confidants -- used acquired personalia to abruptly end these
"friendships" under deliberately degrading and humiliating
circumstances. When taken in the context of ongoing surveillance
and harassment, these exercises appear intended to heighten
emotional trauma, perhaps to provoke an uncontrolled response
and/or to enforce isolation.

* Misuse of covert intelligence personnel (possible former
case officers).

One individual while under contract to the U.S. Government,
properly reported what he believed to be an approach by a hostile
intelligence service. Within a few weeks, alleged U.S.
Intelligence officers contacted this individual. In addition to
questioning him about his background, these alleged intelligence
officers asked that he keep in constant contact with them,
particularly when planning to travel.

It soon became apparent that the alleged intelligence officers were
intent only on forcing this individual to report to them as
directed, and to account for his activities. He was not asked to
assist the U.S. Government in any form of intelligence operation;
he was not asked to execute any form of secrecy affirmation
statement acknowledging the classified nature of these meetings;
nor was he told why these meetings -- involving a total of seven
alleged case officers -- were necessary.

When he began to balk at a continuation of this process, one of his
"handlers" conveyed a threat, suggesting that his continued
compliance might be "enforced." Finally, when this individual
adamantly refused to corporate further, massive overt harassment
commenced and is currently ongoing.

The operation (clearly intended to bully this individual into
submissive compliance for purposes which are still unknown)
involved crude tactics formerly prized by the KGB.

Whether or not legitimate U.S. Intelligence case officers were
involved in this activity remains to be determined. Some private
firms retain former U.S. Intelligence case officers for contracting
out as "security specialist." The founder and CEO of one such firm
(Gerald P. Burke, The Parvus Company, Silver Spring, MD) has
informed us that the activities of contract case officers are
neither monitored nor subjected to formal restraint.

* Use of psychotropic drugs by cooperative physicians.

Shortly after resigning from the CIA, one of our contacts underwent
a range of experiences which suggested that she had been massively
drugged. One of the alleged perpetrators, whom we have met,
alternately claims to be employed by NASA and/or by a firm in
Miami, handling, "microwave equipment." NASA has no record of this
person under the name furnished.

The "experimentee" ultimately sought the assistance of a
psychiatrist, whom her parents had located as a referral. The
psychiatrist treated her reported "flashbacks" by immediately
placing her on a regimen of Stelazine, which quickly aggravated her
condition. He also made comments to this individual which
suggested that he had a foreknowledge of her situation, and that he
was cooperating with U.S. Intelligence. On one occasion the
psychiatrist intimated that our contact might be employable as an
assassin; and he repeatedly urged her to move to Great Britain
where, he said, she would be put in touch with an unidentified
Member of Parliament.

Interestingly, he had a tremendous computer system in his office
suite, which he explained as being connected by modem into a
national level system which, in turn, connected to private
residences. When showing her this equipment, the psychiatrist
informed our contact that she had been "CAT scanned," pointing out
that she was the subject of a vast series of "A's" and "B's" being
printed out by one of the many terminals at his disposal.

Our contact also found out that this psychiatrist kept a military
uniform in his closet which bore the rank and insignia of a three-
star general.

The individual ultimately sought psychiatric support elsewhere.
Her new psychiatrist, formerly employed by DoD, immediately put her
on a regimen of Haladol Decanoate, Klonopin and Benzatropine. The
combined effect of these drugs was loss of memory and a state of
mind which, under other circumstances, might be diagnosed as
Depersonalization or Dissociative Disorder. All three drugs proved
to be highly addictive. Our contact, since severing contact which
this psychiatrist as well, has finally successfully overcome the
addiction.

***

Another individual -- the one whose psychiatrist had informed her
of her role in a "Pavlovian Experiment" -- was subjected to
attempted drugging by Trazodone, one of the strongest sedatives on
the market. The psychiatrist in question kept no record of the
individual's outpatient visits, nor of her Trazodone prescriptions.
Being unaware that the individual was not adhering to his regimen,
the psychiatrist urged her rapidly to increase her dosage, renewing
her 30-day prescription after a period of only 11 days.

Though aware of her heart condition, he failed to monitor her
condition, dismissing her complaints of (electronically-induced)
pains in her heart as inconsequential. Trazodone is know to
aggravate heart conditions. Perhaps the intent was to have this
individual succumb to a "heart attack" as the result of "imagined"
government harassment. Neither the appropriate psychiatric society
nor the FBI would touch this case.

***

Another individual (a clear target of retaliation) sought medical
assistance to counter sudden massive headaches and recurrent
attacks of vomiting -- effects which can be produced by infrasound.
The physician to whom she was referred (an alleged specialist in
Internal Medicine) placed her on a combination of Compazine and
Xanax, prescribing dosages which the Physicians' Desk Reference
warns against.

Compazine, in addition to being an anti-emetic, is used in the
treatment of psychotic disorders. It can also cause dyskinesia, an
irreversible syndrome involving loss of motor control. Xanax is
known to induce vomiting. Both drugs can lead to dependance and a
worsening of the patient's condition. The effects of all such
drugs, in fact, can be mutated in high-energy fields, thus
increasing the likelihood of adverse reactions.

We have recently found that this prescribing "physician" is not
licensed to practice medicine in the State of which she has been
practicing since at least 1989.

Our contact, being concerned about the long-term effects of Xanax
and Compazine, consulted another physician in the same office. The
physician immediately prescribed Prozac, failing to concurrently
recommend that her patient discontinue the Xanax and Compazine
prescriptions. When our contact refused to take any psychotropic
drugs, the doctor became upset and asked, "Don't you want to get
well?"

This second physician is a licensed practitioner in Internal
Medicine, with no background in Psychiatry. We also found that she
apparently refers her patients to yet a third physician in the
office who claims to be a psychiatrist. She, too, is licensed to
practice Internal Medicine, only. Her receptionist described this
third physician as having a psychiatric "sub-specialty," ... "as an
internist." The receptionist also informed us that this internist
"is treating a number of psychiatric patients."

On pursuing this further, we find that these physicians are in a
small "medicine group" which is not listed by specialty in standard
regional telephone directories. The group bears the same name as
one of the CIA's most infamous recruited physicians (perhaps best
described as "the Mengele of MKULTRA").

The doctor's offices are located in a bank building, which, we have
found, is a favored hiding place for security-oriented business and
government agencies. Two computer firms, co-located with an
attorney who represents "Island Resort Development, Ltd.," are
situated immediately beneath the doctors' offices. The prospect of
finding island resort developments within 500 miles of this
attorney's office is limited.

Our contact, being apprised of these findings, is seeking medical
help elsewhere.

***

In two of our cases, urologist took it upon themselves to play the
role of "psychiatrist"; i.e., they rendered psychiatric diagnoses
and prescribed psychotropic drugs. One of these urologist,
employed by The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, prescribed Haldol,
informing our contact that he perceived her to be "psychotic." His
efforts at getting a Clinic psychiatrist to confirm this diagnosis
were unsuccessful. The psychiatrist, apparently a rare individual
who subscribes to codes of medical ethics, found nothing wrong with
this woman, even given the nature of her complaints. The
urologist's response to this was to issue his own Haldol
prescription. Sensing that something was amiss, the woman refused
to have the prescription filled.

***

Yet another individual ended up in the hands of a psychiatrist who,
as a purported means of ending the stress associated with her
harassment, offered to put her under hypnosis. She described the
hypnotic state as "equivalent to floating" and (based on her
overall experiences with this physician) has not ruled out the
possibility that drugs may have been surreptitiously administered.
The psychiatrist claimed to be interested in psychic phenomena and
demonstrated an apparently remarkable ability to read the
individual's mind.

While in her "hypnotic state, the individual felt like a sharp,
painful pressure inside her nose, as if something were being shoved
up her nostrils to the sinus cavities. She awoke to find blood
pouring from her nostrils. The psychiatrist casually dismissed
this as owing to a probable cold.

Shortly after the experience, the individual began to hear loud
tones in her head, followed in due coarse by auditory input. Brain
scans have failed to yield evidence of an implant device. (We have
recommended that she undergo a scan by means of a suitably adapted
non-linear junction detector, as a preliminary.) Suffice to say,
this individual has severed contact with the psychiatrist and is
continuing to cope with the ongoing overt electronic harassment by
other non-medical means.

* Use of medical implant devices.

The situation just described is not our first encounter with the
apparent use of medical implant devices in these harassment/mind-
control cases. Another of our contacts began receiving auditory
input roughly 15 years after she had a 4 mm. cochlear implants
placed in her ears. The "voices" claimed to be affiliated with the
CIA and, among other things, expressed intentions of running this
woman as an agent in denied areas by "piggybacking" their audio
transmissions onto standard FM frequencies to avoid detection.

We have been unable to locate the surgeon who implanted these
devices, though we do have a copy of his operative reports. A
recent CAT scan of this individual failed to disclose the presence
of the cochlear implants.

Several years ago, the individual (now a psychologist) applied for
a position with the CIA. She was interviewed by four Langley-
based, purported psychologist, who allegedly informed her that her
job would involve the assessments of certain criminals for purposes
of weighing their purposes for loyalty to this agency.

During these interviews, she was told to read several books by such
persons as Philip Agee, Stansfield Turner and Ralph McGehee, all of
whom were unknown to her. The alleged psychologist claimed that
these authors had described the CIA "as it really is." Our contact
was not asked to execute a security affirmation statement
acknowledging the classified nature of these proceedings.

The unconventional manner of this interview process suggested that
this individual was being toyed with, for reason which remain to be
determined. She did not get the job and in fact more recently lost
her job with a state penitentiary. She was fired on the
recommendation of the prison's psychiatrist, because of her
insistence that she is receiving auditory input from the CIA
personnel who persist in feeding her classified information.

Interestingly, though this individual was deemed unfit to function
as a psychologist in the penitentiary system, the State rehired
her, assigning her to a mental health facility where, apparently,
she is to develop a behavioral modification program for retarded
adults with a diagnosed mental illness.

This individual claimed to be receiving and responding to
externally-induced auditory "advice" while working with prison
inmates. It may be presumed that the process will continue. Under
the circumstances, we have to wonder if this case qualifies as a
benchmark in mind-control experimentation; i.e., employment of a
mind-controlled psychologist to run the equivalent of mind-control
experiments on mentally-ill retarded adults. We will continue to
monitor this situation.

***

The individual we previously identified as having challenged a
local power company also appears to have ben "tagged" by some type
of implant device. During a recent symposium, she was approached
by a man whose business card identifies him as "Program Manager,
Electromagnetic Radiation Division," DoE. His approach was
suitably sympathetic. Our contact ultimately accepted this man's
invitation to continue discussing their common ranges of interest
in his hotel room. During this meeting, she accepted the offer of
a drink, blacked out after consuming it, and woke up four hours
later, still in this man's hotel room, to find that the back of her
ear had been punctured and was bleeding. There was no evidence of
sexual assault. The man glibly evaded this woman's request for an
explanation. She has since found two adjacent puncture marks
behind her ear, which are not healing properly, and between which
she can feel the presence of a "wire" measuring approximately 1/3"
in length. We are pursuing this further.

The said DoE Project Manager has more recently initiated contact
with yet another activist in touch with this Association. His call
was unsolicited. He apparently wanted to know to know if this
woman would be attending an upcoming conference. We have warned
the individual to avoid any form of private meeting with the said
Project Manager.

***

To date, we are aware of three cases involving clandestine behavior
on the part of alleged DoE employees. The CIA figures prominently
(if peculiarly) in the majority of the other cases. Two of those
have been discussed above.

I another, also involving auditory input, the individual is certain
that the current Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)
participated in the "voice transmission" process on at least one
occasion. She claims to have recognized his voice. When she
commented aloud on the DCI's perceived involvement in this
experimentation, the "voice" responded with studdered and stammered
denials. We are told that this particular "voice" has not been
heard from since.

***

In yet another case involving auditory input, the individual has
allegedly been informed by her "voices" that the technologies being
used against her were stolen from the CIA by a maverick employee,
whose group is not targeting her from a distance of 2,000 miles.
She reported this to the DCI's office and was allegedly informed by
the Deputy DCI that she will be awarded millions of dollars if she
can produce the equipment and any of the personnel involved in her
harassment.

One usually-candid CIA spokesman also allegedly informed this
individual that, "while the CIA does not deny having this
equipment," they "do not use it in this country." Perhaps this
explains why a number of our contacts have also been electronically
harassed while traveling overseas.

This woman has also been repeatedly assured by CIA DDS (security)
personnel of the Agency's sincere concern for her welfare. During
a recent telephone conversation with that Office, we confirmed that
she is indeed known to the CIA. Based on this, we asked that the
Agency "put its money where its mouth is," so to speak, by
conducting a long-term electronic sweep of this individual's
premises. That was two months ago. No sweep has been conducted,
though CIA spokesmen continue to "sympathize" with her predicament.

***

Another individual, a target of harassment and experimentation
since 1952 (apparently singled out because of his student activism
while at Penn State University) began hearing "voices" after having
most of his teeth capped. He has been more recently been informed
by his "handlers" that implanted devices are no longer used for
purposes of inducing auditory input. No explanation was offered.
He was quite visibly surprised when informed by this investigator
that auditory input can be achieved solely by means of pulsed
microwave audiograms (discussed in Part I of this report).

The individual's "handlers" allegedly have also stated that their
experiments on U.S. citizens are in pursuit of a variety of
objectives; viz.,
(1) develop an effective means for creating a perfect,
"robotized" soldier;

(2) alter individual sexual performances, such as by turning
heterosexuals into homosexuals (they allegedly claim to
be having "difficulties" reversing the process): and

(3) enhance and destroy levels of academic achievement, at
will, such as by degrading the performance of otherwise
brilliant students, and by drastically improving the
performance of poor students.

Given the technology at the government's disposal and a
predisposition of the part of certain governmental agencies to
"play God" in experimental fashion with citizens' lives, these
purported projects do not come across as being totally far-fetched.

***

Another case involves a woman whose experiences suggest that she,
too, is an MKULTRA experimentee being kept on the books, so to
speak. The woman, apparently a "pet" experimentee, found herself
being introduced to a wide array of prominent individuals whose
connections with the CIA she believed to be quite apparent. One of
those she states, was Robert Jay Lifton, a well-known author and
expert on brainwashing, whose books include "The Nazi Doctors:
Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide" (Basic Books,
1986).

Her experiences included a voluntary ("referral") admission to
Hollywood Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1973,
during an era when MKULTRA experiments at the Alan Memorial
Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, were only beginning
to capture the attention of the U.S. Senate.(8)

More recently, in 1990, she was transported to New York
University's Cameron Medical Center, in Westchester, NY (under
circumstance which qualify as an abduction), where she was forcibly
wrestled to the ground by approximately six Center staffers and
forcibly confined for a period of approximately three weeks. She
was neither psychiatrically counseled nor formally tested while in
that facility. The psychiatrists assigned to her case appeared
more intent on forcing her to take a combination of neuroleptic
drugs, to include Haldol, Navane, and Cogentin. (Haldol and Navane
can cause tardive dyskinesia.) She resisted those attempts.

A court ultimately ordered this woman released from the Center,
stipulating that she was not to be administered drugs. On
subsequently acquiring her medical records, under conditions which
prevented censoring or doctoring those records, she found that her
psychiatrists had planned to inject her with drugs (in defiance of
the court order) on the day of her release. As luck would have it,
she was released a day early.

The woman states that she has met Budd Hopkins, of the Intruders
Foundation, and that she had a long-term, confiding relationship
with John E. Mack, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School,
and the founding Director of the Center for Psychological Studies
in the Nuclear Age (previously named, Research Program for the
Study of Human Continuity; and, still previously, rumored to have
cooperated with the CIA in studies of "human ecology").

At one point in their relationship, Professor Mack apparently
accompanied this woman to a "support group" meeting of UFO
abductees, who, she observed bemusedly, "spent their time comparing
[extraterrestrially] implanted devices." Professor Mack is on
record as promoting the perception that UFO abductions are
legitimate.(9)

We frankly doubt that extraterrestrials who have a means to commute
intergalactically would stoop to implanting comparatively devices
in human beings. However, should it be proved that the
psychiatrist, surgeon and DoE Project Manager above are
extraterrestrials posing as humans, we will be happy to weigh that
information. If it is similarly established to the vehicular
"abduction" of the woman discussed above was the work of an
extraterrestrial named Kaplan, who was posing as a human with
Cornell Medical Center connections, we will be happy to ponder that
as well.

In the meantime, it would seem reasonable that the government would
want the public to believe that extraterrestrial visitations are on
the upswing. Mind-altering drugs, externally-induced auditory
input, holographic projections (also a DoD capability),(10)
appropriately focused directed-energy targeting, device
implantations, special effects and abductions are all within this
government's capabilities and can be used for purposes of creating
illusions of UFO experiences. Persons not cognizant of this might
be more inclined to fall for the UFO mythologies now being
officially "legitimized."

***

Other cases, possibly involving U.S. Navy Intelligence, NSA, the
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and, peripherally, members of the
former Soviet Bloc intelligence services will be discussed in
further reports.

HARASSMENT OBJECTIVES

In his book, Psychiatry and the CIA: Victims of Mind Control, Dr.
Harvey Weinstein quotes the following passage from a book entitled,
A battle for the Mind: A Physiology in Conversion and
Brainwashing, by William Sergeant (Greenwood Press, Westport, CT,
1957):

"By increasing the prolong stress in various ways, or inducing
physical debilitation, a more thorough alteration of the person's
thinking process may be achieved. ...If the stress or physical
debilitation, or both, are carried one stage further, it may happen
that patterns of thought and behavior, especially those of recent
acquisition, become disrupted. New patterns can then be
substituted, or suppressed patterns allowed to reassert themselves;
or the subject might begin to think or act in ways precisely
contradict his former ones.

"'...If a complete sudden collapse can be produced by prolonging or
intensifying emotional stress, the cortical slate may be wiped
clean temporarily of its more recently implanted patterns of
behavior, perhaps allowing others to be substituted more easily.'"

Dr. Weinstein then comments: "The parallel with [Dr. Ewen]
Cameron's theory of differential amnesia is striking, and the
relationship to brainwashing is abundantly clear."(11) Dr.
Cameron, employed by McGill University's Allan Memorial Institute
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, between 1943 and 1964, conducted
brainwashing experiments upon select, non-volunteer psychiatric
patients on behalf of the CIA. Dr. Weinstein's father was one of
Cameron's victims.

Sergeant's theorems and Cameron's associated experimental findings
appear to be the driving force behind the harassment and
experimentation now being reported to this Association. All of
these individuals are being subjected to a series of overlapping
circumstances which apparently are meant to induce and sustain
long-term extremes of stress. All of these individuals have been
effectively isolated. Unethical psychiatrists and physicians are
involved in the majority of these cases. Mind-altering
prescription drugs are being used for clearly non-therapeutic
purposes. Evidence of LSD use is also beginning to surface (one of
Cameron's favored mind-altering substances). And "psychic driving"
techniques -- Cameron's pet brainwashing method -- are involved in
all these cases, to a much greater and more potentially effective
degree where auditory input is involved.

The long-term objectives of these harassment and experimentation
campaigns appear to be quite fundamental; viz.,

(1) induce a sense of perverted "loyalty" toward the very
agencies engaged in the individual's harassment, to
confuse his or her priorities where the possibility of
obtaining legal redress might be concerned;

(2) redirect the targeted individual's feelings of
hopelessness, anger and frustration toward racial and
ethnic groups, and toward select, prominent political
figures, to include the President of the United States;
and

(3) force the individual to commit an act of violence,
whether suicide or murder, under conditions which he can
be plausibly denied by the government.

An operation's ultimate success apparently hangs on this latter
objective. We have successfully obstructed this process in a
number of cases now being investigated.

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How brainwashing came to life and thrived

twan — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:59:44 GMT

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/01/INGRR7UIJ31.DTL

Director Jonathan Demme fiddles with the classics again. After a remake of "Charade," he now offers up "The Manchurian Candidate" for a nervous, post Sept. 11 era.

The original 1962 film featured Angela Lansbury as a political Svengali and Frank Sinatra as an Army major who tracks down Laurence Harvey, an American soldier captured during the Korean War and programmed through hypnotism for assassination by Chinese Communists. The film was based on a 1959 best-selling book by Richard Condon. For all the critical acclaim and subsequent political attention (Did Lee Harvey Oswald see it or not?), the movie flopped initially and was withdrawn from release after John F. Kennedy's assassination.

"The Manchurian Candidate" remake brings to a wider audience questions about the role of the state in brainwashing and mind control, a topic usually reserved for the "nutters" on the Internet, as a character in the new movie puts it succinctly.

Updating the politics of the era, the Communist evil empire has been replaced by a multinational corporation, Manchurian Global. Updating the science, hypnosis and brainwashing have been augmented with electrodes in the brain, microchips implanted in the body and electroshock.

The term "brainwashing" was first popularized by Edward Hunter, in his 1951 book, "Brainwashing in Red China." Brainwashing was his translation for a Chinese term "hsi-nao," meaning, roughly, "cleansing of the mind." "It is practically impossible to fight something until it has been given a name," Hunter wrote, saying that brainwashing had a more "flesh-and-blood" quality than a more clinical alternative, "menticide," which means murder of the mind.

The fear of brainwashing was rooted in wartime, fueled by anti-communist fervor and tinged with racism and xenophobia. Some U.S. prisoners of war in Korea renounced their citizenship in radio broadcasts and many signed confessions against American interests, including charges, still debated today, that the United States was engaged in germ warfare with anthrax.

For Americans to abandon their ideals, the Communists must have devised some nefarious new means of thought control -- or so it was thought.

The Army conducted shipboard interviews with more than 4,000 returning American prisoners of the Korean conflict. Robert Jay Lifton, one of the psychiatrists who conducted the interviews, analyzed them in his 1961 classic book, "Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism."

Lifton concluded that the Chinese interrogation techniques were merely time-honored methods of psychological coercion: isolation, humiliation and the repetition of propaganda. But by this time, it was too late. The "flesh-and- blood" term brainwashing had come to life and refused to be contained, never really losing its power.

George Romney's 1967 comment that he had been "brainwashed" about the Vietnam War put the kibosh on Romney's run for the presidency, prompting opponent Eugene McCarthy to quip that a "light rinse would have done."

The question of whether religious cults were brainwashing adherents kept the notion alive through the 1960s and '70s. Brainwashing was claimed as a defense in a number of American court cases, but without much success (It did not work for Patty Hearst, for example). In recent years, claims of brainwashing have been asserted for sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, the American Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh and kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart.

"Today, the notion surfaces in court mostly in child custody disputes, where one parent accuses the other of 'brainwashing' -- more as a rhetorical flourish rather than any real scientific claim," said Alan Scheflin, a professor of law at Santa Clara University and author of "The Mind Manipulators."

To update the science of brainwashing for the new "Manchurian Candidate," Demme, the director, turned to Jay Lombard, a physician who treats brain disorders in Nyack, NY.

Lombard said it wasn't a big stretch to think that as scientists got better and better at understanding how the brain works, they could eventually use that knowledge to influence behavior. As an adviser to Demme, he said he "put on my devil's cap and used my own fantasies as to what might be possible. "

Other experts in neurosciences asked about the technology in "The Manchurian Candidate" agreed that true mind control -- the ability to create specific thoughts or memories with brain chips or electromagnetic waves -- is still the stuff of science fiction. But the movie's theme of medical technology morphing into nefarious military applications resonated nonetheless.

"The same thing that might help a fighter pilot control his plane by brain waves might also help a spinal cord patient control his environment," said Martha Farah, a scientist with the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, who is an exponent of the burgeoning field known as "neuroethics," a term coined by New York Times columnist William Safire.

The worry that research in the neurosciences might get out of hand is not without historical precedent.

Helen McGonigle, a Connecticut lawyer who represents victims of trauma and sexual abuse, knows she sounds like one of the nutters on the Internet when she talks about the history of military involvement in mind control.

When asked if she thinks the government is still in the business of mind control, McGonigle responded without skipping a beat. "Absolutely," she said. "The history of the Bluebird, Artichoke and MKULTRA definitely raise the bar of suspicion," McGonigle said, ticking off a series of government experiments involving hypnosis, sleep deprivation and the use of psychotropic drugs.

MKULTRA, underway from 1953 to 1966, involved research into mind-control agents at scores of prestigious institutions by prominent psychologists. MKULTRA scientists attempted to determine whether LSD could be aerosolized effectively; the CIA even hired a magician to teach field agents how to slip LSD into the drinks of unwitting subjects.

Other experiments involved various forms of sleep deprivation and hypnosis. Consider a research question posed in CIA documents from the Bluebird experiments in the 1950s: "Could we seize a subject and in the space of an hour or two by post-H[ypnotic] control have him crash an airplane, wreck a train, etc.?"

The techniques of Cold War mind control experiments -- slipping unwitting subjects a Mickey Finn -- seem quaint from the perspective of today's high-tech approaches. Indeed, many of the bits and pieces of neuroscience in the new movie are already science fact, even if they don't necessarily add up neatly.

Microchips have long been used to track animals and to tag surgical implants. Today's microchips, which are about the size of a grain of uncooked rice, can now be linked to Global Positioning System equipment for surveillance and equipped with technology to relay information about vital signs remotely. A "brain fingerprinting" technique is already accepted by some courts; scalp-measured brain waves can detect so-called guilty knowledge, such as familiarity with people, objects or even terrorist training. Just a few weeks ago, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first implant to treat a mood disorder: an electrode placed on the vagus nerve to treat depression.

Wrye Sententia monitors these developments, fighting the good fight for "cognitive liberties" as the executive director of the Center for Cognitive Liberties & Ethics in Davis. "We say 'cognitive liberties' rather than 'freedom of thought,' because cognitive liberties marks the intersection of brain science and policy," she said. The center is not out to stop brain research, but believes the Constitution and other legal protections should guarantee both the right to be free from unwarranted mental intrusions and to have access to new neurotechnologies, for those who want them.

"The Manchurian Candidate"-style advances have prompted the center to expand its mission to monitor military activities, including the government's "weaponizing of psychoactive drugs." According to reports in Mother Jones last year and the New York Times magazine last week, university and government scientists interested in "non-lethal weapons" are considering the use of psychoactive drugs, such as ecstasy or Valium, as "calmative" weapons to subdue unruly crowds.

It sounds like something out of a Hollywood blockbuster.

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Crusaders

twan — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:48:51 GMT

(This is well worth reading. It is on the legnthy side, but please don't let that stop you. Great food for thought.)

The Deeper Significance of Bush's Slip that We Are Waging a Crusade Against Terror By James Carroll Mr. Carroll, a columnist for the Boston Globe, is at work on a television documentary based on his bestselling book, Constantine's Sword. His latest book is Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War.

At the turn of the millennium, the world was braced for terrible things. Most "rational" worries were tied to an anticipated computer glitch, the Y2K problem, and even the most scientifically oriented of people seemed temporarily at the mercy of powerful mythic forces. Imagined hobgoblins leapt from hard drives directly into nightmares. Airlines canceled flights scheduled for the first day of the new year, citing fears that the computers for the traffic-control system would not work. The calendar as such had not previously been a source of dread, but all at once, time itself held a new danger. As the year 2000 approached, I bought bottled water and extra cans of tuna fish. I even withdrew a large amount of cash from the bank. Friends mocked me, then admitted to having done similar things. There were no dances-of-death or outbreaks of flagellant cults, but a millennial fever worthy of medieval superstition infected the most secular of cultures. Of course, the mystical date came and went, the computers did fine, airplanes flew and the world went back to normal.

Then came September 11, 2001, the millennial catastrophe--just a little late. Airplanes fell from the sky, thousands died and an entirely new kind of horror gripped the human imagination. Time, too, played its role, but time as warped by television, which created a global simultaneity, turning the whole human race into a witness, as the awful events were endlessly replayed, as if those bodies leaping from the Twin Towers would never hit the ground. Nightmare in broad daylight. New York's World Trade Center collapsed not just onto the surrounding streets but into the hearts of every person with access to CNN. Hundreds of millions of people instinctively reached out to those they loved, grateful to be alive. Death had shown itself in a new way. But if a vast throng experienced the terrible events of 9/11 as one, only one man, the President of the United States, bore a unique responsibility for finding a way to respond to them.

George W. Bush plumbed the deepest place in himself, looking for a simple expression of what the assaults of September 11 required. It was his role to lead the nation, and the very world. The President, at a moment of crisis, defines the communal response. A few days after the assault, George W. Bush did this. Speaking spontaneously, without the aid of advisers or speechwriters, he put a word on the new American purpose that both shaped it and gave it meaning. "This crusade," he said, "this war on terrorism."

Crusade. I remember a momentary feeling of vertigo at the President's use of that word, the outrageous ineptitude of it. The vertigo lifted, and what I felt then was fear, sensing not ineptitude but exactitude. My thoughts went to the elusive Osama bin Laden, how pleased he must have been, Bush already reading from his script. I am a Roman Catholic with a feeling for history, and strong regrets, therefore, over what went wrong in my own tradition once the Crusades were launched. Contrary to schoolboy romances, Hollywood fantasies and the nostalgia of royalty, the Crusades were a set of world-historic crimes. I hear the word with a third ear, alert to its dangers, and I see through its legends to its warnings. For example, in Iraq "insurgents" have lately shocked the world by decapitating hostages, turning the most taboo of acts into a military tactic. But a thousand years ago, Latin crusaders used the severed heads of Muslim fighters as missiles, catapulting them over the fortified walls of cities under siege. Taboos fall in total war, whether crusade or jihad.

For George W. Bush, crusade was an offhand reference. But all the more powerfully for that, it was an accidental probing of unintended but nevertheless real meaning. That the President used the word inadvertently suggests how it expressed his exact truth, an unmasking of his most deeply felt purpose. Crusade, he said. Later, his embarrassed aides suggested that he had meant to use the word only as a synonym for struggle, but Bush's own syntax belied that. He defined crusade as war. Even offhandedly, he had said exactly what he meant.

Osama bin Laden was already understood to be trying to spark a "clash of civilizations" that would set the West against the whole House of Islam. After 9/11, agitated voices on all sides insisted that no such clash was inevitable. But crusade was a match for jihad, and such words threatened nothing less than apocalyptic conflict between irreconcilable cultures. Indeed, the President's reference flashed through the Arab news media. Its resonance went deeper, even, than the embarrassed aides expected--and not only among Muslims. After all, the word refers to a long series of military campaigns, which, taken together, were the defining event in the shaping of what we call Western civilization. A coherent set of political, economic, social and even mythological traditions of the Eurasian continent, from the British Isles to the far side of Arabia, grew out of the transformations wrought by the Crusades. And it is far from incidental still, both that those campaigns were conducted by Christians against Muslims, and that they, too, were attached to the irrationalities of millennial fever.

If the American President was the person carrying the main burden of shaping a response to the catastrophe of September 11, his predecessor in such a grave role, nearly a thousand years earlier, was the Catholic pope. Seeking to overcome the century-long dislocations of a postmillennial Christendom, he rallied both its leaders and commoners with a rousing call to holy war. Muslims were the infidel people who had taken the Holy Land hundreds of years before. Now, that occupation was defined as an intolerable blasphemy. The Holy Land must be redeemed. Within months of the pope's call, 100,000 people had "taken the cross" to reclaim the Holy Land for Christ. As a proportion of the population of Europe, a comparable movement today would involve more than a million people, dropping everything to go to war.

In the name of Jesus, and certain of God's blessing, crusaders launched what might be called "shock and awe" attacks everywhere they went. In Jerusalem they savagely slaughtered Muslims and Jews alike--practically the whole city. Eventually, Latin crusaders would turn on Eastern Christians, and then on Christian heretics, as blood lust outran the initial "holy" impulse. That trail of violence scars the earth and human memory even to this day--especially in the places where the crusaders wreaked their havoc. And the mental map of the Crusades, with Jerusalem at the center of the earth, still defines world politics. But the main point, in relation to Bush's instinctive response to 9/11, is that those religious invasions and wars of long ago established a cohesive Western identity precisely in opposition to Islam, an opposition that survives to this day.

With the Crusades, the violent theology of the killer God came into its own. To save the world, in this understanding, God willed the violent death of God's only beloved son. Here is the relevance of that mental map, for the crusaders were going to war to rescue the site of the salvific death of Jesus, and they displayed their devotion to the cross on which Jesus died by wearing it on their breasts. When Bush's remark was translated into Arabic for broadcast throughout the Middle East, the word "crusade" was rendered as "war of the cross."

Before the Crusades, Christian theology had given central emphasis to the resurrection of Jesus, and to the idea of incarnation itself, but with the war of the cross, the bloody crucifixion began to dominate the Latin Christian imagination. A theology narrowly focused on the brutal death of Jesus reinforced the primitive notion that violence can be a sacred act. The cult of martyrdom, even to the point of suicidal valor, was institutionalized in the Crusades, and it is not incidental to the events of 9/11 that a culture of sacred self-destruction took equally firm hold among Muslims. The suicide-murderers of the World Trade Center, like the suicide-bombers from the West Bank and Gaza, exploit a perverse link between the willingness to die for a cause and the willingness to kill for it. Crusaders, thinking of heaven, honored that link too.

Here is the deeper significance of Bush's inadvertent reference to the Crusades: Instead of being a last recourse or a necessary evil, violence was established then as the perfectly appropriate, even chivalrous, first response to what is wrong in the world. George W. Bush is a Christian for whom this particular theology lives. While he identified Jesus as his favorite "political philosopher" when running for President in 2000, the Jesus of this evangelical President is not the "turn the other cheek" one. Bush's savior is the Jesus whose cross is wielded as a sword. George W. Bush, having cheerfully accepted responsibility for the executions of 152 death-row inmates in Texas, had already shown himself to be entirely at home with divinely sanctioned violence. After 9/11, no wonder it defined his deepest urge.

But sacred violence, once unleashed in 1096, as in 2001, had a momentum of its own. The urgent purpose of war against the "enemy outside"--what some today call the "clash of civilizations"--led quickly to the discovery of an "enemy inside." The crusaders, en route from northwestern Europe to attack the infidel far away, first fell upon, as they said, "the infidel near at hand"--Jews. For the first time in Europe, large numbers of Jews were murdered for being Jews. A crucifixion-obsessed theology saw God as willing the death of Jesus, but in the bifurcated evangelical imagination, Jews could be blamed for it, and the offense the crusaders took was mortal.

The same dynamic--war against an enemy outside leading to war against an enemy inside--can be seen at work today. It is a more complex dynamic now, with immigrant Muslims and people of Arabic descent coming under heavy pressure in the West. In Europe, Muslims are routinely demonized. In America, they are "profiled," even to the point of being deprived of basic rights. But at the same time, once again, Jews are targeted. The broad resurgence of anti-Semitism, and the tendency to scapegoat Israel as the primary source of the new discord, reflect an old tidal pull. This is true notwithstanding the harsh fact that Ariel Sharon's government took up the Bush "dead or alive" credo with enthusiasm and used the "war on terrorism" to fuel self-defeating overreactions to Palestinian provocations. But some of Israel's critics fall into the old pattern of measuring Jews against standards to which no one else is held, not even our President. That the war on terrorism is the context within which violence in Israel and Jerusalem has intensified should be no surprise. It wasn't "Israel" then, but conflict over Jerusalem played exactly such a flashpoint role a thousand years ago.

The Crusades proved to have other destructive dynamics as well. The medieval war against Islam, having also targeted Europe's Jews, soon enough became a war against all forms of cultural and religious dissent, a war against heresy. As it hadn't been in hundreds of years, doctrine now became rigidly defined in the Latin West, and those who did not affirm dominant interpretations -- Cathars, Albigensians, Eastern Orthodox -- were attacked. Doctrinal uniformity, too, could be enforced with sacred violence. When the US Attorney General defines criticism of the Administration in wartime as treason, or when Congress enacts legislation that justifies the erosion of civil liberties with appeals to patriotism, they are enacting a Crusades script.

All of this is implicit in the word that President Bush first used, which came to him as naturally as a baseball reference, to define the war on terrorism. That such a dark, seething religious history of sacred violence remains largely unspoken in our world does not defuse it as an explosive force in the human unconscious. In the world of Islam, of course, its meaning could not be more explicit, or closer to consciousness. The full historical and cultural significance of "crusade" is instantly obvious, which is why a howl of protest from the Middle East drove Bush into instant verbal retreat. Yet the very inadvertence of his use of the word is the revelation: Americans do not know what fire they are playing with. Osama bin Laden, however, knows all too well, and in his periodic pronouncements, he uses the word "crusade" to this day, as a flamethrower.

Religious war is the danger here, and it is a graver one than Americans think. Despite our much-vaunted separation of church and state, America has always had a quasi-religious understanding of itself, reflected in the messianism of Puritan founder John Winthrop, the Deist optimism of Thomas Jefferson, the embrace of redemptive suffering that marked Abraham Lincoln and, for that matter, the conviction of Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, that Communism had to be opposed on a global scale if only because of its atheism. But never before has America been brought deeper into a dynamite-wired holy of holies than in our President's war on terrorism. Despite the post-Iraq toning down of Washington's rhetoric of empire, and the rejection of further crusader references -- although Secretary of State Colin Powell used the word this past March -- Bush's war openly remains a cosmic battle between nothing less than the transcendent forces of good and evil. Such a battle is necessarily unlimited and open-ended, and so justifies radical actions -- the abandonment, for example, of established notions of civic justice at home and of traditional alliances abroad.

A cosmic moral-religious battle justifies, equally, risks of world-historic proportioned disaster, since the ultimate outcome of such a conflict is to be measured not by actual consequences on this earth but by the earth-transcending will of God. Our war on terrorism, before it is anything else, is thus an imagined conflict, taking place primarily in a mythic realm beyond history.

In waging such a "war," the enemy is to be engaged everywhere and nowhere, not just because the actual nihilists who threaten the social order are faceless and deracinated but because each fanatical suicide-bomber is only an instance of the transcendent enemy -- and so the other face of us. Each terrorist is, in effect, a sacrament of the larger reality, which is "terrorism." Instead of perceiving unconnected centers of inhuman violence -- tribal warlords, Mafia chieftains, nationalist fighters, xenophobic Luddites -- President Bush projects the grandest and most interlocking strategies of conspiracy, belief and organization. By the canonization of the war on terrorism, petty nihilists are elevated to the status of world-historic warriors, exactly the fate they might have wished for. This is why the conflict readily bleeds from one locus to another -- Afghanistan then, Iraq now, Iran or some other land of evil soon -- and why, for that matter, the targeted enemies are entirely interchangeable -- here Osama bin Laden, there Saddam Hussein, here the leader of Iran, there of North Korea. They are all essentially one enemy -- one "axis" -- despite their differences from one another, or even hatred of one another.

Hard-boiled men and women who may not share Bush's fervent spirituality can nonetheless support his purpose because, undergirding the new ideology, there is an authentic global crisis that requires an urgent response. New technologies are now making it possible for small groups of nihilists, or even single individuals, to wreak havoc on a scale unprecedented in history. This is the ultimate "asymmetric threat." The attacks of 9/11, amplified by the murderous echo of the anthrax mailer, the as-yet-unapprehended psychopath who sent deadly letters to journalists and government officials in the weeks after 9/11, put that new condition on display for all the world to see. Innovations in physics, biology, chemistry and information technology -- and soon, possibly, in nanotechnology and genetic engineering -- have had the unforeseen effect of threatening to put in a few hands the destructive power that, in former times, could be exercised only by sizable armies. This is the real condition to which the Bush Administration is responding. The problem is actual, if not yet fully present.

So, to put the best face on the Bush agenda (leaving aside questions of oil, global market control and economic or military hegemony), a humane project of antiproliferation can be seen at its core. Yet a nation that was trying to promote the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, especially nuclear weapons, would behave precisely as the Bush Administration has behaved over the past three years. The Pentagon's chest-thumping concept of "full spectrum dominance" itself motivates other nations to seek sources of countervailing power, and when the United States actually goes to war to impose its widely disputed notion of order on some states, but not others, nations -- friendly as well as unfriendly -- find themselves with an urgent reason to acquire some means of deterring such intervention.

The odd and tragic thing is that the world before Bush was actually nearing consensus on how to manage the problem of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and had begun to put in place promising structures designed to prevent such spread. Centrally embodied in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty of 1968, which had successfully and amazingly kept the number of nuclear powers, actual as well as admitted, relatively low, that consensus gave primacy to treaty obligations, international cooperation and a serious commitment by existing nuclear powers to move toward ultimate nuclear abolition. All of that has been trashed by Bush. "International law?" he smirked in December 2003. "I better call my lawyer."

Now indications are that nations all over the globe -- Japan, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Brazil, Australia -- have begun re-evaluating their rejections of nukes, and some are positively rushing to acquire them. Iran and North Korea are likely to be only the tip of this radioactive iceberg. Nuclear-armed Pakistan and India are a grim forecast of the future on every continent. And the Bush Administration -- by declaring its own nuclear arsenal permanent, by threatening nuclear first-strikes against other nations, by "warehousing" treaty-defused warheads instead of destroying them, by developing a new line of "usable" nukes, by moving to weaponize the "high frontier" of outer space, by doing little to help Russia get rid of its rotting nuclear stockpile, by embracing "preventive war" -- is enabling this trend instead of discouraging it. How can this be?

The problem has its roots in a long-term American forgetfulness, going back to the acid fog in which the United States ended World War II. There was never a complete moral reckoning with the harsh momentum of that conflict's denouement -- how American leaders embraced a strategy of terror bombing, slaughtering whole urban populations, and how, finally, they ushered in the atomic age with the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Scholars have debated those questions, but politicians have avoided them, and most citizens have pretended they aren't really questions at all. America's enduring assumptions about its own moral supremacy, its own altruism, its own exceptionalism, have hardly been punctured by consideration of the possibility that we, too, are capable of grave mistakes, terrible crimes. Such awareness, drawn from a fuller reckoning with days gone by -- with August 6 and 9, 1945, above all -- would inhibit America's present claim to moral grandeur, which is simultaneously a claim, of course, to economic and political grandiosity. The indispensable nation must dispense with what went before.

"The past is never dead," William Faulkner said. "It isn't even past." How Americans remember their country's use of terror bombing affects how they think of terrorism; how they remember the first use of nuclear weapons has profound relevance for how the United States behaves in relation to nuclear weapons today. If the long American embrace of nuclear "mutual assured destruction" is unexamined; if the Pentagon's treaty-violating rejection of the ideal of eventual nuclear abolition is unquestioned -- then the Bush Administration's embrace of nukes as normal, usable weapons will not seem offensive.

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny. The Bush Administration is fully committed to maintaining what the historian Marc Trachtenberg calls our "nuclear amnesia" even as the Administration seeks to impose a unilateral structure of control on the world. As it pursues a world-threatening campaign against other people's weapons of mass destruction, that is, the Bush Administration refuses to confront the moral meaning of America's own weapons of mass destruction, not to mention their viral character, as other nations seek smaller versions of the American arsenal, if only to deter Bush's next "preventive" war. The United States' own arsenal, in other words, remains the primordial cause of the WMD plague.

"Memory," the novelist Paul Auster has written, is "the space in which a thing happens for the second time." No one wants the terrible events that came after the rising of the sun on September 11, 2001, to happen for a second time except in the realm of remembrance, leading to understanding and commitment. But all the ways George Bush exploited those events, betraying the memory of those who died in them, must be lifted up and examined again, so that the outrageousness of his political purpose can be felt in its fullness. Exactly how the war on terrorism unfolded; how it bled into the wars against Afghanistan, then Iraq; how American fears were exacerbated by Administration alarms; how civil rights were undermined, treaties broken, alliances abandoned, coarseness embraced -- none of this should be forgotten.

Given how they have been so dramatically unfulfilled, Washington's initial hubristic impulses toward a new imperial dominance should not be forgotten. That the first purpose of the war -- Osama "dead or alive" -- changed when Al Qaeda proved elusive should not be forgotten. That the early justification for the war against Iraq -- Saddam's weapons of mass destruction -- changed when they proved nonexistent should not be forgotten. That in former times the US government behaved as if facts mattered, as if evidence informed policy, should not be forgotten. That Afghanistan and Iraq are a shambles, with thousands dead and hundreds of thousands at risk from disease, disorder and despair, should not be forgotten. That a now-disdainful world gave itself in unbridled love to America on 9/11 should not be forgotten.

Nor, given Bush's reference, should the most relevant fact about the Crusades be forgotten -- that, on their own terms and notwithstanding the romance of history, they were, in the end, an overwhelming failure. The 1096 campaign, the "First Crusade," finally "succeeded" in 1099, when a remnant army fell upon Jerusalem, slaughtering much of its population. But armies under Saladin reasserted Islamic control in 1187, and subsequent Crusades never succeeded in re-establishing Latin dominance in the Holy Land. The reconquista Crusades reclaimed Spain and Portugal for Christian Europe, but in the process destroyed the glorious Iberian convivencia, a high civilization never to be matched below the Pyrenees again.

Meanwhile, intra-Christian crusades, wars against heresy, only made permanent the East-West split between Latin Catholicism and "schismatic" Eastern Orthodoxy, and made inevitable the eventual break, in the Reformation, between a Protestant north and a Catholic south. The Crusades, one could argue, established basic structures of Western civilization, while undermining the possibility that their grandest ideals would ever be realized.

Will such consequences -- new global structures of an American imperium, hollowed-out hopes for a humane and just internationalism -- follow in the train of George W. Bush's crusade? This question will be answered in smaller part by anonymous, ad hoc armies of on-the-ground human beings in foreign lands, many of whom will resist Washington to the death. In larger part, the question will be answered by those privileged to be citizens of the United States. To us falls the ultimate power over the American moral and political agenda. As has never been true of any empire before, because this one is still a democracy, such power belongs to citizens absolutely. If the power is ours, so is the responsibility.

This article first appeared on www.tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute, which offers a steady flow of alternate sources, news and opinion from Tom Engelhardt, a long time editor in publishing, the author of The End of Victory Culture, and a fellow of the Nation Institute.

The article is adapted from the introduction to Mr. Carroll's new book Crusade, Chronicles of an Unjust War (Metropolitan Books), a collection of his columns since September 11, 2001.

Copyright 2004 by James Carroll.

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Preparing for the Police State

twan — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:40:05 GMT

An interesting collection of information which outlines a secret highway coding system to be utilized during Police State rule and Martial Law:

http://www.tackamarks.freeservers.com/

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Brainwashing re: World Trade Center

twan — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 04:36:12 GMT

Please check out the following link in regards to some serious research investigating the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center. Keep in mind that the research was conducted by large scale structural engineers. Definitely NOT something that you will see in the mainstream media, because if it ws, you woould know.... and they don't want you to know...:

http://serendipity.ptpi.net/wtc.htm

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Join the Awareness Network!

twan — Mon, 31 May 2004 21:09:14 GMT

The Awareness Network was created mainly for political activism and awareness, the type of awareness that you typically will NOT get from the mainstream media, mainly where it affects self-expression and first amendment rights, though not exclusively. In light of the fact that the mainstream media does not tell the whole story in a truthful way, and in fact intentionally misinforms the masses in order to shape the public mind, this list serves up links and info of an non-mainstream nature, so that people can be better informed so as to make well thought out choices and take action on them based on facts that aren't widely publicized.

Though political in nature, it is not dull, and it will pave the way for you to make your voice heard by providing links and easy avenues to communicate with your Senators and Representives in local, state, and federal politics.

Do not be fooled. You make the difference! "They" love your indiffernce and apathy. It allows them to do as they wish simply because they know you will not be participating in the political process. Simple action is required on your part. It need not be time consuming or laborious. My team will make it easy to participate in the political process. You just need to participate!

Silence is the killer. Don't!

If you want to participate in this forum, please go to the following link and subscribe:

http://www.topica.com/lists/LA-BlackRock

Occasionally, emails will arrive to you in the form of an action request, or just to inform and provide for some thought provocation.

Looking forward to making some progress with you all.

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magical assaults on corporations

wesunruh — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:17:48 GMT

here's the article: http://www.technoccult.com/archives/001021.html

incidentally, anyone know of an online version of _Stolen Lightning: A Social Theory of Magic_ by Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe?

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Ashcroft would like to know...

twan — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:41:02 GMT

Please take Action (see below):

ACLU Action Network Members
Date: March 18, 2004

Not satisfied with the new snooping powers granted by the PATRIOT Act, the Department of Justice is now asking the Federal Communications Commission to allow law enforcement the power to regulate the design of Internet communications services to make them easy to wiretap.

If implemented, the new request by Attorney General John Ashcroft would dramatically increase the government ’s surveillance powers and set a precedent for opening the entire Internet to law enforcement. By forcing technology companies to build “backdoors ”in their systems for wiretapping, the Ashcroft plan would also create weaknesses that hackers and thieves could use to invade your privacy and steal personal information like credit card numbers.

The government already has more than enough power to spy on individuals suspected of wrongdoing. This measure is the equivalent of requiring all new homes be built with a peephole for law enforcement agents to look through.

Take Action! Tell the FCC and Congress that you oppose these new wiretapping requirements.

Click here for more information and to send a free fax to the FCC Chairman and your Members of Congress:

www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacy.cfm

For more information on other issues and the latest news, please visit our website at www.aclu.org

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John Perry Barlow on Burning Man and the State of the Counterculture:

fluffyevil — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:31:03 GMT

http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle887.html

a quote,
"If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man."

give the article a read then hit me with your comments!
*steph*

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Worth Reading

twan — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:36:16 GMT

IN YOUR FACE
- Connections between Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force, 9/11 and Peak Oil
"On the Table"
- July '04 Supreme Court Ruling on Secrecy, Task Force Documents Obtained
through FOIA Suit on Collision Course as Cheney "Duck Hunts" with Scalia
- The Reason Why Activists of All Stripes are Ineffective

by Michael C. Ruppert

"The Cheney report is very guarded about the amount of foreign oil that
will be required. The only clue provided by the [public] report is a chart
of net US oil consumption and production over time. According to this
illustration, domestic oil field production will decline from about 8.5
million barrels per day (mbd) in 2002 to 7.0 mbd in 2020, while consumption
will jump from 19.5 mbd to 25.5 mbd. That suggests imports or other sources
of petroleumŠ will have to rise from 11 mbd to 18.5 mbd. Most of the
recommendations of the NEP [National Energy Policy, May 2001] are aimed at
procuring this 7.5 mbd increment, equivalent to the total oil consumed by
China and India .
-- Professor Michael Klare
"Bush-Cheney Energy Strategy: Procuring the Rest of the World's Oil"
Foreign Policy in Focus, January 2004

The White House Stonewall goes on, as the Bush administration continues to
deny the non-partisan General Accounting Office's request for information
on who the White House Energy Task Force met with while formulating
national energy policy. For the first time in history, the GAO has sued the
executive branch for access to the records. It has been 42 days since the
GAO filed their suit against the Bush administration and 333 days since the
White House first received the G A O request. Why is the White House going
to such lengths? What are they trying to hide?
Truthout, www.truthout.org
"White House Stonewall"
April 5, 2002

"The Supreme Court said Monday it will settle a fight over whether Vice
President Dick Cheney must disclose details about secret contacts with
energy industry officials as the Bush administration drafted its energy
policyŠ
"The Supreme Court will hear the case sometime in the spring, with a ruling
expected by July."
-- The Associated Press, Dec. 15, 2003

"Bush and Blair have been making plans for the day when oil production
peaks, by seeking to secure the reserves of other nations."
-- George Monbiot
"Bottom of the Barrel"
The Guardian, December 2, 2003

" China and India are building superhighways and automobile factories.
Energy demand is expected to rise by about 50 per cent over the next 20
years, with about 40 per cent of that demand to be supplied by petroleumŠ
"Oil supplies are finite and will soon be controlled by a handful of
nations; the invasion of Iraq and control of its supplies will do little to
change that. One can only hope that an informed electorate and its
principled representatives will realize that the facts do matter, and that
nature - not military might - will soon dictate the ultimate availability
of petroleum."
-- Alfred Cavallo
Oil: The illusion of plenty
Bulletin of the A tomic Scientists, Jan-Feb 2004

The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its
global dominationŠ
The plan ["Rebuilding America's Defenses", Project for a New American
Century - 2000] shows Bush's cabinet intended to take military control of
the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in powerŠ
The overriding motivation for this political smokescreen is that the US
and the UK are beginning to run out of secure hydrocarbon energy suppliesŠ
As demand is increasing, so supply is decreasing, continually since the
1960s.
-- Michael Meacher MP, UK Environment Minister 1997-2003
"The War on Terrorism is Bogus"
The Guardian, September 6, 2003

"Moreover, as A merica becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it
may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues,
except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct
external threat."
-- Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Grand Chessboard, p211 (1997)
(Brought to world attention after 9/11 by FTW on Nov. 7, 2001 )

January 29, 2004 1700 PST ( FTW ) - Nothing can change the facts.
When, in May 2001, the conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch
filed suit to see the records of Dick Cheney's National Energy Policy
Development Group (NEPDG), it was the first to protest the unheard of
secrecy at the energy task force. As the White House stonewalled, the
Government Accounting Office (GAO) filed suit the following February.
Congress had, after all, funded the project. Non-governmental officials had
played major roles in its deliberations and, under the Constitution, the
GAO had an obligation to see how the money was spent and what was produced.
White House refusals prompted media speculation about deals with Enron and
big oil companies; a divvying of spoils, a rape of the environment.
Judicial Watch was later joined in its suit by the Sierra Club. A scandal
for everyone!
It's a sure bet that of all the plaintiffs; from Congressman Henry Waxman
(D - CA) and Comptroller General David Walker who fought for the GAO; to
Judicial Watch's Larry Klayman, who had previously fought Bill Clinton; to
the environmentalists, none had a clue as to what they were really asking
for or why Dick Cheney fought them so ruthlessly.
The fight was just beginning.
As reported in the congressional newspaper The Hill on February 19, 2003,
the GAO dropped its suit after the administration made threats of heavy
cuts to its budget. The offer GAO couldn't refuse was delivered by Alaska
's Republican Senator Ted Stevens where a lot of new drilling was expected
to take place. Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club stood firm. Both had the
money to see their suits through.
The controversy boiled throughout 2001-2002. It was a crisis which - absent
the war on terror - might have been one of the biggest constitutional
crises of all time. It might still be.
Enron seems like a pleasant diversion now. All these battles started before
the first plane hit the Twin Towers . That's one reason why everyone was
so shocked at the blatantly illegal secrecy and the manner in which the
administration fought. This was long before The Patriot Act, Homeland
Security, Patriot Act II, and all the scandalous lies that have since been
revealed. One of the administration's bets was that, in the wake of 9/11,
the NEPDG records would be forgotten.
They lost that one.
Hints as to what was discussed in the secret task force - empanelled
immediately after Bush took office in January 2001 - are now on the table.
They strongly suggest that inside the NEPDG records lay the deepest,
darkest secrets of 9-11. The motive; the apocalyptic truth that would
compel such carnage and hairpin the course of human history; the thing that
no one ever wanted to know; the thing that makes it utterly believable that
the US government could have deliberately facilitated the attacks of
September 11th, stands on the brink of full disclosure.
The likelihood that those truths might soon be revealed is serious enough
that two weeks ago Dick Cheney found it convenient to go duck hunting with
Justice Antonin Scalia who will hear arguments in the case this spring.
Nature laughs as pundits spin and concerned peoples around the world
frantically and frenetically expend futile, disorganized energies against
the juggernaut of tyranny and madness: elect a Democrat (any Democrat);
impeach Bush; write a check to support an activist group; place an ad;
stage a protest march; vote; don't vote; file a suit; file another suit;
demand that the major media tell the truth, as long as it's the truth you
want to hear; blame political ideology; blame a religion; blame a race;
blame Capitalism; blame Communism; fight each other to release your
frustrations and fears. That will make it better. Do anything but accept
the obvious reality that for the US government to have facilitated and
orchestrated the attacks of 9/11, something really, really bad must be
going on.
There are so many inconsistencies, proven lies, conflicts of interest, and
contradictions in the Bush administration's accounts of 9/11 that the sheer
multitude of them - in a rational world - would have brought the government
to a halt long ago. But this is not a rational world.
It is full of people - on both sides - who are not behaving rationally.
A SEVEN-PAGE GLIMPSE UNDER THE DOOR
Last July, after appealing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for
NEPDG documents, Judicial Watch won a small victory with the release of
seven pages of NEPDG documents.
They included:
* A detailed map of all Iraqi oil fields (11% of world supply);
* A two-page specific list of all nations with development contracts for
Iraqi oil and gas projects and the companies involved;
* A detailed map of all Saudi Arabian oil fields (25% of world supply);
* A list of all major oil and gas development projects in Saudi A rabia ;
* A detailed map of all the oil fields in the United Arab Emirates (8% of
world supply);
* A list of all oil and gas development projects in the U A E;
The documents may be viewed online at:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/071703.c_.shtml .
In their austerity, the documents scream of what NEPDG was debating. If 7.5
mbd of new oil production was to be secured from any place there was only
one place to get it - the Persian Gulf . All told, including Qatar (firmly
under US control and the home of headquarters for US Central Command) and
Iran, the Gulf is home to 60% of all the recoverable oil on the planet. Not
only would these oil fields have to be controlled, billions of dollars in
new investment would be required to boost production to meet US needs,
simultaneously denying that same production to the rest of the world where
demand is also soaring.

Klare wrote:

According to the Department of Energy, Saudi Arabia 's net petroleum output
must grow by 133% over the next 25 years, from 10.2 mbd in 2001 to 23.8 mbd
in 2025, in order to meet anticipated world requirements at the end of that
period. Expanding Saudi capacity by 13.6 mbd, which is the equivalent of
total current production by the United States and Mexico, will cost
hundreds of billions of dollarsŠ The Cheney report calls for exactly that.
However, any effort by Washington to apply pressure on Riyadh is likely to
meet significant resistance from the royal familyŠ
Not to mention from Muslim fundamentalists and ordinary Saudi citizens who
oppose the corrupt and teetering regime.

Sixty per cent of all the recoverable oil on the planet is in an area no
larger than the state of Indiana
Herein lays the motive behind the US 's eagerness to quietly and wrongly
implicate the Saudi government in 9/11. A closer look at the maps obtained
by Judicial Watch explains why. When placed side by side the maps reveal
that 60% of the world's recoverable oil is in a "golden" triangle running
from Mosul in northern Iraq, to the Straits of Hormuz, to an oil field in
Saudi Arabia 75 miles in from the coast, just west of Qatar, then back up
to Mosul. Sixty per cent of all the recoverable oil on the planet is an in
area no larger than the state of Indiana .
Is it surprising then that the overwhelming majority of US military
deployment since 9/11 is in this region? How easy would it be for the US
military, already surrounding it, to occupy this area in the event that the
Saudi monarchy became unstable?
The list of countries and companies already invested in new development
projects in the region reads like the perfect answer to the question: "OK,
who do we have to deal with to get this done? Who will come with us if we
offer them a piece and who will refuse, no matter what, because they can't
afford to have their share reduced?" Look at the documents and answer that
question and you have perfectly separated the investor nations into two
camps; those who supported the Iraqi invasion and those who opposed it.
The simple fact, as described in the opening quote from Michael Klare, is
that to secure imports equivalent to the amounts consumed by China and
India means taking that oil away from China and India, or some other mix of
countries. The question is, from whom?
Other global battles for the oil that remains have already begun, albeit
quietly for the time being. This year China will pass Japan as the world's
second largest oil importer. A January 3 article by James Brooke in the New
York Times titled Japan and China Battle for Russia's Oil and Gas,
described the fierce high-stakes contest underway. Russia is going to build
only one pipeline east from its Siberian fields. It is either going to
terminate in the middle of China, or on Russia 's Pacific coast where it
can supply Japan, Korea and the Philippines. Brooke wrote, "With the choice
Russia faces, the political and economic dynamics of Northeast Asia stand
to be profoundly shaped for years to come."
No kidding.
Russia has 60 billion barrels (Gb) of proven reserves, a 690-day supply for
planet earth and there are no more significant quantities of oil to be
discovered anywhere inside or outside of Russia . World oil discovery
peaked in the 1960s and has been declining ever since. The human race now
uses four barrels of oil for every barrel found and the gap is widening
each year. What remains to be discovered is gong to be of a lesser quality,
much more expensive to obtain, and more expensive to refine.
WEST AFRICA, LATIN AMERICA, SOUTHEAST ASIA
The public NEPDG report also addresses (in oblique fashion) areas of the
world which have increasingly become inflamed since 9/11: West Africa,
South America, and Southeast Asia . For more than two years FTW has paid
close attention to a shift in US and NATO military presence West Africa,
Venezuela, Colombia, the Philippines and Indonesia . (Please see:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/index.html#oil )
Of particular interest here are the facts that on May 1 2003, through the
CIA 's Voice of America, NATO commander James Jones announced that NATO was
shifting its focus to West Africa; new US naval bases are being negotiated
in the tiny West African island nations of Sao Tome and Principe (Klare);
and that the US gave six naval warships to Nigeria last summer (Reuters,
CNN). Isn't it convenient that a US-friendly coup toppled the Sao Tome
government last July? (source: CNN)
As detailed by Klare, the importance of these regions is that while they
contain far smaller reserves than the Gulf, they can be brought online (and
drained) quickly to meet current demand without destabilizing the US
(world) economy. The tens and perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars
needed to invest in infrastructure to increase production in the Gulf will
come only when oil prices have soared enough to provide that capital. Don't
expect Wall Street to drain their reserves. They aren't going to pay for
it. You are.
Make no mistake, the oil companies and Wall Street are banking on severe
oil price spikes to fund this short-lived development and, almost as
importantly, to reduce consumption on an ad hoc basis as people find they
can't afford five or six-dollar gasoline and businesses shut down. The
world uses a billion barrels of oil every eleven and one half days and the
rate of consumption is growing. There is, at best, 500-600 billion barrels
in the Gulf, which can only be pumped if the investment is made over the
next ten years and begun immediately.
Do the math.
The vaunted "proven reserve" numbers touted by economists have been shown
to be as questionable as Enron's bookkeeping. FTW documented in April of
2002 that the US Geological Survey admits that it estimates reserves as a
function of demand . On January 9th 2004 Royal Dutch Shell announced that
it had overstated its proven reserves by 20 per cent. The markets reacted
accordingly.
When will the price spikes come? Within six months to a year of the 2004
election. Not - if George W. Bush can prevent it - before then.
FTW has spent 27 months exploring and educating people about all the
nuances involved in a world that is running out of hydrocarbon energy. We
have looked at its effects on transportation, electricity, economic growth
and contraction, political power, civilization and - perhaps most
importantly - food production. The coming showdown over the NEPDG records
is probably the single most important battle that can be fought to learn
the truth of 9/11 and the one overriding mandate that is now driving human
history.
I am not optimistic about the outcome.
WHY ACTIVISTS FAIL
There are two reasons why activist efforts to halt the inertia of the
Empire have failed and will continue to fail: human nature, and human
nature.
Activists all over the political spectrum are flailing about in the
post-9/11 world, spinning wheels, and throwing out idea after idea without
a unifying principle or a clearly stated goal. As has happened so many
times before with the victims of a dozen other instances of government
criminality, the new victims - like the New Jersey widows of 9/11 who are
known for their persistence in challenging government lies - make mistakes
that have been made before, put their faith in strategies that have been
tried before, and discount the wisdom and experience of those who have
suffered before. Human nature says that it is wrong to criticize victims.
Yet the new ones make a habit of ignoring the old ones, only to be replaced
and forgotten when the next, inevitably greater, crime takes place.
Each time a new tragedy strikes, whether it be 9/11, TWA 800 (a Navy
shootdown), CIA involvement in drug trafficking, Iran-Contra, Waco, The
Savings and Loan Scandal, the Enron shareholders, the Gander crash, or any
of a dozen other events in recent history, a new crop of people is
instantly and brutally transformed from people who once trusted the system
into people who have been betrayed by it. Psychologically and emotionally
raped, they rage. They vow to fight. The need to make the system that
failed them work as they were "taught" becomes a new imperative for their
sanity and emotional stability. They must believe that they can make people
listen to them, that they can "fix" it.
When, therefore, others who have been brutalized before them present
themselves with valuable experience and try to explain the lay of the land,
the new victims are faced with the awful responsibility of acknowledging
that they themselves had not listened or responded when their predecessors
cried out for help. They had been just as quick to say "I'm too busy" or
"That's a bunch of b.s. It couldn't be that way." Yet it is. The new
victims had once been as deaf as the rest of the world now appears to them.
Still they clutch at straws and cling to the illusion that "this time it
will be different". For their own sanity they must ignore the reality of
the people who came before them, when to listen and learn might provide a
unifying, if terrifying, focus that might ensure success. All it takes is
courage and a good map .
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR
But there is a deeper part of human nature which covers the planet in a
sickly, light-sweet-crude blanket of denial. It is best exemplified from
the closing lines of Sidney Pollack's 1975 Three Days of the Condor,
perhaps the best spy movie ever made. As FTW has shown in recent stories -
using declassified CIA documents - the CIA was well aware of Peak Oil in
the mid 1970s. Three Days of the Condor took that awful truth and said
then, what few in the post-9/11 world have had the courage to say. I can
guarantee you that it is the overriding rationale in Dick Cheney's mind, in
the mind of every senior member of the Bush administration, and in the mind
of whomever it is that will be chosen as the 2004 Democratic Party nominee.
Getting rid of Bush will not address the underlying causative factors of
energy and money and any solution that does not address those issues will
prove futile.
Turner (Robert Redford): "Do we have plans to invade the Middle East ?"
Higgins (Cliff Robertson): " Are you crazy?"
Turner: " Am I?"
Higgins: "Look, TurnerŠ"
Turner: "Do we have plans?"
Higgins: "No. Absolutely not. We have games. That's all. We play games.
What if? How many men? What would it take? Is there a cheaper way to
destabilize a régime? That's what we're paid to do."
Turner: "Go on. So Atwood just took the game too seriously. He was really
going to do it, wasn't he?"
Higgins: "It was a renegade operation. Atwood knew 54-12 would never
authorize it. There was no way, not with the heat on the Company."
Turner: "What if there hadn't been any heat? Supposing I hadn't stumbled on
a plan? Say nobody had?"
Higgins: "Different ball game. The fact is there was nothing wrong with the
plan. Oh, the plan was alright. The plan would have worked."
Turner: "Boy, what is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a
lie is the same thing as telling the truth?"
Higgins: "No. It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In 10 or 15
years - food, Plutonium. And maybe even sooner. Now what do you think the
people are gonna want us to do then?
Turner : " Ask them."
Higgins: "Not now - then. Ask them when they're running out. Ask them when
there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask them when their
engines stop. Ask them when people who've never known hunger start going
hungry. Do you want to know something? They won't want us to ask them.
They'll just want us to get it for them."
What do you want?

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/013004_in_your_face.html

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Knowledge is Power: Awareness

twan — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:55:05 GMT

Hello,

In cse you're interested, I have a list called the Awareness Network. It was created mainly for political activism and awareness, the type of awareness that you typically will NOT get from the mainstream media, mainly where it affects self-expression and first amendment rights, though not exclusively. In light of the fact that the mainstream media does not tell the whole story in a truthful way, and in fact intentionally misinforms the masses, this list serves up links and info of an non-mainstream nature, just so people can be better informed so as to make well thought out choices and take action on them based on facts that aren't widely publicized. You can subscribe by sending a message to the following link:

LA-BlackRock-subscribe@topica.com

Though political in nature, it is not boring, and it will pave the way for you to make your voice heard by providing links and easy avenues to communicate with your Senators and Representives in local, state, and federal politics. Do not be fooled. You make the difference! "They" love your indiffernce. It allows them to do as they wish simply because they know you will not be participating in the political process. Simple action is required on your part. It need not be time consuming or laborious. My team will make it easy to participate in the political process. You just need to participate!

Silence is the killer. Don't!

If you want to participate in this forum, please click the link above or visit the URL below, and emails will arrive to you from time to time.

Looking forward to making some progress with you all.

Website URL: http://www.topica.com/lists/LA-BlackRock

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Pizza Orders in a Few Years' Time....

twan — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 09:04:36 GMT

Pizza Hut orders in a few years

Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your national ID number?"

Customer: "Hi, I'd like to place an order."

Operator: "May I have your NIDN first, sir?"

Customer: "My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, eh, it's 6102049998-45-54610."

Operator: "Thank you, Mr. Sheehan. I see you live at 1742 Meadowland Drive, and the phone number's 494-2366. Your office number over at Lincoln Insurance is 745-2302 and your cell number's 266-2566. Which number are you calling from, sir?"

Customer: "Huh? I'm at home. Where d'ya get all this information?"

Operator: "We're wired into the system, sir."

Customer: (Sighs) "Oh, well, I'd like to order a couple of your All-Meat Special pizzas."

Operator: "I don't think that's a good idea, sir."

Customer: "Whaddya mean?"

Operator: "Sir, your medical records indicate that you've got very high blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol. Your National Health Care provider won't allow such an unhealthy choice."

Customer: "Darn. What do you recommend, then?"

Operator: "You might try our low-fat Soybean Pizza. I'm sure you'll like it."

Customer: "What makes you think I'd like something like that?"

Operator: "Well, you checked out 'Gourmet Soybean Recipes' from your local library last week, sir. That's why I made the suggestion."

Customer: "All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones, then."

Operator: "That should be plenty for you, your wife and your four kids, sir. Your total is $49.99." Customer: "Lemme give you my credit card number."

Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to pay in cash. Your credit card balance is over its limit."

Customer: "I'll run over to the ATM and get some cash before your driver gets here."

Operator: "That won't work either, sir. Your checking account's overdrawn."

Customer: "Never mind. Just send the pizzas. I'll have the cash ready. How long will it take?"

Operator: "We're running a little behind, sir. It'll be about 45 minutes, sir. If you're in a hurry you might want to pick 'em up while you're out getting the cash, but carrying pizzas on a motorcycle can be a little awkward."

Customer: "How the heck do you know I'm riding a bike?"

Operator: "It says here you're in arrears on your car payments, so your car got repo'ed. But your Harley's paid up.

Customer: "@#%/$@&?#!"

Operator: "I'd advise watching your language, sir. You've already got a July 2006 conviction for cussing out a cop."

Customer: (Speechless)

Operator: "Will there be anything else, sir?"

Customer: "Yes, I have a coupon for a free 2 liter of Coke".

Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but our ad's exclusionary clause prevents us from offering free soda to diabetics."

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More PATRIOT act Action

twan — Thu, 05 Feb 2004 19:50:51 GMT

Please go to the link below and write to your Senators. It's en easy process.A coule of clicks and you're done.

Despite an unprecedented public relations offensive by Attorney General Ashcroft and a veto threat from the White House, Congress is moving toward revising the Patriot Act’s most dangerous provisions.
Buoyed by the groundswell of opposition -- more than 245 communities and 3 states have passed resolutions in opposition to the PATRIOT Act -- momentum is building for legislation that would correct PATRIOT Act provisions that allow for unwarranted investigations of personal records, authorize secret “sneak and peek” searches and roll back judicial oversight.
This corrective legislation -- the SAFE Act -- would not repeal commonsense provisions in the PATRIOT Act, but would instead revise those provisions that infringe on our civil liberties without making us any safer. Yet even this modest bill drew the wrath of Attorney General Ashcroft who falsely said that it would, “make it even more difficult to mount an effective anti-terror campaign than it was before the Patriot Act was passed."

Take Action! Tell your Members of Congress to cosponsor the SAFE Act so we can be both safe and free.
Click here for more information and to send a free fax to your Members of Congress:
http://www.aclu.org/NationalSecurity/NationalSecurity.cfm?ID=13907&c=24

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Under-covered Domestic Terrorism Story

Mary — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:49:37 GMT

This story was originally from the Christian Science Monitor:

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=6592

Teaser:

"Last month, an east Texas man pleaded guilty to possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Inside the home and storage facilities of William Krar, investigators found a sodium-cyanide bomb capable of killing thousands, more than a hundred explosives, half a million rounds of ammunition, dozens of illegal weapons, and a mound of white-supremacist and antigovernment literature.

"Without question, it ranks at the very top of all domestic terrorist arrests in the past 20 years in terms of the lethality of the arsenal," says Daniel Levitas, author of "The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right."

But outside Tyler, Texas, the case is almost unknown. In the past nine months, there have been two government press releases and a handful of local stories, but no press conference and no coverage in the national newspapers."

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Lyrics

Thu, 22 Jan 2004 06:15:46 GMT

Brainwashed in our childhood
Brainwashed by the school
Brainwashed by our teachers
and brainwashed by their rules

Brainwashed by our leaders
By our Kings and Queens
Brainwashed in the open and brainwashed
behind the scenes

God God God
A voice cried in the wilderness
God God God
it was on the longest night
God God God
An eternity of darkness
God God God
Someone turned out the spiritual light

Brainwashed by the Nikkei
Brainwashed by Dow Jones
Brainwashed by the FTSE
Nasdaq and secure loans
Brainwashed us from Brussels
Brainwashing us in Bonn
Brainwashing us in Washington
Westminster in London

God God God
You are the wisdom that we seek
God God God
The lover that we miss
God God God
Your nature is eternity
God God God
You are Existance, Knowlwedge, Bliss

The soul does not love, it is love itself
It does not exist, It is existence itself
It does not know, It is knowledge itself
"How to Know God" Page 130

They brainwashed my great uncle
Brainwashed my cousin Bob
They even got my grandma when she was
working for the mob
Brainwash you while you're sleeping
While you're in a traffic jam
Brainwash you while you're weeping
While still a baby in your pram
Brainwashed by the Military
Brainwashed under duress
Brainwashed by the media
You're brainwashed by the press
Brainwashed by computer
Brainwashed by mobile phones
Brainwashed by the satellite
Brainwashed to the bone

God God God
Won't you lead us through this mess
God God God
From the places of concrete
God God God
Nothing's worse than ignorance
God God God
I just won't accept defeat

God God God
Must be something I forgot
God God God
Down on Bullshit Avenue
God God God
If we can only stop the rot
God God God
Wish that you'd brainwash us too

Namah Parvati Pataye Hara Hara Mahadev
Namah Parvati Pataye Hara Hara
Namah Parvati Pataye Hara Hara

Shiva Shiva Shankara Mahadeva
Hara Hara Hara Hara Mahadeva
Shiva Shiva Shankara Mahadeva
Shiva Shiva Shankara Mahadeva

Namah Parvati Pataye Hara Hara
Namah Parvati Pataye Hara Hara
Shiva Shiva Shankara Mahadeva
Shiva Shiva Shankara Mahadeva

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TOXIC PSYCHIATRY

bromatt — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:45:02 GMT

TOXIC PSYCHIATRY
by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.

TOXIC PSYCHIATRY: Why therapy, empathy, and love must replace the drugs, electroshock, and biochemical theories of the "new psychiatry."

"Dr. Peter Breggin is the conscience of American psychiatry." --Bertram P. Karon, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University, author of The Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia.

"Breggin is a one-man intellectual SWAT team, launching an all-out attack against the deception, half truths and downright lies of psychiatry." --Jeffrey Mousaieff Masson, PhD., author of When Elephants Weep and The Assault on Truth

Prozac, Ritalin, Xanax, Halcion, Haldol, Lithium. These psychiatric drugs--and dozens of other short-term "solutions"--are being prescribed by doctors across the country as a quick antidote to depression, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, ADHD, post- traumatic stress disorder, and other psychiatric problems. But at what cost?

In this searing, myth-shattering expose', psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, M.D., breaks through the hype and false promises surrounding the "New Psychiatry." He shows how dangerous, even potentially brain-damaging, many of its drugs and treatments are. He asserts that psychiatric drugs are spreading an epidemic of long-term brain damage; that mental "illnesses" like schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety disorder have never been proven to be genetic or even physical in origin, but are under the jurisdiction of medical doctors; that millions of school children, housewives, elderly people and other vulnerable people are labeled with medical diagnoses and treated with biological interventions, rather than being patiently listened to, understood, and helped.

This book provides invaluable and detailed discussions of the potential damaging side effects of the various psychiatric drugs and electroshock, as well as offering hopeful alternatives. It places the "New Psychiatry" within the larger context of the psychopharmaceutical complex who's biggest priority is the financial bottom line.

If you only get one book to start with, it should be Toxic Psychiatry.

Excerpt:
Chapter 11:

Suppressing the Passion of Anxiety Overwhelm with Drugs: The Minor Tranquilizers, Including Xanax, Valium, BuSpar, Ativan, and Halcion, and the Antidepressant Anafranil

Just as the 1980s was the decade in which those suffering from various forms of depression were identified and treated, so, [NIMH director Lewis] Judd and other specialists hope, the 1990s will be the era when the recognition and treatment of anxiety disorders predominate. Judd recently announced that NIMH will launch a national education and prevention campaign, which, he says, "will be pointed toward early identification and diagnosis." -Washington Post Health, May 22, 1990
From the U. S. Congress to the American public, psychiatry's marketing strategy for the 1990s aims at people who feel anxious.

It has become an axiom within modern economics that advertising actually creates consumer needs. By targeting people suffering from anxiety, psychiatry should be able to generate an unlimited demand for its drugs. Prescriptions for one class of these drugs, the benzodiazepines, already are estimated at nearly one hundred million a year in the United States, for a cost of about $500 million. Some estimates place the total cost at $800 million or more.

This chapter will give special attention to two minor tranquilizers that have drawn considerable publicity. One is BuSpar (buspirone), whose potentially damaging effects have been largely ignored, even in the psychiatric literature. The other is Xanax (alprazolam), one of the most intensively marketed and yet dangerous drugs in psychiatry. Then chapter 15 will focus on the political campaign that made Xanax so successful.

Unlike most of the drugs discussed in this book, the minor tranquilizers are highly sought after. Even without doctors pushing them, people would want them. Indeed, they are actively sold illegally on the street. This is not surprising, since people often resort to taking anything that promises even temporary relief from anxiety. Millions drink alcohol, smoke cig-arettes, and use marijuana, opiates, and other street drugs. Others eat excessively, exercise compulsively, work to exhaustion, watch TV endlessly, escape into books, relentlessly pursue sex, and overindulge any number of otherwise harmless habits in an attempt to escape their tensions and apprehensions. In chapter 10 we saw that obsessions, compulsions, and phobias also can be seen as efforts to control anxiety. Overall, psychiatric interventions play a relatively minor role in humanity's never- ending struggle to deal with anxiety.

The Minor Tranquilizers and Other Sedative-Hypnotics

Among psychiatric medications for the treatment of anxiety, the most commonly used are the minor tranquilizers, starting in 1957 with the introduction of Librium (chlordiazepoxide). In the 1970s the minor tranquilizer Valium (diazepam) topped the charts as the most widely prescribed drug in America, to be replaced by Xanax in 1986. Most of the minor tranquilizers belong to the group called benzodiazepines and are closely related chemically to Librium, Valium, and Xanax. They differ mostly in their duration of action and in the dosage required to achieve the same effect. They have nearly identical clinical effects.
The benzodiazepine minor tranquilizers include Xanax, Valium, Librium, Tranxene (clorazepate), Paxipam (halazepam), Centrax or Verstran (prazepam), Klonopin (formerly Clonopin) (clonazepam), Dalmane (flurazepam), Serax (oxazepam), Ativan (lorazepam), Restoril (temazepam), and Halcion (triazolam).

An older minor tranquilizer is Miltown or Equanil (meprobamate). (*The drugs are called "minor" tranquilizers to distinguish them from "major" tranquilizers, but nowadays the latter are called neuroleptics or antipsychotics. While the minor tranquilizers might now simply be called tranquilizers, that term itself is somewhat misleading. Basically they are sedatives. )

Other minor tranquilizers are chemically antihistamines, such as Atarax or Vistaril (hydroxyzine).
Sleeping medications also have tranquilizing effects. These include Doriden (glutethimide), Noludar (methyprylon), Placidyl (ethchlorvynol), and Noctec, Somnos, or Beta-Chlor (chloral hydrate), and the various barbiturates, including Seconal (secobarbital), Luminal (phenobarbital), Butibel (butabarbital), Amytal (amobarbital), Nembutal (pentobarbital), and Tuinal (amobarbital and secobarbital).
All of these drugs have the potential for abuse and addiction. Since all have a calming or sedative effect, people addicted to these "downers" use many of them interchangeably, depending on what is available, often mixing them with alcohol. The minor tranquilizers and alcohol make a very dangerous, frequently lethal, combination. BuSpar, the most recent addition to the minor tranquilizers, is being promoted as nonsedative, nonaddictive, and relatively safe.

The Most Widely Used Psychiatric Drugs

According to FDA data reported by Carlene Baum and her associates in the February 1988 Medical Care, there was a dramatic decline in the use of minor tranquilizers and other antianxiety drugs, from a peak of 103 million prescriptions in 1975 to 67 million in 1981 in the United States. There are no complete totals available for recent years, but the APA's task force report, Benzodiazepine Dependence, Toxicity and Abuse (1990), estimates that annual prescriptions for benzodiazepines have leveled off since the mid-1980s at about 61 million.

The minor tranquilizers, now led by Xanax, remain by far the most commonly prescribed psychiatric medications. In some countries, such as France, the use of these agents continues to escalate.
Most minor tranquilizer prescriptions-65 percent-were for women in 1984. However, women predominate in all psychiatric drug categories. Thirty-five percent of all patients were sixty years of age or older.

Are the Minor Tranquilizers Something New?

Because of the popularity surrounding the minor tranquilizers, we tend to think that they represent something very new and radically different among drugs; but I recall my medical school professor of psychopharmacology reminding us in 1960 that the sedative attributes of minor tranquilizers differ little from those of the barbiturates, such as phenobarbital…..

Sedative-Hypnotics and Central Nervous System Depression

All of the commonly used minor tranquilizers-with the possible exception of BuSpar-are central nervous system depressants very similar to alcohol and barbiturates in their clinical effects. Along with alcohol and barbiturates, they are classified as sedative-hypnotics,3 meaning that they produce relaxation (sedation) at lower doses and sleep (hypnosis) and eventually coma at higher ones. It is important to grasp the principle that minor tranquilizers are central nervous system depressants-and, in particular, sedative-hypnotics-because this classification removes the mystery surrounding these "tranquilizers." The so-called antianxiety effect is merely an early stage of central nervous system depression-sedation.4 The basic clinical effect on the mind cannot be distinguished from alcohol or barbiturates.
It should be emphasized again that all minor tranquilizers combine with each other or with other central nervous system depressants-such as barbiturates, antidepressants, neuroleptics, lithium, and alcohol-with a potentially fatal result. While they can be lethal when taken alone, they are especially dangerous in combination with these other drugs. A large percentage of drug-related emergency room visits involve minors tranquilizers.

All of the minor tranquilizers impair mental alertness and physical coordination and can dangerously compromise mechanical performance, such as automobile driving.
At low doses the minor tranquilizers are sufficiently potent to impact noticeably on the brain waves on routine EEGs, especially in the frontal lobe region. However, they do not typically have the lobotomizing impact epitomized by the neuroleptics.

Addiction, Tolerance, and Withdrawal Symptoms

All hypnotic-sedatives, including the minor tranquilizers, are habit forming and addictive and can produce withdrawal symptoms or an abstinence syndrome when they are stopped. In the extreme, the abstinence syndrome can cause life-threatening neurological reactions, including fever, psychosis, and seizures. Less severe withdrawal symptoms include increased heart rate and lowered blood pressure; shakiness; loss of appetite; muscle cramps; impairment of memory, concentration, and orientation; abnormal sounds in the ears and blurred vision; and insomnia, agitation, anxiety, panic, and derealization. Obvious withdrawal symptoms typically last two to four weeks. Subtle ones can last months.

Consistent with the principle that the minor tranquilizers differ little in their clinical effect from other sedatives, the Xanax write-up in the 1991 PDR acknowledges that withdrawal symptoms are "similar in character to those noted with barbiturates and alcohol."

Studies of Xanax (see ahead) show that most patients develop withdrawal symptoms during routine treatment lasting only eight weeks. Tolerance, or the need for increasing doses to achieve the same psychoactive effect, is the underlying physical mechanism of addiction. Within two to four weeks, tolerance can develop to the sedative effect of minor tranquilizers taken at night for sleep. 5 This again warns against the use of these drugs for more than a few days at a time.

The short-acting benzodiazepines can produce especially severe withdrawal symptoms, because the drug is cleared from the body at a relatively rapid rate. These include Xanax, Halcion, Ativan, Restoril, and Serax. However, according to expert Louis Fabre in a February 1991 interview with me, tightness of binding to receptors is probably more indicative of addictive potential, and the most tightly binding are Xanax, Halcion, Ativan, and Klonopin.

Individuals who take only one pill daily for sleep or anxiety are not exempt from withdrawal problems. In my private practice during the last few years I have worked with several people who were unable to stop taking a once-a-day standard dose of Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, or other minor tranquilizers. In each case, the attempt to stop the medication led to a disturbing degree of anxiety or insomnia within twenty-four hours. The problem seemed to be caused by rebound anxiety or rebound insomnia (see ahead). In a personal communication in late December 1990, internist John Steinberg confirmed that patients taking one Xanax tablet each day for several weeks can become addicted. Steinberg is medical director of the Chemical Dependency Program at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center and president of the Maryland Society of Addiction Medicine. He points to research that Xanax and other short-acting benzodiazepines can cause a reactive hyperactivity of the receptors that they block. The hyperactive receptors then require one or more doses of Xanax each day or they produce anxiety and emotional discomfort. Steinberg calls the impact of Xanax "a fundamental change in the homeostasis of the brain." After the patient stops taking the Xanax, according to Steinberg, it takes the brain six to eighteen months to recover. Xanax patients should be warned, he says, that it can take a long time to get over painful withdrawal symptoms. Since doctors frequently don't realize this, they, too, are likely to be confused and to continue the drug in the hope of "treating" the patient's drug-induced anxiety and tension.

Many detoxification beds are occupied by patients addicted to minor tranquilizers and even more by those who are cross-addicted with alcohol and other drugs. Steinberg says that Xanax is "by far and away" the worst offender and that it definitely causes addiction without being mixed with other sedatives. Steinberg estimates that one in ten patients receiving Xanax will become addicted. * (Based on an estimated fifteen million people receiving Xanax each year in the United States, Steinberg concludes that 1.5 million Xanax addicts are produced each year.

(* Steinberg does not use the term addiction loosely. By addiction he means that the patient periodically loses control of his or her drug intake and has a pattern of compulsive use, despite adverse consequences. If Steinberg were merely speaking of habituation, or difficulty stopping the use of the drug, his estimates would be much higher. He considers Xanax "very easily habituating" and observes that people are especially susceptible to the initial "euphoria or disinhibiting effect" that it has in common with alcohol. l)

Rebound Anxiety and Insomnia

Rebound anxiety is one of the common reactions to withdrawal or to dose reduction of a minor tranquilizer. As with most psychiatric drugs, the use of the medication eventually causes an increase of the very symptoms that the drug is supposed to ameliorate, and thus rebound anxiety can lead to a false diagnosis of chronic anxiety disorder. As noted in the American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Psychiatry, long-term treatment can be erroneously maintained or reinstated when drug-induced rebound anxiety occurs. Addiction is the ultimate outcome.

Some experts, such as John Steinberg, disagree with my assertion that there is no difference between a tranquilizing and a sedative effect. They suspect that in addition to the obvious sedation, minor tranquilizers probably also produce a specific inhibition of anxiety. If true, this means that they also cause a specific rebound anxiety as the blocked receptors become hyperactive.

Rebound insomnia also results from taking most sleeping medications, because the brain reacts against the central nervous system (CNS) depressant effects by becoming more aroused or alert. Medications for sleep generally should not be taken for more than a day or two at a time.

Addiction Can Go Unnoticed

Seriously addicted patients may show no outward signs to their family or physicians until accidentally removed from the medication-for example, following surgery or during a medical emergency. Their withdrawal symptoms may then be wholly misinterpreted as an aspect of some other disorder or as a psychological problem. Marked withdrawal symptoms, including persistent rebound anxiety, can begin as much as five to seven days after stopping the medication and can last up to a month.

Paradoxical Reactions

The minor tranquilizers can produce paradoxical reactions-acute agitation, confusion, disorientation, anxiety, and aggression-especially in children, adults with brain disease, and the elderly. The Xanax report in the 1991 PDR states, "As with all benzodiazepines, paradoxical reactions such as stimulation, agitation, rage, increased muscle spasticity, sleep disturbances, hallucinations and other adverse behavioral effects may occur in rare instances and in a random fashion."

In nursing homes the medications may seem to help the insomnia of an elderly patient for a night or two, only to produce generalized brain dysfunction as the medication accumulates in the system. The agitated patient may then be mistakenly overdosed with further medication, perhaps a neuroleptic. According to Robert Hales and Stuart Yudofsky's Textbook of Neuropsychiatry (1987), the "routine" prescription of these medications in nursing homes and hospitals "should be avoided," especially for anything but brief periods of insomnia related to a particularly difficult or stressful situation.
As in response to alcohol, some people more readily lose their self control and become violent when taking minor tranquilizers. There are frequent references to this in the literature, including cases of murder under the influence of minor tranquilizers. Partly because of this disinhibiting effect, the drugs cannot be used effectively for purposes of controlling behavior within institutions.
Halcion has been especially implicated in causing aggressive and suicidal behavior, as well as delirium, hallucinations, and seizures.

Memory Dysfunction from Minor Tranquilizers

Recently there has been much-publicized concern about Halcion producing amnesia for events prior to the taking of the drug. However, this has long been an unheralded problem with minor tranquilizers in general. Years ago I recall noticing that patients who mixed alcohol with Valium the night before a psychotherapy session sometimes would have severe black-out spells and could not recall much of the prior evening. It is well known that the intravenous infusion of benzodiazepines, such as Valium or Ativan, typically produces a similar amnesia for the several hours surrounding the infusion. While this may be a benefit in forgetting the painful effects of surgery, it becomes a potentially serious problem in the routine use of the minor tranquilizers for anxiety or sleep disorders and can interfere with psychotherapy, studying, learning anything new, or recalling previously retained memories.

Long-Term Effects on Mental Function from the Minor Tranquilizers

Despite the obvious need for concern, few studies have attempted to measure the impact of long-term minor tranquilizer usage on overall mental function. Susan Golombok and her colleagues from the Institute of Psychiatry in London published "Cognitive Impairment in Long-Term Benzodiazepine Users" in the 1988 Psychological Medicine. Using a variety of neuropsychological tests to evaluate the impact of minor tranquilizers on cognitive function in patients who were administered the medication for at least one year, they found chronic impairment in measures of visual-spatial ability and attention span.

Golombok and her coworkers were unable to follow up with tests after drug termination. However, these findings of chronic brain dysfunction raise a serious concern about possible permanency. The investigators comment: "It is impossible to determine how long it is safe for a patient to continue to take benzodiazepines, or at what dose, before cognitive ability will begin to deteriorate. Nevertheless, it is clear from the inspection of our data that taking a low dose for a short time has little effect, while a high intake is almost always certainly harmful." (P. 371)

The test results indicate that "these patients are not functioning well in everyday life," while they remain unaware of their impairment: "This is in line with clinical evidence that patients who withdraw from their medication often report improved concentration and increased sensory appreciation and that only after withdrawal do they realize that they have been functioning below par.... It appears, therefore, that not only are long-term benzodiazepine users at risk of dependence, but that cognitive impairment also represents a very real hazard." (P. 373)

It cannot be overemphasized that brain-disabling treatments render patients less able to evaluate their own dysfunction. The Golombok study is exceedingly important from the viewpoint of the patient who wishes to avoid brain dysfunction and from the viewpoint of the ethical physician who wishes to avoid causing it in his or her patients.

If doctors wish to prescribe minor tranquilizers or if patients want to take them, it would be prudent to follow the advice of The New Harvard Guide to Psychiatry ( 1988): "The main usefulness of the antianxiety agents is in general medicine in the short-term treatment of relatively transient forms of anxiety, fear, and tension" (p. 524).

Brain Shrinkage from Long-Term Minor Tranquilizer Use

An even more terrifying specter haunts the long-term use of minor tranquilizers-the possibility of brain atrophy. Although rarely mentioned in establishment books or reviews, in their letter to the editor in the July 1989 Archives of General Psychiatry, Isaac Marks and his ten colleagues summarize the as yet brief literature: "The cerebral ventricular enlargement reported in patients with anxiety/panic disorders who were long-term benzodiazepine users could be due to the disorder or to other factors rather than to the drugs, but wisdom advises caution" (p. 669). In fact, the cerebral ventricular enlargement-the equivalent of atrophy of the brain-is most likely due to the drugs. C. Schmauss and J-C. Kreig in "Enlargement of Cerebrospinal Fluid Spaces in Long-Term Benzodiazepine Abusers" in the 1987 Biological Medicine found that "our data suggest that the increase in the VBRs [ventricular enlargement] is dose-dependent on long-term BDZ [benzodiazepine] medication" (p. 873).
I mentioned the studies on brain atrophy to one expert who replied that although he had not heard of them, he was not surprised. "The minor tranquilizers are like alcohol," he observed, "and alcohol when used long-term causes brain shrinkage." He asked to remain anonymous for fear of offending other drug experts.

About the Author
Peter R. Breggin, M.D. began in the full time private practice of psychiatry in 1968. Dr. Breggin has been informing the professions, media and the public about the potential dangers of drugs, electroshock, psychosurgery, involuntary treatment, and the biological theories of psychiatry for over three decades. He is the author of dozens of scientific articles and more than fifteen professional books about psychiatric medication, the FDA and drug approval process, the evaluation of clinical trials, and standards of care in psychiatry and related fields.

In 1972 he founded The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) as a nonprofit research and educational network. The Center is c oncerned with the impact of mental health theory and practices upon individual well-being, personal freedom, and family and community values. He also founded the peer-review journal, Ethical Human Sciences and Services.

For thirty years Dr. Breggin has served as a medical expert in many civil and criminal suits including product liability suits against the manufacturers of psychiatric drugs. His work provided the scientific basis for the original combined Prozac suits and for the more recent Ritalin class action suits.
Dr. Breggin's background includes Harvard College, Case Western Reserve Medical School, a teaching fellowship at Harvard Medical School, a two-year staff appointment to the National Institute of Mental Health, and a faculty appointment to the Johns Hopkins University Department of Counseling.

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Memes: Thought Contagions

twan — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 20:01:20 GMT

The followig link is about Memes (pronounced: meems), which is a scientific study undertaken since the late '60's investigating the manner in which thoughts and ideas proliferate, be they based in truth or not:

http://www.memecentral.com/

Twan

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Terrorists are EVERYWHERE!!!

Thu, 08 Jan 2004 20:03:16 GMT

Get ready to panic...

http://www.terrorready.net/index.asp

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Dick Sutphen's Battle for your mind...

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 21:44:47 GMT

http://www.ctyme.com/bwash/bwash.htm

Here's a great article on brainwashing (or Brianwashing, depending on your spelling and how dirty Brian is...) and conversion techniques. He applies it to evangelists, but you can see how easily it works on political and corporate levels too.

Your tv is basically a giant Alpha state induction machine and you need more socks and guns from Walmart... now!
Be sure to read the section on the experiment where the tv shuts off once an Alpha state is induced... no one could keep it on for more than 30 seconds!

Interesting stuff.

You are getting sleepy, you are getting sleepy, you are getting <yawn> sleepy, you are getting... zzzzzzzzzzzzz

-jc

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FYI: Brainwashing Technique of the Powerful

twan — Thu, 25 Dec 2003 08:35:31 GMT

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Hello Tribesters,

Thanx for being here. I found this little tidbit quite a while ago. Thought I'd share it here with y'all. Thought it fit in with the Brainwashing motiff of this list.

Twan

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The Illuminati manipulate humanity through the mind and emotions. There are too many people and too few Illuminati to control people physically, except on a small scale. They have to manipulate the way the masses think and feel, so we live our lives and see the world in the way the Illuminati want us to.

For instance, the most powerful of the manipulation techniques is known simply as Problem-Reaction-Solution. It
works like this:

You want to introduce something you know the people won't like. This may be more power to the police, a further erosion of basic freedoms, even a war. You know that if you offer these policies openly the people will react against them.

(1.) So you first create a PROBLEM: a rising crime rate, more violence, a terrorist bomb, a government collapse, or you get one of your Illuminati puppets like Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden to go to war. You make sure someone else is blamed for this problem and not you, the real people behind it all. So you create a "patsy", a Timothy McVeigh or a Lee Harvey Oswald. You then use your media to tell people what they should think about your manufactured event and who they should blame for it.

(2.) This brings us to stage two, the REACTION from the people: "This can't go on! What are THEY going to do about it?" A predictable response given the manufactured "circumstances".

(3.) This allows THEY to then openly offer the SOLUTION to the problems they have created - new legislation which advances their agenda of centralization of global power or the erosion of more basic freedoms.

This technique is being used all the time on the human mind and emotions. It produces great results as it has for a long, long time, and continues to do so today, perhaps better than ever, with the mainstream media the way it is: controlled by so few supermega conglomerates...

Just thought you'd like to know.

Have a nice day

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