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[Continued from part 4]
   
   She is not alone. Another has been so affected by gun fever
that he became a security guard, just to be near the things[171].
The abductees I have spoken to connect this sudden surge of
Ramboism to the UFO experience. But I suggest  that the UFO
experience may be merely a cover story for another type of
training entirely.
   One of the primary goals of BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, and MKULTRA
was to  determine whether mind control could be used to faciliate
"executive action"-- i.e., assassination[172].
   It isn't difficult to imagine the media's reaction if a public
figure were murdered by someone acting at the behest of the
"space brothers."  Who would dare to speak of conspiracy under
such circumstances? The hidden controllers could choose a myth
structure that conform's to the abductee's personality, then pose
as higher beings, who would whisper violence into the ear of the
percipient. Using this ruse, the trick that scientists such as
Ludwig Mayer could perform in the lab might now be accomplished
in the field. As  Estabrooks' associate Jack Tracktir (professor
of hypnotherapy at Baylor  University) explained to John Marks,
anti-social acts can be induced with  "no conscience involved"
once the proper pretext has been created[173]. 

"THEY WILL THINK IT'S FLYING SAUCERS"

   Jenny Randles contributes an anecdote from Great Britain which
dovetails nicely with this hypothesis.
   In 1965, "Margary" (a pseudonym) lived in Birmingham with her
husband, who one night told her to prepare for a "shock and a
test."  As Randles describes what she calls a "rogue case":

         They got into his car and drove off, although her memory
      of the trip became hazy and confused and she does not know
      where they went. Then she was in a room that was dimly lit
      and there were people standing around a long table or flat
      bed. She was out on it and seemed "drugged" and unable to
      resist. The most memorable of the men was tall and thin with
      a long nose and white beard. He had thick eyebrows and
      supposedly said to Margary, "Remember the eyebrows, honey."
      A strange medical examination, using odd equipment, was
      performed on her.

   Both the husband and the scientists, using (apparently)
hypnotic techniques, flooded her mind with images that, she was
told, would be understood only in the future. According to
Randles, "At one point one of the 'examiners' in the room said to
Margary in a tone that made it seem as if he were amused, "THEY
WILL THINK IT'S FLYING SAUCERS."  The husband also revealed that
he had a  second identity. After the abduction, this husband (am
I going too far to  assume his employment with MI6 or some
cognate agency?) left, never to be seen again[174]. Margary did
not recall the abduction until 1978.
   This affair can only baffle a researcher who insists on
fitting all  abduction accounts into the ET hypothesis; once we
free ourselves from that  set of assumptions, explanations come
easily. I interpret this incident as a case in which the
controllers applied the flying saucer cover story sloppily, or to
an insufficiently receptive subject. If my thesis is correct, the
UFO "hypnotic hoax" technique would still have been fairly new in
1965, particular- ly outside the United States; perhaps the
manipulators hadn't yet got the hang of it. The odd comment about
the scientist's eyebrows may refer to an item of disguise donned
for the occasion. The unscrupulous hypnotist, unsure about his
ability to induce an impenetrable amnesia -- and mindful of the
price paid by his forerunners in mesmeric criminality[175] --
would understandably want to hedge his bets; by indulging in the
British penchant for theatrics, he could further protect his
anonymity.
   A similar incident was brought to my attention by researcher
Robert Durant. The relevant excerpt of his letter follows:

         Now I want to turn to a case that I have been
      investigating for several months. The subject is an 
      abductee. Standard abduction scenario. Twice regressed 
      under hypnosis, the first time by a well-known abduction 
      researcher, the second time by a psychologist with 
      parapsychology connections.
         In the course of many hours of listening to the subject,
      I discovered that she has had close personal contact over a
      long period of time with several individuals who have federal
      intelligence connections. She was hypnotized many years ago
      as part of a TV program devoted to hypnosis. Her abductions
      began shortly after she attended several long sessions at a
      laboratory where, ostensibly, she was being tested for ESP
      abilities. Two other people who were "tested" at this same
      laboratory have also had abductions. All three were told by
      the lab to join a local UFO group. During her abductions,
      the principal alien spoke to the subject in the English 
      language in a normal manner, not via telepathy. She 
      recognized the voice, which was at one time that of her very 
      close friend of yesteryear who was then and is now employed 
      by the CIA. The other voice was that of an individual who 
      works in Washington, has what I will call very strong 
      federal connections as well as a finger in every ufological 
      pie, and who just happened to bump into her at the 
      aforementioned laboratory. He also anticipated, in the 
      course of telephone conversations, her abductions. When the 
      subject confronted him about this and the voice, he claimed 
      to be psychic. (!)[176]

   The "ESP" connection is suggestive; the MKULTRA documents
betray an astonishing interest on the part of the intelligence
agencies in matters parapsychological.
   Some researchers would object that examples such as this are
rare; most abductions contain no such overt indications of
intelligence involvement. But have investigators looked for them?
As mentioned in the introduction, a false dichotomy limits much
ufological thought; as long as the abduction argument swings
between the ET hypothesis and purely psychological theories,
researchers will not recognize the relevance of certain key items
of back- ground data.

GLIMPSES OF THE CONTROLLERS

   In an interview with me, a northern-California abducteee --
call him "Peter" -- reported an experience which was conducted
NOT by a small grey alien, but by a human being. The percipient
called this man a "doctor."  He gave a descrip- tion of this
individual, and even provided a drawing.
   Some time after I gathered this information, a
southern-California abductee told me her story -- which included
a description of this very same "doctor." The physical details
were so strikingly similar as to erase coincidence. This woman is
a leading member of a Los Angeles-based UFO group; three other
women in this group report abduction encounters with the same
individual[177].
   Perhaps those three women were fantasists, attaching
themselves to another's narrative. But my northern informant
never met these people. Why did he describe the same "doctor"?
   One of the abductees I have dealt with insisted, under
hypnosis, that her abduction experience brought her to a certain
house in the Los Angeles area. She was able to provide directions
to the house, even though she had no  conscious memory of ever
being there. I later learned that this house is indeed occupied
by a scientist who formerly (and perhaps currently) conducted
clandestine research on mind control technology.
   This same abductee described a clandestine brain operation of
some sort she underwent in childhood. The neurosurgeon was a
human being, not an alien. She even recalled the name. (Note:
This is not the same individual referred to above.)  When I heard
the name, it meant nothing to me -- but later I learned that
there really was a scientist of that name who specialzed in
electrode implant research.
   Licia Davidson is a thoughtful and articulate abductee, whose
fascinating story closely parallels many found in the abductee
literature -- except for one unusual detail. In an interview with
me, described an unsettling recollection of a human being,
dressed normally, holding a black box with a protruding antenna.
This odd snippet of memory did NOT coincide with the general
thrust of her abduction narrative. Could this remembrance
represent an all-too-brief segment of accurately-perceived
reality interrupting her hypnotically-induced "screen memory"?
Peter clearly recalls seeing a similar box during his abduction.
   Interestingly, Licia resides in the Los Angeles suburb of
Tujunga Canyon, a prominent spot on the abduction map; Many of
the abductees I have spoken to first had unusual experiences
while living in this area. Near Tujunga Canyon, in Mt. Pacifico,
is a hidden former Nike missile base; more than one abductee has
described odd, seemingly inexplicable military activity around
this location[178]. The reader will recall the connection of Nike
missile bases to the disturbing story of Dr. L. Jolyon West, a
veteran of MKULTRA.

CULTS

   Some abductees I have spoken to have been directed to join
certain religious/philosophical sects. These cults often bear
close examination.
   The leaders of these groups tend to be "ex"-CIA operatives, or
Special Forces veterans. They are often linked through personal
relations, even though they espouse widely varying traditions. I
have heard unsettling  reports that the leaders of some of these
groups have used hypnosis, drugs, or "mind machines" on their
charges. Members of these cults have reported periods of missing
time during ceremonies or "study periods."
   I strongly urge abduction researchers to examine closely any
small "occult" groups an abductee might join. For example, one
familiar leader of the UFO fringe -- a man well-known for his
espousal of the doctrine of "love and light" -- is Virgil
Armstrong, a close personal friend of General John Singlaub, the
notorious Iran-Contra player, who recently headed the neo-fascist
World Anti- Communist League. Armstrong, who also happens to be
an ex-Green Beret and former CIA operative, figured into my
inquiry in an interesting fashion: An abductee of my acquaintance
was told -- by her "entities," naturally -- to seek out this UFO
spokesman and join his "sky-watch" activities, which, my source
alleges, included a mass channelling session intended to send
debilitating "negative" vibrations to Constantine Chernenko, then
the leader of the Soviet Union. Of course, intracerebral voices
may have a purely psychological origin, so Armstrong can hardly
be held to task for the abductee's original "direct- ive."[179]
Still, his past associations with military intelligence
inevitably bring disturbing possibilities to mind.
   Even more ominous than possible ties between UFO cults and the
intelligence community are the cults' links with the shadowy I AM
group, founded by Guy Ballard in the 1930s[180]. According to
researcher David Stupple, "If you look at the contactee groups
today, you'll see that most of the stable, larger ones are
actually neo-I AM groups, with some sort of tie to Ballard's
organization." [181]  This cult, therefore, bears investigation.
   Guy Ballard's "Mighty I AM Religious Activity," grew, in large
part, out of William Dudley Pelly's Silver Shirts, an American
NAZI organization[182]. Although Ballard himself never openly
proclaimed NAZI affiliation, his movement was tinged with an
extremely right-wing political philosophy, and in secret meetings
he "decreed" the death of President Franklin Roosevelt[183]. The
I AM philosophy derived from Theosophy, and in this author's
estimation bears a more-than-cursory resemblance to the
Theosophically-based teachings that informed the proto-NAZI
German occult lodges[184].
   After the war, Pelley (who had been imprisoned for sedition
during the hostilities) headed an occult-oriented organization
call Soulcraft, based in Noblesville, Indiana. Another Soulcraft
employee was the controversial  contactee George Hunt Williamson
(real name: Michel d'Obrenovic), who co- authored UFOs
CONFIDENTIAL with John McCoy, a proponent of the theory that a
Jewish banking conspiracy was preventing disclosure of the
solution to the UFO mystery[185]. Later, Williamson founded the I
AM-oriented Brotherhood of the Seven Rays in Peru[186]. Another
famed contactee, George Van Tassel, was  associated with Pelley
and with the notoriously anti-Semitic Reverend Wesley Swift
(founder of the group which metamorphosed into the Aryan
nations).[187]
   The most visible offspring of I AM is Elizabeth Clare
Prophet's Church Universal and Triumphant, a group best-known for
its massive arms caches in underground bunkers. CUT was recently
exposed in COVERT ACTION INFORMATION BULLETIN as a conduit of CIA
funds[188], and according to researcher John Judge, has ties to
organizations allied to the World Anti-Communist League[189]
Prophet is becoming involved in abduction research and has
sponsored present- ations by Budd Hopkins and other prominent
investigators. In his book THE ARMSTRONG REPORT: ETs AND UFOs:
THEY NEED US, WE DON'T NEED THEM[sic][190], Virgil Armstrong
directs troubled abductees toward Prophet's group. (Perhaps not
insignificantly, he also suggests that abductees plagued by
implants alleviate their problem by turning to "the I AM force"
within.[191])
   Another UFO channeller, Frederick Von Mierers, has promulgated
both a cult with a strong I AM orientation[192] and an apparent
con-game involving over- appraised gemstones. Mierers is an
anti-Semite who contends that the Holocaust never happened and
that the Jews control the world's wealth.
   UFORUM is a flying saucer organization popular with Los
Angeles-area abductees; its founder is Penny Harper, a member of
a radical Scientology breakaway group which connects the
teachings of L. Ron Hubbard with pronouncements against "The
Illuminati" (a mythical secret society) and other BETES NOIR
familiar from right-wing conspiracy literature. Harper directs
members of her group to read THE SPOTLIGHT, an extremist tabloid
(published by Willis Carto's Liberty Lobby) which denies the
reality of the Holocaust and posits a "Zionist" scheme to control
the world[193].
   More than one unwary abductee has fallen in with groups such
as those listed above. It isn't difficult to imagine how some of
these questionable groups might mold an abductee's recollection
of his experience -- and perhaps help direct his future actions.
   Some modern abductees, with otherwise-strong claims, claim
encounters with blond, "Nordic" aliens reminiscent of the early
contactee era. Surely, the "Nordic" appearance of these aliens
sprang from the dubious spiritual tradition of Van Tassell,
Ballard, Pelley, McCoy, etc. Why, then, are some modern abductees
seeing these very same other-worldly UEBERMENSCHEN?
   One abductee of my acquaintance claims to have had beneficial
experiences with these "blond" aliens -- who, he believes, came
originally from the Pleiades. Interestingly, in the late 1960s,
the psychopathically anti-Semitic Rev. Wesley Swift predicted
this odd twist in the abduction tale. In a broadcast "sermon," he
spoke at length about UFOs, claiming that there were "good"
aliens and "bad" aliens. The good ones, he insisted, were tall,
blond Aryans -- WHO HAILED FROM THE PLEIADES. He made this
pronouncement long before the current trends in abduction lore.
   Could some of the abductions be conducted by an extreme
right-wing element within the national security establishment?
Disagreeable as the possibility seems, we should note that the
"lunatic right" is represented in all other walks of life;
certainly hard-rightists have taken positions within the
military-intelligence complex as well.

GROUNDS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH

   John Keel's ground-breaking OPERATION TROJAN HORSE, written in
an era when abductees still came under the category of
"contactees," includes the following intriguing data, gleaned
from Keel'a extensive field work:

         Contactees often find themselves suddenly miles from
      home without knowing how they got there. They either have
      induced amnesia, wiping out all memory of the trip, or they 
      were taken over by some means and made the trip in a 
      blacked-out state. Should they encounter a friend on the 
      way, the friend would probably note that their eyes seemed 
      glassy and their behavior seemed peculiar. But if the friend 
      spoke to them, he might receive a curt reply.
         In the language of the contactees this process is called
      being used...I have known silent contactees to disappear
      from their homes for long periods, and when they returned, 
      they  had little or no recollection of where they had been. 
      One girl sent me a postcard from the Bahama Islands -- which 
      surprised me because I knew she was very poor. When she
      returned, she told me that she had only one memory of the
      trip. She said she remembered getting off a jet at an air-
      port -- she souldn't recall getting on the jet or making the
      trip -- and there "Indians" met her and took her baggage...
      The next thing she knew she was back home again[194].

   Puzzling indeed -- unless one has read THE CONTROL OF CANDY
JONES, which speaks of Candy's "blacked out" periods, during
which she travelled to Taiwan as a CIA courier, adopting her
second personality. The mind control explana- tion perfectly
solves all the mysteries in the above excerpt -- save, perhaps,
the odd remark about "Indians."
   Hickson and Mendez' UFO CONTACT AT PASCAGOULA contains the
interesting information that Charles Hickson awakes at night
feeling that he is on the verge of re-awakening some terribly
important memory connected with his encounter -- yet ostensibly
he can account for every moment of his adventure.
   Hickson also received a letter from an apparent abductee who
claims that the grey aliens are actually automatons of some sort
-- perhaps an unconscious recognition of the unreality of the
hypnotically-induced "cover story."[195] In this light, the film
version of COMMUNION -- whose screenplay was written by Whitley
Strieber -- takes on a new interest: The abduction sequences
contain inexplicable images indicating that the "greys" are
really props, or masks.
   COMMUNION and TRANSFORMATION contain passages detailing what
seems to be a hazily-recalled Candy-Jones-style espionage
adventure, in which Strieber was shanghaied by a "coach" and a
"nurse" (both human beings) who apparently drugged him[196].
Recall the example of Keel's informants. Moreover,
TRANSFORMATION contains lengthy descriptions of alien beings
working in  apparent collusion with human beings.
   Abductee Christa Tilton also recalls both human beings and
aliens playing a part in her experience. Ever since her
abduction, she claims, she has been "shadowed" by a mysterious
federal agent she calls John Wallis[197]. Christa's husband, Tom
Adams, has confirmed Wallis' existence[198].
   In his REPORT ON COMMUNION, Ed Conroy -- who seems to have
become a  participant in, and not merely an observer of, the
phenomenon -- describes harassment by helicopters, which as we
have already noted, seems to be quite  a common occurrence in
abductee situations[199]. Researchers blithely assume that these
incidents represent governmental attempts to spy on UFO
percipients. But this assertion is ridiculous. Helicopters are
extremely expensive to operate, and the engines of espionage have
perfected numerous alternative  methods to gather information.
After all, we now have a fairly extensive  bibliography of FBI,
CIA, and military efforts to spy on numerous movements favoring
domestic social change. Why have no veterans of CHAOS or
COINTELPRO (either victim or victimizer) spoken of helicopters?
Obviously the choppers serve some other purpose beyond mere
surveillance. One possibility might be the propagation of
electromagnetic waves which might affect the perceptions/
behaviors of an implanted individual. (Indeed, I have heard
rumors of heli- copters being used in electronic "crowd control"
operations in Vietnam and elsewhere; alas, the information is far
from hard.)
   Contactee Eldon Kerfoot has written of his suspicions that
human mani- pulators, not aliens, may be the ultimate puppeteers
engineering his experiences. He describes a sudden compulsion to
kill a fellow veteran of the Korean conflict -- a man Kerfoot had
no logical reason to distrust or dislike, yet whom he "sensed" to
have been a traitor to his country. For- tunately, the
assassination never materialized[200]. But the situation exactly
parallels incidents described in released ARTICHOKE documents
concerning the remote hypnotic induction of anti-social behavior.
   One last speculation:
   Renato Vesco's INTERCEPT BUT DON'T SHOOT[201] outlines a
fascinating scenario for the "secret weapon" hypothesis of UFOs.
Vesco points out that if these devices are one day to be used in
a superpower conflict , the attacking power would be well-served
by the myth of the UFO as an extra- terrestrial craft, for the
besieged nation would not know the true nature of its opponent.
Perhaps, then, one purpose of the UFO abductions is to engender
and maintain the legend of the little grey aliens. For the hidden
manipula- tors, the abductions could be, in and of themselves, a
propaganda coup.

FINAL THOUGHTS

   I do not insist dogmatically on the scenario that I have
outlined. I do not wish to dissuade abduction researchers from
exploring other avenues -- indeed, I strongly encourage such work
to continue. Nor can I easily account for some aspects of the
abduction narratives -- for example, any suggestions I could
offer concerning the reports of genetic experimentation would be
extremely speculative.
   But I DO insist on a fair hearing of this hypothesis.
Criticism is encouraged; that which does not destroy my thesis
will make it stronger. I ask only that my critics refrain from
intellectual laziness; mere differences in world-view do not
constitute a valid attack. God is found in the details.
   I recognize the dangers inherent in making this thesis public.
New and distressing abductee confabulations may result. I would
prefer that the  audience for this paper be restricted to
abduction RESEARCHERS, not victims, who might be unduly
influenced. However, in a society that prides itself on
ostensibly free press, such restrictions are unthinkable.
Therefore, I can only beg any abduction victims who might read
this paper to attempt a super- human objectivity. The thesis I
have outlined is promising, and (should trepanation ever provide
us with an example of an actual abductee implant) susceptible of
proof. But mine is not the only hypothesis. The abductee's
unrewarding task is to report what he or she has experienced as
truthfully as possible, untainted by outside speculation.
   Whether or not future investigation proves UFO abductions to
be a product of mind control experimentation, I feel that this
paper has, at least, provided evidence of a serious danger facing
those who hold fast to the ideals of individual freedom. We
cannot long ignore this menace.
   A spectre haunts the democratic nations -- the spectre of
TECHNOFASCISM. All the powers of the espionage empire and the
scientific establishment have entered into an unholy alliance to
evoke this spectre: Psychiatrist and spy, Dulles and Delgado,
microwave specialists and clandestine operators.
   A mind is a terrible thing to waste -- and a worse thing to
commandeer.

NOTES

      1. Budd Hopkins, MISSING TIME (New York: Richard Marek
Publishers, 1981) and INTRUDERS (New York: Random House, 1987).
      2. Whitley Strieber, COMMUNION (New York: Beech Tree Books,
1987).
      3. Cannon, "Psychiatric Abuse of UFO Witness," UFO
magazine, vol. 3, no. 5 (December, 1988)
      4. Philip Klass, UFO ABDUCTIONS: A DANGEROUS GAME (Buffalo:
Prometheus Books, 1988). Klass makes some sharp observations,
which are undercut by his refusal to interview abductees
directly. The work has no footnotes and depends heavily on the
work of Dr. Martin Orne -- of whom more anon.
      5. See bibliography.
      6. New York: Bantam Books, 1979.
      7. See generally PROJECT MKULTRA, THE CIA'S PROGRAM OF
RESEARCH IN BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION, joint hearing before the
Select Committee on Health and Scientific Research of the
Committee on Human Resources, Unites States Senate (Washington:
Government Printing Office, 1977).
      8. Robert Eringer, "Secret Agent Man," ROLLING STONE, 1985.
      9. John Marks interview with Victor Marchetti (Marks files,
available at the National Security Archives, Washington, D.C.).
      10. In an interview with John Marks, hypnosis expert Milton
Kline, a veteran of clandestine experimentation in this field,
averred that his work  for the government continued. Since the
interview took place in 1977, years after the CIA allegedly
halted mind control research, we must conclude either that the
CIA lied, or that another agency continued the work. In another
interview with Marks, former Air Force-CIA liaison L. Fletcher
Prouty con- firmed that the Department of Defense ran studies
either in conjunction with or parallel to those operated by the
CIA. (Marks files.)
      11. Estabrooks, HYPNOSIS (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.,
Inc., 1957  [revised edition]), 13-14.
      12. A copy of this letter can be found in the Marks files.
      13. Estabrooks attracted an eclectic group of friends,
including J.  Edgar Hoover and Alan Watts.
      14. Interview with daughter Doreen Estabrooks, Marks files,
Washington, D.C.
      15. Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain, ACID DREAMS (New York:
Grove Press, 1985) 3-4; Marks, THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN
CANDIDATE", 6-8
      16. Marks, ibid. 4-6.
      17. Edward Hunter, BRAINWASHING IN RED CHINA (New York:
Vanguard Press, 1951.). Hunter invented the term "brainwashing"
in a September 24, 1950 Miami NEWS article.
      18. "Japan's Germ Warfare Experiments," THE GLOBE AND MAIL
(Toronto),  May 19, 1982.
      19. Walter Bowart, OPERATION MIND CONTROL (New York: Dell,
1978), 191-2, quoting Warren Commission documents. We cannot
fairly derive from this state- ment a sanguine attitude about
PRESENT Soviet capabilities; in this field, even outdated
technology suffices for mischief.
      20. Marks, THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE",
60-61. A folk entymology has it that the "MK" of MKULTRA stands
for "Mind Kontrol."  Accord- ing to Marks, TSS prefixed the
cryptonyms of all its projects with these initials. Note, though,
that MKULTRA was preceded by a still-mysterious TSS program
called QKHILLTOP.
      21. Marks, THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE",
224-229. Seven MKULTRA subprojects were continued, under TSS
supervision, as MKSEARCH. This project ended in 1972. CIA
apologists often proclaim that "brainwashing" research ceased in
either 1962 or 1972; these blandishments refer to the TSS
projects, not to the ORD work, which remains TERRA INCOGNITA for
independent researchers. Marks discovered that the ORD research
was so voluminous that retrieving documents via FOIA would have
proven unthinkably expensive.
      22. For a description of the research into parapsychology,
see Ronald M. McRae's MIND WARS (New York: St. Martin's Press,
1984). The best book available on a subject which awaits a truly
authoritative text.
      23. Abduction researcher and hypnotherapist Miranda Park,
of Lancaster, California, reports that she has viewed such
anomalies in abductee MRI scans. See also Whitley Strieber,
TRANSFORMATION (New York: Beech Tree Books, 1988) 246-247. At
this writing, both Strieber and Hopkins report initially
promising results in their efforts to document the presence of
these "extras" in  abductees.
      24. Allegedly, the experiment took place in 1964. However,
in WERE WE CONTROLLED? (New Hyde Park, NY: University Books,
1967), the pseudonymous "Lincoln Lawrence" makes an interesting
argument (on page 36) that the  demonstration took place some
years earlier.
      25. New York: Harper and Row, 1969. Much of Delgado's work
was funded  by the Office of Naval Intelligence, a common conduit
for CIA funds during the 1950s and '60s. (Gordon Thomas' JOURNEY
INTO MADNESS (New York: Bantam, 1989) misleadingly implies that
CIA interest in Delgado's work began in 1972.)
      26. J.M.R. Delgado. "Intracerebral Radio Stimulation and
Recording in Completely Free Patients," PSYCHOTECHNOLOGY (Robert
L. Schwitzgebel and  Ralph K. Schwitzgebel, editors; New York:
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973): 195.
      27. David Krech, "Controlling the Mind Controllers," THINK
32 (July- August), 1966.
      28. Delgado, PHYSICAL CONTROL OF THE MIND
      29. Delgado, "Intracerebral Radio Stimulation and Recording
in Completely free patients," 195.
      30. Note, for example, Charles Hickson's account of the
Pascagoula Incident. Charles Hickson and William Mendez, UFO
CONTACT AT PASCOGOULA (Tuscon: Wendelle C. Stevens, 1983).
      31. John Ranleigh, THE AGENCY (New York: Simon and Shuster,
1986): 208. Marchetti casts this story in the form of an amusing
anecdote: After much time and expense, a cat was suitably trained
and prepared -- only, on its first assignment, to be run over by
a taxi. Marchetti neglects to point out that nothing stopped the
Agency from getting another cat. Or from using a human being.
      32. Of course, this suggestion raises the knotty question
of whether the abductees suffer from a form of schizophrenia,
which may also be characterized by "voices."  I refer the reader
to the work of Hopkins, Strieber, Thomas Bullard, and others who
have described the difficulties of ascribing all abductions to
psychotic states.
      33. Alan W. Scheflin and Edward M. Opton, Jr., THE MIND
MANIPULATORS (London: Paddington Press, 1978), 347.
      34. Thomas, JOURNAY INTO MADNESS, 276.
      35. James Olds, "Hypothalamic Substrates of Reward,"
PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS, 1962, 42:554; "Emotional Centers in the
Brain," SCIENCE JOURNAL,  1967, 3 (5).
      36. Vernon Mark and Frank Ervin, VIOLENCE AND THE BRAIN
(New York:  Harper and Row, 1970), chapter 12, excerpted in
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND THE FEDERAL ROLE IN BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION,
prepared by the Staff of the Subcom- mittee on Constitutional
Rights of the Committee of the Judiciary, United  States Senate
(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1974).
      37. John Lilly, THE SCIENTIST (Berkeley, Ronin Publishing,
1988 [revised edition]), 90. Monkeys allowed to stimulate
themselves continually via ESB brought themselves to orgasm once
every three minutes, sixteen hours a day. Scientific gatherings
throughout the world saw motion pictures of these experiments,
which surely made spectacular cinema.
      38. Scheflin and Opton, THE MIND MANIPULATORS, 336-337.
Heath even  monitored his patient's brain responses during the
subject's first heterosexual encounter. Such is the nature of the
brave new world before us.
      39. Robert L. Schwitzgebel and Richard M. Bird,
"Sociotechnical Design Factors in Remote Instrumentation with
Humans in Natural Environments,"  BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS AND
INSTRUMENTATION, 1970, 2, 99-105.
      40. Thomas, JOURNEY INTO MADNESS, 277. In the BEHAVIOR
RESEARCH METHODS AND INSTRUMENTATION article referenced above,
Schwitzgebel details how the radio signals may be fed into a
telephone via a modem and thus analyzed by a computer anywhere in
the world.
      41. Scheflin and Opton, THE MIND MANIPULATORS, 347-349.
      42. Louis Tackwood and the Citizen's Research and
Investigation Commit- tee, THE GLASS HOUSE TAPES (New York: Avon,
1973), 226.
      43. Perry London, BEHAVIOR CONTROL (New York: Harper and
Row, 1969), 145
      44. Scheflin and Opton, THE MIND MANIPULATORS, 351-353;
Tackwood, THE GLASS HOUSE TAPES, 228.
      45. "Beepers in kids' heads could stop abductors," Las
Vegas SUN, Oct. 27, 1987.
      46. Lilly, THE SCIENTIST, 91.
      47. Marks, THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE",
151-154.
      48. Interestingly, Lilly has come out of the closet as a
sort of proto- Strieber; THE SCIENTIST recounts his close
interaction with alien (though not necessarily extraterrestrial)
forces which he labels "solid state entities."
      49. The story of Deep Trance, an MKULTRA "insider" who
provided invaluable information, is somewhat involved. I do not
know who Trance is/was and Marks may not know either. He
contacted Trance via the writer of an article published shortly
before research on THE SEARCH FOR "THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE"
began, addressing his informant "Dear Source whose anonymity I
respect."  I respect it too -- hence my reticence to name the
aforementioned article, which may mark a trail to Trance. The
fact that I have not followed this trail would not prevent others
from doing so. [And if Trance were a CIA disinformation source a
la William Cooper, this is precisely the behavior they would
count on. -jpg]
      50. London, BEHAVIOR CONTROL, 139.
      51. See generally, UFO magazine, Vol. 4, No. 2; especially
the interesting contribution by Whitley Strieber.

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