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     MindNet Journal - Vol. 1, No. 3d * [Part 4 of 6 parts]
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     V E R I C O M M / MindNet         "Quid veritas est?"
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[Continued from part 3]
   
   The following excerpt from the LOS ANGELES TIMES article on
Niles is particularly compelling:

         He [Niles] produced testimony from his sister, a Simi
      Valley woman who swears that helicopters have repeatedly
      circled her home. An engineer measured 250 watts of
      microwaves in the atmosphere outside Niles' house and
      found a RADIOACTIVE DISK UNDERNEATH THE DASH OF HIS CAR
      [my italics].
         A former high school friend, Lyn Silverman, claimed
      that her home computer went haywire when Niles stepped
      close to it.

   No aliens in this story -- yet how similar it is to tales of
alien abduction! The low-flying helicopters, of course, are
frequently reported by abduction victims -- the Betty Andreasson
Luca case provides the best- known example[146]. The haywire
electronics equipment is also frequently encountered in putative
abduction cases; I have spoken (independently) to three women who
claimed to have been able to disturb or shut off televisions and
stereos simply by walking past the devices; one woman even
claimed she had switched off her TV simply by pointing at it.
   But the radioactive disc is especially intriguing. As former
FBI agent Ted Gunderson recently explained to my associate
Alexander Constantine, magnetic radioactive discs have long been
used by the clandestine services as cancer-inducing "silent
killers" -- i.e., as tools of assassination. Not only that. The
disc calls to mind one little-remembered detail of the Hill case
-- the dozen-or-so circular "shiny spots," each the size of a
silver dollar, found on the trunk of her car directly after the
abduction. A compass needle reacted wildly when placed near these
spots. Could they have marked the location where an
electromagnetic or radioactive device, similar to that found by
Niles, was placed on the car? (Such a device might have been held
to the spot magnetic- ally, hence the circular impressions.)  If
so, then the disorienting EMR could have helped induce the Hills'
"UFO sighting."

THE MILITARY AND MIND CONTROL

   Some time ago, I attended hypnotic regression sessions in
which the  subject -- a claimed UFO abductee -- recalled
undergoing a mysterious "brain operation" at a veteran's hospital
in California. The operation was performed by human beings, not
aliens. Interestingly, this same hospital was mentioned in two
other cases I encountered. These other claims were not made by
abductees, but by people alleged to have been victims of mind
control experi- mentation.
   One of these claimants, a former Navy SEAL who undertook
numerous dangerous missions in Vietnam, favorably impressed me
with the wealth of detail in his story[147]. This individual --
I've taken to calling him "the trained SEAL"-- had received
specialized combat training at a military base in California; he
claims that at one point during this training he was drugged,
hypnotized,  possibly placed under some form of electronic
control, and subjected to the extremes of pain/pleasure operant
conditioning. One peculiar detail of his story concerns the
"reward" aspect of the conditioning: When properly  acquiescent,
he was given unlimited sexual access to a woman who, the SEAL
avers, was herself the victim of brainwashing.
   Unbelievable as this last claim may seem, I found it oddly
resonant when I later interviewed a prominent abductee in the
Southern California area, who bravely offered me details on a
puzzling, albeit quite delicate, incident in her past. Still an
attractive woman, she recalled for me -- indeed, seemed strangely
compelled to describe -- an early love affair with a young
soldier training at a military base near her home. She cannot
recall the soldier's name. All she remembers is that one day he
started LIVING AT HER FAMILY'S HOUSE; she has no memory of how
the arrangement began, and her parents have never felt
comfortable discussing the matter. Although unattracted to this
soldier, she felt compelled to become intimate with him, adopting
a pliant, obeisant attitude that was quite out of character for
her. Later, the soldier went on to covert missions in Vietnam.
   Of course, a young person's psycho-sexual development is never
smooth, and the incident related above may merely have
represented one peculiarly upsetting bump in that notoriously
rough road. Still, some of the details of this story --
particularly the parents' attitude, the woman's personality
shift, and her subsequent memory lapses -- are striking, and I
treat with respect the abduc- tee's intuition that this minor
enigma in her personal history could, if properly understood,
shed light on her later "missing time" experiences.
   Could the "trained SEAL" have been right? Was there, IS there,
a coterie of hypno-programmed soldiers conducting particularly
hazardous missions? And do the programmers have at their disposal
a "ladies' auxiliary," so to speak, of hypnotized camp followers?
   If the SEAL's story stood alone, skeptics could easily dismiss
it (provided they did not sit, as I did, face-to-face with the
story's teller, listening to all the grisly and unsettling
details). But other veterans have added their voices to this grim
tale. Daniel Sheehan, of the Christic Institute, claims that his
organization has spoken to half-a-dozen individuals with
narratives similar to my SEAL informant. All had received
"processing," so to speak, within the context of standard
military training; after pro- gramming and specialized combat
instruction by mercenaries, the recruits were placed "on hold,"
to be used as situations arose -- and some of those  situations
occurred within the United States[148].
   Walter Bowart began his own researches into mind control by
placing an ad in SOLDIER-OF-FORTUNE-style publications, asking
for correspondence from veterans who experienced inexplicable
lapses in memory or strange behavior modification techniques
while serving in Vietnam; he received over 100 replies. Bowart
devoted an entire chapter to one of these respondents -- an Air
Force veteran named David, who ended his four-year tour of duty
recalling only that he had spent the time "having fun, skin
diving, laying on the beach, collecting shells...It never dawned
on me until later that I must have DONE something while I was in
the service."  (An obvious example of screen memory.)  He was
also "assigned" a girlfriend whose name he cannot now recall,
despite the length and deep intimacy of the affair[149]. The
parallels to the SEAL's story and the abductee's account should
be obvious.
   We even have a confession, of sorts, from a scientist who
specialized in one aspect of this sort of training. Lt. Commander
Thomas Narut, of the U.S. Naval Hospital at the NATO headquarters
in Naples, Florida, admitted during a lecture in Oslo that
recruits in Naples underwent CLOCKWORK-ORANGE- style behavior
modification sessions. Trainees would be strapped into chairs
with their eyelids clamped open while watching films of
industrial accidents and African circumcision ceremonies -- films
frequently used by psychologists as a means of inducing stress in
experimental situations. Unlike the protagonist in A CLOCKWORK
ORANGE, who learned revulsion at the sight of violence, Narut's
soldiers were taught to accept and enjoy bloodshed, to view it
with equanimity. Similar techniques were used to dehumanize
potential enemies. Graduates of this program became, in Narut's
words, "hit men and assassins," to be placed in American
embassies throughout the world.
   When questioned by reporters about these claims, the American
government denied the story; Narut -- after a long incommunicado
period and apparent  coercion -- later explained to journalists
that he had merely spoken  theoretically. If so, why did he
originally describe the behavior modification procedure as an
ongoing program?[150]
   And while it may seem frivolous to return to the subject of
abductions after examining such grim data, I should remind the
reader of the many abduction accounts in which abductees recall
being forced to watch certain stress- inducing motion pictures.
The aliens, it seems, have learned a few lessons from Dr. Narut.
   Narut, of course, concentrated on selective programming of
individual American soldiers; on the other side of the mind
control spectrum, Defense Department specialists have also
concentrated on methods to render entire enemy battalions "combat
ineffective."  Electromagnetic weaponry, intended to wipe out the
aggression of the enemy, is the province of DARPA, under the
direction of Dr. Jack Verona. These projects remain fairly
mysterious; we do know, however, that one operation, SLEEPING
BEAUTY, employed the services of Dr. Michael Persinger, a
scientist who has expressed interesting views regarding UFOs.
   Persinger discovered a method of using ELF waves to induce the
brain's MAST cells to release histamine; should a battlefield
commander wish to subject his enemy to mass bouts of vomiting,
Persinger's trick could do the job even faster than a Tobe Hooper
movie. The method works on animals. "The question," writes mind
control researcher Larry Collins, "is how to get from point A to
point B without violating one of the most rigorous commandments
of Government ethics -- thou shalt not conduct experiments like
that on human beings."[151]
   If Collins had studied the record a little more carefully, he
might realize that the government hasn't always regarded this
commandment as something graven in stone. As Milton Kline put it:

         Ethical factors involved in most research would preclude
      having positive results. Those ethical factors don't always
      hold with government research. THE RESEARCH WHICH HAS GIVEN
      REALLY POSITIVE RESULTS HAS NOT BEEN LIMITED BY ETHICAL
      CONSTRAINTS[152]. [my italics]

THE ULTIMATE MOTIVE FOR MIND CONTROL

   Hypnosis hard-liners of the Orne school would almost certainly
dismiss the foregoing veterans' accounts of the use of hypnosis,
drugs and behavioral conditioning on American fighting men. Why,
the skeptics would ask, would anyone attempt to create a
"Manchurian Candidate" when the military services, using entirely
conventional means, can create a "Rambo"? There have always been
recruits for even the most hazardous duties; what need of
hypnosis?
   The need, in fact, is absolute.
   The modern battlefield has little place for the traditional
soldier. Advanced weaponry requires an increasing level of
technical sophistication, which in turn requires a cool-headed
operator. But the all-too-human combatant -- though capable of
extraordinary acts of courage under the most stressful conditions
imaginable -- does not possess inexhaustible reserves of
SANG-FROID. Eventually, breakdowns will occur. Per-capita
psychiatric casualties have increased dramatically in each
successive American conflict. As Richard Gabriel, the excellent
historian of the role of psychiatry in warfare, writes:

         Modern warfare has become so lethal and so intense that
      only the already insane can endure it...Modern war requiring
      continuous combat will increase the degree of fatigue on the
      soldier to heretofore unknown levels. Physical fatigue --
      especially the lack of sleep -- will increase the rate of
      psychiatric casualties enormously. Other factors -- high
      rates of indirect fire, night fighting, lack of food, constant
      stress, large numbers of casualties -- will ensure that the
      number of psychiatric casualties will reach disastrous pro-
      portions. And the number of casualties will overburden the
      medical structure to the point of collapse.
         The ability to treat psychiatric casualties will all but
      disappear. There will be no safe forward areas in which to 
      treat soldiers debilitated by mental collapse. The technology
      of modern war has made such locations functionally 
      obsolete...[153]

   According to Gabriel, the military intends to meet this
challenge by creating "the chemical soldier," a designer-drugged
zombie in fighting man's uniform:

         On the battlefields of the future we will witness a true
      clash of ignorant armies, armies ignorant of their own 
      emotions and even of the reasons for which they fight.
      Soldiers on all sides will be reduced to fearless chemical
      automatons who fight simply because they can do nothing
      else...Once the chemical genie is out of the bottle, the
      full range of human mental and physical actions become
      targets for chemical control...Today it is already possible
      by chemical or electrical stimulation to increase the
      aggression levels of the human being by stimulating the
      amygdala, a section of the brain known to control aggression
      and rage. Such "human potential engineering" is already a
      partial reality and the necessary technical knowledge
      increases every day[154].

   While this passage speaks of drugs and electronics, we can
safely assume that the planners of battle would not refrain from
using any other promising technique.
   Gabriel writes primarily of large-scale battle scenarios, but
based on his information, we can fairly deduce that the
mind-controlled soldier will also play a role in the surgical
strike, the covert operation, the infiltration behind enemy lines
by units of the Special Forces. On such missions, United States
personnel have increasingly relied on torture as a means of
interro- gation and intimidation[155], and as such barbarism
becomes standard procedure the American fighting man of the
future will need to find within himself unprecedented reserves of
brutality. Will the average recruit, culled from the nation's
suburbs and reared on traditional ideals, possess such reserves?
   Vietnam proved that the soldier, despite a barrage of
propaganda intended to cloud his discernment, will sense the
difference between fighting for legit- imate defense interests
and fighting to protect political hegemony. To  forestall this
realization, or to render it irrelevant, military planners must
withdraw the human combatant and replace him with a new species
of warrior. The soldier of the future will not discern; he will
merely do. He will not be a butcher; he will be the butcher's
KNIFE -- a tool among tools, thoughtless and effective.
   And it is my contention that to create this soldier of the
future, the controllers will need a continuing program, one
designed to test each new method and combination of methods for
conquering the human mind.
   One primary goal of this program must include expanding the
human capacity for stress and violence. Subjects enrolled in such
experimental procedures will experience pain, and will learn to
accept the pain. Eventually, they will learn to inflict it,
without remorse or even remembrance. The nation who first creates
this new soldier will possess a decisive advantage on the
"conven- tional" battlefield -- as will the nation which first
develops a means of using mass mind control techniques to disable
entire enemy platoons. [And to placate whole civilian
populations, both those of the enemy and those at home. -jpg]
This paramount military necessity is the reason why I will never
believe any unconvincing reassurances that our nation's
clandestine scientists have fore- gone or will forego research
into behavior modification. This research will never be mere
history. What's past is present, and today's covert experiment-
ation will become tomorrow's basic training.
   A prototype of the future warrior may already be with us. The
Navy SEAL I interviewed spoke in horrifying detail of
dismemberment without emotion, of rape as routine, of killing
without affect. And then FORGETTING THAT HE HAD KILLED. Even
years later, he could not recall the stories behind many of the
wounds on his own body. He claims that whenever he would need the
services of the veteran's hospital, doctors would re-hypnotize
him shortly after his admission, while a physician specifically
cleared for such work would examine his medical history, which
was highly classified and kept under lock and key.
   According to the SEAL's testimony, his memory block cracked
little by little, as a result of events too complex to recount
here. Finally, years after Vietnam, he was able to remember what
he did.
   Amnesia was a blessing.

IV. Abductions

   Press and public now regard abductees as tony curiosities, yet
science, for the most part, still banishes their tales to the
domain of the damned, as Charles Fort defined damnation. So too
with claimed victims of mind control. The Voice of Authority
tells us that MKULTRA belongs to history; like Hasdrubal and
Hitler, it threatened once, but no more. Anyone insisting
otherwise must be silenced by glib rationalization and selective
inattention.
   Yet these two topics -- UFO abductions and mind control --
have more in common than their mutual ostracization. The data
overlap. If we could chart these phenomena on a Venn diagram, we
would see a surprisingly large inter- section between the two
circles of information. It is this overlap I seek to address.
   Note, however, that I can NOT address all the other
interesting and important issues raised by the UFO abduction
experience. For exmaple, I have written, admittedly rather
vaguely, of nasal implants reported by abductees -- the sort of
detail which might place an account in the "high strangeness"
category, and of course, a detail central to my thesis. But what
percentage  of the percipients speak of such implants? A truly
scientific analysis would provide a figure. Unfortunately, I
haven't the resources to compile a sufficiently large abductee
sample from which one could draw statistics. Nor can I make an
over-arching qualitative analysis, measuring the value of "high
strangeness" reports against other abductee claims. All I can do
is note the available literature, and leave the reader to wonder,
as I do, whether the compilers of that literature concentrated on
exceptional cases or were biased in favor of the less fantastic
abductee accounts. I have supplemented readings of the abduction
literature with my own interviews with percipients -- which,
since abductees tend to know other abductees, can give a
surprisingly wide view of the phenomenon. This view has been
broadened still further by my talks and correspondence with other
members of the UFO community.
   Of course, we must recognize the difference between testimony
and proof. No one can state definitively that abduction reports
have a basis in objective reality (however misperceived).
Ultimately, all we have are stories. Some of these stories may be
of questionable veracity; others may be contaminated by
investigator bias; many are insufficiently detailed. No one
research paper can resolve all abduction controversies, and many
necessary battles must be fought on other fields.
   Still, the testimony won't go away -- and we certainly have
enough to allow for comparisons. I maintain that an unprejudiced
overview of abduction reports in the popular press and the
less-familiar material on mind control will demonstrate a
striking correlation. Once other abduction researchers have been
educated in the ways of MKULTRA (and this paper is intended as an
introductory text) they may note a similar pattern. If so, we can
then begin to write a revisionist history of the phenomenon.
   The abduction enigma contains within it sub-mysteries that
slide into the mind control scenario with surprising ease, even
elegance -- mysteries which fit the E.T. hypothesis as
uncomfortably as a size 10 foot fits into a size 8 shoe. As we
have seen, the MKULTRA thesis explains the reports of abductee
intracerebral implants (particularly reports involving
nosebleeds), unusual scars, "telepathic" communication (i.e.,
externally induced intracerebral voices) concurrent with or
following the abduction encounter, allegations that some
abductees hear unusual sound effects (similar to those created by
the hemi-synch and cognate devices), haywire electronic devices
in abductee homes, personality shifts, "training films,"
manipulation of religious imagery, and missing time. Needless to
say, the thesis of clandestine government experi- mentation
readily accounts for abductee claims of human beings "working"
with the aliens, and for the government harassment that plays so
prominent a role in certain abductee reports.
   Let's look at some more correlations.

THE HILL CASE AND THE "ADVANCED" ALIENS

   Earlier, I asked, "Do the aliens also watch black-and-white
television?" in reference to their alleged use of old-fashioned,
Terra-style brain implantation devices. Abduction accounts abound
in other examples of alien "retro- technology."  The most
striking example can be found in the Betty and Barney Hill
incident, the details of which are too well-known to recount
here[156]. As we have already glimpsed during our discussion of
the Rex Niles affair, the Hills' "interrupted journey" abounds in
data which, taken together, permits the construction of an
alternative explanation.
   At one point during the alleged UFO abduction, the "examiners"
inserted a needle in Betty Hill's navel, telling her that this
practice constituted a test for pregnancy[157]. Some
ufologists[158] rashly assume that Betty Hill's "pregnancy test"
is evidence of advanced extraterrestrial technology, since her
1961 account pre-dates the official announcement of
amniocentesis, which does indeed make use of a needle inserted
into the navel. But we now have much less invasive means of
testing for pregnancy than amniocentesis. True, amniocentesis is
still sometimes used to gather information about the fetus, but
the wielders of a highly evolved technology would certainly use
other methods of determining the existence of pregnancy in the
first place.
   Betty Hill's testimony reminds us of certain other abduction
accounts,  which contain descriptions of "healings" surprisingly
similar to the procedures associated with still-experimental
electromagnetic therapy techniques, such as those described in
Robert O. Becker's THE BODY ELECTRIC. For example, abductee
Deanna Dube described for me an abduction-related "regeneration"
of her long- damaged heart; had she been familiar with Becker's
work[159], she might have been a bit less rapid to ascribe her
healing to otherworldly influences.
   Medical breakthroughs often undergo years of testing before
their official "discovery."  For some of these tests, finding
volunteers present a major obstacle. If we accept the proposition
that the Hill incident originated in an external and objective
stimulus, we must then ask ourselves which scenario is more
likely: Did Betty Hill encounter human beings using a technique
ten years ahead of its time? Or did she encounter aliens
(reputedly a "billion years ahead of us") using science from eons
before THEIR time?
   One must also ask why Betty Hill's aliens seemed to have no
grasp of basic human concepts (such as how we measure time) --
yet they knew enough about us to speak English fluently and had
even mastered our slang. Were these real aliens, or humans
engaging in theatricals (and occasionally muffing their lines)?
For that matter, why did Betty Hill originally recall her
abductors as humanoid, only later describing them as aliens?
   The Hill case provided a particularly controversial piece of
evidence -- the celebrated "star map" recalled by Betty Hill
under hypnosis. In later years, an Ohio schoolteacher named
Marjorie Fish made an ingenious and laudable attempt to discover
a match for this map by constructing an elaborate three-
dimensional model of nearby star systems; whether she succeeded
remains a  matter for keen debate[160]. For now, I prefer to
avoid taking sides in this dispute and will confine myself to
insisting that pro-ET ufologists answer  (WITHOUT resorting to
glib ripostes) a point first raised by Jacques Vallee: THE MAP
MAKES NO SENSE AS A NAVIGATIONAL AID. Vallee notes that, even if
we grant the Fish interpretation, the stars are not drawn to
scale -- and at any  rate, alien spaceships would surely be
navigated the same way we guide our own spacecraft: via computers
and telemetry[161]. The validity of the Fish  interpretation is
irrelevent; the point is that ANY such chart would have NO value
to an interstellar star-farer.
   Fish's work raises other controversies: Allegedly, the map
points to Zeta Reticuli as the aliens' home system and pictures
Zeta Reticuli as a single star, a view consistent with scientific
opinion of the 1960s. Yet in later years scientists discovered
that Zeta Reticuli is binary[162]. Moreover, how did our abductee
manage to remember so accurately a complex chart glimpsed in
passing? Even allowing for the possibility of increased accuracy
of recol- lection under hypnotic regression, the memory feat here
seems remarkable. Consider the circumstances of the abduction:
Kafka on hallucinogens couldn't  have conceived of the nightmare
vision confronting Betty Hill that night -- yet for some reason
this particular arrangement of stars emerged as her most
intensely-detailed recollection of the experience.
   This memory (if not confabulated during regression, a
possibility we should always weigh) is comprehensible only as an
example of ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED HYPERMNESIA. In other words,
Betty Hill was DIRECTED to store that chart within her
subconscious. The celebrated star map ought to be recognized for
what it was: a prop, a seemingly-confirmatory circumstantial
detail meant to convince her -- and perhaps US -- of the reality
of her abduction. [cf. Strieber's citation of the woman with the
memory of ancient Celtic "fairy speak."   -jpg]
   The question of motive arises. Why -- if my thesis is correct
-- were these two fairly innocuous individuals chosen for this
new variation on the old MKULTRA tricks?
   The selection might, of course, have been arbitrary. Or
perhaps circum- stances now irretrievably lost to history
rendered the couple a convenient target. Interestingly, Barney
Hill had become acquainted (through church functions) with the
head of Air Force intelligence at Pease Air Force Base; perhaps
this relationship first brought the Hills to the attention of
members of the intelligence community. Arguably, the Hills could
have been fingered for a wide variety of reasons; as a general
rule, the clandestine services prefer to satisfy a number of
itches with one scratch.
   In fact, the espionage establishment had one particularly
compelling reason to focus on the Hills. Barney Hill (a black
man) and his wife held important positions in several civil
rights organizations, including the NAACP[163].  The abduction
took place during the 1960s, when the NAACP and allied groups
fell victim to an increasingly paranoid series of attacks from
the FBI and other governmental agencies (under operations
COINTELPRO, CHAOS, GARDEN PLOT, etc.)[164]. At that time,
infiltration of civil rights groups proved a  difficult chore;
while most left-leaning groups provided easy targets for FBI
stooges, the average undercover operative would have had an
exceptionally  difficult time posing as a black activist. (In
1961, the only black people on the FBI's payroll were the
servants in J. Edgar Hoover's home.)
   In light of these facts, we should recall Victor Marchetti's
anecdote about the cat that the CIA had "wired for sound."
Perhaps an ambitious covert  scientist proposed a similar
experiment, in which a human being would play the role that had
once been assigned to the unfortunate feline? As Estabrooks
noted, the ultimate espionage agent would be the spy who doesn't
KNOW he is a spy. Barney Hill, a well-regarded figure with a
near-genius-level IQ, was a safe bet to obtain a leadership role
in any group he joined; he would have been remarkably
well-positioned, had any outsiders wished to use his ears to
over- hear prominent black organizers in confidential discussion.
   Of course, many intelligence professionals would counter this
suggestion by reminding us that eavesdroppers on the civil rights
movement had plenty of less-flamboyant methods: Bugging, "black
bag" jobs, paying for information, etc. The point is valid. But
if the technology to create a "human bug" was developed circa
1961 -- and there is documentation suggesting that such is indeed
the case[165] -- the intelligence agencies would surely have
wanted to test the possibilities in the field. And considering
the expense of such a test, why not conduct the experiment in
such a way as to reap the maximum benefits? Why NOT choose a
Barney Hill?

ARMS AND THE ABDUCTEE

   Budd Hopkins told the follwing story during his lecture at the
Los Angeles "Whole Life Expo."[166]  He considers the case "very
good...lots of corrobo- rating witnesses for parts of it."
Though not, presumably, for THIS part:
   Hopkins' informant, after the by-now familiar UFO abduction,
was given a gun by the aliens. Not a Buck Rogers laser weapon --
this was something Dirty Harry might have packed.
   The abductee was also given someone to shoot. Not a little
grey alien -- another human being, tied to a chair. The
"visitors" told their armed abductee that this captive had done
"evil on earth, and he's a bad person. You have to kill him."  If
the abductee didn't do as asked, he would never leave the ship.
   The captive proclaimed his innocence, and pleaded for his
life. The abductee, caught in the middle of all this, became
quite upset. (Worth noting: he seems to have at least CONSIDERED
the aliens' request to shoot someone he had never met.)
Ultimately, the abductee turned the gun on the aliens and said,
"Nobody's going to get shot here."
   According to Hopkins, "The aliens said 'Fine. Very good.'
They took the gun from him; the man [presumably, the captive] got
up, walked away, dis- appeared, and they went on to the next
thing."  Obviously, this little drama had been staged -- a test
of some sort.
   I submit that this surreal incident is incomprehensible as
either an example of alien incursion or of "Klass-ical"
confabulation. The scenario described here EXACTLY parallels
numerous experiments in the hypnotic induction of anti-social
action as revealed both in the standard hypnosis literature and
in declassified ARTICHOKE/MKULTRA documents. For example, compare
Hopkins' account to the following, in which Ludwig Mayer, a
prominent German hypnosis researcher, describes a classic
experiment in the hypnotic induction of criminal action:

         I gave a revolver to an elderly and readily suggestible
      man whom I had just hypnotized. The revolver had just been 
      loaded by Mr. H. with a percussion cap. I explained to
      [the subject], while pointing to Mr. H., that Mr. H. was a
      very wicked man whom he should shoot to kill. With great
      determination he took the revolver and fired a shot directly
      at Mr. H. Mr. H. fell down pretending to be wounded. I 
      then explained to my subject that the fellow was not yet 
      quite dead, and that he should give him another bullet,
      which he did without further ado[167].

   Of course, if a conservative hypnosis specialist were asked to
comment on  the above account, he would quickly point out that
hypnotic suggestions which work in an experimental situation
would not easily succeed outside the lab- oratory; on some level,
the subject will probably sense whether or not he's  playing the
game for real[168]. Similarly, a conservative abduction
researcher would, in reviewing Hopkins' material, emphasize the
problems inherent in using testimony derived during regression,
where the threat of confabulation lurks. I'll concede both
arguments -- for the moment -- only to insist that they are
beside the point. The matter of primary importance, the sticking
point which neither Klass nor Hopkins can comfortably confront,
is the convergence of detail between Mayer's hypnosis experiment
and the testing event related by Hopkins' abductee. WHY ARE THESE
TWO STORIES SO SIMILAR? Did the good Dr. Mayer take pupils from
Sirius?[169].
   Hopkins says he knows of other instances in which abductees
found themselves in similar crucibles. So do I.
   One person I spoke to can remember (SANS hypnosis) being
handed a gun inside a ziplock baggy and receiving instructions
that she will have to use this weapon "on a job."  Early in my
interviews with her (and with no prompting from me) she recited
an apparent cue drilled into her consciousness by the "enti-
ties" (as she calls them): "When you see the light, do it
tonight," followed by the command, "Execute."  (One can only
speculate as to how such commands would be used in the field; we
will discuss later the use of photovoltaic hypnotic induction.)
Though her personal feelings toward firearms are decidedly
negative, she vividly describes periods in her "everyday" life
when she feels an uncharacteristic, yet overpowering urge to be
near a gun -- a quasi-sexual desire to pick one up and touch the
metal[170].

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