LINKS TO BLACK MAGIC & CIA Book Review and Clippings (Eight pages) By Judith, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 1998 ________________________________________ Thomas, Gordon. 1989. *Journey Into Madness, The True Story of Secret Mind Control and Medical Abuse.* NY: Bantam Books. 388 p. ________________________________________ Thomas' book is one of the real finds in conspiracy literature for its breadth of information and especially the information contained in the last chapters which brings CIA involvement in mind control operations up-to-date through the Reagan and Bush years, as a bonus. Thomas is an excellent, seasoned researcher and writer. John Marks' *In Search of the Manchurian Candidate,* includes most of Thomas' material up until 1979, but Thomas supersedes this material with information beyond this time period. What is included is brief but nicely done and it brings up new information and questions. I am including here a passage which fascinated me because of its descriptions of CIA involvement with gypsy-black-magic and telepathic seerers. He describes these groups has having extraordinarily high numbers in the 70s. Those who cry "poisons" may have as perps, may have COVENS in their local areas which are handling their non-consensual "conditioning" or "training" or ovum transfers and removals. Because of the shear numbers Thomas cites, questions evolve concerning their intertwining with other crime syndicates worldwide. This has been a little discussed aspect of syndicate work -- witchcraft. Coven syndicates might tie together conspiracy with Santeria-type black magic (French and British Creoles from the Caribbean originally) and use of specialized implants, very possibly introduced by the Creoles (and other cannibal cults) as research which Delgado undertook after these culture-technologies were introduced to the U.S. military. These are notions which fit into my research. Creoles in my family were working hand in hand with government implantations and drug experimentations. And Delgado, being a Spanish man, was probably not an accident in terms of his working on these implants, perhaps he was familiar with the use of implants and telepathic communication from his experiences in Spain and in Spanish caves like those in Grenada (which are known to be homes to unusual groups and gypsies there). Perhaps these Spanish gypsies are related to the U.S. Creole ones or even the gnomes Taylor Caldwell (*Captains and The Kings*) brings up. The U.S. Creoles are involved with some maligned rituals and cannibal activities. All this is speculation on this author's part, but threads which appear to be tieing together. This passage also contains a very nice summary of early implants used on civilians and a summary of the early stages of Watergate cover-ups. ________________________________________ (p. 274 - 282) By May 1971, Operation Often had on its payroll three professional astrologers. Each received $350 a week plus expenses to cover what they claimed would be their loss of regular earnings. Their task was to predict the future. The astrologers sat for hours in soundproof booths in the Scientific Engineering Institute and read a wide selection of newspapers and magazines. They extrapolated items that psychically alerted them. They taped what came into their minds about how some particular event or happening would develop. There were interesting predictions. One astrologer forecast that President Richard Nixon would win a second term, but would experience severe political damage during it -- though the seer had not mentioned Watergate. Another foresaw that the Vietnam War would end in disaster for the United States -- not a difficult piece of forecasting for a conflict that was now costing $25 billion a year, and with American dead approaching 40,000. Nearer to home, the astrologers all saw an increase in serious crime, while internationally the highjacking of airplanes would become the single greatest threat to travelers. Asked by the behavioralists to produce a psycho-profile of a typical skyjacker, the palmists settled for a young, dispossessed Cuban type of personality -- apparently a youth who was impetuous and disillusioned enough with the United States to be prepared to risk his life to hijack a plane to the island. The psychics were asked for suggestions to combat the hijackers. Among the more memorable ones were that airline stewardesses should be trained to seduce hijackers, passengers should be made to travel in their undergarments, with an airline cloak to allow them their modesty; and before each flight the pilot should play through the aircraft public address system the Cuban national anthem and arrest anyone who stood up. The only suggestion the Agency passed on to the airline industry was that every pilot should carry approach maps for Jose Marti Airport in Havana. By early 1972, Operation Often had taken on two more palmists, both Chinese-American, to probe still further how handreading could be adapted to intelligence work. The Agency behaviorists already knew that different cultures produced varying personalities. Each society had a particular vision of masculinity and feminity, of rights and obligations. The question the palmists were asked to answer was how much of this could be discerned from palm lines. The hand-readers set to work. Posing as educational psychologists, they visited a number of ethically vaiable communities, traveling north to Alaska to study Eskimos and south to New Mexico to look at the hands of Indians. While they were about their business, Operation Often went deeper, into demonology. In April 1972, an oblique approach was made to the monsignor in charge of exorcisms for the Catholic archdiaocese of New York. He flatly refused to cooperate. Undaunted, the Agency behaviorist approached Sybil Leek, a Houston sorceress, who cast spells with the help of a pet jackdaw called Hotfoot Jackson. With the bird perched on her shoulders, Mrs. Leek gave the "two very nice gen'lmen" from Washington a fast course on the current state of black magic in the United States: four hundred regular covens operated by five thousand initiated witches and warlocks, who formed the low- profile apex of a prediction industry that supported 10,000 full-time fortune-tellers and 200,000 part- timers, as well as a growing publishing business in tarot cards and factories that produced a widening range of anti-Christ tokens. Satan was not only alive, but thriving in the United States. To corner him for the Agency, it was recognized at Langley that the Devil must be made respectable. Working through conduits, the Scientific Engineering Institute helped fund a course in sorcery at the University of South Carolina. Two hundred and fifty students enrolled. The scientists of Operation Often studied carefully the results of the classes devoted to fertility and initiation rites and raising the dead. Concurrent with those investigations, ORD had taken up the challenge of brain implants. The failure at the Bien Hoa Hospital in Saigon was rationalized: the team had been in too much of a hurry, and had worked under far from ideal conditions; the proximity of a full-scale war was not the place for such delicate experiments. Before setting up their own program, the ORD scientists evaluated the results achieved by Dr. Jose Delgado, a Yale psychiatrist. He had faced a charging bull, fitted with electrodes in its brain, and with no other protection save the small black box in his hands, Dr. Delgado had deliberately goaded the bull by activating the implant that provoked the animal to become futher enraged. Then, with the bull almost upon him, the psychologist had pressed another button. The animal promptly stopped in its tracks, the result of a signal transmitted to the electrode implanted in the part of the bull's brain that calmed it. Dr. Delgado freely admitted that his method of remote mind control was still crude and not always predictable. But Dr. Gottlieb and the behavorialists of ORD shared the psychologist's vision that the day must come when the technique would be perfected for making not only animals, but humans respond to electronically transmitted commands. Dr. Robert G. Heath, a neurosurgeon at Tulane University had brought that prospect closer through his experiments with electrical stimulation of the brain (ESB) to arouse his patients sexually. Dr. Heath had actually implanted 125 electrodes in the brain and body of a single patient -- for which he claimed a world record -- and had spent hours stimulating the man's pleasure centers. Like Dr. Delgado, the neurosurgeon concluded that ESB could control memory, impulses, feelings, and could evoke hallucinations as well as fear and pleasure. It could literally manipulate centers. Late in June 1972, Dr. Gottlieb, had jigged back and forth on the carpet of the director's office, and his carefully controlled stammer had surfaced as he enthused that at long, long last, here was the answer to mind control, that ESB was the key to creating not only a psychocivilized person but an entire psychocivilized society -- a world where every human thought, emotion, sensation, and desire could be actually controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain. The possibilities, said Dr. Gottlieb, were far beyond the neurological masturbation of the pleasure centers. Not only could a rampaging bull be stopped in full charge, but humans could finally be programmed to attach and kill on command. Another step forward was about to be taken in the Agency's search for the "Manchurian Candidate." Helms agreed that research into ESB should come under the direct control of Dr. Stephen Aldrich. A former medical director of the Agency's Office of Scientific Intelligence, Dr. Aldrich was widely regarded among his ORD colleagues as a pathfinder. From dawn to dusk he spent his time speculating, theorizing, and experimenting with the possibilities of harnessing ESB for intelligence work. Using the latest computer technology, he developed Rubenstein's earlier work on radio telemetry, and the unfullfilled dream the English technician had shared with Dr. Cameron of a world of electrically monitored people became that much more of a reality. In the safe house where Yuri Nosenko had been brutalized, Dr. Aldrich supervised infinitely more sophisticated research included in the equipment he used was a piece not even Orwell had dared invent for his 1984. Called the Schwitzgebel Machine, the boxlike construction had been developed by Ralph K Schwitzgebel in the Laboratory of Community Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His brother, Robert, had subsequently modified the prototype so that the final product was something Rubenstein would have taken pride in, indeed, in many ways it resembled a smaller version of hte cumbersome transducer the technician had built in the Montreal basement. The Schwitzgebel Machine consisted of a Behavior transmitter-Reinforcer (BT-R) fitted to a body belt that received from and transmitted signals to a radio module. In the official description of the machine that module was "linked to a modified-missile-tracking device which graphs the wearer's location and displays it on a screen." The Schwitzgebel Machine -- its very name suggested something designed to make people enjoy their servitude -- was able to record all physical and neurological signs in a subject from up to a quarter of a mile -- an impressive improvement over the distance between the Grid Room and the cubbyhole where Dr. Cameron had monitored Madeleine Smith and other patients. By August 1972 other proponents of the Schwitzgebel Machine were voicing their enthusiasm. They were led by Professor Barton L. Ingrahma, a criminologist at the University of Maryland, and Gerald W. Smith, professor of criminal studies at the University of Utah. In a joint paper, Ingraham and Smith painted a vivid scenario of how the machine could be used to keep track of known criminals. He or she would be fitted with a brain implant and woudl be tracked, with the psychological data being transmitted from the implant to the machine. The machine, using probabilities, would come to a decision and alert the police if necessary. Adapting that frightening vision of tomorrow's world formed part of ORD's concept of the New Jerusalem of intelligence. On September 20, 1972, the station chief in the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa reported to the directorate of operations in Langley that Dr. Morrow was still actively pursuing her legal action against the Allan Memorial Institute and Dr. Cameron's estate. The intelligence officer regularly reviewed what, if any, progress Dr. Morrow had made. Previously his reports on the matter had gone unremarked. For some reason -- Buckley thought if the surprise of one of the keen young officers who regularly passed thorugh the DDO that after so long and so many setbacks Dr. Morrow was still pursuing her claims -- the Ottawa report had been sent to the seventh floor. Within hours the order came winging back to the DDO that a full check should be run on the status of every patient known to have been used in Dr. Cameron's research. Was there any way -- any way at all -- that what had been done to them could be traced back to the Agency? Six weeks later, on November 15, the DDO reported to the director that, as far as it could establish, there was no way the Agency could be implicated -- except through the material in its own archives. On December 10, 1972, Helms ordered Operation Often -- all of it -- cancelled. The probe into the occult, Dr. Aldrich's work, almost a score of active subprojects, were halted forthwith. In a terse, one-line memo -- marked READ, DESTROY -- the director offered Dr. Gottlieb no explanation. The senior scientist was mortified. He made several trips to the seventh floor to argue, and finally plead. Helms remained unmoved. Buckley -- once more back in the field, this time working in Cambodia -- would recall that, on one of his visits to Langley around that time, "there was just a very unhappy air about ORD. Like everyone was in mourning." Early in January 1973, Dr. Gottlieb resigned from the Agency. No effort was made by Helms to persuade him to stay. In the days before his departure, and acting on the director's order, Dr. Gottlieb shredded records of M-K-Ultra/M-K-Search. On February 2, 1973 -- again without an explanation -- President Nixon replaced Helms as director. In a farewell luncheon with his successor, James R. Schlesinger, Helms was asked if there was anything in the Agency's recent history that could cause problems. Helms replied, "Nope. Not a thing." Several floors below where the two men sat in the executive dining room were one hundred and thirty boxes in the archives, which contained incriminating material that Dr. Gottlieb, inexplicably, had failed to destroy. Schlesinger soon realized he had inherited an Agency that had been on the rampage, riding roughshod over the Constitution and virtually acting as President Nixon's private security force. Since May 12, 1969 -- when members of Division D, the specialized unit that burgled and placed listening bugs, had planted seventeen wiretaps in the offices and homes of White House aide and newsmen following publication of the secret bombing of Cambodia -- the Agency had routinely operated outside the law. It had become involved in domestic intelligence-gathering, spying against Americans opposed to the Vietnam War. After The New York Times published the Pentagon Papers in 1971, fed to it by Daniel Ellsberg, the Agency provided backup support for a team of burglars, supervised by Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, to break into the offices of Ellsberg's psychiatrist looking for evidence that could discredit the newspaper's informant. Time and again the Agency had carried out other break-ins -- what were called surreptituous entries in the files marked ROP SECRET that Schlesinger had found in his office safe. It interfered with the mail and, after five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate Building in Washington, the Agency did everything it could to hamper the FBI's investigation. Schlesinger realized why Helms had been cosigned to the other end of the world as U.S. ambassador to Iran. Removing him was part of the containment operation that the new director suspected had the full knowledge of the President. Coming into office, the director had been presented by John D. Ehrlichman, assistant to the president for domestic affairs, with a thick file on the latest supposed Communist infiltration in the United States. The Communists were accused, among other things, of being behind a grave-diggers strike in New York, a walkout by air traffic controllers, and an attempt to undermine the morals of young Americans by getting teachers to introduce a more realistic sex education program. The trail of all this led back to Moscow, charged the White House document. Who else but the KGB would have encouraged the foundation of the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy for Hell (WITCH), an aggressive feminist movement? Who else but the Soviet Union was behind the campaign for abortion on demand? Who else was behind the thousand bomb threats New York received every week? Who else stood to benefit from the call to revolution by Angela Davis, a daughter of the black middle class, and the Soledad brothers, three black militants not actually related to each other, but who were the torchbearers for violent action against the police? Who else but Moscow? Schlesinger asked the Directorate of Operations to investigate what, if any, evidence existed to substantiate the White House allegations. The file also contained claims that the Russian doctors had tortured captured Americans in North Vietnam and that the Patrice Lumumba Friendship University in Moscow had begun an even more intensive training of Third World physicians in the art of medical torture. There were allegations that the KGB had created what were described as torture centers in Bulgaria and East Germany, where opponents of communism were subjected to a wide range of medical torture. Alarmed by the accusations of medical malpractive, Schlesinger ordered urgent checks to be made, only to discover that, while the charges were almost certainly true, they were hardly new. Station chiefs had reported them on several previous occasions. Ironically, the White House focused the director's attention on the Agency's own past record. On February 27, 1973, Schlesinger sent an order to all Agency employees. The mimeographed memo -- marked CONFIDENTIAL, the CIA's lowest form of classification -- requested that the director's office should be informed at once about any instances where Agency offricials had performed improper or illegal acts. Career officers, who already regarded Schlesinger as a meddling outsider, were outraged. Some felt they were being asked to inform and spy on each other, to behave as if they worked for some banana republic security force rather than still the most powerful intelligence organization in the world. A scientist with ORD send the director a copy of one of Dr. Gottlieb's memos on Operation Often. "Our operation officers, particularly the emerging group of new senior officers, have shown a discerning care and realize that, in addition to moral and ethical considerations, there are extremely sensitive security considerations." The message to Schlesinger was clear: Back off. The scientist was promptly fired. There would be no backing off, and anyone who refused to comply with the director's command could also expect to be dismissed. Within days, Schlesinger's desk was covered with piles of paperwork that extended back to the death of Frank Olsen and Operation Artichoke. The catalogue of misdeeds ran from Korea to Vietnam. The paperwork mounted daily, keeping pace with the unraveling Watergate crisis. Schlesinger grew increasingly stunned at the scope of the Agency's previous misbehavior. Nothing had been too great or small, too risky or vile to try. Blackmail, bribery, sexual harassment, and violence of all kinds, often ending in murder, had become commonplace. It was genuinely horrific. Yet, somehow, it all the disinterring, not a word emerged about what had happened in Montreal. (The book continues...as Nixon quickly moves Schlesinger OUT of the office of CIA chief and into the position of Secretary of Defense on July 2, 1973, before Schlesinger could expose the wrong- doings. My Creole AF mother I remember simply detested Schlesinger and used to go into fits over how much during family discussions.) END>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ************************************************************** MINDCONTROL-L Mind Control and Psyops Mailing List To unsubscribe or subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text: "unsubscribe MINDCONTROL-L" or "subscribe MINDCONTROL-L". Post to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, list moderator
