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7/13/99

Hi !

Here's some information on FMSF.  Sincerely,  Neil

PS All accusations are alleged (this is for legal reasons.)

Therapist Defeats Founders of False Memory Syndrome Foundation, The US
District Court for the District of Maryland granted summary judgement
dismissing all claims for defamation against Charles Whitfield, MD brought by
the Freyd's, founders of FMSF. The Court found Dr. Whitfield's comments were
protected as his opinion, that the Freyd's were public figures and failed to
demonstrate malice. For info contact Weinberg & Green, LLC, 410-332-8600,
weinberg&green@ mcimail.com and
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse" - Jennifer J. Freyd
 (Pamela Freyd's daughter)

> U-Turn on Memory Lane by Mike Stanton
> COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW
> July/August 1997, pp. 44-49.
>
> Pamela Freyd seems more like the mother and grandmother she is than a
> revolutionary. But as a founder of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation,
> she has in fact helped revolutionize the way the press and the public view
> one of the angriest debates in America--whether an adult can suddenly
> remember long-forgotten childhood abuse.
>         The subject of memory has always been a slippery one for
journalists.
> While there is a documented body of knowledge showing that people can
> forget horrific events and recall them years later, memory is not an exact
> science like nuclear physics, but rather an emotional arena of violent
> disagreement.
>         Yet in the 1980s and early '90s, repressed memories were all the
rage
> among reporters and talk-show hosts as the media uncritically focused on
> accounts of abuse so dramatic and terrible that they must have been true.
> Some, it eventually became clear, were exaggerations or fabrications.
>         Now, thanks largely to the efforts of the Philadelphia-based False
Memory
> Syndrome Foundation, the pendulum has swung equally far in the other
> direction. Formed as a support group for accused parents, the foundation
> has sought primarily to persuade the media of the dangers of psychotherapy
> in creating "false memories." Indeed, today there is open skepticism and
> outright hostility toward the idea that lost memory can be recovered. But
> often there has been no more hard-news reporting than before, leaving the
> issue essentially unexplicated in the press.
>         A study published last year by a University of Michigan sociologist,
> Katherine Beckert, found a sharp shift in how four leading magazines--Time,
> Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, and People--treated sexual abuse. In
> 1991, more than 80 percent of the coverage was weighted toward stories of
> survivors, with recovered memory taken for granted and questionable
> therapy virtually ignored. By 1994, more than 80 percent of the coverage
> focused on false accusations, often involving supposedly false memory.
> Beckett credited the False Memory Syndrome Foundation with a major role in
> the change.
>         Pamela Freyd (rhymes with "tried") started the foundation in early
1992
> with her husband, Peter, a University of Pennsylvania mathematician. He had
> been accused by their grown daughter Jennifer, a respected University of
> Oregon psychologist and memory researcher, of childhood sexual abuse, the
> memory of which she said she recovered as an adult. Since then, journalists
> across the country have felt the wrath of what Stephen Fried, a writer for
> Philadelphia magazine, calls "the most influentially dysfunctional family
> in America."
>         It wasn' t Jennifer Freyd, but her parents, who made her allegations
> public. Pamela Freyd revealed the accusations, which neither she nor her
> daughter has ever specified publicly, among with personal details about
> her daughter's life, in an article that she wrote anonymously for a small
> journal sympathetic to accused parents. She later identified herself to
> reporters as the author.
>         The Freyds blame their daughter's therapist for her memories of
abuse. But
> Jennifer Freyd denies that her memories surfaced, as newspaper articles
> and her mother have suggested, through hypnosis or any of the other
> therapeutic practices the FMSF attacks.
>         Rarely has such a strange and little-understood organization had
such a
> profound effect on media coverage of such a contro-versial matter. The
> foundation is an aggressive, well-financed p.r. machine adept at
> manipulating the press, harassing its critics, and mobilizing a diverse
> army of psychiatrists, outspoken academics, expert defense witnesses,
> litigious lawyers, Freud bashers, critics of psychotherapy, and devastated
> parents. With a budget of $750,000 a year from members and outside
> supporters, the foundation's reach far exceeds its actual membership of
> about 3,000. The Freyds and the members know who we are but the press knows
> less than they are what drives them, or why they've been so successful.
>         Pamela Freyd, who is the foundation's executive director, wrote in
its
> first monthly newsletter, "We had to find ways to get people to hear our
> story." From the beginning, she encouraged accused parents to tell their
> stories to reporters and to appear on talk shows, to put a human face on
> this "serious health crisis" and satisfy the media's "craving for human
> drama."
>         It worked. As controversial memory cases arose around the country,
FMSF
> boosters contacted journalists to pitch the false-memory argument, more and
> more reporters picked up on the issue, and the foundation became an
> overnight media darling. The story line that had dominated the press since
> the 1980s--an underreported toll of sexual abuse, including sympathetic
> stories of adult sur-vivors resurrecting long-lost memories of it--was
> quickly turned around.  The focus shifted to new tearful victims--
> respectable, elderly parents who could no longer see their children and
> grandchildren because of bad therapists who implanted memories not only of
> sexual abuse but also of such bizarre things as satanic cults, past lives,
> and alien abductions....
--for example, that there is no way to document the
> prevalence of bad therapy versus good therapy, or of true memories versus
> false memories, and that it is nearly impossible to know whether the
> accused parents, the Freyds included, are telling the truth. The foundation
> is part of a larger movement that questions the recent increase in
> sexual-abuse allegations, not only by adults claiming recovered memory but
> also by children who, sometimes under coercive questioning, produce lurid
> accusations involving their parents or day-care personnel and adult "sex
> rings."
>         Within six months of the foundation's creation, so many positive
stories
> had appeared that Pamela Freyd wrote in her newsletter: "The biggest change
> has come in the press. One year ago there was literally nothing written
> about FMSF (indeed it did not even have a name). There are now many
> well-document-ed professional and popular articles about FMSF."
>         By the end of 1993, Pamela Freyd reported that media cover-age had
changed
> public attitudes toward false memory, and that news articles "are the
> primary vehicle for the dissemination of information." And "false memory
> syndrome" -- a catchy slogan invented by the Freyds but not scientifically
> accepted--became implanted in our collective con-sciousness, complete with
> its own heading in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature.
>         Many reporters don't realize that the FMSF's impressive array of
> sci-entific advisers represents just one part of the broad spectrum of
> psychological thought. The board is dominated by research psychologists and
> biologically oriented therapists -- inclined to seek physical reasons for
> problems and treat them with drugs -- along with older, psychoanalytically
> oriented psychiatrists. There are few younger female therapists.
>         The two most prominent FMSF experts, who pop up repeatedly in news
> articles and as consulting witnesses in lawsuits, are a University of
> Washington psychologist, Elizabeth Loftus, and a University of California
> at Berkeley soci-ologist and cult specialist, Richard Ofshe. While both
> have done work and pub-lished books that are an important part of the
> recovered-memory debate, too many reporters accept their theories
> uncritically, seemingly unaware that there are countering scientific views
> or that nei-ther's expertise is in traumatic memory.
>         As the story unfolded in the '90s, reporters relied increasingly on
FMSF
> experts and propaganda. A November 29, 1993 Time arti-cle by Leon Jaroff --
> who calls himself Time's longtime "resident skeptic" --quoted several
> foundation advisers and conveyed the impression that "literally thousands"
> of people were coming forward with false memories induced by therapists.
> Jaroff says he was introduced to the topic by another FMSF adviser, Martin
> Gardner, who was active in another group that Jaroff helped found, the
> Committee for the Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. The committee
> debunks all forms of "quackery," says Jaroff, from flying saucers to
> recovered memory. "As a journalist you have to 'write a balanced story, but
> within reason," he says. "You have to make a judgment. I'm convinced that
> so-called   'recovered memory' is largely illusory." The FMSF hailed the
> Time piece as "a landmark in public awareness."
>         Even earlier, in a July 21, 1992, New York Times story, the science
writer
> Daniel Goleman, a psychologist, became one of the first journalists to
> pop-ularize the foundation's contention that accusations based on recovered
> memories were modern-day witch-hunts. The article opened with the question
> "Is it Satan or Salem?" and the witch-hunt metaphor proved irresistible for
> other reporters. But Goleman failed to consider that the FMSF might
> represent an alternative witch-hunt -- a backlash by a society fed up with
> celebrity incest survivors like Oprah and Roseanne and a culture of
> victimization. His story did not make clear the role of accused parents in
> starting the foundation, quoted several of its advisers without revealing
> their affiliation, and misidenti-fied Pamela Freyd as a psychologist.
>         Major series on false memory appeared in The San Diego
Union-Tribune in
> the fall of 1992 and the San Francisco Examiner in the spring of 1993. The
> San Diego series presented as typical of this new hysteria the bizarre case
> of a woman who claimed a memory from the womb of her mother trying to abort
> her. The six-day Examiner series devoted reams of copy to the emotional but
> unverified tales of accused parents, but quoted only one alleged victim.
> The series provoked an outraged response from many therapists and women's
> and survivors' groups. The foundation, in its next newsletter, eagerly
> advertised reprints of the Examiner series "that has created such a stir
> across the country."
>         Highly publicized cases provided reporters with grist for the mill.
In
> 1991, a California wine executive, Gary Ramona, sued his daughter's
> therapists over her claims of recovered memory of sexual abuse and
> ultimately won a land-mark malpractice case. (The daughter is now suing
> Ramona for the cost of her therapy and for punitive damages.) ....
>
>         The case of Paul Ingram, a Washington state sheriff's deputy and
> fundamentalist Christian who confessed to recovered memories of molesting
> his daughters and satanic ritual abuse, became the focal point of a
> two-part series by Lawrence Wright in The New Yorker in the spring of 1993.
> The articles, which won a National Magazine Award and were pub-lished as
> the book Remembering Satan, attracted widespread attention to the
> phe-nomenon of false memory while virtual-ly ignoring the many documented
> instances of recovered memory.
>         The foundation received an even big-ger boost with the airing of
the 1995
> PBS Frontline  documentary  "Divided Memories," produced by Ofra Bikel. A
> watershed media event in the recovered-memory debate, "Divided Memories"
> purported to be a balanced examination of the issue and, to uninformed
> viewers, seemed to summarize where the matter stands today. In truth, it
> was a four-hour polemic, including an interview with the Freyds, that gave
> short shrift to con-firmed cases of recovered memory. The program spent
> most of its time skewering fringe therapists who helped patients recover
> memories -- with Frontline cameras rolling -- of satanic abuse, past lives,
> and, in one case, being stuck in a fallopian tube. The documentary ignited
> an angry firestorm among therapists, medical experts, and groups
> representing women and survivors of sexual abuse.
>         Sherry Quirk, president of the American  Coalition  for  Abuse
Awareness,
> wrote to Frontline to express outrage "at the heavily weighted slant you
> have given a subject which is already sinking under the weight of
> con-fusion and misinformation." A Harvard psychiatrist, Bessel A. van der
> Kolk, a leading memory expert interviewed by Bikel, wrote to accuse her of
> glossing over the intricacies of trauma and memo-ry and ignoring national
> figures docu-menting the magnitude of sexual abuse. The U.S. Department of
> Justice's bureau of justice statistics estimates that 250,000 children a
> year are sexually molested.
>         Bikel says she and her researchers looked at hundreds of cases, but
could
> find just one corroborated instance of recovered memory, mentioned briefly
> near the start of the four-hour documen-tary. But Ross Cheit, a Brown
> University professor of public policy who confirmed his own recovered
> memories of abuse by obtaining a tape-recorded confession from the
> perpetrator, assigned one of his students to look through electronic
> data-bases. In just a few hours, Cheit wrote PBS, the student turned up six
> cases of recovered memory that were verified by confessions or testimony
> from other victims. Bikel and her researchers, in fact, knew about Cheit's
> own case, and anoth-er involving a woman who successfully sued her father
> based on a recovered memory, but did not include their stories. Bikel says
> she didn't feel their cases were relevant.
>         Some press critics raved about "Divided Memories." The Wall Street
> Journal's  Dorothy Rabinowitz, a Pulitzer Prize finalist last year for her
> columns questioning sexual abuse accusations by children in day-care cases,
> called Bikel's work "grimly captivating, occasionally hilari-ous, plainly
> masterful" - "a killer assault" of "extraordinary texture" that "deserves
> all the awards around." The FMSF was pleased with the results. The
> documentary, says Peter Freyd, was "openly an advocate for our side."
>         "Divided Memories" capped a sensa-tional run for the foundation. By
the
> end of 1994, more than 300 articles had been published on "false memory,"
> with head-lines like "Beware the Incest-Survivor Machine" (The New York
> Times Book Review on several books dealing with recovered memory) and "Cry
> Incest" (Playboy). Even the comic strip Doonesbury joined in: Mark the disc
> jockey underwent "on-air repressed -memory-hypnosis therapy" by a "leading
> guru for the recovered-memory move-ment," who attempted to induce memo-ries
> of space-alien abduction.
> In her study of the four news-magazines' pendulum-swing on coverage of
> sexual abuse, Katherine Beckeff noted that the foundation has been
> "particularly successful" in redefining the issue of child abuse, adding,
> "The success stems, in part, from the fact that the FMSF iden-tified
> influencing media coverage as its most important objective."
>         The FMSF builds much of its case against recovered memory by
attacking a
> generally discredited Freudian concept of repression that proponents of
> recovered memory don't buy, either. In so doing, the foundation ignores the
> fifty-year-old literature on traumatic, or psychogenic, amnesia, which is
> an accepted diagnosis by the American Psychiatric Association. In his 1996
> book Searching for Memory, the Harvard psychologist and brain researcher
> Daniel L. Schachter - who believes that both true and false memories exist
> - says there is no conclusive scientific evidence that false memories can
> be created. The FMSF acknowledges that it's impossible to distinguish true
> memories from false ones, but then dismisses incontrovertible" like Ross
> Cheit's as aberrations. The foun-dation and its backers "remind me of a
> high school debate team," says the Stanford psy-chiatrist David Spiegel, an
> authority on traumatic amnesia. "They go to the library, surgically extract
> the information conve-nient to them and throw out the rest."
>         A Harvard Law Review article in January 1996 argued that while
scientific
> evidence proves the existence of delayed memories, biased reporting has
> helped create a social climate in which people, including some judges, have
> come to believe just the opposite. "Stories high-lighting dubious-sounding
> or clearly mis-taken memories have replaced reports of more plausible
> recollections," two Northwestern University law professors, Cynthia Grant
> Brown and Elizabeth Mertz, wrote in the Review. "The abusive parents of
> earlier media accounts have been replaced as the villains of the story by
> self-serving therapists," they said, and wondered "why it is apparently so
> diffi-cult to contemplate the obvious but more complicated possibility that
> there are both accurate and inaccurate claims of remem-bered sexual abuse.
> . .. To the degree that the media has an effect on public opinion,
> including legal professionals' opinions, there is cause to doubt that the
> public is hearing this more balanced message. . ."
>         A reporter making an honest effort to tell both sides finds it
difficult
> to pene-trate a world where many victims are reluctant to surrender their
> privacy. Instead of digging the story out for them-selves, reporters take a
> soft-news approach -- just as many did earlier with implausible stories of
> victimization -- and allow themselves to be swayed by tearful parents,
> leaving the FMSF to package the hard news in a slick press kit.
>         It's surprising how few stories explore the question whether accused
> parents are guilty or innocent. The foundation's own survey of member
> families indicated that 11 percent had been accused by more than one child
> and that, of a smaller sample that took a lie-detector test, 14 percent
> failed and another 11 percent declined to dis-close the results.
>         Many therapists, like their patients, hesitate to speak out.
Recently,
> though, they have begun to make a more con-certed effort to mobilize a
> response. One of the most outspoken critics of the false-memory movement is
> a Seattle therapist, David Calof, editor until last year of Treating Abuse
> Today, a newsletter for therapists.  He has identified what he calls the
> movement's political agenda -- lob-bying for more restrictive laws
> governing therapy and promoting the harassment of therapists through
> lawsuits and even picketing of their offices and homes. Calof himself has
> been the target of pick-eting so fierce that he has been in and out of
> Seattle courtrooms over the last two years, obtaining restraining orders.
> He was spending so much time and money fighting the FMSF supporters'
> campaign against him, he says, that he was forced to stop publishing the
> newsletter last year. He recently donated the publication to a victims'
> rights group in Pennsylvania, which has resurrected it as Trauma. The new
> publisher says that he views part of its mission as reporting on FMSF,
> since the mainstream media don't.
>         Among journalists, perhaps the most relentless critic of the
foundation is
> Michele Landsberg, a Toronto Star columnist. In 1993, she says, an Ontario
> couple, claiming to have been falsely accused, contacted her and asked her
> to write about their case. Unconvinced, she declined, and eventually
> started writing instead about the foundation. She attacked its scientific
> claims and criti-cized the sensational media coverage. She described how a
> foundation scientif-ic adviser, Harold Merskey, had testified that a woman
> accusing a doctor of sexual abuse in a civil case might in fact have been
> suffering from false memory syn-drome. But the accused doctor himself had
> previously confessed to criminal charges of abusing her.
>         Landsberg also challenged the creden-tials of other foundation
advisers.
> She noted that one founding adviser, Ralph Underwager, was forced to resign
> from the foundation's hoard after he and his wife, Hollida Wakefield, who
> remains an advis-er, gave an interview to a Dutch pedophil-ia magazine in
> which he was quoted as describing pedophilia as "an acceptable expression
> of God's will for love." Landsberg also wrote that another adviser, James
> Randi, a magician known as The Amazing Randi, had been involved in a
> lawsuit in which his opponent introduced a tape of sexually explicit
> telephone conver-sations Randi had with teenage boys. (Randi has claimed at
> various times, she said, that the tape was a hoax and that the police asked
> him to make it.)
> "Why haven't reporters investigated the  False  Memory  Syndrome
> Foundation?" she asks. "It's legitimate to examine their backgrounds here
> are people who really do have powerful motivation to deny the truth."
>         Last year, a free-lance writer, Katy Butler, learned what can
happen when
> a journalist crosses swords with the foun-dation. Butler, who covered the
> Ramona trial for the Los Angeles Times and is a consulting editor for
> Family Therapy Networker magazine, was asked by Newsweek to write a story
> assessing the backlash against recovered memory, including the role of the
> FMSF. The foundation got wind of the assignment and swung into action. The
> Freyds, unhappy that her previous articles had challenged foundation
> assertions, com-plained to Newsweek editors that Butler was biased Peter
> Freyd also enlisted Richard Ofshe and another foundation adviser, Frederick
> Crews, a retired pro-fessor of English at the University of California at
> Berkeley.
>         Ofshe had been unhappy with Butler over her partly negative review
in the
> Los Angeles Times of his book Making Monsters. He wrote a letter to
> Newsweek's editor-in chief Richard Smith, calling Butler "a zealot
> masquerading as a journalist." Crews has written harsh articles for the New
> York Review of Books, in which he combines attacks on Freud with efforts to
> discredit recovered memory. He contends that there are "hundreds of
> thousands, perhaps millions" of questionable allega-tions based on
> recovered memory. Butler, he warned Newsweek in a letter, is "well known
> not only as a journalist in this area but also as a strong advocate" for
> recov-ered memory.
>         The FMSF correspondents say they were seeking accuracy, not
censorship. A
> Newsweek senior editor, John Capouya, viewed their letters as "a
> well-organized action" to block the story or at least dis-credit Butler.
> Ultimately, the foundation's opposition helped persuade Newsweek not to do
> the story.  Says Capouya, "We weren't too sanguine about getting into a
> huge pissing match with these people."
>         While the False Memory Syndrome Foundation and its claims warrant
more
> press scrutiny, Philadelphia maga-zine's Fried argues that critics should
> not demonize the group for simply being effective advocates. It's the
> media's job, he told an Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in
> Providence last summer, to present a more intelligent, bal-anced discourse
> on recovered memory. As Butler, who was a panelist at the IRE ses-sion,
> says, "I've worked very hard to tell both sides of this story. What's
> interesting to me about all this is that telling both sides has started to
> seem like a dangerous and risky act."
>         The best a reporter can do in such circumstances is to be a
reporter.
> Don't be seduced by people who cry or experts claiming to have all the
> answers. Resist the temptation to think you can solve the mystery of
> memory; embrace the virtues of subtlety and ambiguity.
>         This is a story with many voices beyond the False Memory Syndrome
> Foundation. All of them need to be heard.
>
> > Mike Stanton heads the investigative team at The Providence
> Journal-Bulletin, where he shared a 1994 Pulitzer Prize for investigative
> reporting. He wrote a 1995 series on Professor Ross F. Cheit of Brown
> University, whose recovered memory of childhood abuse drew national
> attention. Stanton studied recovered memory last year on a John S. Knight
> Fellowship at Stanford University.


Flyer distributed at recent Elizabeth Loftus lecture, University of Michigan

"FALSE MEMORIES"

The False Memory Syndrome Foundation made up a concept called the
"false memory syndrome" which has no scientific validity and is not
recognized by reputable psychiatric and psychological professional
organizations.  Its major tenet is that survivors have "false
memories" and that such "false memories" are routinely implanted by
therapists.  The False Memory Syndrome Foundation was created by
Pamela and Peter J. Freyd whose daughter Jennifer Freyd, Ph.D.,
remembered, as an adult, that she had been abused as a child.

Elizabeth Loftus who is speaking as a guest of the University of
Michigan is a member of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation
Scientific and Professional Advisory Board.

ETHICS VIOLATIONS

We are gravely concerned that Elizabeth Loftus resigned from the
American Psychological Association one month after ethics compalints
were filed against her.  In December of 1995, two women separately
filed ethics complaints with the American Psychological Association
against Dr. Loftus.  They each alleged that Loftus misstated and
exaggerated some of their court testimony in an article she wrote to
support her views.  Although APA policy generally bars the
resignation of members when they are under the scrutiny of the Ethics
Committee, Loftus resigned form the APA one month after these
complaints were filed--effectively putting an end to any
investigation.

MORE CONCERNS

Dr. Loftus studies NORMAL memory which is radically different than
TRAUMATIC memory.  It is ridiculous to compare a childhood memory of
being lost in a shopping center to being raped by your stepfather.
Where is common sense?.....

Dr.  Loftus likens herself to Oskar Schindler and portrays herself as a
"savior" of the poor "falsely accused" perpetrators.  This statement
trivializes the genocide directed by the Nazis against Jews and other
"undesirables" and in itself is offensive.


An interesting review of FMSF history and the background of some major players
from http://www.towardfreedom.com/may98/messing.htm

Messing with Our Minds. With links to CIA mind control experts and accused
child abusers, the false memory movement turns ôblaming the victimö into a
science

HUSAYN AL-KURDI
A quiet but brutal war is being waged on the victims of child abuse, including
sexual and even ritual abuse. The battlefields include academia, the courts,
professional groups, and society in general. In some cases, the aggressors are
the same people accused of perpetuating the violence. They've banded together,
forming networks and support groups, most notably the False Memory Syndrome
Foundation (FMSF), which discounts recollections of abuse recovered in later
years, making survivors look like complainers and trauma therapists sound like
quacks....

It should come as no surprise, then, that long-time CIA and
"intelligence complex" operatives turn up on the FMSF Advisory      Board.
Perhaps the most public member has been Dr. Louis Joylon      "Jolly" West, a
legendary figure in CIA mind control circles      operating out of UCLA.
Another is Dr. Martin Orne, an authority on      torture who currently works
at the University of Pennsylvania's
Experimental Psychiatry Lab. While studying the effects of over 16
biochemical warfare agents until the early 1970s, Orne considered      the
effectiveness of choking, blistering, and vomiting agents,      toxins,
poison gas, and various incapacitating chemicals. During      the same
period, he also worked with the Cornell University-based      Human Ecology
Fund, sharing his findings with Dr. Even Cameron,      who was then based at
the McGill University Allen Institute in
Montreal. At Human Ecology, electroshock, lobotomies, drugs,
incapacitants, hypnosis, sleep deprivation, and radio control of      the
brain were all specialties of the house.


Subj:     Mind Control Radio Series - interview with Colin Ross pt 4
MIND CONTROL SERIES Ryerson CKLN Radio in Toronto: Producer Wayne Morris
interviews Dr. Colin Ross Fourth in a series of broadcasts aired Sunday April
13, 1997 on CKLN-FM 88.l in Toronto....

C.R.  For the listeners who don't know, Jennifer Freyd is the daughter of
Pamela and Peter Freyd ... Pamela Freyd is the Executive Director of the
False Memory Syndrome Foundation .... The Scientific Advisory Board of the
FMSF which is a whole bunch of academics and experts who advise the
Foundation and sort of speak on behalf of it ... includes Martin Orne and
Joly West who had CIA top secret clearance; Harold Leif who is the personal
psychiatrist to the Freyds also was a co-author with Robert Heath who did the
brain electrode research at Tulane which was funded by the various branches
of the military and CIA.  About five of Martin Orne's co-authors or people
that he thanks in publications of his going back into the 50's in different
mind control research that he did are also on the Board. Margaret Singer who
interviewed the Korean prisoners of war who had top secret clearance through
the military to do that work is also on the Board.  So there is quite a
connection and overlap between the FMSF people (not all of them but a group
of them) and all this military mind control research.

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