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BLOSSOM
GOODCHILD’S
UFO
A
NO SHOW
Australian Announces UFO
to Visit Alabama on
October 14, 2008
Blossom Goodchild Channels
"Federation of Light" Aliens En
Route to Alabama
Good people of Alabama, you are not
alone. A UFO is coming for a visit. The aliens
come in peace and love, so do not be afraid.
They come in the name of simply
demonstrating that they actually exist and in the
hope of staging a good photo-op. Everyone is
invited. So put on your best Sunday-go-to-
meetin's. The event will take place over a 72-
hour period starting October 14, 2008. Bring
cameras.
Perhaps they heard about the Alabama's
and the Deep South's famous hospitality.
Some things just seem to go together.
Like southern and hospitality. Like peas and
carrots. Like Forrest and Jenny. Like Alabama
and UFOs. Heck, even Australian alien
channelers with 60's lovechild names like
Blossom Goodchild know that.
Blossom Goodchild Channels
"Federation of Light" Aliens En Route To
Alabama
Blossom Goodchild is an Australian
actress who announced to the world that visitors
from the "Federation of Light" would visit the
Earth to once and for all still the tongues of
UFO detractors by allowing themselves to be
seen.
According to Goodchild, a massive
mothership will hover for 72 hours,
demonstrating that beings other than humans
exist in the universe.
Blossom Goodchild told an online
tabloid that is over the edge with UFO
believers, the "Federation of Light" contacted
her telepathically, through ESP. The aliens told
her that they would visit the Earth on October
14, 2008.
And where is this glorious event to take
place? Alabama. Home of Bear Bryant, football,
Forrest Gump and country music supergroup
Alabama. Oh, and Helen Keller.
Actually, Goodchild isn't quite certain
that the UFO will come to Alabama, she said.
She said that the alien communication stated:
"We give to you the name of Alabama." In fact,
in her channeling, Goodchild said the aliens
informed her they would appear in the southern
hemisphere. Alabama is in the northern
hemisphere.
Perhaps Goodchild's channel was a bit
static-y. Or she dropped the call. So she asked
the aliens about this discrepancy. They told her
that Alabama "used to be" in the southern
hemisphere. Technically, according to tectonic
plate theory and continental drift, this would be
true. This bit of confusion by the aliens would
seem to signal that they haven't been to Earth in
quite some time.
Continued On Page 2
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October 2008 - Index
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Blossom GoodChild’s UFO No Show........Pg 1
The ‘X’ Zone Broadcast Affiliates.............Pg 2
Searching For The Truth........................Pg 3
Another No Show UFO.......................Pg 5
What This I See - Or Do I?...............Pg 6
Answers From Your Angels..................Pg 8
Bigfoot Hoax Body Suit Sold On e-Bay.....Pg 11
Your Personal Numbers.............................Pg 12
New Yorkers Stand By UFO Sighting........Pg 13
John Edward - Hustling The Bereaved......Pg 14
Ten Horror Hoaxes.....................................Pg 17
The Amityville Hoax.................................Pg 18
Lights, Cameras, Astronauts!....................Pg 21
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Project MKULTRA and Ewen Cameron....Pg 25
Jacki Mari - NumAstrologist.....................Pg 26
Failed Prophecies Throughout History......Pg 28
Sugar Free Miracle Diet.............................Pg 29
Where Fact Is Fiction ................................Pg 32
Nostradamus..............................................Pg 33
Linnea Star.................................................Pg 38
From The ‘X’ Zone Newsroom.................Pg 39
Truth Hurts - but we’d better face it .........Pg 39
Secrets of Cat Attitude Revealled..............Pg 41
Doctor Angela............................................Pg 43
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Australian Announces
UFO to Visit Alabama on
October 14, 2008
Continued from Page 1
Alabama UFO Sightings
Besides, it is not as if UFOs haven't
visited Alabama in the past.
There was a UFO sighting in Decatur in
May. Some people they saw a soundless object
in the sky that suddenly plunged toward the
ground. Some say the saw the object in the
company of military helicopters. One observer,
Cody Terry, told WSFA News that he saw what
looked like a large pearl in an ambulance near
where the object disappeared. Authorities have
acknowledged that a Med-Flight helicopter was
in the area and that the pilot had mentioned he
had seen a meteorite.
In February 1998, a videotape of disc or
ball-shaped object was shown on Fox
Television in Mobile, Alabama. The UFO was
videotaped in Robertsville on February 7. Two
weeks later, in nearby Semmes, Alabama, two
witnesses claim to have seen a rectangular-
shaped UFO glowing red in the sky above their
house.
WBMG in Birmingham reported in
1989 the sighting of an strange object hovering
over Fiffe, Alabama, that was witnessed by
several residents of the town of 1300, including
local police officers.
Perhaps The Aliens Want To Visit
Huntsville!
But why Alabama? Nostalgia? The
aliens did tell Goodchild that they knew where
Alabama was. Actually, where it used to be.
Today, Alabama hosts the Marshall Space Flight
Center in Huntsville, which has been
instrumental in many NASA programs over the
years. Perhaps they wish to visit there.
Or maybe they want to visit the U.S.
Space & Rocket Center, also in Huntsville,
which hosts a museum. Individual tickets for
adults are $20 ($24.95 for the combo - museum
and an IMAX movie). Group rates are available.
Or maybe they want to attend Space
Camp, which is also in Huntsville. They've
already missed all the space camps for this
calendar year, but, if they're inclined to return,
they can book early for next year. They could
attend Adult Advanced Space Camp (which is
probably optimal for a starfaring race) for $899.
Or they wish to do something with the alien
kids, they could book a Parent/Child Space
Camp 3-Day Package for $399.
That is if they can find a bank that will
negotiate an exchange rate for their currency.
It certainly looks as if Huntsville,
Alabama, is the optimal place over which to
hover if you're traveling light years just to prove
you exist. Needless to say, UFO watchers from
around the world will be gravitating toward
Alabama, just in case the aliens really do make
an appearance. Many will follow events online
and keep tabs on breaking news. Because, deep
down, most humans want to believe that we are
not alone, stuck on a whirling mudball on the
edge of a vast galaxy spinning its way through a
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 Searching for the Truth
Searching for the Truth
(Always Telling the Truth Means
Never Having to Remember
Anything)
Credibility of Major
Jesse Marcel and Jesse
Marcel Jr.
By
Dennis Balthaser
It appears that there are still those that
refuse to give credibility to Major Jesse Marcel
and his son Jesse Marcel Jr., who after all these
years, are still two of the most credible "first-
hand" witnesses of the 1947 Roswell Incident. I
never had the opportunity to meet Major
Marcel, but have had many conversations about
him with Stanton Friedman, who was the first to
interview him in 1978. I do personally know
Jesse Jr., and have had conversations with him,
and have read his book "The Roswell Legacy"
(the revised edition shown below, published in
2008), which it appears as usual, that the
debunkers, critics and skeptics that are the
loudest, have not read.
In defense of the Marcels, I'd like to
share some of the comments made by Jesse Jr.
in his book not only about his Dad, but also
about his own life since 1947. The book is
obviously written by someone that had a deep
respect for his father, and presents the
information in the only way he knows---
honestly from the heart, as his father desired, to
get the truth out to the public eventually.
Both of these gentlemen deserve our
highest respect for the many years they both
gave to serving our country in the military,
(Major Marcel as probably the top intelligence
officer in the military in the 1940's, and his son
Jesse as a helicopter pilot, flight surgeon and a
civilian physician.) Talk about credibility and
integrity as compared to many of the other
witnesses that have surfaced over the years in
relation to the Roswell Incident. Those with
backgrounds such as theirs are rare when
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researching the Roswell Incident. It took Jesse
Jr. 60 years to set the record straight about his
Dad and himself, and those that still question
these two gentlemen are ignoring the truth
about their first-hand knowledge of the event.
Major Marcel voluntarily enlisted in the U.S.
Army Air Force in December 1941.
Up until his death in 1986, Major
Marcel repeatedly stated that the material we
examined was as he described it, "not of this
earth," and that the truth about Roswell had yet
to be revealed to the public. In order to reveal
that truth, Jesse Jr's. father made him promise to
see the true story told. Jesse Jr. fulfilled that
promise with his book in 2007, and anyone
seriously interested in the Roswell Incident
would benefit from reading it, before criticizing
or demeaning them.
As an eleven year old boy Jesse Jr. was
"privileged" to be one of the individuals who
actually saw and handled debris from the crash
site, that his Dad and Captain Sheridan Cavitt
had recovered from the site. This occurred at his
home in Roswell, prior to his Dad returning to
the base from the Foster ranch debris field,
when the Marcel's lives would be forever
changed.
One of the things Jesse Jr. observed
which again silences the critics and debunkers,
is the fact that the foil material did not have a
paper backing for rigidity like the foil of a radar
target. Also of importance was the fact that
none of the debris spread out on the Marcel's
kitchen floor that Jesse Jr. observed that night,
or any material that Major Marcel saw at the
debris site where the material was recovered,
contained any electronic components which a
weather balloon or Mogul balloon would have
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had such as radio transmitters, microphones,
and sensors for detecting and recording weather
data, or pressure waves in the atmosphere from
a possible Russian nuclear test. It's important
also to note that the Russians didn't do any
nuclear testing until 1949, Mogul balloon
launch No. 4 (which skeptics like to use as what
crashed near Roswell), was cancelled due to
weather related problems, and finally, the
pictures taken in General Ramey's office on
July 8, 1947 also did not contain any electronic
equipment.
In 1942 Marcel attended the Army Air
Force Intelligence School as a 1st Lieutenant.
After graduation he was invited to join the
school's faculty, an honor bestowed upon only
the brightest and most talented students.
Two years later Marcel would be
assigned to the 509th Composite Bomb Group
in Nevada as their S-2 Intelligence Officer. He
was now part of a special, hand-picked group,
where the work was classified as Top-Secret.
While in Nevada he helped work out the details
of dropping the atomic bombs on Japan. The
509th was then assigned to the island of Tinian,
where Marcel participated in briefing the flight
crews before the missions to Nagasaki and
Hiroshima.
Credibility of Major Jesse
Marcel and Jesse Marcel Jr.
Continued on Page 4
 4 Searching for the Truth
Credibility of Major
Jesse Marcel and Jesse
Marcel Jr.
Continued From Page 3
Upon returning to the states, Major
Marcel enrolled in a radar training school at
Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, graduating
in September 1945, and became an expert on the
state-of-the-art radar devices, including
varieties of the rawin radar targets, including the
ML-307 reflector used on the Mogul balloons.
As Jesse Jr. states in his book, "for those that say
his father confused UFO debris with a radar
target is ludicrous." So the same government
that paid for his advanced radar school in 1945
would accuse him of not knowing the difference
between a UFO and a weather balloon 2 short
years later, while assigned to the 509th in
Roswell, New Mexico. Copies of the radar and
intelligence school diplomas Major Marcel
attended are in Jesse Jr's. book. I have several
other commendation and recommendation
documents for Major Marcel in my file for his
intelligence work, before and "after" the
Roswell Incident.
Setting aside my thoughts about the
Marcel's credibility, lets not forget that the
debris Major Marcel took to General Ramey's
office was changed to a weather balloon for the
photos taken by James Bond Johnson. I
interviewed Johnson as did Kevin Randle and
David Rudiak, prior to my interview with him.
In all three interviews James Bond Johnson's
remarks were less than factual about his
involvement. He did take the photographs, but
was not involved in any other way, in fact
telling me in our first conversation, that he
knew very little about the Roswell Incident. The
interview can be read at:
www.truthseekeratroswell.com/interview_Jame
s_Bond_Johnson.html.
The really sad part for me is the fact that when
General Ramey ordered Major Marcel to pose
for the pictures with the obvious weather
balloon on the floor of the Generals office,
General Ramey ordered Marcel to keep silent,
and to not make any comments in the presence
of the civilian photographer. That appears to be
when the cover-up became a reality, and Major
Marcel realized he was in the middle of it, and
had become the scapegoat. For those that have
seen the photographs taken in General Ramey's
office, it's apparent to me that there are
unopened packages along the wall, and more
importantly the brown paper on the floor under
the debris staged for the photographs is from a
new roll of paper and shows no indication of
ever being wrapped around any debris or
anything else brought to Fort Worth by Major
Marcel.
I firmly believe that as a researcher part
of my responsibility is to provide information
that is truthful and factual for my future
generations as well as yours.
I believe Major Marcel and his son Jesse
Jr. have done that.
Dennis G. Balthaser
Website: www.truthseekeratroswell.com
Email: truthseeker@dfn.com
I’ve waited a long time to tell my story
— in my own words —
for any number of reasons,
but figured that it was time.
— Jesse Marcel, Jr
The ONLY Authorized Version of the Marcels' Story
The Roswell Legacy revised edition is now available.
Order your autographed copy today!
I've grown tired of hearing other people speak for me, and for
my father, and of hearing some people deny what I know to be true. It's
difficult to believe an incredible tale, especially when you don't know
the storyteller. My hope is that by reading this book, you'll get a better
feel for who Jesse Marcel, Sr. was, who I am, and what has guided all of
us who have been involved in the legacy borne of the Roswell crash.In
the larger scheme, we may all be mere footnotes in history, but we were
so much more than that. We were (and are) living, breathing human
beings who, through no choice of our own, have been caught up in a
whirlwind of controversy and wonder. It is my fondest hope that you, the
reader, might end up feeling as if you know the people a little bit better,
might have a better understanding of the controversy, and might share
with us the same sense of wonder that has so filled our lives.
God Bless!
Jesse Marcel, Jr.
www.theroswelllegacy.com
 Another No Show UFO 5
Blossom Goodchild's flower-power 60's
Australian Announces throwback name? Perhaps it was simply a
UFO to Visit Alabama subtle suggestion that she change it. According The Book The World Has
to her, the aliens did say, "We give to you the Been Waiting For.. .
on October 14, 2008 name of Alabama."
Continued from Page 2 October 14th came and went without
any UFO sighting over Alabama or anywhere
Could The Alabama UFO Be Lost In else for that matter.
Translation? It would seem that Blossom Goodchild's
aluminum hat and antennae might be in need of
But could Blossom Goodchild, a tune-up - in a mental institution. []
assuming that her communication is accurate,
be missing something? Could the actual
intergalactic message have been lost in
translation?
For instance, the Alabama were a tribe
of native North American that inhabited the
region where the state now exists. According to
Steve Hammons of , the word "Alabama"
means "campsite" or "clearing" in the Creek (a
tribe of the same region) language or "brush-
clearer" or "thicket-clearers" in Choctaw
YOU
(another tribe). Could the "Federation of Light"
have been telling Goodchild that they're just
looking for a good place to camp out for three
days? Or something more ominous? Like that
DON’T
they are coming to make a clearing in Alabama?
Or, worse, of Alabama?
Then running like Forrest Gump ("Run,
KNOW
human, run!") out of Alabama would not be a
bad idea.
But Goodchild did say they were
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 6 WHAT'S THIS I SEE - OR DO I?
WHAT'S THIS I SEE -
OR DO I?
By Elizabeth Joyce
What is an Apparition but the
supernormal manifestation of people, animals,
objects, ghosts and spirits. Most apparitions are
of living people or animals who are too distant
to be perceived by the normal senses.
Apparitions of the dead are also called Ghosts.
Despite extensive study since the late nineteenth
century, scientists know very little about the
nature of apparitions.
Most apparition experiences feature
noises, unusual smells such as roses, dirt, or
food cooking, extreme cold, and the
displacement of objects. Other phenomena
include visual images, tactile sensations, such as
a feather brushing down your arm, voices and
apparent psycho kinetic movement of objects,
and sometimes a faraway voice or scream.
Visual images are seen only in a small
percentage of reported cases. However, a
camera will often pick up the outline of an
Apparition.
A study of Apparitions published in
1956 by American psychic researcher Hornell
Hart and collaborators showed no significant
differences between characteristics of
apparitions of the living and the dead. They
appear to be the same. Some apparitions seem
corporeal, while others are luminous,
transparent or ill defined. Apparitions can move
through solid matter and appear/disappear
abruptly. They cast shadows and can always be
reflected in mirrors. Some may have jerky and
limited movements, while others are lifelike in
movement and speech.
Apparitions invariably are clothed.
Ghosts will appear in their period costumes -
hence the tradition of Halloween Costumes.
Apparitions of the living appear in the moment.
Whatever they are wearing will be "seen" as
such by the viewer. Many call this the
appearance of a "double."
A pilot told me a story about how his
"double" appeared to his father. The pilot was at
sea in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
He was wounded and on his way back from
Okanawa to Hawaii on a hospital ship when the
Japanese forces bombed the ship. All were lost
except three men, who were in a life raft. The
father lived in Maine and "knew" his son was in
trouble. He called the Pentagon, who assured
him his son was safe. The son's double came to
his father several times a day for five days
asking for help.
The son told his father telepathically that
he was on a raft and dying. The father kept
calling the Pentagon with a complete
description of the event and made such a fuss
that they sent out a search plane. The plane
found the raft and the three were saved only
because of telepathy! This is the next
evolvement for mankind. Within twenty years,
telepathic response will be considered quite
normal.
More than 80 percent of apparition cases
that have been studied have manifested for a
reason, usually during a crisis of some sort. To
communicate a death, provide a warning,
comfort the grieving, cry for help or to convey
needed information. Some haunting apparitions
seem to regularly appear where emotional
events have occurred, such as murders or
battles, while other hauntings seem to be rather
aimless.
Apparitions can be divided into at least
seven different types:
Crisis Apparitions: Usually visual images
which appear in waking visions or dreams at the
moment of crisis, such as to communicate dying
or death. Typically, but not always, they appear
to individuals who have close emotional ties to
the person who is the source of the apparition.
i.e. sister, cousin, parent. When my father died,
he came to me, as did both of my Uncles.
Apparitions of the Dead: Manifestations of
the deceased, usually within hours after death,
to comfort the grieving or to communicate
information, conclude unfinished business, or to
announce a role as their new Guardian Angel.
Shirely MacLane wrote in her book, Out On A
Limb, an experience she had with Peter Sellers
when he passed away. She was at a party in Los
Angeles and he was in Paris. He had a sudden,
severe heart attach and appeared to her at the
party to say good-by.
Collective Apparitions : Manifestations of
either the living or the dead that appear
simultaneously to multiple witnesses.
Approximately one third of reported apparitions
are witnessed collectively. Also, a psychic
knowing can be experienced in many parts of
the world, as was the Twin Towers bombing and
the Pan Am bombing over Scotland. Usually
this will be information regarding a world
event.
Reciprocal Apparitions: Of the living in
which both the seer and the person giving the
message, separated by distance, experience each
other simultaneously. This is quite common
with Identical Twins, of which I am one of two
sets. A possible explanation is that the person
giving the message has a strong desire or
impulse to contact the seer and will
unconsciously projects their double to give a
message. i.e. an out-of-body experience for
each. When I was in the Dominican Republic on
a vacation, my son was at college. He became ill
and went to the infirmary with a very high fever.
He told his friends to go to his room and wait
because his mother was trying to call.
Meanwhile, in the Dominican, I "felt" his
presence and was extremely worried. This went
on for three days and I "knew" he was ill. I
meditated and sent him light and healing. We
had a telepathic conversation and I felt I was
nursing and caring for him. Upon my return
home I called his room immediately. A friend
was there picking up a book for him and was
surprised at my call. The friend exclaimed, "Jeff
said you would call today. He's in the infirmary
with a 103 fever and has been calling for you.
He sent me here for a book, and I was only here
for five minutes. I'm spending my time in the
infirmary with him." I smiled inwardly as I
believe nothing happens by accident and she
went to get the book at that exact moment
because I was going to call.
Veridical Apparitions: Apparitions that can
be corroborated by facts. Veridical apparitions
are of most value to parapsychologists and
research scientists.
Deathbed Apparitions: Visual images of
divine beings, religions figures, luminosities,
and dead loved ones that are reported by the
dying in their last moments of life.
Apparitions Suggesting Reincarnation:
"Announcement dreams" in which the deceased
appears in a dream to a member of the family
into which it will be born. Such dreams appear
frequently among the Tlingit and other
Northwest American tribes, and in Turkey,
Burma, and Thailand. Before my second son
was born, an apparition appeared before me
which appeared to be a divine angel or Mother
Mary. I had suffered several miscarriages and
almost died trying to give birth. The angel told
me I would have a son, his name would be
Jeffrey, he would have red hair, he would
become a doctor, and at age thirty five he would
give something great to mankind. This message
gave me such strength during the nine months
of carrying my son. Every time I feared an early
delivery, I would sense a presence and
remember the angel's message. So far it has all
come to pass. Jeffrey is a doctor, but he is not
yet thirty five.
In the 1980's polls conducted by the
United States, by the University of Chicago's
National Opinion Research Council showed a
dramatic increase in reported apparitions of the
dead. 42 percent of the population and 67
percent of widows, reported apparition
experiences, perhaps due to an opening of the
minds because of changing public opinion
towards knowledge of paranormal experiences.
Of these experiences, 78 percent involvedvisual
images, 50 percent heard noises and voices, 21
percent felt tactile sensations, 32 percent felt an
invisible presence, along with cooling air, and
18 percent had direct telepathic communication
with the apparition.
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WHAT'S THIS I SEE -
OR DO I?
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As for haunting, the term haunt comes
from the same root as home, and refers to the
occupation of homes by spirits and ghosts of
deceased people and animals who lived there.
Other haunted sites seem to be places merely
frequented or liked by the deceased, such as a
graveyard, or places where a violent death has
occurred, much like London Tower or an
English Pub. Most hauntings have no apparent
reason or purpose. Some are continual, and
others are active only on certain days that
correspond to the death or a major event in the
life of the deceased. For example, Hampton
Court in England, the ghost of Sir Christopher
Wren is said to be heard walking hurriedly up
and down the stairs every February 26, the date
of his death in 1723. In Baltimore, Edgar Allen
Poe has a rose and bottle of Cognac placed on
his grave every year on his birth date. This has
been done with regularity for so long that many
believe it's done by ghostly hands!
Some hauntings are brief, lasting only a
few hours to a few weeks, while others can
continue for decades or centuries. Haunted
Houses are often pervaded by a depressed or
oppressive atmosphere. Sometimes there is
dampness and some stones as a part
of the building.
I have conducted many exorcisms of
haunted houses and people who are possessed.
When people have a home for sale and cannot
get a buyer, it may be because of a special,
emotional attachment to the property. I once
cleared a home that was located on an Indian
Graveyard. The owner's father and grandfather
grew up there. The family had a bad feeling
about leaving and going on with their lives. The
house was on the marked for several years but
did not sell because of the feelings of guilt from
the son and the apparition of the father who
lived in the house. The apparition did not want
the home sold because then it would have to
leave the earth plane.
To do a clearing, the father's energies
had to be exorcised, and ordered to leave the
planet to a place of evolvement. The effect had
been that when the son thought about moving,
the father would call in all of the ancestors to try
to etherically prevent the sale. An ominous
energy field was set up around the property,
almost as if a fog or mist would prevent it from
being seen. The son and his wife had to have
their auric field cleared so the subconscious
mind could accept the sale of the property. We
sent the father's essence to a place of light,
healing and love, and freed up the etheric bonds
to the son. Then we magnetized a new family to
move in by using thought and visualization. I
was sensitive enough to be able to describe the
new family to the present owners, and
welcomed them telepathically. The house sold
within six weeks to the exactly family I had
described at the exorcism.
Not everyone who goes to a Haunted
House experiences paranormal phenomena. It is
believed that only certain individuals with
certain psychic attunements or emotional states
7
are receptive.
An Entity is a Ghost or disincarnate
being who is able to host the body of one who is
a weakened or tired frame of mind. This is
known as an encounter phenomenon which
involves any number of a wide range of
experiences with alternate realities, possessions,
channeling, religious conversions, shamanic
journeys, UFO abductions, etc. Researchers
believe that the unconscious mind determines
what kind of an encounter will take place. Some
encounters are so powerful that the person's life
becomes permanently changed. A culture and
personal belief may shape the nature of the
encounter, so as to reinforce the culture and
personal belief. In other words, to give one a
stronger faith. I have experienced two such
encounters and entity possession. One was
while driving through the Mink Hills of New
Hampshire on my way to my Mother's home. It
was a lovely evening and I was enjoying the
sunset. All of a sudden my foot "stuck" on the
gas pedal of the car and I could not move it.
When my brain gave the "order" to lighten up
my pressure, my foot would not move. I did not
understand what was happening. All of a sudden
I "felt" a presence overtake me and began to “Yes.” There are forces, both visible and
invisible, that can cause you harm if you are in a
recite the Lord's Prayer and command the entity weakened psychological state. How does this happen?
to leave. This continued on for a few minutes, Many of us, when we are hurting, feel sad, weak, and
and the car sped up to ninety miles a hour. There betrayed. Our energy becomes low and we forget our
was nothing I could do at the moment! I spiritual faith. We become vulnerable and fearful, not
knowing how to stop such pain. We reach out to
commanded the Entity to leave my body in the
anyone or anything that professes to offer us a
name of God, Christ and all the Masters. I solution. Something alien seems to have overtaken us,
needed to do this forcefully several times. and something precious and essential within us is
Finally it left, and I "heard" a shrill and evil missing. This experience may be accompanied by
laugh. At the same time, I saw a red blinking insomnia, unexplained fear, constant worrying as well
as self-recrimination. Our soul is at a place of unrest
light in my rear view mirror. It was a Cop, of
and disease.
course and I received a ticket for speeding. At In the new millennium many are finding that
that moment I realized the power Entities can that our world needs to take an entirely new look at
have over someone. I have a very strong belief how we care for our spiritual nature as well as our
since that time, that all Entities and Ghosts physical well being. Many seem to be ruled by fear and
suspicion rather than confidence and strength. When
should be exorcised as quickly as possible from
we are in constant battle instead of balanced,
the planet, to free their souls, and give the area constructive manifestation, our life becomes off center.
they haunt and the people they contact peace of This book teaches you how to know when you are
mind. under psychic attack, the steps you can take to protect
Hauntings where apparitions appear yourself as well as to understand what lengths some
people will go to get their hands on your money and
may be seen by a single individual or
assets. Most psychic problems today are motivated by
collectively by several people present at the people who have no regard for human boundaries or
same time of the occurrence. Ghosts vary in ethics. By becoming psychically street smart while
appearance - some seem to be real people or maintaining your spiritual practice and wellbeing, you
animals, while others appear filmy, fuzzy, can defend yourself from such problems.
Although you would seek and find help with
nearly transparent or mostly a white mist. Most
any physical emergency, this book can be helpful by
ghosts seen over a period of time will be learning good spiritual practices for clearing away
wearing the same clothing or costume. Some negative energies and keeping up with the housework
have been known to change their appearance of the soul. Then if something overthrows you, there
and even their age. Some can be horrific, are some good strategies at hand so that you can to
begin to remove them. Learn what to do as well as
missing their heads or other body parts. It is said
what not to do.
that Ann Bolin, wife of King Henry VIII carries
her head tucked under her arm through the Born as one of two sets of identical twins,
London Tower every Hallows Eve. [] Elizabeth Joyce has been psychic since birth. Named
one of the World’s Greatest Psychics, she is a spiritual
healer and gives personal readings worldwide. She
To contact Elizabeth Joyce visit her website at
teaches the work of Louise Hay, who was her mentor,
www.new-visions.com or call 201-934-8986. as well as Prof. Hans Holzer, and writes a monthly
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Elizabeth is a regular guest on The ‘X’ Zone Appearances include Unsolved Mysteries, Beyond
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 Bigfoot Hoax Body Sold on e-Bay 11
Bigfoot hoax body sold Still seeking the Bigfoot California Group Sues
for 250,000 dollars on exclusive Big Foot Lodge Owner
eBay By Karl Terry: Local columnist ANDY MEEK | The Daily News
Washington, October 18 (ANI): The
"Bigfoot discovered living on top floor A California-based restaurant ownership
hoax body of Bigfoot, which was found to be a
of Lincoln Hall” group has filed a trademark infringement
Halloween costume made of rubber, has been
“Subsisted on discarded pizza and stale lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Western
sold for 250,000 dollars on eBay, an online
beer” District of Tennessee against two Memphis
auction website.
I’ve always wanted to write a Bigfoot restaurant owners who operate a similar
According to a report in Fox News, the
headline. Those guys at the National Enquirer restaurant concept here.
hoax came into being after two Georgia
get all the fun assignments. The lawsuit was filed Friday, according
residents, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer,
My wife is a fan of various radio and to The Daily News Online,
recently claimed that they had discovered the
television programs that explore the www.memphisdailynews.com.
frozen corpse of a Bigfoot.
unexplained — ghost sightings and haunted In the suit, the creators of The Bigfoot
But, Tom Biscardi, owner of a Bigfoot
houses and UFOs. Mysteries of all sorts show Lodge restaurant concept in California – which
exploration website, decided to get under the
up on the SciFi Channel and the Coast to Coast includes such interior features as a log cabin
skin of things, and hired a self-described
AM program. design and a large Sasquatch statue – claim
Sasquatch detective Steve Kulls to solve the
I’m not too crazy about ghosts and husband and wife Shawn and Lana Danko
mystery.
UFOs. I guess, unlike Dana Scully and Fox inappropriately used the restaurant name and
He sent Kulls to a secret location
Mulder of X-Files fame, I just “don’t want to similar design elements, among other things, for
apparently Muncie, Indiana to check out the
believe.” the Big Foot Lodge restaurant and bar they
specimen.
My wife is, however, under strict opened in Memphis in 2005.
But, what Kulls found at the location
instruction to inform me of any segments in her The Dankos’ Big Foot eatery likewise
failed to impress him, and after elaborate
regular programs featuring Bigfoot. An includes a log cabin design and a large
analysis, he declared the body to be a fake.
undiscovered hairy ape-like man on the loose in Sasquatch statue, among other similarities.
Paranormal entrepreneur Joshua P.
the wilds of America is something that strikes “I don’t have a comment for you at this
Warren, from North Carolina, put the original
my fancy. It could be true. New species are time,” Shawn Danko told The Daily News when
rubber Halloween costume on eBay for sale;
discovered all the time and Sasquatch could just asked about the lawsuit Monday. “It just came
complete with the basement freezer it was kept
be very good at hiding. over the wire today, so I couldn’t comment for
in.
While the Yeti of the Himalayas and you at this point.”
The winning bidder put up 250,203
similar beasts in other parts of the world have BA2 LLC is the entity that in 1999
dollars by the end of the auction, which closed
been purported to exist for years, the craze opened The Bigfoot Lodge in California while
on October 17.
really came to the United States in full force in at the time operating under the name The
Neither of them are going to make a
1967 in California when Roger Patterson and Bigfoot Lodge LLC. In the suit filed against the
penny off of this auction, said Warren, referring
Robert Gimlin released home movie footage of Dankos by BA2 LLC, a copy of a June 2005
to Whitton and Dyer.
what they said was Sasquatch or Bigfoot. The Memphis Business Journal article is attached in
Warren also said that Tom Biscardi
authenticity of the video has been debated for which Shawn Danko says the inspiration for his
wouldnt get any of the auction money.
decades with people still lining up on one side own restaurant’s name came from the California
My arrangement is with the people who
or the other on whether or not it is a hoax. Bigfoot Lodge lounge and bar.
control the body. Money from this auction is
More recently two men put together an In an interview with The Daily News
going to hopefully resolve the legal conflicts, he
elaborate hoax by releasing what they said was last year, Danko said his Memphis restaurant
added.
the body of a Bigfoot stuffed into an ice chest. concept was developed over a period of several
Warrens eBay auction page explains that
They set up a big press conference where they years. He said the idea grew in large part out of
the animal parts have since been replaced with
said they would turn the corpse over to his fascination with the ape-like creature known
non-organic materials.
scientists. The heat surrounding the photos as Big Foot.
The winner will get the rubber costume
proved to be a little too much. The pair never “The Big Foot concept stems back to
with non-organic parts replacing the roadkill
showed up and later admitted they had used a seven years ago now, when I was working at the
guts, the freezer, legal paperwork to prove its
gorilla suit. Hard Rock Café,” Danko said at the time. “It
authenticity and a personal visit from Dyer and
Some areas of our continent are very was a concept that I was slowly working on
Whitton.
vast and wild and Bigfoot could be out there over time and it was a concept that I always
As for the existence of the mythical
somewhere. Over the years I’ve tramped some kind of had in the back of my head.”
Bigfoot, Warren said, I really do not believe that
of the same areas where Bigfoot sightings or Now the concept is at the center of a
there is a physical, biological 800-pound ape-
tracks have been reported. Reports have been legal dispute whose plaintiff sees an opportunity
like organism running around out there in North
made of the creatures in the Cloudcroft and for confusion to exist on multiple fronts. One of
America.
Ruidoso areas frequently and nearly every them involves a major Hollywood film
There is no biological basis for that, he
county (Roosevelt isn’t included) has sightings scheduled to be released next month.
added.
logged on a tracking Web site I’ve perused. A full-sized replica of the Bigfoot
As for this particular hoax, Warren said,
Eagle County in western Colorado is Lodge’s Los Angeles bar was built on a sound
Id be lying if I said I wasnt hoping it was real
famous for some pretty impressive tracks made stage as the setting for some scenes in the film
when I heard two guys had found a body. But
along the Eagle River. In neighboring Sopris “Yes Man,” scheduled to be released next
once again it was not to be true. (ANI) []
County where I lived a few years ago, legend month and starring Jim Carrey, according to the
held that Sasquatch lived on the snowy slopes of lawsuit. The suit also includes a message thread
THE ‘X’ ZONE RADIO Mount Sopris, which I could see from my back taken from the local Internet message board run
SHOW porch. by Goner Records.
Lots of hiking, hunting and fishing has “As one post on the Memphis-based
AND never turned up anything I felt was Bigfoot message board hosted by Goner Records asks,
THE ‘X’ ZONE TV SHOW evidence, but I’ll keep on looking. ‘Is this [Big Foot Lodge Memphis] associated
Who knows, some day you may read the with the Bigfoot in (Los Angeles and San
IS NOW headline in the local paper — “Columnist lands Francisco)?? Anybody know?” reads the
AVAILABLE AT first interview with Sasquatch; Bigfoot beast reference to the Memphis message board
denies Britney Spears paternity accusations.”[] included with the suit. []
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 New Yorkers Stand by UFO Sightings
New Yorkers stand by
1980s UFO sightings in
Westchester, Putnam
counties
BY ROB RYSER | The Journal News
One generation ago, a boomerang-
shaped object as bright as a city street and as
big as a football field appeared in the night
skies over southern New York state, drawing
such mixed reactions from some 7,200
witnesses that it never turned into the cosmic
public event that it really was.
Now, 25 years after the well-
documented but not necessarily well-
remembered UFO phenomenon put Putnam
and Westchester counties on the map as
paranormal hot spots, the massive case study
that has resulted is elevating the Lower Hudson
Valley to the status of one of the three major
UFO vortexes in the world.
The other two are Stonehenge, England,
and Sedona, Ariz.
In a land with a heritage that celebrates
Washington Irving’s iconic Headless Horseman
every Halloween, the sightings are also
yielding new theories about why these quiet
suburbs apparently are so haunted.
The most fantastic theory is developed
in four books by one high-profile UFO
investigator who teaches middle-school science
in White Plains, N.Y. He believes that ancient
European explorers built stone chambers in
nearby Putnam to mark anomalies in the Earth’s
magnetic field that may open windows into the
fourth dimension, thereby giving the
supernatural universe a portal into suburban
life.
Teacher and author Phil Imbrogno was
among the first on the Lower Hudson scene
with national UFO experts to record eyewitness
accounts in 1983. At the time, hundreds of
people in Westchester and Putnam were calling
police to report a huge but silent lighted ship
that the witnesses were certain they had never
seen before.
The Federal Aviation Administration
explained the strange sights as light aircraft
flying in formation - a possibility that many
eyewitnesses said they rejected when they
spoke to Imbrogno and the other investigators.
The best pilots invariably break
formation, and their engines are always audible
from the ground, said Lt. Kevin Soravilla of the
Yorktown police. He was a patrolman on duty
the night of March 24, 1983, when he twice saw
a silent and massive delta-shaped lighted ship.
The government explanation of
conventional aircraft was perhaps to be
expected. The Air Force studied 12,600 UFO
reports from 1947 until 1969 and then stopped,
in part because it said it was a waste of taxpayer
money and in part because the sightings did not
represent new technology or a national security
threat.
As a result, the government turned all
investigations over to private groups. And the
Lower Hudson UFO legend only grew.
People came out in groups to watch the
night skies for UFOs. New-age seekers toured
the stone chambers in the woods of Kent for the
chance to see a spook light or perhaps a druid
ghost.
More than 1,500 people packed a one-
day UFO conference.
Support groups started for people
certain they were contacted by extraterrestrial
beings, including a monthly gathering called the
UFO Roundtable in Yonkers. Cable networks
sent production crews to dramatize an already
remarkable story with special effects.
In March, the History Channel aired a
program that called the Lower Hudson sightings
the biggest UFO vortex mystery of all time.
And why not?
The Lower Hudson Valley always has
been a place, as Irving writes in ‘‘The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow,’’ where ‘‘stars shoot and
meteors glare oftener across the valley than in
any other part of the country’’ and where people
are ‘‘given to all kinds of marvelous beliefs,
subject to trances and visions.’’
Patterson-based real estate broker
Freddy Vicente found that out while driving
April 27 on the Taconic State Parkway, when,
he said, a circle of 12 or more clearly oversized
lights glided past his windshield and out of sight
into the night.
The burden of handling the UFO
sightings - which came in the hundreds on the
same night across town and county lines on at
least three dates during the peak - fell on local
police departments, whose officers sometimes
also witnessed the same unidentified object as
the public they were protecting.
‘‘We are sworn to uphold the law and
help citizens, but that night we didn’t know
what we had,’’ said Soravilla of the Yorktown
police. ‘‘It was mind-boggling.’’
Departments often had little recourse
beyond calling airport control towers to find a
conventional explanation.
The Lower Hudson UFO story remains
more legend than popular history because the
witness experience is so personal and varied.
Some people screamed out in fear at the sight
while others felt awe and even an attraction to it
- especially those who sensed a wordless
communication from the object not to be afraid.
‘‘Maybe years from now the Hudson
Valley UFOs will be looked at like ’The Legend
of Sleepy Hollow,’ ’’ Imbrogno said. []
Britain opens secret
UFO files to public
CTV News
Officials easily dismissed numerous
reports of UFOs tracking the London sky in
1989 as a laser light show at an outdoor Tina
Turner rock concert at Wembley Stadium.
But not all "flying saucer" sightings
between 1986 and 1992 have been as easily
explained, according to primary documents
made available to the public for the first time by
Britain's National Archives on Monday.
The more than 4,500-page online
document is the second batch of testimonies
chock-full of shimmering objects, mysterious
crop circles and creatures from another
dimension collected by British military and
released this month. It includes first-hand
accounts such as:
13
- Statements from police officers in
West Yorkshire describing sightings of "bright
lights in the night sky"
- Testimony collected from a U.S.
Airforce Sabre jet pilot ordered to "shoot down
a UFO" flying over eastern England during the
height of the Cold War
- A letter from a person dubbed "alien-
spotter extraordinaire" who reported regular
alien visits since 1982
Another of the 19 files released by the
British Ministry of Defence to the National
Archives details a near-miss with a possible
UFO and passenger jet carrying 57 people en
route from Milan to London's Heathrow Airport
on April 21, 1991.
Alitalia pilot Achille Zaghetti saw a
flash zoom by his cockpit windshield and
screeched, "Look out, look out" to his co-pilot,
the archives show.
A call placed to the control centre
revealed an unknown target was spotted 10
nautical miles behind the aircraft.
An investigation into the flying object
debunked Zaghetti's suspicion it was a cruise
missile. The Ministry of Defence also
confirmed the object was neither a weather
balloon nor a space rocket.
The projectile remains unexplained to
this day.
David Clarke, a UFO expert who works
for the archives, suspects as many as 160 UFO-
related files will be made available to the public
in the next three to four years.
"Whatever you believe about UFOs, or
don't believe, that is a serious incident and it has
to be treated as such by the Civil Aviation
Authority," Clarke told the BBC.
In another strange case, the crew aboard
Britannia Airways Boeing 737, spotted a "small
black lozenge-shaped object" roughly 90
metres to the left of the aircraft.
Air traffic controllers on the ground
located the oddity and clocked it at 190
kilometres per hour -- even the quickest birds
can only fly about 95 kilometres per hour when
pressed.
An investigation into that incident could
not determine what the object was.
"Now you can look at the actual primary
material -- the stuff coming into the Ministry of
Defence every day -- and make your own mind
up," Clarke said. []
 14 John Edward: Hustling the Bereaved
John Edward: Hustling
the Bereaved
by Joe Nickell
Superstar "psychic medium" John
Edward is a stand-up guy. Unlike the
spiritualists of yore, who typically plied their
trade in dark-room séances, Edward and his ilk
often perform before live audiences and even
under the glare of TV lights. Indeed, Edward (a
pseudonym: he was born John MaGee Jr.) has
his own popular show on the SciFi channel
called Crossing Over, which has gone into
national syndication (Barrett 2001; Mui 2001).
I was asked by television newsmagazine
Dateline NBC to study Edward's act: was he
really talking to the dead?
The Old Spiritualism
Today's spiritualism traces its roots to
1848 and the schoolgirl antics of the Fox sisters,
Maggie and Katie. They seemed to
communicate with the ghost of a murdered
peddler by means of mysterious rapping
sounds. Four decades later the foxy sisters
confessed how they had produced the noises by
trickery (Nickell 1994), but meanwhile others
discovered they too could be "mediums" (those
who supposedly communicate with the dead).
The "spiritualism" craze spread across
the United States, Europe, and beyond. In
darkened séance rooms, lecture halls, and
theaters, various "spirit" phenomena occurred.
The Davenport Brothers conjured up spirit
entities to play musical instruments while the
two mediums were, apparently, securely tied in
a special "spirit cabinet." Unfortunately the
Davenports were exposed many times, once by
a local printer. He visited their spook show and
volunteered as part of an audience committee to
help secure the two mediums. He took that
opportunity to secretly place some printer's ink
on the neck of a violin, and after the séance one
of the duo had his shoulder smeared with the
black substance (Nickell 1999).
In Boston, while photographer William
H. Mumler was recycling some glass
photographic plates, he accidentally obtained
faint images of previous sitters. He soon
adapted the technique to producing "spirit
extras" in photographs of his clients. But
Mumler's scam was revealed when some of his
ethereal entities were recognized as living
Boston residents (Nickell 1994).
The great magician Harry Houdini
(1874-1926) crusaded against phony
spiritualists, seeking out elderly mediums who
taught him the tricks of the trade. For example,
while sitters touched hands around the séance
table, mediums had clever ways of gaining the
use of one hand. (One method was to slowly
move the hands close together so that the
fingers of one could be substituted for those of
the other.) This allowed the production of
special effects, such as causing a tin trumpet to
appear to be levitating. Houdini gave public
demonstrations of the deceptions. "Do Spirits
Return?" asked one of his posters. "Houdini
Says No-and Proves It" (Gibson 1977, 157).
Continuing the tradition, I have
investigated various mediums, sometimes
attending séances undercover and once
obtaining police warrants against a fraudulent
medium from the notorious Camp Chesterfield
spiritualist center in Indiana (Nickell 1998). The
camp is the subject of the book The Psychic
Mafia, written by a former medium who
recanted and revealed the tricks of floating
trumpets (with disembodied voices), ghostly
apparitions, materializing "apports," and other
fake phenomena (Keene 1976)-some of which I
have also witnessed firsthand.
Mental Mediumship
The new breed of spiritualists-like
Edward, James Van Praagh, Rosemary Altea,
Sylvia Browne, and George Anderson-avoid the
physical approach with its risks of exposure and
possible criminal charges. Instead they opt for
the comparatively safe "mental mediumship"
which involves the purported use of psychic
ability to obtain messages from the spirit realm.
This is not a new approach, since mediums have
long done readings for their credulous clients.
In the early days they exhibited "the classic
form of trance mediumship, as practiced by
shamans and oracles," giving spoken "'spirit
messages' that ranged all the way from personal
(and sometimes strikingly accurate) trivia to
hours-long public trance-lectures on subjects of
the head, from what he's showing me." No
the deepest philosophical and religious import"
longer, apparently, can the dead speak in
(McHargue 1972).
flowing Victorian sentences, but instead are
Some mediums produced "automatic" or
reduced to gestures, as if playing a game of
"trance" or "spirit" writing, which the entities
charades.
supposedly dictated to the medium or produced
One suspects, of course, that it is not the
by guiding his or her hand. Such writings could
imagined spirits who have changed but rather
be in flowery language indeed, as in this excerpt
the approach today's mediums have chosen to
from one spirit writing in my collection:
employ. It is, indeed, a shrewd technique known
Oh my Brother-I am so glad to be able to
as "cold reading"-so named because the subject
come here with you and hold sweet communion
walks in "cold"; that is, the medium lacks
for it has been a long time since I have
advance information about the person (Gresham
controlled this medium but I remember how well
1953). It is an artful method of gleaning
used I had become to her magnetism[,] but we
information from the sitter, then feeding it back
will soon get accustomed to her again and then
as mystical revelation.
renew the pleasant times we used to have. I
The "psychic" can obtain clues by
want to assure you that we are all here with you
observing dress and body language (noting
this afternoon[-]Father[,] Mother[,] little
expressions that indicate when one is on or off
Alice[-]and so glad to find it so well with you
track), asking questions (which if correct will
and we hope and feel dear Brother that you
appear as "hits" but otherwise will seem
have seen the darkest part of life and that times
innocent queries), and inviting the subject to
are not with you now as they have been . . . .
interpret the vague statements offered. For
and so on in this talkative fashion.
example, nearly anyone can respond to the
mention of a common object (like a ring or
"Cold Reading" watch) with a personal recollection that can
seem to transform the mention into a hit. (For
By contrast, today's spirits-whom John more on cold reading see Gresham 1953;
Edward and his fellow mediums supposedly Hyman 1977; Nickell 2000.)
contact-seem to have poor memories and
difficulty communicating. For example, in one Continued on Page 15
of his on-air séances (on Larry King Live, June
19, 1998), Edward said: "I feel like there's a J-
or G-sounding name attached to this." He also
perceived "Linda or Lindy or Leslie; who's this
L name?" Again, he got a "Maggie or Margie, or
some M-G-sounding name," and yet again
heard from "either Ellen or Helen, or Eleanore-
it's like an Ellen-sounding name." Gone is the
clear-speaking eloquence of yore; the dead now
seem to mumble.
The spirits also seemingly communicate
to Edward et al. as if they were engaging in
pantomime. As Edward said of one alleged
spirit communicant, in a Dateline "He's pointing
to his head; something had to affect the mind or
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It should not be surprising that Edward
is skilled at cold reading, an old fortunetelling
technique. His mother was a "psychic junkie"
who threw fortunetelling "house parties," one of
the alleged clairvoyants advising the then-
fifteen-year-old that he had "wonderful psychic
abilities." He began doing card readings for
friends and family, then progressed to psychic
fairs where he soon learned that names and
other "validating information" sometimes
applied to the dead rather than the living.
Eventually he changed his billing from
"psychic" to "psychic medium" (Edward 1999).
The revised approach set him on the road to
stardom. In addition to his TV show, he now
commands hundreds of dollars for a private
reading and is booked two years in advance
(Mui 2001).
"Hot Reading"
Although cold reading is the main
technique of the new spiritualists, they can also
employ "hot" reading on occasion. Houdini
(1924) exposed many of these information-
gathering techniques including using planted
microphones to listen in on clients as they
gathered in the mediums' anterooms-a
technique Houdini himself used to impress
visitors with his "telepathy" (Gibson 1976, 13).
Reformed medium M. Lamar Keene's The
Psychic Mafia (1976) describes such methods
as conducting advance research on clients,
sharing other mediums' files (what Keene terms
"mediumistic espionage"), noting casual
remarks made in conversation before a reading,
and so on.
An article in Time magazine suggested
John Edward may have used just such
chicanery. One subject, a marketing manager
named Michael O'Neill had received apparent
messages from his dead grandfather but, when
his segment aired, he noted that it had been
improved through editing. According to Time's
Leon Jaroff (2001):
Now suspicious, O'Neill recalled that
while the audience was waiting to be seated,
Edward's aides were scurrying about, striking
up conversations and getting people to fill out
cards with their name, family tree and other
facts. Once inside the auditorium, where each
family was directed to preassigned seats, more
than an hour passed before show time while
"technical difficulties" backstage were
corrected.
Edward has a policy of not responding
to criticism, but the executive producer of
Crossing Over insists: "No information is given
to John Edward about the members of the
audience with whom he talks. There is no
eavesdropping on gallery conversations, and
there are no 'tricks' to feed information to John."
He labeled the Time article "a mix of erroneous
observations and baseless theories" (Nordlander
2001).
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Be that as it may, on Dateline Edward
was actually caught in an attempt to pass off
previously gained knowledge as spirit
revelation. During the session he said of the
spirits, "They're telling me to acknowledge
Anthony," and when the cameraman signaled
that was his name, Edward seemed surprised,
asking "That's you? Really?" He further
queried: "Had you not seen Dad before he
passed? Had you either been away or been
distanced?" Later, playing the taped segment for
me, Dateline reporter John Hockenberry
challenged me with Edward's apparent hit: "He
got Anthony. That's pretty good." I agreed but
added, "We've seen mediums who mill about
before sessions and greet people and chat with
them and pick up things."
Indeed, it turned out that that is just what
Edward had done. Hours before the group
reading, Tony had been the cameraman on
another Edward shoot (recording him at his
hobby, ballroom dancing). Significantly, the
two men had chatted and Edward had obtained
useful bits of information that he afterward
pretended had come from the spirits. In a
follow-up interview Hockenberry revealed the
fact and grilled an evasive Edward:
HOCKENBERRY: So were you aware that his
dad had died before you did his reading?
Mr. EDWARD: I think he-I think earlier in the-
in the day, he had said something.
HOCKENBERRY: It makes me feel like, you
know, that that's fairly significant. I mean, you
knew that he had a dead relative and you knew
it was the dad.
Mr. EDWARD: OK.
HOCKENBERRY: So that's not some energy
coming through, that's something you knew
going in. You knew his name was Tony and you
knew that his dad had died and you knew that he
was in the room, right? That gets you . . .
Mr. EDWARD: That's a whole lot of thinking
you got me doing, then. Like I said, I react to
what's coming through, what I see, hear and
feel. I interpret what I'm seeing hearing and
feeling, and I define it. He raised his hand, it
made sense for him. Great.
HOCKENBERRY: But a cynic would look at
that and go, 'Hey,' you know, 'He knows it's the
cameraman, he knows it's DATELINE. You
know, wouldn't that be impressive if he can get
the cameraman to cry?'
Mr. EDWARD: Absolutely not. Absolutely not.
Not at all.
But try to weasel out of it as he might,
Edward had obviously been caught cheating:
pretending that information he had gleaned
earlier had just been revealed by spirits and
feigning surprise that it applied to Tony the
cameraman. (And that occurred long before
Time had suggested that an Inside Edition
program-February 27, 2001-was probably "the
first nationally televised show to take a look at
the Edward phenomenon." That honor instead
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goes to Dateline NBC.)
In his new book Crossing Over, Edward
tries to minimize the Dateline exposé, and in so
doing breaks his own rule of not responding to
criticism. He rebukes Hockenberry for "his big
Gotcha! moment," adding:
Hockenberry came down on the side of
the professional skeptic they used as my foil. He
was identified as Joe Nickell, a member of the
Committee for the Scientific Investigation of
Claims of the Paranormal, which likes to
simplify things and call itself CSICOP. He did
the usual sound bites: that modern mediums are
fast-talkers on fishing expeditions making
money on people's grief-"the same old dogs
with new tricks," in Hockenberry's words.
Edward claims to ignore any advance
information that he may get from those he reads,
but concedes, "it's futile to say this to a tough
skeptic" (Edward 2001, 242-243).
Edward may have benefitted from actual
information on another occasion, while
undergoing a "scientific" test of his alleged
powers (Schwartz et al. 2001). In video clips
shown on Dateline, Edward was reading
subjects-who were brought into the hotel room
where he sat with his back to the door-when he
impressed his tester with an atypical revelation.
Edward stated he was "being shown the movie
Pretty in Pink" and asked if there was "a pink
connection." Then he queried, "Are you, like,
wearing all pink?" The unidentified man
acknowledged that he was. Yet Edward had
thought the subject was a woman, and I suspect
that erroneous guess was because of the color of
his attire; I further suspect Edward knew it was
pink, that as the man entered the room Edward
glimpsed a flash of the color as it was reflected
off some shiny surface, such as the glass of a
picture frame, the lens of the video camera, etc.
I challenge Edward to demonstrate his reputed
color-divining ability under suitably controlled
conditions that I will set up.
Inflating "Hits"
In addition to shrewd cold reading and
out-and-out cheating, "psychics" and
"mediums" can also boost their apparent
accuracy in other ways. They get something of
a free ride from the tendency of credulous folk
to count the apparent hits and ignore the misses.
In the case of Edward, my analysis of 125
statements or pseudostatements (i.e., questions)
he made on a Larry King Live program (June
19, 1998) showed that he was incorrect about as
often as he was right and that his hits were
mostly weak ones. (For example he mentioned
"an older female" with "an M-sounding name,"
either an aunt or grandmother, he stated, and the
caller supplied "Mavis" without identifying the
relationship; see Nickell 1998.) Cont. Page 16
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Another session-for an episode of
Crossing Over attended by a reporter for The
New York Times Magazine, Chris Ballard
(2001)-had Edward "hitting well below 50
percent for the day." Indeed, he twice spent
"upward of 20 minutes stuck on one person,
shooting blanks but not accepting the negative
responses." This is a common technique:
persisting in an attempt to redeem error,
cajoling or even browbeating a sitter (as Sylvia
Browne often does), or at least making the
incorrect responses seem the person's fault. "Do
not not honor him!" Edward exclaimed at one
point, then (according to Ballard) "staring down
the bewildered man."
When the taped episode actually aired,
the two lengthy failed readings had been edited
out, along with second-rate offerings. What
remained were two of the best readings of the
show (Ballard 2001). This seems to confirm the
allegation in the Time article that episodes were
edited to make Edward seem more accurate,
even reportedly splicing in clips of one sitter
nodding yes "after statements with which he
remembers disagreeing" (Jaroff 2001).
Edited or not, sessions involving a group
offer increased chances for success. By tossing
out a statement and indicating a section of the
audience rather than an individual, the
performing "medium" makes it many times
more likely that someone will "acknowledge" it
as a "hit." Sometimes multiple audience
members will acknowledge an offering,
whereupon the performer typically narrows the
choice down to a single person and builds on the
success. Edward uses just such a technique
(Ballard 2001).
Still another ploy used by Edward and
his fellow "psychic mediums" is to suggest that
people who cannot acknowledge a hit may find
a connection later. "Write this down," an
insistent Edward sometimes says, or in some
other way suggests the person study the
apparent miss. He may become even more
insistent, the positive reinforcement diverting
attention from the failure and giving the person
an opportunity to find some adaptable meaning
later (Nickell 1998).
Debunking Versus Investigation
Some skeptics believe the way to
counter Edward and his ilk is to reproduce his
effect, to demonstrate the cold-reading
technique to radio and TV audiences. Of course
that approach is unconvincing unless one
actually poses as a medium and then-after
seemingly making contact with subjects' dead
loved ones-reveals the deception. Although
audiences typically fall for the trick (witness
Inside Edition's use of it), I deliberately avoid
this approach for a variety of reasons, largely
because of ethical concerns. I rather agree with
Houdini (1924, xi) who had done spiritualistic
stunts during his early career:
At the time I appreciated the fact that I
surprised my clients, but while aware of the fact
that I was deceiving them I did not see or
understand the seriousness of trifling with such
sacred sentimentality and the baneful result
which inevitably followed. To me it was a lark. I
was a mystifier and as such my ambition was
being gratified and my love for a mild sensation
satisfied. After delving deep I realized the
seriousness of it all. As I advanced to riper
years of experience I was brought to a
realization of the seriousness of trifling with the
hallowed reverence which the average human
being bestows on the departed, and when I
personally became afflicted with similar grief I
was chagrined that I should ever have been
guilty of such frivolity and for the first time
realized that it bordered on crime.
Of course tricking people in order to
educate them is not the same as deceiving them
for crass personal gain, but to toy with their
deepest emotions-however briefly and well
intentioned-is to cross a line I prefer not to do.
Besides, I believe it can be very
counterproductive. It may not be the alleged
medium but rather the debunker himself who is
perceived as dishonest, and he may come across
as arrogant, cynical, and manipulative-not
heroic as he imagines.
As well, an apparent reproduction of an effect
does not necessarily mean the cause was the
same. (For example, I have seen several
skeptical demonstrations of "weeping" icons
that employed trickery more sophisticated than
that used for "real" crying effigies.) Far better, I
am convinced, is showing evidence of the actual
methods employed, as I did in collaboration
with Dateline NBC.
Although John Edward was among five
"highly skilled mediums" who allegedly fared
well on tests of their ability (Schwartz et al.
2001)-experiments critiqued elsewhere in this
issue (Wiseman and O'Keeffe, see page 26)-he
did not claim validation on Larry King Live.
When King (2001) asked Edward if he thought
there would ever be proof of spirit contact,
Edward responded by suggesting proof was
unattainable, that only belief matters: ". . . I
think that to prove it is a personal thing. It is like
saying, prove God. If you have a belief system
and you have faith, then there is nothing really
more than that." But this is an attempt to
insulate a position and to evade or shift the
burden of proof, which is always on the
claimant. As Houdini (1924, 270) emphatically
stated, "It is not for us to prove the mediums are
dishonest, it is for them to prove that they are
honest." In my opinion John Edward has
already failed that test.
Acknowledgments
I appreciate the assistance of Tom Flynn
who helped me analyze the video clips
mentioned in the text and refine the hypothesis
that Edward may have glimpsed a reflection. I
am also grateful to Tim Binga, Barry Karr,
Kevin Christopher, Ben Radford, and Ranjit
Sandhu for other assistance.
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the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, New York.
Utilizing his varied background, Nickell
has become widely known as an investigator of
myths and mysteries, frauds, forgeries, and
hoaxes. He has been called "the modern Sherlock
Holmes," "the original ghost buster," and "the
real-life Scully" (from "The X-Files" ). He has
investigated scores of haunted-house cases,
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 Ten Horror Hoaxes
Ten horror hoaxes that
spooked the masses
1448 Birth of the Devil’s child
Ursula Shipton was so ugly that nobody
required further proof that her mother had been
seduced by the devil. A biographer wrote that
she had “pimples of diverse colours, as red,
blew, and mixt, which like Vapours of
Brimstone gave such a lustre of the Night”.
The nation, including King Henry VIII,
believed she had inherited the ability to tell the
future. Needless to say, her predictions were as
good as her poetry:
'The world to an end shall come, in
eighteen hundred and eighty one'.
1661 The Ghost drummer of
Wiltshire
In the 17th Century, the poor were
victims of hoaxes invented by the eccentric and
powerful.
A bitter John Mompesson of Tedworth
took a drummer to court, accusing him of petty
crimes. The drummer had his drum confiscated
but was released. Mr Mompesson was allegedly
haunted by drumming and legend spread
throughout England that the drummer had
conjured an evil spell to haunt the man’s house.
In truth, Mr Mompesson just wanted to
fulfil a vendetta against the drummer. The poor
drummer was charged again and found guilty of
employing an evil spirit.
1730 Prank witch trial
The Pennsylvania Gazette published a
tongue in cheek account of a witch trial at
Mount Holly in which witches were charged
with making people “sheep dance”, among
other absurdities.
The amusing article, believed to have
been written by the satirist Benjamin Franklin, 2008
backfired; readers took it as gospel.
1867 Supernatural stones
By 1867 newspaper readers still weren't sixth in a period of a few months, news stories
in tune with the satirical humour of journalists. were printed in national papers across the
However, readers of Nevada’s Territorial world. The sick hoax – the result of a quickly
Enterprise cannot be blamed for spreading devised prank, some seaweed in an old trainer -
rumours about this rather obscure article by Dan is an example of maximum horror hype from
De Quille.
According to the writer, he had found an
eerie basin in some Nevada mountains
containing perfectly round stones that moved
about in herds. De Quille was offered $10,000
to expose the stones. He declined.
1977 The Amityville Horror
printed
Still believed by many to be a true story,
the haunting at Amityville is probably the most
famous paranormal hoax of all time. The
terrifying story of the Lutz family home swept
America in 1977 and has since been the subject
of nine films.
One of the key creators of the story,
William Weber wrote in a 1979 issue of People
magazine: 'I know this book is a hoax. We
created this horror story over many bottles of
wine'.
2004 Horror marketing
The US press fell for a Sci Fi channel
mockumentary in which Sixth Sense director M
Night Shyamalan discussed his childhood
relationship with a dead boy whom he had
watched drown.
The film included footage of the director
storming out of interviews in response to
upsetting questions.
The hoax was designed to plug
Shyamalan’s next horror film, The Village,
which was released a month later. Ironically, the
horror marketing was probably a better success
than the film.
2004 Derren Brown's séance
Despite the fact that Brown is a self-
confessed illusionist, he managed to spook the
nation with his live Ouija board séance,
broadcast on Channel 4.
He held the event at Eltham Hall,
claiming the location had a history of
paranormal activity after 12 people killed
themselves in a suicide pact in 1974.
Participants, all agnostics and atheists, were
moved to tears. Channel 4 received third highest
number of complaints in TV history before the
show was even broadcast.
2007 South Asia's gory mobile
hoax
A paranormal mobile phone killer was
dismissed as too Japanese-horror-film to be
believed. The “virus” was thus explained with
science: an unknown caller would ring and
project a high-pitched screech through the
receiver, so loud that it would burst all the
blood-vessels in the brain.
Rumours of the phone killer began in
Pakistan, where believers thought the killings
were a sign of God’s wrath.
British Columbia foot
chopper
When a human foot washed up on the
shores of British Columbia earlier this year, the
minimum effort.
2008 Raffles Place CCTV
A viral video, footage of a bumbling
ghost in an elevator at Raffles Place in
Singapore, reached inboxes across the world.
Eventually the makers, GMP, revealed
themselves. The film, part of a campaign
against working late, cost $100,000 to make. []
17
The 1897 Cow
Abduction Hoax
April 23, 1897, a Kansas newspaper, the
Yates Center Farmer's Advocate, reported an
incredible story. On the evening of April 19,
local rancher Alexander Hamilton, his son, and
a hired man saw a giant cigar-shaped UFO
hovering above a corral near the house.
Hamilton claimed that in a carriage underneath
the structure were "six of the strangest beings I
ever saw." Just then, the three men heard a calf
bawling and found it trapped in the fence, a rope
around its neck extending upward. "We tried to
get it off but could not," Hamilton said, "so we
cut the wire loose to see the ship, heifer and all,
rise slowly, disappearing in the northwest."
The next day, Hamilton went looking for
the animal. He learned that a neighbor had
found the butchered remains in his pasture. The
neighbor, according to Hamilton, "was greatly
mystified in not being able to find any tracks in
the soft ground."
Hamilton's statement was followed by
an affidavit signed by a dozen prominent
citizens who swore that "for truth and veracity
we have never heard [Hamilton's] word
questioned." In the following days, his story
was published in newspapers throughout the
United States and even in Europe.
Ufologists rediscovered the account in
the early 1960s, and the story rebounded to life
through books and magazines. In 1976,
however, an elderly Kansas woman came
forward- to say that shortly before the tale was
reported in the Farmer's Advocate, she had
heard Hamilton boast to his wife about the story
-he had made up. Hamilton belonged to a local
liars' club that delighted in the concoction of
outrageous tall tales. According to the woman,
"The club soon broke up after the 'airship and
cow' story. I guess that one had topped them
all." []
 18 The Amityville Hoax
Amityville Hoax
The story behind one of the
most believed Paranormal
hoaxes in America. What
really happened in the house
in Amityville and why?
In December 1975, George and Kathy
Lutz moved into a big Dutch Colonial home in
Amityville, New York. The house had been a
great bargain and no wonder, the last owners
had died along with all but one of their children,
as he was the murderer. The Lutz family was not
totally comfortable living in a house that had
been the site of such a horrible killing spree, but
they knew they could not possibly afford such a
nice house under normal circumstances. They
thought they could handle it. Apparently, they
could not. The family left the house less than a
month later, the bank could have the house
back, the Lutz family didn't want it anymore.
Many things worked together to drive
the Lutz family from their home in Amityville.
The family had financial problems, and the
huge house was going to be a great consumer of
finances. It had always been difficult to heat,
and the Lutz were forced to rely on fireplaces
because fuel oil was consumed at an alarming
rate to keep a huge house warm, especially with
it located close to water. George Lutz especially
was always cold.
The financial stress (particularly near
the holidays) put a strain on the Lutz marriage
and family relationships were strained. Not
surprisingly, both George and Kathy had
nightmares - both about the house and about the
murders, though the details of the murders were
inaccurate in the dreams, but after all, they were
just dreams. Their nerves began to feed off one
another and more and more they felt strange and
uncomfortable in the murder house. Any odd
occurrence took on supernatural significance.
Eventually, (showing more sense than families
in horror movies) the family realized the house
was not worth the strain and they left. A
Newsday article came out in February 1976
about how the Lutz family had left the house to
escape the "bad vibes."
Up until this point, the Lutz family
probably didn't intend to perpetrate a hoax on
anyone. They honestly found the house too
spooky. Still, the Newsday article caught the
public's thirst for the sensational: a haunted
house where six people were murdered spooks
the next family who tries to live there, driving
them out! It was just too good. The Lutz family
met the killer's lawyer who was planning to
write a book about how supernatural forces
made his client kill. He shared the details of the
murders and encouraged the Lutz family to "go
public" with their own story. With their
financial troubles, the lure of book and movie
sales must have been overwhelming. Thus, the
seed of the Amityville Horror was born.
Neither George nor Kathy Lutz actually
wrote The Amityville Horror. Jay Anson, based
on audiotapes from the Lutzes, wrote the book
at a pace of two chapters a week, hardly a pace
conducive to much personal research or fact
checking. Anson wrote a very popular ghost
story - millions of copies were sold. However,
even in 1976, discrepancies between the
published story and the facts were noted.
Newsday reported that the Lutzes told a press
conference neither Sgt. Pat Cammarato, nor any
other member of the Amityville police
department, ever visited their home, even
though such a visit is part of the published book.
Also, George Lutz has admitted that his stepson
Danny was never rushed to the hospital, as
reported in the book. Anson clearly never meant
the book to be a piece of journalism; for him the
book was "one hell of a ghost story."
Like most legends, the Amityville story
quickly grew beyond both the book and the
movie. Few people seemed willing to abandon a
good scary story just because it conficts with the
facts. As the story grew, more and more details
were added. The Amityville house is said to be
built on a burial ground (either Indian or
otherwise -- however a 1913 record of
cemeteries in the area show no cemetery on the
property). The Amityville house is said to be
built on the site of an Indian insane asylum (to
the surprise of the Montaukett tribe who never
knew their ancestors had insane asylums!) The
house is said to be built on the grave of John
Ketcham, a famous witch. (There is no evidence
that Ketcham was buried anywhere near the
house, and much evidence that John Ketcham
was a respected member of society - not a
suspected witch.) The original builders of the
house were said to have been driven to move
because of supernatural problems. (The
Moynahans actually moved into a small cottage
while the large Dutch Colonial house was being
built.) Stories abound that the murdered DeFeos
experienced demonic activity before their death.
(Relatives of the DeFeos totally refute this,
saying that the problem the DeFeos faced in the
house were domestic, not supernatural.)
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family that has tried to live in the house has
been driven out or faced tragedy. Before the
Lutz family, only the DeFeo family faced
tragedy in the house and their tragedy was
certainly not supernatural. The Moynahans
lived to old age in the house. The next family,
the Fitzgeralds never reported trouble in the
house. The Rileys reported loving the house and
only sold it because of a divorce, unfortunately,
it doesn't take anything supernatural to cause
most divorces.
Since the publication of the Amityville
Horror, the house in Amityville has had a
number of owners. None of them have
experienced any supernatural phenomena in the
house, though all have found the thrill seekers a
little annoying. After the movie, the Cromarty
family, who bought the house at a bargain
without knowing its famous history, tried
changing the street address and even the look of
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Ewen Cameron and The Allan
Memorial Psychiatric
Institute: A Study in
Research and Treatment
Ethics
by Michael Charron,
Simon Fraser University
"Psychic driving is a potent procedure - it
invariably produces responses in the patient,
and often intense responses" (Cameron, 1956,
p. 508)
With these words, Dr. Ewen Cameron
began the summary to Psychic Driving, the
paper that introduced his treatment of the same
name to the world. Cameron’s remark was a
drastic understatement; for the psychiatric
patients at the Allan Memorial Psychiatric
Institute, whom he treated with psychic driving
and its adjuncts, had their lives were changed
forever. This paper will provide background
about went on at the Allan Memorial Institute in
the 1950s and 1960s, as Dr. Cameron performed
brainwashing experiments that were funded by
the American CIA. I will examine Cameron’s
use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) along
with psychic driving, in a historical context, in
an attempt to understand why he went to the
extremes that he did. Finally, I will look at
attitudes toward mental patients - lest they be
forgotten among all this - and how these
attitudes have changed in the last 30 to 40 years.
In doing so, I will examine the thin line between
research and experimentation.
As an aside, on the surface it may not
appear that this topic relates to the history of
psychology in Canada. Dr. Cameron was a
psychiatrist, and the Allan Memorial was a
psychiatric institution. Cameron, himself, was
not even a Canadian; he was born in Scotland
and later immigrated to the United States.
Despite working for 28 years in Canada, he
never became Canadian and even maintained
his residence south of the border in Lake Placid,
New York (Collins, 1988). However, this topic
bears on the discussion of the history of
psychology in Canada because it looks at how
modes of treatment have changed, how attitudes
toward patients have changed, and, most
importantly, because it was Canadians who
were affected by what went on at the Allan
Memorial.
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Psychic Driving, Ewen Cameron, and LSD - without the patients’ consent - to
and the Allan Memorial disorganize the patient and thus allow the
driving technique full access to the patient’s
Psychiatric Institute psyche. Collins (1988) explains that Cameron,
Dr. Ewen Cameron was a very well
keeping with the climate of the day, referred to
his treatment as brainwashing; this term was en
known psychiatrist who worked for 21 years at
vogue in the 1950s, with the Cold War and
the Allan Memorial Psychiatric Institute in
Korean War fresh in everyone’s minds.
Montreal, Quebec. He was highly esteemed
The term "brainwashing" caught the eye
among his colleagues and his peers; Gillmor
of members of the American Central
(1987) suggests that Cameron was, when he
Intelligence Agency (CIA). During the Korean
died in 1967, "one of the most respected
War, 70% of the 7,190 American prisoners of
psychiatrists in the world" (p.1). At different
war "either made confessions or signed
times, he was head of the Quebec, Canadian,
petitions calling for an end to the American
and American Psychiatric Associations, and he
presence in Asia" (Gillmor, 1987, p. 78), and the
was a co-founder and the first president of the
CIA believed that the only possible explanation
World Psychiatric Association (Gillmor, 1987).
for this was that the Chinese had brainwashed
He became the head of the Allan Memorial
the American prisoners. As such, the CIA
upon its opening in 1944, and made it famous
wanted to study brainwashing. Rather than
for his stance that "no doors in the Allan would
directly fund research, the CIA funded cover
be locked . . . [for] even if one ward was locked,
organizations who would not be scrutinized as
society would judge the institution by that
the CIA would be (Collins, 1988). One of these
ward" (Gillmor, 1987, p. 1). He believed that
cover organizations was the Society for the
"madness" - his own term - was something that
Investigation of Human Ecology (SIHE); this
needed to be treated rather than feared, and that
group funded Cameron’s research into psychic
patients could not be locked up if they were to
driving from 1957 to 1960 (Collins, 1988).
realize that they still belonged to society
(Collins, 1988). Cameron, then, was very
Continued on Page 28
humane in his treatment of patients - at least
early on - and, as we shall see later, very
progressive in his views regarding the mentally
ill, both when compared to other members of
society and other health professionals.
Cameron was an ambitious man. As
Collins (1988) points out, he saw what was
going on with the soldiers who were returning
from the Second World War, and he wanted to
be able to ease the stress and anxiety from
which they were suffering. A loftier goal of
Cameron’s was to conquer the process of aging.
In time, he set up different research programs at
the Allan Memorial. Of special interest to
Cameron was the idea of sleep teaching. He had
been in correspondence with Max Sherover, an
American who had conquered his patients nail-
biting habits by continuously playing a tape In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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(Gillmor, 1987). Later, Cameron would replay
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attempt to break down the patient’s defense
mechanisms and reach deeper material. Over
time, Cameron developed this technique into a
therapy that he called psychic driving. He
introduced his form of therapy in a paper
published in the American Journal of Psychiatry
in January, 1956.As he explained it, psychic
driving allowed for "the penetration of defenses,
the elicitation of hitherto inaccessible material,
and setting up of a dynamic implant" (Cameron,
1956, p. 503) or recurring thought that
influenced the patient’s behaviour even after
playback of the key statement had been stopped
for some time. Cameron also reported that at
times, the patient resisted listening to the
repetition of the statement; this was handled by
administering sodium amytal, a disinhibitant or
"truth drug" (Collins, 1988), or by exposing the
patient to the repetition during a period of
prolonged sleep (Cameron, 1956). In his article,
Cameron also admits to using stimulant drugs
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Ewen Cameron and The Allan
Memorial Psychiatric
Institute: A Study in
Research and Treatment
Ethics
Continued From Page 25
Cameron, meanwhile, was becoming
increasingly extreme in his attempts to develop
psychic driving into a successful therapeutic
technique. Some patients were still able to resist
the treatment, and consequently Cameron was
not quite getting the results he wanted. He
began using electroconvulsive therapy in
association with psychic driving, and referred to
this as "depatterning". His aim was to
disorganize disturbed or resistant patients, to
allow psychic driving to have its full effect. He
believed that "you could regress patients,
particularly schizophrenics, back to their
infancy" (Gillmor, 1987, p. 56). This was done
by administering ECT at much higher levels
than it had ever been applied before. Under
Cameron’s plan, patients received ECT "up to
three times daily" (Gillmor, 1987, p. 56), and
this pattern of treatment would continue for
thirty days (Collins, 1988). After this, he would
attempt to "repattern" his patients with psychic
driving. However, by this point, the patient was
often "unable to walk or feed himself, and [was]
likely incontinent" (Gillmor, 1987, p. 56).
Despite the objections of some of his
colleagues, Cameron carried on trying to perfect
his psychic driving technique (Gillmor, 1987).
In 1961, he lost the financial support of the
SIHE, and by 1964, his treatments were
beginning to prove useless. He himself referred
to psychic driving as "a ten-year trip down the
wrong road" (Gillmor, 1987, p. 136). He left the
Allan Memorial later that same year.
Fifteen years later, a group of nine
former patients at the Allan Memorial brought
suit against the CIA for funding research that
led to harm of the patients at the Allan (Collins,
1988). Their lawyer, American civil rights
lobbyist Joseph Rauh, wanted to settle out of
court because of the advanced age and declining
health of his clients (Collins, 1988). However,
the CIA was willing to neither settle nor
negotiate. Rauh subsequently filed a formal
complaint, requesting one million dollars per
plaintiff. He then tried to get the Canadian
government to support the plaintiffs in their suit
against the CIA, [but] to no avail. During the
filing of depositions, "CIA and U.S. Justice
Department lawyers . . . were . . . stopping
testimony where they could on the grounds that
it might be damaging to national security"
(Collins, 1988, p. 220-21). The Canadian
government still would not help, passively
saying they "couldn’t release any American-
originated documents without the approval of
its correspondent" (Collins, 1988, p. 221). The
CIA offered a "nuisance settlement" of $25,000
per plaintiff, which was summarily refused.
Finally, in 1988, the case went to trial. The
lawsuit, however, was fruitless; the CIA never
paid any money to any of the plaintiffs, nor did
they issue an apology.
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Cameron’s Use of applications of ECT. Thus, Cameron was not
alone in his repeated use of ECT. Page and
Electroconvulsive Therapy Russell, however, only recommended daily
administration of ECT, as did Kennedy and
Cameron’s use of electroconvulsive Ancell. Mukherjee, Sackeim, and Schnur
therapy would likely be judged barbaric by the (1994), in their review of 50 years of use of
standards of today, as ECT is now used in a ECT, report that in the studies they looked at,
much more humane way than it was in the past. "treatment frequency varied from twice weekly
As Holmes (1997) explains, before ECT begins, to a 5-days-per-week schedule" (p. 172). This is
the patient is administered both a strong still a much lower rate of application than
sedative and a muscle relaxant. The purpose of Cameron was using. As such, Cameron’s use of
the sedative is to ensure that the patient is the treatment two or three times daily does
unconscious when their convulsions begin and appear extreme. In 1985, Public Health Reports
the purpose of the muscle relaxant is to reduce advised that "[r]egressive ECT (administration
violent muscular contractions during the of a large number of treatments during a short
convulsion. Indeed, Holmes (1997) states that period . . . ) is ‘no longer an acceptable
"[b]efore muscle relaxants were used, patients treatment’ . . . and multiple-monitored ECT . . .
often broke bones during the convulsions" (p. has not been demonstrated to be sufficiently
268). The strength of the electrical current that effective’" (p. 549).
is used varies between 70 and 150 volts, and Another consideration is the voltage
lasts from between 0.1 to one seconds. used in the application of ECT. As Strain,
Treatment is usually administered three times a Brunschwig, Duffy, Agle, Rosenbaum, and
week, and if the patient has not responded Bidder (1968) point out, "electrical parameters
within five to eight administrations of ECT, "it have been demonstrated to be a factor in
is usually concluded that ECT will not be memory loss" (p. 294). This is significant
effective, and it is stopped" (p. 270). Cameron, because many former patients at the Allan
in contrast, administered much higher doses of reported chronic memory loss (Collins, 1988).
ECT. Gillmor (1987) reports that Cameron had Cameron again, however, used a voltage
been overseeing use of ECT at the Allan comparable to that of Page and Russell
Memorial since 1951, but he "…felt that a more (Gillmor, 1987), and even within the range
forceful application of it might produce more currently used (Holmes, 1997). Frankel (1975)
impressive results" (p. 55). Rather than and Strain et al. (1968) both report use of the
administering a single shock to the patient, he same voltage, with Strain and his associates
would shock the patient six times in rapid administering the shock for two seconds instead
succession (Collins, 1988). He would apply this of just one.
technique -known as a "Page-Russell", after its Overall, then, Cameron was not using a
inventors - twice a day for thirty days in a shock that was too severe for his patients to
typical attempt to depattern one of his patients. handle. Where he became extreme in his use of
At times, patients would even receive three ECT was in the frequency of application. Even
treatments a day (Gillmor, 1987). Cameron used if he believed that a "more forceful application .
a current of 150 volts, which lasted for one . . might produce greater results" (Gillmor,
second. At the Allan Memorial, patients 1987, p. 55), he should not have increased the
received anywhere from 30 to 150 treatments of number of applications so greatly in such a short
ECT. period of time. I believe that this was
unconscionable. It shows a complete lack of
regard for the well being of his patients, and a
lack of understanding of the treatment that he
was using. Cameron can perhaps be forgiven for
not knowing beforehand what the effects of his
use of ECT would be; one of Cameron’s
successors defended him, saying that
"Cameron’s work must be viewed from a
historical perspective and should not be judged
in light of current ethical practices" (Robertson,
cited in Gillmor, p. 139). However, Cameron
should have been able to recognize the adverse
effect that his ECT use was having on his
patients, and he should have ceased what he was
doing long before lack of funding forced him to
It is easy to see that Cameron was more do so.
extreme in his use of ECT than psychiatrists are
today. However, to determine if Cameron was Continued pn Page 30
misguided in his use of ECT, we must compare
how his contemporaries used ECT, and how
ECT use changed after Cameron developed his
technique. The most obvious difference
between Cameron’s application and current use
of ECT is the number of shocks administered.
Page and Russell, two British doctors, had
developed the afore-mentioned Page-Russell
technique, in which patients received a series of
shocks, each four seconds apart (Gillmor,
1987). Two American doctors, Kennedy and
Ancell, also were testing the effects of multiple
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Ewen Cameron and The Allan
Memorial Psychiatric
Institute: A Study in
Research and Treatment
Ethics
Continued From Page 25
At first, it seems perplexing that
Cameron would have pushed ahead with
treatment, in light of the adverse effects he must
have been seeing in his patients. Still more
intriguing is why Cameron would persist in
developing the treatment against the objections
of his colleagues at the Allan. Gillmor (1987)
points out that most of Cameron’s staff did not
approve of the way Cameron was using ECT.
One doctor said that the
"problem . . . was that there was never
enough money to set up a proper rehabilitation
program. That would . . . interfere with
Cameron’s ‘quick fix’ solution. It would be less
of a breakthrough . . . if patients required six
months of [post-treatment] therapy" (Gillmor,
1987, p. 57).
In addition, Cameron’s fellow
psychiatrists at the Allan did not approve of his
treatment ideas (Gillmor). Collins (1988)
explains why Cameron would push on in spite
of all of this criticism; Cameron wanted to win
a Nobel Prize for his research. Even Cameron’s
son believes that Cameron was driven by this
goal. I sincerely hope that this was not behind
Cameron’s push to develop psychic driving and
depatterning as a cure for schizophrenia. This
does not seem to fit with the man who
developed the open-door policy for his patients
at the Allan. It is bad enough that his patients
suffered severe memory loss, and were left as
shells of their former selves. If this was the
result of Cameron’s ignorance, at least we can
say that Cameron was trying to cure them.
However, if all of this is the result of Cameron’s
quest for recognition and acclaim, then he has
done a terrible injustice to the patients who were
entrusted in his care, to other psychiatrists and
psychologists who are to be scrutinized and
distrusted more because of his actions, and to
the Canadian public, who supported his work
through government funding. If all of this
happened because of his need for recognition,
he cannot be called a humanitarian; rather, he
could be said to show a complete lack of regard
for mental patients and their care.
Attitudes Toward Mental
Patients: Have They Changed?
If Cameron truly was more interested in
achieving recognition than in caring for his
patients, then he must not have had a very
positive attitude towards mental patients. This
can only be speculated - we cannot know for
sure what Cameron’s motivating factors were.
Perhaps we would not be surprised to find out
that Cameron was driven by his ambition and
had a negative attitude toward mental patients.
However, we would be surprised to find out that
his attitude did not differ greatly from that of
society as a whole. Here we will look at whether
attitudes toward mental patients have changed
in the last 30 to 40 years - that is, whether such
treatment could happen now - and try to
delineate where research ends and treatment
begins.
One would assume that Cameron must
not have had a very high regard for his patients’
rights if he was willing to inject them with LSD
or administer repeated treatments of ECT.
Morgan (1971) points out, however, that this fits
with the attitude of Cameron’s time. Research
ethics were previously not something one had to
worry about; researchers were "…used to
proceeding with their work without thinking or
worrying about general ethical questions . . .
[t]he usual rule has probably been: if you’re
interested, investigate" (p. 276). The public
would not have any objection to such treatment
of mental patients; while Johannsen (1969)
points out that the term "mental patient" can
"…refer to anyone who has ever obtained help
from a mental health professional." (p. 218), it
is more often taken by the lay person to refer to
an individual who has been admitted to a
psychiatric hospital. Johannsen (1969) relates
information regarding a study done by
Cumming and Cumming in Canada in 1957,
looking at attitudes toward the mentally ill.
Rather than educating the public, the
"experiment served . . . to solidify pre-existing
attitudes of fear and defensiveness" (p. 219). In
fact, every group Johannsen looked at - the
public, general medical practitioners,
employees in mental institutions, patients’
relatives, employers, religious clergy, and
political leaders - had negative attitudes toward
mental patients. These negative attitudes ranged
from "fear, distrust, and dislike" (p. 219) to an
underestimation of "the seriousness of the
constituent’s symptoms" (p. 222). Rabkin
(1972) summarizes the problem nicely in stating
that the "public tends to reject disturbed
behaviour that is socially visible, even if it is not
severe in terms of incapacitating effects on the
patient" (p. 159).
Because such attitudes have been so
prominent, research has been allowed that has
ignored the rights of the individual. Morgan
(1971) argues that this is because researchers
working in hospitals were trained in a university
setting. The emphasis in a university setting is
to publish in scholarly journals, win research
grants, and so on. When they transfer to the
hospital setting, they take this "university
mentality" with them. The researcher is faced
with factors - such as the rights of individuals -
which they are not accustomed to having to deal
with. The result is that the patient’s rights are
often ignored. Whether or not one believes that
this is purposeful depends on how one views the
academic system as it is set up. The scope of
this paper is far too small to deal with this issue,
but it is really no surprise that such a mindset
has developed as a result of the academic ideal;
that is, to publish.
There is some evidence that attitudes
toward mental patients are changing. Waterman
(1974) stresses that we must emphasize the
rights of the individual, as "each [research]
participant is a distinct individual entitled to the
full protection of his rights" (p. 470). To value
research findings above the individual, to state
that "most subjects suffered no ill harm" is of no
benefit to those who do suffer (Waterman,
1974) . Morgan (1971) points out that the
individual must be regarded as an end, rather
than a means to an end; the patient cannot be
valued less than the research itself. This begs
the question, where does research begin and
treatment end? It seems obvious that Cameron’s
work at the Allan Memorial was research; to
call it treatment would be farcical, not to
mention a complete disservice to all of the
patients Cameron "treated". It would seem that
treatment ends and research begins when the
mental health professional / would-be-
researcher values the research or
experimentation more than the well being of the
patient. Any time that the individual’s goal is to
earn accolades, or win recognition, it is
research. Research does need to be done; no
science, including psychology, can progress
without it. However, new treatments should not
be developed if, during the development of
treatment, the well being of those being
experimented on is not given the greatest
importance.
As mentioned, attitudes toward mental
patients are changing, but not enough.
Riverview, a psychiatric hospital in Coquitlam,
B.C., has gone from having more than 4,000
beds in the 1960s to less than 800 at present
(lecture, January 30, 1997), largely because of
budgetary constraints. The public is often
resistant to having former mental patients in
their communities (Holmes, 1997); there is still
a great deal of ignorance as to who "mental
patients" are and what "mental illness" is, just as
Johannsen (1969) described 30 years ago. What
does all of this - the events at the Allan
Memorial, the use of ECT, changing attitudes
toward mental patients - mean for psychology?
I think it means that psychology cannot really
move forward as a discipline until it educates
people as to what mental illness really is. So
many people view mental illness as a sign of
weakness, or an imperfection in the individual,
when often (at times, at least) it is due to
nothing more than a chemical imbalance in the
brain. Without this type of education, it is
conceivable that something similar to the events
at the Allan could happen again.
Psychology also has to work at gaining
back the trust of the public. Events like what
went on at the Allan Memorial only make
people critical and distrustful of psychologists.
We need to educate the public as to what it is
that we actually do now - and I hope that is, to
try to help people - and work at gaining trust.
Without trust, we will not have the support and
cooperation of the public, and we cannot move
forward as a discipline.
The events at the Allan Memorial
Psychiatric Institute in the 1950s and 1960s set
psychology back to its dark ages. As a
discipline, psychology is still trying to work its
way back into the trust of the public. Cameron
said that "psychic driving [was] a potent
procedure" (1956, p. 508); I do not think he
realized just how potent it was. I believe,
however, that if psychology can learn from
Cameron’s mistakes, and if we can educate the
public to the point that they understand mental
illness and mental patients, then perhaps some
good can come out of all this. It is unfortunate
that it took the destruction of so many people’s
lives for this to happen.
More About Project MKUltra and Dr Eewen
Cameron on Page 31.
 Project MKULTRA & Ewen Cameron
Mind-Control Part 1:
Canadian and U.S.
Survivors Seek Justice
By Arlene Tyner
Gripping survivor-centered accounts of
medical atrocities committed by CIA-funded
mind-control (MC) researchers during the Cold
War are rarely found in traditional U.S. media.2
Neither are they the subject of emotionally
powerful TV docu-dramas commonly produced
for broadcast and cable television. In January
1998, the Canadian Broadcasting System
(CBC) courageously filled this void, although
the blackout on government MC history is near-
total in the U.S.
The Sleep Room, a gut-wrenching four-
hour miniseries, depicts the true story of Dr.
Ewen Cameron’s secret MKULTRA
brainwashing experiments carried out in the late
50s and early 60s at Allan Memorial Institute in
Montreal. Widespread publicity accompanying
this major TV event has empowered many other
Canadian survivors of nonconsensual
brainwashing experiments in hospitals and
prisons to come forward and seek justice in the
courts.3
In Part I of the miniseries, gifted actors
dramatize how vulnerable, trusting hospital
patients were transformed into virtual
vegetables through doses of "electroconvulsive
therapy" 30-40 times more powerful than usual,
sensory deprivation, hallucinogenic and
paralytic drugs, and other psychological and
physical tortures. Part II grippingly depicts the
successful eight-year U.S. lawsuit of nine
survivors, who overcame fear to confront the
humiliations and frustrating delay tactics of the
CIA lawyers. Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., a legendary
Washington civil rights attorney, and his partner
James C. Turner eventually prevailed for their
clients. In 1988, the U.S. "national security"
establishment agreed to an out-of-court
settlement of $750,000.4
This extraordinary CBC drama was
based on Anne Collins’ prize-winning 1989
book In the Sleep Room: The Story of CIA
Brainwashing Experiments in Canada. Collins
exposed Cameron’s 1930s-1940s history of
ethically unsupportable experiments on
psychiatric patients. Many of the people
methodically abused by Cameron had entered
the Institute suffering only from mild disorders
such as anxiety and post-partum depression. By
the time they were released from the Sleep
Room torture chamber, many had decades of
memory completely wiped out. Some did not
remember their children and even had to relearn
bladder and bowel control.
A U.S. citizen since 1941, the Scottish-
born Cameron resided in Albany, New York,
from which he commuted to Montreal each
week. Before taking on the directorship at Allan
Memorial, which is associated with McGill
University, Cameron was chair of psychiatry
and neurology at a medical school in Albany. He
worked closely with Alan Gregg, medical-
sciences director of the Rockefeller Foundation,
which provided grants to found the Institute in
1943.5 As director from 1943 to 1964,
Cameron achieved a worldwide reputation,
serving as the first chair of the World
Psychiatric Association, as well as president of
the American and Canadian psychiatric
associations.
In one barely watchable scene of
institutional cruelty, Cameron is filmed
delivering a speech to psychiatrists about his
successes in "curing" mental illness. As he
drones on, the camera switches to scenes of
terrified resisting patients being captured and
restrained by doctors and nurses, forcibly being
dosed with drugs and high-voltage
electroshock, then put to sleep for weeks at a
time in a room full of beds equipped with tape
recorders and football helmets.
Winner in 1998 of the Academy of
Canadian Cinema and Television’s Gemini
Awards in best picture and other categories, The
Sleep Room touched the raw nerves of
Canadian citizens. Not only did they learn their
government had been the CIA’s junior consort
during the Cold War against Communism, they
also discovered it had secretly granted $500,000
to fund the Allan Memorial experiments. The
CIA had only given Cameron $69,000 from
1957 to 1964. As the lawsuit dragged on
through the Reagan presidency, Rauh was
forced to expose the Canadian government’s
role in helping the CIA derail the lawsuit, in
complete disregard for pain and lifelong
suffering of its own citizens.6 In 1992 the
Canadian government coughed up $100,000 for
76 Cameron victims. To date 127 of his patients
have come forward with their horror stories to
seek compensation.
CIA psychologist John Gittinger
initiated contact with Cameron after reading his
article on "Psychic Driving" in the January 1956
American Journal of Psychiatry. Gittinger
persuaded Cameron to apply to the Society for
the Investigation of Human Ecology, a CIA
front set up in 1955 to disburse funding for what
became a huge MKULTRA network in the U.S.,
Canada and overseas (in collaboration with
branches of the U.S. Armed Forces). The
Human Ecology Fund (its name was changed in
1961) operated secretly out of Cornell
University in New York City.
Cameron’s brainwashing grant application
proposed to "depattern" patient behavior
through the use of mega-doses of electroshock,
to reprogram patients’ minds with repetitious
verbal messages 16 hours a day for six or seven
days, during which time the patient would be
kept in partial sensory deprivation. Cameron
called this technique "psychic driving."
Brainwashing would be completed by
subjecting patients to drug-enforced continuous
sleep, sometimes as long as weeks or even
months.7
The Sleep Room portrays two
generations of CIA personnel as equally deadly,
i.e., the 1950s Human Ecology bureaucrats who
approved the funding for what were considered
"terminal" experiments on non-U.S. nationals,
and the 1980s CIA legal lords who maneuvered
on grounds of "national security" to withhold
evidence of the agency’s negligence and failure
to adhere to the Nuremberg Code. The
callousness of the CIA scientists is aptly
captured in this fictitious dialog, where the
scientists are discussing whether to fund
31
Cameron’s proposal:
#1: He’s going to fry his patients. I can tell you
that.
#2: Well, we won’t worry about the patients.
That’s his problem. I just want to know if he can
brainwash them.
#1: He just might, you know. He’s right about
the memory loss with a shock like that. You
couldn’t do that to volunteers.
#2: Well, should we give him the money?
#1: What have we got to lose? It’s not like he’s
doing it to Americans.
While the tone is apt, the misleading impression
that neither the CIA nor Cameron were
experimenting on U.S. citizens (witting or
unwitting) during this era is the miniseries’
biggest flaw. According to the March 15, 1995
testimony of Claudia Mullen before the
President’s Advisory Commission on Human
Radiation Experiments (ACHRE), Ewen
Cameron was the high-voltage expert in a secret
team of CIA doctor-brainwashers. Mullen and
Chris DiNicola Ebner told a visibly shaken
group of scientists that memory-erasing
electroshock, among other horrors, was
regularly used on physically healthy American
children in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.8
Unlucky enough to be delivered into
CIA/military custody by abusive or uncaring
parents, children as young as eight years old
were subjected to trauma-based mind control
(MC) programming to mold them into
"Manchurian Candidate" spies, assassins and
sexual blackmailers.9 ACHRE’s final report
documented more than 4000 experiments, and
anywhere from 16,000 to 23,000 unwitting
victims!10 The numbers run past 200,000
when if one includes the GIs deliberately
exposed to radiation from atomic bomb
testing.11
During this same era, U.S. psychiatric
patients were also victimized. Harold Blauer, a
patient in the New York Psychiatric Institute,
died in 1953 shortly after being injected with a
highly toxic dose of methyl-diamphetamine
(MDA), a derivative of mescaline. Blauer had
entered the hospital suffering from depression
after a divorce. He had made progress solely
with the talking cure. Blauer did not know that
his psychiatrist, Paul Hoch, was a CIA
consultant secretly under contract with the
Army’s Edgewood Arsenal chemical/biological
warfare lab. This contract was negotiated
through the New York State Department of
Mental Hygiene, which allowed trusting
hospital patients to be used as part of the Army’s
search for "potential chemical warfare agents."
Continued on Page 34
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Mind-Control Part 1:
Canadian and U.S.
Survivors Seek Justice
Continued From Page 31
The MDA was not administered for any
therapeutic reason. Blauer was scheduled to be
released from the hospital in a few weeks. His
objections to the series of injections, which
were causing him great pain and discomfort,
were overridden by manipulative hospital
personnel. Blauer was threatened before the
fourth nonfatal dose that if he didn’t give his
consent, he would be moved out of the Institute
to hospital settings that displeased him. The
fourth dose caused a violent reaction. The fifth
killed him. The Army began its cover-up
immediately, the sordid details of which are
recounted in the 1987 court decision awarding
the Blauer estate $707,044. The court affixed
blame for Blauer’s needless death totally on the
U.S. government.12
The Blauer case reveals a direct lineage
between Nazi research projects and the
MKULTRA program. Mescaline was tested on
concentration camp inmates during the Third
Reich’s search for a "truth serum."13 These
and other Nazi experiments were intensively
studied by U.S. military scientists in occupied
Germany. Under the CIA’s Operation Paperclip,
1600 German and Austrian scientists were
secretly brought to the U.S. Some had worked
for I.G. Farben perfecting Zyclon-B gas for the
extermination of Jews and other doomed
prisoners. Many were being investigated for
war crimes when they were rescued by a
government intent on using their knowledge and
expertise in the Cold War against the
Communist Eastern Bloc. Hundreds of chemists
and other scientists were given jobs at
Edgewood Arsenal, which supplied the drugs,
chemicals and poisons for the CIA’s
counterespionage and assassination programs
during the Korean and Vietnam wars, as well as
covert interventions in the affairs of many Third
World nations.14
Though the Cold War is over, the U.S.
military/CIA bureaucracies still invoke
"national security" and "plausible deniability"
to hide a vast arsenal of sophisticated mind-
control and psychological warfare
technology.15 All of these weapons had to be
perfected by means of human experimentation.
Psychiatrist Colin Ross found that many areas
of brain research heading in the direction of MC
suddenly went "black" in the 1960s.16 His
long-awaited book, Building the Manchurian
Candidate: Deliberate Creation of Multiple
Personality by Psychiatrists, will soon be
published.
A hint about mind-control research first
surfaced in the aftermath of the 1963
assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
When J. Edgar Hoover testified before the
Warren Commission in 1964, he raised the
possibility President Kennedy had been killed
by a programmed assassin dispatched by the
Soviet Union. Alarmed, the Commission
requested the CIA to produce information on
Soviet brainwashing. The resultant CIA memo
(so controversial it wasn’t declassified until
1974) cryptically asserted the Soviets did not
have any MC techniques or drugs "not available
in the West."17 However, neither Hoover nor
the CIA told the Commission that the U.S. had
an operational program of Manchurian
Candidates up and running since World War
II!18
The term "brainwashing" was first
coined in 1950 by Edward Hunter, a CIA
employee operating undercover as a journalist,
purportedly to explain how American POWs in
Korea were being coerced into confessing they
used biological weapons.19 Newspapers played
up fears that the Soviets, the Chinese and North
Koreans were using a secret psychological
weapon against allied soldiers. This
"brainwashing" scare was a successful CIA
disinformation strategy used to build support for
an unpopular war.20 It also helped insulate
military and university researchers from
accountability for violating medical ethics and
criminal laws.
The prevailing anticommunist hysteria
that grew to justify the MKULTRA program
and its unambiguous violations of the
Hippocratic Oath, the Nuremberg Code and
many international human-rights covenants was Based on a true story about secret CIA funded
aptly summarized in 1954 by former President brainwashing experiments conducted on
Herbert Hoover: psychiatric patients in Montreal's Allan
It is now clear we are facing an Memorial Hospital in the 50's. After 25 years
implacable enemy whose avowed objective is the aging survivors challenge the USA in a
pursult of justice
world domination.... There are no rules in such
a game. Hitherto accepted norms of human
Opening remarks by James C. Turner
conduct do not apply.... If the United States is to The Sleep Room's Missing Memories.
survive, long-standing American concepts of
fair play must be reconsidered... We must learn "...Cast and crew have been unanimous in their
to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by praise of director Anne Wheeler..."
more clever, more sophisticated, more effective "...Cinematographer Thomas Vamos has
methods than those used against us.21 similar praise for Wheeler (The Diviners,
The MKULTRA program began with a Loyalties, Cowboys Don't Cry).
proposal by Richard Helms, then the CIA’s "I think she is one of the best directors I have
Assistant Deputy Director for Plans, to fund worked with in my life," he says. "And not only
on the level of craft but she has an
"highly sensitive" research and development
extraordinary knowledge and sensitivity. She
using chemical/ biological substances to alter
has tremendous patience for the people, and for
human behavior. It was approved by CIA the production."
Director Allen Dulles on April 13, 1953 and was Playback Magazine
overseen by chemist Sidney Gottlieb, chief of
the CIA’s Technical Services Division (TSD). Gemini Awards 1998:
The first MC programs, called Bluebird and
Artichoke, were subsumed under the Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Mini-
MKULTRA umbrella. This program came to Series - Anne Wheeler
embrace an octopus-like network with names Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured
like MK-Search (1963-1973), MK-Delta and Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or
Mini-Series - Diego Matamoros
MK-Naomi (assassination programs carried out
Best Sound in a Dramatic Program or Series
by the Army 1953-1970).22 Between 1953 and
Best TV Movie or Mini-Series
1963 the TSD operated 149 subprojects in 80 Special Award - Donald Mowat - For
U.S. and Canadian universities and medical outstanding achievement in makeup.
centers, and three prisons, involving 185 private
researchers, 15 foundations and numerous just get rid of the files as well, so that anybody
pharmaceutical companies.23 who assisted us in the past would not be subject
In 1973, with the Watergate scandal to follow-up questions, embarrassment, if you
looming, outgoing CIA Director Helms ordered will."24
all MKULTRA records destroyed. He testified Fortunately, 8,000 pages of mainly
before the Senate’s Church Committee two financial data escaped the CIA shredder, and
years later that Gottlieb: were declassified pursuant to a Freedom of
"...came to me and said that he was Information lawsuit in the 1970s filed by the
retiring and I was retiring and he thought it Center for National Security Studies. Though
would be a good idea if these files were woefully incomplete, these documents
destroyed. And I also believe part of the reason nevertheless became the bedrock of John
for our thinking this was advisable was there Marks’ groundbreaking 1978 book, The Search
had been relationships with outsiders in for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and
government agencies and other organizations Mind Control.25
and these would be sensitive in this kind of
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All branches of the military sponsored
MC research in collaboration with the CIA.26
Most civilian subjects were unwitting; even
CIA employees and Army recruits who
consented to drug and hypnosis experiments
were not properly informed as to their dangers.
MKULTRA clearly violated the Nuremberg
Code requirement that subjects give "informed
consent" to participate in scientific research:
"This means that the person involved should
have the legal capacity to give consent; should
be so situated as to be able to exercise free
power of choice, without the intervention of any
element of force, fraud, deceit, duress,
overreaching, or other form of constraint or
coercion." This Code was established in 1948
by the same U.S. Military Tribunal that tried 24
Nazi doctors for deadly experiments on
concentration camp inmates. It was binding on
the U.S. as of February 26, 1953.27
How do we explain the hundreds of
thousands of human guinea pigs callously
sacrificed during the Cold War?28 As Paperclip
researcher Linda Hunt concluded, "...we used
Nazi science to kill our own people."29 Perhaps
survivor stories can help us understand what
went wrong and why our secular democracy
allows huge bureaucracies of unsupervised,
supersecret warriors guided only by the cult-like
religion of "national security" and the obsessive
search for "enemies of the state." The death of
communism as a military threat has not dented
the religious zeal that still inspires the
military/intelligence establishment.
James Stanley, a career soldier, suffered
soul murder as an Army lab rat. He was given
LSD in 1958 without being warned of its
dangers, as were 1000 other "volunteer"
soldiers. Stanley suffered hallucinations,
memory loss, incoherence, and a negative
personality change. Fits of uncontrollable
violence destroyed his family, and restricted his
ability to earn a living. And he never knew why
until 1975, when the Army invited him to
participate in a follow-up study on "volunteers
who participated" in LSD testing. In United
States vs. Stanley,30 the Supreme Court
majority decided against Stanley’s claim for
damages. However, Justices Brennan, Marshall
and O’Connor dissented, asserting their belief
that the Nuremberg Code’s standard of
informed consent applies to soldiers as well as
civilians. In 1996 James Stanley finally
wrangled a $400,000 settlement from the
government, but no apology for having ruined
his life.31
Unacknowledged civilian wreckage
from unimaginably cruel brainwashing
experiments continues to bob to the surface
from a vast sea of still-classified, cold-war
experiments. Survivors of ghoulish medical
tortures or the families of deceased victims are
turning up in Canadian and U.S. courtrooms
today demanding compensation for a lifetime of
suffering. Some Canadian plaintiffs appear to
have a slight advantage over their U.S. cousins,
who are severely hampered by the 1973
Helms/Gottlieb destruction of MKULTRA
records. Fortunately for these survivors, paper
trails are being unearthed in government,
hospital and prison archives. The eminently
freer Canadian press also helps build public
support for MC survivors’ lawsuits.32
Gail Kastner, now in her 60s, did not
discover Ewen Cameron’s experiments were the
cause of her "wasted life" until reading a
newspaper story in the Montreal Gazette in
1992. She sued the Canadian government and
Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital in 1999
after the government rejected her claim for
damages. A "brilliant student whose
domineering father checked her into the
institute for depression," Kastner says that
Cameron’s electroconvulsive "depatterning"
treatments and insulin-induced comas for five
weeks at a time are responsible for a life of
screaming nightmares, recurring seizures, loss
of memory, and long-term regression to an
infantile state. Her husband, son and twin sister
could not tolerate her bizarre behavior, i.e.
"wetting the living-room carpet, thumb-
sucking, babytalk and wanting to be bottlefed."
Abandoned by her own family, she was rescued
from homelessness by the Jewish Family
Service.33
During the era of Cameron’s
brainwashing regimens, psychiatrists and
psychologists in other Canadian institutions
were using similar methods to "treat" people
haphazardly diagnosed with depression,
schizophrenia or, in prisons, what was
perceived as "antisocial" conduct. Dorothy
Proctor was a rebellious 17-year-old when she
entered the Prison for Women in Kingston,
Ontario on a three-year term for robbery.
Primed first with sensory deprivation and
electroshock, she was administered LSD in
1961 by a prison psychologist, then locked into
"The Hole" to endure what for her was "Dante’s
Inferno."
Proctor, a Native and Black Canadian
from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, calls this
"mind rape." She says she was singled out for
such "Nazi-style science" because she had twice
escaped from the prison, bringing unfavorable
publicity to the authorities there. Proctor asserts
that the steady prison diet of LSD and other
experimental drugs led her down the path to
drug addiction for 24 years. After publishing
Chameleon: The Life of Dorothy Proctor in
1994, this articulate and determined woman
launched a complaint with the Corrections
Service of Canada (CSC), saying she suffered
permanent brain damage and hallucinations
haunting her to the present day.
"I was reduced to a lab rat, a monkey in
a cage," she told the Ottawa Citizen (7/21/98),
which has been covering the Proctor and other
Canadian human experimentation cases for a
number of years. A government inquiry turned
up documentation (including clinical notes) that
Proctor was not the only victim of involuntary
prison experimentation 1960-1963. At least 23
other women prisoners were also used as human
guinea pigs. Only four of these women have
been found to date. And instead of complying
with the CSC’s recommendation of an apology
and financial compensation to Proctor, the
Canadian government commissioned an "ethics
study" at McGill University. Meanwhile Proctor
hired lawyer James Newland and filed suit for
35
$5 million in damages from the Canadian
government, George Scott, MD, the prison
psychiatrist, and Mark Eveson, a psychologist
affiliated with Queen’s University.34
While the emotional shock of The Sleep
Room still electrified Canadian airways, the
Ottawa Citizen published an expose drawn from
interviews, archives, scientific journals and
correspondence between doctors and prison
officials. It found that hundreds of federal
prisoners throughout Canada were used for
pharmaceutical trials of untested drugs, sensory
deprivation, and pain and electroshock studies.
It uncovered a 1968 trial during which
defendant Christine Bauman claimed that she
suffered terrifying personality changes after
being given LSD in 1961 at the Institute for
Psychotherapy, not far from Kingston Prison
where she had been incarcerated.35
Furthermore, archival materials released
through the Proctor lawsuit indicate that some
abuses may have begun as early as March 24,
1949, when a new electroshock machine arrived
at Kingston Penitentiary. Electroshock has a
history of being used as punishment in Nazi
Germany and against Blacks in apartheid South
Africa.36
By late 1999, additional Canadian
women and men came forward to claim they
were used in prison and hospital experiments in
the 1960s and 1970s. A class-action suit against
the prison system was filed anonymously by
"Jane Doe," a 75-year-old grandmother who
realized after reading newspaper stories that she
was one of the 23 women who were given LSD
and other terrifying "treatments" without their
consent while in prison . Her lawsuit charges
Scott and Eveson with assault, intentional
affliction of mental suffering, and negligence.
Her access to the Eveson’s clinical notes,
released as a result of the Proctor suit, helped
her recognize what had been done to her 38
years ago.37
Less documented, however, are the
connections of these prison experiments to U.S.
mind-control funding sources. Canadian
newspaper stories usually include the caveat
that although prison use of LSD and "shock
therapy" coincided with CIA "brainwashing"
experiments at Allan Memorial Institute, no
evidence has been found to link the programs.
However, Allen Hornblum, author of Acres of
Skin: The Human Experiments at Holmesburg
Prison, said on a 1998 CBC radio show that
some of the experiments conducted in U.S.
prisons during this era were sponsored by the
U.S. Army and the CIA. And he pointed out that
shortly after seven Nazi doctors were hung at
Nuremberg for horrific experiments on inmates
at Bergen Belsen, Auschwitz and Ravensbruk,
U.S. doctors were injecting plutonium and
uranium into unwitting hospital patients.38
hospitals and prisons.40
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Moss-Sharman has been organizing
support for federal prisoner Richard Carlson,
who filed a civil claim in October 1998. Carlson
says his use in covert brainwashing experiments
from 1968 to 1974 in several Kingston-area
prisons caused a lifelong psychiatric disability.
According to Moss-Sharman, the authorities
retaliated against Carlson going public about the
prison brainwashing experiments. They
unsuccessfully tried to change his status to
"dangerous offender," which would have
carried a mandatory life sentence for the bank
robbery charge, which he is also appealing.
Three people connected to Carlson have
died under mysterious circumstances since he
launched his brainwashing claim. They include
Tony Vaitelis, the second male inmate to make
claims similar to Carlson’s, an unnamed former
hospital orderly and potential witness to prison
brainwashing, and Carlson’s 30-year-old son.
Moss-Sharman says Carlson is dangerous to
Correctional Services Canada because he can
name the inmates who died during the prison
experiments and can describe what happened in
the experimental units.41
"Insulin shock therapy" was frequently
used on Ewen Cameron’s patients at Allan
Memorial. In 1999 the widow of Yuan Woo
(Jean-Paul Martineau), a former Royal
Canadian Air Force radar technician, went
public with the story of how her deceased
husband had been the unwitting subject of
"insulin shock therapy" experiments in Queen
Mary’s Veterans Hospital in 1953. Martineau
curiously changed his name to "Juan Woo" after
being discharged. As a result of medical
mistreatment, Ms. Woo says, her husband
developed such a morbid fear of physicians, he
postponed going to the doctor until he was near
death from cancer in 1996.42
In the U.S., MC survivors and their
families are hard-pressed to secure files
documenting their claims, if indeed such
records escaped the shredder years ago. Since
1985 all litigants have been hampered by C.I.A.
vs. Sims,43 a landmark U.S. Supreme Court
decision that undergirds the CIA’s refusal to
name its contract institutions and individual
researchers on grounds of "national security."44
Only 59 CIA/military contract institutions and a
handful of researchers consented to be publicly
named in the 1970s when the MKULTRA
program was exposed.
The most well-publicized U.S. victim of
the MKULTRA experiments is Frank Olson, a
biochemist who worked at the Army Chemical
Corps’ Special Operations Division at Ft.
Detrick, in Frederick, Maryland. On November
18, 1953, Olson was given a drink of Cointreau
secretly laced with LSD. He immediately
became agitated and severely paranoid, a
condition that lasted for days. Olson was said to
have committed suicide nine days later by
jumping 13-stories to his death through the
closed window of a New York hotel. Members
of his family did not learn he had been drugged
until 1975 when the MKULTRA behavior-
control program was exposed. They later
received an apology from President Gerald Ford
and a $750,000 settlement.
However, after studying documents
declassified in later years, Eric Olson believed
his father may have been pushed out the
window. He had the body exhumed in 1994. A
group of private forensic researchers announced
on the 41th anniversary of Olson’s death that
both forensic and other evidence were "starkly
suggestive of homicide."45 A second skull
fracture (missed in the initial autopsy) means
Olson may have been hit on the head before his
body went through the window. Also the lack of
cuts on Olson’s body would appear to rule out
the official CIA story of his "suicide."46
Armond Pastore, the hotel night manager who
kneeled beside the dying Olson back in 1953,
said, "I never heard of anybody jumping
through a closed window with the blind
down."47 Last year a New York grand jury was
looking at this new evidence.48
The first CIA brainwashing case to go
before a jury took place in 1999. I learned about
this civil trial through two articles in the
Philadelphia Inquirer.49 This civil trial
centered on the tragic life of up-and-coming
artist Stanley Glickman, who says that in 1952
in a Paris cafe, MKULTRA czar Sidney Gottlieb
had brought him a drink laced with LSD.
Gottlieb denied doing this, despite admitting he
had spiked the drinks of other unsuspecting
people in the 1950s. Glickman suffered a
psychological breakdown from which he never
recovered. After collapsing he was rushed to
American Hospital where he claimed doctors
there administered electroshock therapy "via a
catheter up his penis" as well as more
hallucinogenic drugs.50
After learning about the CIA’s LSD
experiments on unwitting subjects in the 1970s,
Glickman sued in 1983. His identification of
Gottlieb was based on remembering that the
strange man in the bar had a club foot. Using the
same delay-and-attrition tactics heaped on the
nine elderly Canadians in Orlikow, the CIA was
able to delay the trial for 16 years. Glickman
died in 1992 but his sister Gloria Kronisch
continued the lawsuit. Dominick L. DiCarlo, a
conservative chief judge "on loan" from the
U.S. Court of International Trade in New York
City, presided.
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What happened next will some day be
the stuff of high drama in a Sleep Room-type
teleplay exposing the CIA’s 50-year history of
crimes against humanity. Finally being called to
account in a courtroom for overseeing a quarter-
century of U.S.-style Nazi science, Gottlieb
becomes ill, causing postponement of the
February trial. On the eve of the March date, he
unexpectedly dies. Both the New York Times
and the Los Angeles Times obituaries report that
the Gottlieb family refuses to disclose the cause
of his death. The online WorldNet Daily,
however, reports that Gottlieb, 80, died after a
"month-long bout with pneumonia." According
to this story, he was admitted to the University
of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesburg on
February 14, and "lapsed into a coma" on March
5 "from which he never recovered."51
Are we overly paranoid to suspect the
CIA of foul play here? Did life boomerang on
the aged Dr. Strangelove? Was this enthusiastic
harvester of exotic poisons and inventor of
bizarre assassination delivery systems somehow
silenced by same to prevent his spilling the
CIA’s dirty secrets in a court of law?52
Anyway, the trial goes forward in late
March, with the Glickman estate suing the
Gottlieb estate (the claims against Helms and
the CIA had been thrown out). As the lawyers
near their final summations, Judge DiCarlo, 71,
suddenly drops dead of a heart attack while
exercising in a federal gym located next to the
court. His New York Times obituary makes no
mention of the controversial CIA trial (nor does
the Times even cover the trial).53 However, the
New York Daily News, with more guts and
pizzazz, reports that DiCarlo’s death "created a
surreal scene as paramedics and a priest called
to give last rites mingled with jurors preparing
to decide one of the strangest cases being heard
in the city."54 Goosebumps and paranoia strike
again. Was this Reagan-appointed judge a
victim of the CIA’s long-rumored, untraceable
method of inducing heart attacks? Or was it the
stress of a CIA trial that killed him?
Almost on cue, Federal Judge Kimba
Wood was assigned to take DiCarlo’s place, a
move prejudicial to the plaintiff since she had
thrown out this case in 1997. The Second
Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the lawsuit
in 1998.55 After closing arguments, the jury
deliberated for seven hours before ruling against
the Glickman estate.
But the evidence of foul play goes way
beyond the spiking of Glickman’s drink. His
Paris hospital records show that two of his
doctors had been engaged in LSD research at
the time. Also, CIA files from 1952 reveal a
special interest in the heightened effect of LSD
on people with hepatitis. One of Glickman’s
American Hospital doctors had previously
treated him for hepatitis, making this once-
promising young artist "the ideal guinea pig."56
I would like to thank Lynne Moss-
Sharman, Kathy Kasten, Eleanor White and
Blanche Chavoustie for providing news articles
and other research materials for this series.
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Endnotes 32. Some examples from the Ottawa Citizen:
"Debate over prison experimentation emerges from
shadows," 9/28/98; "Minister demands answers on prison
1. 682 F. Supp. 77, 94 (D.C. 1988) (Civ. No. 80-
3153). For a summary of the federal court cases cited in this
experiments: Solicitor general upset by Citizen account of
inmates used as guinea pigs," 10/1/98; "LSD trials on
article , see "The Law and Mind Control: A Look at the Law
and Government Mind Control Through Five Cases"" by
inmates ‘unethical’: Ignore proposal for compensation,
McGill study says," 10/31/98; "Military tested LSD on
Attorney Helen McGonigle
civilians: Canada funded Cold War probe into mind control,"
2. Survivor testimonies, however, can be found on
12/7/98. From CBC Radio, "Secret experiments on Canada’s
the Internet:
convicts," 11/9/98. From the Toronto Star: "Prisoners used
3. MacLean’s, 4/21/97 (p. A3) and 1/12/98 (P. 66);
for ‘frightening’ tests, new papers show," 12/18/99.
The Gazette (Montreal), 3/13/97 (p. A3) and 1/11/98 (p. C9);
33. CBC Montreal (Ivan Slobod), 1/5/00; "Woman
Toronto Star, 1/10/98 (p. SW10) and 1/11/98 (p. B7);
suing over CIA experiments," Globe and Mail, 1/6/00; ‘Hell
Toronto Sun, 1/11/98 (TV 3); Ottawa Citizen, 1/10/98 (p.
H4); CBC broadcast, "Fifth Estate," 1/6/98
for my family,’ Montreal Gazette, 1/11/00; "Shock treatment
victim supports suit," The Daily Miner (Kenora), 1/21/00.
4. For a history of Orlikow, see "Anatomy of a
34. CKLN Radio (Toronto) "Shrinkrap" interviews
Public Interest Case Against the CIA," by Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.
Dorothy Proctor and lawyer James Newland, August 1998;
and James C. Turner, Hamline Journal of Public Law and
"Inmates subdued with drugs, shock therapy, report says,"
Policy, Vol. II (2), Fall 1990.
5. Collins, In the Sleep Room (Key Porter Books,
Globe and Mail, 10/31/98; Ottawa Citizen: "Burden of proof
on LSD inmates: Government won’t compensate women
1998), pp. 94, 101-104.
without more proof that tests caused harm," 2/3/98; "LSD
6. Joe Rauh’s lifelong history of defending victims
tested on female prisoners," 2/28/98; "The case for prison’s
of government abuse was postumously rewarded in 1994
LSD tests," 3/1/98; "Pay LSD victims: Reform (Party): Law
when President Bill Clinton awarded him the Presidential
Medal of Freedom. Rauh had died in 1992, the Canadian
and Order Party calls experiments on inmates ‘sickening’,"
3/2/98; "Privacy an issue in LSD probe," 3/20/98; "LSD
case against the CIA having been his last hurrah.
experiments ‘good research back then’," 7/10/98; "MPs
7. Rauh and Turner, op. cit.
demand inquiry into prison tests," 9/29/98; "Minister
8. A videotape of the ACHRE hearing is available
demands answers on Citizen account of inmates used as
from Missoulians for a Clean Environment, P.O. Box 2885,
Missoula, MT 59806 (Phone: 406-543-7210). Tape 14: guinea pigs," 10/1/98; "Scott stalling LSD report, critics
charge," 10/15/98; "LSD trials on inmates ‘unethical’,"
"Giving testimony regarding survival as a government mind-
10/31/98); "Government accused of withholding files on
control victim: My testimony and the backlash," Mullen’s
prison LSD testing," 12/8/99;
presentation to the 1997 Believe the Children (BTC)
Conference can be ordered from BTC Repeat Performance, 35. " ‘I was in a very bad state’- LSD guinea pig
says form inmate underwent dramatic personality changes,"
2911 Crabapple Lane, Hobart, IN 46342. This tape also
Ottawa Citizen, 9/26/98.
includes the BTC presentation by therapist Valerie Wolf,
36. Eastgate, J., "The Case Against Electroshock
BCSW, ACSW, BCD, "Assessment and treatment of
Treatment," USA Today (Magazine), November 1998, p. 28.
survivors of sadistic abuse."
9. Rappaport, Jon, Mind Control Experiments on
37. "75-year-old guinea pig wants to sue," Ottawa
Citizen, 12/9/99.
Children, self-published book containing the supporting
38. "This Morning," CBC Radio, Nov. 9, 1998.
documentation produced by legal and medical professionals
Interviewers: Avril Benoit and Rosie Rowbotham.
for the 1995 ACHRE hearings.
39. In a 1997 interview on CKLN radio, Moss-
10. Final Report of President’s Commission on
Human Radiation Experiments (ACHRE), 1996
Sharman recounts her own nightmare as a child victim of
CIA/military brainwashing experiments. Also see "Mind
11. ACHRE Report, ibid., Chapter 10.
Games: Another woman comes forward to claim the CIA
12. Barrett v. U.S., 660 F.Supp. 1291 (S.D.N.Y. 1987). See
used her as a guinea pig in hideous experiments," Ottawa
Hunt, op. cit., pp. 170, 235 for details on the Blauer case.
Citizen, 9/13/97
13 Lifton, R.J., The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing
and the Psychology of Genocide (Basic Books, 1986), pp.
40. "Military tested LSD on civilians: Canada
funded Cold War probe into mind control," Ottawa Citizen,
289-290.
12/7/98.
14 See generally, Hunt, L., Secret Agenda: The
41. Chronical Journal (Thunder Bay, Ontario):
United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project
"Carlson gets access to prison file," 5/1/99; "Carlson case
Paperclip, 1945 to 1990 (St. Martin’s Press, 1991).
15 "Wonder Weapons: the Pentagon’s quest for adjourns," 10/27/99; "Convicted bank robber Carlson
launches appeal bid," 2/2/00. Two letters to the Canadian
nonlethal arms is amazing. But is it smart?" U.S. News and
Human Rights Commission re: Carlson (11/9/99 from Moss-
World Report, July 7, 1997.
Sharman and 12/30/99 from Patty Rehn, U.S. contact for
16 Ross, Colin, "The CIA and Military Mind
Control Research: Building the Manchurian Candidate." A ACHES-MC) are available from the author upon request.
42. " ‘The nightmares are real’: Widow blames
lecture given at the 9th Annual Western Clinical Conference
military for man’s suffering," Ottawa Citizen, 10/11/99;
on Trauma and Dissociation, April 18, 1996, Orange County,
"Was Canuck in CIA experiments? Widow wants to know
California. Transcript and/or audiotape can be ordered from
why hubby suffered," Sun Media, 10/12/99.
CKLN-FM, 380 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5B 1W7 (phone 416-595-1477; fax 416-595-0226).
43. C.I.A. vs. Sims., 471 U.S. 159, 85 L.Ed.2d,
105 S.Ct. 1881 (1985).
17. Russell, D. The Man Who Knew Too Much
44. A revealing account of the difficulties U.S.
(Carroll & Graf, 1992), pp. 673-674.
citizens encounter in making claims against the government
18. Ross, op. cit. See also George H. Estabrooks,
can be found in Budiansky, Goode, Gast, "The Cold War
PhD, "Hypnosis comes of age," Science Digest, April 1971,
pp. 44-50.
Experiments," U.S. News and World Report, January 24,
1994.
19. Russell, Dick, op. cit., pp. 193-194. According
45. Philadelphia Inquirer, November 29, 1994, B6.
to historians Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman, The
46. Los Angeles Times, July 13, 1994, A4
United States and Biological Warfare (Indiana University
47. The Independent (London), June 4, 1994, p. 8.
Press, 1999), the U.S. did use germ weapons in Korea.
20. Scheflin, A. & Opton, Jr., E.M., The Mind
48. Baker, R., "Conspiracy: In 1952, Stanley
Glickman was a promising young painter studying in Paris.
Manipulators. (Paddington Press, 1978), p. 107.
Then one night he shared a drink with some fellow
21. Secret report to the Eisenhower White House,
Americans, and his life fell apart. Did the CIA spike his
quoted in Hunt, Linda, op. cit., p. 263.
drink with LSD? The Observer (Guardian Newspapers Ltd.),
22. "C.I.A. Documents Tell of 1954 Project to
Create Involuntary Assassins," New York Times, February 9, February 14, 1999.
49. "Case against CIA that began with ’52
1978, p. 17.
encounter winds down," 4/30/99, and "Jury rejects suit
23. New York Times, August 2, 1977, pp. 1, 16.
alleging ’52 drugging," 5/1/99.
24. Foreign and Military Intelligence, Book I, Final
Report of the Select Committee to Study Government 50. Baker, op. cit.
51. New York Times, 3/10/99 and Los Angeles
Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities [the
Times, 4/4/99.
"Church Committee" report], U.S. Senate (April 26, 1976),
52. Regarding Gottlieb’s bizarre plans to
pp. 403-404. Quoted in Russell, op. cit. p. 775 (Note 12).
assassinate Fidel Castro and Patrice Lumumba, see Impact
25 Online version of Marks’ book
25. Ross, op. cit.
International, April 1999
53. "Judge Dominick L. DiCarlo, 71, Narcotics
27. Orlikow, op. cit., at 82.
Fighter Under Reagan," New York Times, 4/30/99, C21. A
28 Sea, G., "The Radiation Story No One Would
3/10/99 Gottlieb obituary written by Tim Weiner also makes
Touch," Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 1994
no mention of the Glickman trial.
29. Hunt, op. cit., p. 268.
30. 483 U.S. 669 (1987)
54. Daily News, April 28, 1999, p. 2.
55. Kronisch v. U.S., 150 F.3d 112 (2d Cir. 1988).
31. March 6, 1996 article provided by Lynne Moss-
56. Baker, op. cit. []
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Targeting UFO/ET
Corporation X
By Ed Komarek
I believe that the single most important
obstacle to UFO/ET disclosure are global
entrenched business interests working in
concert with global intelligence and military
interests. Dwight D. Eisenhower called this kind
of cooperation and collusion between global
and national military and business interests the
Military Industrial Complex. He warned in the
1950´s that the MIC was a grave threat to
constitutional government and democracy.
Control over the UFO/ET cover-up and
the exploitation of extraterrestrial technologies
began in the hands of government and military
officials through a working group called MJ 12,
http://www.majesticdocuments.com/ but
according to whistle-blowers global entrenched
business interests engineered a purge during the
Nixon administration that resulting in the
privatization of both the cover-up and the
exploitation of extraterrestrial technologies and
knowledge.
A major selling point seems to have
been that a quasi-private global corporation
could better keep the UFO/ET awareness secret
while at the same time exploiting extraterrestrial
technologies for the benefit of American and
European government security and economic
interests. The problem seems to be that it has
been impossible for factionalized governments
to adequately oversee such a vast global unified
autocratic enterprise resulting in this nameless
Corporation X turning the tables on government
control and oversight.
I would be the first to say that I could be
wrong about the nature, size and influnce of
Corporation X and that I could be
misinterpreting statements by Ben Rich and
others that seem to indicate to me that we are
dealing with standard corporate structure. For
instance, when Ben Rich say's that since the
Nixon purge in the 1960's UFO/ET matters are
now under the control of private enterprise and
a international board of directors I think of
corporate structure.
I would be the first ot admit that I only
have a very vague understanding of something
that is indeed very complex. Still we have to
start someplace. Maybe we have something
here like the British East India Company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_East_India
_Company This company had a charter from the
British Crown that gave it a global monopoly
and it fought its own wars with its own armies
and even controlled territory around the globe in
its heyday. The East India Company also had a
powerful national lobby and great control over
the British political process. It has also been
suggested to me by one individual that
Corporation X could be a conglomerate of
colluding corporations operating like the Health
Industry. Still another individual brought up the
concept of overall control through a social
network integrated in part by a Interlocking
D i r e c t o r a t e .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocking_direct
orate
I think what we have is a multi-trillion
dollar corporation that has become so powerful
that it has become a law into itself and can
dictate to not only the American and European
governments that created it, but to most other
governments around the globe and the UN as
well. Corporation X´s real name could be
something like Alien Resource Research &
Development Corporation (ARRDC) or perhaps
more simply Alien Resource Development
Corporation (ARDC). A more generic title
could be, Space Resource Research &
Development Corporation (SRRDC)
I would suspect that this Corporation X
is structured similar to quasi-private Fannie
Mae and Freddy Mac but much larger and
extremely secretive. Of course Corporation X
would dwarf Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac by
perhaps 10s of trillions of dollars and its limited
oversight would be by more than one
government as well. One also has to wonder if
this Corporation X could be vulnerable to
severe economic crisis like Freddy Mac and
Fannie Mae and so be subject to a covert
meltdown. I certainly hope so.
Because of the huge sums of money that
Corporation X makes and has at its disposal it
seems to have been able to buy control over
classified elements of global government
militaries and intelligence agencies, private
corporations, and criminal organizations
making these organizations subsidiaries to the
Corporation. In the United States the Air Force
and Army collect the ET hardware with the CIA
as the middle man responsible for maintaining
security and flow of the hardware to private
defense and industrial corporations.
We can see references to this sort of
activity in Corso´s Book, The Day After
Roswell. Corso spent a lot of time and effort
attempting to evade the CIA in the Army´s
limited effort to distribute small amounts of
Roswell debris to industrial and defense
corporations. It is obvious from Corso´s book
that it was the CIA rather than the military who
were in primary control over this activity.
I believe that control over this hugely
profitable collection-exploitation process is
accomplished through the buying of military
and intelligence community cooperation and the
Corporation acting as the sole general
contractor distributing ET technology and
contracts to cooperating private defense and
industrial corporations. If you don´t cooperate
you don´t get fed.
Much documentation as to the early
stages of the UFO/ET cover-up has been leaked
or declassified which has been of apparent
benefit to UFO investigators. I say apparent
because the evidence suggests to me that the
release of these early documents seems to have
served a more deceptive secret agenda meant to
divert attention away from the current
organizational structure of the cover-up and
exploitation of ET technologies.
This is a very important point that seems
to have been overlooked by UFO/ET
investigators both in the public domain and in
the military. We in public, government and the
military cannot target and remove obstacles to
UFO/ET disclosure if we can´t understand the
nature of the adversary attacking us or the
strategies employed against us by the adversary.
Naturally, the reader will ask, where is
39
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in duck
the evidence to support this speculation? I think
the most important pieces of evidence comes
from the testimony of Dr. Ben Rich the past
head to Lockheed´s Skunk Works. Ben stated
before his death,
"1. There are 2 types of UFOs -- the ones
we build and ones 'they' build. We learned from
both crash retrievals and actual "hand-me-
downs." The Government knew and until 1969
took an active hand in the administration of that
information. After a 1969 Nixon "purge",
administration was handled by an international
board of directors in the private sector."
7. It was Ben Rich's opinion that the
public should not be told. He believed they
could not handle the truth -- ever. Only in the
last months of his decline did he begin to feel
that the "international corporate board of
directors" dealing with the "Subject" could
represent a bigger problem to citizens' personal
freedoms under the United States Constitution
than the presence of off-world visitors
themselves. "
www.stealthskater.com/Documents/Andrews_0
2.doc
Further collaborating evidence comes
from Whistle-blower Bill Uhouse. In this early
report Bill was called Jrod but later the ET he
worked with was called the Jrod. Bill Uhouse
states,
"Understanding how this social structure
works is like trying to understand the internal
relationships of a tight-knit family in some
Asian culture."
"If any area seems dubious, he asks his
boss about it, who says either "Okay" or "Let's
hold off on that a while." For example, his boss
said it was okay to mention Nixon as the
founder of the satellite government, because
"Nixon is dead." Playing by the rules is very
simple for Jarod. He is not working from any
rule book or security classification system."
Continued on Page 40
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Targeting UFO/ET
Corporation X
Continued From Page 39
"Jarod says the satellite government
lives by its own laws, completely separate from
the conventional government except for an
interface with the military. It is not controlled by
any other agency, so it does not have to obey the
security regulations of other agencies. The fact
that Jarod is allowed to speak does seem to
imply permission from a higher level than the
supervisor, but perhaps a word from
management, without any paperwork, is all it
takes to make something secret or not secret.
Security could be both more intrusive than in
any conventional defense program and more
informal to those who are used to the structure.
Consider the special circumstances....
This agency was separated from the rest
of the government over 40 years ago. Thus, it
would have had an opportunity to evolve in its
own way, adapting to the unique requirements
of the subject matter."
"The organization is largely composed
of older men who have worked with each other
for decades. A worker's supervisor and his
security officer are assigned to him for life."
"The organization is extremely
hierarchical, especially given the needs of
compartmentalization. A worker reports only to
his immediate supervisor, and direct contacts
with members of other departments and higher
management are rare."
Additional collaborating evidence that
got me on the trail of Corporation X came when
a personal contact told me that he had contacted
Warner Robins Air Force Base and showed a
piece of a alleged crashed extraterrestrial craft
to very interested representatives of the military
and civilian defense contractors on base. They
were obviously working closely together. This
got me to thinking about how this working
together between private enterprise and
government could be organized at it relates to
ET technology. I also have other civilian and
military sources that have explained to me how
the military has been relegated to operating as
gopher to the MIC and Corporation X.
There is now evidence that military
leaders and diplomats are now waking up to the
fact that they are being manipulated by
entrenched business interests to the detriment of
overall society and relations with various
extraterrestrial races. http://exopolitics.org/Exo-
Comment-80.htm
In fact as the military UFO/ET Working
Group has attempted to push disclosure they
have come under attack by unknown parties and
are presently attempting to discover the source
of such attacks. It is my supposition that the
tracing of these attacks both in the public and
governmental domains will eventually lead to
Corporation X.
We need to know the name of
Corporation X. Where is the Corporation
headquartered? Who are the shareholders? How
many and who is on the board of directors?
Who are the Chairman, President, Vice
Presidents? How does Corporation X maintain
security and plug leaks? How does it employ
private contractor mercenary armies to be used
as death squads, black bag operators for the
intimidation of public, military and private
officials that are pro-disclosure? Is their a
mechanism for oversight by governments and
how effective is his oversight?
Those of us in the civilian community
and in the military that desire UFO/ET
disclosure should make it a very high priority to
work together to further identify, lock on and
target anti-disclosure Corporation X. I believe
Corporation X is out of control and its activities
not only threaten public and democratic
constitutional control but the whole of humanity
and the global environment. I would appreciate
it if other researchers forward on to me any
evidence they might have in reference to
Corporation X for use in a second follow up
article. This is a work in progress. In a second
article my thinking has jelled further. The
second article follows on the heels of my first
article at my blog site:
http://exopolitics.blogspot.com/ []
Elkton remembers
1958's 'Little Blue
Man' hoax
ELKTON, Mich. - Picture it: You're
driving along a country road on a Thursday
night in the early spring, and out of nowhere,
something strange appears from the darkness
alongside the road. An illuminated, bluish figure
moving very quickly, perhaps even dancing.
Then, in the blink of an eye, it's gone.
You try to make sense of it, but your
mind can't quite wrap around it. You've heard
stories of UFO sightings, but no, it can't be -- an
alien?
What would you do? Do you keep your
eerie experience to yourself, not wanting to
appear like you're in need of a straitjacket? Or
do you tell others, as perhaps others have
witnessed the same spooky sight?
While this scenario may sound like
something from a science fiction show, it
actually happened in Elkton in 1958. Once the
mystery was solved, news of the "Little Blue
Man" stretched across the globe, along with a
photo of the "alien" and two policemen. Fifty
years later, people still talk about this famous
caper, and a local corn maze celebrates this tale
that's almost too "out of this world" to be true.
The zany tale starts with three young
men who had just returned home from serving
in the military, one of those men being Don
Weiss.
"We were 22 or 23 years old, and we
were looking for work," Weiss said. "We had a
little extra time on our hands."
Weiss said he and the other two
gentlemen -- LeRoy Schultz and Jerry Sprague
-- were best of friends and spent a lot of time
together. They were known for being jokesters
in town. Using this sense of humor, the trio
devised the ultimate prank.
"There was starting to be flying saucer
stories, and the idea came from that," Weiss
said. "We wanted to take this idea a little
further."
They decided it would be fun to have
one of them dress as an alien and go out at night
to surprise people. In a garage, they devised a
costume, which included long underwear,
Weiss' high school football helmet, Styrofoam
attached to the helmet, large gloves, German
combat boots with metal soles, a bedsheet with
two holes cut out for the eyes and a button
sewed on for the mouth and blinking lights on
the helmet.
"They didn't have blinking (Christmas)
lights back then, so we had to make the lights
blink ourselves," Weiss said. "We had a battery
pack attached to the costume."
The entire costume was spraypainted
blue.
"The paint glowed a bit in the light,
which added to the effect," Weiss said.
He said there was a song on the radio at
the time called "Little Blue Man" by Betty
Johnson, which inspired the blue color of their
"alien" creation.
On one Thursday night in the early
spring of 1958, the trio debuted their prank.
Because the long underwear would fit only him,
Sprague became the "alien."
During the trio's nighttime jaunts,
Sprague would hide in the trunk of "the getaway
car," and Schultz would drive out to a country
road, and Weiss would let Sprague out. Sprague
would run along a fence line or alongside a
ditch bank so people could see him. After
traveling a short distance on foot, Sprague
would hop back into the car's trunk. Weiss said
he was in charge of helping Sprague get in and
out of the trunk.
"Jerry never jumped out in front of
cars," Weiss said.
Because they didn't want to make
themselves too easy of a target, the three friends
only embarked on their capers on Thursday
nights.
"We wanted to let people see (Jerry),
and then we'd sit back and wait to see if people
talked about it," Weiss said.
He said it took three or four Thursday
trips before they started hearing chatter about it.
"Then, people's imaginations started
taking over," Weiss said.
He said some accounts had "the blue
man" measuring 10 feet high while others said it
was just two feet high. Another report indicated
someone spotted him sitting atop a telephone
pole.
"My favorite was an account that said `It
ran faster than any human,"' Weiss said with a
chuckle.
Most of the time, the trio would do their
pranks in the Elkton area.
The trio embarked on eight to 10 jaunts.
"We knew it was just a matter of time
before the police found out it was us," Weiss
said.
One night in Elkton, then-Michigan
State Trooper William Collins was patrolling
and the three pranksters approached him.
"We said, `I hear that you're looking for
us,"' Weiss said.
Collins took Weiss, Sprague and Schultz
to the Huron County sheriff's office, where they
were questioned by then-Sheriff Merritt
McBride and then-Prosecuting Attorney James
Umphrey. Weiss said he and his friends weren't
too concerned about getting into serious trouble,
as no one had been hurt in the pranks.
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