Re: Military Mind Control: Fact Or Fiction?

MIND CONTROL
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The Controllers: A New Hypothesis of Alien Abductions

By Martin Cannon

Table of Contents

I. Introduction. 1
The Problem.. 1
The Hypothesis. 3
II. The Technology. 6
A Brief Overview.. 6
Implants. 8
Subsequent Electrode Implant Research. 10
Abductee Implants. 12
A Question of Timing. 13
The Quandary. 14
Remote Hypnosis. 15
That’s Entrainment 19
Wave Your Brain Goodbye. 20
Final Thoughts on “The Wave”. 24
III. Applications. 26
Palle Hardrup’s “Guardian Angel”. 27
Screen Memory. 30
The Super Spy. 32
Bases of Suspicion. 37
The Scandinavian Connection. 38
Helicopters and Discs. 39
The Military and Mind Control 40
The Ultimate Motive For Mind Control 43

IV. Abductions. 46
The Hill Case and the “Advanced” Aliens. 47
Arms and the Abductee. 50
“They Will Think It’s Flying Saucers”. 52
Glimpses of the Controllers. 54
Cults. 55
Grounds For Further Research. 57
Final Thoughts. 59

Selected Bibliography on Mind Control 61

I. Introduction

One wag has dubbed the problem “Terra and the Pirates.”

The pirates, ostensibly, are marauders from another solar
system; their victims include a growing number of troubled human
beings who insist that they’ve been shanghaied by these otherworldly
visitors. An outlandish scenario — yet through the works of such
authors as Budd Hopkins[1] and Whitley Strieber,[2] the “alien
abduction” syndrome has seized the public imagination. Indeed, tales
of UFO contact threaten to lapse into fashionability, even though, as
I have elsewhere noted,[3] they may still inflict a formidable social
price upon the claimant.

Some time ago, I began to research these claims, concentrating
my studies on the social and political environment surrounding the
events. As I studied, the project grew and its scope widened. Indeed,
I began to feel as though I’d gone digging through familiar terrain
only to unearth Gomorrah.

These excavations may have disgorged a solution.

The Problem

Among ufologists, the term “abduction” has come to refer to an
infinitely-confounding experience, or matrix of experiences, shared by
a dizzying number of individuals, who claim that travellers from the
stars have scooped them out of their beds, or snatched them from their
cars, and subjected them to interrogations, quasi-medical
examinations, and “instruction” periods. Usually, these sessions are
said to occur within alien spacecraft; frequently, the stories include
terrifying details reminiscent of the tortures inflicted in Germany’s
death camps. The abductees often (though not always) lose all memory
of these events; they find themselves back in their cars or beds,
unable to account for hours of “missing time.” Hypnosis, or some other
trigger, can bring back these haunted hours in an explosion of
recollection — and as the smoke clears, an abductee will often spot a
trail of similar experiences, stretching all the way back to
childhood.

Perhaps the oddest fact of these odd tales: Many abductees, for
all their vividly-recollected agonies, claim to love their alien
tormentors. That’s the word I’ve heard repeatedly: love.

Within the community of “scientific ufologists” — those lonely,
all-too little-heard advocates of a reasonable and open-minded debate
on matters saucerological — these claims have elicited cautious
interest and a commendable restraint from conclusion-hopping. Outside
the higher realms of scientific ufology, the situation is, alas, quite
different. In the popular press, in both the “straight” and
sensationalist media, within that journalistic realm where issues are
defined and public opinion solidified (despite a frequently
superficial approach to matters of evidence and investigation)
abduction scenarios have elicited two basic reactions: that of the
Believer and the Skeptic.

The Believers — and here we should note that “Believers” and
“abductees” are two groups whose memberships overlap but are in no way
congruent — accept such stories at face value. They accept, despite
the seeming absurdity of these tales, the internal contradictions, the
askew logic of narrative construction, the severe discontinuity of
emotional response to the actions described. The Believers believe,
despite reports that their beloved “space brothers” use vile and
inhuman tactics of medical examination — senseless procedures most of
us (and certainly the vanguard of an advanced race) would be ashamed
to inflict on an animal. The Believers believe, despite the difficulty
of reconciling these unsettling tales with their own deliriums of
benevolent off-worlders.

Occasionally, the rough notes of a rationalization are offered:
“The aliens don’t know what they are doing,” we hear; or “Some aliens
are bad.” Yet the Believers confound their own reasoning when they
insist on ascribing the wisdom of the ages and the beneficence of the
angels to their beloved visitors. The aliens allegedly know enough
about our society to go about their business undetected by the local
authorities and the general public; they communicate with the
abductees in human tongue; they concern themselves with details of the
percipients’ innermost lives — yet they remain so ignorant of our
culture as to be unaware of the basic moral precepts concerning the
dignity of the individual and the right to self-determination. Such
dichotomies don’t bother Believers; they are the faithful, and faith
is assumed to have its mysteries. Sancta Simplicitas.

Conversely, the Skeptics dismiss these stories out of hand. They
dismiss, despite the intriguing confirmatory details: the multiple
witness events, the physical traces left by the ufonauts, the scars
and implants left on the abductees. The skeptics scoff, though the
abductees tell stories similar in detail — even certain tiny details,
not known to the general public.

Philip Klass is a debunker who, through his appearances on such
television programs as Nova and Nightline, has been in a position to
affect much of the public debate on UFOs. In his interesting but
poorly-documented work on abductions,[4] Klass claims that “abduction”
is a psychological disease, spread by those who write about it. This
argument exactly resembles the professional press-basher’s frequent
assertion that terrorism metastasizes through media exposure. Yet for
all the millions of words expectorated by newsfolk on the subject of
terrorism, terrorist actions remain quite rare, as any statistician
(though few politicians) will admit, and verifiable linkage between
crimes and their coverage remains to be found. For that matter, there
have also been books — bestsellers, even — on unicorns and gnomes.
People who claim to see those creatures are few. Abductees are
plentiful.

Both Believer and Skeptic, in my opinion, miss the real story.
Both make the same mistake: They connect the abduction phenomenon to
the forty-year history of UFO sightings, and they apply their
prejudices about the latter to the controversy about the former.

At first, the link seems natural. Shouldn’t our thoughts about
UFOs color our thoughts about UFO abductions?

No.

They may well be separate issues. Or, rather, they are connected
only in this: The myth of the UFO has provided an effective cover
story for an entirely different sort of mystery. Remove yourself from
the Believer/Skeptic dialectic, and you will see the third
alternative.

As we examine this alternative, we will, of necessity, stray far
from the saucers. We must turn our face from the paranormal and
concentrate on the occult — if, by “occult,” we mean secret.

I posit that the abductees have been abducted. Yet they are also
spewing fantasy — or, more precisely, they have been given a set of
lies to repeat and believe. If my hypothesis proves true, then we must
accept the following: The kidnapping is real. The fear is real. The
pain is real. The instruction is real. But the little grey men from
Zeti Reticuli are not real; they are constructs, Halloween masks meant
to disguise the real faces of the controllers. The abductors may not
be visitors from Beyond; rather, they may be a symptom of the
carcinoma which blackens our body politic.

The fault lies not in our stars, but in ourselves.



The Hypothesis

Substantial evidence exists linking members of this country’s
intelligence community (including the Central Intelligence Agency, the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Office of Naval
Intelligence) with the esoteric technology of mind control. For
decades, “spy-chiatrists” working behind the scenes — on college
campuses, in CIA-sponsored institutes, and (most heinously) in prisons
have experimented with the erasure of memory, hypnotic resistance to
torture, truth serums, post-hypnotic suggestion, rapid induction of
hypnosis, electronic stimulation of the brain, non-ionizing radiation,
microwave induction of intracerebral “voices,” and a host of even more
disturbing technologies. Some of the projects exploring these areas
were ARTICHOKE, BLUEBIRD, PANDORA, MKDELTA, MKSEARCH and the infamous
MKULTRA.

I have read nearly every available book on these projects, as
well as the relevant congressional testimony.[5] I have also spent
much time in university libraries researching relevant articles,
contacting other researchers (who have graciously allowed me access to
their files), and conducting interviews. Moreover, I traveled to
Washington, DC to review the files John Marks compiled when he wrote
The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate.”[6] These files include some
20,000 pages of CIA and Defense Department documents, interviews,
scientific articles, letters, etc. The views presented here are the
result of extensive and ongoing research.

As a result of this research, I have come to the following
conclusions:

1. Although misleading (and occasionally perjured) testimony
before Congress indicated that the CIA’s “brainwashing” efforts met
with little success,[7] striking advances were, in fact, made in this
field. As CIA veteran Miles Copeland once admitted to a reporter, “The
congressional subcommittee which went into this sort of thing got only
the barest glimpse.”[8]

2. Clandestine research into thought manipulation has not
stopped, despite CIA protestations that it no longer sponsors such
studies. Victor Marchetti, 14-year veteran of the CIA and author of
the renown expose, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, confirmed in
a 1977 interview that the mind control research continues, and that
CIA claims to the contrary are a “cover story.”[9]

3. The Central Intelligence Agency was not the only government
agency involved in this research.[10] Indeed, many branches of our
government took part in these studies — including NASA, the Atomic
Energy Commission, as well as all branches of the Defense Department.

To these conclusions I would append the following — not as
firmly-established historical fact, but as a working hypothesis and
grounds for investigation:

4. The “UFO abduction” phenomenon might be a continuation of
clandestine mind control operations.

I recognize the difficulties this thesis might present to those
readers emotionally wedded to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, or to
those whose political Weltanschauung disallows any such suspicions.
Still, the open-minded student of abductions should consider the
possibilities. Certainly, we are not being narrow-minded if we ask
researchers to exhaust all terrestrial explanations before looking
heavenward.

Granted, this particular explanation may, at first, seem as
bizarre as the phenomenon itself. But I invite the skeptical reader to
examine the work of George Estabrooks, a seminal theorist on the use
of hypnosis in warfare, and a veteran of Project MKULTRA. Estabrooks
once amused himself during a party by covertly hypnotizing two
friends, who were led to believe that the Prime Minister of England
had just arrived; Estabrooks’ victims spent an hour conversing with,
and even serving drinks to, the esteemed visitor.[11] For ufologists,
this incident raises an inescapable question: If the Mesmeric arts can
successfully evoke a non-existent Prime Minister, why can’t a
representative from the Pleiades be similarly induced?

But there is much more to the present day technology of mind
control than mere hypnosis — and many good reasons to suspect that UFO
abduction accounts are an artifact of continuing brainwashing/behavior
modification experiments. Moreover, I intend to demonstrate that, by
using UFO mythology as a cover story, the experimenters may have
solved the major problem with the work conducted in the 1950s — “the
disposal problem,” i.e., the question of “What do we do with the
victims?”

If, in these pages, I seem to stray from the subject of the
saucers, I plead for patience. Before I attempt to link UFO abductions
with mind control experiments, I must first show that this technology
exists. Much of the forthcoming is an introduction to the topic of
mind control — what it is, and how it works.



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