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    Government Research into ESP & Mind Control

    By Tom Porter

    Mar. 1996

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    HISTORY OF MK-ULTRA: CIA PROGRAM ON MIND CONTROL.

       Started during WWII with research on hypnosis for
    interrogation, secure courier duties, and reducing fatigue. Also
    research into effects of primitive drugs like barbiturates and
    cannabis as far as drug-assisted interrogation goes.
       George Estabrooks was the leading proponent of hypnosis as the
    be-all and end-all of manipulating peoples minds. His book,
    'Hypnotism', published in the early forties, has been decried as
    too fantastic and improbable in terms of describing the
    capabilities of hypnosis with certain very suggestible subjects,
    but his arguments and examples remain valid to this day.
       Start of Cold War and Korean War in particular gave a big
    boost to mind control research with the emergence of 'Brain
    Washing' as a common term. Supposedly a development of the
    dastardly Chi-Coms, the term was actually coined by a magazine
    writer later found to be on the CIA payroll as an agent of
    influence. Postulating a 'brainwashing gap' The CIA got the
    go-ahead for research into countering communist mind control
    efforts and developing their own to aid in the espionage wars.
       Hypnosis, drugs, and psycho-surgery; separately and combined,
    were the tools of this quest for the ultimate truth serum on the
    one hand, and the capability to create an agent who could not
    have his or her mission tortured out of them, or even be aware
    that they were carrying secret information given to them in an
    altered state of consciousness. More and more sophisticated drugs
    were experimented with, such as LSD, Ketamine, and Psilocybine.
    Lobotomy and the implantation of electrodes were considered as
    methods for creating a compliant agent. Electro-Convulsive Shock,
    combined with LSD, sedation for days at a time, and constantly
    replaying the patient's own voice through helmet-mounted
    headphones was a notorious Canadian researcher's recipe for mind
    control.
       One of the most remarkable cases of mind control involves a
    famous model of the late 40's and 50's named Candy Jones. In the
    book, "The Control of Candy Jones" the author reviewed hours of
    tapes made by Candy Jones and her husband which revealed a
    systematic program to create and manipulate alter personalities
    as the foundation for programmed couriers resistant to torture,
    where the primary personality would not even be aware of the
    secret information being carried. The information could be
    summoned forth via a post-hypnotic command or response to a
    pre-programmed cue.
       Research continued into early 70's by CIA's own admission
    during the Church hearings. John Marks, author of the best study
    of CIA mind control experiments, makes the subtle differentiation
    that the CIA congressional witnesses might truthfully say that
    all research done by the TSS Directorate had ended, since the
    programs were moved into other areas once operational techniques
    had been developed. Many of the names mentioned in reference to
    mind control research turn up in the few references to supposed
    dead-end research in ESP.
       There have been persistent rumors of Navy research involving
    attempts at telepathy from submarines under water, the Nautilus
    being the most famous of these. Detection of enemy submarines,
    and communicating with our own, has continued to be an important
    area of conventional research for the Navy, so it is no surprise
    that researching the use of ESP for these purposes would be of
    interest. Communicating with a submerged submarine is the only
    kind of communications where the very act of receiving puts the
    receiver in danger, since submarines must normally stick an
    antenna out of the water for high speed radio traffic, or rely on
    trailing a long wire antenna under water relatively near the
    surface to receive very slow speed traffic using ELF radio waves.
    Newer techniques may involve the use of blue-green wavelength
    lasers, but evidently penetration to any depth is still a
    problem.
       If you look at telepathy as a problem in the transfer of
    information in a very noisy environment, then certain existing
    solutions suggest themselves: There have already been experiments
    in the transmission of five distinct symbols via telepathy,
    namely Zener card symbols. I suggest that there is already a way
    of transmitting information using two symbols only, namely Morse
    Code. Current ELF or VLF radio transmission methods for
    communicating with fleet ballistic missile submarines to issue
    them their launch orders involve very low data transfer rates, on
    the order of 3 to 30 bits per minute, if I am not mistaken.
    Messages are very short, consisting of pre-formulated action or
    targeting codes. I suggest that telepathic 'Zener Morse' is an
    operational technique for information transfer under severe
    signal to noise conditions. In fact the use of five Zener symbols
    would increase data transfer rates, but at the expense of a
    higher error rate due to the problems in discriminating between
    five and just two symbols.

    CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS AND REPORTS.

       Reports of Project SCANNATE in 70's, most likely done by
    Swann, since his method for RV is very similar to that reportedly
    used in this project; namely providing lat. & long. coords and
    telling what is there. Later changed to assigning random number
    for unique session number and Swann picked up location anyway.
       "The New Age Army:" Over the past 10 - 15 years a number of
    military personnel, most in significant positions in Military
    Intelligence, have expressed interest in and directed programs or
    projects that have explored paranormal activities and
    capabilities. Several government studies on Enhancing Human
    Performance took place during this time. Most, if not all of
    them, were savaged in the NRC study on Enhancing Human
    Performance, but recent critiques and rebuttals of this study
    have indicated severe irregularities in the evaluation procedures
    for papers submitted to the NRC study, suppression of favorable
    results, and a definitely one-sided evaluation panel.
       Much modern research in parapsychology tends to support the
    idea that Enhanced Perception is a survival-related trait from
    our distant past, not the tip of the iceberg as far as new
    emerging human powers go. This is supported by the observation
    that many psychic episodes center around catastrophic or
    traumatic events. Studies of Siberian and Eskimo shamans also
    show the development of ESP or similar shamanic powers due to
    injury, exposure to cold, and isolation. Dissociation with
    tendencies towards Multiple Personality Disorder also occurs in
    these Shamans due to their ordeals. This is in contrast to the
    experiences of most tropical shamans who tend to find their
    powers through exposure to mind-altering drugs.
       The Vietnam war, with its exceedingly stressful combat
    environment of no clear-cut enemies combined with ambush being
    the normal way of making contact, produced a large body of
    individual reports stressing enhanced perception and awareness.
    This showed up as detecting ambushes and booby-traps before they
    were sprung; detecting the presence of enemy soldiers without any
    conscious sign of them; time dilation when bullets could be seen
    slowly traveling around the battlefield, and even reports of
    soldiers avoiding those bullets by jumping out of their paths as
    they were shot at.
       Dr. Ian Wickramasekera of Eastern Virginia Medical School has
    studied the expansion of sensory input during trauma which would
    lead to time dilation, etc. This gentleman has also studied the
    effects of sensory deprivation on hypnotic susceptibility in
    young women.
       In a recent article in U.S. News & World Report, John
    Gittinger, a CIA psychologist associated with a CIA front
    organization, the Human Ecology Society admitted to knowledge of
    experiments in developing ESP by giving electric shocks to
    subjects when they gave wrong answers.
       Recently, a Russian researcher in psychotronics, Dr. Igor
    Smirnov, has helped to start up a new Virginia company, called
    Psycho-Technologies, I believe. It is supposed to conduct
    research on various kinds of LTL technology, with a concentration
    on Soviet-developed psychotronic warfare capabilities involving
    the use of electromagnetic and sonic waves to influence and
    disable individuals or crowds. Supposedly this ranges from simply
    falling to influencing peoples thoughts via audio or visual
    subliminal messages.

    SOME OF THE PLAYERS:

       The Monroe Institute, located near Charlottesville, Virginia.
    Bob Monroe, author of many books on Out of Body experiences, has
    long and close ties with the C.I.A. James Monroe, Bob's father,
    if I'm not mistaken, was involved with the Human Ecology Society,
    a C.I.A. front organization of the late 50's and 60's. The Monroe
    Institute has done research on accelerated learning and foreign
    language learning through the use of altered states of
    consciousness for the C.I.A. and other government organizations.
    Government interest in the more radical research going on at the
    institute remains only tantalizing speculation. Official
    classified document storage boxes have been seen at their
    mail-order outlet located in Lovingston, VA.
       Albert Stubblebine and John Alexander. Both retired Army
    officers, a General and Colonel respectively. Both worked at U.S.
    Army Intelligence & Security Command, or INSCOM, Stubblebine as
    its head at one time. Stubblebine has publicly stated that an
    enlisted man under his command inadvertently 'mentally fried' an
    intelligence gathering computer located in Augsberg Germany. This
    was Lynn Buchanan, discussed later.
       Alexander wrote the rebuttal to the NRC paper on Enhancing
    Human Performance. He used this rebuttal as the basis for a book
    he co-authored called "The Warrior's Edge" which describes
    various techniques for enhancing performance and perception
    utilizing the power of the mind. Alexander currently heads up
    research on Less Than Lethal weapons at Los Alamos Nation
    Laboratories.
       Jack Houk, Aerospace Engineer, and his Spoon bending parties,
    done for last 12 - 15 years. Stubblebine, Alexander, and others
    have attended and hosted these parties. While even Houk admits
    that much of the bending activity that occurs is due to
    hysterical strength, people getting excited, etc. there are
    always a few really perplexing feats of bending at each party.
    Curled and twisted hacksaw blades comes to mind, since these
    normally snap if they are bent.
       Ed Dames and PSI-TECH, Military Intelligence alumni as
    contract RV'ers. Promises to provide RV services to corporate and
    government clients for $5,000 - $8,000 per week. Has supposedly
    spotted Iraqi chemical weapons depots, among others.
       S.A.I.C. involvement in 1993 American Parapsychological
    Association meeting arrangements, via their 'Cognitive Sciences
    Laboratory'. Science Applications International Corporation is a
    big time defense contractor, has held the largest number of
    research contracts of any defense contractor. Bobby Ray Inman is
    on its board of directors, among others.
       Startup of TREAT, Center for Treatment and Research into
    Experienced Anomalous Trauma, by Rima Leibow. Leibow is a
    psychiatrist who started studying trauma associated with alien
    abductions, noting its similarities to PTSD. She has hosted open
    and closed meetings for the past six years. Leibow is a close
    friend of/ or married to Stubblebine, which certainly raises some
    interesting questions. Another abduction researcher and friend is
    Victoria Lacas, who happens to be married to Alexander.
       One other TREAT hanger-on, and friend of Stubblebine's, is
    Lynn Buchanan. Buchanan offers services similar to PSI-TECH and
    has worked with Ed Dames on a contract basis. He taught a Remote
    Viewing workshop at the latest TREAT conference. Also offers
    continued training in RV skills to those whom he decides to work
    with. Veteran of INSCOM, and the famous 'computer frier'
    mentioned by Stubblebine.
       A real mystery man in all of this is C.B. Scott Jones: Ex-Navy
    Intelligence officer, one time aide to Senator Claiborne Pell,
    founder of the Human Potential Foundation; Jones appears to have
    his fingers in every 'weird' pie around. He has been involved
    with several UFO research organizations, dolphin-human
    communications research, served on the boards of several
    scholarly parapsychological research organizations. Jones strikes
    many people as a 'Cardinal Richelieu' figure, manipulating events
    behind the scenes, but rarely emerging into the spotlight.
       There is literally no conference on parapsychology that he
    does not attend. He has traveled and done research with Alexander
    and Rima Leibow. He works at keeping very well informed about the
    'pulse' of the New Age community and about UFO and
    parapsychological research in particular. He rarely writes
    anything for print, but keeps in contact with many of the players
    in the fields. He has presented papers to many conferences, most
    of the examples I have seen are complex, lengthy, and elaborate
    pieces of dis-information which leave the listeners more confused
    than when he started. This is an individual who bears watching.

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