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    [Continued from part 1]

    Looking back over these events, nearly a half century after they
    occurred, one wonders that if the police were anxious to arrest
    Rosen because of his political activities (his evaluation) then
    why did they not pursue the matter? It certainly was not legal to
    bribe dieners for bodies or body parts that once belonged to some
    unfortunate human who had expired in a hospital. The odd refusal
    to follow through might suggest that someone at a higher level,
    out of sight, was pulling strings.

    Of the two characters we have yet to introduce into this strange
    gathering at the Round Table Foundation of Electrobiology, the
    most beneficial is probably Dr. Samuel Rosen, otologist (ear
    specialist).

    There are many people today who owe the fact that they can hear
    to this doctor -- the creator of the Stapes Mobilization
    procedure.

    He was, according to Puharich, associated with the Round Table
    Foundation from the get-go. In 1949, he was fifty-one years old
    and coming up to a particularly difficult time of his life. He
    had not yet developed his Stapes Mobilization, but did have a
    successful private practice, a nice house and fine family. The
    future being bright, shades were the order of the day.

    There was one significant difficulty, especially in those heady
    days of loyalty oaths -- J. Edgar Hoover and The House
    Un-American Activities Committee. That difficulty was in the
    main, the idea his fellow doctors and his patients had gotten of
    him. Mainly, that he was a communist, a pinko, a left-wing
    sympathizer, a Soviet dupe.

    Not only did they find his politics questionable, they found his
    friends that way as well. The spunky doctor was friends with
    Henry Wallace, once Secretary of Agriculture under Roosevelt, as
    well as his Vice President, and later Secretary of Commerce,
    under Truman.

    Like Zlatko Balakovic, Rosen belonged to, and had come up on, the
    wrong side following WW II and the beginning of the cold war.

    He and his wife, Helen, belonged to a group that called itself
    the Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions. It,
    like Zlatko Balakovic's organizations, was cited as a subversive
    group. Rosen said he had been brought into that particular crowd
    by Frederick March, the actor, and it had been originally formed
    to get Roosevelt reelected to a fourth term of office. As can be
    detected by the subversive declaration, the FBI and other shadow
    jumpers thought otherwise.

    Rosen was close friends of Dashiell Hammett, a wonderful writer
    with a serious drinking problem, strong beliefs and a definite
    socialist bent. Hammett's FBI file contained, according to the
    meticulous researcher, Herbert Mitgang, 356 pages revealing that
    he was tracked not only by the FBI, but the Army as well. As
    students of this particular piece of history know, the writer
    would spend six months in jail in 1953 rather then cooperate with
    the House Un-American Activities Committee who were trying to
    find out who was posting bail for all the goddamned communist,
    pinko perverts. Following his release he came to live on Rosen's
    property, in a little cottage made available to him by the
    concerned doctor.

    Proceeding by some years, the scandal of his friendship with
    Hammett and Wallace, was Rosen's friendship with Paul Robeson.
    The talented, and politically active, black opera star often
    dropped into the declared subversive Citizens Committee's
    headquarters as he happened to be performing Othello just around
    the corner. He met Rosen's wife who invited him to her and
    Samuel's house for dinner. They became good friends, which leads
    us into August 27, 1949 civil rights concert at Peckskill which
    put the nail in Rosen's coffin, although he was not even there.

    The concert had been gotten up by the Harlem chapter of the Civil
    Rights Congress, of which Robeson was vice-president. The
    purpose was to generate revenues which would be used to defend
    American Communists and others who had been indicted for
    conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the American government.

    A few hundred people, the majority of them black, had gathered at
    the picnic ground to listen to Paul Robeson sing. Before
    Robeson actually arrived, a crowd-intimidating phalanx of war
    veterans showed up. The bunch who were there as the Veterans
    Joint Council was composed of three groups of "right thinking
    Americans," the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Catholic Veterans
    Association and the American Legion. This composite of vets was
    determined to preserve the liberty of United States citizens by,
    I guess, removing liberty completely, presumably to a place of
    safety known only to them. They menaced the concert goers by
    positioning themselves so that those already at the gathering
    could not exit and those wanting to get in could not get by.

    Well one thing led to another and a fist fight started which
    turned into a melee which in turn spread throughout the public
    grounds. Someone turned off the flood lights and several KKK
    burning crosses sprouted up.

    One truck and several cars were overturned and injuries abounded
    as the two sides took to flailing at one another.

    Peace was finally restored when about forty law enforcement
    personnel showed up along with all the local Peckskill cops that
    could be mustered.

    Thereafter, someone from the concert committee phoned up Rosen
    and asked to use his substantial lawn to make a protest rally.
    Within an hour of his giving his consent the news was on the
    radio. Some three thousand people showed up. Thus it was that
    Rosen notoriety as a communist grew big time. And with it the
    majority of his patients, reacting to the publicity, abandoned
    him and what had been a successful medical practice fell into
    ruin.

    At the time Puharich first became associated with Rosen, the
    disastrous concert was still a hop and a skip in the future. It
    is not known by this writer how the two came to collaborate. This
    missing data is in itself a peculiarity. Dr. Rosen wrote an
    autobiography which omits any mention whatsoever of Andrija
    Puharich or the Round Table Foundation of Electrobiology.

    Puharich stated throughout the years that he was Dr. Rosen's
    surgical assistant on the Stapes Mobilization surgical procedure.
    He put the years at between 1949 and 1952. It is difficult to see
    how this is what they could have been working on in 1949. Rosen
    wrote he had not yet developed the surgical procedure, nor did he
    even consider the possibility of doing so until 1952.

    One is left to wonder just why Puharich put forth such
    disinformation? On top of that there is the curious, before
    mentioned, omission on Dr. Rosen's part of Andrija Puharich or
    the Round Table Foundation.

    If not the Stapes operation what were the two working on?

    The actual research was directed at clarifying the piezoelectric
    properties of a structure located on the inner surface of the
    membrane located near the base of the spiral tube of the inner
    ear, called the cochlea.

    Some years prior, Rosen had developed a theory that the tongue
    could be used as an organ of hearing. He based this on the fact
    of a nerve which lay in the passageway behind the ear drum and
    the bony wall of the inner ear. The space there is so small that
    it could be filled with four or five drops of water. Rosen had
    discovered in that passageway two nerves that had nothing to do
    with hearing at all. One of them was a facial nerve. Should it be
    cut during surgery, as he had once accidently done, the patient
    would experience paralysis of one side of his face. The other
    nerve, called the Chorda tympani nerve was utilized by the tongue
    in the sense of taste.

    The entire subject had come up during a lunch when Rosen was
    concerned about a problem covering a hole made by a particular
    operation on the ear. Tossing it about, both Puharich and he
    thought that they might swing the Chorda tympani nerve over from
    the tongue to cover the cavity. Once done, Rosen believed it
    would be possible for the tongue to pick up sound waves and
    transfer the sounds to the inner ear, bypassing the ear drum.

    It was necessary to adjudicate if the nerve in question was long
    enough to be successfully moved and if so could it be moved
    without interfering with other parts of the anatomy?

    Both Rosen and Puharich went over to Bellevue and acquired at
    least one corpse to perform a practice operation. Having
    successfully completed that, they decided they should practice on
    something that was alive. They therefore acquired some monkeys.
    Once the monkeys were under anaesthesia the surgeons deliberately
    destroyed the horribly, unlucky creature's ear drums.

    From there they moved the nerve fiber from the tongue and
    connected it with the inner ear.

    Experimentation when the monkeys had recovered showed that the
    now should-be-deaf animals could hear. How well they could hear
    was an unknown, but they could hear.

    This work, which briefly surfaced in 1950, had been carried out
    in 1948 and 1949. The reader may recall that would be the same
    time period Andrija was at Bellevue with implant-happy McCulloch.

    Moving away from the subject of surgery and the nervous system of
    the human body, I now invite the reader, who enjoys participatory
    reading, to take a US dollar bill from his pocket.

    Observe the back of the bill and you will see the pyramid and all
    seeing-eye design thereon. This goes back to Henry Wallace who
    had, way back when he was Secretary of Agriculture, suggested the
    peculiar design as part and parcel of an idea he had for a new
    dollar coin. Roosevelt nixed the coin idea but kept the design.
    This has, over the years, led to endless Illuminati
    conspiratorial ideas.

    There is no doubt that Henry Wallace had a bit of a mystic bent
    about him. He was an inquisitive, productive man by all accounts.
    Rosen describes him as a cold being, who had a fear of the rising
    "yellow man," which may be what led him into a series of attempts
    to introduce Christianity into China with Nicholas Roerich, a
    Russian explorer and mystic.

    As is known, he who wins the war, writes the history. Wallace did
    not win the political war of the time. Truman fired him, the FBI
    surveilled him, the Attorney General used association on him to
    prove that one was "disloyal," and so on.

    According to William C. Sullivan, once second in command at the
    FBI, Hoover hated Wallace. Of course Hoover hated Truman, new
    dealers, left wing radicals, and just about anything that smacked
    of a position one iota left of center right.

    Truman's clumsy handling of Hoover's grab for power during the
    heyday of the House on Un-American Activities Committee's rape of
    civil liberties led to loyalty oaths and a bunch of other scary
    nonsense. Writers still like to rake up, when they are of a mind,
    to show just how close the US came to fascism.

    What we are talking about here is trickle down politics. And the
    trickle wended its way right on down to Wallace, down to Maine,
    down to Camden, Rosen and Balakovic. Hmmm, funny ... it seems
    to have missed Puharich.

    Truman was teed off at Henry for a number of things. One was his
    letters to Nicholas Roerich (whom those in the White House
    thought of as a disreputable Russian Mystic). It wasn't so much
    what the letters between the two (that had somehow gotten leaked
    to the press) said. It was the way Wallace addressed Roerich in
    his missives: "Dear Guru." This subservient salutation to a
    Russian guy by someone high in our government could not be
    tolerated. This therefore helped blow the democrats away in the
    1946 elections. They lost seats. They lost prestige. They had
    long memories.

    Another flap occurred when Wallace gave a speech at Madison
    Square Garden. The speech suggested, nay said, that there was a
    mighty softening of attitude toward the Soviet Union which was a
    direct reversal of the facts of the case. Unfortunately Truman
    had OK'd the speech without reading it carefully and therefore
    was caught with his political pants down. Upshot without going
    into more detail. Wallace was fired.

    To hell with them, reasoned Wallace, I'll run on another ticket,
    the Progressive Party. That must have caused Hoover to become
    frightfully unmellow as the Progressive Party was considered to
    be run by hard-line Communists.

    Let me say here and now, as the author of this series, that I
    have no special knowledge as to who was a communist, a socialist,
    a pinko, a wrong thinker and who was not. The knowledge that I
    have is who was perceived to be a communist and that knowledge,
    whether the perception was correct or not, is all that I have. It
    was this perception which ended the careers of many men in those
    reckless days. With their careers went their achievements, some
    to be resurrected in later, gentler days. Unfortunately, in many
    cases the good got interred with their bones, thank you very much
    Shakespeare.

    Historical hindsight leaves little doubt that in those times
    little regard was given as to whether or not individuals
    declared subversive had actually done anything subversive.

    Having regaled you with my opinions, let us turn back to the
    subject, Dr. Andrija Puharich, and show what this has to do with
    him and his associates. Fortunately a paper trail does exist to
    some extent.

    On April 1, 1949 of that year, Puharich wrote a letter to the
    Trustees of a legal entity called the Wallace Fund. The money in
    the fund was made up of royalties Henry Wallace had received on
    one of his books.

    In the letter to that fund Puharich stated that the grant he
    requested was to be used exclusively for the procurement of
    electronic equipment for basic neurophysiological research. He
    would use the money to obtain "infra-red detectors for the
    detection of long wave infra-red radiation from nerves and
    nervous systems." Progress reports would be furnished to Henry
    A. Wallace as well as the trustees of the Wallace fund. In this
    request, Puharich also noted that the current trustees of
    the Round Table Foundation were himself, William A. Brown of
    Boston Mass and Carl D. Lane of Rockport Maine.

    In between the letter of April 1 requesting the funds, Andrija
    also got a letter off to Henry Wallace in which he extolled the
    once vice-president's virtues as a "universal man" and thanked
    him for "the privilege of sharing your presence."

    By April 27, a check in the amount of $4,458.73 was in the mail
    and on the way to the Round Table Foundation of Electrobiology.

    Summing Up: Puharich is working with a ear specialist named Dr.
    Samuel Rosen who is thought to be a communist. They are
    researching the possibility that a nerve from the tongue can be
    used to facilitate hearing. This during the same year and at the
    same hospital (Bellevue) that Puharich and the psychiatrist
    McCulloch were working together. Puharich meets once Vice
    President of the United States, Henry Wallace, who is a friend
    of Rosen's. He applies to The Wallace Foundation for a grant and
    receives it.

    This is the last section in our four part series on Andrija
    Puharich. In it we are covering the formation and first funding
    of the Round Table Foundation of Electrobiology as well as have
    discussing the rudiments of the odd tooth implant whose
    development started in 1948.

    In this final section we will reveal the presence of an unknown
    agency that was connected with the Round Table Foundation from
    the start. The inclusion of this agency may leave unanswered
    questions about how it was that a man, known to be financed by
    individuals connected to subversive organizations, came to be
    granted security clearances by the United States Army.

    By the time the laboratory in Maine was operational, enough
    material and labor had been donated gratis to keep the total cost
    of setup to $437.00, which even considering late 40's economics
    is minuscule. The exact source of these donations is not, as of
    this writing, documented.

    Puharich's finances were certainly flourishing. There was the
    $4,458.73 from Henry Wallace (interestingly Puharich when
    reporting to the press of the day the happy news of that grant
    dropped out Henry Wallace as his benefactor). In addition to the
    Wallace money, Mrs. Zlatko Balakovic kicked in $2,000 and a Mr.
    Walter C. Paine put in $3,000.

    Although Walter C. Paine is still alive, I have had no luck at
    all in getting a response from him to any query regarding the
    Round Table Foundation. I have thus dubbed him Mr.
    "I-don't-want-to-talk-about-it" Paine.

    Another, later associate of the Foundation, Arthur Young, now
    deceased, said that he had a friend named Walter in Camden who
    was also part of the Foundation. He commented that Walter was an
    oil executive at the time and preferred to remain anonymous.

    We will continue without Mr. Paine's input. Hummphh.

    Various pieces of high-tech equipment began to show up at the
    lab. The cost of this equipment was also, at cost, or no charge.
    We will mention only one such specialized piece of equipment in
    this article, but there were others. The one piece we will
    discuss seems to have made a tidy profit for Andrija.

    John Cooney an electronics engineer from Yale, who had been
    associated with the M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory and had helped
    develop radar during the war, constructed it.

    Cooney built a specially designed nerve stimulator. The function
    of the unit was to stimulate nerves by controlled electrical
    impulses.

    It happens that Andrija Puharich had written a letter to Henry
    Wallace in 1948, which mentioned John Cooney. This was before he
    had actually received the grant from the Wallace Fund.

    "The Mr. John Cooney that I refer to in my program for research
    is a rare man who fits into the program here perfectly. He is an
    electronic engineer who was trained at Yale and M.I.T. He is of
    my vintage and a rebel from society who came to Maine so that he
    could be himself. He has built, and is running, a jewel of a
    theatre in Waldoboro, and thus has an independent income. He is
    working with me for no pay -- just for the sheer pleasure of it.
    He is brilliant and ingenious. The equipment that I want to build
    would cost about $40,000 on the open market, but he thinks that
    he can do that job for about $4000.00 using war surplus material.
    Thus the money that you are granting will go a very long way."

    According to John Cooney, now 83, though, "This is all vintage
    Puharich as I remember him -- beginning with the "brown-nosing"
    of Mr. Wallace and concluding with the paragraph relating to me
    personally -- which is 100% pure bull-shit from start to finish."

    Far from being a rebel from society who came to Maine so that he
    could be himself, Mr. Cooney pointed out that he had in fact
    lived in Maine all of his life (except for WW II) on land that
    had been in his family since the Indians owned it.

    He denied having ever having an independent income, nor had he
    worked for free and most certainly never for Puharich, nor did he
    at any time have slightest connection with The Round Table
    Foundation.

    The "jewel of a theatre" mentioned had not been built by him but
    by his father.

    The nerve stimulator, actually a special variable pulse
    electronic generator, had not cost $4,000 but in fact had cost
    about $40.00, which according to Mr. Cooney is what he charged
    Puharich and was duly paid for, concluding any dealings they had.

    The puzzlement here is why Andrija Puharich would have written
    such a letter, containing so many false details about a man he,
    at least according to Cooney, actually had next to no dealings
    with. If Henry Wallace had been so inclined he might have, with a
    little checking, found out the truth.

    Perhaps the answer lies in the last section of this report. In
    it you will find that another man named Cooney was indeed
    associated with Puharich. For now, let us continue with our
    story.

    Though the Round Table Foundation's bottom line, dollar-wise,
    was certainly on the upswing, it cannot account for all the
    expenditures made. As you shall read, Puharich in some, yet
    unknown, manner became the proud possessor of quite an estate.

    A possible source of hidden money might have to do with a secret
    project associated with the Round Table Foundation of
    Electrobiology in 1949. Here we find a remaining personality,
    quite wealthy, and a project whose claimed existence did not
    surface for thirty years. Read on and you will understand why I
    use the words "claimed existence" when speaking of that project.

    The person we are interested in is a prolific and famous inventor
    and radio pioneer by the name of John Hays Hammond, Jr., who at
    that time was in his early seventies. Back then, he had more
    patents issued to himself then any other man in the United
    States.

    Hammond had developed radio remote control which many reference
    works state serves as the basis for modern missile guidance
    systems. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the inventor
    established the Hammond Radio Research Laboratory in 1911.

    By World War I, he had not only developed radio remote-control
    but also incorporated within it a gyroscope enabling him to send
    a yacht on a 120 mile round trip between Gloucester, Mass and
    Boston. He also developed techniques to prevent enemy jamming of
    remote control, as well as invented a radio-controlled torpedo
    for coastal defense.

    Hammond conducted some of the earliest experiments in frequency
    modulation. He devised a amplifier that was used on
    long-distance telephone lines.

    During WW II he developed a variable-pitch ship propeller that
    increased engine efficiency. His later developments include a
    method of intelligence transmission called "Telespot."

    He was president of the Hammond Research Corporation, a
    consulting firm, and often served as research consultant to large
    corporations.

    It is significant, considering the exploratory implant work, to
    note that John Hays Hammond, Jr. had a belief that the mind could
    be influenced by radio waves. He was also conversant with the
    work of Nikola Tesla, the legally acknowledged creator of radio.

    He was said, by Puharich, to have been the only student Tesla had
    ever had. Bolstering that claim is the following fact. Following
    his financial spiral down, Tesla lived, with John Hays Hammond,
    Jr. at his estate. There, according to author and researcher
    Gerry Vassilatos in his interesting book "Secrets of Cold War
    Technology," the work they did lead to the some of the inventions
    noted above.

    Relating to John Hays Hammond, Jr., is the secret project that
    Puharich claimed got underway in 1948, Project Penguin.

    This, he avowed, was a Navy undertaking which ran a number of
    years. Its purpose was to test individuals said to possess
    "psychic powers." The project was headed by a man named Rexford
    Daniels.

    Puharich made this startling claim on the Geraldo Rivera show on
    October 2, 1987. When challenged, he promised to send proof of
    his allegation to another guest on the show, Marcello Truzzi, who
    was in his usual role of open-minded skeptic. According to
    Truzzi, the proof was never sent him.

    The Navy flat out denies that it has any records at all of a
    Project Penguin. Even an appeal, on my part, to the Judge
    Advocate General produced no results. "Never heard of it," is
    more or less the response back.

    The research papers, letters, etc. of John Hays Hammond, Jr. are
    now at Yale University. Queries to them regarding correspondence
    between John Hays Hammond, Jr. and Andrija Puharich have likewise
    produced negative results. This is puzzling. There should have
    been at least one memorandum according to an article in the
    International Journal of Neuropsychiatry is which Puharich wrote,
    "In 1950 I sent a memorandum to Mr. John Hays Hammond, Jr. of
    Gloucester, Mass., outlining the plan of an experimental
    technique."

    It would be exciting to think that the Department of the Navy
    upon receiving my FOIA request regarding Project Penguin yelled
    out something to the effect of, "Oh my God, he is on to us.
    Shred the docs. Call Yale and tell them not to let that bastard
    have anything."

    I, regretfully, am prone to believe that they have no record of a
    Project Penguin, nor of any correspondence regarding such. To my
    mind that does not equate to the non-existence of such a project.
    As in all things governmental, it depends on who you ask.

    I have been able to confirm these pieces of information:
    John Hays Hammond, Jr. did, in fact, carry out research on Eileen
    Garrett, a world famous psychic of the day.

    There was a Rexford Daniels in Camden, Maine, during those years.
    He was a summer resident and both he and his family were well
    thought of.

    According to Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird in their book,
    The Secret Life of Plants, Rexford Daniels owned a company named
    Interference Consultants Company of Concord Massachusetts and as
    of 1973 had been studying the problem of how proliferating
    electromagnetic emissions interfere with one another and may work
    harmful environmental effects on man. Daniels apparently became
    convinced that there was a force in the universe which was itself
    intelligent. "Daniels theorizes that this force operates through
    a whole spectrum of frequencies not necessarily linked to the
    electromagnetic spectrum and that human beings can mentally
    interact with it."

    There is ample evidence that individuals thought to have talent
    as psychics began to show up at the Round Table Foundation, some
    from overseas, some local talent and that these individuals were
    indeed tested, extensively. One of the more notorious of these
    individuals, Peter Hurkos, was brought to the US by a man with a
    background in Naval intelligence.

    There was one additional grant of money to the Round Table
    Foundation in 1949.

    The story about how this last bit of good fortune came to be was
    told thusly: Puharich and his wife Virginia attended a square
    Dance in Camden during the summer of 1949.

    It was at this function that he met a Mr. and Mrs. Norman
    Anderson, which led to him going to New York and meeting with
    Charles Kaufman, then vice president in charge of research and
    development at General Foods Corporation.

    The results of that meeting were that General Foods decided to
    break with its long standing policy of conducting research "in
    house." They elected to farm out research work to Puharich at his
    Round Table Foundation rather then use their own research
    facility at Hoboken, New Jersey.

    The corporation started him off with a Fellowship and a $5,000
    grant to study taste physiology. The idea is that Andrija is to
    work out a new method of measuring taste in animals, so it was
    publicly announced.

    General Foods also granted Andrija the use of their electron
    microscope which was located at their Hoboken facility.

    By 1950 Andrija Puharich had become a farmer, growing crops,
    raising animals and maintaining a new laboratory, complete with
    staff. All this on a wonderful new estate which boasted a 22 room
    house, which would be used by lab technicians for a dormitory. At
    the new digs was a new, large garage which was converted to hold
    a store of laboratory animals. Puharich's brother William showed
    up from Colorado to help with the research.

    Either $5,000 went a fantastically long way in those days or some
    unaccounted for funding showed up. I propose the latter of the
    choices.

    Consider the following list of individuals known to be associated
    with Andrija Puharich and the Round Table Foundation, some of
    whom we have already mentioned, some of whom would not show up in
    time to make it into this article. They are: Norman Anderson
    (mentioned), Charles Kettering (mentioned) and Raymond Zirkle
    (mentioned), Jack Cooney (unmentioned), Kennith Cole
    (unmentioned) and Shields Warren (unmentioned) General Foods
    (mentioned), General Motors (mentioned).

    Each of these individuals and the two organizations listed were
    actually engaged in research for the Atomic Energy Commission.

    General Foods, in 1947, was in receipt of isotopes provided for
    research by the AEC. Specifically they were to test the
    physiological availability and to follow the metabolism of Zn 65
    and 69 as well as Cobalt 60 and Cu 64. They had been shipped
    these on the premise that they would be administered to cattle in
    a specific mineral supplement. The isotopes were delivered to
    their Hoboken research facility.

    It should be noted that research done during 1947 showed that a
    pregnant dog, who had received ZN 65 (dosage undetermined),
    produced radioactive pups. The pups were then "sacrificed" to see
    in which organs the element had landed.

    All of this is especially suspicious when one finds that the
    animals being used for the taste research at the Round Table
    Foundation died. At least one individual, then familiar with the
    Foundation recalls burns on the bodies of some. As near as I have
    been able to ascertain no special handling was carried out in
    getting rid of these carcasses. They were simply left outside for
    the local trash collection.

    While I realize that this hardly makes a lawyer's case that
    covert radiation research was taking place, one should consider
    the strange construction of that barn which you have been told
    about and his later connections to the Atomic Energy Commission
    and its people which are outside the scope of this article but
    will be in my book.

    Consider also the new Cooney in the list above. Not the John
    Cooney mentioned to Wallace, but Jack Cooney, who research shows
    was in 1946 and 1947 Army Colonel Jack Cooney. By 1950 he was
    Brigadier General Jack Cooney. We find him briefly mentioned as
    being associated with the Round Table Foundation sans his
    military rank or affiliation.

    Cooney headed up the army medical branch of an organization
    formed in July of 1947 called The Armed Forces Special Weapons
    Project.

    "The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP) established
    by the War and Navy Departments, is charged in its charter with
    responsibility for all military service functions of the
    Manhattan Project as are retained under the control of the Armed
    Forces including training of special personnel required, military
    participation in the development of atomic weapons of all types
    (to coordinate with the Commission) ... and developing and
    effecting joint radiological safety measures in coordination with
    established agencies." Source: Office Memorandum from Lt. Col. W.
    B. Hutchinson Jr. to Brig. General James McCormack, Jr. Once
    secret, this document was declassified in 1995.

    The AFSWP has a curious administrative set-up. It has not one
    chief, but two, one from the Navy holding the rank of Captain and
    one from the Army holding the rank of Colonel. This duel set-up
    might explain why my FOIA to the Navy regarding Operation Penguin
    was strikingly unsuccessful. The records would not be in the
    possession of the US Navy, they would have instead been housed
    within the Atomic Energy Commission, probably one of the last
    places one would think to look.

    And, although not covered in this article, Andrija Puharich, was
    known to be in the company of Dr. Shields Warren, while in
    Washington D.C. This individual was, like Cooney, a key personnel
    on the medical side of the radiation studies being carried out.

    Puharich's earlier "medical discharge" said to have rendered him
    unfit to serve in the military after completing medical training
    happens to have coincided with the establishment of The Armed
    Forces Special Weapons Project.

    Mysteriously, his medical condition seems to have vanished as he
    was "reinducted" into the Army about the time of the Korean War
    and served as a Captain at the US Army Chemical Center, where he
    got up to some very interesting activities.

    If what I have stated is true, and it is, we are left with one
    very perplexing question. What about the left-wing, red
    sympathizing commie guys?

    The answer my friend, is not blowing in the wind, it will be in
    my book.

    We leave you now with an incomplete story, hoping that enough
    curiosity about Dr. Andrija Puharich, his activities, and his
    marvelous tooth implant has been created that you will consider
    the purchase of my upcoming book, tentatively entitled "Andrija,
    Aliens and the Square Wave."

    Thus I will be the richer and you will be the wiser.

    Summing up: The Round Table Foundation of Electrobiology began
    to flourish. A considerable misrepresentation as to cost of
    equipment is shown. Project Penguin undertaken by the Navy is
    also claimed. A grant from General Foods and the activities of
    associates reveals the connection to The Armed Forces Special
    Weapons Project.

    All material is copyright 1996 by Terry L. Milner. Limited
    permission to quote is granted so long as name and copyright are
    indicated. If in doubt query. I can be reached at:
    .

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