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    CIA MIND CONTROL AT STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE

    By Alex Constantine

    December 1996

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    Concrete evidence that electronic mind control was an object of
    study at SRI was exposed by the Washington Post on August 7,
    1977:

    "When the Navy awarded a contract to the Institute, the
    scientific assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, Dr. Sam
    Koslov, received a routine briefing on various research projects,
    including SRI's. As the briefer flashed his chart onto the
    screen and began to speak, Koslov stormily interrupted, 'What
    the hell is that about?' Among the glowing words on the
    projected chart, the section describing SRI's work was labeled,

    ELF and Mind Control.

    ELF stands for extremely [low] frequency electromagnetic waves,
    from the very slow brain frequencies up to about 100 cycles per
    second.... But the Mind Control label really upset Koslov. He
    ordered the SRI investigations for the Navy stopped, and canceled
    another $35,000 in Navy funds slated for more remote viewing
    work."

    Contrary to Koslov's order to kill the research, the Navy quietly
    continued to fork out $100,000 for a two-year project directed by
    a BIONICS specialist.

    Mind control is not a humanitarian pastime: the project was
    military, and if SRI was indeed a source of covert EMR brain
    experimentation, test subjects from the community at large were
    subjected to torture plied with the same thorough disregard for
    human rights as the radiation tests conducted at the height of
    the Cold War.

    The treatment subjects have received at the hands of their own
    government would be considered atrocities if practiced in
    wartime.

    Mind control was also used in domestic covert operations designed
    to further the CIA's heady geopolitical ambitions, and during the
    Vietnam War period SRI was a hive of covert political subterfuge.
    The Symbionese Liberation Army, like the People's Temple, was a
    creation of the CIA. The SLA had at its core a clique of black
    ex-convicts from Vacaville Prison. Donald DeFreeze, otherwise
    known as Cinque, led the SLA. He was formerly an informant for
    the LAPDs Criminal Conspiracy Section and the director of
    Vacaville's Black Cultural Association (BCA), a covert mind
    control unit with funding from the CIA channeled through SRI. The
    Menlo Park behavior modification specialists experimented with
    psychoactive drugs administered to members of the BCA. Black
    prisoners were programmed to murder selected black leaders once
    on the outside.

    The CIA/SRI zombie killer hit list included Oakland school
    superintendent Dr. Marcus Foster, and Panthers Huey Newton and
    Bobby Seale, among others. DeFreeze stated that at Vacaville in
    1971-72, he was the subject of a CIA mind control experiment. He
    described his incarceration on the prisons third floor, where he
    was corralled by CIA agents who drugged him and said he would
    become the leader of a radical movement and kidnap a wealthy
    person. After his escape from Vacaville (an exit door was left
    unlocked for him), that's exactly what he did.

    EM mind control machines were championed at Stanford University
    by Dr. Karl Pribram, director of the Neuropsychology Research
    Laboratory: "I certainly could educate a child by putting an
    electrode in the lateral hypothalmus and then selecting the
    situations at which I stimulate it. In this was I can grossly
    change his behavior." Psychology Today feted Pribram as "The
    Magellan of Brain Science." He obtained his B.S. and M.D. degrees
    at the University of Chicago, and at Stanford University studied
    how the brain processes and stores sensory imagery. He is
    credited with discovering that mental imaging bears a close
    resemblance to hologram projection (the basis for transmitting
    images to the craniums of test subjects under the misnomer
    "remote viewing?").

    The Institute is bonded incestuously to corporate sponsors.
    Former SRI Chairman E. Hornsby Wasson, for example, was a
    director of several major companies, including Standard Oil of
    California, and he went on to become chairman of the Chamber of
    Commerce and CEO of Pacific Telephone & Telegraph and Bell
    Telephone of Nevada.

    The SRI/SAIC psi experiments were supervised at Langley by John
    McMahon, second in command under William Casey, succeeding Bobby
    Ray Inman, the SAIC director. McMahon has, according to Philip
    Agee, the CIA whistle-blowing exile, an affinity for
    technological exotics for CIA covert actions. He was recruited by
    the Agency after his graduation from Holy Cross College (the alma
    mater of CIA contractees Edward Bennett Williams, attorney, and
    Robert Maheu, hit man). He is a former director of the Technical
    Services Division, deputy director for Operations, and in 1982
    McMahon was appointed deputy director of Central Intelligence. He
    left the Agency six years later to take the position of president
    of the Lockheed Missiles and Space Systems Group. In 1994, he
    moved on to Draper Laboratories. He is a director of the Defense
    Enterprise Fund and an adviser to congressional committees.

    Many of the SRI empaths were mustered from L. Ron Hubbard's
    Church of Scientology. Harold Puthoff, the Institute's senior
    researcher, was a leading Scientologist. Two remote viewers from
    SRI have also held rank in the Church: Ingo Swann, a Class VII
    Operating Thetan, a founder of the Scientology Center in Los
    Angeles, and the late Pat Price. Puthoff and Targ's lab assistant
    was a Scientologist married to a minister of the church. When
    Swann joined SRI, he stated openly, "fourteen Clears participated
    in the experiments, more than I would suspect." At the time he
    denied CIA involvement, but now acknowledges, "it was rather
    common knowledge all along who the sponsor was, although in
    documents the identity of the Agency was concealed behind the
    sobriquet of an east-coast scientist."

    The Agency's interest was quite extensive. A number of agents of
    the CIA came themselves ultimately to SRI to act as subjects in
    remote viewing experiments, as did some members of Congress.

    "If you recall," astronaut Edgar Mitchell, another participant in
    the experiments, informed radio disinformation broker Art Bell on
    April 30, 1996, "back in the early '70s, I did work at SRI with
    Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ and Uri Geller, and I was invited
    to brief the CIA on our results. George Bush was head of the CIA
    at that time. Subsequently, a great deal of psychic work was done
    by CIA, and very successfully because the Soviets were doing it
    at that time as well -- very successfully."

    Mitchell spins a cocoon of mystical yarns as outrageously
    far-fetched as any of his SRI cronies. He claims to have traced
    the brain's center of ESP to native creativity, a "relationship
    that exists in nature, it's responsible for our
    inner-experience.... It involves the zero-point field, quantum
    physics, mystical experience, parapsychological functioning...."
    The ubiquitous "aliens," he insists, are at the heart of the
    federal UFO cover-up, visitors from a civilization "a few
    million, or even a few billion years older than we are." His book
    The Way of the Explorer is chock-a-block with the astronaut's
    rambling Shamanic cover stories, supposedly the culmination of 25
    years of research on intelligent life in the universe and the
    paranormal.

    The Agency was purportedly so taken with the SRI experiments that
    the bankroll for "human augmentation" research swelled. Millions
    of dollars were thrown at "Grill Flame" under (DIA) and Navy
    auspices. The projects at SRI were augmented by a parapsychology
    team at Fort Meade in Maryland under INSCOM and the NSA. Military
    intelligence personnel were recruited, including Major Ed Dames,
    the Psi-Tech founder, occultist and communer with "demons."
    General Stubblebine ran the project and broadened it to include
    tarot and the channeling of spirits. By this time, Puthoff and
    Swann left the Church of Scientology to join a spin-off religious
    movement.

    The DIA inherited "Grill Flame." A reporter for the BBC
    (requesting anonymity) offers a glimpse of the Army's remote
    viewing project at Fort Meade, and declares he was given The
    Official Line, i.e., "we were about to be used for
    disinformation. As soon as I started asking hard questions, the
    project was taken away from us and [given] to a far more docile
    broadcaster." The British correspondent learned that medical
    oversight for the psi experiments was provided by Dr. Louis
    Jolyon West, then a professor of psychiatry at UCLA, one of the
    most notorious CIA mind-control specialists in the country. Apart
    from monitoring the health of the subjects, according to SRI
    spokesmen, Dr. West conducted his own experimental studies of the
    phenomenology of dissociative states," or multiple personalities,
    at the Institute. Colin Ross, a specialist in dissociative
    disorders, confirms that Dr. West's work for the CIA centered on
    the biology or personality of dissociative states.

    In "Pseudo-Identity and the Treatment of Personality Change in
    Victims of Captivity and Cults" (1994), Dr. Louis "Jolly" West
    examines the creation of "changelings," or dissociative
    personalities that enable the subject of mind-control
    conditioning to adapt to trauma. "Prolonged environmental
    stress," UCLA's own ranking CIA mind-control specialist observed
    (in a drastic departure from the public stance of the False
    Memory Syndrome Foundation, an organization he formerly directed
    as a advisory board member, on multiplicity), "or life
    situations profoundly different from the usual, can disrupt
    the normally integrative functions of personality. Individuals
    subjected to such forces may adapt through dissociation by
    generating an altered persona, or pseudo-identity."

    Patricia Hearst (examined by Dr. West for trial) hosted an
    alternate personality named "Pearl," he offers, a manifestation
    more distinct and individuated than "Tania." The newspaper
    heiress was subjected to a regimen of "persuasive coercion" (a
    personal form of harassment by an organized group, any form of
    intimidation short of violence) and trauma-based programmimg of a
    sort developed by CIA specialists (like Dr. West) -- "violently
    abducted by members of the [CIA-mustered] Symbionese Liberation
    Army in February of 1974, brutalized, raped, tortured, and forced
    to participate in illegal acts beginning with the bank robbery
    for which she was later (in our view wrongly) convicted. The
    traumatic kidnapping and subsequent 2 months of torture produced
    in her a state of emotional regression and fearful compliance
    with the demands and expectations of her captors. This was
    quickly followed by the coerced transformation of Patty into
    Tania and subsequently (less well known to the public) into
    Pearl, after additional trauma over a period of many months
    (Hearst & Moscow, 1988; The Trial of Patty Hearst, 1976). Tania
    was merely a role coerced on pain of death; it was Pearl who
    later represented the pseudo-identity which was found on
    psychiatric examination by one of us (West) shortly after
    Hearst's arrest by the FBI. Chronic symptoms of PTSD were also
    prominent in this case."

    Many victims of the CIA-anchored experimentation have been left
    with multiple personalities induced at a young age, and it is
    certain that the CIA can trigger induced multiple personalities
    electronically from a remote source to commit any act on cue, the
    ultimate Manchurian Candidate. Under Dr. West's tutelage at UCLA,
    parapsychology experiments of another sort were conducted by
    Kirlian aura researcher Thelma Moss, a writer for television and
    a human guinea-pig herself in LSD experiments conducted in 1957.
    Three years later, as a UCLA psychology student, she designed
    protocols for her own LSD experiments under the supervision of
    Dr. Oscar Janiger.

    The CIA, of course, could not be far away. Dr. Janiger's supplier
    of the drug was the legendary Captain Al Hubbard, the Johnny
    Appleseed of LSD. "Nothing of substance has been written about Al
    Hubbard," Janiger once said, "and probably nothing ever should."

    Hubbard, a convicted rum-runner, had a knack for electronic
    communications. He was recruited by the OSS by agents of Allen
    Dulles and surely reported to the CIA thereafter. Hubbard, an
    arch-arch-conservative, joined SRI at the urging of Willis
    Harman, director of the Institute's Educational Policy Research
    Center, ostensibly as a security guard. Harman, an LSD
    experimenter himself, admits, "Al never did anything resembling
    security work." Hubbard was employed on the Alternative Futures
    Project, a corporate strategy program. Al had a grandiose idea,
    one co-worker recalls, that "if he could give the psychedelic
    experience to the major executives of the Fortune 500 companies,
    he could change the whole of society." Hubbard was a major
    supplier to university's sponsoring experimentation, and flooded
    the youth subculture he despised with LSD in the 1960s. The
    massive drug-dealing operation at least as large as the
    government's, and had Harmon's was full support. Al Hubbard's
    contract at SRI was canceled in 1974.

    Among the labs closed in 1966 with the criminalization of LSD
    was Dr. Janiger's.

    His protege, Thelma Moss, continued to pursue experimentation
    with the hallucinogen as a psychotherapeutic tool, later as an
    ESP trigger and for experiments in "behavior modification." Her
    increasingly bizarre interests led her to Kirlian photography,
    and she set up a lab at the Neuropsychiatric Institute under Dr.
    West.

    At least one volunteer in Moss' experiments alleges to have been
    led down a blind alley to lifelong torture. D.S. (requesting
    anonymity) appeared on Moss' doorstep in 1978. After the
    experiments, she was overwhelmed by back-to-back psychic
    experiences. Not true ones, she realized, but precognitive dreams
    that had to be fed to me. (Biotelemetric subjects routinely
    complain that their dreams are commandeered.) For 15 years she
    walked through a barrage of EM novelty effects. The psychic
    episodes gradually gave way to torture, including severe head
    pains and endless hours of persuasive coercion, the art of
    psychological paralysis honed by the CIA in the prison system.

    In 1994 she began to receive non-stop audio transmissions that
    still torment her, cybernetic voices registering on her brain's
    primary frequency allocation, her mental channel.

    Another indication that military biotechnology, cyber-psi, was
    focal in Stargate research was the Agency's choice of The
    American Institutes of Research (AIR) in Washington, D.C. to
    evaluate the validity of remote viewing. AIR could be counted on
    to keep the (mind control) secrets. In the 1970s, the Army's
    Office of the Inspector General released declassified files
    disclosing a series of CIA-DoD behavior modification experiments
    conducted in prisons, mental hospitals and campuses from 1950
    through 1971. The documents identified 44 laboratories enriched
    with public tax funds for secret, inhumane brain research. The
    first on the list was AIR. SRI also received funding. An in-house
    study ensured CIA personnel would not be dragged in from the
    cold. Some of the aims of the research:

    Inducing toxic psychosis, terminal cancer, stress, sleep,
    headaches and chemical lobotomies.

    Developing foods that taste normal but stimulate fear and
    anxiety.

    The concoction of drugs to facilitate the brainwashing of
    civilians.

    Using LSD-25 and electrodes in the brain to pinpoint pain
    centers.

    A number of SRI spinoffs have taken remote viewing into the
    private sector. A brochure for the Farsight Institute states
    flatly that technology is used, and promotes the alien diversion:
    The Farsight Institute (TFI) was founded by Courtney Brown,
    Ph.D., in 1995, evolving from a research program he conducted in
    the early 1990s, described in his book Cosmic Voyage: A
    Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth (Dutton
    1996). "Dr. Brown's investigations began with his training in a
    remote viewing technology that had previously been used by the
    U.S. military during highly classified operations in the 1980s
    and '90s," according to his sales literature. "Historically, the
    principal breakthroughs with this technology were made at
    Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s and 1980s by the gifted
    artist and natural psychic, Ingo Swann. The vision of The
    Farsight Institute is to promote the continued research and
    development of the most modern and effective forms of this
    continually evolving technology." Other remote viewing gurus from
    the SRI program have sprung up like poison mushrooms around the
    country, ranting obliquely on the paranormal and scapegoating
    "aliens."

    The rhetoric is a serious development in intelligence cult
    programming for mass consumption. The populace is subjected to
    the same crazed systems used to indoctrinate recruits of the mind
    control cults.

    Psi-Tech founder Ed Dames claimed on Art Bell's syndicated radio
    program that his company can comb "the collective unconscious"
    for answers to such mysteries as the origins of the AIDS virus.
    By scanning the "Global Mind," Dames claims, "we perceived
    massive global weather changes that preclude growing crops, a
    tremendous problem with epidemics and pandemics in Third World
    countries because it appears the ozone problem is increasing the
    mutation rate. Were perceiving a bovine AIDS that kills a lot of
    babies. The future gets grimmer after that."

    Parapsychology, E.T.s and the "End Times" are not just for the
    cults anymore. The intelligence community wants the you to
    believe ... believe ...

    ... the Cold War-style propagandists. Current mind control
    disinformation has its foundations in anti-Communist propaganda.
    Lt. Col Thomas Beardon, an Army Reservist, was made to order in
    magazines published by the "Committee to Restore the
    Constitution" and other ultra-conservative organizations. Beardon
    had a loyal following. He made a career of writing about emergent
    Soviet EM mind-control technology, but somehow it rarely seemed
    to cross his mind that the U.S. might be pursuing the same
    initiative. Beardon warned that the Soviets were developing
    weapons that generate "time-reversed (TR) electromagnetic waves,"
    and were capable of launching a "TR Blitzkrieg War" of awful
    proportions. He warned grimly that the black-hearted Communists
    had their hands on "time-reversal" weapons that could "take
    Europe." A single flying Soviet "TR wave weapon," he claimed, was
    capable of knocking out all British and American radars. It could
    "kill personnel wholesale."

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