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         V E R I C O M M sm                 "Quid veritas est?"
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    TRAUMA & MEMORY: Clinical Implications for Treatment

    By Dr. Colin Ross

    April 1996

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    The 9th Annual Western Clinical Conference on
    Trauma & Dissociation

    April 17-20, 1996

    Costa Mesa, CA - Orange County

    I'm very, very happy that you are all here. This is the first time
    that I have talked on this stuff in public, and the problem was
    that Kevin made a little mistake on the schedule. He didn't get
    the title quite right. This is actually a performance art piece.
    It's entitled: "Psychiatrist Trying to Stay Calm and Casual." But,
    before we go any further, by the way, there are a couple of
    messages here for people who are supposed to call home:

    William C. Hollinger (if he's here) -- he's supposed to call his
    lab in Pittsburgh. L. Wilson Green, you're supposed to call your
    lab at Edgewater Arsenal. And Ewen Cameron, there's a message to
    call Leonard in Montreal.

    So, why is it I am talking about this and what is it I am trying
    to say here? Well, one explanation is no one has the faintest
    idea what I am talking about and I am here talking about it
    because I am a little wacky. Hopefully by the end of the day,
    that won't be the conclusion. However, that is a conclusion that
    unhappily is in print in various esteemed locations such as the
    British Journal of Psychiatry, Esquire Magazine and Richard's
    Ofshe's book and a CBC film. It's been a very curious experience
    to go through this little journey that Kevin just alluded to,
    which is the same journey that we have all gone through if we
    have heard this from patients.

    It starts off back in the remote past, 1981-85, when I am a
    psychiatric resident. I mentioned yesterday that in four years
    of medical school and four years of residency, I have had more
    multiple choice questions on Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome, which just to
    remind you, as you all know, is an inherited deficiency of enzyme
    hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosltransferase. I had more
    questions on that syndrome in my four years of medical school and
    four years of psychiatric residency than on childhood sexual
    abuse, and more teaching.

    So, then somewhere in the course of the residency I get up to
    speed on dissociative disorders and connect them to childhood
    abuse and read up on the literature and get a little bit
    grounded, and the avalanche of MPD cases starts for me in late
    1985 into 1986, and I think I have kind of (a little bit) got
    what's going on, and some person comes in and starts telling me
    about their father was killed by the Mafia and they were taken to
    a child prostitution brothel and then they were involved in
    satanic ritual stuff. So, I go "Gee," no books, no literature,
    nobody ever heard of it, nobody talks about it, totally in outer
    space, no idea what to do, which way to turn.

    I go to the Eastern Regional Conference, go to Chicago, find out
    a little bit, start getting a little bit grounded, and the first
    couple of cases, my personal reaction is, "Gawh!" -- this sure
    sounds real, could be real, it's pretty scary. Wonder if I should
    let my kids out on Halloween or not. And then the sort of basic
    experience is whatever percent of SRA is actually real, it is
    clear that we got into some sort of hysteria wave in society in
    general and in the profession, and a lot of people went a bridge
    or two too far on their journey and we had to reign ourselves
    back in.

    So, the time course now is, in my training, there is no sexual
    abuse at all. It doesn't exist. It's not relevant because it
    doesn't exist. Then it goes to, well, it exists, but it's not
    really all that relevant, and then there's these sorts of outlaw
    gadfly sort of people who are into dissociative disorders who
    aren't accepted by the mainstream. Then the dissociative
    disorders people from a foundation of reality that was hidden go
    off into outer space on this -- it wasn't alien abductions, but
    it was still outer space -- on this ritual abuse stuff. Then they
    sort of come back to earth and get a little bit grounded -- and
    the next thing you know it's all this government experiments,
    mind control stuff. So, if you follow the pattern, what should be
    the case is just another hysteria wave. And the more you look at
    it, the more it will just dissolve and we will all settle down
    and forget about it.

    Well, the pattern didn't work. Because when I systematically
    started looking into CIA military mind control, the more I
    looked, the more solid reality there was there. And as you will
    see as we go through these slides and through this talk, it's a
    completely different deal from SRA. Somewhere out there in the
    justice system, there may actually be objective evidence where
    somebody has actually busted a SRA cult. If there is, that
    information is not generally publicly available to us. It is a
    fact that we have not nailed down human ritual sacrifice cults in
    North America if they exist. So, it's all conjecture.

    Today I will prove to you, completely locked down, documented,
    proven, beyond dispute or discussion that intelligence agencies
    have been creating Manchurian candidates and MPD for operational
    use since the Second World War. This is not a conspiracy theory.
    This is a fact. Now, that's very amazing because if you took an
    opinion poll of all the psychiatrists in the American Psychiatric
    Association today, or you took the same poll five years ago,
    99.999%, over 99% of the psychiatrists would say, "It's
    fiction, we know the movie is fiction, Frank Sinatra did a good
    job, but there's just no way, it's absolutely impossible."
    There might be two outlaw psychiatrists in the whole group who
    would say that it's possible that Manchurian candidates are
    real.

    This is a very, very strange phenomena that actually in 1996 this
    is a completely documented fact -- it's a very strange
    sociological little development in the field of psychiatry. How
    could that be possible?

    Well, I'm going to try and explain how it's possible. So that's
    what I am going to talk about. Also, I am going to talk about
    not just creating Manchurian candidates, but the whole network of
    mind control doctors that is involved in this and supports this
    -- this kind of old-boys network that maintains all of this. And
    you will see a whole bunch of slides with godzillian
    interconnections that I will go into in detail. And every one of
    those steps -- unless I otherwise specify -- is completely
    documented. Absolutely objective in full.

    So there is something real peculiar about the whole story. It's a
    very strange story. It tells us that there is something going on
    in our culture and in the mental health field that is hidden and
    secret. This is another kind of incest secret in the field of
    psychiatry that all of these people who have been running
    psychiatry in the latter half of the 20th century are either
    directly or loosely connected to a whole huge universe of covert
    hidden secretly funded mind control research, and as I
    emphasized, that's a fact.

    Now, why should we be talking about that at this conference? Well,
    it's obvious. If in fact experimental MPD has been created, and
    has been tight and hard and real enough for operational use by
    intelligence agencies for the last 50 years, then it is something
    of interest to the dissociative disorders field. This is profound
    evidence in favour of the iatrogenic pathway to DID that I talked
    about this morning.

    When I combine the expert witness experience that I have had at
    clinically created iatrogenic DID using the techniques of
    destructive psychotherapy cults in the course of persuasion, as I
    described this morning, when I take that expert witness
    evidence, and see those cases created out of a base of no
    pre-existing DID, and then I go to this CIA military mind control
    literature, my only possible conclusion is yes, you can create
    full tilt DID artificially from ground zero. Also, I have to
    conclude that you can create any degree of complexity,
    permutations of false memory that you want. There is absolutely
    no limit on the quantity, complexity, reality, congruence,
    plausibility of false memories that you can insert in somebody's
    mind -- wittingly or unwittingly. So, they didn't tell me that
    in medical school.

    This is a little sub-paradigm revolution in the DID field.

    There is a huge wealth of information, experimental information,
    clinical anecdotal information and operational streetsmarts
    knowledge of DID that's been up and running and full tilt in the
    mental health field for 50 years now. This did not spring out of
    nowhere in 1980, and we are missing a ton of experimental
    research data that's still classified that bears directly on this
    false memory debate that is going on in our society now. And you
    will see some of the players in this whole scenario of
    interesting people. (If we could put the slide projector on ...)

    The first point is that there are a lot of documented,
    declassified mind control research programs that are completely,
    objectively proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. I have a lot of
    this material and some I have on order. This is CIA now. Bluebird
    and Artichoke were two programs that ran from 1951-53, and I
    will read you some stuff from Artichoke in a minute. These were
    then rolled over into MKULTRA which ran from 1953 to 1963, and
    then there are 149 sub-projects that you will see a listing of in
    a second. That was then administratively rolled over into
    MKSEARCH which ran until 1973. Contiguously with that and in
    collaboration with Edgewater Arsenal, MKNAOMI which involved
    MKULTRA, ARTICHOKE and BLUEBIRD type research done abroad, and
    nationally ran from 1953 to 1970. This involves all kinds of
    hallucinogens, hypnosis and so on that I will go into in detail.

    STARGATE just recently declassified ESP, paranormal, remote
    viewing military uses of telekinesis type research that was done
    from an uncertain start date up until 1984. Bill Gates, former
    Director of the CIA, on ABC's Dateline in December of 1995 said
    that it ran up until 1984. They had one of the academic
    contractors to STARGATE on the show and they had the man whose
    job was CIA oversight of military experimentation under STARGATE.
    So this really went on. They really used psychics operationally,
    and they believed in it enough to keep spending millions of
    dollars on it for several decades, probably. Now, when you read
    all the Senate materials from the 1970's and you read all the
    existing literature, the claim of the intelligence community was
    that all this mind control research was stopped in 1973 due to
    Senate oversight and so on. One of the MKULTRA sub-projects is on
    the paranormal, ESP and using ESP for covert operations purposes.
    That element of MKULTRA didn't stop in 1973. We now know from the
    CIA itself that it ran on until 1984. So, we know for a fact that
    at least that element of this mind control research program that
    was said to have stopped in 1973, continued to 1984. My position
    is that it is simply implausible that this stuff isn't ongoing up
    to the present.

    You can see from this list (Projects Chatter, Often, Derbyhat,
    Third Chance, Chickwit, MKDelta and QK Hilltop) that there was a
    large number of different programs in the 1950's, 60's and 70's
    -- all of which have a just a little tidbit of information about
    them. Most of the actual documents and so on, nobody has either
    reviewed or obtained through the Freedom of Information Act yet.
    So, this is a huge amount of, as yet still classified information.

    Now, we are going to give you a smattering run-through of the
    institutions that were sites for MKULTRA research. In MKULTRA
    there were 149 different sub-projects, and these were not in
    obscure little corners of the world. This is the American
    Psychological Association, this is the Butler Hospital Health
    Centre which is part of Harvard, Children's International Summer
    Village -- this is a charming place -- this is project
    involving a study of children at an international summer camp
    aged 11 and the study of how children who don't share a common
    language communicate. And in the CIA report it states that the
    investigator was unwitting of the fact that it was CIA funding,
    and the purpose of the CIA in these 11 year olds was that they
    might possibly identify promising young foreign nationals for
    future use by the Agency. Columbia University, Cornell, Denver,
    Emory, Florida, George Washington, Harvard, this will give you a
    feel for who is involved in this stuff. Houston, Illinois,
    Indiana Universities, Johns Hopkins, Eli Lilly was the big
    supplier of LSD to the CIA. Those of you who can remember the
    sixties might remember the "House of the Rising Sun" by the
    British rock group, The Animals. They had a song called "The Girl
    Named Sandoz." Sandoz was the employer of Hoffman who discovered
    LSD in the forties, and Sandoz was the original supplier of LSD
    to the CIA and the military in the 1950's, and they wanted a
    secure American supplier so they contracted with Eli Lilly to
    become the developer. University of Minnesota, New Jersey
    Reformatory, Bordentown in Tennessee, Ohio, University of
    Pennsylvania, Penn State, Princeton, Stanford, a couple of
    universities in Texas, Wisconsin, the Bureau of Narcotics, a
    prison, a narcotics farm. So these contracts -- McGill, NIH,
    NIMH, National Philosophical Society -- everything and
    everybody gets in on the act a little, NRC. So these were all
    of the major players in North American psychiatry and psychology
    who were receiving this kind of funding.

    Office of Naval Research, which you are going to see multiple
    times on the slides. Worcester Foundation for Experimental
    Biology, all kinds of different agencies and groups. MKSEARCH
    was the one that MKULTRA was rolled into. It ran from 1963 to
    1973. Again Bureau of Narcotics, New Jersey Neuropsychiatric,
    which is also an MKULTRA site, which I will talk about in more
    detail. Vacaville State Prison, which you are going to hear a
    whole bunch about. Now, BLUEBIRD and ARTICHOKE, which were
    1951-53 -- institutions there include the Bureau of Narcotics,
    Cornell, Eli Lilly again, NIH, Public Health Service,
    University of Minnesota -- you get the idea.

    Now, what about the proven identity of some of the actual
    contractors? The terminology here is -- we've got the contractor,
    and we've got the sub-project number and I have most of the
    sub-contract files. Security status -- TS means top secret
    cleared, UW means unwitting because this money was usually put
    through a funding front, and you will see a slide showing how
    that was all organized so a person could get money through a CIA
    funding front, and genuinely not know it was CIA money. They
    would just think it was another Foundation. Most of the people
    you haven't heard of like James Hamilton, Harold Abramson, Carl
    Pfeiffer, but you will hear more about them later today. Some of
    these people might sound a little familiar -- Louis Jolyon West
    at UCLA, Ewen Cameron, who was at McGill, he's been written about
    a lot, and yes, this is Carl Rogers of Rogerian psychotherapy
    fame. He was actually a spook psychiatrist with top secret
    clearance who was on the Advisory Board of one of the funding
    fronts and received funding for psychotherapeutic research on
    schizophrenia. It's a very funny thing that Mr. "Friendly" Carl
    was in the network. Martin Orne, you will hear a lot about him.
    These people were at University of Oklahoma. They were doing
    research on street gangs. Four of the MKULTRA sub-projects were
    on children, and all of the investigators for those were UW
    (unwitting). Martin Orne's top secret clearance status.
    Maitland Baldwin, who did stuff on monkey brains. George White
    was a CIA career officer who constructed safe houses in San
    Francisco and New York where people were recruited in off the
    streets to have sex with prostitutes and were given LSD and
    other drugs without their knowing it. The rationale for this
    was that they were attempting to study reactions of unwitting
    subjects in civilian settings to mind control drugs. An
    alternative hypothesis to this was that they were actually
    testing Manchurian candidate prostitute performance.

    Harold Wolff was at Cornell. Raymond Prince I have corresponded
    with. He was UW, unwitting. He did research among the Aruba in
    Nigeria on their folk healing practices. R. Gordon Watson -- I
    was a little bit unhappy to see him on the list, but relieved to
    see he was unwitting because I read a book of his called "SOMA:
    Divine Mushrooms of Immortality" -- a very interesting book on
    fliagarate[sp?] which is the little red toadstool with the white
    flakes on it. The use of that by circumpolar shamans has a very
    interesting history. John Mulholland is actually a magician. When
    you go through these documents, all these names are whited out.
    You have to piece it together from here and there. It's a great
    big story trying to track it all down. Except they goofed it up.
    John Mulholland was not whited out once.

    When you get a file on one of these sub-projects, there is
    usually a page in there that has standardized wording about no
    individuals associated with this project are witting, or so and
    so whose name is whited out has top secret clearance and is
    aware of agency involvement. There's somebody you have probably
    heard of -- his name is B.F. Skinner. I am still doing some of
    the archival research to find out what his sub-project number is,
    and what his security status is, but I would suspect it will
    turn out to be top secret.

    Just before we get to that slide, I am going to read you some
    material, some of which is in your handout. As you can see, these
    slides are going to show you an awful lot of connections between
    an awful lot of different things here. You get the gist -- there
    were a lot of different sub-projects, a lot of different
    investigators all over mainstream academia. Now, I am going to
    jump to proving to you that MPD has been created by the CIA and
    the military since WWII. The first stop off point is at the back
    of your series of handouts there. It's a publication called
    "Science Digest, April 1971." The author is G.H. Estabrooks. The
    article is called "Hypnosis Comes of Age." When you go to page
    48 -- I am going to read this out loud for the benefit of people
    listening to this on tape. He's now writing in 1971 and says
    the following:

    "One of the most fascinating but dangerous applications of
    hypnosis is its use in military intelligence. This is a field
    with which I am familiar through formulating guidelines for the
    techniques used by the United States in two world wars. (Ross:
    For those of you who are not history buffs, that means at least
    back to 1914.) Communication in war is always a headache. Codes
    can be broken. A professional spy may or may not stay bought.
    Your own man may have unquestionable loyalty but his judgement
    is always open to question. The "hypnotic courier," on the other
    hand, provides a unique solution. I was involved in preparing
    many subjects for this work during World War II. One successful
    case involved an Army Service Corps Captain whom we'll call
    George Smith.

    "Captain Smith had undergone months of training. He was an
    excellent subject, but did not realize it. I had removed from him,
    by post-hypnotic suggestion, all recollection of ever having been
    hypnotized. First, I had the Service Corps call the captain to
    Washington and tell him they needed a report on the mechanical
    equipment of Division X headquartered in Tokyo. Smith was ordered
    to leave by jet next morning, pick up the report and return at
    once. These orders were given him in the waking state.
    Consciously, that was all he knew, and it was the story he gave
    his wife and friends. Then I put him under deep hypnosis and
    gave him -- orally -- a vital message to be delivered
    directly on his arrival in Japan to a certain colonel -- let's
    say his name was Brown of military intelligence. Outside of
    myself, Colonel Brown was the only person who could hypnotize
    Captain Smith. This is "locking." (Ross: I have had patients
    talk to me about "locking.") I performed it by saying to the
    hypnotized Captain: 'Until further orders from me, only Colonel
    Brown and I can hypnotize you. We will use a signal phrase 'The
    moon is clear'. Whenever you hear this phrase from Brown or
    myself you will pass instantly into deep hypnosis.' When Captain
    Smith re-awakened, he had no conscious memory of what happened in
    trance. All that he was aware of was that he must head for Tokyo
    to pick up a division report. On arrival there, Smith reported to
    Brown, who hypnotized him with the signal phrase. Under hypnosis,
    Smith delivered my message and received one to bring back.
    Awakened, he was given the division report and returned home by
    jet. There I hypnotized him once more with the signal phrase, and
    he spieled off Brown's answer that had been dutifully tucked away
    in his unconscious mind.

    "The system is virtually foolproof. As exemplified by this case,
    the information literally was "locked" in Smith's unconscious for
    retrieval by the only two people who knew the combination. The
    subject had no conscious memory of what happened, so couldn't
    spill the beans. No one else could hypnotize him even if they
    might know the signal phrase. Not all applications of hypnotism
    to military intelligence are as tidy as that. Perhaps you have
    read 'The Three Faces of Eve.' (Ross: Now here he makes a
    scholarly mistake because he's talking about Morton Prince's "The
    Dissociation of a Personality" but he refers to the book "The
    Three Faces of Eve.") The book was based on a case reported in
    1905 by Dr. Morton Prince of Massachusetts General Hospital and
    Harvard. He startled everyone in the field by announcing that he
    had cured a woman named Beauchamp of a split personality problem.
    Using post-hypnotic suggestion to submerge an incompatible,
    childlike facet of the patient, he'd been able to make two other
    sides of Mrs. Beauchamp compatible and lump them together in a
    single cohesive personality. Clinical hypnotists throughout the
    world jumped on the multiple personality bandwagon as a
    fascinating frontier. By the 1920's, not only had they learned to
    apply post-hypnotic suggestion to deal with this weird problem,
    but also had learned how to split certain complex individuals
    (Ross: A very interesting phrase) into multiple personalities
    like Jeckyl-Hydes.

    "The potential for military intelligence has been nightmarish.
    During World War II, I worked this technique with a vulnerable
    Marine lieutenant I'll call Jones. Under the watchful eye of
    Marine Intelligence, I split his personality into Jones A and
    Jones B. Jones A, once a "normal" working Marine, became entirely
    different. He talked communist doctrine and meant it. He was
    welcomed enthusiastically by communist cells, was deliberately
    given a dishonorable discharge by the Corps, which was in on the
    plot, (Ross: That's called "sheep-dipping," that's the technical
    term for that.) and became a card-carrying party member. The joker
    was Jones B, the second personality, formerly apparent in the
    conscious Marine. Under hypnosis, this Jones had been carefully
    coached by suggestion. Jones B was the deeper personality, knew
    all the thoughts of Jones A, was a loyal American and was
    "imprinted" to say nothing during conscious phases. All I had to
    do was hypnotize the whole man, get in touch with Jones B, the
    loyal American, and I had a pipeline straight into the Communist
    camp. It worked beautifully for months with this subject, but the
    technique backfired. While there was no way for an enemy to
    expose Jones' dual personality, they suspected it and played the
    same trick on us later."

    Now the only question becomes "Is Estabrooks some sort of kook?"
    Maybe he didn't really do this, maybe he's grandiose, or
    delusional, or just bullshitting, or whatever. So, let's take a
    look at who G.H. Estabrooks is. How are we going to do that? We
    are going to talk to a JFK assassination researcher who tells us
    that Estabrooks' personal papers are all at Colgate College in
    Hamilton in Upper State New York -- that there's a whole bunch of
    boxfulls of all his personal papers, his  correspondence, his
    files, and so on. So, what we will do is send our secretary up
    there for five days to go through those 17 boxes, which are
    unindexed, unresearched, and unpublished in any form, and then
    we will request a bunch of that material to be photocopied and we
    will bring it back to our office in Richardson, Texas. We will
    look at it and then we will talk about it in Orange County,
    California later on. What we find is G.H. Estabrooks was born in
    Newfoundland in Canada -- so he is already suspect because he is
    Canadian. He is not really too dumb -- he's a Rhodes Scholar. He
    ends up studying, I am pretty sure, under Gardner Murphy at
    Harvard, takes a Ph.D and spends really his entire adult
    professional career at this obscure Colgate College in upper
    state New York. So, is he just an isolated kook or is he
    connected in any way?

    Well, as I am going through all this military mind control
    research in the library, I am aware that Martin Orne, who we will
    get to in a while, is one of the people I want to focus in on.
    And I notice in one of Martin Orne's papers that he has
    referenced G.H. Estabrooks' 1942 textbook, which I have read,
    where he describes creating Manchurian candidates for the
    military. So, I know that Martin Orne is aware of G.H. Estabrooks'
    claim to have created MPD. Can I establish any better connection
    than that? Well, lo and behold, I find that G.H. Estabrooks edited
    a book to which Martin Orne contributed a chapter. So now, Martin
    Orne is totally connected into the whole picture as you will see
    later, but if you go to a couple of pages ahead of that material
    which I just read, you will see a letter from G.H. Estabrooks
    dated August 22, 1961:

    "Dear Martin, I am sending to thee a special delivery, one halo
    -- pure gold, one pair of wings, which you can try on for size,
    and a credit card for use in the hereafter. Your article is, of
    course, excellent. Upon receipt of your letter, I immediately
    called Mittendorff, and he informed me before I could even
    broach the subject that they would of course grant your request
    for reprints. Some day I am going to have myself examined and
    find out why I do not consider these matters before I embarrass
    my friends. By the way, I will be at the APA meetings on Friday
    and Saturday, September 1st and 2nd. Then I will have to whip
    back here and head south. If at all possible, I will be up at
    the Biltmore. If you and Ron (Ross: Which is Ron Shore?) are
    anywhere in the vicinity, let us sit down, and yack at each
    other. I am not overlooking the fact that our meeting at
    Cambridge with yourself and Ron sort of crystallized an idea
    in my mind. I had a wonderful month's vacation in Canada --
    Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City, Murray Basin[sp?], St. John, N.B.
    and home -- and we particularly liked the French country. My
    wife's native language is French, although she speaks Italian,
    English and German as well. I find that with her along, the red
    carpet is literally rolled out, and we see corners of the back
    country where they would set the dogs on me if I happened to
    turn up alone. Thank you tremendously. Hope to see you at the
    APA. My best regards to Ron."

    So it seems these guys knew each other. Now if you turn over to
    the next page, Colgate University Symposium on Hypnosis, April 1
    and 2, 1960 in Hamilton, New York, opening address by G.H.
    Estabrooks, Chairman. The papers are E.R. Hilgard, author of the
    NeoDissociation Book, which is a foundation of the entire field
    here, member of the DSM IV Dissociative Disorders Committee, Ron
    Shore, frequent co-author with Martin Orne, Gorton (I don't
    know), C.M.R. Fisher, I have seen his name going through
    different stuff, Wolberg, I have seen his name around, the
    behavioral guy I think, Martin Orne, G.H. Estabrooks, Oh who's
    that guy? Oh, Milton Erickson? Yeah, I've heard of him. So,
    this G.H. Estabrooks is not just some isolated kook. He is a
    pretty connected in, well-known guy, and all the luminaries in
    hypnosis in this part of the 20th century know him personally,
    are corresponding with him on a friendly basis and are coming to
    workshops he put on and publishing books he has edited.

    So much for the isolated kook theory.

    Well, maybe he was just kind of bragging a bit, and he wasn't
    really connected to the military. Well, bad news. A couple of
    pages back, you see on stationery of the War Department, Office
    of the Secretary, Washington, D.C., dated February 20, 1942, the
    name of George H. Estabrooks, Nature of Action, Accepted
    Appointment. Expert Consultant to the Secretary of War without
    other compensation with the payment of actual transportation
    expenses, and not to exceed $10 per diem in lieu of subsistence
    and other expenses. So, he definitely had a military intelligence
    appointment in the Second World War. Turn over the next page. Now,
    we've got:

    "Navy Department, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.;
    From the Director of Naval Research Laboratory to Professor
    G.H. Estabrooks via Inspector of Naval Materials, Syracuse, New
    York; Subject: Information on Military Uses of Hypnosis; Request
    for: enclosed three copies of receipt for classified matter and
    return addressed envelope.

    "The Naval Research Laboratory has received a request for
    information regarding the possible military uses of hypnosis.
    This request comes from a Naval Officer who is primarily
    interested in hypnosis as a possible facilitator of training,
    but also wishes to know about any other uses which may have been
    tested. Members of the Psychology Branch of this Laboratory have
    discussed the matter informally with several psychologists
    versed in hypnosis, including Dr. Robert White of Harvard
    University. (Ross: Which is where Martin Orne did his
    residency.)

    "Dr. White thought that you had done some experimental work on a
    person during the war and requested that the Naval Research
    Laboratory communicate with you. If you have done any work along
    this line, would you please let us know the purpose and results
    of your investigations. We have been unable to find any mention
    of such a project in the Washington files of the Armed Services,
    and so we must trouble you directly for information. Thank you
    for your consideration at this enquiry."

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