found this book for 50 cents today: EVERY SECRET THING Patricia Campbell Hearst with Alvin Moscow Doubleday & Company Inc. NY 1982 p. 375 "When the first of the psychiatrists came to see me on September 30, 1975, just eleven days after my arrest, I simply crumpled under his scrutiny. I cried, murmuring and mumbling out replies that were not answers to his questions. He thought I was refusing to cooperate with him. This was Dr. Louis Jolyon West, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA, Director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute, Psychiatrist-in-Chief of UCLA Hospitals, a licensed MD, Chairman of the Council on Research and Development of the American Psychiatric Association, psychiatric consultant to the Air Force, author of books and studies on prisoners of wars, an internationally recognized expert in his field. I thought he had a creepy hypnotic voice. A tall, heavyset man who appeared to be kindly, I suspected "Jolly" of being too smooth, too soothing to be trusted." p. 376 "Dr. West, I thought, was inordinately interested in the sex that went on within the SLA, particularly in the lesbian relationships. He seemed to think free sex was an integral part of the cell and I could sense that he simply did not believe me when I told him the comrades were more devoted to combat drills and training for the revolution than to sex. But then, even eminent psychiatrists have been conditioned to certain stereotaypes which they take for granted." p. 376-77 "Dr. West also ordered a complete physical checkup for me at Stanford University Hospital ... The gynecological examination was positively brutal and by the end of it I was in hysterics, sobbing, as I writhed in pain. When they led me to another room and attempted to sedate me in order to shove some electrodes up my nose for an electroencephalogram, fear overwhelmed me. I did not know what they were trying to do. I feared electric-shock treatment. I feared everything and everyone; I was helpless. ... Dr. West also called for a complete battery of psychological testing for me and brought in Dr. Margaret Singer, a renowned and respected clinical psychologist from UC-Berkeley [tests: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale for my IQ, the Rhode Sentence Completion Test, the Draw-A-Person Test, the Gough Adjective Checklist, the Murray Thematic Apperception Test administered twice, the Sargent Insight Test, the Rorschach Procedure, and the lengthy Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory administered twice.] ... I was quizzed and questioned by two other court-appointed psychiatrists, Dr. Donald T. lunde and Dr. Seymour Pollack. ... p. 378 "Dr. West, as senior member of the team, diagnosed my condition as a "traumatic neurosis with dissociative features" ... and recommended private, individual psychotherapy preferably in a hospital setting and out of prison, to restore my mental health. ... One day Dr. Singer said she wanted me to see another doctor. ... I was visited by a rather heavyset man who spoke in a thick Viennese accent straught out of Freud. This was Dr. Martin Orne, who was a psychiatrist and a psychologist, from the University of Pennsylvania. For hours over two separate visits, I went over my whole story again for him, except that Dr. Orne frequently seemed to misunderstand me. He would leap to conclusions or suggest events that had not happened, and I would have to correct him. I thought him very strange. Some of his questions were most extraordinary. He acted or commented as thought he was not believing a word I was saying, and at the same time he seemed unable to comprehend what I was trying to tell him in response to his questions. Only at the end of the last session with him did the doctor reveal his thoughts. The doctor smiled at me in avuncular fashion, patted my hand, and said, "Miss Hearst, you really shouldn't feel embarrassed. Stronger men than you have cracked and cooperated with the enemy under less tortuous conditions. The only thing surprising about all this is that you are here with us today. You suffered severe sensory deprivation being tied up and blindfolded in that closet for so long. Other people subjected to such sensory deprivation would have given up the will to live. They just curl up and died, deprived of their senses for so long. You survived and that is remarkable in itself. You are a survivor." ... His particular field of expertise was lie detection and deception ... Dr. Singer and Dr. West were happy to tell me that I had passed Dr. Orne's scrutiny with flying colors." p. 380 [West and Singer recommended] "Dr. Elizabeth Richards, a psychiatrist in private practice in Palo Alto ... I came to understand my feelings of guilt and inadequacy over having been brainwashed and manipulated by the SLA" [this is where the "real" brainwashing kicks in?] p. 381-6 "During the Korean War ... when the war ended, several of our men refused to return home ... scandal of major proportions at the time, an embarrassment to American patriotism, and only after that had our Defense Department engaged psychologists to study the phenomenon of brainwashing. During the Vietnam War, the same thing happened again: more televised false confessions by servicemen taken prisoner of war. This time, the Army hired Dr. West, Dr. Orne and others to set up a program to train our pilots and soldiers in resisting the coercive persuasion of the Communist North Vietnamese. Dr. Orne organized an experiment in the Arizona desert in which one team of Air Force pilots acted as prisoners of war, with instructions on how to resist revealing the game's military secrets; the other team was instructed on how to coerce those simulated secrets out of their prisoners. The experiment was to last two weeks and it was expected that perhaps 6 to 8% of the simulated prisoners would break down, confess and reveal secrets. These were officers, trained combat pilots, and all the instructions and training given to them beforehand did not help. Held prisoner in caged traps, yelled at in a phony gibberish language, and interrogated unceasingly, more than 25% of the prisoners broke down in three days. They not only confessed their simulated secrets, they spilled out every bit of confidential information they possessed. The other prisoners were in such bad shape the whole experiment was called off after three days. The results and the percentage of breakdowns were classified Top Secret. In explaining all this, Dr. West repeatedly tried to reassure me that I had no reason to feel guilty or humiliated. No one, including himself, Dr. West said, could know beforehand whether they could withstand coercive persuasion. It depended on how effective and adept the captors were and how resistant the prisoner might be. Cinque and the others had used a rather coarse, haphazard method, but then I had been an easy subject for them. Because I was so young and apolitical, I had no background experience or training with which to resist their persuasion. Nevertheless, whether or not they knew really what they were doing, they did employ the classic Maoist formula for thought reform on me, which Dr. West called the three D's - Debility, Dependency and Dread. ... All of this, Dr. West said, was based on the psychological theories underlying Chinese thought reform. Drawn from Pavlov's early experiments in behavior modification, but much more sophisticated, Chinese thought reform holds that if a person is forced to recite certain ideas, even without believing them at first, he or she will come to in time. ... We are raised to believe we enjoy freedom of thought ... ... As the date of my tgrial approached, word came from F. Lee Bailey that I was to see one more psychiatrist, who was the expert's expert on Chinese thought reform and coercive persuasion used on prisoners of war in Korea, Communist China and North Vietnam. So, over a four day period in the second week of January [1976] I spent fifteen hours going over my SLA experiences with Dr. Robert Jay Lifton of Yale University. Dr. Lifton, author of several books on coercive persuasion and thought reform, and a consultant on the subjects to the Air Force, after taking what he called "a peek" at me, pronounced me a "classic case" which met all the psychological criteria of a coerced prisoner of war. He bemoaned the fact that he had not been able to see me during the first two weeks of my arrest, for then he could have observed the all-important transition from my coerced state of mind to my present state, when I had already shucked off a good deal of the "gunk" that had filled my mind. ... Dr. Lifton explained that many of the released POW's in Korea "spouted Communist gunk" for a full two weeks after being freed, until it finally dawned on them that the coercive pressure was off. ... IN FACT HE ADDED I WAS A RARE PHENOMENON FOR PSYCHIATRISTS STUDYING COERCIVE PERSUASION BECAUSE I WAS THE FIRST AND AS FAR AS HE KNEW THE ONLY VICTIM OF A POLITICAL KIDNAPPING IN THE UNITED STATES. {note: capitals mine, Lynne.} ... "... the government was entitled to put its own experts on the stand in rebuttal. That meant that I would have to see two more doctors - for the government's side. The first was Dr. Harry Kozol, an elderly, stout man with a high squeaky voice and a strange accent. He was the Director of the Bridgewater, Massachusetts Center for Criminally Dangerous Sex Offenders. I had five sessions with this man. At first his questions were merely strange and sexually oriented. [Was Cinque black? Black black or light black? What was the color of his eyes? The texture of his hair? How did he caress you? Tell me about the seduction. Did you kiss him? Was he circumcised? What did your friends do? Tell me about your lover, William Wolfe.] ... I was frankly surprised when I met the government's second expert. He turned out to be an M.D. and not a licensed psychiatrist at all. He was a bohemian type with a shaven head, wearing a turtleneck shirt with strands of beads around his neck. It seemed his specialty was treating runaway teenagers with drug and behavior problems and he had testified at more than two hundred trials in twenty-two states. This was Dr. Joel Fort, an 'expert witness', who according to [Hearst's lawyer] Al Johnson, had volunteered to testify for the defense and then had gone over to the government's side when he was told that we could not use him. ... He thought I adored being 'Queen of the SLA' his phrase and I could not persuade him that he had it all wrong. ... When F. Lee Bailey returned to the jail, shortly before the trial was to begin, I pleaded with him to keep me off the witness stand. I did not think I could bear to go over all of this one more time ... That was why the psychiatric testimony would be so important - to link what had happened to me to what had happened to our POW's in the Korean and Vietnam wars. 'If you were being tried in a military court, Patty,' he told me, 'I could get you acquitted in one day.' p. 400-1 "Dr. West, Dr. Orne and Dr. Lifton testified for the defense ... first one juror, then another, and then still another would seem to be dozing off, eyes closed, head nodding. Judge Carter now appeared to be asleep almost all the time, his eyes closed, head cupped in his hand, his elbow on the desk in front of him. The judge, a thin, sickly looking old man, was obviously in frail health, having been hospitalized before the trial ... one of the newspaper artists Joe Papin captured the courtroom atmosphere with a wry cartoon, showing everyone in the courtroom fast asleep, including the eagle in the Great Seal of the United States, which hung on the wall high above Judge Carter's head. ... [M.D.] Dr. Fort was on the witness stand for a full week ... Dr. Kozol ... concluded I had joined the SLA voluntarily because I could have left when Cinque had offered me the choice. 'I would take the word of that black man,' he declared. ... It would be up to the jury to decide whether to believe Drs. West, Orne and Lifton, with all their <<<academic honors, books and impeccable credentials,>>>> who concluded that I was a victim, not a criminal, or to believe Drs. Fort and Kozol ..." <= we're not machines you know => +++ we're not going to fall over in rows +++ Dr. King - On The Beach - 1959 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aches-mc.org ************************************************************** MINDCONTROL-L Mind Control and Psyops Mailing List To unsubscribe or subscribe: send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text: "unsubscribe MINDCONTROL-L" or "subscribe MINDCONTROL-L". Post to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, list moderator
