L.A. Tabloid Reporter Defends the CIA Against Mind Control Allegations How a weekly hooker-ad tabloid, distributed freely on Los Angeles street corners, discredited � in a feature story larded with fabrications and personal attacks � a local documentary on CIA sex trap operations and mind control. By Alex Constantine Brice Taylor has claimed in two �kiss-and-tell� books to be a veteran CIA sex-slave. On November 2, KCOP, a Los Angeles television station, aired her allegations on the evening news. It was �a spy thriller unfolding in the heart of suburban Los Angeles.� Taylor, explained KCOP�s Jodi Baskerville, was �a typical soccer mom with a successful husband, three kids and a beautiful home in the San Fernando Valley � that is, until she started telling of the secret double life as a MIND-CONTROLLED SEX SLAVE for the CIA...� That�s �crazy,� chides Tony Ortega, repeatedly, writing in New Times, an �alternative� newspaper in Los Angeles that publishes a handful of news articles and movie reviews amid a sea of ads for prostitutes, massage parlors, nightclubs and bars. One might fret that a publication depending for its existence upon the �industry� would exhibit a frisson more civility � it's an acquisition society, and the hookers who advertise in New Times are also "sex slaves," in an economic sense, after all � and not depend upon low blows like "crazy." Tony Ortega derides Taylor and others alleging to be victims of CIA �brainwashing� and bio-electronic process control, viciously. And some subjects of past articles by the reporter find him to be a colorful figure in his own right. Frances Emma Barwood, a Phoenix city councilwoman candidate for Secretary of State of Arizona two years ago, met Tony Ortega at a UFO conference in Laughlin, AZ in 1998. Ortega, she recalls, �lost money gambling and definitely drinking.� The drunken reporter was �annoyed that he had to wait until they introduced me to speak and kept commenting negatively about the people there.� At the podium, she discussed a triangular aircraft sighted by legions of Arizona residents. Ortega phoned her to say that a friend of his at a local astronomer's club and one other member �saw planes that night. He also accused me of not returning his friend's call. The man did call but never left a number and said that he would have the kid call me, which he never did. I find it most interesting that one young man says it was small plane formation way up high and thousands say it was a humongous flying boomerang-shaped object that flew very slow, was very obvious, flew over the most densely populated path from north to south of Arizona, was very low and was totally silent! And Tony Ortega believes the kid!� At this point, it should be said that no judgment regarding the truth of Brice Taylor�s claims is made here, and that is not the purpose of this rebuttal. They are indeed �bizarre,� as KCOP acknowledged, and unsubstantiated � haven�t proven to be true or false � but the New Times coverage of the documentary IS demonstrably false, depending entirely upon vicious personal attacks, selective prying of details from the historical record, innuendo � tactics normally associated with historical revisionism, with the effect of obscuring the already well-known involvement of the CIA in sex trap operations and mind control. Tony Ortega�s �Sex, Sies and Video Tape� is a study in bias. �Even tabloid TV didn�t buy Brice Taylor�s claims of being a CIA sex slave,� Ortega notes, as if the Agency�s use of prostitutes is news to him, a topic only fit for tabloid television. Forget that John Marks of the New York Times exposed CIA mind control experimentation in The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, based on the government�s own documents, over 20 years ago. Forget the books and articles of University of Santa Clara Professor Allan Scheflin, Walter Bowart, Dr. Peter Breggin, Martin Lee, former BBC producer Gordon Thomas and scores of highly credible independent researchers. A recent Atlantic Monthly feature painstakingly detailed a grossly unethical CIA mind control experiment at Harvard that contributed to Ted Kozcinski�s mental deformations � the making of the Unabomber. But Ortega thinks mind control is for the tabloids. �Channel 13 saw higher ratings in her ravings,� Ortega reports � not that Ortega bothered to investigate said �ravings.� He is too busy dribbling a transparent goo of denial over them to actually look into whether or not the sex-slave allegations have any foundation. For support, Ortega turns to a much-quoted �expert� on mind control, Dr. John Hochman, a cult mind control �expert� and practicing psychiatrist in Encino, California, interviewed for the KCOP segment. Hochman is also a �consultant� in courtroom cases involving child abuse allegations and �coercive persuasion� (a science honed by the CIA in the prison system involving all forms of harassment this side of violence). Dr. Hochman, mind, is also an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine � affiliated for over 30 years by the late Dr. Louis Jolyon West, chair of the neuropsychiatry department and one of the most infamous CIA mind control experimenters on the public dole. The obvious conflict of interest is lost on Ortega, who cites Hochman as a legitimate source. Hochman, mind again, also serves on the editorial and advisory boards of the CulticStudies Journal, a publication with CIA ties. He is also on the board of the American Family Foundation � a CIA front that boasted Dr. West on its board � and the False Memory Syndrome Foundation � another CIA front, and Dr. West again turned up on the advisory board. In 1990, Hochman won the John C. Clark Award for �Distinguished Scholarship in Cultic Studies� from the American Family Foundation ... the CIA front (and all of this is explained in my own Psychic Dictatorship in the USA, 1995, a book that documents the barbaric history of the CIA�s use of human subjects in brain experimentation, many of them incapacitated for life by Agency scientists). Given his own ties to Langley�s Cold War Napoleans, Dr. Hochman�s response is predictable: �I�m sure [Taylor] has no evidence that the CIA is really doing this,� he sniffs. It would behoove New Times to pay attention to current events. As recently as late November, Canadian newspapers reported that the CIA�s James Tyhurst engaged in a relationship with a harem of �sex slaves,� and he was sentenced for it: Topless woman whipped by doctor, court told Andy Ivens The Vancouver Province 22 November 2000 A suicidal woman who went to psychiatrist James Tyhurst for help with depression and an eating disorder testified yesterday she wound up in a master-slave relationship that included whippings to her partly clad body. Jill Gorman, 42, is suing Tyhurst, 78, for damages she allegedly suffered during the nine years she saw the University of B.C. dean of psychiatry from1979 to 1988. "The most common comment was, 'Slave, strip to the waist and assume the position,' " Gorman testified, describing the punishment Tyhurst meted out for failing to live up to unrealistic expectations she said he placed on her.� And ... DR. JAMES TYHURST, CIA PSYCHIATRIST (B.C.), CIVIL SUIT SEX SLAVE British Columbia: Patient whipped, treated as slave by psychiatrist, court told National Post VANCOUVER - A 42-year-old woman testified during a civil suit yesterday she had a master- slave relationship with her psychiatrist, who would whip her partially naked body up to two dozen times each therapy session. Dr. James Tyhurst, head of psychiatry at the University of British Columbia from 1959 to 1970, made her stand against the wall while he struck her back with a leather-braided whip, said Jill Gorman. If she moved, she would receive more blows as punishment, she said. Mr. Tyhurst, now 78 and retired, sometimes made her kneel and say: "I am your humble, obedient slave." He was tried in 1991 on four counts of indecent assault and one of sexual assault after four women complained of being assaulted between 1966 and the mid-1980s. He was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison but won a new trial in 1992 when the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled the original trial judge misdirected the jury on the question of reasonable doubt. In 1996, the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear the Crown appeal.... The CIA�s Dr. Tyhurst, before his conviction, was himself a treasured courtroom �expert,� like Dr. Hochman, in sexual assault cases. In Abuse of Trust (Douglas & McIntyre Ltd.), a book about the case, a publisher�s blurb observes that Tyhurst �was making a name for himself as an expert witness usually at murder or rape trials that were destined to be controversial, and invariably by testifying for the defence, never the prosecution. At the 17 rape trials at which he gave evidence, Tyhurst's testimony was always on behalf of the accused rapist, never the victim.� How many rapists owe their acquitals to the testimony of the CIA�s Dr. Tyhurst? New Times has evidently not been informed of the fact that many women who have been victimized by the Agency. In 1976, Playboy Press published Donald Bain�s account of sex and mind control at the CIA, The Control of Candy Jones. Bain wrote in the introduction: �I have always been able to accept evil as an abstract symbol but, like most people, find it more comfortable to deny evil�s reality. To accept the evil displayed for me on the [Jones] tapes would be to accept the resulting fear and anxiety real evil ultimately produces.� Denying reality may be comforting, but serves the wrong interests Ortega makes the fallacious argument that the CIA gave up mind control long ago as �a failure and waste of time.� The Tyhurst example alone mitigates against this false assumption, and there are a horde of others.
