-Caveat Lector- Dear list, Please find an excerpt form the newsletter below. Sincerely, Neil Brick This may be heavy for survivors of abuse and mind control. SFLR News The newsletter of San Francisco Liberation Radio Saturday, June 23, 2001 San Francisco Liberation Radio, 93.7 FM Broadcasting 4 p.m. - 11 p.m. nightly, 12 midnight on Saturdays, In Western San Francisco In this Issue: 1. Reader Response to Our Last Newsletter.... ***************************************************** 1. Reader Response to Our Last Newsletter By Richard Edmondson Our last issue of the SFLR News, entitled "The Keys to Hell and Death," prompted more response than any we've ever put out. Likewise with regard to the event we sponsored on May 26, "Mind Control, the Media, and the CIA." One of those who replied was Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aquino, a retired U.S. Army Reserve officer who has worked extensively in military intelligence, particularly in the field of "psyops," or psychological warfare. Aquino, whose home was raided fourteen years ago by San Francisco police in connection with the Presidio child molestation case, is also mentioned prominently in the book "TRANCE-Formation of America," by Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips. Aquino was never charged in the Presidio case. (Our last issue of the SFLR News, which came out in two parts, can be seen at http://www.liberationradio.net/SFLR_News_5-21-01.html, and http://www.liberationradio.net/SFLR_News_5-22-01.html .Aquino's response, in its entirety, can be viewed below.) O'Brien and Phillips were speakers at the aforementioned May 26 event. "Thank you for the invitation, but my interest here is simply to convey accurate information to you," Aquino wrote to us in an email response to our invitation for an interview. We had offered Aquino airtime on San Francisco Liberation Radio to discuss the charges raised against him by O'Brien--particularly with regard to his alleged involvement in a reputed government mind-control program known as Project Monarch. "As far as I know, it (Project Monarch) is the purely fictional invention of the lunatic fringe," Aquino wrote. He added: "As you know, and particularly where government classified projects are concerned, it's impossible to 'prove a negative.' Even for persons with top-level security clearances, there is a 'need to know' requirement, i.e. compartmentalization. "So I cannot say that 'there is not & never has been a program code-named "Monarch"', because I obviously do not have access to anything like a 'master code-name directory.' "What I *can* tell you is that I've been involved in the PSYOP community of the Army and other national intelligence agencies/departments since I was commissioned in 1968, and I have never once heard of anything in/of/by the government with that name, or under any name using children as pawns or experiments. I frankly think that anything like that would be such an outrage that it would never even be proposed, much less implemented. I have to wonder at the perverted sense of fantasy of persons who would dream something like this up just for a little conspiracy-subculture media glamour." But apparently not everyone in the government would regard such use of children (in mind-control experimentation) to be quite as much of an outrage as would Aquino. Both Alexander Cockburn and Alston Chase have written about experiments performed on Theodore Kaczynski in 1958--when Kaczynski, who later became the Unabomber, was a 16-year-old undergraduate at Harvard. (See Cockburn's article in the L.A. Times, July 6, 1999, p. B5, and the Chase piece in the June, 2000 issue of The Atlantic. Also see http://www.counterpunch.org/tedk.html, and http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000/06/chase.htm .) In addition, Cockburn, in a separate article in Counterpunch, also discusses the case of Dorothy Proctor, who was allegedly fed LSD at the age of 17 in a CIA program involving hundreds of prisoners in Canada. (see http://www.counterpunch.org/ciashrinks.html, ). According to Cockburn, the LSD for some of the experiments as well as funding for the research was provided by the CIA and the Canadian Defense Department. Our last newsletter contained a retrospective of the Presidio case, quoting from newspaper reports from the time, as well as an examination of some of the separate charges raised in the TRANCE book, which include allegations of sexual abuse of children under government auspices. Aquino responded with a highly detailed, virtually point-by-point rebuttal (see below) of the portion of our newsletter which had dealt with the Presidio case, but made no mention of that part which had quoted from the book. "In my opinion [and apparently those of the numerous other personalities and public officials mentioned in it], it is an obvious crank book, and as such does not deserve the dignity of attention or rebuttal," Aquino wrote in reply to our request for clarification on the omission. But it turns out that TRANCE isn't the only book of its type. Now comes the book "Secret Weapons: Two Sisters' Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies and Sabotage," by Cheryl and Lynn Hersha with Dale Griffis and Ted Schwarz. Like O'Brien, the Hersha sisters claim to have been placed as children--with the full consent and cooperation of their parents--in a government-run mind-control program, the purpose of which was ostensibly to create the perfect soldier/spy. It may well be that "Secret Weapons" is simply another "crank book" which happens to name Aquino (the latter is mentioned in both books) as a government mind-control programmer. Such a phenomenon is possible. On the other hand, Aquino aside, it behooves us to ask the question: are there those in the national security apparatus of the U.S. government who would deem child molestation and abuse as acceptable provided they were done in the interest of "national security?" It should be noted--and CLEARLY stated--that while both O'Brien and the Hersha sisters aver that their systematic, government-supervised abuse began when they were children, none of the three women claim to have encountered Aquino until their later development. In fact, Cheryl Hersha, according to "Secret Weapons," "does not remember him (Aquino) being involved with the violence of the sex and shock-based practices" which she says she endured at the hands of others in the government ("Secret Weapons," New Horizon Press, Far Hills, NJ, 2001, p. 85). What made such books as "TRANCE" and "Secret Weapons" possible and, to a degree, believable (believable--at least to some) was the 1995 testimony of New Orleans therapist Valerie Wolf--recounted at some length in the Ottawa Citizen. According to the newspaper, Wolf and two of her clients "traveled to Washington to address a U.S. presidential advisory committee probing government sponsored radiation experiments on people in the decades following the Second World War." The report added: "Wolf told committee members the two women had been subjected as children not only to radiation doses, but mind control and pain-induction techniques including electric shock, use of hallucinogens, sensory deprivation, hypnosis, dislocation of limbs and sexual abuse." (Jim Bronskill, Ottawa Citizen, September 13, 1997. Also in the Hamilton Spectator, September 13, 1997.) Wolf's testimony took place on March 15, 1995. In the course of researching this article, I took the trouble to go to the San Francisco Public Library and look up the March 16, '95 issues of the New York Times and Washington Post. I was curious to see what kind of coverage had been given to Wolf's testimony. I could find no mention in either newspaper. In Canada, where the media have been somewhat more willing to discuss the issue (perhaps due to the fact that many of the CIA's mind control victims were Canadian citizens) coverage, though spotty, has included revelations connecting former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's father-in-law to military LSD funding. Excellent sources of information on government mind control experimentation are two web sites which serve largely as clearing houses of information. These are http://www.aches-mc.org/, and http://www.members.aol.com/smartnews/index2.html . The latter site is the home of a ritual abuse newsletter known as "SMART News." SMART is sponsoring a survivors conference this August 10 - 12 in Windsor, Connecticut. Speakers are to include (quoting from the conference Web page): Cheryl Hersha (co-author of "Secret Weapons,") is a 40 yr. old RN, wife and mother of three. She has been a part of the survivor community for the past five years, sharing her story and healing path with others by drawing and writing for such organizations as ACHES - MC, SMART and Survivorship. Her topic is : "Secret Weapons and Ritual Abuse." DeJoly LaBrier is a survivor of a military sex ring, satanic ritual abuse, and mind control. She has written two books, "Diary of a Survivor in Art and Poetry," and "DISCONNECT, Understanding and Living With Multiple Personality Disorder." DeJoly has helped others in their healing process by speaking out across the country. She can be reached at http://www.dejoly.com Her topic is: "Questions I Have Answered." Annie McKenna is an alleged survivor of Project Monarch, a government mind control program involving the military, various intelligence agencies, and the Nazi's, ushered into the U.S. under Operation Paperclip, and wrote "Paperclip Dolls." She has an article in the 12/00 issue of Media Bypass. She owes her rapid healing and integration process to a strong cooperative system and scrapbook therapy. Her topic is "Shattering the Myths--Deprogramming with System Communication." Hal Pepinsky teaches criminal justice at Indiana University, Bloomington. Last year on leave, he taught sociology classes at Iowa State University. He learns from and brings ritual abuse/mind control survivors to his classes. His special "empirical" interest is in violence against children--how the violence happens, how victims and adults around them, as in the legal system, respond. Hal will talk about "Making Peace in the Face of Fear." Carol Rutz is a survivor of Mind Control experimentation. She has attempted to document through research and FOIA material that validates her personal experiences as well as other survivors. She is presenting these facts in a book aimed at not only survivors, but health professionals and the general public. Her topic is: "My story intertwined with documentation." Judith Remet, M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O. worked for 25 years as a clinical psychiatrist. A few years ago, she ended her practice and now focuses on writing, teaching, and consultation. She has presented several conferences and workshops on trauma-related topics, plus: Pat Wrightsman, M.S. R.N. has been a registered nurse for 30 years. She has worked with traumatized children, families and groups. She is a certified Breathworker and clinician. The title of their presentation is : A Safe Place for Survivors. Mary Jo Schneller, MA. (Ph.D. Candidate) is the Founder and Director of South County Christian Counseling Center in Fenton, MO. She was the regional director of the National Information Network, providing training to law enforcement and public service groups on cult and deviant groups. She has done research and intervention for survivors for 15 years in occult involvement, government experimentation and ritual abuse. Her topic is : "A Journey Towards Wholeness - Learning to Trust Again." Katherine Sullivan, age 46, is a survivor lifelong sadistic abuse, ritualized torture and mind-control experiments. She is working towards a degree in social work and is co-founder of PARC-VRAMC. Her topic is : "Memory Recovery and Screen Memories." Tempting as it may be, the dismissal of all of these people as mere products of the "lunatic fringe" seems a little too simplistic. Perhaps the greatest challenge facing survivors such as those above is the difficulty of finding someone--anyone--who believes them. Often, as the Ottawa Citizen reported, alleged survivors will readily admit that their stories sound bizarre. "Wolf now has nine female clients, ranging in age from 28 to 53, who have childhood memories of experimentation by the military or CIA in institutional settings," according to the Citizen. "She is struck by the similarity of her clients' stories and their physical ailments, including thyroid problems, cysts, brittle teeth, multiple sclerosis and other muscle and connective tissue diseases. In early 1995, when word spread that Ms. Wolf would appear in Washington, nearly 40 other therapists from around the United States contacted her to tell of clients who had reported being used in mind-control and radiation experiments." The two clients who traveled to Washington with Wolf were Chris De Nicola and Claudia Mullen, both of whom stated they had been placed in a government program as children. Among other things, De Nicola recounted having been ordered to stab dolls with a spear. (Ottawa Citizen, Sept. 13, 1997, see also "Secret Weapons,", transcript of De Nicola testimony, p. 373.) And then there is the Dorothy Proctor case, as reported on by Cockburn. The experiments on Proctor and other inmates were allegedly carried out under the auspices of Dr. George Scott, a staff psychiatrist for Canadian Federal Corrections, who was reportedly a protégé of the notorious Dr. Ewen Cameron of the Allan Memorial Institute at McGill University in Montreal. Cameron, Scott and others, according to Cockburn, launched a variety of "drug, electroshock, sensory deprivation and pain tolerance experiments" using prisoners and psychiatric patients. Scott has been named as a defendant in a suit brought by Proctor and 23 other women inmates. Writes Cockburn: "Proctor was a 17-year-old black woman, serving a three-year sentence for robbery, when Scott diagnosed her as a sociopath and put her in his experimental program, which included sensory deprivation (a 52-day stint in the Hole), electroshock and mega-doses of LSD. "In a 1998 interview with the CBC program 'This Morning' Proctor vividly described the first time she was offered LSD as she was in the middle of a long stint in solitary: 'The prison psychiatrist comes down to the Hole, and he has a student with him, a lady psych student from Queen's University and she's to take notes. He pulls up a chair for her and him, and they are outside in the hallway section of the cell, talking through the bars. I am on the floor, no mattress just a blanket. Then I am taken out of the cell that has a commode. I am now in a cell with a hole in the floor for my toilet. It had backed up so I am also in my own waste and stench. So he comes out and presents me with this, you know, we want to help you so much. We want you to correct yourself and we want you to rehabilitate yourself. And I am your friend, and you are worth saving. So just cooperate with me. And I have a pill that just might help you. I am going to rescue you. That was the LSD. I don't think it was 15 or 20 minutes before Dante's Inferno. It was obvious. I am locked in. I can't get away. And the walls start to move in on me. And they melt. The bars turned to snakes and there was an awful vibration in my body. Just awful. And I just thought I had gone mad.'" Cockburn adds: "Scott (now 84) has shrugged off the claims, telling the Ottawa Citizen in an interview two years ago that he has no regrets about his activities. 'I am happy with myself. I don't give a shit.'" (see http://www.counterpunch.org/ciashrinks.html ) Among the more interesting plates of information which can be found on SMART 's web page is an article by Brookfield, Connecticut attorney Helen McGonigle entitled "The Law and Mind Control: A Look at Government Mind Control Through Five Cases." In the article, McGonigle discusses the exploits of one Martin Theodore Orne, who is presently on the scientific advisory board of the Philadelphia-based False Memory Syndrome Foundation. Turns out Orne received CIA money in the early 1960s. Says McGonigle: "In a chapter on the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology (a CIA front group--ed.), in his book The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate" (W.W.Norton and Company: New York), John Mark's notes: 'The Society demanded "no stupid progress reports," recalls psychologist and psychiatrist Martin Orne, who received a grant to support his Harvard research on hypnotism . As a further sign of generosity and trust, the Society gave Orne a follow-on $30,000 grant with no specified purpose. A 1962 report of Orne's laboratory, the Institute for Experimental Psychiatry, showed that it received two sizable grants before the end of that year: $30,000 from Human Ecology and $30,000 from Scientific Engineering Institute, another CIA front organization. Orne says he was not aware of the latter group's Agency connection at the time, but learned of it later. He used its grant to study new ways of using the polygraph.' The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, John Marks, W. W. Norton & Company 1991, p.172-173." Neil Brick is the founder of SMART and a ritual abuse survivor himself. Brick, 42, who has childhood memories of being confined in laboratory settings, believes he was programmed at one time to become a government assassin. In an interview which aired on San Francisco Liberation Radio on June 13, I asked Brick the following question: "How do you respond to people who say, 'You know, all of this is just so bizarre, it can't possibly be true.' What do you say to people like that?" He responded: "This is what I would say to them: if you remember World War II.there were people who lived right down the street from the concentration camps who claimed they didn't know what was going on. Right down the street. And you' re talking about hundreds of thousands of people being murdered--millions being murdered in a three or four year period or something, maybe a little longer depending on the camp. And that's what I say. (It's) total denial. Look at the world. How many people know about how many people we're killing in Iraq (due to sanctions) at this very moment through what we're doing? How many people know about all the wars we're creating all over the world? There 's massive denial all over the place." Therapist Wolf was, according to the Ottawa Citizen, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and has spent the past quarter century as a trauma therapist in Louisiana. "Valerie Wolf has also wondered whether her clients were truly victims of government experimentation, but the detailed nature of their stories has alleviated her doubts," said the newspaper. The report added: "Wolf remembers Ms. Mullen (one of the two clients who accompanied Wolf to Washington) saying that Cameron (McGill University's Ewen Cameron), who spoke with a Scottish burr, called her lassie, a nickname that baffled the southerner. 'Why did he call me that, Miss Valerie?' asked Mullen. 'Did he think I was a dog?' Some time later, at a conference, Ms. Wolf watched a television news program featuring old footage of Dr. Cameron in which the doctor entered a room, put his hand on the shoulder of a patient and called her lassie. 'I about fell off my chair,' says Wolf. 'Little things like that convinced me. Nobody calls anybody lassie in the deep south of the United States.'" (Ottawa Citizen, Sept. 13, 1997). While this year's survivor conference will be the fourth SMART has sponsored in as many years, Brick is not holding his breath for an avalanche of media coverage of the event. "The False Memory Syndrome Foundation seems to get articles all over the place, but to get a well-balanced article out in the media is very difficult, extremely difficult," he said. For additional information on the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, see "Messing With Our Minds," by Husayn Al-Kurdi at http://www.towardfreedom.com/may98/messing.htm. (The information presented by Al-Kurdi contains no supporting documentation, thus read with caution--some of it is certainly true, though we cannot vouch for all of it--ed.). California law professor Alan Scheflin is the author of several books on mind control, including "Memory, Trauma Treatment, and the Law," which he co-authored with Daniel P. Brown and Corydon Hammond. "A person who claims to have been a victim of government mind-control programs is generally not going to be believed and is going to be considered mentally ill," Scheflin told the Ottawa Citizen. "And indeed a lot of people suffer from the neurotic delusion that they were victims of mind control. But not all of them are delusional. Otherwise there would be no victims. We know there are victims because we know the experiments were done." A transcript of a lecture by Scheflin, entitled "The History of Mind Control: What We Can Prove and What We Can't," can be viewed at http://mindcontrolforum.com/MCF/ckln06.htm . The transcript is extremely lengthy and takes a few minutes to download, though provides a fascinating historical overview of the topic. Also for additional reading, check out the transcript of mind-control survivor Lynne Moss-Sharman on the SMART web page. Moss-Sharman's talk, "Tommorrow a Million Coffins and One Mourner: The Boys from Thunder Bay," was given at SMART's survivors' conference last year. The title of the talk was taken from a poem by Glen Landers, who was imprisoned with alleged mind control victim Rick Carlson, a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Canadian Federal Corrections. Glen Landers, and his brother Bobby Landers, died while in prison. All three were from Thunder Bay, Ontario. Moss-Sharman's talk, as well as Glen Landers' poem, can be viewed at http://members.aol.com/smartnews/ls00.htm. Tapes of all of SMART's previous conferences can be obtained through their Web page. Copies of the Ottawa Citizen's coverage of the issue can be obtained by calling the newspaper at 613-596-3742. Online versions are at http://www.aches-mc.org/cameronpl.htm and http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~alb/misc/ottawaMindControl.html . Both the Hersha and O'Brien books have, of course, found their critics. Attempts to discredit both books have circulated on the Internet. One notable example is an article purportedly written by one "Uri Dowbenko," which can be found at several locations on the Web. (see http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/review.cfm?rtype=15, among others.) Couched from a leftist perspective, Dowbenko's article accuses "Secret Weapons" co-author Ted Schwarz of being "an apologist for CIA mind control atrocities." "Before you go and point your finger again at people you allege are helping the CIA continue to perpetuate the shroud of secrecy over the past," Cheryl Hersha answered Dowbenko in a written response to his article, ".you had better be standing in front of a mirror when you point and accuse." (see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psnews/message/302 ). There are those, of course, who will never believe, short of an admission by the government, that children were used in mind control experiments. As Brick commented, "People want their world to be rosy." Rosy or not, cases like the one being pressed by Dorothy Proctor may finally force the issue into the public arena. "Wolf believes the CIA knows the truth about child experiments is slowly emerging, but wants to stall the disclosure as long as possible because officials realize the news will be met with outrage," according to the Citizen. 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