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This was of course the national radio talk show. Larry
King took over right after Candy Jones was retired. King
is now on CNN of course.
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MANCHURIAN
CANDY DATE
To the world she was one of the most successful American fashion models of
the 1940s - but she led a secret life as a Manchurian Candidate-style agent
for the US intelligence services during the Cold War. COLIN BENNETT analyses
this tale of multiple personality, conspiracy, hypnotic mind-control and
fantasy life. Additional research by Bob Rickard.
On 31 December 1972, in the lavish apartment suite of a New York lawyer
friend, the well-known 61-year-old radio presenter Long John Nebel married
Candy Jones, 47, an internationally famous fashion model. The guests on this
happy occasion certainly had plenty of things to talk about. The five men
who broke into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the
Watergate office building in Washington DC the previous summer were facing
charges of burglary,
conspiracy and wire-tapping. Already, there were rumours that this affair
might go all the way to the White House. Though the guests were no doubt
happy, the Vietnam campaign still had two years to run, and almost all
Americans knew what the result was going to be.
Nebel was the Art Bell of his day, and his all-night radio show had an
audience of several millions, but that night, his mind was not on Watergate
or Vietnam. He had just married a woman whose face had graced the covers of
11 major national magazines in a single month in 1943. During the Pacific
campaign in World War II, photos of Candy in a white polka-dot bathing suit
adorned the interiors of ships, tanks, and foxholes.
It had been a lightning courtship - barely 28 days - so Nebel did not know
his wife all that well. During the reception, he noticed a curious change
come over her; within a very short time, she lost all her natural charm and
exuberance. Her voice changed to that of another woman entirely and her
normally fluid posture stiffened. Dining in the Ho Ho Chinese restaurant
later that evening, Nebel noticed the transformation again; it was as if she
were uncomfortable with the Chinese decor, wall-mirrors and candles.
While preparing for bed, Candy began speaking again in the voice Nebel had
heard earlier. Even more alarming, this strange personality within Candy had
a completely different attitude towards him; 'she' sounded cruel, mocking
and cold. When Nebel asked her about it, Candy was astonished; she hadn't
noticed the emergence of another voice or personality.
However, a few weeks after their marriage, she did tell Nebel that she had
worked for the FBI for some time, adding mysteriously that she might have to
go out of town on occasion without giving a reason. This left Nebel
wondering whether there was a connection between the 'other' personality
within Candy and the strange trips she said she made for the FBI.
Candy (left, in Yank magazine)was born Jessica Wilcox in Atlantic City, New
Jersey, in 1925. She grew into a striking blonde, some six feet four inches
(1.93m) in height. Her classic American ice-queen face was fashionable
before the more accessible faces of Grace Kelly, Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn
Monroe came about. Though she was brought up in a fairly affluent
environment, her father and her manic depressive mother physically, if not
sexually, abused her. (1) Once, her divorced father, on a home visit,
crushed her fingers in a nutmeg grater, and her vicious mother beat her on
the legs so badly that Candy had to wear thick stockings to conceal the
welts. She was not allowed to associate with other children and was often
shut in darkened rooms by her mother. It was within such rooms that the very
young, panic-stricken Candy developed a family of fantasy figures to keep
her company.
In her prison gloom, she visualised these characters appearing in the
twilight reflections of a large wall mirror. The name of one of these
magical friends was Arlene, and she was to figure crucially in Candy's later
life. Unlike the other figures of this imagined world, Arlene didn't fade
away with Candy's childhood. As a secondary personality, she grew up and
matured with Candy. Arlene's personality was a sort of mirror-reverse of
Candy's. She had some of the characteristics of Candy's mother: she was
tough and ruthless, sarcastic and cruel, with a grating low voice, quite
different from Candy's own.
This was the voice that Nebel first heard on his wedding day. When she was
herself, Candy was the most loving, sociable and charming of women; when she
was Arlene, she could become dangerously vicious, even attempting one night
to strangle her new husband in a professional military-style manner. Nebel
concluded, not unreasonably, that the mind of his new wife had been grossly
interfered with. Candy seemed to be mortally afraid of anything Chinese; she
was also afraid of doctors, psychiatrists and dentists, all of whom used
drugs of one sort or another. Drugs were what Candy was afraid of above all
things; whenever drugs were mentioned, in any respect, Candy's 'protector'
Arlene would appear, to vehemently deny that such things should ever enter
"her" (Candy's) body.
Nebel discovered that the changes within Candy had a long history and their
trail led right into the heart of an organisation that many of his telephone
callers had been talking about for years: the Central Intelligence Agency of
the United States of America. Nebel then took a grave risk: for many years,
he had been an amateur hypnotist, and he decided to put Candy in a light
trance, ask a few simple questions, and tape the results. There begins one
of the most amazing tales of our time, as told in Donald Bain's book, The
Control of Candy Jones.
While touring military bases in 1945, Candy fell sick in the Philippines and
was admitted to hospital in Leyte Gulf. There she met a Dr Gilbert Jensen
(2), a young medical officer who gave her vitamin injections which probably
saved her life, or at least her looks. Jensen left her his card and said he
hoped she would write to him. Many years after this event she was to meet
Jensen again, with almost disastrous consequences.
In 1946, she entered a rather loveless marriage to the tricky (and bisexual)
fashion czar Harry Conover, who was jailed eventually for fraud. (3) The
marriage ended in divorce, in 1959, leaving her with custody of her three
sons and her own fashion business with an office in New York. Some time in
1960, an old acquaintance, a retired army general, dropped into this office
and, in the cause of casual conversation, asked Candy if she would allow the
FBI to use her office as a mail drop. She assented, and also agreed to
deliver mail for the FBI when travelling on business because, at the time,
she thought of this arrangement as a simple patriotic activity. She had no
idea what she was getting into.
One of her first tasks for this (unnamed) general was to deliver a letter to
a man in San Francisco while she was on business there. The man was Dr
Gilbert Jensen, whom she vaguely remembered. She had dinner with Jensen in
San Francisco on 16 November 1960, a day which was to affect the rest of her
life. Jensen said that he now worked for the CIA and had an office in
Oakland, across Bay Bridge. He said that if Candy wanted to, she could get
far deeper into the covert Intelligence business, adding that it could prove
lucrative for her. With three sons at private schools, Candy was short of
cash and accepted.
The first thing Jensen did was to hypnotise Candy. In doing so, he found
Arlene and developed her, using hypnotic techniques and intravenous
injections of highly experimental drugs. He succeeded in bringing Arlene
forward in Candy's mind so that she could take Candy over almost completely.
This done, he was able to send Candy (with Arlene's voice and manner) on
various experimental missions at home and abroad. Candy would change into
Arlene in appearance too, wearing a wig and using a different make-up style.
Jensen aimed to create a 'perfect messenger', one who could not reveal -
even under torture - anything about the message she carried, where she came
from or who had sent her.
This operation was vast and highly organised. Candy - as Arlene, the virtual
zombie - visited training camps, military bases and secret medical
facilities all over America. She was studied and trained in every aspect of
covert action, including explosives, close combat with improvised weaponry,
disguise and communications. She was taught how to kill with her bare hands,
conditioned to resist pain, and shown how to counter interrogation
techniques. She was shown off by a proud Jensen to the military on many
occasions as an example of narco-hypnotic success: the perfect warrior.
Jensen's pièce de résistance was to demonstrate that his conditioning was so
deep that Arlene would kill herself on command. An idea of the kind of moral
values of the people involved here is illustrated by Jensen putting a
lighted candle inside Candy's open vagina
without her registering pain or fear. He demonstrated this before 24 doctors
in an auditorium at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Candy, as Arlene, was sent to Taiwan at least twice on test missions,
delivering envelopes. There, she was tortured with electric prods to see if
she would crack; she did not. Deeply perverted sexuality appears to have
been an implicit element in the covert agenda. In episodes which are
disturbing to read, she was frequently stripped, put to bed, drugged,
hypnotised and tortured by various parties, including Native Americans on
American soil. She was put onto medical examination tables, suffered
Gestapo-like interrogations, and was sexually toyed with by women against
her will. Sexual approaches were made under hypnosis by Jensen himself, but
Candy appears to have fought him off.
Of course none of this was about fighting communism. It was more an example
of what Churchill called "perverted science" operating in an old-style
Intelligence regime. The hypnotising of Candy was a gimmick-structure like
the 'spin' put on the American tactical and strategic failure in Vietnam:
the infamous body-count, the village 'pacification' programme, the useless
saturation bombing, and the use of defoliants. The Americans would have been
better giving the Vietnamese free Japanese television sets and putting them
to sleep the easy way. But perhaps we are dealing here with something more
sinister than a failed Cold War weapons system. The system might have failed
against the Communists, but did it fail when it turned its head against the
American State itself? Mark Chapman, Sirhan Sirhan, John Hinckley, James
Earl Ray, and Lee Harvey Oswald are said to be evidence that there were
other 'Jensens' at work in America.
Jensen knew he was taking terrible risks; he could not be sure whether
Arlene wouldn't put in an unplanned appearance at any time in Candy's
everyday life. Despite his precautions, this, of course, happened, otherwise
nothing would be known of her experiences; Candy had no idea that she had
been elsewhere or had done anything different from her normal round, apart
from her visits to Jensen and to deliver mail. That was all she knew; the
rest was a blank. After her adventures and tests were over, Jensen took her
out of trance, and her conscious life became a seamless robe once more.
We only know this story from the audio tapes of Candy speaking under
hypnosis and being questioned by Nebel. When Candy herself heard these
tapes, she could not believe that she herself had undergone the experiences
that Arlene described. From many tapes over a number of years, author Donald
Bain skilfully constructed a complex four-character play between Arlene and
Nebel, Jensen and Candy. Arlene is an abstraction in the head of Candy;
Nebel is substance and Jensen is a shadow-figure. This drama was heightened
by increasing external evidence that Jensen did indeed exist and was
certainly engaged in the kind of activity Candy described. By the mid-70s,
Nebel had terminal cancer and, distraught over Candy's terrible
victimisation and the suspicion that Candy had secretly seen Jensen several
times since their marriage, thought of exacting revenge. He told Bain that
he was going to kill Jensen, but Bain managed to dissuade him.
As a prototype for later books such as Cathy O'Brien's Trance Formation of
America and Annie McKenna's Paperclip Dolls, Bain's book is a brilliant
achievement. Scorning a popular commercial framework, he spent a
considerable amount of time extracting Candy Jones's story from hundreds of
cassette tapes. His approach was to juxtapose the abstract world in Candy's
head against John Nebel's deepening questions, cross-referenced by the
shadow-figure of Jensen. The tale went back over many years, but lacked the
voice of Jensen himself; information about him and his intentions had to be
reconstructed from one side of the dialogue only. Although he was only a
shadow persona, Nebel was convinced that there was enough external evidence
to show that he was more substantial than Arlene.
A more difficult problem was the removal of the many blocks placed, like
layers of ancient brickwork, inside Candy's mind by Jensen. Nebel tried
posing as Jensen when questioning the entranced Candy; however, Arlene often
noticed this tactic and warned Nebel that she knew he was tricking Candy.
Arlene herself liked Jensen, whereas Candy did not. Nebel fared better when
he pretended to be her alter ego, Arlene. Candy was far more comfortable
talking to 'herself' in this way and, revealed much information about
Jensen's activities.
Donald Bain suggests that Candy, as Arlene, carried out many more
experimental missions for Jensen than ever were discovered. He checked out
her office attendance hours throughout the 1960s with her business manager.
Over a period of 10 years, she was frequently absent under the cover of
business trips on which it appeared no business was done. Fragments of these
trips emerged under hypnosis, such as one occasion when she said that she
carried a gun for Jensen.
Bain ends his book with a cliffhanger. Despite finally accepting treatment
from straight doctors, Candy misses her Jensen fix, and becomes a secret
junkie for her Arlene transformations. She tries to hide her attempts to
contact Jensen and the CIA from Nebel. But what worried Nebel more, before
he died, were the attempts by the CIA and Jensen to contact Candy. Her
adventures apparently took place between 1960 and 1971, but Bain declared
that he could not be quite sure they had ended.
The courageous Nebel (right, with George Adamski) died of cancer soon after
Bain's book was published, still without the answers he sought about his
wife's secret life. He drew some consolation from the fact that, for a brief
historical moment, he had torn the mask off the hidden controllers of
America. In a similar way to other glamorous
figures, Candy Jones entered unwittingly into that mysterium of power which
forever belies the conscious social-democratic view of nature and society.
If Jane Mansfield fell prey to the forces of schlock consumerism, and
Marilyn Monroe was a victim of high State intrigue, Candy Jones was
certainly a casualty of the interface of the American Intelligence and
ultra-right medical/psychiatric establishments. Both these national sectors
were a vital part of the burgeoning American military-industrial complex
which was flexing its new-found muscles in the 1950s and 1960s. (4)
Even in adult life, such high-profile women as Candy Jones remain fairy
children, like the junior mannequin Jon Benet Ramsey, or Sylvia Plath. (5)
Candy was chosen, most probably, not only because she was found to be very
easily hypnotised (6), but because also she was one of the early prototype
media-dolls. America first gave birth to this brood, and all its assassins
share similar characteristics. American culture is still the main generator
of the controls and designs of the world's dream-machine, and its consumer
products, like television, are doll's house furniture. As dolls, such
characters are more
system-animals than human, and all kinds of experimental processes and
changes occur within the hinterland of these two states, making the
half-trance their natural condition.
It could well be that Jensen was conducting the first experiments in
mythological engineering as part of the emerging MKULTRA (7) programme.
Candy's first husband had already made her into a super-doll, something that
Jensen could work on. Bain's conclusion is that Jensen's work was within and
for the Intelligence sector; but Jensen may have had an altogether more
sophisticated agenda. If Candy represents the innocent imagination,
suspended somewhere between the worlds of Jules Verne and George Adamski,
Jensen represents the evil side of science. This is the dark world of
Auschwitz which, as we know, was run as a joint-stock company by scientists,
doctors, and corporate industrialists.
The artificial creation and manipulation of media-sirens may have been his
primary objective. Like Monroe, Candy could therefore have been part of the
early-middle development of what the American armed forces now call
'non-lethal weaponry'. Perhaps Big Brother, like the coal-miner, has become
an industrial relic; and perhaps Orwell was wrong and Huxley was right.
Limitless cheap pleasure, not pain or suffering, is to be the ultimate
weapon used in breaking the will of a population, without a drop of blood
being shed.
Donald Bain shows that when sex and glamour are mixed with conspiracy and
science (in this case experimental narco-technology), a 'reality' is
enthroned which begins to look like a cover from the kind of science-fiction
magazine both Jensen and Nebel must have read in their youth. On these
covers, beautiful female bodies are snared and entangled with wires,
consoles and aerials, well-endowed girls in torn blouses run from clanking
cyberclones, and lizard-like figures wield hypodermic needles.
Long John Nebel must have wondered, at some point, just how close to such
covers his life with Candy had become. For many years, sleepless New Yorkers
had heard Nebel's late-night callers rant about the very things that the
entranced Candy described. As soon as Nebel heard the voice of Arlene, he
entered the world of trance-state America. It is a world in which exit
wounds become entrance wounds, and in which Jack Ruby's last hours as a free
man remain as enigmatic as the last phone calls of Marilyn Monroe... or the
mysterious travels of Candy Jones.
THANKS TO JESSICA BUBEN AND PAUL MAKOVSKY.
From FT 148
July 2001
NOTES
1. See Paul Chambers' 'First Person Plural' in FT130:34-40.
2. This is a pseudonym chosen by Donald Bains for legal reasons. He reports
that Nebel told him that he knew who Jensen was and many times had thought
of shooting him.
3. Conover, was the original creator of the 'cover girl' concept. After
World War II, he started off his business with a matching loan of $500 from
none other than Gerald Ford, who became President of the USA (1974-1977)
after Richard Nixon resigned. At the time he knew Conover, Ford was a
room-mate and a male model. Like President Carter, Ford in later years
promised he would open secret government files on UFOs, and called for a
congressional enquiry into such matters, but none of these things came
about.
4. For a detailed story of such activity, see Alan W Scheflin and Edward M
Opton's definitive The Mind Manipulators (Paddington Press, 1978) and Walter
Bowart's Operation Mind Control (New York, 1978).
5. In a certain sense, Candy's life reflects aspects of the tragic life of
the American poet Sylvia Plath.
Though Plath was not used by the CIA, she nevertheless became a victim of
the exploitative sexual psychodrama of the fashion world. This world builds
and sells dolls and toys; it is the very last place in the world for women
of high intelligence such as Plath and Jones. In both cases deep personal
conflicts were present. In Candy Jones' case, Arlene liked the rough, tough
masculine 'meaningful' world of the Special Agent and often
scorned that softer part of her which was Candy.
6. Candy's Hypnotic Induction Profile, compiled by Drs DeBetz, Spiegel and
London, confirmed that she was easily hypnotised. Their examination was also
an independent confirmation of the 'work' that Jensen had done on her.
7. The Mind Manipulators contains a detailed analysis of the CIA's MKULTRA
programme of the 1950s. See also Sid Que's 'Radio Head' in FT113:34-39; and
David Guyatt's 'Police State of Mind' in FT95:34-39.
FURTHER READING
The Control of Candy Jones, Donald Bain (1976).
The Encyclopedia of Mind Control, Jim Keith (1998)
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, John Mark (1980)
CANDY JONES BIBLIOGRAPHY
Candy wrote more than a dozen books, including:
Make Your Name in Modeling and Television (1960)
Finishing Touches (1961)
Designing Women: a Comprehensive Guide to the aids to Feminine Beauty (1962)
Time to Grow Up-an Affectionate Guide for Young Ladies From Ten to Sixteen
(1962)
Look Your Best (1964)
Lets make Faces (1965)
Between Us Girls (1966)
Just for Teens (1967)
Modeling and Other Glamor Careers (1970)
Candy Jones' Complete Book of Beauty and Fashion (1976)
More Than Beauty: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Modeling World (1970)
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