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http://www.independent.co.uk CIA mind-control trials revealed as secret inspiration behind 'A Clockwork Orange' By James Morrison Arts and Media Correspondent 13 October 2002 Anthony Burgess was inspired to write his most famous novel A Clockwork Orange by his real-life involvement in CIA-run mind-control experiments, a new biography claims. The revelations, published next month, come as the controversial film version gets its first mainstream British television screening. The new biography claims A Clockwork Orange's central theme - the use of brainwashing to quell evil impulses in the criminal mind - arose from Burgess's involvement with the British secret service and the CIA experiments. It argues that many of the novel's other trademarks, including Nadsat, the fictional slang in which it is written, stem from the author's dealings with secret agents. Burgess, a curmudgeonly interviewee, always refused to be drawn in any detail on his inspiration for A Clockwork Orange. When asked about the famous scene in which government scientists pump images of torture into the mind of its delinquent antihero, Alex, to rid him of violent thoughts, he dismissed it as an idea that came to him in a dream. Now, a decade after Burgess's death, respected biographer Roger Lewis believes he may have uncovered the truth, thanks to a mysterious retired British intelligence agent. According to the anonymous source, Burgess became involved with the CIA while working as a Colonial Service education officer in Malaya in the 1950s. There he became a party to trials for a mind-control process designed to trigger emotional responses in the brain using pain and pleasure - the inspiration, it is claimed, for the chilling Ludovico Technique in A Clockwork Orange. The ex-spy's most compelling claim was that a sequence of capital letters seen on Alex's bedroom wall in Chapter 3 of the novel and supposedly lifted from Alex's school trophies is actually an encryption for the location of a US military base where "psychotronic warfare" experiments took place. The coded wording reads: "SOUTH 4; METRO COR-SKOL BLUE DIVISION; THE BOYS OF ALPHA." According to the spy, the figure 4 refers to the conjunction of four US states, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. To the south of this is a military reservation, based in a metropolitan location. The base is a training school (skol in Russian), initially supervised by the US Navy's Blue Division, which experimented with the Alpha waves of the human unconsciousness. Its name was Fort Bliss; the word "bliss" appears repeatedly in the chapter. Another clue, Mr Lewis argues in Anthony Burgess, is the novelist's use of Americanisms in A Clockwork Orange. Amid the Russian-inflected flow of Nadsat are scattered words like pretzel and liquor, yet Burgess had not visited the US before the novel's publication in 1962. He adds that linguistic analysis of the writings of Burgess's alleged collaborator, the former CIA officer Howard Roman, suggests the latter may have even worded large chunks of the novel himself. When Mr Lewis asked the CIA for access to files pertaining to Burgess, he was turned down with the words,"By this action, we are neither confirming nor denying the existence or nonexistence of such records ..." ***** Thanks to Rense.com for the following. CIA Hushed Murder Of Key Anthrax Scientist By Billy Cox Florida Today - People Posted 8-13-02 10-15-2 With the FBI on the trail of missing, weapons-grade anthrax and former government bio-lab scientist Steven Hatfill claiming to be the victim of an Orwellian setup, there's only one thing anybody can be sure of: The genie left the bottle a long time ago. And it's insane to think anyone -- least of all Uncle Sam -- is going to accept any accountability for this stinking mess. Last Thursday, in a remarkable press conference not nearly as extensively covered as Hatfill's brief media debut, the son of the man who once ran the special-operations division for the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute in Fort Detrick, Md., revived a Cold War scandal that could've been soundtracked by The Who's sardonic "Won't Get Fooled Again." Among the documents touted by 57-year-old Eric Olson as additional proof of the long-standing cover-up was a letter from Dick Cheney to Donald Rumsfeld -- from 1975. "The disinformation campaign was brilliant," Olson said several days later by phone from Maryland. "Everyone was focused on my father's death as a mind-control story, which it never was. This was about biological warfare. My father's specialty was the aerosol delivery of anthrax." Much has been written and broadcast about the controversial last days of a troubled Frank Olson. When he crashed to his death from the 10th floor of a New York City hotel in 1953, police immediately logged it as a suicide. But one of the first skeptics was Armond Pastore, now 82 years old and living in Suntree. Pastore, the erstwhile night manager of the Pennsylvania Hotel, was the first to approach Olson's broken body. He'd seen jumpers before, but this one was completely different. "Suicides," he reasoned, "don't jump through glass." Pastore concluded the fix was in when no one bothered to interview him about what he saw that night. The Olson family nursed its doubts in silence until the 1975 Rockefeller committee hearings into CIA abuses. To their surprise, they learned, among other things, that an unnamed scientist had leaped from a New York hotel room in '53 after being given LSD without his knowledge. The Olsons connected the dots and held a press conference threatening legal action against the CIA. They were promptly summoned to the White House by President Ford, issued a public apology for a misfired mind-control experiment, and awarded a $750,000 settlement to relinquish all claims against the government. Still, the family never fully bought the story that Frank Olson died from a surreptitious LSD trip. In 1994, his body was exhumed and a forensics expert determined Olson couldn't have burst through the window by himself. By 1995, the Manhattan district attorney was investigating for homicide. And later, compelling memos began surfacing, including a correspondence from then-White House assistant Dick Cheney to Chief of Staff Rumsfeld, dated July 11, 1975 (one day after the Olsons held their press conference): A lawsuit could ignite "the possibility that it might be necessary to disclose highly classified national-security information in connection with any court suit or legislative hearings on a private bill." Eric Olson says his family accepted a payoff without knowing the big picture, which he says emerged only recently through snippets of documentation and a retired agency veteran. At a time when the United States was publicly disavowing the use of biological weapons, the CIA was employing them in Europe and Korea, most notably during "terminal interrogations," Eric Olson contends. "The cover-up was about the close compatibility between biological weapons -- which are cheap, portable and deniable -- and covert operations. My father was very patriotic, he was very religious," he insists. "I doubt he was going to be a whistleblower in a conventional sense -- what, talk about biological weapons during the Korean War? But he was facing a real moral crisis. He told them he was going to quit on Monday, and by Friday, he was dead." Ultimately, Eric Olson says he was naive to think the district attorney, who has since dropped the case, would press a full-fledged murder prosecution. "No DA in the country, in New York or anywhere else, is going to indict an intelligence agency for murder," he says. "It just isn't going to happen." Thus, last week, after proving to his satisfaction his father was whacked by his own people, Eric Olson reburied his dad's remains. "There's nothing more I can do. I've got to get on with my life." In response, a CIA spokesman told a West Coast newspaper the agency "fully cooperated" with Rockefeller during the Frank Olson inquiry. 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