-Caveat Lector- St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
March 6, 1994, Sunday, City Edition SECTION: NATIONAL; ARE SECRETS LOCKED INSIDE?; Pg. 10A LENGTH: 1305 words HEADLINE: Military controls my mind, woman says BYLINE: CAROL GENTRY DATELINE: CORAL GABLES BODY: When you start dabbling in repressed-memory therapy, there's no telling what will bubble up. Take the case of Frances Fox. Fox, 45, owner of a prestigious bridal shop here on the Miracle Mile, has recovered a harrowing assortment of memories with help from therapists in Florida, Texas and Minnesota. The first memory - of incest with her father - followed a dream in 1989. Then she remembered being abused by other relatives, dangled upside down over a cliff, taken to satanic rituals where a baby was killed and eaten, and subjected to mind-control experiments by the military and CIA. Fox's father is dead, but she is suing her uncle based on the memories she recently recovered of incest she says occurred 34 years ago. The uncle, retired lawyer Juan Francisco Bauta of Miami, has vigorously denied the charges. The case is on hold until the Florida Supreme Court decides whether a law that lifts the statute of limitations on delayed-memory cases is constitutional. In an interview, Fox would not discuss the lawsuit or her uncle, but spoke for three hours about the other memories. She wants the government to admit its wrongdoing, release the results of the so-called Monarch mind-control project and compensate the victims. She isn't interested in naming names or getting anyone in trouble, she said. "I'm looking for a negotiated peace settlement with the government," Fox said. "I am looking for . . . the keys to my programing so that I may complete my therapy and healing process." David French, a CIA spokesman, said Friday he isn't familiar with the mind-control experiment Fox described. Its existence isn't likely, he said. "I wouldn't deny her her memory of her experience, but I would be very surprised to see the CIA involved in any way." Fox said her family considers her "wacko," but she insists she is not. She points to the fact that she has found three other women who have recovered similar memories. All are members of a support group run by Hilda Brockman, a therapist and past president of the South Florida Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociative Disorders. Brockman, who has diagnosed about 30 cases of multiple personality disorder, does not question the accuracy of the satanic-abuse and military mind-control memories. "I don't think these folks are making it up," she said. "They're too together." Fox, who has two grown children and is separated from her husband, has built a thriving business and developed a busy social life. She has too much going on to be inventing this kind of fantasy, Brockman said. Besides, the therapist said, people worldwide describe the same things. It couldn't be a coincidence, she said. It's not a coincidence, says FBI agent Kenneth Lanning, who has studied allegations of ritual child abuse by satanic cults and others. He said in a phone interview that the Monarch Project is "just kind of a myth or legend that's being spread by a small number of people at a variety of therapy conferences." In a 1992 study of satanic ritual abuse, Lanning said people like to hang misdeeds on satanic influences - "the devil made them do it" - and also enjoy delving into conspiracy theories about government coverups. Just because individuals who never met each other tell the same story doesn't mean it's true, he wrote. "Absurd urban legends about the corporate logos of Procter and Gamble and Liz Claiborne being satanic symbols persist in spite of all efforts to refute them with reality," he said. Another person who questions the accuracy of the memories is attorney Roger Schindler, who represents Fox's 70-year-old uncle. "It is extremely unlikely for this woman to have suppressed the extraordinary events she alleges occurred to her in her childhood and adolescence," Schindler said. "This is not just Daddy sneaking into the bedroom. This is torture. Murder." Schindler blames therapists for creating, or at least perpetuating, "mass hysteria" through the current fad for repressed-memory therapy. Fox said her father was a Cuban-American who went into the U.S. military and was stationed in Panama, Germany and several U.S. bases, including MacDill in Tampa. She was one of seven children. In 1959, Fox said, her father left the military and returned to Cuba for about a year, when he was asked by the Cuban government to leave. She regards this as evidence that he was a CIA agent. Her alleged abuse at the hands of her uncle occurred during that year in Cuba, according to her lawsuit. The accusations include rape, sodomy and unusual sexual practices. The memory of the abuse by her uncle, as well as others, remained beyond her conscious mind until after her father's death in 1989, Fox said. At an intensive four-day session of therapy in Minnesota, she got the idea she might have some kind of sexual-abuse problem but she had no memory of any. Then she had a dream, in which her father was chasing her and laughing, saying "You can't get away from me." She said that when she woke up she knew what the dream meant. It shocked her, she said, "because this was certainly not the image I had of my father nor that anyone else had of my father." The other memories came later, through work Fox did with a succession of therapists and on her own with pen and paper, letting her subconscious take over and instruct her what to write. Of the memories she was willing to discuss during the interview, the most bizarre was that involving satanic rituals. She said she remembered her father taking her to one in Panama, where Indians killed a small baby and ate it. Her father took her to the ceremony purposely to traumatize her on instructions from his bosses in the CIA, Fox believes. She said she "split" several times that night, depositing the painful memory with several alter personalities. "I don't know how many parts of me there are," she said. Memories of military mind control emerged during treatment at Charter Hospital in Dallas, where she was sent by Dr. Colin Ross, well-known in the field of multiple personality disorder. There she was given paper and told to draw. Her memories of programing sessions by her "controls" grew out of that time. She was only one of many children who were traumatized and programed into total obedience, she said. "I believe these were experiments to see how much you could control human beings," she said. Dr. Ross confirmed that Fox told him she was a military-programed multiple personality. His take on it? "It's a very complicated matter, difficult to figure out how much is real and how much is not real. It warrants serious study." The Monarch Project experiments are still going on, Fox said, but she declined to discuss current activities because her "controls" might harm her. She offered a manuscript from a group called "Ritual CIA (Cult, Incest or Abuse) Exposed" in Santa Rosa, Calif., that describes the project pretty much the way she did. The Mafia was also involved, it says. FBI agent Lanning said it's important to note that people who describe memories of satanic abuse and military mind control often really believe they took place and aren't knowingly lying. And it's also possible that something abusive - not a satanic cult, not the CIA, but something - did happen to Fox while she was growing up, he said. The trouble, though, is that once she starts talking about her wilder "memories," she loses credibility in the courtroom, he said. 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