The Secret History of Mind Control
- part 1 of 3
CKLN-FM Mind Control Series
CKLN 88.1 FM Ryerson Polytechnical University Toronto
Ontario
International Connection Mind Control Series
Producer/Interviewer: Wayne Morris
Wayne Morris:
Good morning and welcome to International Connection. We
are in show #33 in our series on Mind Control, and today we are going to
hear a presentation, The Secret History of Mind Control, given by Walter
Bowart at the Ritual Trauma Child Abuse and Mind Control Conference in
Atlanta in October, 1997. Walter Bowart is an investigative journalist and
author of one of the original books about mind control in the late
seventies entitled, Operational Mind Control. And now, Walter Bowart:
Introduction by Sylvia Gillotte:
I guess Walter almost needs no introduction because he was
really probably the first person to publicly write about mind control and
its origins and so forth. His book, Operation Mind Control, is available
at his table at the back. Most recently Walter was involved as a
consultant in the making of the movie, Conspiracy Theory, and some of you
may have seen him actually interviewed for an HBO special promoting the
movie. It was the first time I ever got to see what Walter looked like so
I could recognize him when he came. He has the Freedom of Thought
Foundation, which he will tell you about. He is going to share his
information with you, so welcome Walter.
Walter Bowart:
I would like to thank some people. I was going to save it
until the end but I want to get it right up front since a couple of them
are here. I would like to thank Mike Coyle for what he contributed to
this. What you are going to see is a series of out-takes, some are from
videos, and a lot of them are still ... it's a very rough presentation of
what's going to be a documentary. I would like to thank Mike Coyle who is
retired from the field. He had the Mindnet Journal which was on the
internet, and he did a terrific job of research. He is finding that a lot
of the critical things that we are going to talk about as we get toward
the end of this show, are actually removed from journals ... pages torn
out of academic research journals and things. Somebody doesn't want this
information out.
I am going to cover things going back ... Sylvia asked me
to do the history of mind control but I'm going to go farther afield ...
probably than most of you had heard about. It is so far beyond any
technology you are talking about, like electromagnetic spectrum stuff ...
we are into post-quantum physics here, and now we are working with
physicists.
I would also like to thank Blanche Chavoustie who is here
for the long years of friendship and the documentation and research that
she has helped us with and Cheryl Welsh, who I think is not here, who also
contributed boxes and boxes of research, and Doreen Pratt who is
hospitalized and not able to travel ... she is blind, legally blind, and
you will see some of her work in this presentation. And I would like to
thank all the members of the Freedom of Thought Foundation for their
assistance, and friendship and guidance over the 20 years that we have
been doing this.
The big key to the thing is that only the small secrets
need to be kept. You can find just about anything the government is doing
by going into scientific journals and doing research. But the big secrets
are kept by public incredulity and your study and your experience is in an
area which is not secret. All this has been known for a long time, but
people don't want to believe it and there is a great deal of denial.
[Slide] With the evolution of man came the evolution of
science, and here's an example of an early treatment by the foremost
practitioners of "mental health science". This is an etching
from 1745. It shows a ward in Bethlehem Hospital in London. It was
pronounced Bethlem, and it became Bedlam, the famous synonym for the
nuthouse.
[Slide] A patient of Bethlem, William Norris, was confined
there for 12 years, bound by chains a foot long and to an iron rod at the
head of his bed. He died in 1815. Another patient at Bethlem, who we do
not have a picture of was James Tilley Matthews. He was incarcerated there
for 35 years and escaped only by death, and it is a very interesting
story. In the late 1700's he had gone to France as a spy for the British
Admiralty, posing as an import-export agent. He travelled in the highest
circles of French society. Things went wrong for him when he fell into the
hands of Franz Anton Mesmer, the father of hypnotism. Mesmer used to play
parlour games by having aristocrats stand in tubs of water while he played
DC current over their heads, to what purpose we don't know.
[Slide] This may be one of the first perpetrators of mind
control ... one of the founders of our country ... Benjamin Franklin. He
was the US ambassador to France at the time, and if you remember, he was
the discoverer of electricity which was DC electricity. He discovered it
when he flew a kite on a wire during an electrical storm, and it was a
shocking experience. Franklin may have used that later for the effects we
now know DC current gives. It will induce amnesia easily. Franklin was
asked by the French government to look into the activities of Mesmer and
his claims of miraculous cures with electricity. They hit it off real
well, but it's not surprising. They were both the brothers of the same
secret society ... the Masons. Franklin filed a lengthy report favourable
to Mesmer to the French government. Another brother Mason who frequently
visited them in Paris was Adam Weishaupt, the founder of the Illumaniti.
These coincidences bring a lot of questions to your mind about what were
these guys really doing over there, and what did they find out?
Mesmer happened to be, believe it or not, the godfather of
Amadeus Mozart. In fact he raised Mozart, and of course Mozart was this
incredible genius musician and his biography will show you more than one
obvious example of someone who behaves as if he were suffering from
Dissociative Identity Disorder. You can conclude that maybe Mesmer played
around to enhance the musical abilities of Mozart at the cost of other
parts of his personality.
[slide] We are back to James Tilley Matthews and after a
few years of influence by Franklin and Mesmer, he beat a path as soon as
he could back to England, reported to the Admiralty the French had
developed a devastating instrument of war, an "airloom" which
could weave thoughts into a man's mind.
[slide] At the top it says "Illustrations of
Madness", that's the name of the book written by John Haslam, the
apothecary (in modern terms, the resident medical officer) to Bethlem
Hospital toward the end of Matthews' stay. In the first decade of the 19th
century Haslam wrote this whole volume called "Illustrations of
Madness" just singly on the Matthews case. It was published in 1810.
It was the first book length case study of a single patient in British
psychiatric history. According to Roy Porter who repackaged Haslam's 1810
book "Illustrations of Madness" in 1988 ... that's the only way
you are going to find it. There are rare volumes, you have to pay at least
$40 for a used copy.
Because of the book, Matthews' fate became a cause celebre
everywhere - in Britain and the United States. It was used against Bethlem
Hospital in general, and Haslam in particular, ironically, when the
institution came under scathing scrutiny by a House of Commons committee
investigating madhouses in 1815. A few years before the madhouse era,
there were only a few people declared insane, but by the late 1700's and
the early 1800's, there were hundreds of thousands of people now in these
madhouses, so-called. While Matthews is interesting to us for other
reasons, he was the cause celebre that created social reform in the
madhouse business.
According to Porter, the significance of his case was way
back about two hundred years ago, he was describing experiences that
modern victims of mind control are now describing, even using some of the
same terms. Today Matthews would be diagnosed as having "delusional
disorder", and I think delusional disorder is a misdiagnosis for a
whole lot of things. Maybe he would be diagnosed as suffering from
schizophrenia or paranoid schizophrenia, which we now know is an extremely
rare disease. When I wrote "Operation Mind Control" back in
1978, there were only 25 MPD cases diagnosed, now there are hundreds of
thousands. Most of the people I was writing about were called
schizophrenic by the doctors ... and they weren't. Of course, they were
D.I.D.
A Dr. George Birkeck of London examined Haslem in those
days, and testified before the King's Bench that after paying James Tilley
Matthews six visits at Bethlem and having attempted "by every mode of
examination which he could devise" to discover the real state of his
mind, he said Matthews was not insane. Matthews was talking about sudden
death squeezing, lobster cracking. He was admitted on January 28, 1797 to
Bethlem after he had been behaving oddly for quite a while, about a year,
and among his strange behaviour was writing a letter to his benefactor,
Lord Liverpool, who was in the Admiralty and was part of this intelligence
scam that he was involved in, "I pronounce your Lordship to be in
every sense of the word a most diabolical traitor after a long life of
political and real iniquity during which your Lordship, by flattering and
deceiving and more than anyone contributing to deceive your King who
believing your hypocritical professions, has to be the detriment of many
of the country's friends, loaded you with honours and emollients. You have
made yourself a principal in schemes of treasons founded upon the most
extensive intrigues which have not not only long since laid this country
at the feet of its most bitter enemies who have assassinated France, to
reap further advantages from those who by such wickedness might in such
general assassinating scandal mount the throne ..." and so forth,
written in the grand prose of that day. And that will get you locked up,
even today that would get you locked up ...
But he is talking about thought-making. Haslam, the doctor
who treated him, said, "In this situation he continued for many
years, sometimes an automaton, moved by the agencies of persons hereafter
to be introduced to the notice of the reader." And of course he
talked about spies, thugs and assassins who were putting voices in his
head and controlling him. Matthews insisted that in some apartment near
London Wall there is a "gang of villains, profoundly skilled in
pneumatic chemistry who assail him by means of an airloom." Of a
variety of tortures he described so colourfully, were "fluid locking,
cutting soul from sense, stone making, thigh talking, kiting involving
magnetic impregnations ... sudden death squeezing, lobster cracking caused
by pressure from the 'magnetic atmosphere surrounding the persons
assailed', apoplexy working with a nutmeg grater, lengthening the brain,
thought-making while one of these villains is sucking at the brain of the
person assailed to distract his existing sentiments, another of the gang
will force into his mind a train of ideas very different from the real
subject of his thoughts in which is squeezed upon as the desired
information by the person sucking." "Laughter-making, poking,
pushing up the quicksilver, bladder filling, tying down, bomb bursting,
gas plucking (the extraction of magnetic fluid from a person assailed),
foot curving, lethargy-making, spark exploding, knee nailing, burning out,
eye screwing, sight stopping, roof stringing, vital tearing, fibre ripping
brain sayings ..." and other descriptions of physical and
psychological tortures caused by some invisible means which Matthews put
into the high tech terms of his day.
Now, this is very similar to what people are describing
today. This is the way he drew a layout of the way he was assailed and
interrogated by these 17th Century assassins and he said that a pneumatic
machine [slide] this is a sketch he made of it ... was used, this was the
high technology that was doing all this. If you are interested in this,
try to find the book, you may have to do a search for it. But the EM
targeted victims of today are not sounding much different than that. This
guy is pretty colourful and of course the language is very arcane.
Matthews ... he was the first. It was 200 years ago. He is
the first single case ever chronicled in the psychiatric literature that
we know of. This is nothing new. Could it be that Franklin and those other
guys came up with something that they really did use, because that's what
Matthews claims. Today we have the category, and I don't like the term but
it is used, "Wavies" -- those are people who are targets of
electromagnetic waves of some kind, or I prefer the term "EM targeted
individuals". Some of these people claim to be alien abductees or
government mind control victims, or satanic abused people. There is
nothing in Matthews' description that these groups of people haven't also
described experiencing.
Then you have to ask, doing what I did for 20 years,
hearing all these stories, you are gathering probably the largest data
base ... using a 27 page questionnaire, I am looking for mind control
victims and of course our questionnaire is on mind control - but it kind
of gives you an indication of everything else, including the alien
abduction scenario which is very peculiar, very unusual. We have the
largest data base ... and after you hear this, you say, "could it be
that these delusions, if they are delusions - do we as a species lack such
imagination as to keep coming up with the same thing over and over for 200
years?" Can't we go beyond this? Shouldn't madness be really 'out
there'? But something is happening here. There is a pattern to this, and
you hear people who don't know each other, have had no contact with this
thing at all, who never read a book on it, saying the same thing. I sit
down with some survivors who have experienced trauma abuse and trauma
based programming and compare notes, it will be the same. And it runs
true.
This is later. This is now the early 19th century [slide]
-- we've got the Lavery Electric Phrenometer - it was the high tech of its
day, intended to accurately measure the bumps on your head and so predict
the nature, type and behaviour of individuals who would hold still for it.
And it was taken very seriously for a while, until somebody said,
"hey, there's no data base for this, you know?"
[slide] Early 20th century - "Mental Poisoning",
it was a popular book written by a psychologist in the early days when
people were hearing voices, mental poisoning. And then we got more
scientific - this is an obsolete version of Colin Ross's book - he made a
contribution to the field by doing that research. But here we go in the
1920's or 30's - everybody was hearing voices, everybody, and all you had
to do was turn on a radio. There was no need for implanted electrodes to
control your behaviour.
[slide] Here's a Nazi rally in pre-war Germany. Students
of Marshall McLuhan will tell you how radio created Nazism, the blitzkreig,
and mass obedience like nothing before it. As one psychoscientist put it,
"the stentorian voices of the mass media are more universally
powerful than the indiscriminate persuasions of any mind altering
drug." Most of the survivors in this room probably don't watch a lot
of television, right? Does anybody want to confess? Okay. (Never owned
one? Yes.)
[slide] Now this is the guy - Freedom of Thought
Foundation is going to have an award - and all of you will have a chance
to vote on who is going to get the first one - it's very expensive to make
those little statues but nobody will pick it up so we can just peel off
the brass plate every year and use the same one. We have a few candidates.
Jolyon West is a candidate, Martin Orne is a candidate, there are two or
three others. But they will all be on the ballot. I have been working on
this brain which is about this big, and it's gold, and it's fried black
and it's broken off and it's got two electrodes on it and it sits on kind
of like a beer can - kind of a nice looking thing.
It's called the Mengele Award after Josef Mengele, this
guy here. That's Joe, and he was one of the mind control men, you know,
from the ubermentsch ... there's nothing like opening a skull and letting
your bare fingers run through someone's brain or freezing human beings to
near the point of death and then finding out through trial and error that
the easiest way to defrost someone is to put them close to another naked
human body. And these are just a few of the brutal experiments, though
some of that was valuable for hypothermia ... all of the records of what
Joe Mengele did in Nazi concentration camps, and all of the records of his
research are now on file at the National Archives. We should probably get
them all - I think some of them are still classified. But these are the
people he is working on - these are his subjects. Of course Mengele was
fascinated by genetics. I haven't really addressed genetics and most
survivors realize that it is multigenerational, most sons and daughters of
Masons realize that is part of the Masonic belief is that if you program
or if you train or educate or whatever the word is, a person over two or
three generations the knowledge begins to be true ...
We are heading that way and these twins were a part of
Mengele's studies and he did a number of things. Twins appear to be
telepathic. With NLP you can understand how that works, and our workshops
demonstrate what looks like telepathy by mirroring and matching. If you
can sit with somebody and match their breathing pattern and establish this
incredible rapport, you will experience, if you are sitting there in a
state - imagining sitting there on a mountaintop and the wind is blowing
or whatever - you will pick up the wind and you will pick up all the
sensory experience that they are having. You might not put it together in
the right way, you might say "I am driving in my convertible and the
wind is in my hair" or something, but twins are known to be - and you
can't match any better than twins - they suffered great atrocities at the
hand of Mengele and they are here and they have been interviewed, and
that's the last picture that was taken of Dr. Josef Mengele who was said
to have been in Arizona in 1960, there is a persistent rumor. But of
course they say he wasn't, he was in Argentina and he died down there and
yet they are not sure that those are his bones ...
It is also one of the persistent rumors that he was
brought over in Project Paperclip. We know he worked on a farm in Germany
for a few years before the end of WWII. There is the question of the Green
programming, and the two protégés he had that were sent to Harvard and all
that, and I am sure you have heard of this and more, but there is no proof
of it. I keep harping on this - we won't find any documentation or proof
until we repeal the National Security Act. As you begin to research in
this thing, and I have been smashing my head against the NSA for 20 years.
They do whatever they want. Colonel Fletcher Prouty is a friend of mine.
He said "they are over there now", he lives nearby, you can look
out the window. "See the lights are on. They are Xeroxing forged
documents." The National Archives are locked up as far as this stuff
goes. Anything that is useful, anything that is about mind control, and
we'll get back to that ...
There are so many doctors - I guess Colin Ross is writing
a book about it - he's following up on some of our research that we did 25
years ago. He's gotten the papers of Dr. Estabrooks and Estabrooks knew
Milton Erickson, who I think was a great guy myself, but he did work for
the government, and they all knew each other and Ewen Cameron comes in, it
was a Who's Who of everybody who worked in the psychiatric mental health
profession of that particular generation, my father's generation.
Sociologists as well, it's been going on for fifty years.
Guys like Robert J. Lifton who is thought of very highly, worked with Dr.
John Mack, the alien guy, the UFO guy. They had a partnership - they
worked in a little company that was funded by the CIA MKULTRA project. And
in national mental health, all the universities were used - you know the
story - and Operation Mind Control gives you a big list on all this stuff.
I mean, it's just scratching the surface.
And I hear some of you gasp at some of this stuff. Have
you read Lifton's book, "The Nazi Doctors"? That's a pretty
interesting study of how - it takes up the obedience to authority kind of
thing, how people can be made to do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.
Lest you gasp repeatedly throughout this presentation, let me generalize.
Virtually every psychologist, psychiatrist, sociologist, cyberneticist,
and so on of that generation previous to mine, were funded either
wittingly or unwittingly by the CIA. The CIA through a number of cutout
organizations co-opted the entire mental health profession and put it to
work on mind control. It's a hard thing finding people that aren't part of
the game, you know, part of the bad guys.
A few years after the end of WWII, about the CIA was being
founded, and one of their first concerns in 1947 - the Soviets engineered
a show trial against Roman Catholic Cardinal Minzente who appeared before
a kangaroo court in a trance and confessed to everything he was accused of
which a few years later he couldn't remember. The CIA looked into this and
they said "oh they've got something we don't have, and we need
this". We'd better look into this. It was a fledgling agency in those
days. We're celebrating its 50th anniversary and I got a big kick out of
George Bush standing up next to Richard Helms, who went to jail and was
convicted of lying to Congress, he was the Director of the CIA, and Nixon
was singing this man's praises, saying what a great patriot he was. If you
are a patriot, you lie to everybody, you lie to your country. That's how
far our morals and ethics have fallen.
[slide] These are some of the things you find on the
internet too, you find a lot of very good stuff, very succinct. And that
talks about Harris Isabell in 1955, part of MKULTRA Bluebird, the hospital
in Lexington, Kentucky and things ... of course Nelson Rockefeller wanted
to become president one day and he was standing at the bedside of lady
liberty when she gave birth to her bastard child, the freak of nature,
part of the invisible Cold War, information - they christened the baby
"Information Warfare", they called it. The father nicknamed it
"Brainwashing".
Brainwash. A previous speaker used the term. It is very
non-specific, and the term "mind control" isn't much better. But
"brainwash" was coined by a CIA propaganda specialist, Ed
Hunter, and he advised Allen Dulles who gave a speech at the UN and that's
how the term "brainwashing" got started. Dulles' brother was
John Foster Dulles. He was the Secretary of State, and Allen called
himself the "Secretary of State for Unfriendly Governments". He
was the Director of the CIA. They talked about the insidious Fu Manchu
Communists in Korea and China who had brainwashed our clean-minded
American boys and made them confess to crimes that they did not commit.
According to Dulles the Chinese had a way of making strong-minded
Americans hallucinate that a US Marine wing had flown a mission over North
Korean held territory, dropping germ bombs. Colonel Charles Schwabel here
took most of the heat. He was one of the men who allowed himself to be
filmed to the US use of germ weapons. The cries of
"brainwashing" could not drown out the later revelations that
the Marine Air wing had indeed dropped germ bombs on the insidious yellow
peoples fighting against the U.S. Later it was revealed that the secret
labs at Edgewood Arsenal had developed a race-specific encephalitis germ
which infected only oriental people.
... Fu Manchu. Which turned out to be nothing more than
isolation, deprivation, alienation ... what this guy was talking about.
Very standard stuff. Nothing romantic about it. Just the same old take a
person, put their hand in a vise, close the vise, say "talk".
They'll talk at some point. That's what brainwashing was. It's like our
prison and educational systems. Simple things. The Chinese didn't use
drugs or anything sophisticated. But they did get these people to confess
readily. So guess what happened? Those of us who served in the military
service - we all were the beneficiaries of that - The Code of Conduct. You
gave your name, rank and serial number and nothing else. But you wait a
certain time and then you can tell them anything because the only thing
you have to worry about is tactical information which gets obsolete very
fast.
I talked to Laird Gunderson and guys that were in Vietnam
and they really stood up to torture. It's an interesting thing to see
those men come back in the fifties, standing at a strange angle, behaving
like these automatons - it's very interesting - just what isolation,
deprivation, alienation can do to somebody. I suffer from it myself, being
a writer, sitting in front of that computer so many hours. I catch myself
in the mirror, staggering around. So the result was The Code of Conduct.
Out of this came the best psychological study ever done -
on 3000 men who were POW's in Korea. They studied them all with a
fine-tooth comb. Most interesting, they had three categories: the guys that
collaborated outright with the enemy, the guys who resisted the enemy to
the death, and the guys that just went along with the enemy. The ones who
just went along with the enemy were the same guys that just went along
with our military, they were draftees. The guys that collaborated with the
enemy outright were the people in our own military who were known as
gung-ho. The people that resisted the enemy were the people that resisted
our own military and they wanted us all to resist the enemy the same way
that those guys did. They studied the "resisters" and they found
there was a spectrum of on one hand, there were the criminals, and then at
the other end, there were the ones who were highly creative. They began to
study more and they saw that criminality is nothing more than misplaced
creativity. We have an actual industry in this country of misplaced
creativity.
Slide - Brainwashing in Red China. Edward Hunter, the man
who coined the term "brainwashing" wrote several books about it.
Then came the fictional version of that story by Richard Condon, The
Manchurian Candidate. That caught everybody's attention. I knew Richard
when he was alive. He was a PR flack who dropped out. He was sixty, and
this was his first novel and it was a big hit. It was the story of a guy
who was captured - Laurence Harvey played the assassin in the movie. He
was programmed. They captured him behind enemy lines, take him up to
Manchuria, programmed him, then he came back. He did assassinate the
candidate for president who happened to be a guy he didn't like anyway, it
was his stepfather, so ... the Queen of Diamonds over the phone triggered
the assassination. I asked Condon over the phone - now that he can't
defend himself - some guys are writing that Condon knew all about this. He
loved my book back in 1974 - I think he saw a rough draft and he wrote
great things about it. He said he just read Pavlov and Salter, and
invented the rest because it was a pretty basic premise. Frank Sinatra was
in the film, he was one of the programmed POW's, and he bought a large
piece of the film. It's an interesting movie to watch. When Kennedy was
assassinated, he pulled the film out of circulation and it remained out of
circulation for probably 15 years which I thought was interesting. Maybe
he knew something about the assassination of Kennedy that we don't know.
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