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The
History of Mind Control
A Presentation by Walter Bowart
October 1997
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:
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 traveled 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
rumour. 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 rumours 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 proteges 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.
The
Secret History of Mind Control
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As far back as
ancient Egypt, when King Nectanebus used magic and wax figurines
to control the outcome of an upcoming battle, military leaders
and heads of state have used virtually every magic trick in the
occult book to influence the course of international relations.
Bizarre as it may seem to those impatient with such things,
the practice continues to the present day, with even the Pentagon
and the CIA trying a hand at metaphysical warfare.
In this work spanning 5,000 years, Mandelbaum--a former U.S.
intelligence agent who claims to be a psychic--recounts the means
by which various nations have pressed the supernatural world into
military service. Some sections, such as that on the mystic
Rasputin, mostly recount what has already been told many times
over. Elsewhere, the material intrigues, if only by showing the
extent to which government agencies have placed their faith in
psychic phenomena.
In one episode, Mandelbaum recounts that in the 1970s a U.S.
government-employed psychic warned that Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger would be attacked by Libyan assassins in Saudi Arabia,
and that Kissinger's wife, Nancy, would be killed. The warning
came while Kissinger was actually en route to Riyadh; the psychic
was part of the secret Project Bluebird, which sought to read the
mind of Libya's Moammar Khadafy.
In response to the psychic's prediction, U.S. authorities had
Kissinger whisked away immediately upon landing. Mandelbaum's
forthright belief in the occult ("The Force does
exist--within us") will raise eyebrows and even a few
guffaws among skeptics, but his material is both informative and
entertaining, and will find a readership among military history
buffs and believers in the paranormal. (Feb.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The
Psychic Battlefield A History of the
Military-Occult Complex by W. Adam Mandelbaum
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