A Lie Too Big to Fail

by Lisa Pease

  620 Ibid.

  621 Council of Europe, European Commission of Human Rights, “Decision of the Commission as to the Admissibility in respect of application No. 343/57” (hereafter European Commission on Humans Rights Decision), submitted by Bjørn Schouw NIELSEN against the Government of Denmark,” hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion/pdf?library=ECHR&id=001-158874&filename=NIELSEN%20v.%20DENMARK.pdf, July 6, 1959, accessed via Google July 28, 2017.

  622 Jim Kenner, “Killer May Go Free While ‘Hypnotist’ Serves Life,” Hays Daily News (Kansas), June 27, 1965.

  623 Ibid.

  624 European Commission on Humans Rights Decision, quoting the judgment from the Special Court.

  625 Jim Kenner, “Killer May Go Free While ‘Hypnotist’ Serves Life,” Hays Daily News (Kansas), June 27, 1965.

  626 Reuters, “2 hypnotists Err—Girl Harmed, 2 Slain” Chicago Tribune, December 17, 1966. Two stories ran under this headline. The other one told how a hypnotist had been fined for leaving a 17-year-old French girl hypnotized in a saloon who had been found doing strange things in the street. Physicians were unable to bring her from her trance and the original hypnotist had to be summoned to wake her.

  627 Ibid.

  628 NEA, “Reaction Often Varies,” Raleigh Register (Beckley, West Virginia), March 21, 1969.

  629 Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, Snapping: America’s Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change (New York: Stillpoint Press, Second Edition, 2005), p. 82.

  630 “Exhibit G to Petioner’s Reply Brief—Declaration of Alan W. Scheflin, 20 November 2011, Case 2:00-cv-05686-CAS – AJW, Document 180-2, filed 11/20/11, www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=146779&relPageId=1&search=Exhibit_G, p. 6.

  631 “Hypnotized Policeman,” The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser (New South Wales, Australia), trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122583197?searchTerm=hypnotised&searchLimits, January 2, 1924, accessed September 12, 2017.

  632 “Dangerous Hypnotism,” The Town Talk (Alexandria, Louisiana), January 12, 1924.

  633 “Hypnotized Policeman Kills 3; Charmer Jailed,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 28, 1923.

  634 Ibid.

  635 I first learned of the use of biological warfare from Carl McNabb, who stumbled into the wrong mess tent when serving in the Korean War effort. Having learned this highly classified information, he was essentially forced to join the CIA, a place that brought him such unhappiness in later years he attempted suicide. For more information on this still largely suppressed story, start with Jeff Kaye’s excellent summary article which refers to two good books on the subject and the International Scientific Commission’s report on this matter (which is linked from this article) at shadowproof.com/2015/03/28/book-review-this-must-be-the-place-how-the-u-s-waged-germ-warfare-in-the-korean-war-and-denied-it-ever-since/, accessed September 10, 2017.

  636 “PROJECT MKULTRA, THE CIA’S PROGRAM OF RESEARCH IN BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION,” U.S. Senate, Select Committee on Intelligence and Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, comments of Senator Ted Kennedy, p. 3.

  637 Marks, p. 30.

  638 See Secret Agenda by Jim Hougan, Cold Warrior by Tom Mangold, The Real CIA by Miles Copeland, and Part 1 of my article on “James Jesus Angleton and the Kennedy Assassination” in The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, RFK, MLK and Malcolm X.

  639 Letter from George White to Sid Gottlieb, quoted in Marks, p. 109.

  640 Testimony of Richard Helms to the Church Committee, September 12, 1975, pp. 27–28.

  641 “Eyes Only” memo from Richard Helms to the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence [Lt. Gen. Marshall Carter at that time], December 17, 1963.

  642 Memorandum for the Record from Inspector General J.S. Earman re the MKULTRA program, November 29, 1963.

  643 “Eyes Only” memo from Richard Helms to the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence [Lt. Gen. Marshall Carter at that time], date not visible in the author’s poor copy of this document but likely after December 17, 1963.

  644 “Eyes Only” memo from Richard Helms to the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence [Lt. Gen. Marshall Carter at that time], December 17, 1963.

  645 Marks, p. 203.

  646 See my two-part article on Angleton in The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X (Los Angeles: Feral House, 2003) and my speech at the Assassination Archives Research Center conference in 2014 at aarclibrary.org/lisa-pease-james-jesus-angleton-and-the-warren-commission/.

  647 Marks, p. 202.

  648 Marks, p. 190.

  649 Estabrooks, Hypnotism, pp. 200–201.

  650 Estabrooks, Hypnotism, pp. 209–210.

  651 George H. Estabrooks, Ph.D., “Hypnosis Comes of Age,” Science Digest, April 1971, pp. 44–50.

  652 AP, “Ruby Hospital Plea is Denied,” The Baytown Sun (Baytown, TX), April 27, 1964; Marks, p. 63.

  653 Charles Patrick Ewing, Insanity: Murder, Madness, and the Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 10.

  654 Letter from Leonard L. Steinman, Counsellor at Law, to Melvin Belli, Esq., January 31, 1964, www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=10028&relPageId=114, from NARA Record Number PDF version:11206KNARA Record Number: 124-10371-10116, pp. 114–115.

  655 Turner and Christian, p. 196.

  656 Philip J. Hilts, “Louis J. West, 74, Psychiatrist Who Studied Extremes, Dies,” New York Times, January 9, 1999.

  657 John Kifner, “Cinque: A Dropout Who Has Been in Constant Trouble,” New York Times, May 17, 1974. In the article Kifner wrote:

  The coordinator of the Black Cultural Association was a rotund, fast-talking black man named Colston Westbrook who has since been put on the S.L.A.’s “death list.” The group charges that he is a Central Intelligence Agency operative.

  Mr. Westbrook has said that he served in both the Army and the Air Force in Korea, and that he worked in Vietnam for five years for a private contracting firm. Pacific Architects and Engineers.

  Pacific Architects and Engineers has been used as a recruiting pool and cover by the C.I.A. for its Phoenix program, which included assassination teams, according to Bart Osborne of the Fifth Estate, a Washington-based research group of former intelligence personnel who had turned against the Vietnam war. Mr. Osborne was, at one time, a handler of Phoenix teams.

  658 Tony Wade, “Charles Manson at the California Medical Facility,” Daily Republic (Solano, CA), www.dailyrepublic.com/solano-news/local-features/local-lifestyle-columns/charles-manson-at-the-california-medical-facility/, no date, but from the comments, the article went live in July 2017.

  659 John Marks, The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate,” (New York: W. W.

  660 Norton & Company, 1979, p. 215. Marks, The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate,” p. 215.

  661 Marks, footnote on p. 217.

  662 Marks, p. 218.

  663 Marks, p. 25.

  664 Marks, p. 183.

  665 Associated Press, “Psychologist denies he said Navy trained assassins,” Arizona Republic, July 8, 1975.

  666 “Navy psychologist denies assassin-training story,” Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa), July 8, 1975.

  667 www.navsea.navy.mil/Who-We-Are/, accessed October 7, 2017.

  668 LAPD Progress Report – Pistol and Rifle Range Investigation, www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=99734#relPageId=51&tab=page

  669 Alison Winter, Memory: Fragments of a Modern History (University of Chicago Press, 2012), p. 127.

  670 David Shaw, “Hypnotists Claim Suspects Won’t Violate Moral Code,” The Arizona Daily Star, March 1, 1969.

  671 Milton H. Erickson, The Letters of Milton H. Erickson (Phoenix, AZ: Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, Inc., 2000), p. 215.

  672 David Shaw, “Hypnotists Claim Suspects Won’t Violate Moral Code,” The Arizona Daily Star, March 1, 1969.

  673 Ibid.

  674 Ibid.

  675 “METROPOLITAN: Yorty Signs Gambling Ordinance,” Los Angeles Times, June 13, 1969. Bryan
was not the only man to take advantage of clients.

  676 Kevin Freeman, “Disturbing video released of attorney hypnotizing clients for sexual pleasure,” Fox 8 Cleveland, January 17, 2017.

  677 “State revokes pharmacy worker’s license,” TriCity Herald, March 24, 2015.

  678 Susan Kelly, The Boston Stranglers: The Public Conviction of Albert DeSalvo and the True Story of Eleven Shocking Murders (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1995), pp. 173–174.

  679 Lisa Pease, “The other Kennedy conspiracy,” Salon.com, www.salon.com/2011/11/21/the_other_kennedy_conspiracy/, November 21, 2011.

  680 Discovery Channel press release for the “Brainwashed” episode of their Curiosity show, press.discovery.com/us/dsc/press-releases/2012/discovery-channels-curiosity-conducts-experim-2123/, October 18, 2012.

  681 “Kim Jong-nam death: Unravelling the mystery,” BBC News, February 25, 2017, www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39077603.

  682 Richard C. Paddock, “Lawyers for Women in Kim Jong-nam Case Say They Were Scapegoated,” The New York Times, April 13, 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/world/asia/kim-jong-nam-assassination-north-korea-malaysia.html?_r=0, accessed June 14, 2017.

  683 John F. Kihlstrom, “Hypnosis, Memory, and Amnesia,” presented at the 75th annual meeting of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, “Biological and Psychological Perspectives on Memory and Memory Disorders,” New York, December 1995. According to the author’s webpage with this talk, “An edited version of the original presentation was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences as part of a special issue, Biological and Psychological Perspectives on Memory and Memory Disorders, edited by L.R. Squire and D.L. Schacter (1997, 372, 1727–1732),” socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm/hypnosis_memory.htm.

  684 Declaration of Dr. Daniel P. Brown, Ph.D., Exhibit I from Sirhan’s appeal by William Pepper, www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=146777#relPageId=43

  685 Declaration of Dr. Daniel P. Brown, Ph.D., Exhibit I.

  686 Declaration of Dr. Daniel P. Brown, Ph.D., Exhibit I. Declaration of Dr.

  687 Daniel P. Brown, Ph.D., Exhibit I.

  688 Kaiser, pp. 293–294.

  689 Kaiser, pp. 302–303.

  690 Kaiser, pp. 354–355.

  691 Kaiser, pp. 354–355.

  692 Kaiser, p. 355.

  693 Declaration of Dr. Daniel P. Brown, Ph.D., Exhibit I. This also neatly disproved Diamond’s thesis of 1980 that hypnotizing a witness automatically corrupts the witness, a point courts should consider.

  694 Declaration of Dr. Daniel P. Brown, Ph.D., Exhibit I.

  695 Declaration of Dr. Daniel P. Brown, Ph.D., Exhibit I.

  696 Declaration of Dr. Daniel P. Brown, Ph.D., Exhibit I.

  697 “Project MKULTRA, the CIA’s Program of Research In Behavioral Modification,” Joint Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, August 2, 1977, p. 27.

  698 See CIA Director Stansfield Turner’s August 2, 1977 letter to Senator Daniel Inouye. The Church committee had reviewed some of the documents on the CIA’s “mind control” initiatives, which took place under projects by the name of Bluebird, Artichoke, MKULTRA, MKNAOMI, MKDELTA, QKHILLTOP and others. In the letter, Turner refers to the CIA’s Inspector General 1963 report on the MKULTRA programs and a note therein which stated, “Present practice is to maintain no records of the planning and approval of test programs.” Turner was writing because after the Church Committee finished, a new set of documents not previously uncovered, related to MKULTRA and the other programs, was discovered. When CIA Director Richard Helms had been fired by President Nixon for refusing to help him cover up the Watergate break-in, Helms had ordered the CIA to destroy all its mind-control-related files. Turner suggested that these recently discovered files, then, had not been hidden from Congress, but had been so well hidden they had not been found when the CIA was actively seeking such records to destroy them, which may or may not have been a true statement.

  699 FBI interview of Hans Bidstrup, June 10, 1968, dated June 12, 1968.

  700 “Soviet Use of Assassination and Kidnapping,” Center for the Study of Intelligence, Vol. 19. No. 3, September 22, 1993, via www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol19no3/html/v19i3a01p_0001.htm.

  701 FBI interview of Earl Williman, June 23, 1968, dated June 27, 1968.

  702 Ibid.

  703 FBI interview of Sandra Serrano, June 7, 1968, dated June 8, 1968.

  704 “Kennedy Case, Suicide Linked,” Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1969.

  705 LAPD interview of Ernie Johnson, March 20, 1969.

  706 FBI interview of Bill Epperidge taken likely on June 17, 1968 (despite what I believe is a mistaken notation that says “dictated June 15, 1968”), dated June 19, 1968.

  707 Brown declaration.

  708 Brown declaration.

  709 Brown declaration.

  710 UPI, “America Claims Took Part in Plot,” Daily World (Opelousas, La.), April 21, 1967.

  711 UPI, “Cuban Agent Claims Part in JFK Plot,” Independent (Long Beach, Calif.), April 22, 1967.

  712 Memo from David W. Belin to Mason Cargill MC, May 19, 1975, formerly classified SECRET, released from the Gerald Ford Library to respected researcher William Kelly, who posted it on his blog at jfkcountercoup. blogspot.com/2012/11/. “On March 23, 1996 I wrote to the Ford Library requesting the ROCKCOM records of Luis Angel Castillo. On February 10, 2000, I received the following document, Kelly wrote.

  713 Ibid.

  714 Jeff Cohen’s interview notes of his conversation with Castillo’s unnamed wife, May 1976, provided to me by Jeff Cohen. I met Jeff initially through the organization he founded, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting. I later learned we both shared a serious and longstanding interest in the truth behind the assassinations of the 1960s.

  715 Stanley Karnow, “In the Philippines, the CIA Has Found a Second Home,” Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1989.

  716 Memo from Henry A. Kissinger to The President, March 15, 1973, www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/LOC-HAK-296-7-11-4.pdf, accessed September 18, 2017.

  717 Ibid.

  718 Memo from Brent Scowcroft to Mike Dunn, March 26, 1973, www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/LOC-HAK-296-7-11-4.pdf, accessed September 18, 2017.

  719 “News of Society,” Wausau Daily Record-Herald, Wausau, Wisconsin, January 8, 1958.

  720 Telegram from a party whose name and affiliation appear redacted to J. Edgar Hoover, June 7, 1968.

  721 AP, “Bulletins,” The Greenwood Commonwealth, July 6, 1968, via Newspapers.com.

  722 LAPD interview of Sharif Sirhan, June 17, 1968.

  723 Kaiser, p. 238.

  724 Turner and Christian, pp. 90–92.

  725 Estabrooks, Hypnotism, p. 207.

  726 LAPD interview of Sharif Sirhan, June 17, 1968.

  727 Ibid.

  728 LAPD summary of Dr. Richard Nelson in Progress Report dated September 20, 1968.

  729 Ralph Brighton, AP Science Writer, “Can you Hypnotize Person to Murder?” Charleston Daily Mail, December 6, 1969.

  730 LAPD Progress Report – Background/Conspiracy Team, www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=99734#relPageId=20&tab=page.

  731 “Chronology of Events, Life of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan,” FBI Los Angeles Field Office, No. 56-156: Volume 12 (Ser. 2576-2725), December 16, 1968.

  732 LAPD interview of Sharif Sirhan, June 17, 1968.

  733 Ibid.

  734 Ibid.

  735 LAPD interview of Walter Tom Rathke, February 18, 1969.

  736 FBI interview of Frances Holland, June 12, 1968, dated June 13, 1968. Notes about the FBI’s conversation with Livingston appear in Holland’s interview report.

  737 FBI Airtel from SAC New York to Director, June 13, 1968.

  738 Mariú Suárez, Beyond Homo Sapiens: Enlightened Faith (Xlibris Corporation: 2011), p. 345.

>   739 Paul Wolf, “Colombian “Magnicidio” Remains a Mystery After 60 Years,” Counterpunch, www.counterpunch.org/2008/04/09/colombian-quot-magnicidio-quot-remains-a-mystery-after-60-years/, April 8, 2008.

  740 Ibid.

  741 Greg Parker, Lee Harvey Oswald’s Cold War: Why the Kennedy Assassination Should be Reinvestigated, Volume 1 (Sydney, Australia: New Disense Press), 2014.

  742 “President Nasser dies of heart attack,” The Guardian, www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/sep/29/egypt-president-nasser-dies-archive-1970, from the archives, originally published September 29, 1970.

  743 See my U.N. testimony here, aarclibrary.org/the-hammarskjold-commission-witness-statement-of-lisa-pease/, and see Culligan’s statement re Nasser in my article “Midnight in the Congo,” Probe, Vol. 6 No. 3, March–April, 1999, kennedysandking.com/articles/midnight-in-the-congo-the-assassination-of-lumumba-and-the-mysterious-death-of-dag-hammarskjold.

  744 FBI copy of Sirhan’s notebook pages, p. 162 (stamped by FBI, with 163 crossed out, begging the question of who deleted which page from where and renumbered).

  745 CIA memo from redacted to redacted, subject: “ARTICHOKE report,” dated January 22, 1954, www.cia.gov, www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000140399.pdf.

  746 Ibid.

  747 LAPD interviews of Herb Elsman, Hortence Farrchild and Joan Simmons. The reference to “Bryant” appears in the SUS interview summary under the “Simmons, Joan” listing.

  748 Betsy Langman’s interview notes re her discussion with Dr. William J. Bryan, Jr., June 14, 1974, with additional notes writing apparently by Bill Turner after listening to the tape and talking to Langman. The notes are from Bill Turner’s files.

  749 Ibid.

  750 AP, “Man Admits Three Slayings,” The Orlando Sentinel, September 7, 1960.

  751 Ibid.

  752 Langman’s notes of Bryan interview.

  753 Ibid.

  754 Sirhan’s notebook, FBI X-1, Vols. 5 & 6, page 47, www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=99658#relPageId=47&tab=page.

  755 Associated Press, “Hypnosis—More Than Status Symbol: It’s Becoming a Big Part of Sports,” San Antonio Express, July 2, 1972.

  756 Joanne Norris, “These are the Love Doctors,” Independent (Long Beach, CA), November 17, 1972.