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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

rshowalter - 02:10pm Apr 28, 2001 EST (#2710 of 2717)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Individual arguments, from motivated people, may or may not be wrong, or represent misinterpretations rshowalter 4/28/01 1:39pm

Here are some more examples that may be of interest.

Secret Weapons: Two Sisters' Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies and Sabotage by Cheryl and Lynn Hersha with Dale Griffis, PhD and Ted Schwarz New Horizon Press, February 2001. . . . ISBN: 0-88282-196-2 426p. $25.95)

Amazon reviews ( mostly favorable ) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0882821962/qid=988479723/br=1-6/002-7014825-6349662

Google Search: http://www.google.com/search?q=Secret+Weapons:+Two+Sisters%27+Terrifying+True+Story+of+Sex,+Spies+and+Sabotage&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&start=10&sa=N

Book Review: Whitewashing CIA mind control atrocities By Uri Dowbenko http://www.onlinejournal.com/Books___Reviews/Dowbenko032801/dowbenko032801.html is negative -- but does not discount the books core facts. Quotes from the book in Dowbenko's review.

Schwarz writes: "This is not to say that all other researchers had the appropriate war mentality so pleasing to the CIA elite. Many were simply looking out for the financial welfare of their families."(p.63)

" "The scientists who designed the [mind control] project to which Cheryl had been assigned probably would have preferred to work in a less offensive manner," writes Schwarz. "Few wanted to hurt children if there was any alternative. That was why there had been feverish activity on the part of the Central Intelligence Agency's Technical Services Staff (TSS) to develop remote control killers. The idea was to use an implant in the brain that could be stimulated to create behavior. Unwitting adults, unconnected with any of the intelligence agencies could have devices implanted that would stimulate the desired behavior without the person ever knowing what he or she had done." (p. 56)

rshowalter - 02:12pm Apr 28, 2001 EST (#2711 of 2717)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

more Schwartz quotes (from the review):

" In the last few years, a number of individuals have come forward to reveal being locked in cages and used as laboratory rats. According to the thinking of those who conducted and approved the original experiments, the relative handful of people whose stories have a basis in fact were not deliberately mistreated any more than they thought Cheryl was being mistreated. She and the others were involved in pure science. All conditions had to be identical for both the primary research subjects–the primates in this case and the comparison control group of children."

" in order to have human lab rats for the experiments who were children and thus minors, a form was developed called proxy consent. It was created at a time when Americans were sure that parents knew and should decide what was best for their children."

" The young are often self-centered, their knowledge limited to little more than home, school, the neighborhood and any religious institution to which their families belong, he continues. "They cannot understand that there are times when it is necessary to think of the greater good of others [ ] They cannot understand the important role a child can play in preserving the future of democracy and the western world as we know it. [ ] Only a parent can understand all that, especially a parent who has served in the military and understands the concepts of honor duty and sacrifice." (p.89)

" Cheryl and Lynn's father Dick was such a parent," Schwarz concludes. "When his children were selected [ ] for experimentation, he signed the proxy consent form without hesitation."

" The problem is that some people, undoubtedly having troubled pasts, are seeking attention through the Internet," Schwarz (says) "Their troubled reasoning was that just having been molested by their fathers was not enough. They had to have been through something more horrible than that. They had to have been victims of religious cults, government experiments and even pedophiles in the highest offices of the land." (p.323)

" This may have come about because such memory lapses are generated by the use of electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) which has also been used with some frequency in legitimate psychiatric treatment for many years. It is a controversial treatment and the correct amount to be given difficult to ascertain." (p. 326)

Dowbenko comments: "Obviously frying the Hersha sisters' brains to "help" them forget has worked out just fine."

rshowalter - 02:14pm Apr 28, 2001 EST (#2712 of 2717)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Individual arguments, from motivated people, may or may not be wrong, or represent misinterpretations rshowalter 4/28/01 1:39pm

Another book alleging CIA mind control: Paperclip Dolls by Annie McKenna http://www.paperclipdolls.com/html/book.html

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