The CIA Doctors

by Colin A. Ross, M. D.

  In a taped message, SLA Field Marshall Cinque declared that115 (pp. 134):

  Colston Westbrook: male, black, age 35, brown eyes, brown hair, 5’8”, 210 pounds, Berkeley language instructor, resident of Oakland, is a government agent….

  Donald DeFreeze systematically transformed Patty Hearst into a Manchurian Candidate bank robber. She took on a new identity and received a new name, Tania. As Tania she was emotionally disconnected from her past and her family, espoused revolutionary doctrine that was completely alien to her, and participated in the robbery of the Hibernia Bank in the Sunset District of San Francisco on April 15, 1974. A bank surveillance camera recorded her while she identified herself as Tania and held an M-1 rifle. The SLA got away with $16,000.00. There was gunfire during the robbery.

  The SLA hid out as fugitives from the time of the kidnapping of Patty Hearst until five of them died in Los Angeles, burned to death during a shootout with the FBI. Emily and Bill Harris and Patty Hearst were not with the other SLA members at the time. They traveled around the country on the run for over a year until they were captured by the FBI in the fall of 1975.

  Patty Hearst was charged with two crimes, the bank robbery and a holdup of a sporting goods store. She served two years in jail before her sentence was commuted by President Carter on February 1, 1979. One of the most active members of the Committee for the release of Patricia Hearst was Congressman Leo Ryan, who corresponded with the Deputy Director of the CIA about CIA mind control research at Vacaville.

  The expert witnesses for Patty Hearst during her trial were Dr. Louis Jolyon West, Dr. Martin Orne, Dr. Margaret Singer, and Dr. Robert Lifton.

  Dr. West and Dr. Orne were MKULTRA contractors with TOP SECRET clearance. Dr. Singer was a co-author of Dr. West’s329 and Dr. Singer289 and Dr. Lifton162, 163, 164, 166 both interviewed American POWs returning from the Korean War. Dr. Lifton166 wrote the classic text on mind control based on his experience with victims of Korean brainwashing, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of “Brainwashing” in China.

  Dr. Lifton163 contributed to a special issue of The Journal of Social Issues entitled, “Brainwashing.” The Issue Editors were Raymond Bauer and Edgar Schein279, who was a research psychologist at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Other contributors included Julius Segal281 who was a research psychologist at the Air Force’s Human Relations Research Laboratory.

  Dr. Lifton164 also participated in a Panel Meeting on “Communist Methods of Interrogation and Indoctrination” moderated by MKULTRA contractor Dr. Harold Wolff and Human Ecology Foundation Board Member, Lawrence Hinkle. Lifton165 attended a meeting on November 11, 1956 on “Methods of Forceful Indoctrination” which was moderated by Dr. John Lilly, who later reported at a CIA-sponsored LSD symposium that he had given LSD to dolphins169. MKULTRA contractor, Dr. Louis Jolyon West, Edgar Schein, and Lawrence Hinkle attended this November 11, 1956 meeting. An earlier meeting on “Factors Used to Increase the Susceptibility of Individuals to Forceful Indoctrination” had been held on April 8, 1956, moderated by Dr. Lilly167 and attended by Dr. Wolff334. Dr. Robert Lifton was firmly imbedded in the MKULTRA mind control network.

  There was a connection between the Patty Hearst kidnapping, the Stanford Research Institute, Dr. West, MKULTRA and STARGATE. Remote viewers at Stanford Research Institute were asked by the Berkeley police to track Patty Hearst after her abduction by the Symbionese Liberation Army280. Remote viewer Pat Price picked a photograph of one of the SLA abductors out of several volumes of photographs shown to him by Berkeley police, and identified the man as Lobo. This later proved to be SLA member William Wolfe, who was known as Willie the Wolf, or Cujo. Dr. West was a member of the medical oversight board for remote viewing research at Science Applications International Corp. into the 1990s, and therefore must have been aware of STARGATE. He must have known about the use of Stanford Research Institute remote viewers in the Patty Hearst case.

  Dr. West testified that Patty Hearst had a new identity deliberately created by Donald DeFreeze. All four expert witnesses testified that Patty Hearst had been brainwashed using classical mind control techniques. She did not meet the full criteria for a Manchurian Candidate because she did not have amnesia. By the diagnostic rules of the American Psychiatric Association, she developed dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DDNOS) rather than full dissociative identity disorder (DID). Since 1994, dissociative identity disorder has been the official name for multiple personality disorder in American Psychiatry12.

  DDNOS is a category that includes incomplete or partial forms of dissociative identity disorder. DDNOS cases either do not have amnesia, or the identity states are not fully formed and crystallized. A full Manchurian Candidate meets the American Psychiatric Association criteria for dissociative identity disorder. A Manchurian Candidate without amnesia would meet criteria for DDNOS.

  Drs. West, Singer, and Orne are Board Members of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, and Drs. West and Singer were Board Members of the Cult Awareness Network. Dr. Lifton is not connected to either of these organizations. However, all four individuals were experts in the set of mind control techniques used by BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE and MKULTRA contractors, Donald DeFreeze and the leaders of destructive cults. Drs. West and Orne are also experts on the dissociative disorders.

  Meiers190 describes numerous documented connections between the CIA, Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple, the SLA, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, the University of California at Berkeley, and Congressman Leo Ryan, who was killed at the Jonestown airport in South America on November 18, 1978. For instance, prior to a 12-man advance party arriving in Jonestown in Guyana in December, 1973, the site was the location for the SHALOM PROJECT, in which 200 CIA-supplied black ex-Green Beret Special Forces experts trained mercenaries for warfare in Angola.

  According to one member of the People’s Temple interviewed by the San Francisco Police Department’s Intelligence and Antiterrorist Division in connection with the Patty Hearst kidnapping, SLA leaders Donald DeFreeze and Nancy Ling, and Patty Hearst’s boyfriend, Steven Weed, were onsite together at the People’s Temple headquarters in Ukiah, California prior to the kidnapping. Jim Jones was directly involved in the administration of a $2 million dollar food giveaway arranged by William Randoph Hearst in response to ransom demands by Donald DeFreeze.

  These relationships between the SLA, Vacaville State Prison, Jim Jones, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, the CIA and Congressman Leo Ryan require further investigation and documentation. For the purposes of this book, Patty Hearst provides a well-documented example of the deliberate creation of a DDNOS-level Manchurian Candidate.

  Chorover59 describes another mind control program at Vacaville State Prison that was aborted because of public protest. A Maximum Psychiatric Diagnostic Unit was set up at Vacaville in February, 1972 to deal with selected inmates out of the 700 held in solitary confinement in California prisons. A program was approved for this Unit in which prisoners would have electrodes implanted in their brains to monitor them and control their behavior after discharge, using radio transmitters. Due to public protest, the California Department of Corrections called a press conference on December 30, 1971 to announce that the project had been “temporarily abandoned for administrative reasons,” repeating the pattern of the Tuskeegee Syphilis Study and the Lafayette Clinic aggression project, both of which were run by physicians, and shut down due to negative public reaction.

  The motives for transformation of Patty Hearst into a Manchurian Candidate bank robber are uncertain but her case is publicly documented and confirmed by four of the twentieth century’s leading experts on mind control, Drs. West, Orne, Singer and Lifton. The methods used to turn Patty Hearst into a Manchurian Candidate are similar to those in the Palle Hardrup case. Palle Hardrup was controlled by a lone criminal, and Patty Hearst was brainwashed in a similar fashion, except that Donald DeFreeze had the support of six other members of the SLA.

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  CANDY JONES


  The Control of Candy Jones23 is about the creation of a Manchurian Candidate by U.S. mind control doctors, none of whom are identified by their real names in the book. The story has not been independently corroborated, and could be factual, based on sincerely believed false memories, or merely a publicity stunt by Candy Jones and her husband, Long John Nebel. However, hypnosis expert Dr. Herbert Spiegel296, who examined Candy Jones in person, is quoted23 (pp. 201) as saying, “I have no doubt that she’s been brainwashed.”

  The only independent documentation relevant to the Candy Jones story I have obtained is the fact that the boxer, Gene Tunney, who was involved indirectly in the recruitment of Candy Jones, was the man who introduced William Stephenson, The Man Called Intrepid302, to J. Edgar Hoover. William Stephenson was the boss of Ernest William Bavin, who corresponded with both G.H. Estabrooks and J. Edgar Hoover. Estabrooks and Hoover corresponded extensively with each other, and Estabrooks referred Dr. Hudson Hoaglund of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology (MKULTRA Subproject 8) to Hoover.

  Candy Jones was born Jessica Wilcox in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on December 31, 1925. Her mother separated from her father when Candy was three years old. She was brought up by her mother and grandmother. During a visit by her father when she was four, she was abused psychologically and physically. This involved threats and manipulation by her father, and his squeezing her fingers hard enough in a nutcracker to cause bruising. The father’s rationale for the abuse was to demonstrate that he could make her cry. This was done in retaliation for her not crying about his imminent departure from the household as a visit was drawing to an end.

  There is no evidence of childhood sexual abuse in the biography, but Jessica Wilcox was a lonely, isolated girl and was physically abused by her mother. Methods of physical abuse included beating with a leather riding crop. She was locked in a small bedroom on the third floor of the house, at night with all light bulbs removed from the room. On one occasion, her mother took her to an orphanage, and appeared to be dropping her off there, then suddenly she took her back home again without explanation. There was an inconsistent tug-of-war between mother and grandmother for Jessica’s affection. Grandmother would often release Jessica from her sensory deprivation room prematurely.

  Grandmother, always called “Ma-Ma” by Jessica, was a powerful figure. She had divorced her husband late in the nineteenth century, survived the Depression on her own, and completed training at an osteopathic college in Philadelphia. Jessica would watch Ma-Ma combing her hair for hours, then go to her own room and do the same, pretending to be her beloved grandmother. Ma-Ma died when Jessica was eleven, leaving her alone with her mother.

  During the school term, Jessica had to come directly home from school, then do all her homework. She had to dress formally for dinner, which was served at 5:00, and was in bed every night at 6:00. At age eleven her bedtime was extended to 7:00. During the winter months of her childhood, her only outside playmate, whom she saw only occasionally, was the daughter of the family’s laundress.

  In order to cope with this combination of abuse and neglect, Jessica Wilcox developed imaginary friends in childhood, to keep her company in the lonely isolation of her home. These included Arlene, Dottee, Pansy, Willy, and possibly an identity named Doll. She would see them in Ma-Ma’s mirror, and they would come to tea. Donald Bain, author of The Control of Candy Jones, believed that Dr. Jensen, Candy’s mind control doctor, amplified Arlene from an imaginary playmate into an alternate identity who did courier work for the CIA. According to the description in the biography, though, Arlene was already a fully formed alter personality before Candy met Dr. Jensen. She took executive control of the body on many occasions during childhood, and had distinct attributes separate from Jessica (pp. 101):

  Once Jensen had become aware of Candy’s imaginary childhood friends, he set out to bring back into her adult life some of those fanciful characters, particularly Arlene. She had been according to Candy, the dominant personality in the “club.” Arlene could run faster, climb higher and swim better than any other club members, including Candy, and took over whenever Candy was engaged in difficult physical activities. Both Candy and Arlene, in various hypnotic sessions with Nebel, freely discussed Arlene’s superiority in these areas. From Jensen’s point of view, Arlene could be the most useful as a “second personality,” if, from his retrospective position, he can be given the benefit of the doubt and assumed to have been in search of another person within Candy Jones with whom to accomplish something tangible. That tangible goal would be to create what G.H. Estabrooks termed “the perfect spy.”

  The biography describes clear switching of alter personalities observed by Candy’s husband, Long John Nebel prior to the discovery of Arlene Grant. Nebel didn’t understand what was going on, and thought Candy was incomprehensibly moody. Arlene describes watching the verbal abuse of Jessica by her mother during childhood, and verbal abuse by Candy’s first husband. Jessica Wilcox had complex, fully formed multiple personality disorder as a child, not simple imaginary companions, according to the description in the biography.

  In late 1936, Jessica’s mother moved to Atlantic City, at which time Jessica was five feet tall. By the time she finished high school, she had grown eight inches, and was strikingly beautiful. At the end of high school, Jessica wanted to be a doctor. She wrote to her father asking for money to help with her education. He sent $200.00, but her mother used it to pay bills. Her mother wanted her to enter secretarial school, but Jessica had different plans, which lead to her winning the Miss Atlantic City contest in 1941, at age sixteen. Her mother’s reaction to her triumph was critical and condescending.

  One of the judges of the Miss Atlantic City contest was John Robert Powers, a famous modeling agent. Jessica went to New York at Powers’ invitation, but never signed with his agency. While there, she went to the offices of Powers’ biggest rival, Harry Conover, at 52 Vanderbilt Avenue. After a brief wait, Jessica was introduced to Conover, who immediately gave her the name Candy Johnson. He hired her at a pay rate of $5.00 an hour. The name was soon changed to Candy Jones.

  A major campaign to market Candy Jones was launched, starting with a printing of 10,000 engraved, red-and-white striped business card bearing the statement, Candy Jones Was Here. She appeared regularly on magazine covers, including eleven covers in one month in 1943. One of these was photographed by Jack Nebel, who later renamed himself Long John Nebel.

  Candy was voted Model of the Year in 1943 by a panel of judges that included Loretta Young. Partly to escape from her mother, in 1944 Candy left for the Southwest Pacific to do a USO tour as a troop entertainer. She had just completed an eight-month show on Broadway, and launched her musical tour at a military base in the United States before leaving for the Pacific. Her experiences on that tour are described in one of eleven books she wrote, More Than Beauty. Candy Jones and Betty Grable were the leading U.S. troop entertainers in World War II.

  In April, 1945 while in Moratai, Candy contracted malaria and brucellosis, the latter from unpasteurized milk flown in from Australia. She was transferred to a hospital in the Philippines, where she developed a fungal infection that made much of her hair fall out. This was treated by a nurse shaving her head. While in the hospital in the Philippines, Candy became friends with a number of different medics, one of whom was Gilbert Jensen. She remained in the Pacific until August, 1945 but it was not until 1946 that her hair and complexion had recovered enough to start modeling again. She took a role in a Broadway musical about Chopin entitled Polonaise in the interim, but had to wear a wig and heavy theatrical makeup to cover up the lingering effects of her tropical infections.

  On July 4, 1946, Candy Jones and Harry Conover were married in a ceremony attended by 2000 guests. It was an unhappy union that yielded three sons. After these pregnancies, Candy had two abortions at Harry’s insistence. It was not until twelve years into the marriage that Candy realized Harry was bisexual. The marriage ended in divorce in 1959. On May 18, 1958
, Harry disappeared with $125,000.00 in Candy’s modeling fees, none of which Candy ever saw again. He eventually spent two years in prison for theft and non-payment of alimony. These events were headline news in New York. After Harry Conover left with her money, Candy Jones had $36.00 in her business account and three sons to support and educate.

  Candy continued to run the modeling school out of 52 Vanderbilt, spending most of her time in room 808, across the hall from offices rented by the former heavy-weight boxing champion, Gene Tunney. During this period Long John Nebel, born Jack Zimmerman on June 11, 1911, became the most successful talk show host in New York radio. In 1960 he divorced his first wife, Lillian. After a 28-day courtship, Long John Nebel and Candy Jones were married on December 31, 1972.

  Not realizing what was going on, Long John Nebel observed a switch from Candy to Arlene and back to Candy again at the wedding. He observed another switch on his wedding night, which Arlene later confirmed. He said it was as if another woman had walked out of the bathroom, Candy having just gone in. This other woman had a different voice, manner, and look, and Candy appeared to be amnesic for her when she regained control of the body. Candy carried on as if nothing had happened. Another switch to Arlene occurred on January 1, 1973. As Arlene, Candy suddenly became inexplicably angry. She reverted to her usual warm, pleasant manner when Candy came back. This switching back and forth caused much marital conflict. Candy could not remember or account for her changed behavior, and Long John could not understand the inconsistency.