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151 PURPLE JUSTICE been led or carried to the Rouen-Paris expressway 1200 feet away. There are numerous drugs in the modern arsenal of the pharma- cologist that can enhance suggestibility, induce selective amnesia, and actually erase a segment of someone's life to replace it with an artificially-constructed reality. It seems amazing to me that Franck Fontaine's body was not imme- diately examined for puncture marks or other signs upon his return. The casual approach that was taken to the gathering and subsequent han- dling of blood and urine samples is equally negligent. Sophisticated analysis of the body fluids could have picked up traces of drugs even if his body bore no obvious needle marks. Unfortunately, nobody was interested in such indication: hounded by the media, all the investiga- tors were looking for either flying saucers or plain evidence of a hoax. Franck's recollection of being inside some sort of laboratory, lying on top of a machine, and going in and out of consciousness for a week, is consistent with the idea that he spent that time in some secret service facility such as the "hospitals" where defectors and suspected spies are interrogated. The French are pioneers in the development of advanced drugs for such purposes. Through its contacts with the Swiss and French multimillion-dollar pharmaceutical industry, French intelli- gence even played a key role in the development of LSD during the Fifties as an interrogation drug. All the events that happened to Franck are well within the state of the art. FOLLOW-UP If the purpose of the operation was, among other objectives, to create a sect that could later be observed or used for sociological experiments, that particular goal was not achieved. The private UFO research group led by Guieu, whose honesty and sincerity is not in question, may have been used to disseminate Prevost's message, but after a short time the decision seems to have been made to drop the experiment. Once those responsible for the affair withdrew their support, Guieu's book was discredited, the media lost interest, and Prevost got deeper