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CIA MIND CONTROL RESEARCH Engineering Institute. Robert, subsequently modified the prototype into a more refined final product. The machine drew enthusiastic praise from criminologists who were supportive of ORD’s concepts for the totalligenbs eniniyam of the new world order. They worked with their new found subjects searching for ways to use the paranormal in spying and counter-intelligence. By May 1971, Operation Often had three astrologers on its payroll whose specific task was to predict the future. They would sit for hours in soundproof booths scouring magazines and newspapers looking for items that would alert them psychically. They then taped whatever thoughts came into their minds about how the particular situation may develop. By 1972 two Chinese-American palmists has been employed to probe how hand reading could be developed for intelligence work. Palmists had already been consulted after the Agency went to considerable lengths to obtain Fidel Castro’s palm prints. A medium was used to scout the United Nations headquarters for “evil types” and an approach was even made to the minister in charge of exorcisms for the Catholic archdiocese of New York. Whatever the offer, it was firmly rejected. Research was conducted into black magic, complete with an analysis on the covens operating in the United States. The Scientific Engineering Institute funded a course in sorcery at the University of South Carolina. The CIA’s scientists carefully studied the results of the classes devoted to fertility rites and raising the dead. Simultaneously, research into brain implant technology was stepped On December 10th, 1972, Helmes cancelled Operation Often. The memo sent to Dr. Gottlieb to notify him was marked READ - DESTROY. Dr. Gottlieb resigned from the Agency in January 1973. Before he left he was ordered by Helmes to shred all records from MKUltra - MKSearch. 130 boxes would later be discovered in the Langley archives that, inexplicably, Dr. Gottlieb had failed to destroy. It was thought that the records had been misfiled and would have been to destroyed if Helmes and Gottlieb had been aware of them. In July 1974 the Watergate scandal climaxed with the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, and Vice-President Gerald R. Ford stepping in to take the reigns. Ford immediately became aware of scope of the CLA’s wholesale misbehavior. They had tried everything from blackmail, bribery, and sexual harassment, to violence and murder, in a genuinely horrific abuse of their privilege to classify anything they deemed fit to cover up TOP- SECRET , ULTRA, or EYES-ONLY. Upon hearing the truth, Gerald Ford’s reaction was reportedly to shake his head in disbelief and mutter ,"My God. Oh, My God." up. After consultation with the DCI, Richard Helmes, Dr. Gottlieb hired the former director of the Agency’s Office of Scientific Intelligence, Dr. Stephen Aldrich, and set him up in a safe house where a KGB defector had recently been interrogated and tortured continuously for almost three years, so that he could experiment with a device known as the Schwitzgebel Machine. This was a ‘Behavioural Transmitter-Reinforcer’ (BT-R) fitted to a body belt that received signals from, and transmitted signals to, a radio module. The machine was “linked to a missile-tracking device which graphs the wearer’s location and displays it on a screen.” It was developed by Ralph K. Schwitzgebel in the Laboratory of Community Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His brother, In December 1974 The New York Times ran a story exposing some of the Agency’s illegal activities during the Johnson and Nixon administration, and a public outcry ensued. President Ford quelled the public reaction by appointing a committee, chaired by Vice -President Nelson A. Rockerfeller, to investigate the allegations. Ronald Reagan, who was Governor of California at the time, was one one of the eight members sitting on the committee. He rallied strongly in favour of the CIA and claimed that “in any bureaucracy of about sixteen million people there are going to be individuals who make mistakes and do things they shouldn’t do.” Over dinner with William Casey, Reagan vowed that if he were ever elected President he would make sure that the CIA would never have to fight with one arm tied behind it’s back. George Bush became DCI on January 31, 1976, and departed to become Reagan’s running mate on January 20, 1977. On January 26, \ 1981, William Casey made his first trip to the White House as Director of Central Intelligence. Within a short space of time, the Director of the National | Security Agency (NSA), Admiral Bobby Ray 3 Inman, who had also been in the running to become DCI, helped forge closer ties with the CIA. Attempts were made to smooth the competitive relationship between the two agencies, the NSA allowing the x CIA unprecedented access to their extensive data 5 and computerised intelligence gathering facilities. On December 11 1980, a law suit was filed ogcinst (he RRO a sO 24¢NEXUS APRIL-MAY 1992 SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET THE SCHWITZGEBEL MACHINE