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Hospitals, a licensed M.D., Chairman of the Council on Research and Development of the American Psychiatric Association, psy- chiatric consultant to the Air Force, author of books and studies on prisoners of war, an internationally-recognised expert in his field. I thought he had a creepy hypnotic voice. A tall, heavy-set man who appeared to be kindly, I suspected "Jolly" of being too smooth, too soothing to be trusted.""* Hearst later commented: “Dr West, I thought, was inordinately interested in the sex that went on within the SLA, particularly in the lesbian relationships.""* West also called in Dr Martin Ome, who was introduced to Hearst simply as a psychiatrist, but whom we know today as hav- ing been the head of the Office of Naval Research's Committee on Hypnosis, and who helped develop the coercive use of hypnotic mind-control. Hearst reported that she "thought him very strange. Some of his questions were most extraordinary. He acted or com- mented as though he did not believe a word I was saying." Whilst conducting research for the CIA's MKULTRA behaviour- modification program and being supported by the documented CIA funding fronts, The Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology and The Scientific Engineering Institute, Dr Orne wrote papers that included one, entitled "Hypnotically Induced Hallucinations", which was subsequently published in 1975 in a collection co-edited by West, entitled Hallucinations: Behavior, Experience and Theory. In the paper, Ome states: “Even in present-day America, when an individual hears God Speak to him it is a toss-up whether he will become a successful leader of a new religious sect or will come to the attention of a psychiatric unit."”” Continued in the next issue of Bais Magazine... | Footnotes: 1, “What is the Cult Awareness Network and What Role did it Play in Waco?", Report prepared by Ross & Green (Atomeys), Washington, DC, USA, July 1993, p. 9. 2. Ibid. 3. James T. Richardson, “People's Temple and Jonestown: A Corrective Comparison and Critique", Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (1980), 19(3):240. 4. Ibid., pp. 252-253. 5. Michael Meiers, “Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment?: A ~ Review of the Evidence", Studies in American Religion (1988), vol. 35, published by The Edward Mellin Press. 6. Ibid., pp. 386-388. 7. R. D. Laing interview reproduced in "New World Order Psychiatry", Omni Magazine (original issue number unknown). 8. Alan W. Scheflin and Edward Opton, Jr, The Mind Manipulators, Paddington Press, New York & London, 1978, pp. 149-50. See NEXUS, vol. 2, nos. 11 & 12 for comprehensive details on West's behaviour-modifi- cation history. 9. Louis J. West, M.D., Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D., “Cults, Qaacks and Nonprofessional Psychotherapies", DSM-III: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, The American Psychiatric Association, p. 3249. 10. The New York Times, 2 September 1974. 11. West and Singer, "Cults, Quacks and Nonprofessional Psychotherapies", DSM-III, p. 3251. 12. Ted Patrick (with Tom Dulack), Let Our Children Go!, New York, 1976. 13. Helander vs Patrick, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA, 1976. 14. Patricia Campbell Hearst (with Alvin Moscow), Every Secret Thing, Pinnacle Books, New York, USA, 1982, p. 407. 15. Ibid., p. 408. 16. Ibid., p. 411. 17. R. K. Siegel and L. J. West (editors), Hallucinations: Behavior, Experience and Theory, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 1975, pp. 211-212. NEXUS e 21 dl OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1994