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deBriefings nations, Dr Narut revealed how the US Navy was secretly pro- During the NATO conference in Oslo, Dr Narut had remarked gramming large numbers of assassins. He said that the men he that the reason he was divulging the information was because he had worked with for the Navy were being prepared for comman- believed it was coming out anyway. The US Navy psychologist do-type operations as well as covert operations in US embassies was referring to a congressional subcommittee's disclosures, worldwide. He described the men who went through his pro- which were then appearing in the press, concerning various CIA gram as "hit men and assassins" who could kill on command. assassination plots. However, what Dr Narut had failed to realise Careful screening of the subjects was accomplished by Navy at the time was that the Navy's ssination plots were not des- psychologists through the military records, and those who actual- tined to be revealed to the public at that time. ly received assignments where their training could be utilised (Sources: The Sunday Times, London, 16 January 1999; were drawn mainly from submarine crews and paratroops, and endsecrecy @ egroups.com) many were convicted murderers serving military prison sen- tences. Several men who had been awarded medals for bravery | GENETIC FOOD SCARE SCIENTIST IS VINDICATED were drafted into the program. Ts scientist who was publicly humiliated over claims that The assassins were conditioned through "audiovisual desensiti- genetically modified "Frankenstein" food may be harmful sation". The process involved the showing of films of people has been proved right after all. Hungarian-born Dr Arpad being injured or killed in a variety of ways, starting with very Pusztai, a world expert in lectins, was stripped of his post at a mild depictions and leading up to the more extreme forms of research institute in Scotland and was described as "muddled" by mayhem. Eventually the subjects would be able to detach their his superiors after he referred to experiments in which rats had feelings, even when viewing the most horrible of films. The been damaged when fed genetically altered potatoes. conditioning was most successful when applied to "passive- But the Mail on Sunday has learned that rats did suffer shock- aggressive" types, and most of these ended up being able to kill _ing internal damage, and that a leading pathologist who re-exam- without any regrets. The prime indicator of violent tendencies ined their remains has confirmed Dr Pusztai's findings. These was the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. revelations will place a question mark over the future of Dr The potential assassins also underwent programming to create — Pusztai's former boss, Professor Philip James, who ousted him rejudicial attitudes,in order that they would think of their future from the research program and is now being tipped as head of the enemies, especially the leaders of these countries, as sub-human. Government's new Food Standards Agency, due to be formed in They were presented with films and lectures that demeaned the — April next year. culture and habits of the people of the countries where it had Dr Pusztai, 68, lost his job at the British Government—funded een decided they would be sent. Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, after he told Dr Narut knew of two Navy programming centres: the Granada TV's World in Action of his studies. He said he found it Neuropsychiatric Laboratory in San Diego and the US Regional "very, very unfair to use our fellow citizens as guinea pigs". The Medical Center in Italy, where he worked. interview last August sparked a fierce debate on the potential After his NATO lecture, Dr Narut disappeared and could not dangers of genetically engineered food. e located. Within a week of so of the lecture, the Pentagon Yet Dr Pusztai was discredited on the basis of getting his facts issued an emphatic denial that the US Navy had "engaged in psy- badly confused by apparently referring to the wrong experiment. chological training or other types of train- ing of personnel as assassins". They dis- avowed the programming centres in San EK OLOGY Diego and Naples and stated that they y Some time later, Dr Narut surfacedin QQ London and recanted his remarks, stating ‘ C C that he was "talking in theoretical and not — practical terms". Shortly thereafter, the > US Navy headquarters in London issued a GLILEA statement indicating that Dr Narut's ss EFA ZEO"S SYPHUS 1S remarks at the NATO conference should LE EF « CONPEMNED TO be discounted because he had "personal x -_ PERPETUALLY PUSH problems". Dr Narut never made any fur- y “ # LARGE ROCK UPHILL. ther public statements about the program. Be: PERPETDALLY PUSH Wy a > LARGE ROCK UPHILL. APRIL — MAY 1999 NEXUS - 13