AFA 5: Oper­a­tion Mind Con­trol, Pt. 1
Part 1a 43:31 | Part 1b 43:47 | Part 1c 29:26
(Recorded Sep­tem­ber 25, 1984)

The first broad­cast of a three-part series, this pro­gram cov­ers the suc­cess­ful attempts by U.S. intel­li­gence to develop tech­niques for manip­u­lat­ing indi­vid­ual behav­ior in a man­ner that sub­verts human will and con­scious­ness. The dis­cus­sion focuses on meth­ods of caus­ing peo­ple to com­mit assas­si­na­tions against their will and with­out their con­scious knowledge.

Pro­gram high­lights include: dis­cus­sion of a for­mer U.S. intel­li­gence oper­a­tive who had mind-control devices surgically-implanted in his head and was unable to get them removed; the role of mil­i­tary intel­li­gence in financ­ing the research of Jose Del­gado, a pio­neer in the con­trol of behav­ior through sur­gi­cal implan­ta­tion of elec­trodes in the brain; early mind-control exper­i­ments demon­strat­ing that hyp­no­tized sub­jects can be made to com­mit acts nor­mally repug­nant to them; an insid­i­ous mind-control method­ol­ogy called “RHIC-EDOM” (“radio-hypnotic, intrac­ere­bral con­trol — elec­tronic dis­so­lu­tion of mem­ory”), in which the lev­els of a key neuro-transmitter called acetyl­choline are manip­u­lated in such a man­ner as to cause the “sub­ject” to act with­out con­scious knowl­edge or sub­se­quent rec­ol­lec­tion of acts com­mit­ted while affected by the process; the story of appar­ent for­mer U.S. intel­li­gence oper­a­tive Angel Castillo, pro­grammed with mul­ti­ple per­son­al­i­ties (some of them devel­oped for assas­si­na­tion oper­a­tions) and allegedly recruited as a back-up shooter for the assas­si­na­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy; a U.S. Navy project involv­ing the use of audio-visual desen­si­ti­za­tion to con­di­tion “passive-aggressive” per­son­al­i­ties as assas­sins; an inter­view with a for­mer U.S. gov­ern­ment assas­sin, who dis­cusses suc­cess­ful use of mind con­trol in assas­si­na­tion oper­a­tions and main­tains that the United States has been taken over by the national secu­rity estab­lish­ment; advanced mind-control research directed toward read­ing the human mind.

AFA 6: Oper­a­tion Mind Con­trol, Pt. 2
Part 2a 46:11 | Part 2b 46:56 | Part 2c 44:10 | Part 2d 46:05 | Part 2e 36:24
(Recorded Novem­ber 29, 1884)

Con­tin­u­ing from the point at which AFA-5 left off, this broad­cast begins with analy­sis of the appar­ent role of mind con­trol in this country’s polit­i­cal assas­si­na­tions. Wrongly con­victed as the assas­sin of Robert Kennedy, Sirhan Sirhan appears to have been the vic­tim of mind con­trol. The broad­cast presents a num­ber of pos­si­ble “pro­gram­mers,” notably Dr. William J. Bryan, trained hyp­no­tist, self-described CIA employee and an indi­vid­ual who may have been involved with pro­gram­ming Arthur Bre­mer (the accused shooter of Gov­er­nor George Wal­lace.) A num­ber of clues point to Bryan as Sirhan’s programmer.

The pro­gram casts asper­sions on the role of Dr. Bernard Diamond’s diag­no­sis of Sirhan as a “para­noid schiz­o­phrenic.” The dis­cus­sion also high­lights the curi­ous “sui­cide” of Oswald han­dler George de Mohren­schildt, shortly before his sched­uled inter­view with staff mem­bers of the House Select Com­mit­tee on Assas­si­na­tions. Many (includ­ing fam­ily mem­bers) believe de Mohren­schildt had been hypno-programmed to com­mit sui­cide. (One of the focal points of the CIA’s MK/Ultra mind-control research was devel­op­ing the capac­ity to pro­gram sub­jects to com­mit sui­cide after per­form­ing an assassination.)

The pro­gram also touches on James Earl Ray’s inter­est in and involve­ment with, hyp­no­sis (Ray was the appar­ent patsy in the assas­si­na­tion of Mar­tin Luther King.)

Other pro­gram high­lights include: the CIA’s hypno-programming of famed fash­ion model Candy Jones; the mind-control indoc­tri­na­tion of vir­u­lently racist and anti-semitic atti­tudes into the previously-liberal Candy; attempts to induce Candy to kill her­self when her hus­band (famed talk-show host “Long John” Nebel) began to de-program her; a talk by Joe Holsinger (for­mer leg­isla­tive assis­tant to the late Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Leo Ryan), in which Holsinger cites indi­ca­tions that People’s Tem­ple may have been an exten­sion of the intel­li­gence community’s mind con­trol pro­grams; the role of alleged CIA offi­cer George Phillip Blakey in estab­lish­ing the Jon­estown com­pound; the fact that most of the Jon­estown vic­tims had been mur­dered (they were not sui­cides, as gen­er­ally reported); the pres­ence of large amounts of psy­chi­atric drugs at the Jon­estown site; Tem­ple stal­wart Lawrence Lay­ton, Senior’s activ­i­ties on behalf of the National Secu­rity estab­lish­ment; the pres­ence at Jon­estown of CIA’s Guyanese Sta­tion Chief Richard Dwyer shortly before the mas­sacre began; struc­tural sim­i­lar­i­ties between the People’s Tem­ple and fea­tures of the MK/Ultra program.

AFA 7: Oper­a­tion Mind Con­trol, Pt. 3
Part 3a 47:19 | Part 3b 47:17 | Part 3c 44:56 | Part 3d 46:50 | Part 3e 38:14
(Recorded Jan­u­ary, 1985)

Resum­ing the dis­cus­sion from the end of AFA-6, the pro­gram explores the intel­li­gence establishment’s use of mind-control cults. After indi­ca­tions that the People’s Tem­ple may have been an intel­li­gence oper­a­tion, the pro­gram presents infor­ma­tion about the Rajneesh cult sug­ges­tive of sim­i­lar pos­si­bil­i­ties. Much of the analy­sis focuses on Rev­erend Moon’s Uni­fi­ca­tion Church.

Mr. Emory hypoth­e­sizes that Moon’s orga­ni­za­tion is an exten­sion of the Japan­ese Patri­otic and Ultra-Nationalist Soci­eties, which paved the way for fascism’s rise in Japan through a pro­gram of polit­i­cal assas­si­na­tions, intim­i­da­tion, bribery and pro­pa­ganda. Super­fi­cially Korean, the Moon orga­ni­za­tion drew heav­ily on cap­i­tal and man­power from the fas­cist infra­struc­ture of Impe­r­ial Japan. In the United States, the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church is very well-connected to ele­ments of the Amer­i­can intel­li­gence estab­lish­ment and the right wing.

The pro­gram con­cludes with an exam­i­na­tion of the Ananda Marga orga­ni­za­tion, a fiercely anti-communist cult, pur­port­ing to derive from Indian spir­i­tual traditions.

Pro­gram high­lights include: the Nazi antecedents of the Philip fam­ily (involved with Jon­estown); an order to cease iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the dead at Jon­estown given by National Secu­rity Advi­sor Robert Pas­tor to the mil­i­tary com­man­der of the U.S. forces a the mas­sacre site; the piv­otal role of Japan­ese war crim­i­nals Yoshio Kodama and Royichi Sasakawa in the devel­op­ment of the Moon orga­ni­za­tion; Moon aide Bo Hi Pak’s back­ground in the Impe­r­ial Japan­ese Army; the anti-Christian, anti-American ide­ol­ogy of the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church; con­nec­tions of the Moon group to Water­gate Spe­cial Pros­e­cu­tor Leon Jaworski and con­ser­v­a­tive orga­nizer Richard Viguerie; the sus­pi­cious death of Robert Boettcher, a key aide inves­ti­gat­ing the Moon orga­ni­za­tion in con­nec­tion with the Kore­a­gate scan­dal; dis­cus­sion of the Japan­ese Patri­otic soci­eties; the activ­i­ties of Axis spy Subas Chan­dra Bose (the founder of Ananda Marga was a room­mate of his); alle­ga­tions of ter­ror­ism lodged against the Ananda Marga group in India.