21-09-2009, 01:40 PM
Candy Jones must be mentioned here as well (She really deserves her own thread...).
From http://xdell.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_archive.html
see also Helens entry in the Barschel thread.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Ultra Head Games, Pt. XI
![[Image: Candy%20Jones.jpg]](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3367/2263/320/Candy%20Jones.jpg)
Jessica Wilcox (left) competed in a number of beauty pageants during the late-1930s and early 1940s. As a Miss America runner-up, she did a number of promotional tours under the stage name Candy Jones. During World War II she toured with the USO, where she met an army doctor named Gilbert Jensen (or Carson-- nobody knows for certain his real name, and both of these were pseudonyms). After the war, the six-foot four-inch blonde became a highly paid fashion model, and eventually established her own agency in Manhattan.
Allen Funt, the creator of Candid Camera, maintained an office in the same building as Candy's agency, and he occasionally kept one of his microphones in her office. One day, two FBI men came to Candy, and asked for her permission to use the microphone so that they monitor a suspect. She happily complied.
When word of her patriotism and cooperation reached the CIA, the Company recruited her as a secret agent. Her job consisted of receiving specially coded mail, then resending it to a post office box using her own stationary. She advanced from that to becoming a type of spy known as a ‘dead letter drop’. Some of the coded mail would indicate that she had to take it to a hiding place–e.g., a hollow tree–for another spy to retrieve later and take to its final destination. They then asked her to become a courier, a mission that sent her across the country under the cover of her modelling agency.
On one such mission, she happened to bump into her old USO pal, Dr. Jensen. Shortly afterward, the modelling agency went bankrupt, and she embarked upon a new career as a television reporter for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). During this media stint, she met and fell in love with radio personality “Long” John Nebel. They married in 1972.
Nebel thought Jones had acted strange on their wedding day, and her erratic behavior continued. She also suffered from terrible bouts of insomnia. John, who had dabbled in hypnosis, offered to put her into a sleep trance. He happy discovered that he could easily hypnotize his wife. He was shocked, however, to find out that he had become, in a way, a bigamist.
Nebel informed Jones of what had transpired the morning after their first session, and she could scarcely believe him. In order to prove that he had in fact hypnotized her, and that she related something incredibly bizarre, he taped a number of subsequent sessions, about two hundred hours in all. Nebel eventually found that his amateur probe threatened not only Candy but himself as well. He then sought help from a prominent psychiatrist, Dr. Herbert Spiegel. Donald Bain, who had written a bio of Nebel the previous year, chronicled her story in a 1976 book titled The Control of Candy Jones. (In 2002, Bain released a second edition titled The CIA's Control of Candy Jones.)
From the Nebel tapes and Spiegel’s tests they were able to piece together what had happened to Jones after her “chance” encounter with Dr. Jensen in San Francisco. Jensen took Jones back to his office in order to give her a “vitamin shot.” She then spent the weekend there, in bed, with an IV in her arm. Jensen ultimately took her down twelve levels of trance states, and then sent her back. To do this, he used a number of stimuli analogous to the solitaire game and red queen in The Manchurian Candidate. Nebel suspected that this might have explained her erratic behavior. A New Yorker usually finds himself/herself awash in stimuli. No doubt, she would come across a trigger accidentally, then slip into a trance.
Jones demonstrated unusual ability to slip into a trance easily, repeatedly, and deeply. Dr. Spiegel’s Hypnosis Induction Profile, a psychological test still in use, rates susceptibility to trance states, from lowest to highest, as 0-5. The vast majority of people fall somewhere in the middle. Candy, however, was a five. .
Jones related how, on a series of visits to Hong Kong, she endured torture that no one should have been able to survive. She went on the trips believing they were typical courier assignments. Instead of providing her hospitality, her hosts stripped her naked, wired electrodes all over her body, and gave her a number of shocks. Most people would lose consciousness after a prolonged jolt of sixty volts. A large man should be thoroughly cooked at 120. Jones, however, could face 380 volts and not even break a sweat under a narcohypnotic trance.
The key to “programming” Jones rested in the creation of a second personality that was completely opposite of the dominant one. Jones had confided to Jensen, in their USO days that she fantasized about imaginary friends as a little girl growing up in Virginia. One of them, a strong-willed little tomboy, she called Arlene (in their subsequent sessions in California, she gave her the last name Grant, after her grandmother). Arlene was smarter than everybody else. She was also stronger, faster and braver than Candy imagined herself to be. Candy, interestingly enough, won a number of sporting events as a teenager. Under hypnosis Jones admitted that she won them while pretending to be Arlene.
Grant represented the opposite of Jones in many ways. Arlene was promiscuous, but not Candy. Grant was usually filled with rage, a knee-jerk ultra-conservative, and a rabid racist. Jones, on the other hand, was rather happy-go-lucky, liberal, and tolerant of diversity. Any psychiatrist worth his/her salt would point out that both identities represented different factions of Jones’ actual psyche. Spiegel’s most formidable task was to integrate these two sides into one whole person.
In the middle of his amateur hypnosis sessions, Nebel found a number of official documents – driver’s license, passport, etc. – issued to Arlene Grant. It didn’t take but a glance to realize, from the photographs, that Grant was Jones wearing a brunette wig, which he found as well. He also received a telephone call from a travel agent, confirming flight reservations for Grant. The contrast between the two women was so striking that he could tell the difference between Candy, and Arlene trying to impersonate Candy. (A casual listener can tell just as easily.)
Arlene then began to threaten Candy. She would surface at unpredictable times, like at their wedding, or in the rstudio. In one of their sessions, Arlene told Nebel that she still worked for the CIA and that she had just received orders to kill both him and herself. It was then when Nebel sought Dr. Spiegel’s help.
Jones’ programming came to light before the CIA officially mentioned such a program. Furthermore, the protocol she outlined was consistent with narcohypnosis, which wouldn’t be known until many years later. It is, quite simply, the most credible case to date. The fact that both Nebel and Jones were highly esteemed public figures makes it somewhat less likely that they were either cranks or hoaxers, at least to the degree to which it could ruin their reputations. Candy could also provide classified telephone numbers of her contacts and handlers that checked out when Bain investigated them. She could identify narohypnotic methods and materials long before they became part of the public record.
Jim Keith, in his book Mind Control, World Control doubted the story, largely because of John’s reputation as a prankster. In a 2003 e-mail exchange, I asked Bain about this, and he explained, “While John did enjoy an occasional put-on, they were always harmless, tongue-in-cheek pranks. The Candy Jones story was no prank. I lived it with John and Candy. It was an [excruciatingly] painful episode for both, particularly John.”
Moreover, many, including former FBI Special Agent William Turner, regarded Dr. Spiegel as the foremost authority on clinical hypnosis. I doubt that she could have fooled him.
From http://xdell.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_archive.html
see also Helens entry in the Barschel thread.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Ultra Head Games, Pt. XI
![[Image: Candy%20Jones.jpg]](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3367/2263/1600/Candy%20Jones.jpg)
Jessica Wilcox (left) competed in a number of beauty pageants during the late-1930s and early 1940s. As a Miss America runner-up, she did a number of promotional tours under the stage name Candy Jones. During World War II she toured with the USO, where she met an army doctor named Gilbert Jensen (or Carson-- nobody knows for certain his real name, and both of these were pseudonyms). After the war, the six-foot four-inch blonde became a highly paid fashion model, and eventually established her own agency in Manhattan.Allen Funt, the creator of Candid Camera, maintained an office in the same building as Candy's agency, and he occasionally kept one of his microphones in her office. One day, two FBI men came to Candy, and asked for her permission to use the microphone so that they monitor a suspect. She happily complied.
When word of her patriotism and cooperation reached the CIA, the Company recruited her as a secret agent. Her job consisted of receiving specially coded mail, then resending it to a post office box using her own stationary. She advanced from that to becoming a type of spy known as a ‘dead letter drop’. Some of the coded mail would indicate that she had to take it to a hiding place–e.g., a hollow tree–for another spy to retrieve later and take to its final destination. They then asked her to become a courier, a mission that sent her across the country under the cover of her modelling agency.
On one such mission, she happened to bump into her old USO pal, Dr. Jensen. Shortly afterward, the modelling agency went bankrupt, and she embarked upon a new career as a television reporter for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). During this media stint, she met and fell in love with radio personality “Long” John Nebel. They married in 1972.
Nebel thought Jones had acted strange on their wedding day, and her erratic behavior continued. She also suffered from terrible bouts of insomnia. John, who had dabbled in hypnosis, offered to put her into a sleep trance. He happy discovered that he could easily hypnotize his wife. He was shocked, however, to find out that he had become, in a way, a bigamist.
Nebel informed Jones of what had transpired the morning after their first session, and she could scarcely believe him. In order to prove that he had in fact hypnotized her, and that she related something incredibly bizarre, he taped a number of subsequent sessions, about two hundred hours in all. Nebel eventually found that his amateur probe threatened not only Candy but himself as well. He then sought help from a prominent psychiatrist, Dr. Herbert Spiegel. Donald Bain, who had written a bio of Nebel the previous year, chronicled her story in a 1976 book titled The Control of Candy Jones. (In 2002, Bain released a second edition titled The CIA's Control of Candy Jones.)
From the Nebel tapes and Spiegel’s tests they were able to piece together what had happened to Jones after her “chance” encounter with Dr. Jensen in San Francisco. Jensen took Jones back to his office in order to give her a “vitamin shot.” She then spent the weekend there, in bed, with an IV in her arm. Jensen ultimately took her down twelve levels of trance states, and then sent her back. To do this, he used a number of stimuli analogous to the solitaire game and red queen in The Manchurian Candidate. Nebel suspected that this might have explained her erratic behavior. A New Yorker usually finds himself/herself awash in stimuli. No doubt, she would come across a trigger accidentally, then slip into a trance.
Jones demonstrated unusual ability to slip into a trance easily, repeatedly, and deeply. Dr. Spiegel’s Hypnosis Induction Profile, a psychological test still in use, rates susceptibility to trance states, from lowest to highest, as 0-5. The vast majority of people fall somewhere in the middle. Candy, however, was a five. .
Jones related how, on a series of visits to Hong Kong, she endured torture that no one should have been able to survive. She went on the trips believing they were typical courier assignments. Instead of providing her hospitality, her hosts stripped her naked, wired electrodes all over her body, and gave her a number of shocks. Most people would lose consciousness after a prolonged jolt of sixty volts. A large man should be thoroughly cooked at 120. Jones, however, could face 380 volts and not even break a sweat under a narcohypnotic trance.
The key to “programming” Jones rested in the creation of a second personality that was completely opposite of the dominant one. Jones had confided to Jensen, in their USO days that she fantasized about imaginary friends as a little girl growing up in Virginia. One of them, a strong-willed little tomboy, she called Arlene (in their subsequent sessions in California, she gave her the last name Grant, after her grandmother). Arlene was smarter than everybody else. She was also stronger, faster and braver than Candy imagined herself to be. Candy, interestingly enough, won a number of sporting events as a teenager. Under hypnosis Jones admitted that she won them while pretending to be Arlene.
Grant represented the opposite of Jones in many ways. Arlene was promiscuous, but not Candy. Grant was usually filled with rage, a knee-jerk ultra-conservative, and a rabid racist. Jones, on the other hand, was rather happy-go-lucky, liberal, and tolerant of diversity. Any psychiatrist worth his/her salt would point out that both identities represented different factions of Jones’ actual psyche. Spiegel’s most formidable task was to integrate these two sides into one whole person.
In the middle of his amateur hypnosis sessions, Nebel found a number of official documents – driver’s license, passport, etc. – issued to Arlene Grant. It didn’t take but a glance to realize, from the photographs, that Grant was Jones wearing a brunette wig, which he found as well. He also received a telephone call from a travel agent, confirming flight reservations for Grant. The contrast between the two women was so striking that he could tell the difference between Candy, and Arlene trying to impersonate Candy. (A casual listener can tell just as easily.)
Arlene then began to threaten Candy. She would surface at unpredictable times, like at their wedding, or in the rstudio. In one of their sessions, Arlene told Nebel that she still worked for the CIA and that she had just received orders to kill both him and herself. It was then when Nebel sought Dr. Spiegel’s help.
Jones’ programming came to light before the CIA officially mentioned such a program. Furthermore, the protocol she outlined was consistent with narcohypnosis, which wouldn’t be known until many years later. It is, quite simply, the most credible case to date. The fact that both Nebel and Jones were highly esteemed public figures makes it somewhat less likely that they were either cranks or hoaxers, at least to the degree to which it could ruin their reputations. Candy could also provide classified telephone numbers of her contacts and handlers that checked out when Bain investigated them. She could identify narohypnotic methods and materials long before they became part of the public record.
Jim Keith, in his book Mind Control, World Control doubted the story, largely because of John’s reputation as a prankster. In a 2003 e-mail exchange, I asked Bain about this, and he explained, “While John did enjoy an occasional put-on, they were always harmless, tongue-in-cheek pranks. The Candy Jones story was no prank. I lived it with John and Candy. It was an [excruciatingly] painful episode for both, particularly John.”
Moreover, many, including former FBI Special Agent William Turner, regarded Dr. Spiegel as the foremost authority on clinical hypnosis. I doubt that she could have fooled him.
The most relevant literature regarding what happened since September 11, 2001 is George Orwell's "1984".