31-10-2008, 11:56 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Interesting article. I haven't seen Shane O'Sullivan's film, so I can't comment on the technical aspects.
However, I disagree with DiEugenio's comments below:
Walter Bowart is indeed one of the true grandfathers of mind control research, and I was privileged to speak with him on many occasions. However, sadly, Walter passed away in December 2007. So, unless we're stuffed into The Jacket with Adrien Brody, Walter is now a tough interview.
John Marks is a more complex case. He deserves great praise and gratitude for writing The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, and getting it published. Marks has also been generous in allowing other researchers access to his files, in which some - such as Martin Cannon - have found hitherto unrealized gems. For instance, Cannon discovered the true identity of "Dr Marshall Burger" - the deep black hypnotist of "Candy Jones" - in Marks' files.
However, I cannot help but think that Marks' work now constitutes a limited hangout - probably more by the passing of time than by conscious design.
Fellow Conradian,
Read both, find both fascinating - if horrible - but was left with a nagging feeling that I was missing the pre-history: Do you know if Brit spookery had a look at this subject in the mid-to-late nineteenth century? This is just a hunch - I defer to your greater knowledge of the subject.
A further puzzle to me: Why use a hypno-programmed pseudo-assassin (Sirhan) when the job could just as easily have been undertaken by a conventional patsy - I typed "pasty" initially, which error was not without a certain surreal charm - bumped off, a la LHO, post-hit? This has long perplexed me. Sirhan, after all, required after-care. Was it just a case of they had the technology, so they deployed it?
Paul