LaRouche P(cid:1) A(cid:1) C(cid:1) Soldiers of Soldiers of Satan Satan LAROUCHE SAYS: Stop Cheney’s Monsters Now! $5 Suggested Contribution Cheney’s ‘Spoon-Benders’ Pushing Nuclear Armageddon by Jeffrey Steinberg Sometime in late 1980, then-Col. Paul E. Vallely, the But the subsequent paper co-authored by Vallely went Commander of the 7th Psychological Operations way beyond ESP and the other paranormal techniques Group, United States Army Reserve, Presidio of San advocated by Alexander: “Strategic MindWar must begin Francisco, Ca., co-authored a discussion paper, which the moment war is considered to be inevitable,” the docu- received wide and controversial attention within the U.S. ment stated. “It must seek out the attention of the enemy military, particularly within the Special Operations com- nation through every available medium, and it must strike munity. The paper was titled “From PSYOP to MindWar: at the nation’s potential soldiers before they put on their The Psychology of Victory,” and it presented a Nietzschean uniforms. It is in their homes and their communities that scheme for waging perpetual psychological warfare they are most vulnerable to MindWar. ... against friend and enemy populations alike, and even “To this end,” Vallely and co-author continued, against the American people. “MindWar must be strategic in emphasis, with tactical The “MindWar” paper was provoked by an article by Lt. applications playing a reinforcing, supplementary role. In Col. John Alexander, which appeared in the December 1980 its strategic context, MindWar must reach out to friends, edition of Military Review, advocating the introduction of enemies, and neutrals alike across the globe—neither ESP (extra-sensory perception), “tele-pathetic behavior mod- through primitive ‘battlefield’ leaflets and loudspeakers of ification,” para-psychology, psychokinesis (“mind over mat- PSYOP nor through the weak, imprecise, and narrow ter”), remote viewing, out of body experiences, and other effort of psychotronics—but through the media possessed New Age and occult practices into U.S. military intelligence. by the United States which have the capabilities to reach Alexander’s paper was titled “The New Mental Battlefield: virtually all people on the face of the Earth. These media Beam Me Up, Spock.” are, of course the electronic media—television and radio. LaRouche P.O. Box 6157 Leesburg, Virginia 20178 www.larouchepac.com P(cid:2) A(cid:2) C(cid:2) COVER:Vice President Dick Cheney: WorldEconomic Forum ©August 2005 LLPPA-2005-006 Paid for by the Lyndon LaRouche PAC, P.O. Box 6157, Leesburg, VA 20178. www.larouchepac.com and Not Authorized by Any Candidate or Candidate's Committee State of the art developments in a leading suspect in a nationwide satellite communication, video Satanic pedophile ring, that par- recording techniques, and laser and ticularly targetted daycare centers optical transmission of broadcasts on such military bases as Fort make possible a penetration of the Bragg and the Presidio (see minds of the world such as would below). have been inconceivable just a few Furthermore, Vallely and Aquino’s years ago. Like the sword Excalibur MindWar scheme is remarkably sim- [King Arthur’s magical sword—ed.], ilar to the Total Information we have but to reach out and seize Awareness (TIA) program launched this tool; and it can transform the by the Donald Rumsfeld Pentagon, world for us if we have the courage under the direction of Irangate fig- and the integrity to enhance civiliza- ure Adm. John Poindexter. tion with it. If we do not accept Ostensibly, the Total Information Excalibur, then we relinquish our Awareness global propaganda and ability to inspire foreign cultures mega-data-mining plan was with our morality. If they can then scrapped after a series of negative desire moralities unsatisfactory to news stories, but Pentagon sources us, we have no choice but to fight have reported that the program was them on a more brutish level. merely “taken into a black box.” “MindWar must target all partici- Indeed, on Aug. 16, 2005, The pants to be effective. It must not only New York Times’ Philip Shenon weaken the enemy; it must strength- revealed that a super-secret knightbilham.com en the United States. It strengthens Col. John B. Alexander (right), with Hal Pentagon “special action program” the United States by denying enemy Puthoff. Alexander was one of the first to called Able Danger had tracked propaganda access to our people, advocate the use of ESP, ‘tele-pathetic Mohammed Atta and three of the and by explaining and emphasizing behavior modification,’ para-psychology, and other Sept. 11, 2001 hijackers a year to our people the rationale for our other New Age and occult practices in U.S. prior to the attacks; but Pentagon military intelligence. national interest in a specific war.” lawyers with the Special Operations Leaving nothing to the imagi- Command refused to allow the nation, the document concluded by emphasizing that information to be shared with the FBI, for fear of exposing MindWar should employ subliminal brainwashing the data-mining program to any public scrutiny. The technologies, and weapons that directly attack the tar- Times learned of Able Danger from Lt. Col. Anthony getted population’s central nervous system and brain Schaffer, who was the program’s liaison to the Defense functioning: “There are some purely natural conditions Intelligence Agency at the time. under which minds may become ‘Nuke Iran!’ more or less receptive to ideas, and MindWar should take full Colonel Vallely’s association with advantage of such phenomena as Aquino did little to stall the for- atmospheric electromagnetic activ- mer’s military career advancement. ity, air ionization, and extremely A West Point graduate, Vallely low frequency waves,” the paper retired in 1991 as deputy com- concluded. manding general of the U.S. Army The “MindWar” paper was dis- of the Pacific. From 1982-86, he turbing, for reasons beyond its headed the 351st Civil Affairs fascistic and occultist content. For Command, placing him in charge one thing, Colonel Vallely’s co- of all Special Forces, Psychological author was a PSYOP Research & Warfare, and Civil Affairs Military Analysis Team Leader named Maj. units in the Western United States Michael A. Aquino. Five years and Hawaii. before the circulation of the Today, he is practicing what he MindWar paper, Special Forces and Satanist Aquino preached in the Reserve officer Aquino had found- MindWar paper, and is one of the ed the Temple of Set, a Satanic leading propaganda assets in Vice organization which was the suc- President Dick Cheney’s push for cessor to Anton Szandor LeVay’s military confrontation with Iran— Uri Geller Press Pictures Church of Satan. Aquino would one that could see the United States Uri Geller, the legendary Israeli ‘spoon-bender,’ soon be grabbing headlines, which worked for U.S. intelligence in the 1980s, and carry out the first pre-emptive persisted throughout the 1980s, as has now reportedly been brought back. nuclear attack in history. 2 General Vallely, now retired from the military, is a senior that the Special Forces “black programs” may now have military commentator for Rupert Murdoch’s shrill Fox TV ventured into the field of “pseudo-gang warfare,” in which News; is a “client” of Benador Associates, the premier pub- counterinsurgency methods blur with insurgency. lic relations firm for the neo-conservative cabal in Quoting from a September 2003 San Francisco Washington; is the Military Committee chairman for Frank Chronicle article by Naval Postgraduate School defense Gaffney’s neo-conned Center for Strategic Policy; and is the analyst and Pentagon counterinsurgency advisor John co-founder, along with Gen. Thomas McInerney (USAF- Arquilla, Hersh hinted that U.S. Special Forces units ret.), another Benador client, of the Iran Policy Committee. were being unleashed to create their own terrorist “pseu- IPC is yet another neo-con front group that: 1) promotes do gangs” to more easily infiltrate terrorist groups like the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK), a group on the State al-Qaeda. Arquilla wrote: “When conventional military Department’s list of International Terrorist Organizations operations and bombing failed to defeat the Mau Mau (for assassinating a number of U.S. military officers in insurgency in Kenya in the 1950s, the British formed Iran); and 2) demands U.S. military action to impose teams of friendly Kikuyu tribesmen who went about pre- “regime change” in Tehran, through such measures as a tending to be terrorists. These ‘pseudo gangs,’ as they massive bombing campaign against Iran’s purported secret were called, swiftly threw the Mau Mau on the defensive, nuclear weapons labs, and a U.S. Naval blockade of the either by befriending and then ambushing bands of Straits of Hormuz. Recently General Vallely co-authored a fighters or by guiding bombers to the terrorists’ camps. book with General McInerney, titled Endgame—Blueprint What worked in Kenya a half-century ago has a wonder- for Victory for Winning the War on Terror, which borrows, ful chance of undermining trust and recruitment among philosophically, from his and Aquino’s original MindWar today’s terror networks. Forming new pseudo gangs rant (see interview with Vallely below). should not be difficult.” Arquilla added, for good measure: “If a confused young The ‘Jedi Warriors’ man from Marin County can join up with al-Qaeda [a refer- General Vallely, Colonel Alexander, and Lt. Colonel ence to John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Aquino (ret.) are but three leading figures within the Taliban—ed.], think what professional operatives might do.” Special Operations community, who have promoted the The ‘Gang of Four’ application of New Age and outright Satanic practices to the art of war, conducting experimental programs aimed Four of the names most often cited as promoters of at creating a Nietzschean “Über- programs like the “Goat Lab,” the mensch warrior.” “Jedi Warriors,” “Grill Flame,” In preparation for this article, “Task Force Delta,” and the “First EIR has interviewed a number of Earth Battalion,” have held top senior retired military and intelli- posts within the military intelli- gence officers, who have identi- gence and Special Operations fied, from their own personal commands: experiences, a number of other Gen. Albert Stubblebine III leading military officers who pro- was the head of U.S. Army moted these efforts and funnelled Intelligence, INSCOM (Intelligence massive amounts of Pentagon and Security Command), from money into “black programs,” 1981-84, during which time he testing the military applications of launched a series of secret projects a whole range of bizarre “non- at Fort Meade, Md., involving lethal” techniques and technolo- remote viewing and other occult gies. Some of the top-secret pro- practices. General Stubblebine grams funded by taxpayer dollars was, perhaps, the U.S. Army’s over the past 25 years betray a sig- most senior and loudest advo- nificant degree of outright “spoon- cate of the full gamut of New bending” lunacy. Others lead Age warfare. directly to the doorsteps of Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib current U.S. Army Chief of Staff, military detention centers, where was Commanding General of the prisoners have been turned into Joint Special Operations Com- human guinea pigs for experimen- mand (1994-96), Commander of tal torture techniques, drawn from the United States Army Special the same New Age bag of tricks. Operations Command (1996-97), And The New Yorker magazine and Commander in Chief of the This document was co-authored by then-Col. Paul investigative journalist Seymour United States Special Opera- Vallely and the Satanist Lt. Col. Michael Aquino in Hersh, in a Jan. 24-31, 2005 article 1980, a seminal document in the bid for influence tions Command (1997-2000). on “The Coming Wars,” mooted by the ‘spoon-benders’ in the U.S. military. According to a well-researched 3 benning.army.mil Gen. Wayne A. Downing Gen. Albert Stubblebine III applied MindWar techniques was perhaps the U.S. Army’s U.S. Army/Sgt. Carmen L. Burgess during the invasion of most senior and loudest Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker has Panama, as Commander-in- advocate of New Age warfare, allegedly created a think-tank devoted to expanding Chief of the U.S. Special when he headed U.S. Army the application of bizarre occult andparanormal Operations Command. Intelligence in the 1980s. operations throughout the Army. According to military sources, General Downing left the White House as the result of a conflict with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, over plans for the invasion of Iraq. Downing had argued that Saddam Hussein could be overthrown by a massive “shock and awe” bombing cam- paign, followed by an invasion by a force of no more than 25,000 Special Forces troops. The “Downing Plan” was rejected by the Chiefs as “sheer madness,” according to one senior military source familiar with the events. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin was the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, N.C., from 1998-2000. Prior to that, he was the Commander of the elite counter-terror unit, Delta Force, from 1992-95. He was, in that capacity, in charge of the Special Forces units in Mogadishu, Somalia, during the famous 1993 “Black Hawk Down” National Faith Institute/Kent Harville Gen. ‘Jerry’ Boykin smeared Islam as ‘Satanic,’ and said God incident, in which a number of Special Forces soldiers had put Bush in the White House. were beaten to death by warlords, and dragged through the streets of the city. Here, some of Lt. Col. John book exposing the New Age penetration of the U.S. mili- Alexander’s non-lethal systems, including “Sticky Foam,” tary, The Men Who Stare at Goats,by Jon Ronson (Simon were directly put to the combat test—and failed. From & Schuster, New York, 2004), General Schoomaker has March 2000 until June 2003, General Boykin headed the created a think-tank, under the sponsorship of the Army U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center. He Chief of Staff office, to expand the application of these bizarre occult and para-normal operations throughout the U.S. Army, as his contribution to President George W. Pat Robertson of the Bush’s Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). ‘Christian’ right—an Gen. Wayne Downing also was the Commander-in- important figure in Chief of the U.S. Special Operations Command, and President Bush’s base, and earlier directed all special operations during the one whose most recent December 1989 invasion of Panama, when some of the demented eruption MindWar techniques were used, during the siege of the involved calling publicly Vatican compound where Gen. Manuel Noriega had for the assassination of Venezuelan President taken refuge. Following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Hugo Chavez—defended Downing was named National Director and Deputy Gen. Boykin as a true National Security Advisor for Combatting Terrorism in ‘Christian’ after his the Bush-Cheney White House, a post he held until outrageous remarks. June 2002. www.mmpublicrelations.com 4 was then named Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, a post he still holds. According to The New Yorker piece by Hersh, Boykin and his immediate boss, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone, are directly in charge of the SpecialOperations search-and-kill squads touted by John Arquilla in his pseudo-gang promo. Shortly after his appointment to the Deputy Undersecretary position, General Boykin drew fire, for remarks he delivered—in uniform—at a fundamentalist Christian church, in which he smeared Islam as a “Satanic” religion, and characterized the U.S. invasion of Iraq as a religious “crusade.” He also said that “God had placed George W. Bush” into the Presidency, pro- voking serious debates about his own sanity and a Pentagon Inspector General’s Office probe. First Earth Battalion—Where It All Began jimchannon.com According to author Jon Ronson, in 1977, Lt. Col. Jim Lt. Col. Jim Channon was one of the first proponents of New Channon, a Vietnam War combat veteran, wrote a letter Age MindWar in the military, starting in the late 1970s. to Lt. Gen. Walter Kerwin, then the U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff, proposing a fact-finding mission to unearth Channon’s First Earth Battalion slide show was brought ways for the U.S. military to become more “cunning.” to General Stubblebine, the head of INSCOM, by Colonel Channon was given an open-ended assignment, a small Alexander, the author of the Military Reviewarticle on “The Pentagon budget, and spent the next two years, by his New Mental Battlefield,” and, by 1981, Stubblebine estab- own accounts, exploring the depths of the New Age move- lished a secret “psychic spies unit” at Fort Meade, to test ment, seeking military applications. Channon visited over out such dubious techniques as remote viewing. 150 New Age facilities during his travels, with such coun- Two years later, General Stubblebine traveled to Fort tercultural names as: Gentle Wind, Integral Chuan Bragg, to pitch the Channon/Alexander program to the top Institute, Dayspring, Inc., The Center of Release and leadership of the Special Operations community. By now, Integration, Postural Integration Reichian Rebirthing, the Stubblebine was convinced that, with the application of New Age Awareness Fair, Beyond Jogging, Aikido with Ki, the right “mind over matter” techniques, he could person- the Biofeedback Center of Berkeley, and the Esalen ally walk through walls. As of this writing, he has not yet Institute. apparently succeeded. The Fort Bragg session, as he Channon particularly spent a good deal of time training would later recount it to author Ronson, was a fiasco, and under Michael Murphy, the co-founder of Esalen, which no action was taken to implement his program—or so was the leading West Coast New Age psychological experi- Stubblebine thought. mentation center, testing a wide array of mind-control In reality, Fort Bragg, by 1978, was already a hotbed of methods, many involving the use of psychotropic drugs. mind-war experimentation. Among the programs carried Cultist mass murderer Charles Manson spent Aug. 5, 1969 out at remote corners of the sprawling special operations at Esalen, just four days before he unleashed the “Helter base: the Goat Lab, where a team of New Age-trained Skelter” murder spree, for which he is still serving a life- Special Forces soldiers attempted to burst the hearts of time jail sentence. Manson had been tracked, from his goats, in an adjacent holding pen, through the power of years in state prison, by military psychologists, who were psychic concentration. Veterinarians working on the base studying behavioral patterns of what they dubbed the were horrified that Special Forces planes were airlifting “pathologically violent five percent.” goats up from Central America, without going through the In 1979, Lt. Colonel Channon presented his findings to normal Customs inspections. The goats were used in the the Army brass in a 125-page document, complete with training of combat medics. The goats would be shot, their slides, called “The First Earth Battalion.” While the docu- limbs would be amputated, and, on some occasions, they ment was laced with New Age vocabulary (“The First were “de-bleated” by having their tongues cut out or their Earth is not mission oriented, it is potential oriented. That throats slashed. Then, they were subjected to the Goat Lab means we shall continue to look everywhere to find non- psychic warfare tests. destructive methods of control.”), Channon did propose Keying off of Channon’s blueprint, a Special an array of non-lethal techniques that would be soon Operations experimental team, dubbed “Jedi Warriors,” adopted by the military, including the use of atonal noises after the Star Wars craze, were trained in a wide array of as a form of combat psychological warfare, oriental mar- Eastern oriental martial arts and meditation techniques, tial arts and spiritualist instruction, and widespread combined with super-strenuous physical training pro- experimentation with psychoelectronics and other means grams. Outside “experts” like Dr. Jim Hardt, were brought of debilitating enemy forces. in to train the “Jedi Warriors” to heighten their mental 5 telepathy skills through Zen. Following Jim Channon’s First Earth Battalion recipe, Stuart Heller, a New Age psy- chologist, who gave classes in stress control to corporate executives and officials at NASA, was brought in to pro- vide similar schooling to the commandos. Channon had been introduced to Heller by Marilyn Ferguson, the author of the 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy, which peddled a New Age version of H.G. Wells’ original Open Conspiracy concept of mass social control and cultural paradigm-shifts. Not all the instructors of the “Jedi Warriors” were counterculture psychologists. Michael Echanis, a Green Beret who was badly wounded in Vietnam, but later devel- oped advanced martial art skills, was brought in to train the “Jedi” in Hwa Rang Do, a combat technique that emphasized “invisibility.” Echanis would be killed in 1978 in Nicaragua, while working as a mercenary for the regime of Anastasio Somoza. He had been the martial arts editor of Soldier of Fortunemagazine, a well-known hiring hall for ex-soldiers and wanna-be’s, seeking their fortunes as mercenaries. By 1983, between the INSCOM program and the black box efforts at Fort Bragg, a fairly extensive network of mil- DoD/Helene C. Stikkel itary “spoon-benders” had been assembled, to the point Paul Wolfowitz in 2002 as Deputy Secretary of Defense was a that Task Force Delta was created, to stage quarterly big advocate of the MindWar idea championed by Lt. Col. John meetings of as many as 300 military occult practitioners, Alexander. at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Col. Frank Burns launched Meta Network, one of the first “chat rooms” run through Wolfowitz wrote a memo to Cheney, “Do We Need a Non- DARPA’s (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Lethal Defense Initiative?” in which he wrote, “A U.S. lead computer networking system, that would ultimately in non-lethal technologies will increase our options and evolve into the Internet. reinforce our position in the post-Cold War world.” While The scheme to create a breed of Nietzschean “super sol- Wolfowitz apparently made no mention of the more diers” employed some very far-out characters, like the bizarre practices promoted by Colonel Alexander, the guru Israeli “spoon-bender” Uri Geller, a one-time stage magi- of the non-lethal weaponry campaign, at the time of cian, who was brought into the U.S. intelligence commu- Wolfowitz’s memo, Alexander had retired from active nity under the original patronage of Dr. Andrija Puharich, duty, and had been named head of the Non-Lethal a doctor who had been conducting work on parapsycholo- Weapons Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory. gy and telepathy for the U.S. Army’s Psychological In 1990, Colonel Alexander had also come out with a Warfare Division, since the 1950s. Dr. Puharich ran the book, The Warrior’s Edge, in which he promoted a variety Round Table Foundation of Electrobiology, which experi- of unconventional methods to promote “human excellence mented with the manipulation of brain waves. He worked and optimum performance” among soldiers, based on a closely with Warren S. McCulloch, one of the founders of course he taught in 1983 called Neuro-Linguistic Cybernetics, and with the British intelligence countercul- Programming (NLP). Among the students in that course ture guru, Aldous Huxley. were then-Senator and later Vice President Albert Gore, Gen. Max Thurman, and General Stubblebine. By his own Wolfowitz Peddles Non-Lethal Warfare accounts, Alexander and Gore became close friends in According to author Ronson, in an October 2001 inter- 1983, and remain so today. view in London, Uri Geller confided to him that he had Colonel Alexander wrote that the goal of The Warrior’s been “called back” to work for the U.S. government, Edgewas to “unlock the door to the extraordinary human immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks. It seems that the potentials inherent in each of us. To do this, we, like gov- Bush Administration decided that the “psychic spies” ernments around the world, must take a fresh look at non- could play a productive role in the hunt for Osama bin traditional methods of affecting reality. We must raise Laden, and in efforts to prevent a replay of the terror human consciousness of the potential power of the indi- attacks on New York and Washington. vidual body/mind system—the power to manipulate reali- In fact, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz ty. We must be willing to retake control of our past, pre- had been a big advocate of some of Alexander and sent, and ultimately, our future.” Channon’s ideas, while serving as the chief policy advisor Uri Geller was not the only “psychic warrior” called to then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney in the George back to government service after 9/11. Jim Channon, the Herbert Walker Bush Pentagon. On March 10, 1991, original First Earth Battalion New Age super-soldier, 6 according to author Ronson, began holding a series of The New Yorker, Mayer revealed that Special Forces psy- meetings in early 2004 with the new Army Chief of Staff, chologists from the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Gen. Pete Schoomaker. Schoomaker had been comman- Escape (SERE) program at the JFK Special Warfare der of Special Forces at Fort Bragg when the “Goat Lab” School at Fort Bragg had been brought to Guantanamo and “Jedi Warrior” programs were under way. Ronson Bay, to oversee interrogation strategies. The SERE psy- wrote that “The rumor was that General Schoomaker was chologists formed a core of the Behavioral Science considering bringing Jim back from retirement to create, Consultation Teams (BSCT, or “Biscuits”) that “reverse or contribute to, a new and secret think-tank, designed to engineered” the techniques that were used on Special encourage the army to take their minds further and fur- Forces soldiers, to train them to survive enemy ther outside the mainstream.” Ronson described it as a torture/interrogations, as part of the advanced special revival of Task Force Delta. Ronson soon received an e- warfare program at Fort Bragg. mail from Channon, confirming the rumor, and explain- Jim Channon confirmed, in another e-mail exchange ing that the think-tank idea had been floated “because with author Ronson, that many of the ideas adopted by Rumsfeld has now openly asked for creative input on the the Army Intelligence interrogators at Guantanamo, Abu war on terrorism ... mmmm.” Channon elaborated: Ghraib and al-Qa’im came right out of his First Earth “The Army has requested my services to teach the most Battalion blueprint. highly selected Majors. The First Earth Battalion is the ‘Living Embodiment’ of First Earth teaching exemplar of choice. I have done that in the pres- Battalion ence of General Pete Schoomaker. ... I am in contact with players who are or have recently been in Afghanistan At one point in his probe of the military’s spoon-ben- and Iraq. I have sent in exit strategy plans based on Earth ders, author Jon Ronson asked Stuart Heller, the friend of Battalion ideas. I talk weekly with a member of a stress Marilyn Ferguson and Jim Channon, if he could name one control battalion in Iraq who carries the manual and uses soldier who was “the living embodiment” of the First it to inform his teammates of their potential service con- Earth Battalion. Without a second thought, Heller replied: tributions. ...” “Bert Rodriguez.” “Bert’s one of the most spiritual guys I’ve ever met,” Heller told Ronson. “No. Spiritual is the Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib . . . wrong word. He’s occultic. He’s like a walking embodi- and al-Qa’im ment of death. He can stop you at a distance. He can The International Committee of the Red Cross has pub- influence physical events just with his mind. If he catches lished a series of studies and sponsored several interna- your attention he can stop you without touching you.” tional conventions, to evaluate just how “non-lethal” the As Jon Ronson reported, “In April 2001, Bert Rodriguez non-lethal technologies are that have been promoted by took on a new student. His name was Ziad Jarrah. Ziad Alexander, Channon, and their ilk. According to a 1998 just turned up at the US 1 Fitness Center one day and said ICRC presentation before the European Parliament, non- he had heard that Bert was good. Why Ziad chose Bert, of lethal weapons are simply defined as weapons with a less- all the martial arts instructors scattered around the Florida than 25% fatality rate. Such now widely used non-lethal shoreline, is a matter of speculation. Maybe Bert’s uniquely weapons as lasers, extremely low frequency (ELF) occultic reputation preceded him, or perhaps it was Bert’s weapons, and various chemical, biological, and audio stun military connections. Plus, Bert had once taught the head weapons, can cause permanent damage, such as blind- of security for a Saudi prince. Maybe that was it.” ness, deafness, and destruction of gastrointestinal sys- Ziad Jarrah presented himself as a Lebanese business- tems, which, the ICRC insists, require serious study and a man, who traveled a great deal and wanted to protect him- new set of international treaties and conventions. self. “I liked Ziad a lot,” Rodriguez later told Ronson. “He Indeed, according to both Ronson and The New Yorker was very humble, very quiet. He was in good shape. Very writer Jane Mayer, many of the torture techniques diligent.” Rodriguez taught Jarrah “the choke hold and the employed at Guantanamo Bay, at Abu Ghraib, and at such kamikaze spirit. You need a code you’d die for, a do-or-die less-well-known locales as al-Qa’im near the Syrian border desire.” Rodriguez added, “Ziad was like Luke Skywalker. in Iraq, are based on Channon and Alexander’s non-lethal You know when Luke walks the invisible path? You have schemes, but with lethal consequences in some cases. to believe it’s there. And if you do believe it it is there. Ronson confirmed that a facility at al-Qa’im was conduct- Yeah, Ziad believed it. He was like Luke Skywalker.” ing “interrogations” of captured Iraqi insurgents, after play- Rodriguez trained Ziad Jarrah for six months, and gave ing, non-stop, for days at a time, the theme song from him copies of several knife-fighting books he had written. Barney the Purple Dinosaur, “I Love You.” Ronson is con- Jarrah shared them with a friend, Marwan al-Shehhi, who vinced that the music was a cover for subliminal frequen- boarded with him at the Panther Motel and Apartments in cies, very high- or very low-frequency sounds that affect Deerfield Beach, Fla. brain functioning, to break prisoners’ resistance. The prison- On Sept. 11, 2001, Ziad Jarrah took control of United ers were kept in metal shipping containers in the scorching Airlines flight 93, and crashed it in a field in Pennsylvania. sun, blindfolded and in crouching positions, surrounded by Marwan al-Shehhi commandeered United Airlines flight barbed wire, with the music (and subliminals) blaring. 175 and crashed it into the South Tower of the World In an article published in the July 11-18, 2005 issue of Trade Center in lower Manhattan. 7 Abu Ghraib, Satanists, And ‘Spoon-Benders’ by Edward Spannaus In a legal battle currently raging in Federal court in New and riots against American troops and coalition forces,” York, the Pentagon is desperately trying to block the Myers said, and could result in “increased terrorist release of more photos and videotapes of prisoner recruitment.” abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib. At issue, in the lawsuit “Release of these images will be portrayed as part and brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), parcel of the alleged, continuing effort of the United States Physicians for Human Rights, Veterans for Common to humiliate Muslims,” Myers added. Sense, and others, are 87 photographs and four video- Now, listen to investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, tapes, which are reported to contain images of rape, who first broke the Abu Ghraib story in April 2004, and sodomy, and other conduct far more horrendous even who said the following, when speaking to an ACLU event than that which has been disclosed so far. in July 2004: The question raised, what connection does this have to “Some of the worst things that happened you don’t the reports received by EIR that the Special Warfare know about, okay? Videos, um, there are women there. crowd based at Fort Bragg, N.C., is deeply enmeshed in Some of you may have read that they were passing letters “spoon-bender” MindWar programs and experimentation, out, communications out to their men. This is at Abu and intersects outright Satanic circles? Ghraib. ... The women were passing messages out saying ‘Please come and kill me, because of what’s happened’ and ‘Rape and Murder’ basically what happened is that those women who were An examination of this question, should proceed in the arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been light of recent hearings in the U.S. Senate, and the explo- recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras sive New Yorker magazine article by investigative reporter rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of Jane Mayer, which have further documented that prisoner the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in abuse and torture was a deliberate, systematic policy, one total terror.” that came from the very top of the Defense Department, Additionally, former prisoners from Abu Ghraib have and also that these practices were deliberately introduced given U.S. military investigators detailed descriptions of into Iraq, after having first been tried at Guantanamo. the rape of a boy prisoner at Abu Ghraib by an American It may seem far-fetched to some readers, to suggest a soldier, and have described other types of abuse of chil- link between the torture scandals, and Satanic pedophile dren there. rings that operated out of the Presidio Army Base in San At this point, the reader may rightly be asking him or Francisco, or around Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. herself: “How is it possible, that members of the U.S. mili- But consider the following: tary could be involved in such hideous practices?” When Defense Secretary Rumsfeld testified to the ‘Survival,Evasion,Resistance,andEscape’ Senate Armed Services Committee in May 2004, he warned that the unreleased Abu Ghraib images were far worsethan Although her article does not explicitly raise these deeper those that had come out so far, saying that they show acts questions, Jane Mayer’s July 11 New Yorker article, “The “that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and Experiment,” present a compelling case that the techniques of inhumane.” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said, after the sexual and religious humilation of prisoners, as well as most Senate hearings, that “we’re talking about rape and murder of the other techniques used as Guantanamo and AbuGhraib, here.” were developed by behavioral scientists and others associated Other, shaken members of Congress who viewed the with the U.S. military, and that study of such techniques is photos said they showed, among other things, naked pris- regularly used in the training of military personnel to resist oners being forced into sexual acts with one another. interrogation if captured by enemy forces. In an affidavit filed last month in the ACLU case, but Rumsfeld sent Maj. Gen. Geoffey Miller to take command only recently unsealed, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of of the Guantanamo prison camp in November 2002, since Staff, Gen. Richard Myers, painted a stark picture of what Rumsfeld believed that the previous commander was not get- could happen if the photos and videos, known as the ting adequate results from interrogations. It was Miller, said “Darby photos,” were released. Official release of the pho- to be part of the “spoon-bender” set, and also of like mind tos “will pose a clear and grave risk of inciting violence with the Muslim-hating Gen. William Boykin, who estab- 8 trainees’ responses and stress levels. Since the program is ostensibly intended to expose trainees to maximum anxiety in order to better equipment them to resist interrogation and torture, the program is, Mayer reports, “a storehouse of knowledge about coercive methods of interrogation.” Mayer continues: “One way to stimulate acute anxiety, SERE scientists have learned, is to create an environment of radical uncer- tainty: trainees are hooded; their sleep patterns are dis- rupted; they are starved for extended periods; they are stripped of their clothes; they are exposed to extreme tem- peratures,” and so on. If a POW “is trying to avoid reveal- ing secrets to enemy interrogators, he is much less likely to succeed if he has been deprived of sleep or is struggling to avoid intense pain.” Or, as Mayer put it in an interview posted on the New Yorkerwebsite: “Before 9/11, many of these behavioral sci- entists [at Guantanamo] were affiliated with SERE Lynndie England at Abu Ghraib was carrying out the very same techniques that are applied to U.S. soldiers in the SERE schools, where they used their knowledge to train U.S. sol- program. Could that be a coincidence? diers to resist coercive interrogations. But since 9/11, sev- eral sources told me, these same behavioral scientists lished the role of psychologists and psychiatrists in assisting began to ‘reverse engineer’ the process. Instead of teaching interrogations, as part of the Behavioral Science Consultation resistance, they used their skills to help overcome resis- Teams (BSCT, or “biscuits”). tance in U.S.-held detainees.” The BSCT program operates under Military Intelligence, One of those identified in the Mayer article, as playing and many of its members have undergone training in the an important role at Guantanamo, is Col. Morgan Banks, resistance program known as SERE (Survival, Evasion, the director of the Psychological Applications Directorate Resistance, and Escape). SERE reportedly involves subjecting of the Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg. trainees to extreme temperatures, sensory deprivation includ- Banks recommended that the psychologists working with ing confinement in small spaces, loud noises, sexual embar- the BSCTs at Guantanamo, have backgrounds with SERE. rassment and humiliation, and what is called “religious Gitmo, the Laboratory dilemma”—including the desecration of the Bible. Shortly after Miller arrived at Guantanamo, FBI agents During the controversy over the Newsweek story about assigned to Guantanamo raised objections to the use of desecration of the Koran, a former U.S. military officer SERE techniques in interrogations of prisoners, and they wrote to Prof. Juan Cole (who runs the anti-war raised their concerns directly to Miller, according to FBI “Informed Comment” web blog) and described his own documents disclosed in the ACLU lawsuit. experiences at SERE school, which had a mock POW Later, in August 2003, Miller was sent to Iraq by Rums- camp for training CI (counterintelligence) personnel, feld’s Undersecretary for Intelligence Stephen Cambone, and interrogators, etc. “One of the most memorable parts of Cambone’s assistant Boykin. Miller visited Abu Ghraib and the camp experience was when one of the camp leaders the “hunter-killer” squad then known as Task Force 20; his trashed a Bible on the ground, kicking it around, etc.,” the express purpose was to “Gitmo-ize” detentionand interroga- ex-officer wrote. “It was a crushing blow, even though this tion programs in Iraq. As he put it in his report summarizing was just a school. I have no doubt that the stories about his visit, he went to Iraq “to discuss current theatre ability to trashing the Koran are true.” rapidly exploit internees for actionable intelligence.” His best- “I’m sure you must realize that Gitmo must be being known recommendation was that of using detention opera- used as a ‘laboratory’ for all these psychological manipula- tions (e.g., MPs serving as prison guards) to “set conditions tion techniques by the CI guys,” he continued, calling this for successful interrogations.” “absolutely sickening.” Less well known, is that Miller also recommended pro- Sexual humiliation and ridicule, involving stripping viding a BSCT “to support interrogation operations,” trainees naked, and having women laugh at the size of the explaining: “These teams comprised of operational behav- men’s genitals, is part of the advanced SERE training. ioral psychologists and psychiatrists are essential in devel- (And they still claim that 19-year-old Lynndie England oping integrated interrogation strategies and assessing thought this up, all by herself.) interrogation intelligence production.” Mayer was told about another SERE training tech- nique called the “mock rape,” in which a female officer ‘Reverse Engineering’ stands behind a screen and screams as if she were being According to Mayer, the flagship SERE program is based violated, and the trainee is told that he can stop the rape if at the JFK Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg, and the he cooperates with his captors. training program is overseen by psychologists and other At Abu Ghraib, they seem to have dropped the “mock” behavorial science clinicians, who keep detailed records of part. 9