Chapter 10

JOURNEY INTO MADNESS

    To understand how Aum doctors used psychiatry we need to review the testimony of the head doctor of Aum, Ikuo Hayashi. Then similar treatments elsewhere by others elsewhere in other times need to be reviewed.

    From the testimony of Ikuo Hayashi, this psychiatric practice with ECT began in November 1994 and was performed on 150 members. Hayashi, the head doctor at the Aum hospital, stated in court that the book Journey Into Madness was the source of their psychiatric treatments. This book's full English title is Journey into Madness, Medical Torture and the Mind Controllers, by Gordon Thomas. The Japanese title is Torture and Doctors and was published by Asahi Press. The book is a full expose of the what the CIA and other agencies were doing with psychiatric mind altering technology.

    Hayashi writes of the book after he was asked by Matsumoto to find a way to erase a person's memory, 103 "I remembered a book that I read in 1994 in the Nokata AHI (Aum Hospital Institution). The CIA supported Dr. Cameron's [President of the North American Psychiatry Association] study for the purpose of brainwashing or counter brainwashing. Dr. Cameron tried to erase memories and provide a new personality as a treatment for schizophrenia by using ECT (electro convulsive therapy). The book is published for its unethical and terrifying examples. I recall my bad feeling due the contents. I recall being reminded of erasing memories."

    Hayashi further wrote, "'Did you think of a way to erase memories?' from Asahara, in the end of October. I told of a nurses story and the story of the book (Journey into Madness). I was compelled to say 'I am thinking' and I spoke about the book and the nurse's story. I tried to appeal that there was no good way for me to erase memories. But Asahara became loud and angry, 'We do not know until we try to do it."' Hayashi then continues to write, "Asahara said, Make an apparatus so as to copy [the psychiatric text] and give it to Manjushelli (Hideo Murai)."' Hayashi then explained that the apparatus (ECT machine) was made by Aum, and that Asahara ordered that the machine be used to erase the sexual feelings and the need of a partner of two members from their section. This ECT experiment was carried out. Hayashi further stated, correctly, that a person who receives ECT may not remember receiving it. He describes it thus, "Just before the last influence of the drugs has gone, we mask the influence of the ECT from the subject.

    I had strong psychological objections while I was doing this." Per the magazine Weekly Past there were 21 high status members including 6 senior executives who underwent this treatment.

    Hayashi also wrote of when they had mastered the technique, "On another day I did a new narco interview (new narco is the name given to this form of treatment.) and I checked if the person still had the memory of transgressing the commandments and love. I tried this with a feeling of dread, and I reported this to Asahara and that we could not do it, and that the memory had not been erased. Asahara said, 'You have to try again 10 or 20 times, otherwise you will never make it, so do it!' This was his instruction for us to continue further electric shock. In this way the method was gradually being established."

    As already covered, Cameron had earlier conducted psychiatric brainwashing experiments for the CIA. There were performed in McGill University in Montreal, 104 his experiments known as psychic-driving, where patients were fed previously taped loops of their own voices, sometimes while drugged, so as to break down their mental barriers to change. With the depatterning, or newnarco as Aum called it, we have others trying to erase thoughts and memories.

    Aum, however, had gone one step further than Cameron, and were using polygraph tests to find out if the victim could recall what he knew or not. If the polygraph machine indicated that there was memory still present then further electric shock was given.

    The technology of using electric shock to erase memory was known as early as 1942 when Lucio Bini of Italy was proposing it as "annihilation therapy." Bini was a psychiatrist who assisted in pioneering electric shock in Europe. 105

    The difference between normal hypnosis and a drugged hypnosis, is that under normal hypnosis a person will not commit acts that he would not ordinarily commit. Under a drugged hypnosis the command is different. It is bound into the subconscious like a voice commanding the person to do the original command intent. Drugged hypnosis is irresistibly compelling. There is only one command which is more intense than drugged hypnosis, and that is drugged hypnosis that is meted out along with pain. In such a case, after the hypnotic session, when the victim has returned to normal, should he physically resist following the intention of the command, he will once again experience mentally

    all the pain and trauma of when he was given the pain and the drugs during the time of the hypnotic command. The only relief the victim can experience is to follows the intent of the command. At that point the pain temporarily dissipates.

    As a typical example, a victim is bound, gagged, and given thiopental, a truth serum and hypnotic drug. The victim is also given electro convulsive therapy, while given a command at the same time. The victim is told to never disobey the person then speaking and controlling him. The victim, while under the truth serum, says that he disagrees with the command. The victim is given further ECT to the head or some other part of the body. The questioner again asks if the victim will follow his every command. The victim disagrees. He is given more electric shock. The questioner continues this until the victim gives up and agrees to never disobey the user's voice. The victim is also told that he must never leave the controller, and that the victim will have no memory of this electric shock incident or any memory of the commands.

    In this way, after the hypnotic session, should the person who originally gave the command then instruct the victim to some task, the victim - will physically end it impossible to disobey. So a runaway is told never to run away. He returns. A member is told he is always to obey. He does all he is told.

    Let us look at Cameron's work a lot closer, which seems to have been imitated so well by Aum doctors.

Cameron and the CIA

    Dr. Donald Ewin Cameron was recruited by the CIA because the agency needed to work outside of the USA, so that it would not be caught working on its brainwashing programs. Its decision was made in the name of national security as the CIA needed to equal the communists in their effort to perfect brainwashing techniques. Dr. Cameron was perfectly willing to accommodate the CIA in all their wishes. He was paid $69,000 in the 1950s for his work, which was performed in the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal, Canada, outside of the USA. This was part of the MKULTRA program.

    "OPERATION KNOCKOUT," as part of the MK-ULTRA program had the goal of conducting "research to define mechanisms involved in the production of involuntary sleep and related unconscious states."m Many of Cameron's victims were placed into a

    drug-induced stupor sometimes lasting as long as 90 days. A continuous audio tape played negative messages to the patient 16 hours a day for several weeks. Patients received a shock to their legs at the end of the message. Often this message was taken from tape recordings of the patients own voice. The recorded loop of their own voice was played to them over and over, with the speakers either being under their pillow or specially rigged inside football helmets which they wore all day. These negative messages were then followed by 2 to 5 weeks of "positive" messages run the same way. Politically correct messages were also implanted into the individual's mind to be unwittingly acted upon in the future. Cameron got the idea of psychic driving after observing an educational boom where people claimed that they could learn while asleep when phonograph records played them messages. There were different companies promoting such machines. Cameron simply devised a fancier name, psych driving, and introduced pain and drugs into the procedure. Instantly he had developed a new psychiatric so-called remedy.

    Depatterning was more violent. The patient was awakened two or three times every day for multiple electroshock treatments using a Page-Russell ECT machine which made it possible to give five consecutive electric shocks in one treatment. Dr. Mary Morrow, a psychiatrist assisting Cameron, but who later ended up receiving the full mind altering treatment by Cameron, recalls now how she was told to set the timer for jolting shocks, the settings twenty times more powerful than she had ever seen elsewhere. "They would go from one shock to another with apnea. That means their breathing would stop. And it was the most terrifying thing I've ever seen in my life before or since," she would say later. 187

    John Marks, author of The Search For The Manchurian Candidate, tells us: "Frequent screams of patients (usually women) that echoed through the hospital did not deter Cameron or most of his associates in their attempts to 'depattern' their subjects completely. Other hospital patients report being petrified by the 'sleep rooms', where the treatment took place, and they would usually creep down the other side of the hall."

    Mr. L. McDonald, a patient who was 23 years old when Cameron depatterned him, had this to say - twenty fine years after the treatment: "I have no memory of existing prior to 1963, and the recollections I do have of the events of the following years until 1966 are fuzzy and few .... My parents were introduced to me... I did not know them. My five children can back from wherever they had been living. I had no idea who they were." 108

    Cameron was an eminent psychiatrist, revered by his colleagues, and was president of both the American Psychiatric Association. He was also a supporter of the Nuremberg Code, specifically designed to outlaw experimental and medical maltreatment. He swore an oath to uphold the Code's tenets and to abide by the Hippocratic Oath of a doctor to "do no harm. "joy His violation of these oaths and use of electroshock for medical torture, while claiming to his patients it was "therapy," is a chilling insight into the mind of this psychiatrist.

    In March 1980, eight of Cameron's former patients sued the CIA and the Canadian government over the experiments they had been subjected to by Cameron.

    On October 5, 1988, the CIA, represented by the US Department of Justice, agreed to settle with the plaintiffs for $750,000 on the understanding that they would never discuss the case in public again.

    Cameron's ties to the CIA went back to WW2 when Allen Dulles (who later became director of the CIA where he employed Cameron) used to consult Cameron over German mentality, so that Dulles could work out plans and means to overthrow Hitler using his own Gestapo. Some of these suggestions by Cameron however, were a little far fetched, such as proposing that after the war Germans over 12 years old should receive doses of ECT to burn out any remaining leanings to Nazism. 110

    Cameron was also the natural choice of the US government to examine the state of mind of Rudolf Hess at Nuremberg during his trial. Thus Cameron was well known to the intelligence community before the CIA had even formed after the war.

    Cameron had referred to his psychic driving as "beneficial brainwashing" in the tabloid Weekend Magazine, where he had written a column about his new practice. The magazine referred to him as inventing "a daring idea designed to help neurotic patients by using a modified form of brainwashing." Cameron has written that he faced, "the same problems as professional brainwashers" because his patients, "like prisoners of the communists, tended to resist and had to be broken down." 111 The parallel to what the doctors of Aum were doing with what they termed New Narco is obvious. It is exactly the same techniques as Cameron but applied in modern times.

    Another parallel with Aum doctors and Cameron was the Isolation Chamber that Cameron devised. He had wanted the chamber so as to disorient the patients sufficiently before he would then set to restructuring their attitudes. 112 His patients stayed in the chamber weeks, months and if it was needed years. Then they would be ready for what Cameron wanted them to hear. Inside Aum people also stayed inside chambers for long durations, were given mind altering drugs, given taped and sometimes visual implants.113

    But Cameron, like most psychiatrists, then was not just satisfied with torture. He also used lobotomy techniques to turn his patients into zombies. One example was Madeleine. In Gordon Thomas's book, Journey Into Madness, Thomas describes how the skull was first drilled clean with a brace. Then the brain was exposed, a pink milky colour. A spatula was inserted into Madeleine's brain. She was asked to count to ten. She grunted. The surgeon worked his way cutting into the tissue, each move destroying her brain a little. Madeleine was asked if she could sing and she grunted. The surgeon continued to destroy her brain. Madeleine was asked if she felt sleepy and she grunted again. Then a heavy gauge hypodermic needle was used to penetrate further down into the spheroidal, the bony ridge at the base of her skull. The needle was withdrawn. Then again the spatula was inserted into the brain. It was swung upwards so that the blade could draw along the base of her skull. The spatula was withdrawn. The area was the rinsed of the oozing fluid. Cameron continued to ask questions. These were what he used to determine the state of the patient. The cutting and poking continued, now into the prime areas that governed emotional responses. Finally Madeleine could grunt no more. She closed her eyes and fell into a stupor from which she would never return. The surgeon closed up. Cameron checked her eyes and told her that there would be no more pain. Later that day Madeleine was transferred to St. Jean de Dieu Hospital, to be cared for by religious sisters who looked after a number of similar zombies like Madeleine.

    Madeleine's husband and family were told that Madeleine was an incurable schizophrenic and would spend her life in an institution. Cameron never told them about the lobotomy. Madeleine was unfortunately one of the early victims of the MK Ultra program by the CIA. The front group for the CIA, the Society for the Investigation for Human Ecology, the group funding the work, never received any further reports from Cameron about Madeleine.

    Perhaps another similarity between Aum psychiatrists and the CIA psychiatrists can be seen in the following treatment. This time a defector from the USSR named Colonel Yuri Nosenko gave himself up to the USA. 114 Aum had dealt with spies using what they termed New Narco and a lie detector 1s the same as did the CIA using similar treatments on Nosenko. Nosenko had revealed that the KGB had done research into the Kennedy assassination and their research drew the conclusions that President Kennedy was assassinated by a right wing conspiracy. The CIA needed to know if Nosenko was to be believed or not. Thus Nosenko was strapped into a vault and "New Agency" psychiatrists were brought in. Nosenko spent 1,277 days receiving LSD, plunging him from highs to the depths of depression, being isolated, weakened physically, and had sounds blasted at him through strapped on ear phones, whereby he eventually broke down and pleaded to be believed. All this while the lie detectors showed that he was telling the truth. Then after much debate within the CIA itself Nosenko was finally released on 21 September 1967.

    There was another case in Aum which sounded like it came from the CIA files. This was where one Aum member went on television claiming to have found holes drilled in his head after being in Aum. Such an experiment can also be found in the book Journey into Madness. Gordon Thomas describes how a neurosurgeon and neurologist flew to Saigon in July 1968. They were part of a team that were working for a CIA front group called the Scientific Engineering Institute, which was founded in 1956. In Saigon they had been given Vietcong prisoners of war to experiment on.

    The experiments consisted of drilling holes in their skulls and inserting tiny electrodes into their brains. When the prisoners regained consciousness the doctors gave them knives. Out of site from the prisoners the doctors pressed buttons on their electrical boxes. Nothing happened. The prisoners were expected to attack each other in acts of violence. for an entire week the doctors tried and failed. Eventually the doctors returned back to Washington. The prisoners were shot by the Green Berets and their bodies burned.

Sydney Australia

    A study of Cameron's work could not be complete without quickly reviewing one other doctor's work. In Sydney Australia another doctor similar to Cameron was at work. He had studied in Montreal while Dr. Cameron was at his height. This Australian doctor's

    name was Dr. Harry Bailey. He also delivered prolonged sleep and electroshock as therapy. This therapy was called Deep Sleep Therapy - DST.

    The results of Deep Sleep Therapy are now common knowledge in Australia. It was practiced for 16 years before being banned as a violent practice. It should be noted that this treatment is not banned in Japan and it bears remarkable similarities to what Aum doctors were practicing.

    In Australia over 5,400 people were subjected to a drug and electroshock combination in Dr. Bailey's private psychiatric hospital called Chelmsford in Sydney, New South Wales, in Australia. In this form of treatment patients were drugged unconscious for up to 23 hours a day, for weeks at a time and regularly given ECT.

    Patients suffered pneumonia, blood clots, anoxic brain damage (where oxygen stops flowing to the brain) - and some were paralyzed. A total of 48 people died. 116

    DST was described by its chief proponent, Dr. Harry Bailey, as a "sort of deep coma" in which the patient is "held down" with a combination of barbiturates, sedatives and other psychiatric drugs for up to three weeks. ECT was regularly administered at least two or three times a week. Frequently, however, the patient was inflicted with electroshock on a daily basis and, when the hospital psychiatrists forgot to check the patients medical records, twice daily. Anesthetics were never given prior to the shock.

    A 1990 inquiry by the New South Wales Royal Commission found that the reason anesthetics were not administered was either money-motivated (the psychiatrist wanted to maximize his fees), or "the DST doctors did not want other doctors observing their treatments."m The latter is a more likely scenario, considering the following account of a patient's testimonial before the Commission.

    "Mrs. G. Whitty was admitted to Chelmsford [hospital]. She did not recall being physically examined by Dr. Bailey at any time .... Mrs. Whitty was put to bed and given a tablet. She only learned that she had been given ECT a few months before she gave evidence.... "118

    Bailey also boasted in one court document that he had also tampered with the brain by "cutting it off electrically" for minutes. 119 For a short time he experimented with a

    technique known as "regressive ECT" or "electrical leucotomy." 120 The belief was that a frequent use of ECT would take the patient's mind back to infancy. The mind could thus be reprogrammed and avoid future mental disturbance.

    In the majority of Chelmsford cases, patients did not know they had been given ECT until after they had come out of their drug-induced camas. Still others were not aware until the Royal Commission established the fact in their medical records.

    A case of example is that of Ashley Adams and Noel Ashley. They had both been subjected to deep sleep and electroshock and both complained that it had ruined their memory. Both were seen by Dr. Bailey in his city office after being discharged from the Chelmsford hospital. Both explained to their spouses that after meeting with Dr. Bailey, they felt there was no future for them. Both sent their loved ones on an errand and during this period took an overdose of drugs. Within 24 hours of meeting with Bailey they had committed suicide. 121 What did Bailey say that prompted such a fatal response? What suggestions may have been made during deep sleep that, triggered by Dr. Bailey's meeting, caused these two men to take their own life?

    The Commission found that electroshock, given outside the parameters of "consent" is "an act of violence" constituting criminal assault.

    In his final report on the hospital, the Honorable Justice John P. Slattery found: "Some patients were treated contrary to their express wishes. Other patients were treated by stealth and deceit. The signature on some of the forms was obtained by fraud and deceit. Some were signed by people whose judgment was compromised by drugs. Some patients were woken up from their DST treatment to complete the authorization. Other patients were treated contrary to their express wishes and some were treated despite the fact they had specifically refused treatment."

    "The doctors and the nurses who treated patients without the patient's consent, contrary to the patient's consent, or on the basis of consent obtained by fraud or deceit, committed a trespass to the person of each of these patients and were responsible for an assault on them."122

    Japan - Aum and Pain-Drug-Hypnosis

    While psychiatry exists as a relatively uncontrolled subject, and such psychiatric practices have inadequate controls by law, different forms of the Pain Drug Hypnosis will surface from time to time with all its horror.

    A present day example of Pain Drug Hypnosis in Japan was the phenomena of Aum. Here were found varying forms of what we can originally call pain-drug-hypnosis, but they were reworded as Christian Initiations, New Narco or Baldo. They may have been inspired from Depatterning, Psychic Driving or other terminology, but in essence they are still the same manner of terror.

    Dr. Hayashi, one of the head doctors of Aum, described what was termed Baldo initiations. 123 Here the subject was shown an animated video which had a subliminal picture within it. The video tells the watcher that he is the main character in the video. The subliminal message showed a soldier's face and it was the face of Chizuo Matsumoto, the founder of Aum. After the video the victim was given a drink containing LSD and stimulants.

    In another instance Hayashi described where members of Aum were required to memorize certain doctrines known as the "determinations 1-4." After memorizing these the subjects were injected with thiopental truth serum. The subjects were then required to write out the "determinations". The subjects were spoken to while in this state. Haysahi also quotes Chizuo Matsumoto as stating that the phenomena for ex-members inexplicably returning to Aum, which Hayashi claimed that Matsumoto called the "boomerang" phenomena, was due to these exact initiation steps. This appears as a variant of drug hypnosis.

    Hayashi also explained that in December 1994, after a defection of a key member, many members were then ordered to receive new-narco, the treatment for erasing memories using thiopental and electric shock.

    In still another variant of the pain-drug-hypnosis, let us compare an Aum method to a CIA method. Hamada explains in his earlier mentioned book the activities of a CIA TSS team. 124TSS was the department of counter intelligence and was in charge of the MK ULTRA plans. In June 1960 the Department of Counter Intelligence had set up three ways to control an individual. They were: 1. To put a victim in a coma fast and give him hypnosis.

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