PRESS RELEASE
NASA LIGHTNING STRIKE STING DEFENDANTS
WERE SUBJECTED TO MENTAL TORTURE AND HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION BY FEDERAL AGENCIES
FBI USED PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE METHODS PROHIBITED BY
U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
In a report submitted to Congress today, a team of defense attorneys representing the so-called "NASA-13," requested the US. House of Representatives Government Reform and Oversight Committee to hold hearings and appoint a Special Prosecutor, not affiliated with the U.S. government, to investigate the "NASA-13" cases in the light of scientific research competed by a team of NASA industry experts, defense attorneys and behavioral scientists. This report furnishes evidence that at least one of the NASA/IG Federal agents who conducted the NASA sting operation in Houston from 1991 to 1994 was in fact a highly qualified military intelligence interrogator, who with the FBI, employed a highly dangerous form of "psycho-technology" known in the behavioral science community as "Coercive Persuasion" or "CP", a form of mind control.
The phenomenon of "CP" was first observed in the post-traumatic reactions of Korean War military and civilian POWs. Many of these prisoners had confessed to non-existent crimes and cooperated with the enemy after having been subjected to what was then called "brainwashing." By 1961 this syndrome had been identified by MIT Scientists as a genuine psychological phenomenon, similar to hypnosis, and as a form of "Mental Torture." The phenomenon was given the scientific name of "Coercive Persuasion" or "CP."
CP and all other forms of physical and mental torture were eventually outlawed by several U.S. backed international agreements concerning human rights, police conduct, and treatment of prisoners of war, to which the U.S. is a signatory. In the Lightning Strike Operation, the FBI agents are being accused of a deliberate pre-planned conspiracy to employ CP to obtain:
Its is further alleged that these actions, conducted in "Star Chamber Interrogations," were deliberately staged as part of an organized, deliberate pattern of outrageous government behavior which involved psychological experimentation prohibited by the Nuremberg Code! This behavior involved the creation of unrelated "new crimes" for the sole purpose of deliberate entrapment of these thirteen individuals, all of whom had no prior criminal records and no predisposition to commit any crimes. The report submitted to congress asserts that these actions by government agents violated the defendant’s Constitutional Rights and Human Rights quarantined by U.S. and International laws. Further, these violations constituted a flagrant government misconduct so outrageous (with the apparent official approval of FBI supervisory personnel to deprive the defendants of counsel) that criminal charges should be sought, if the Special Prosecutor confirms this evidence.
More disturbing was the revelation and specter that these "Orwellian" methods are presently being taught to Government Interrogators. Since agents of many Federal, State and Local police are being taught undercover sting and psychological coercion procedures at the FBI Academy, there is the possibility that thousands of cases may have been tainted by the use of CP, which includes psychological intimidation, threats, and coercion, followed by simultaneous offers of leniency.
Attorney Richard Atcheson stated during the press conference that the scientific evidence was highly consistent and has been reviewed and confirmed by several behavioral science experts. The evidence consists of documents, reports and questionnaires, independently completed by fourteen victims, one of whom was never charged, and many of whom are still suffering from the post-traumatic effects of their "Manchurian Candidate" encounters with the agents.
The CP phenomenon can be created in many different environments and until now the most common applications have been observed in the practices of "cult" organizations. CP has been known to result in schizophrenia, self-mutilation and higher death rates including suicide among the Korean war POWs. Several suicide attempts actually occurred in the NASA-13 cases. In the only Lightning Strike case to be tried in court, the Government was forced to drop charges against the defendant, Dale Brown, after Judge Edwin Werlein advised the government that clearly "entrapment was the issue to be raised." Mr. Brown has suffered extreme psychological and physical effects from the episode, resulting in recently brain and open heart surgery (for the second time) as a result of the post-traumatic effects from his experience.
Copies of the report will be provided to the judges of the Southern District of Texas, to the United Nations, Amnesty International, ACLU, and other groups involved in protecting human rights. A senate investigation has also being requested in a letter to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson.