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Mind War

by

William S. Burroughs

Earlier I have suggested that the CIA, the Russians, and the

Chinese have all set up top secret centers to study and apply

psychic techniques to political ends. Those of you who have read

Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain will infer that the

Russians are ahead of us.

Now anyone who has lived for any time in countries like Morocco

where magic is widely practiced has probably seen a curse work. I

have. However, curses tend to be hit or miss, depending on the

skill and power of the operator and the susceptibility of a

victim. And that isn't good enough for the CIA or any similar

organization: `Bring us the ones that work not sometimes but every

time.' So what is the logical forward step? To devise machines

that can concentrate and direct psychic force with predictable

effects. I suggest that what the CIA is, or was working on, at

their top secret Nevada installation may be described as

computerized black magic. If Curse A doesn't make it, Curse

Program B automatically goes into operation -- and so on.

I recommend to your attention a book called The Mind Masters by

John Rossmann. This is ostensibly a fanastic science fiction

novel, interesting more for its content than its style, that may

well contain some real inside information. The story concerns a

researcher who has been disillusioned by his work on Project

Pandora, an American psychic training center run by a Colonel

Pickett, who is stronly reminiscent of the mad General Ripper in

Doctor Strangelove, right down to the cigar. Only he is unloosing

psychic warfare rather than nuclear more effective and more easily

controlled for elitiest objectives. The disillusioned researcher,

one Britt St. Vincent, is contacted by Mero, a private institute

dedicated to opposing these black magic centers. (It should beobvious that only black magic has `military applications.')

After he has been taken to Mero's secret hearquarters, Britt is

briefed by Dr Webster on the purposes of Mero. Dr. Webster cites

an early report by columnist Jack Anderson that the reason the

Johnson-Kosygin summit conference in 1967 at Glassboro, New

Jersey, was held in such a remote spot was that this was the

world's first summit conference on psychic warfare. He recalls

for Britt how the CIA, while making an electronic sweep of the

U.S. Embassy in Moscow for listening devices, discovered some very

unusual electromagnetic emanations pulsing through the building.

(Later it came out that the Soviets had stepped up the power to a

point where Embassy officials and their families were in dangerfrom the high-voltage microwave radiation, which can cause

confusion, migraines, and even death.) Not long after, the CIA

confirmed that this was in fact part of a much larger psychic

attack on the Embassy. When the Defense Department launched its

top-secret psychic counter attack, according to columnist

Anderson, it was code-named Project Pandora.

Dr. Webster goes on to tell Britt: `Glassboro wasn't the end of

it, Britt ... obviously. By easily diverting funds within their

mammoth defense budgets, small groups of supermilitarists here and

in Russia covertly continued psychic programs...

The violent student rioting of the late Sixties was largely

instigated by electronic mood-control devices that were derivedfrom the psychic discoveries of Project Pandora. The riots, it is

now evident, were the first phase of a massive plot. The students

were used by U.S. military extremists for two purposes. First,

the riots tended to discredit the student causes. Secondly, the

civil disturbances conveniently provided the plotters with the

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necessary reasons to reinstate some of their psychic weapons

programs under the guise of `crowd control' research. Britt

learns that similar secret psychic research is still advancing

rapidly in China, France, Israel, Egypt, South Africa, and Chile,

in addition to the United States and Russia.

`Although these scattered groups are currently working to beat

each other to the secret of powers that will give them world

control, there is a good possibility that they could even now join

forces and make a combined psychic bid for world control - of

succeeding if they joined forces.' And what would the future look like if such groups actually

exist and if they do combine and take over? An elitist world

state very much along the lines laid down by the Nazis. At the

top wold be a theocracy trained in psychic control techniques

implemented by computerized electronic devices that would render

oppostion psychologically impossible. Entry to this privileged

class would be permitted only to those whose dedication to the

world state was absolute and unquestioning. In short, you don't

get in by merit or ability but by being an all around one hundred

percent shit. Under this ruling, elite of power addicts would

consist of an anonymous service collective of functionaries,

managers, and bureaucrats. And below them the slave workers.

The troublesome artist would be eliminated or absorbed. The

elite lives happily ever after, at the top of a control state that

makes 1984 seem cozy and nostalgic.