Chapter
19:
"RFK
MUST DIE"
Another assassination
that many experts
believe was the product of
a mind controlled
"Manchurian candidate"
was that of Robert
F. Kennedy. Shortly
before the murder
of Kennedy, Sirhan Sirhan
was seen in
the Ambassador Hotel
"staring fixedly"
at the teletype
machine. According to
the teletype operator, "he
came over to
my machine and
started staring at it.
Just staring.
I'll never forget
his eyes. I
asked him what
he wanted. He didn't
answer. He just
kept staring. I
asked him again. No
answer. I said
that if he
wanted the latest
figures on Senator Kennedy,
he'd have to
check the other
machine. He still didn't answer.
He just kept staring."
One eyewitness
said that Sirhan
was "enormously composed" during the
commission of the
crime. Reminding one
of the stories of
madmen exhibiting tremendous
strength, another witness said
that when people
were attempting to
subdue Sirhan during the shooting,
"the little man's strength wasfantastic."
After Sirhan
was taken into
custody, LAPD officers
found out that he
had the interesting
ability to tell
time—to the minute—without a clock.
Again, this is
reminiscent of the extended
senses of the
hypnotized or otherwise
mind controlled subject. [1]
For his
own part, Sirhan
said that he
did the shooting "without trying,"
and described his
condition as being
that of a "puppet." Sirhan
has stated on several occasions
that there are many
aspects of the
case that have
not been revealed.
He also has wondered
whether he was
mind controlled, suggesting
one witness to the
assassination in particular,
who he thought
could "Maybe... lead to someone who was playing with my mind."
When questioned
by the public
defender assigned to
him in the case,
Sirhan said, "I
don't remember much
about the shooting, sir, did I do
it? Well, yes,
I am told
I did it. I
remember being at
the Ambassador [Hotel].
I am drinking
Tom Collinses. I got dizzy. I went back to my car so I could go home. But I
was too drunk
to drive. I
thought I'd better
find some coffee. The next thing
I remember I was being choked and a guy was twisting my knee." [2]
If Sirhan
was in fact
programmed, it could
have been done
in 1967 when he
disappeared for three
months, not informing
his family where he
was. After he
had returned home,
it was noted that he had become
fascinated by the occult. [3]
And then
there is the
question of accomplices.
Security guard Thane Cesar,
in close proximity
to Kennedy during
the shooting, is believed
by many researchers
to have participated
in the assassination. Cesar
informed Ted Charach,
co-producer of the movie
The Second Gun,
that he had
attended "American-
Nazi conclaves." Cesar
was also employed
at the CIA-connected Lockheed, and
one retired engineer from
the company said that Cesar worked in an area of the company
run by the CIA.
Immediately after
the Kennedy shooting
a woman named Sandra
Serrano saw a
Caucasian woman in
a white dress
with black polka dots,
and a young
man, tentatively identified
as Mexican-American, and wearing
a white shirt
and gold sweater, running down
the stairs that
provided exit from
the hotel. The woman in
the polka dots
said, "We've shot
him! We've shot him." Serrano asked,
"Who did you
shoot?", and the
woman responded, "We shot Senator Kennedy."
Thomas Vincent
DiPierro, the son of one
of the maitre
d's who was working
at the Ambassador,
said that he had
seen Sirhan immediately before
the shooting and
that he had
been in the company of a woman in
a polka dot dress.
A third
witness also saw
Sirhan, an half
hour before the murder
of Kennedy, with
a woman in
a polka dot
dress and a tall,
thin man with
dark hair. After
Kennedy was shot,
the witness saw the
woman and the
tall man running
from the scene of the crime.
Another witness
saw Sirhan on
June 3, after
a visit to the Ambassador Hotel,
in the company
of a woman
and two other men.
Another witness
said that she
had seen a
man who looked like
Sirhan on June
3. The man
was in a
blue 1959 Ford.
The car pulled to
the curb and
the Sirhan look-alike
jumped out and began
arguing with two other men
in the front
seat. The man's jacket flew
open and the
witness saw a
gun in his
waistband.
Although the
witness could not
identify who was
talking, she heard the
words "Kennedy," and
"Get in the
car, we have to get
him tonight," as well as "Don't want to," and
"Afraid."
One of
the busboys at
the Ambassador told
police about two men
who had come
to the hotel
on the day
before the shooting, attempting
to obtain coats like those worn by the waiters, while a waitress
in nearby Alhambra,
California said that on
the morning of June
4 she had
seen a man
she took to be
Sirhan drawing a map—some kind of floor plan.
Reminding one
of Lee Harvey
Oswald's gun practice,
in which he made
himself conspicuous, Sirhan
practiced shooting at a
target range on
June 4, where
he signed in
with his name and address.
This in itself
was odd, because the
rangemaster did not usually
monitor whether the
shooters signed in
or not. The rangemaster remembered
that shortly after
Sirhan had arrived, an
attractive blonde in
the company of
a man had
also arrived.
Sirhan walked
over to them
and said, "Let
me show you
how to shoot." The
woman's response was,
"Get away from
me, goddamnit, someone will recognize us." [4]
Sirhan was
recognized buying bullets
for the .22
caliber handgun he allegedly
used to murder
Kennedy. In his company, according to
the clerk at
the gunstore, were
Sirhan's brother Munir and
another man he was unable to identify.
A young
man named Crispin
Curiel Gonzalez was
arrested in Juarez, Mexico,
carrying notes showing
that he knew Sirhan
and that Sirhan had
planned to murder
Kennedy. Gonzalez was later found
hanging in his
cell in Juarez.
Questioned about the incident
by author Robert
Blair Kaiser, Sirhan
responded, "That kid didn't
have to die. He didn't do anything."
Kaiser asked
Sirhan, "Who would
have wanted to
get him out of the way?"
According to
Kaiser, "Sirhan paused
reflectively for a moment, then smiled. Then he changed the
subject."
After the
murder of Kennedy,
police searched Sirhan's
room and found a
large amount of
Rosicrucian (in this
case AMORC, not the
historical Rosicrucians) and
other occult reading material. Sirhan
is alleged to
have also been
acquainted with a member
of The Process
group, a Scientology
offshoot, and to have
attended parties at the home
of Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate,
who also may
have been linked
to The Process. Robert
F. Kennedy dined
at the Polanski
mansion the day before he was assassinated. [5]
Sirhan left
behind several notebooks
filled with jottings indicating his
strange state of
mind prior to
the shooting. A transcript of one page follows:
"May 18,
9:45 a.m. -68.
My determination to
eliminate RFK is becoming
more the more
of an unshakable
obsession... RFK must die—RFK
must be killed
Robert F. Kennedy
must be assassinated RFK
must be assassination
Ed RFK must
be assassinated before 5 June 68 Robert F. Kennedy must be assassinated
I have never heard please pay to the order of of of of of of of of of this or
that please pay to the order of..."
Psychiatrist Dr.
Bernard Diamond of
UCLA, who examined Sirhan and
would later examine
Mark David Chapman,
asked him about certain
entries in his
notebooks while he washypnotically tranced. Diamond asked,
"Is this crazy writing?""YES YES YES," Sirhan responded in
writing.
"Are you crazy?"
"NO NO."
"Well, why are you writing crazy?" Diamond
continued.
"PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE."
"Practice for what?"
"MIND CONTROL MIND CONTROL MIND CONTROL."
Seven years
after the murder,
Sirhan's voice during initial interviews with psychologists
was analyzed using a Psychological Stress Evaluator
(PSE), measuring micro
tremors in the
voice denoting stress. One
of the originators
of the PSE, Charles McQuiston, described
by Walter Bowart
as a "former
high- ranking U.S. Intelligence
Officer," stated that, "I'm
convinced that Sirhan wasn't
aware of what
he was doing.
He was in a
hypnotic trance when
he pulled the
trigger and killed
Senator Kennedy...
Everything in the
PSE charts tells
me that someone else
was involved in the assassination—and that
Sirhan was programmed through
hypnosis to kill
RFK. What we
have here is a real live
'Manchurian Candidate.'" [6]
Dr. John
W. Heisse, Jr.,
president of the
International Society of Stress
Analysis, concurred with
that appraisal: "Sirhan
kept repeating certain phrases.
This clearly revealed
he had been programmed to
put himself into
a trance. This
is something he couldn't
have learned by
himself. Someone had
to show him
and teach him how.
I believe Sirhan
was brainwashed under hypnosis by the constant
repetition of words
like 'You are nobody.
You're nothing. The
American dream is
gone' until he actually believed
them. At that
stage someone implanted
an idea, 'Kill RFK,'
and under hypnosis
the brainwashed Sirhan accepted it."
Another expert,
Dr. Herbert Spiegel,
a medical hypnotist, agreed: "It's
very possible to
distort and change
somebody's mind through a
number of hypnotic
sessions. It can be
described as brainwashing
because the mind
is cleared of
its old emotions and
values which are
replaced by implanting
other suggestions... This technique
was probably used
with Sirhan. From my own
research, I think that Sirhan was subjected to hypnotic treatment." [7]
NOTES:
1. Kaiser,
Robert Blair, "R.F.K.
Must Die!" (New
York: Grove Press, 1970);
Bresler, Fenton, Who
Killed John Lennon?
(New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1989)
2. Ibid.
3. Constantine,
Alex, Psychic Dictatorship
in the U.S.A.
(Venice, California: Feral House, 1995)
4. Kaiser
5. Terry,
Maury, The Ultimate
Evil. (New York:
Bantam Books, 1987); Judge, John, "Poolside with John
Judge", PrevailingWinds, undated
6. Bowart,
Walter, Operation Mind
Control. (New York:
Dell Paperback, 1977); Bresler
7. Bresler
Chapter
20:
HAPPINESS
IS
A
WARM GUN
Mark David
Chapman, the murderer
of rock music
star John Lennon, may have
been a mind
controlled assassin. Wielding
a Charter Undercover .38 Special, Chapman fired five hollow point fragmenting bullets
into Lennon's back
as he walked into
The Dakota apartment block in New York city.
There is
much evidence to
suggest that American intelligence agencies
considered Lennon a
menace, and this could
have well provided
a reason for
his murder. John
Lennon attracted the attention
of the FBI
for the first
time in January 1969,
when a Special
Agent in Charge
reported to J. Edgar Hoover on
a demonstration in New Haven,
Connecticut. The demonstration had
been spurred by
the suspension of the campus
newspaper for the
publication of nude
photos of John and Yoko—reprints
of the front
and back covers
of the "Two virgins" record
album, at that
time available in
record stores throughout the
country.
In the
years that followed,
during Lennon's many
shots at political activism,
the FBI's file on the
rock star-cum-culture hero would
grow to at
least 288 pages,
although entire years
of reports of surveillance on Lennon have never been released.
By 1972
the CIA was
in on the act.
Lennon had been
very vocal in his
disapproval of the
war in Vietnam,
and was seen as one
of the most
effective forces capable
of rallying American youth in
large-scale opposition to the war.
On the 23rd
of February of that year, a CIA agent filed the following report:
"Some American
participants at the
Soviet-controlled World Assembly for
Peace and Independence
of the Peoples
of Indochina, held 11-13
February 1972 in
Paris/Versailles, attempted
unsuccessfully to include
a call for
international demonstrations
to take place
at the time
of the Republican National Convention...
"John LENNON,
a British subject,
has provided financial support to Project 'YES' [an organization
started by Yoko], which in turn paid the travel
expenses to the
World Assembly of a representative of
leading anti-war activist
(and Chicago Seven defendant) Rennie
DAVIS... In Paris this
representative in the World Assembly met at least once with
officials of the Provisional Revolutionary
Government of South
Vietnam; it is
not known if the Republican Convention was
discussed."
Lennon believed,
and with good reason, that
by 1972 he was under
constant surveillance. In late 1972,
Lennon told Paul Krassner, "Listen,
if anything happens
to Yoko and
me, it was not an accident."
Facing deportation
from the U.S.
ostensibly due to a marijuana conviction
in Great Britain,
Lennon fought back, claiming the
deportation was really
due to his
politics and disapproval of the
war in Vietnam.
On 21
April, 1972, E.L.
Shackleford, a supervisor
in the New York
FBI office, sent
a memo to one of
his agents, one
only partially available to us due to large blacked-out segments:
"In view
of successful delaying
tactics to date,
there exists real possibility
that subject [John
Lennon] will not
be deported from US
in near future
and possibly not
prior to Republican National Convention.
Subject's activities being
closely followed and any
information developed indicating
violation of Federal laws
will be immediately
furnished to pertinent
agencies in effort to neutralize
any disruptive activities of subject."
As of
May, 1972, Lennon
had gotten the
message, apparently from Leon
Wilde, his immigration
lawyer, that if he
didn't want to be
deported from the
U.S., nor to
jeopardize his position in his
attempt to gain
custody of Yoko's
daughter Kyoko, that
he would have to
maintain a lower
political profile. Lennon
bowed to the pressure.
In that month
he went on
the Dick Cavett television show
and announced that he
was canceling a planned "revolutionary road
show" and pulling back
in terms of political involvement. Lennon
was reportedly "sick
at heart" over
the decision he was forced to make.
According to
political activist John
Sinclair, about whom Lennon
wrote a song,
"Cancelling the tour
plan was wise.
I know how much
it meant for them to
stay here—partially because of
the thing with the kid. I understood perfectly."
In September
of 1973 the
U.S. Department of
Justice admitted that Lennon's
phone had been
illegally tapped. The DOJ
was not exactly
clucking disapproval, only
saying that the tap had happened and indicating the
desire to obtain the transcripts.
After a
lengthy retirement from
the public eye,
by 1980 Lennon seemed
to be doing
a turnabout. He
had a new record album out,
and was interested
in returning to
prominence, as well as
getting back into
political activism. Lennon
had already bought the
plane tickets to fly to
San Francisco to support striking Japanese
American workers. Lennon
may have been seen as
the only man
in the world capable
of re-igniting the militancy of the 60s. [1]
Lennon would
soon encounter the
penultimate nebbish with a gun:
Mark David Chapman.
Chapman was from
Georgia, and began working
for the YMCA
in 1969, first
as a full-time
camp counselor and then
as an assistant
camp director. In CIA
defector Philip Agee's
book Inside the
Company: CIA Diary, he indicates
the YMCA as
a CIA front
organization. Curiously, Chapman's employment
record is missing
from the headquarters of the
organization.
In 1971
Chapman had a
religious conversion to
Christianity. In 1975 he
travelled to Beirut
in the employ
of the YMCA in their
International Camp Counselor
Program—his first choice being
the Soviet Union,
even though he
was a vehement
anti- communist. Chapman's visit
to Beirut coincided
with the period of time
that Edwin Wilson
and Frank Terpil
were running a training school for assassins there. [2]
Returning from
Beirut, he worked
at a YMCA
camp forVietnamese refugees
in Fort Chaffee,
Arkansas. Chapman worked as
an Area Coordinator,
in charge of
a seven-block area of
the camp, with
one American and
fifteen Vietnamese assistants. One
of the enigmas
of Chapman's life
is his longtime friend, known
by the pseudonym
"Gene Scott" in
Fenton Bresler's account, who
visited Chapman while
working at Fort Chaffee.
One of
Chapman's co-workers told journalist Craig
Unger, "As soon as
Gene arrived, Mark's
behavior changed. Mark cleaned his nails for Gene, he put on
his clean clothes forGene, he made telephone
calls for Gene.
And there was
Gene's gun. Mark was so
non-violent. He hated
guns. I still
remember them sitting
in the office of the YMCA center at
Fort Chaffee, playing with this gun, looking
at it, talking
about it. It
just wasn't like
Mark.
They started
rough-housing, then Gene
gave Mark this
look. He froze."
In his
account of Chapman,
Fenton Bresler writes
that, "several people to
whom I have spoken
in Decatur and elsewhere believe that the two men, who
have known each other since
Columbia High School
days, have complex
undertones to their apparently
still-continuing friendship. Certainly
Mark idolized Gene, older
by a few
years and a
handsome Rambo-like character who
has never married:
he is today
a Georgia sheriff's officer." According
to Bresler, "he was
the man who gave
Mark the hollow-point bullets,
not knowing (as
he said) that
he would use them to shoot John
Lennon."
In 1976
Chapman reportedly ended
his job with
the YMCA, and took
a job as
a security guard at the
insistence of "Gene Scott." Chapman
moved to Hawaii
in 1977, and
stayed in the YMCA hostel
in Honolulu. Chapman
also contacted the suicide hotline there,
and went to the Waikiki
Mental Health Clinic.
Hawaii has
been noted as the location
of a mind
control assassination
training center in
the account of
several intelligence agency defectors.
In 1978 Chapman travelled
around the world
with a letter
of introduction as a YMCA staff member, staying in YMCA hostels, the trip
reportedly financed by a loan
from the credit
union of a hospital
he worked at.
This loan, to a
relatively new employee, seems suspicious
and follows in the tradition
of many other "lone nut
assassins" who, while
non-employed or under- employed never lack for travel
expenses.
Chapman returned
to Hawaii. He
was married in
1979 and shortly after, one in a
string of obsessions, became fixated on the book Catcher
in the Rye,
identifying with the
book's protagonist, Holden Caulfield.
Some researchers have suggested that
the book may have
been used as a "trigger" for
a programmed Chapman, although
this is only
speculation. In Honolulu Chapman purchased the gun that he
would use to killLennon.
Travelling to
New York, Chapman
checked into the
Waldorf- Astoria, then after
a few days moved
into a YMCA
hostel. Chapman found that he could not buy bullets legallyin New York. He travelled
to Atlanta, where
hollow points were
furnished by his friend
"Gene Scott" at
Chapman's insistence that
he needed to protect
himself in the
Big Apple. Chapman
returned to New York
only to be
told by the
doorman at The
Dakota that Lennon and
his wife were
out of town.
Chapman flew back
to Hawaii, throwing away his copy of Catcher in the Rye.
In Hawaii,
according to a
psychiatrist, Chapman was receiving "command hallucinations" telling
him to kill
John Lennon. These could
have been hypnotically
programmed, or even broadcast electronically. Chapman
called a different
mental health clinic than
the one he
had dealt with
before, and was turned away with a referral to still
another clinic. Chapman's own
account of the
period describes an
interior struggle lasting several months,
"a struggle between
good and evil
and right and wrong.
I just gave
in. It was
almost as if
I was on some
kind of special mission that I
could not avoid."
A few
weeks after his
return from the
mainland, Chapman returned to
the States, again
seemingly having money
to burn. During his
trips to the
mainland Chapman carried
large amounts of cash,
although there has
never been a
satisfactory explanation of how
he came by the money.
Chapman did
not immediately fly
to New York,
but stopped off in
Chicago for three
days that are
not accounted for.
His plane ticket, according
to Fenton Bresler,
was later doctored
to show that Chapman
had flown non-stop
to New York.
This fact is substantiated
by photocopies of
two versions of
the same ticket, one
for Chicago, the
other indicating a
direct passage to New
York. Who falsified
the ticket remains an
open question, but the
existence of two
versions of the
ticket is compelling evidence for a conspiracy in the
murder.
When Chapman
did reach New
York he went
to the YMCA hostel
located nearest to
The Dakota. After
checking at the hotel
to find out
that the Lennons
were not in
and that no one
knew when to
expect them back, Chapman that
evening took a cab to
west 62nd Street,
where he went
inside an apartment building for
five minutes, and
then to East
65th Street and
2nd Avenue, where he
went into another
apartment building for a few minutes.
These visits have
never been explained.
Chapman was then dropped
off in Greenwich
Village. Chapman was carrying a satchel that has not been
accounted for.
The next
morning Chapman checked
out of the
YMCA hostel and booked
himself into the more expensive
Sheraton Center Hotel. In his
hotel room he
made a "shrine" on
top of a
bureau, with mementos of
his life—a Bible,
his expired passport,
a Todd Rundgren audio
tape, and other
items—as well as
a photo from the Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland.
Chapman hung
around outside The
Dakota for a
full day without seeing
Lennon, then returned
the following day.
As a gesture, he
bought another copy of Catcher
in the Rye
and inscribed it "To
Holden Caulfield from
Holden Caulfield. This
is my statement." When
Lennon and his wife emerged
from The Dakota around
5 p.m., Chapman
got the star's
autograph. The couple returned
at 10:50 p.m. As Lennon
walked toward the apartment
building a reportedly
"smirking" Chapman fired
five bullets into his
back. Then Chapman
threw down his
gun and began to read the
paperback he had carried.
Chapman described the murder
in this fashion:"If you ever
get the chance,
go to The
Dakota building. I just
love that building...
to think that's
where it happened.
There was no emotion,
there was no
anger, there was
nothing, dead silence in
the brain, dead
cold quiet. He
walked up, he
looked at me, I
tell you the
man was going
to be dead
in less than five minutes
and he looked
at me, I looked at
him. He walked
past me and then
I heard in
my head said,
'Do it, do it,
do it,'
over and over again,
saying "Do it,
do it, do it,
do it,' like
that. I pulled the gun out of my
pocket, I handed over to my left hand, I don't
remember aiming. I must have
done, but I
don't remember drawing the
bead or whatever
you call it.
And I just pulled the trigger steady five
times."
One of
the police officers
who interrogated Chapman, Lieutenant Arthur
O'Connor, described the
apparent state of mind
of the murderer:
"I saw him within half
an hour of his
arrest. I was
the first one
to interrogate him.
He was in
a daze.
He was
composed yet not
there. He gave
me the impression
he had done something:
it was something
he had to do
and he'd done it."
Later O'Connor
said, "It's possible
Mark could have been
used by somebody. I
saw him the
night of the
murder. I studied
him intensely. He looked
as if he could have
been programmed...
That was the way
he looked and
that was the
way he talked.
It could have been drugs—and no, we did not test for drugs! It was not standard
procedure. But looking
back, he could
have been either drugged or
programmed—or a combination of both."
According to
newspaper reports at
the time, Chapman had
in his possession at
the time of
the murder a
cassette player and tapes with
"about fourteen hours
of Beatles tapes." Except that according to
the arresting officer,
Steve Spiro, Chapman
did not have a
cassette player or
tapes on him
when arrested. Either the
cassette player was
invented by an imaginative reporter,
or it vanished—and if
it vanished, might
it have had
something recorded other than Beatles' music?
After shooting
Lennon, Chapman was
in a "daze" for
days. Chapman pleaded guilty
to the murder
in court after hearing "the voice of God"
telling him to do so. Dr. Dorothy Lewis, who examined Chapman,
said that "Mr.
Chapman had been experiencing auditory
hallucinations while at the hospital
unit at Rikers Island
and these experiences
clearly influenced his decision
to plead guilty...
I question whether
he was competent subsequently to plead guilty
[since] it seemed
to me that
his fluctuating mental status made it impossible for him to understand the
ramifications of such a
decision
or to assist
his attorney in his own defense."
Chapman's guilty
plea ended the investigation. The
case was closed. As
in the case
of Sirhan Sirhan,
James Earl Ray, Lee Harvey
Oswald, David Berkowitz
and others, there
would be no trial. Not so messy that way. [3]
NOTES:
1.
Bresler, Fenton, Who
Killed John Lennon?
(New York: St. Martin's
Paperbacks, 1989)
2.
Goulden, Joseph C,
The Death Merchant.
(New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1984)
3.
Bresler; Judge, John,
"Poolside with John
Judge", Prevailing Winds, undated interview
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