Ratting out Puharich - Pioneer
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Summing up: The Round Table Foundation of Electrobiology
began to flourish. A considerable misrepresentation as to cost of
equipment is shown. Project
Penguin undertaken by the Navy is also claimed. A grant from General
Foods and the activities of associates reveals the connection to The
Armed Forces Special Weapons Project.
On February 5, 1996 the Chemical and Engineering News
carried a buzz-making three paragraph quote of an article appearing in
the South China Morning Post. An assistant professor at the University
of Science and Technology filed a hundred million dollar lawsuit
against the US Government. This
particular unhappy Asian, Huang Si-ming, is distressed over having had
a mind control device planted in his teeth during a root canal
operation. Not only does the device talk to him, he asserts, but it
can read his mind as well. Shades of paranoia, schizophrenia, bipolar
big elf disease! Rush that man some heavy shock hits of psychiatric
betterment processing. Where do
people come up with ideas like this? Surely these ramblings however
couched in legalese they will be, are a candidate for an upcoming
X-files episode.Perhaps something the sultry Scully-agent with the
doubtful mind, picked up on an alien vessel when those half remembered
gray entities (or-are-they-really-government-agents?) started messing
with her.
Andrija Puharich, unusual inventor who was also a
doctor, parapsychologist, and veteran let's-see-what-this-
drug-will-do guy died back in January of 1995 after taking a header
down the stairs. He could have told you a lot about implants capable
of putting voices in your head.. He did much of the
early work on them. In my often tedious but never boring research I
have encountered dark whisperings as to whether he was pushed down
those rickety stairs or fell accidently. Some dear-friend-mutterings
as to whether or not he had a heart attack and fell or fell and had a
heart attack. Grave doubts
expressed, in the muttering circles about Susan Mandell, supposedly
Puharich's creature-comfort-girl who had looked after him during his
last years. Kind of fitting he went out that way with lingering doubts
and questions giving future researchers endless incomplete chapters.
Truly, the area has enough first class spookery to satisfy a thousand
Unsolved Mystery episodes.
Starting at the end
The services for the seventy-six year old, righteously
dead Andrija Puharich were attended by only a few friends and a couple
of his children. All in all about a dozen people or less. A really
poor showing considering the roster
of children, associates and woman that one might have expected to be
there. Uri Geller, that old spoon bending psychic from Israel could
not be there to see him off. If he opted to use some of his amazing
powers he would have seen Puharich's ash's being poured from an urn
into the Mitchell river that ran through the Josh Reynolds estate
where Andrija had been hiding out. You can drop by some of Geller's
massive and self-congratulatory web pages if you are at all curious
what he has to say about Puharich. Fair is fair. Geller owed much of
his prominence, whether deserved or not to Andrija Puharich. Geller
and Puharich were no longer close which might explain the
amazing dirth of material about Andrija in amongst all that puffery.
"Uri is not a nice man." was Andrija's statement which I guess more or
less summed it up for him without saying anything useful.
Barbara Bronfman, once part of the Seagrams
We-are-really-really-wealthy whisky family couldn't make it either but
did think to send a note. She had become somewhat enamored with
Puharich way back when and was involved enough to support the fugitive
Ira Einhorn after he took it on the lam. If one can
believe all that is written she finally got convinced that Iran
Einhorn really did kill Holly Maddux and stuff her body into a trunk
which he hid in his closet for a couple of years.
Chris Bird, Puharich's old pal was not there either. He
too sent along kind words. I had tried to talk to Chris Bird,
intending to ask about his CIA days and Puharich but by the time I dug
up his telephone number he had undergone a throat operation and had
his larynx removed. Now he is dead and
the story I was curious about has gone with him. Wealthy, Henry Belk
was there.He knows where the bodies are buried and the data is in
danger of disappearing with him. Belk declared to me that he would
never commit or have his life committed to paper because people simply
would not believe. Belk had pretty much given up on Puharich but the
former naval intelligence man has unbelievable class and showed up for
the funeral.
Bep, Andrija's second wife who got a divorce way back in
1965 was there with two of the children, Andy Puharich who actually
poured his fathers ashes into the river and Yvonne. Children is used
in the loosest sense as both of these are way grown adults. I don't
know Yvonne but Bep and I have had some
curt correspondence. "I feel that I must warn you to be careful what
you write. The children and I will not tolerate any slander about
Andrija." Brrr!
Elizabeth Rauscher the erstwhile nuclear physicist was
there and Bill van Bise. Of course those two aging scientists would
attend, after all they had been living gratis on the same estate
thanks to the largesse of Josh Reynolds when he was alive. In spite of
everything Norwood Robinson an
attorney could do to get them off the property they absolutely refused
to leave. "Ain't going to do it!" they more or less declared but
seemed to have left it open for negations, having filed a claim
against the estate for $40,000. You gotta admire the sense of play of
a woman of Rauscher's high education who tacks up a picture of Perry
Mason and declares that he is her
attorney in these matters. Very cool. Her companion William van Bise,
was reported to be working on an electronic device for the enhancement
of extrasensory perception. More X-files!!
Good old Josh Reynolds had supported Puharich for about
seventeen years. He was the grandson of the founder of Reynolds
tobacco. Ricky Morell, staff writer of the Charlotte Observer called
Josh "a quirky, private man". Well Josh is quirky no more having begun
his dirt nap about six months before
Puharich tumbled down the stairs. One of Puharich's finely honed and
most excellently tuned abilities was garnering monetary support from
the rich. He excelled at it, Josh Reynold being merely the last in the
chain that wends its way back to the late 1940's. "He was a brilliant
man, who, in order to get money for his research needed the rich, who
used him for entertainment."
Bep avowed to me in the same letter in which she growled that I had
better mind my P's and Q's.
Puharich, brilliant man, was one of those kind of in the
military and kind of not in the military back in the late 1940's.
During the planetary blood letting known as the second world war the
army had picked up a number of promising individuals to participate in
what was then called the Army
Specialized Training Program. This group would provide the doctors and
dentists to replace those that got shot up or to augment those already
in place. Huge casualties were expected and advanced planing was the
order of the day. Andrija, received his medical education compliments
of the United States Government who picked up the tab. He was
officially given the rank of private during his tutelage. By the time
he had gotten smart doctor-wise the war was over. By the time he had
completed his residency at Permanente on the west coast the Army
Specialized Training Program was dropped. His medical education took
place at the ever-lovely and most diligent school of
big data, Northwestern University. Andrija busied himself there easing
animals into sleep with low frequency square waves and then operating
on them. Throughout his life Andrija performed many outrages on four
legged inhabitants of earth, slicing and dicing them as he saw the
need to do so all in the name of science. Dogs were a favorite. One of
life's little mysteries is why he belonged to the Kennel Club, but he
did. It was while he
was at Northwestern that Andrija put his mental-pedal to the
mental-metal and came up with his Theory of Nerve Conduction.
The theory proposed that the neuron units radiate and
receive waves of energy which he calculated to be in the
ultrashortwave bands below infrared and above the radar spectrum.
Therefore the basic nerve units - neurons - are a certain type of
radio receiver-transmitter. Hot spit! The theory got passed around and
glimpsed by various high personages of 1940's scientific importance.
Among them was Paul Weiss, a neurophysiologist at the University of
Chicago. Jose Delgado, the guy who tortured animals by putting
electronic implants into their brains to influence their behaviour
liked Paul Weiss and you can find his grateful acknowledgment to the
man in his 've know vat's goot for you' book "Toward a Psychocivilized
Society." While his nerve conduction manuscript was thusly
circulating Puharich headed out for California to do his internship as
a medical researcher. He spent a year or so at the Permanente Research
Foundation. During that time he carried out research into the effects
of digatoid drugs was funded by Sandoz Chemical Works. Sandoz, isn't
that the same name as the famous LSD-In-Your-face pharmaceutical
company?
Andrija's wife Virginia who had been an editor at the
office of War Information during the war came with him and worked at
the same facility. She got busy involving herself in pain study
research while Andrija practiced another skill which he honed to a
high degree over the years. Seduction. He took up with another
doctor-soul by the name of Jane. A lot of hot sex between the two is
now lost in the mists of history. By May of 1947 the Nerve Conduction
theory was presented to the Zoology Graduate Seminar of the University
of California at Berkeley. This resulted in a meeting with Dr. Paul de
Kruif, who was interested in the far-out implications of the theory.
Paul de Kruif was a bacteriologist who made his fortune writing
books which successful illustrated the lives and personalities and
methods of various individuals who had made great medical discoveries.
Paul de Kruif arranged for Puharich to meet withone of the most famous
scientific personages of the day, Charles F. Kettering. In his day
Kettering held over 200 patents and had invented everything from self
starters for automobiles,
high octane gasoline. Cash register components to bits and pieces of
guided missiles, Kettering had little pieces of it all. More than that
the man, sitting at General Motors, had his hands on the purse
strings. In later years when reminiscing about this blip in his life
Puharich referred to him as "Boss Kettering." A lot of people did.
Shortly after his meeting with
Kettering, followed by an appearance and talk before the Society of
Junior Fellows arranged by the highly illuminated Dr. Herbert
Sheinberg, Puharich fell in with a bunch of subversive, fellow
traveling, red sympathizing ne'er-do-wells wherein the oddities in our
story grow ......
Andrija claimed that he had met the new left bunch via
his father who had insisted he call the world famous violinist Zlatko
Balakovic on the telephone while Andrija was in New York tending to
his upcoming future. This was before he had actually spoke before
those Junior Fellow guys over at Harvard. As it turns out this fact is
somewhat important therefore I labor
over it on the readers behalf. "Call the man. He'd be interested in a
nice Yugoslavian boys coming and goings." Franjo Puharich had
insisted. "OK. Dad." I have put all this in quotes although it is
likely the words, if truly spoken, were different. Puharich dialed the
man up not in NY as he had been told but in Camden, Maine. "Come on
down!!" Zlatko spoke into the receiver. "Stay a couple of days" To an
ambitious young man wanting to climb to the top of Mount Success these
words would have been like receiving a summons from Sir Edmond
Hillary, the intrepid conqueror of Mount Everest.
Zlatko you see had a lot of things going for him. He had
married extremely well. His pretty and accomplished wife Joyce hailed
from the mighty Borden family which many of you are familiar with from
having dairy products in your refrigerator as well as glued things in
your basement workshops. Balakovic, originally hailed from Yugoslavia
but got out of there riding on his abilities as a first class
violinist. In that capacity he toured the world often getting from
place to place on his yacht, he had adventures, almost getting snapped
up by a crodile on one occassion and received many awards. When the
second world war fell upon the planet he did his bit by performing and
raisintremendous skill he had become friends with many of the heads of
state around the world. He especially was a friend of and liked
Marshall Tito. It was ok to like Tito during the conflict because the
man kicked Nazi butt and did it good. During the cold war however some
hefty faces in D.C. would raised some heavy eyebrows over such
sentiments.
The very year that Andrija met the Balakovic's the
couple had completed a four month tour of Europe where Tito held a
glitzy dinner in their honor. They had also dropped by Bulgaria where
Zlatko was given "The Order of the 9th of September." Medal by
President Kolaroff of Bulgaria which at the time was the highest honor
that country laid on hero's. As head of a number of Yugoslavia
fraternal and relief organizations located in the United States Zlatko
gathered up various goods and equipment to ship overseas as a
charitable action. All their good work got fired upon when it was
discovered that cast in with the material to be shipped were of all
things, surplus
radar equipment. Now how did that get in there? The state department
frowned, did some teeth gnashing and made grave announcements.
Actually the Federal Bureau of Investigation had known about the
improperly enclosed radar before it left port.This fact raises some
amazing questions which we will mull over later. The American Slav
Congress and the American Committee
for Yugoslavian Relief (Zlatko's organizations) got labeled as
subversive in 1948 by the Attorney General, Tom Clark. The newspapers
who picked up on this set up a mighty yowling.. "Tried to subvert 10
million people!!" "Zlatko Balokovic." an article sneers on "was bitten
by the communist bug in 1943 after several unsuccessful concerts in
this country he decided to become a professional revolutionist."
Andrija says he got snowed in with Balkovic's and instead of spending
ving introduced him to the subject of ESP. Forked tongue stuff insofar
as I have a document which clearly states his intent to investigate
the area prior to meeting the Balakovic's. This
document also reveals that he was already familiar with J.B.Rhine's
explorations in the area. The violinist, Puharich said, made an offer
to support his work to the tune of $200 per month and a place to work
which he accepted. After returning to California Instead of fulfilling
his military obligation, which he was expected to do in return for the
bucks, time and
training heaped on him by the government Puharich managed to get a
discharge.
Summing up: Training financed by U.S. Army under the
Army Specialized Training Program. Puts dogs into anasethetic sleep
utilizing low frequency square waves while at Northwestern. Writes a
paper proposing a new theory of nerve conduction. Is sent to
Permanente Research Foundation in California for internship in medical
research. Travels to Maine and meets the soon-to-be
declared-subversive Balakovic who offers financing which he accepts.
Discharged from army without actually serving and sets up a research
facility in Maine.
Looking back over these events, nearly a half
century after they occurred, one wonders that if the police were
anxious to arrest Rosen because of his political activities (his
evaluation) then why did they not pursue the matter? It certainly was
not legal to bribe dieners for bodies or body parts that once belonged
to some unfortunate human who had expired in a hospital. The odd
refusal to follow through might suggest that someone at a higher
level, out of sight, was pulling strings. Of the two characters we
have yet to introduce into this strange gathering at the Round Table
Foundation of Electrobiology, the most beneficial is probably Dr.
Samuel Rosen, otologist (ear specialist). There are many people today
who owe the fact that they can hear to this doctor -- the creator of
the Stapes Mobilization procedure. He was, according to Puharich,
associated with the Round Table Foundation from the get-go. In 1949,
he was fifty-one years old and coming up to a particularly difficult
time of his life. He had not yet developed his Stapes Mobilization,
but did have a successful private practice, a nice house and fine
family. The future being bright, shades were the order of the day.
There was one significant difficulty, especially in those heady days
of loyalty oaths -- J. Edgar Hoover and The House Un-American
Activities Committee. That difficulty was in the main, the idea
his fellow doctors and his patients had gotten of him. Mainly, that he
was a communist, a pinko, a left-wing sympathizer, a Soviet dupe. Not
only did they find his politics questionable, they found his friends
that way as well. The spunky doctor was friends with Henry Wallace,
once Secretary of Agriculture under Roosevelt, as well as his Vice
President, and later Secretary of Commerce, under Truman. Like Zlatko
Balakovic, Rosen belonged
to, and had come up on, the wrong side following WW II and the
beginning of the cold war. He and his wife, Helen, belonged to a group
that called itself the Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and
Professions. It, like Zlatko Balakovic's organizations, was cited as a
subversive group. Rosen said he had been brought into that particular
crowd by Frederick March, the actor, and it had been originally formed
to get Roosevelt reelected to a fourth term of office. As can be
detected by the subversive declaration, the FBI and other shadow
jumpers thought otherwise. Rosen was close friends with Dashiell
Hammett, a wonderful writer with a serious drinking problem, strong
beliefs and a definite socialist bent. Hammett's FBI file contained,
according to the meticulous researcher, Herbert Mitgang, 356 pages
revealing that he was tracked not only by the FBI, but the Army as
well.
As students of this particular piece of history know,
the writer would spend six months in jail in 1953 rather then
cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee who were
trying to find out who was posting bail for all the
goddamned communist, pinko perverts. Following his release he came to
live on Rosen's property, in a little cottage made available to him by
the concerned doctor. Proceeding by some years, the scandal of his
friendship with Hammett and Wallace, was Rosen's friendship with Paul
Robeson. The talented, and politically active, black opera star often
dropped into the
declared subversive Citizens Committee's headquarters as he happened
to be performing Othello just around the corner. He met Rosen's wife
who invited him to her and Samuel's house for dinner. They became good
friends, which leads us into August 27, 1949 civil rights concert at
Peckskill which put the nail in Rosen's coffin, although he was not
even there. The concert had
been gotten up by the Harlem chapter of the Civil Rights Congress, of
which Robeson was vice-president. The purpose was to generate revenues
which would be used to defend American Communists and others who had
been indicted for conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the American
government.
A few hundred people, the majority of them black, had
gathered at the picnic ground to listen to Paul Robeson sing. Before
Robeson actually arrived, a crowd-intimidating phalanx of war veterans
showed up. The bunch who were there as the Veterans Joint Council was
composed of three groups of "right
thinking Americans," the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Catholic
Veterans Association and the American Legion. This composite of vets
was determined to preserve the liberty of United States citizens by, I
guess, removing liberty completely, presumably to a place of safety
known only to them. They menaced the concert goers by positioning
themselves so that those already at
the gathering could not exit and those wanting to get in could not get
by. Well one thing led to another and a fist fight started which
turned into a melee which in turn spread throughout the public
grounds. Someone turned off the flood lights and several KKK burning
crosses sprouted up. One truck and
several cars were overturned and injuries abounded as the two sides
took to flailing at one another. Peace was finally restored when about
forty law enforcement personnel showed up along with all the local
Peckskill cops that could be mustered. Thereafter, someone from the
concert committee phoned up
Rosen and asked to use his substantial lawn to make a protest rally.
Within an hour of his giving his consent the news was on the radio.
Some three thousand people showed up. Thus it was that Rosen notoriety
as a communist grew big time. And with it the majority of his
patients, reacting to the publicity, abandoned him and what had been a
successful medical practice
fell into ruin.
At the time Puharich first became associated with Rosen,
the disastrous concert was still a hop and a skip in the future. It is
not known by this writer how the two came to collaborate. This missing
data is in itself a peculiarity. Dr. Rosen wrote an autobiography
which omits any mention whatsoever of Andrija Puharich or the Round
Table Foundation of
Electrobiology. Puharich stated throughout the years that he was Dr.
Rosen's surgical assistant on the Stapes Mobilization surgical
procedure. He put the years at between 1949 and 1952. It is difficult
to see how this is what they could have been working on in 1949. Rosen
wrote he had not yet developed the
surgical procedure, nor did he even consider the possibility of doing
so until 1952. One is left to wonder just why Puharich put forth such
disinformation? On top of that there is the curious, before mentioned,
omission on Dr. Rosen's part of Andrija Puharich or the Round Table
Foundation.
If not the Stapes operation what were the two working
on? The actual research was directed at clarifying the piezoelectric
properties of a structure located on the inner surface of the membrane
located near the base of the spiral tube of the inner ear, called the
cochlea. Some years prior, Rosen had developed a theory that the
tongue could be used as an organ of hearing. He based this on the fact
of a nerve which lay in the passageway behind the ear drum and the
bony wall of the inner ear. The space there is so small that it could
be filled with four or five drops of water. Rosen had discovered in
that passageway two nerves that had nothing to do with hearing
at all. One of them was a facial nerve. Should it be cut during
surgery, as he had once accidently done, the patient would experience
paralysis of one side of his face. The other nerve, called the Chorda
tympani nerve was utilized by the tongue in the sense of taste.
The entire subject had come up during a lunch when Rosen
was concerned about a problem covering a hole made by a particular
operation on the ear. Tossing it about, both Puharich and he thought
that they might swing the Chorda tympani nerve over from the tongue to
cover the cavity. Once done, Rosen believed it would be possible for
the tongue to pick up sound waves and transfer the sounds to the inner
ear, bypassing the ear drum.. It was necessary to adjudicate if the
nerve in question was long enough to be successfully moved and if so
could it be moved without interfering with other parts of the anatomy?
Both Rosen and Puharich went over to Bellevue and acquired at least
one corpse to perform a practice operation. Having successfully
completed that, they decided they should practice on something that
was alive. They therefore acquired some monkeys. Once the monkeys were
under anaesthesia the surgeons deliberately destroyed the horribly,
unlucky creature's ear drums. From there they moved the nerve fiber
from the tongue and connected it with the inner ear. Experimentation
when the monkeys had recovered showed that the now should-be-deaf
animals could hear. How well they could hear was an unknown, but they
could hear. This work, which briefly surfaced in 1950, had been
carried out in 1948 and 1949. The reader may recall that would be the
same time period Andrija was at Bellevue with implant-happy McCulloch.
Moving away from the subject of surgery and the nervous
system of the human body, I now invite the reader, who enjoys
participatory reading, to take a US dollar bill from his pocket.
Observe the back of the bill and you will see the pyramid and all
seeing-eye design thereon. This goes back to Henry Wallace who had,
way back when he was Secretary of Agriculture, suggested the peculiar
design as part and parcel of an idea he had for a new dollar coin.
Roosevelt nixed the coin idea but kept the design. This has, over the
years, led to endless Illuminati conspiratorial ideas.
There is no doubt that Henry Wallace had a bit of a
mystic bent about him. He was an inquisitive, productive man by all
accounts. Rosen describes him as a cold being, who had a fear of the
rising "yellow man," which may be what led him into a series of
attempts to introduce Christianity into China
with Nicholas Roerich, a Russian explorer and mystic. As is known, he
who wins the war, writes the history. Wallace did not win the
political war of the time. Truman fired him, the FBI surveilled him,
the Attorney General used association on him to prove that one was
"disloyal," and so on. According to William C. Sullivan, once second
in command at the FBI, Hoover hated Wallace. Of course Hoover hated
Truman, new dealers, left wing
radicals, and just about anything that smacked of a position one iota
left of center right. Truman's clumsy handling of Hoover's grab for
power during the heyday of the House on Un-American Activities
Committee's rape of civil liberties led to loyalty oaths and a bunch
of other scary nonsense. Writers still like to rake up, when they are
of a mind, to show just how close the
US came to fascism. What we are talking about here is trickle down
politics. And the trickle wended its way right on down to Wallace,
down to Maine, down to Camden, Rosen and Balakovic. Hmmm, funny ... it
seems to have missed Puharich.
Truman was teed off at Henry for a number of things. One
was his letters to Nicholas Roerich (whom those in the White House
thought of as a disreputable Russian Mystic). It wasn't so much what
the letters between the two (that
had somehow gotten leaked to the press) said. It was the way Wallace
addressed Roerich in his missives: "Dear Guru." This subservient
salutation to a Russian guy by someone high in our government could
not be tolerated. This therefore helped blow the democrats away in the
1946 elections. They lost seats. They lost prestige. They had long
memories. Another flap occurred when Wallace gave a speech at Madison
Square Garden. The speech
suggested, nay said, that there was a mighty softening of attitude
toward the Soviet Union which was a direct reversal of the facts of
the case. Unfortunately Truman had OK'd the speech without reading it
carefully and therefore was caught with his political pants down.
Upshot without going into more detail. Wallace was fired. To hell with
them, reasoned Wallace, I'll run on another ticket, the Progressive
Party. That must have caused
Hoover to become frightfully unmellow as the Progressive Party was
considered to be run by hard-line Communists.
Let me say here and now, as the author of this series,
that I have no special knowledge as to who was a communist, a
socialist, a pinko, a wrong thinker and who was not. The knowledge
that I have is who was perceived to be a communist and that knowledge,
whether the perception was correct or not, is all that I have. It was
this perception which ended the careers of many men in those reckless
days. With their careers went their achievements, some to be
resurrected in later, gentler days. Unfortunately, in many cases the
good got interred with their bones, thank you very much Shakespeare.
Historical hindsight leaves little doubt that in those
times little regard was given as to whether or not individuals
declared subversive had actually done anything subversive. Having
regaled you with my opinions, let us turn
back to the subject, Dr. Andrija Puharich, and show what this has to
do with him and his associates. Fortunately a paper trail does exist
to some extent.
On April 1, 1949 of that year, Puharich wrote a letter
to the Trustees of a legal entity called the Wallace Fund. The money
in the fund was made up of royalties Henry Wallace had received on one
of his books. In the letter to
that fund Puharich stated that the grant he requested was to be used
exclusively for the procurement of electronic equipment for basic
neurophysiological research. He would use the money to obtain
"infra-red detectors for the detection of long wave infra-red
radiation from nerves and nervous systems." Progress reports would be
furnished to Henry A. Wallace as well as the trustees of the Wallace
fund. In this request, Puharich also noted that the current trustees
of the Round Table Foundation were himself,
William A. Brown of Boston Mass and Carl D. Lane of Rockport Maine. In
between the letter of April 1 requesting the funds, Andrija also got a
letter off to Henry Wallace in which he extolled the once
vice-president's virtues as a "universal man" and thanked him for "the
privilege of sharing your presence." By April 27, a check in the
amount of $4,458.73 was in the mail and on the way to the Round Table
Foundation of Electrobiology.
Summing Up: Puharich is working with a ear specialist
named Dr. Samuel Rosen who is thought to be a communist. They are
researching the possibility that a nerve from the tongue can be used
to facilitate hearing. This during the same year and at the same
hospital (Bellevue) that Puharich and the psychiatrist McCulloch were
working together. Puharich meets once Vice President of the United
States, Henry Wallace, who is a friend of Rosen's. He applies to The
Wallace Foundation for a grant and receives it.
This is the last section in our four part series on
Andrija Puharich. In it we are covering the formation and first
funding of the Round Table Foundation of Electrobiology as well as
have discussing the rudiments of the odd tooth implant whose
development started in 1948. In this final section we will reveal the
presence of an unknown agency that was connected with the Round Table
Foundation from the start. The inclusion of this agency may leave
unanswered questions about how it was that a man, known to be financed
by individuals connected to subversive organizations, came to be
granted security clearances by the United States Army. By the time the
laboratory in Maine was operational, enough material and labor had
been donated gratis to
keep the total cost of setup to $437.00, which even considering late
40's economics is minuscule. The exact source of these donations is
not, as of this writing, documented. Puharich's finances were
certainly flourishing. There was the $4,458.73 from Henry Wallace
(interestingly Puharich when reporting to the press of the day the
happy news of that grant dropped out Henry Wallace as his benefactor).
In addition to the Wallace money, Mrs. Zlatko Balakovic
kicked in $2,000 and a Mr. Walter C. Paine put in $3,000. Although
Walter C. Paine is still alive, I have had no luck at all in getting a
response from him to any query regarding the Round Table Foundation. I
have thus dubbed him Mr.
"I-don't-want-to-talk-about-it" Paine. Another, later associate of the
Foundation, Arthur Young, now deceased, said that he had a friend
named Walter in Camden who was also part of the Foundation. He
commented that Walter was an oil executive at the time and preferred
to remain anonymous. We will continue without Mr. Paine's input.
Hummphh. Various pieces of high-tech equipment began to show up at the
lab. The cost of this equipment
was also, at cost, or no charge. We will mention only one such
specialized piece of equipment in this article, but there were others.
The one piece we will discuss seems to have made a tidy
profit for Andrija. John Cooney an electronics engineer from Yale, who
had been associated with the M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory and had
helped develop radar during the war,
constructed it. Cooney built a specially designed nerve stimulator.
The function of the unit was to stimulate nerves by controlled
electrical impulses. It happens that Andrija Puharich had written a
letter to Henry Wallace in 1948, which mentioned John Cooney. This was
before he had actually received the grant from the Wallace Fund. "The
Mr. John Cooney that I refer to in my program for research is a rare
man who fits into the program here perfectly. He is an electronic
engineer who was trained at Yale and M.I.T. He is of my vintage and a
rebel from society who came to Maine so that he could be himself. He
has built, and is running, a jewel of a theatre in Waldoboro, and thus
has an independent income. He is working with me for no pay -- just
for the sheer pleasure of it. He is brilliant and ingenious. The
equipment that I want to build would cost about $40,000 on the open
market, but he thinks that he can do that job for about $4000.00 using
war surplus material. Thus the money that you are granting will go a
very long way." According to John Cooney, now 83, though, "This is all
vintage Puharich as I remember him -- beginning with the
"brown-nosing" of Mr. Wallace and concluding with the paragraph
relating to me personally -- which is 100% pure bull-shit from start
to finish."
Far from being a rebel from society who came to Maine so
that he could be himself, Mr. Cooney pointed out that he had in fact
lived in Maine all of his life (except for WW II) on land that had
been in his family since the Indians owned it. He denied having ever
having an independent income, nor had he worked for free and most
certainly never for Puharich, nor did he at any time have slightest
connection with The Round Table Foundation. The "jewel of a theatre"
mentioned had not been built by him but by his father. The nerve
stimulator, actually a special variable pulse electronic generator,
had not cost $4,000
but in fact had cost about $40.00, which according to Mr. Cooney is
what he charged Puharich and was duly paid for, concluding any
dealings they had.
The puzzlement here is why Andrija Puharich would have
written such a letter, containing so many false details about a man
he, at least according to Cooney, actually had next to no dealings
with. If Henry Wallace had been so inclined he might have, with a
little checking, found out the truth. Perhaps the answer lies in the
last section of this report. In it you will find that another man
named Cooney was indeed associated with Puharich. For now, let us
continue with our story. Though the Round Table Foundation's bottom
line, dollar-wise, was certainly on the upswing, it cannot account for
all the expenditures made. As you shall read, Puharich in some, yet
unknown, manner became the proud possessor of quite an estate. A
possible source of hidden money might have to do with a secret project
associated with the Round Table Foundation of Electrobiology in 1949.
Here we find a remaining personality, quite wealthy, and
a project whose claimed existence did not surface for thirty years.
Read on and you will understand why I use
the words "claimed existence" when speaking of that project. The
person we are interested in is a prolific and famous inventor and
radio pioneer by the name of John Hays Hammond, Jr., who at that time
was in his early seventies. Back then, he had more patents issued to
himself then any other man in the United States. Hammond had developed
radio remote control which many
reference works state serves as the basis for modern missile guidance
systems. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the inventor
established the Hammond Radio Research Laboratory in 1911. By World
War I, he had not only developed radio remote-control but also
incorporated within it a gyroscope enabling him to send a yacht on a
120 mile round trip between Gloucester, Mass and Boston.
He also developed techniques to prevent enemy jamming of
remote control, as well as invented a radio-controlled torpedo for
coastal defense. Hammond conducted some of the earliest experiments in
frequency modulation. He devised a amplifier that was used on
long-distance telephone lines. During WW II he developed a
variable-pitch ship propeller that increased engine efficiency. His
later developments include a method of intelligence transmission
called "Telespot." He was president of the Hammond Research
Corporation, a consulting firm, and often served as research
consultant to large corporations. It is significant, considering the
exploratory implant work, to note that John Hays Hammond, Jr. had a
belief
that the mind could be influenced by radio waves. He was also
conversant with the work of Nikola Tesla, the legally acknowledged
creator of radio. He was said, by Puharich, to have been the only
student Tesla had ever had.
Bolstering that claim is the following fact. Following
his financial spiral down, Tesla lived, with John Hays Hammond, Jr. at
his estate. There, according to author and researcher Gerry Vassilatos
in his interesting book "Secrets of Cold War Technology," the work
they did lead to the some of the
inventions noted above. Relating to John Hays Hammond, Jr., is the
secret project that Puharich claimed got underway in 1948, Project
Penguin. This, he avowed, was a Navy undertaking which ran a number of
years. Its purpose was to test individuals said to possess "psychic
powers." The project was headed by a man named Rexford Daniels.
Puharich made this startling claim on
the Geraldo Rivera show on October 2, 1987. When challenged, he
promised to send proof of his allegation to another guest on the show,
Marcello Truzzi, who was in his usual role of open-minded skeptic.
According to Truzzi, the proof was never sent him. The Navy flat out
denies that it has any records at all of a Project Penguin. Even an
appeal, on my part, to the Judge Advocate General produced no results.
"Never heard of it," is more or less
the response back. The research papers, letters, etc. of John Hays
Hammond, Jr. are now at Yale University. Queries to them regarding
correspondence between John Hays Hammond, Jr. and Andrija Puharich
have likewise produced negative results.
This is puzzling. There should have been at least one
memorandum according to an article in the International Journal of
Neuropsychiatry is which Puharich wrote, "In 1950 I sent a memorandum
to Mr. John Hays Hammond, Jr. of Gloucester, Mass., outlining the plan
of an experimental technique." It would be exciting to think that the
Department of the Navy upon receiving my FOIA request regarding
Project Penguin yelled
out something to the effect of, "Oh my God, he is on to us. Shred the
docs. Call Yale and tell them not to let that bastard have anything."
I, regretfully, am prone to believe that they have no record of a
Project Penguin, nor of any correspondence regarding such. To my mind
that does not equate to the non-existence of such a project. As in all
things governmental, it depends on who you ask. I have been able to
confirm these
pieces of information: John Hays Hammond, Jr. did, in fact, carry out
research on Eileen Garrett, a world famous psychic of the day.
There was a Rexford Daniels in Camden, Maine, during
those years. He was a summer resident and both he and his family were
well thought of. According to Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird in
their book, The Secret Life of Plants,
Rexford Daniels owned a company named Interference Consultants Company
of Concord Massachusetts and as of 1973 had been studying the problem
of how proliferating electromagnetic emissions interfere with one
another and may work harmful environmental effects on man. Daniels
apparently became
convinced that there was a force in the universe which was itself
intelligent. "Daniels theorizes that this force operates through a
whole spectrum of frequencies not necessarily linked to the
electromagnetic spectrum and that human beings can mentally interact
with it." There is ample evidence that individuals thought to have
talent as psychics began to show up at the Round Table Foundation,
some from overseas, some local talent and that these individuals were
indeed tested, extensively. One of the more notorious of these
individuals, Peter Hurkos, was brought to the US by a man with a
background in Naval intelligence. There was one additional grant of
money to the Round Table Foundation in 1949.
The story about how this last bit of good fortune came
to be was told thusly: Puharich and his wife Virginia attended a
square Dance in Camden during the summer of 1949. It was at this
function that he met a Mr. and Mrs. Norman Anderson, which led to him
going to New York and meeting with Charles Kaufman, then vice
president in charge of research and development at General Foods
Corporation. The results of that meeting were that General Foods
decided to break with its
long standing policy of conducting research "in house." They elected
to farm out research work to Puharich at his Round Table Foundation
rather then use their own research facility at Hoboken, New Jersey.
The corporation started him off with a Fellowship and a $5,000 grant
to study taste physiology. The
idea is that Andrija is to work out a new method of measuring taste in
animals, so it was publicly announced.
General Foods also granted Andrija the use of their
electron microscope which was located at their Hoboken
facility. By 1950 Andrija Puharich had become a farmer, growing crops,
raising animals and maintaining a new laboratory, complete with staff.
All this on a wonderful new estate which boasted a 22 room house,
which would be used by lab technicians for a dormitory. At the new
digs was a new, large garage which was converted to hold a store of
laboratory animals. Puharich's
brother William showed up from Colorado to help with the research.
Either $5,000 went a fantastically long way in those days or some
unaccounted for funding showed up. I propose the latter of the
choices. Consider the following list of individuals known to be
associated with Andrija Puharich
and the Round Table Foundation, some of whom we have already
mentioned, some of whom would not show up in time to make it into this
article.
They are: Norman Anderson (mentioned), Charles Kettering
(mentioned) and Raymond Zirkle (mentioned), Jack Cooney (unmentioned),
Kennith Cole (unmentioned) and Shields Warren (unmentioned) General
Foods (mentioned), General Motors
(mentioned). Each of these individuals and the two organizations
listed were actually engaged in research for the Atomic Energy
Commission. General Foods, in 1947, was in receipt of isotopes
provided for research by the AEC. Specifically they were to test the
physiological availability and to follow the metabolism of Zn 65 and
69 as well as Cobalt 60 and Cu 64. They had been
shipped these on the premise that they would be administered to cattle
in a specific mineral supplement. The isotopes were delivered to their
Hoboken research facility. It should be noted that research done
during 1947 showed that a pregnant dog, who had received ZN 65 (dosage
undetermined), produced radioactive pups.
The pups were then "sacrificed" to see in which organs
the element had landed. All of this is especially suspicious when one
finds that the animals being used for the taste research at the Round
Table Foundation died. At least one individual, then familiar with the
Foundation recalls burns on the bodies of some. As near as I have been
able to ascertain no
special handling was carried out in getting rid of these carcasses.
They were simply left outside for the local trash collection. While I
realize that this hardly makes a lawyer's case that covert radiation
research was taking place, one should consider the strange
construction of that barn which you have been told about and his later
connections to the Atomic
Energy Commission and its people which are outside the scope of this
article but will be in my book. Consider also the new Cooney in the
list above. Not the John Cooney mentioned to Wallace, but Jack Cooney,
who research shows was in 1946 and 1947 Army Colonel Jack Cooney. By
1950 he was Brigadier
General Jack Cooney. We find him briefly mentioned as being associated
with the Round Table Foundation sans his military rank or affiliation.
Cooney headed up the army medical branch of an
organization formed in July of 1947 called The Armed Forces Special
Weapons Project. "The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP)
established by the War and Navy Departments, is
charged in its charter with responsibility for all military service
functions of the Manhattan Project as are retained under the control
of the Armed Forces including training of special personnel required,
military participation in the development of atomic weapons of all
types (to coordinate with the Commission) ... and developing and
effecting joint radiological safety measures in coordination with
established agencies."
Source: Office Memorandum from Lt. Col. W. B. Hutchinson Jr. to Brig.
General James McCormack, Jr. Once secret, this document was
declassified in 1995. The AFSWP has a curious administrative set-up.
It has not one chief, but two, one from the Navy holding the rank of
Captain and one from the Army holding the rank of Colonel. This duel
set-up might explain why my FOIA to the Navy regarding Operation
Penguin was strikingly unsuccessful. The
records would not be in the possession of the US Navy, they would have
instead been housed within the Atomic Energy Commission, probably one
of the last places one would think to look. And, although not covered
in this article, Andrija Puharich, was known to be in the company of
Dr. Shields
Warren, while in Washington D.C.
This individual was, like Cooney, a key
personnel on the medical side of the radiation studies being carried
out. Puharich's earlier "medical discharge" said to have rendered him
unfit to serve in the military after completing medical training
happens to have coincided with the establishment of The Armed Forces
Special Weapons Project. Mysteriously, his medical condition seems to
have vanished as he
was "reinducted" into the Army about the time of the Korean War and
served as a Captain at the US Army Chemical Center, where he got up to
some very interesting activities. If what I have stated is true, and
it is, we are left with one very perplexing question. What about the
left-wing, red sympathizing commie guys? The answer my friend, is not
blowing in the wind, it will be in my book. We leave you now with an
incomplete story, hoping
that enough curiosity about Dr. Andrija Puharich, his activities, and
his marvelous tooth implant has been created that you will consider
the purchase of my upcoming book, tentatively entitled "Andrija,
Aliens and the Square Wave." Thus I will be the richer and you will be
the wiser. Summing up: The
Round Table Foundation of Electrobiology began to flourish. A
considerable misrepresentation as to cost of equipment is shown.
Project Penguin undertaken by the Navy is also claimed. A grant from
General Foods and the activities of associates reveals the connection
to The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project.
This is the last section in our four part series on
Andrija Puharich. In it we are covering the formation and first
funding of the Round Table Foundation of Electrobiology as well as
have discussed the rudiments of the odd tooth implant who's
development started in 1948.
In this final section we will reveal the presence of an
unknown agency that was connected with the Round Table Foundation from
the start. The inclusion of this agency may leave unanswered questions
about how it was that a man, known to be financed by individuals
connected to subversive organizations,
came to be granted security clearances by the United States Army.
By the time the laboratory in Maine was operational,
enough material and labor had been donated gratis to keep the total
cost of setup to $437, which even considering late 40's economics is
minuscule. The exact source of these
donations is not, as of this writing, documented.
Puharich's finances were certainly flourishing. There
was the $4,458.73 from Henry Wallace. (Interestingly Puharich when
reporting to the press of the day the happy news of that grant dropped
out Henry Wallace as hisbenefactor) In addition to the Wallace money
Mrs. Zlatko Balakovic kicked in
$2,000 and a Mr. Walter C. Paine put in $3,000.
Although Walter C. Paine is still alive I have had no
luck at all in getting a response from him to any query regarding the
Round Table Foundation. I have thus dubbed him Mr.
"I-don't-want-to-talk-about-it" Paine.
Another, later associate of the Foundation, Arthur
Young, now deceased, said that he had a friend named Walter in Camden
who was also part of the Foundation. He commented that Walter was an
oil executive at the time and preferred to remain anonymous.
We will continue without Mr. Paine's input. Hummphh.
Various pieces of high tech equipment began to show up
at the lab. The cost of this equipment was also, at cost, or no
charge. We will mention only one such specialized piece of equipment
in this article, but there were others.
The one piece we will discuss seems to have made a tidy profit for
Andrija.
John Cooney an electronics engineer from Yale who had
been associated with the M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory and had helped
develop radar during the war, constructed it. Cooney built a specially
designed nerve stimulator. The function of the unit was to stimulate
nerves by controlled electrical impulses.
It happens that Andrija Puharich had written a letter to
Henry Wallace in 1948, which mentioned John Cooney. This was before he
had actually received the grant from the Wallace Fund.
"The Mr. John Cooney that I refer to in my program for
research is a rare man who fits into the program here perfectly. He is
an electronic engineer who was trained at Yale and M.I.T. He is of my
vintage and a rebel from society who came to Maine so that he could be
himself. He has built and is
running a jewel of a theatre in Waldoboro, and thus has an independent
income. He is working with me for no pay - just for the sheer pleasure
of it. He is brilliant and ingenious. The equipment that I want to
build would cost about $40,000 on the open market, but he thinks that
he can do that job for about $4000.00 using war surplus material. Thus
the money that you are
granting will go a very long way." According to John Cooney, now 83,
though, "This is all vintage Puharich as I remember him - beginning
with the "brown-nosing" of Mr. Wallace and concluding with the
paragraph relating to me personally - which is 100% pure
bull-shit from start to finish."
Far from being a rebel from society who came to Maine so
that he could be himself, Mr. Cooney pointed out that he had in fact
lived in Maine all of his life (except for WW II) on land that had
been in his family since the Indians owned it. He denied having ever
having an independent income nor had
he worked for free and most certainly never for Puharich nor did he at
any time have slightest connection with The Round Table Foundation.
The "Jewel of a theatre" mentioned had not been built by him but by
his father. The nerve stimulator actually a special variable pulse
electronic generator had not cost $4,000 but in fact had cost about
$40.00, which according to Mr.
Cooney is what he charged Puharich and was duly paid for, concluding
any dealings they had.
The puzzlement here is why Andrija Puharich would have
written such a letter, containing so many false details about a man
he, at least according to Cooney, actually had next to no dealings
with. If Henry Wallace had been so inclined he might have, with a
little checking, found out the truth. Perhaps the answer lies in the
last section of this report. In it you will find that another man
named Cooney was indeed associated with Puharich. For now, let us
continue with our story.
Though the Round Table Foundations bottom line
dollar-wise was certainly on the upswing it cannot account for all the
expenditures made. As you shall read, Puharich in some, yet unknown,
manner became the proud possessor of quite an estate. A possible
source of hidden money might have to do with a
secret project associated with the Round Table Foundation of
Electrobiology in 1949. Here we find a remaining personality, quite
wealthy, and a project who's claimed existence did not surface for
thirty years. Read on and you will understand why I use the words
"claimed existence" when speaking of that project. The person we are
interested in is a prolific and famous
inventor and radio pioneer by the name of John Hays Hammond, Jr., who
at that time was in his early seventies. Back then, he had more
patents issued to himself then any other man in the United States.
Hammond, had developed radio remote control which many reference works
state serves as the basis for modern missile guidance systems.
According to the Encyclopedia
Britanica, the inventor established the Hammond Radio Research
Laboratory in 1911. By World War I, he had not only developed radio
remote control but also incorporated within it a gyroscope enabling
him to send a yacht on a 120 mile round trip between Gloucester, Mass
and Boston. He also developed techniques for prevent enemy jamming of
remote control, as well as invented
a radio-controlled torpedo for coastal defense. Hammond conducted some
of the earliest experiments in frequency modulation. He devised a
amplifier that was used on long-distance telephone lines. During WW II
he developed a
variable-pitch ship propeller that increased engine efficiency. His
later developments include a method of intelligence transmission
called "Telespot." He was president of the Hammond Research
Corporation, a consulting firm, and often served as research
consultant to large corporations.
It is significant, considering the exploratory implant
work, to note that John Hays Hammond, Jr. had a belief that the mind
could be influenced by radio waves. He was also conversant with the
work of Nikola Tesla, the legally acknowledged creator of radio He was
said, by Puharich, to have been the only student Tesla had ever had.
Bolstering that claim is the following fact. Following his financial
spiral down, Tesla lived, with John Hays Hammond, Jr. at his estate.
There, according to author and researcher Gerry Vassilatos in his
interesting book "Secrets of Cold War Technology" the work
they did lead to the some of the inventions noted above.
Relating to John Hays Hammond, Jr. is the secret project
that Puharich claimed got underway in 1948, Project Penguin. This, he
avowed, was a Navy undertaking which ran a number of years. It's
purpose was to test individuals said to possess "psychic powers." The
project was headed by a man named Rexford Daniels.
Puharich made this startling claim on the Geraldo Rivera
show on October 2, 1987. When challenged, he promised to send proof of
his allegation to another guest on the show, Marcello Truzzo, who was
in his usual role of open-minded skeptic. According to Truzzo, the
proof was never sent him. The
Navy flat out denies that it has any records at all of a Project
Penguin. Even an appeal, on my part, to the Judge Advocate General
produced no results. "Never heard of it." is more or less the response
back.
The research papers, letters, etc. of John Hays Hammond,
Jr. are now at Yale University. Queries to them regarding
correspondence between John Hays Hammond, Jr. and Andrija Puharich
have likewise produced negative results. This is puzzling. There there
should have been at least one memorandum
according to an article in the International Journal of
Neuropsychiatry is which Puharich wrote, "In 1950 I sent a memorandum
to Mr. John Hays Hammond, Jr. of Gloucester, Mass., outlining the plan
of an experimental technique." It would be exciting to think that the
Department of the Navy upon receiving
my FOI request regarding Project Penguin yelled out something to the
effect of "Oh my God he is on to us. Shred the docs. Call Yale and
tell them not to let that bastard have anything." I, regretfully, am
prone to believe that they have no record of a Project Penguin nor of
any correspondence regarding such. To my mind that does not equate to
the non-existence of such a
project. As in all things governmental, it depends on who you ask.
I have though been able to confirm these pieces of
information. John Hays Hammond, Jr. did, in fact, carry out research
on Eileen Garrett, a world famous psychic of the day. There was a
Rexford Daniels in Camden, Maine, during those years. He was a summer
resident and both he and his family were
well thought of.
According to Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird in
their book, The Secret Life of Plants, Rexford Daniels owned a company
named Interference Consultants Company of Concord Massachusetts and as
of 1973 had been studying the problem of how proliferating
electromagnetic emissions interfere with one another and may work
harmful environmental effects on man. Daniels apparently became
convinced that there was a force in the
universe which was itself intelligent. "Daniels theorizes that this
force operates through a whole spectrum of frequencies not necessarily
linked to the electromagnetic spectrum and that human beings can
mentally interact with it"
There is ample evidence that individuals thought to have
talent as psychics began to show up at the Round Table Foundation,
some from overseas, some local talent and that these individuals were
indeed tested, extensively. One of the more notorious of these
individuals, Peter Hurkos, was brought to the
US by a man with a background in Naval intelligence.
There was one additional grant of money to the Round
Table Foundation in 1949. The story about how this last bit of good
fortune came to be was told thusly: Puharich and his wife Virginia
attended a square Dance in Camden during the summer of 1949. It was at
this function that he met a Mr. and
Mrs. Norman Anderson which led to him going to New York and meeting
with Charles Kaufman, then vice president in charge of research and
development at General Foods Corporation. The results of that meeting
were that General Foods decided to break with its long standing policy
of conducting research "in house." They elected to farm out research
work to Puharich at his Round
Table Foundation rather then use their own research facility at
Hoboken, New Jersey. The corporation started him off with a Fellowship
and a $5,000 grant to study taste physiology. The idea is that Andrija
is to work out a new method of measuring taste in animals, so it was
publicly announced. General Foods also granted Andrija the use of
their electron microscope which was located at their Hoboken facility.
By 1950 Andrija Puharich had become a farmer, growing
crops, raising animals and maintaining a new laboratory, complete with
staff. All this on a wonderful new estate which boasted a 22 room
house, which would be used by lab technicians for a dormitory. At the
new digs was a new, large garage which was converted to hold a store
of laboratory animals. Puharich's
brother William showed up from Colorado to help with the research.
Either $5,000 went a fantastically long way in those days or some
unaccounted for funding showed up. I propose the latter of the
choices.
Consider the following list of individuals known to be
associated with Andrija Puharich and the Round Table Foundation, some
of whom we have already mentioned, some of whom would not show up in
time to make it into this article. They are: Norman Anderson
(mentioned), Charles Kettering (mentioned) and Raymond Zirkle
(mentioned), Jack Cooney (unmentioned),
Kennith Cole (unmentioned) and Shields Warren (unmentioned) General
foods (mentioned, General Motors (mentioned). Each of these
individuals and the two organizations listed were actually engaged in
research for The Atomic Energy Commission.
General Foods, in 1947 was in receipt of isotopes
provided for research by the AEC. Specifically they were to test the
physiological availability and to follow the metabolism of Zn 65 and
69 as well as Cobalt 60 and Cu 64. They had been shipped these on the
premise that they would be administered
to cattle in a specific mineral supplement. The isotopes were
delivered to their Hoboken research facility. It should be noted that
research done during 1947 showed that a pregnant dog, who had received
ZN 65 (dosage undetermined), produced radioactive pups. The pups were
then "sacrificed" to see in which organs the element had landed. All
of this is especially suspicious when one finds that the animals being
used for the taste research
at the Round Table Foundation died. At least one individual, then
familiar with the Foundation recalls burns on the bodies of some. As
near as I have been able to ascertain no special handling was carried
out in getting rid of these carcasses. They were simply left outside
for the local trash collection. While I realize that this hardly makes
a lawyer's case that covert radiation research was taking place, one
should consider the strange construction of that barn which you have
been told about and his later connections to the Atomic Energy
Commission and its people which are outside the scope of this article
but will be in my book.
Consider also the new Cooney in the list above. Not the
John Cooney mentioned to Wallace, but Jack Cooney, who research shows
was in 1946 and 1947 Army Colonel Jack Cooney. By 1950 he was
Brigadier General Jack Cooney. We find him briefly mentioned as being
associated with the Round Table Foundation sans his military rank or
affiliation. Cooney headed up the army
medical branch of an organization formed in July of 1947 called The
Armed Forces Special Weapons Project. "The Armed Forces Special
Weapons Project (AFSWP) established by the War and Navy Departments,
is charged in its charter with responsibility for all military service
functions of the Manhattan Project as are retained under the control
of the Armed Forces including training of special personnel required,
military participation in
the development of atomic weapons of all types (to coordinate with the
Commission) ... and developing and effecting joint radiological safety
measures in coordination with established agencies." Source: Office
Memorandum from Lt. Col. W. B. Hutchinson Jr. to Brig. General James
McCormack, Jr. Once secret, this document was declassified in 1995.
The AFSWP has a curious administrative set-up. It has
not one chief, but two, one from the Navy holding the rank of Captain
and one from the Army holding the rank of Colonel. This duel set-up
might explain why my FOI to the Navy regarding Operation Penguin was
strikingly unsuccessful. The records would not be in the possession of
the US Navy, they would have instead been housed within the Atomic
Energy Commission, probably one of the last places one would think to
look.
And, although not covered in this article, Andrija
Puharich, was known to be in the company of Dr. Shields Warren, while
in Washington D.C. This individual was, like Cooney, a key personnel
on the medical side of the radiation studies being carried out.
Puharich's earlier "medical discharge" said to have rendered him unfit
to serve in the military after completing
medical training happens to have coincided with the establishment of
The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project. Mysteriously his medical
condition seems to have vanished as he was "reinducted" into the Army
about the time of the Korean War and served as a Captain at the US
Army Chemical Center,
where he got up to some very interesting activities. If what I have
stated is true, and it is, we are left with one very perplexing
question. What about the left-wing, red sympathizing commie guys? The
answer my friend, is not blowing in the wind, it will be in my book.
We leave you now with an incomplete story, hoping that
enough curiosity about Dr. Andrija Puharich, his activities, and his
marvelous tooth implant has been created that you will consider the
purchase of my upcoming book,
tentatively entitled "Andrija, Aliens and the Square Wave." Thus I
will be the richer and you will be the wiser.
Summing up: The Round Table Foundation of Electrobiology
began to flourish. A considerable misrepresentation as to cost of
equipment is shown. Project
Penguin undertaken by the Navy is also claimed. A grant from General
Foods and the activities of associates reveals the connection to The
Armed Forces Special Weapons Project.
by Terry L. Milner
© 1996