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Saturday 20 January 2024

Gorbachev has just resigned.







PART III 
"The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!"



SCENE 30 
WASHINGTON D.C.
DECEMBER 24, 1991
(A much older, grayer Cigarette-Smoking Man dumps an empty nicotine patch wrapper into the ashtray, standing 
in front of a table of fellow board executives.)

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN
All right, gentlemen. 
Let's make this short and sweet so we can 
all Go Home for Christmas.
(He takes a folder out of 
his briefcase, closes it and sits.)
Domestic unrest operations?

LYDON: 
Yeah, the Anita Hill thing 
has lost steam since October.

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN
Well, let it go. We played it right. 
Unfounded allegations will be 
flying around in no time. L.A.?

MATLOCK
The Rodney King trial has 
been moved to Simi Valley
just as you instructed.

(A machine beeps. The read-out reads :
TUE DEC 24, 1991 3-15 PM then,
SADDAM HUSSEIN LINE TWO)

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN
Call back.

JONES
Internationally, Bosnia-Herzegovina
 is set for a February vote on 
Independence from Yugoslavia.

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN
America couldn't care less.

(He starts to write something down.)

LYDON: 
I'm working on next month's 
Oscar nominations. Any preference?

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN
I couldn't care less
What I don't want to see is 
The Bills winning The Super Bowl.
 As long as I'm alive
that doesn't happen.

JONES
That'll be tough, sir. 
Buffalo wants it bad.

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN
So did The Soviets in '80.

JONES: 
What're you saying? You rigged 
The Olympic Hockey Game?

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: 
What's the matter? 
Don't you believe in miracles?

LYDON: 
The Boss gave the Russian goaltender 
a pre-game good luck pat on the back... 
unseen novocaine needle 
on a bogus wedding ring. 

Goalie's a little slow on the stick side... 
4-3, Home Team.

(Jones looks at the Cigarette-Smoking Man 
with respect and a bit of awe.)

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN
Payback's a bitch, Ivan.
(He stands.)
Well, gentlemen, if that'll be all...

MATLOCK: 
One thing internally, sir. 
That "Spooky" kid who talked his way 
into opening X-Files... it feels like Trouble.

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN
He's mine to keep an eye on.
(The machine beeps again twice. 
The Cigarette-Smoking Man looks at it.
"GORBACHEV HAS RESIGNED"
He looks back at his coworkers with a hint of shock.)
Gorbachev has just resigned.

MATLOCK: 
There's no more enemies.

(The Cigarette-Smoking Man tugs on the nicotine patch 
on his neck slightly, then packs up his briefcase.)

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN
Merry Christmas.

(He places boxes down in front 
of Matlock and Lydon.)
Merry Christmas.
(He places two more down in front of Jones and his coworker. He closes his briefcase and starts for the door. Jones stands.)

JONES: 
If you don't have any plans, sir... 
We're all getting together with 
our families out in Virginia. 
You're more than welcome to...
(The Cigarette-Smoking Man smiles widely, 
but quickly regains his normal cold composure.)

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: 
Oh... well... um... I have to, 
uh, see some, uh... family.

(Jones nods. The Cigarette-Smoking Man walks out. 
The four men open their boxes 
to reveal identical bland neckties. 
Downstairs, the Cigarette-Smoking Man walks down 
a dark hallway, then hesitates 
in front of a door, thinking. 
He looks down, then walks past the door 
of "Fox Mulder Special Agent.")



SCENE 31 
THE CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN'S APARTMENT
(The Cigarette-Smoking Man sits in front of his typewriter, sighing, holding another letter. 
"The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" plays. 
The Cigarette-Smoking Man looks at the phone, 
then puts the letter in his desk and stares at his typewriter. 
He quickly opens the drawer and opens the letter. He unfolds the letter and starts to read. 
He crumples it up and quickly shoves it in his drawer angrily and starts to type.
"Jack Colquitt at alone in his apartment 
at Christmas. He believed in Sacrifice."
(He types quickly, the thoughts racing in his mind.)
"Yet, some nights, he longed 
for a  second chance..."
He leans back in his chair. The phone rings. He quickly picks it up.)
CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: Yeah.
DEEP THROAT
You'll never believe what 
We just got for Christmas.



SCENE 32 
DOGWAY, WEST VIRGINIA; 
DECEMBER 24, 1991; 10:21 PM
(A number of troops run around, closing off a warehouse. Inside, Deep Throat watches the mayhem, looking calm. 
He turns back to the Cigarette-Smoking Man, 
who walks down the stairs. 
The two of them start to walk.)

DEEP THROAT: 
The craft matches the dimensions of 
The Vehicle spotted over Hanoi 
when I was in Vietnam with The Company 
that The Marines couldn't shoot down.

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: 
Occupant?

DEEP THROAT: 
Critical.

(They turn down a hallway of plastic, like a quarantine area.)

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN
Timing couldn't be worse.
(They walk past an armed guard.)
The Roswell Story we concocted 
was gathering momentum. 
Had them all looking in the wrong direction. 
With luck, we'll get away with it.

DEEP THROAT
Yeah, no luck tonight.
(He stops. The Cigarette-Smoking Man does as well, looking back at him.)
Our Aurora spy planes confirmed 
The Russians tracked entry and 
have pinpointed touchdown.

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN
Haven't you heardThere are 
no Russians anymore.

(They start to walk again.)

DEEP THROAT: 
I don't care if They're in the midst of ruin. 
The K.G.B. is not going to ignore 
an event of this magnitude
nor are The Chinese
nor The Germans
nor The British
nor anyone with 
the capability of discovering 
What Happened here, tonight.

(They walk into a large open space inside the warehouse.)
I'm certain each of them has operatives 
advancing on us right now....
(They walk over two a double door with a guard on each side. One of the guards opens the door and they walk into a large room. In the middle of the room is a large glass casing, taking up most of the room. Inside is an extraterrestrial biological entity, a brown and wrinkled one, laying on a cot, hooked up to life support machines. The respirator hisses eerily.)

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: 
How many historic events have 
only The Two of Us witnessed 
together, Ronald? How often 
did we Make or Change History? 
And our names can never grace any pages of record. 
No monument will ever bear our image. And yet 
once again, tonight, the course of Human History 
will be set by two unknown men... 
standing in The Shadows.
(Deep Throat turns to the Cigarette-Smoking Man and pulls out a gun, then turns it around and holds it out to his partner, handle first. The Cigarette-Smoking Man looks at it, then stares at Deep Throat.)

A living E.B.E. could advance 
Bill Mulder's Project by decades.

DEEP THROAT: 
Security Council Resolution-1013 states, 
"Any country capturing such an entity is
 responsible for its immediate extermination."
(The Cigarette-Smoking Man looks down at the gun again, then slowly looks up at Deep Throat.)
I'm The Liar. You're The Killer.

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN
Your Lies have killed more in a day 
than I have in a lifetime. 
I've never killed anybody.

DEEP THROAT: 
Maybe I'm not The Liar.

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: 
I have a chance to go an entire lifetime 
without killing anybody... or any thing.

DEEP THROAT: 
With all of our work in the past thirty years, 
all of our victories, if The World were to see this... 
it would destroy all we've gained in a few hours. 
Tonight... We have 
a new... Enemy.

(Deep Throat looks over to the dying alien. 
The Cigarette-Smoking Man merely stares at Deep Throat, 
then digs into his pocket and pulls out a quarter. 
They both look down at it. The Cigarette-Smoking Man shows both sides to Deep Throat, then flips it up in the air.)

CIGARETTE-SMOKING MAN: 
Heads.
(It lands on heads. The Two look at each other.)
Go ahead. Make History.

(Deep Throat looks at the alien solemnly, then walks into the outer part of the glass casing. He puts his gun in it's holster, then puts on the air tank as the Cigarette-Smoking Man slowly pulls the nicotine patch off his neck. Deep Throat puts on the gas mask and walks into the main compartment, the lifeline monitor beeping steadily. He takes out his gun. The Cigarette-Smoking Man pulls out a pack of Morley's. Deep Throat cocks the gun and aims. The Cigarette-Smoking Man slowly pulls out a cigarette and raises it to his mouth, watching his friend's every movement. He takes out his lighter and flicks it on with one motion as the gun sounds. Deep Throat has pulled the trigger. He does it again as the Cigarette-Smoking Man lights his cigarette. Deep Throat whimpers slightly as the monitor flatlines. He and the Cigarette-Smoking Man lower the gun and lighter respectively at the same time. The Cigarette-Smoking Man takes a long drag, thinking.)

Thursday 13 October 2016

The Esoteric Kubrick : Arthur Bremer, Mind Control and A Clockwork Orange

Chicago Tribune
August 22nd 1972



"He kept a diary - and prior to that, he had never kept a diary before. It seems to me, that all these so-called political assassins keep diaries."
 
Governor George Wallace on Arthur Bremer

"We know Bremer wasn't a loner - something stinks 
about the whole thing"
 
First Lady Lurmilla Wallace

"Die, Die, Die, RFK Must Die"
 
Sirhan Sirhan's automatic writing


''I will finish what Hinckley started... RR must die... He [John Warnock Hinkley] has told me so in a prophetic dream. Sadly though, your death is also required. You will suffer the same fate as Reagan and others in his fascist regime. 

You cannot escape.

We are a wave of assassins throughout the world.''

Edward M. Richardson,
Letter to Jodie Foster,
April 1981




 George Wallace survived the assassination attempt. He gradually developed the view that one Nixon’s aides ordered the assassination. To gain revenge he announces he is to become a third party candidate. However, Wallace’s health has been severely damaged and reluctantly he had to pull out of the race.

In a comprehensive analysis of Hunt’s work published in The New York Review of Books in 1973, Gore Vidal argued that Hunt might have written the diary that was found in the car of Bremer, the man who attempted to assassinate George Wallace of Alabama.

In May, 1974, Martha Mitchell visited Wallace in Montgomery. She told him that her husband, [Former U.S. Attourney General and CRP  John N. Mitchell, had confessed that Charles Colson had a meeting with Arthur Bremer four days before the assassination attempt.

In his book, The Taking of America, 1-2-3 Richard E. Sprague argued that Donald Segretti and Dennis Cassini, supplied money to Bremer before he attempted to assassinate George Wallace. Others have claimed that Bernard L. Barker, one of the Watergate burglars, was used to pass this money to Bremer. Gore Vidal has also suggested that Bremer's diary was a forgery and had been written by E. Howard Hunt.

Arthur Bremer was released from the Maryland Correctional Institution on 9th November, 2007.








[CTRL] How the US Navy Brain-Trains Political Assassins
 HOW THE US NAVY BRAIN-TRAINS POLITICAL ASSASSINS from The London Times 

The controversy over whether the U.S. Government has ever made use of "political assassinations" seems certain to take a new turn after a remarkable disclosure last week by an officer in the US Navy, In the course of a conversation during a NATO[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]-sponsored conference in Oslo, it was said that the US Navy has been seeking out convicted murderers for retraining in a "political" role. The suggestion was supported by details of this training which, if they are true, might have been taken from the screenplay of Kubrick's film "A Clockwork Orange." 

The details come from Lt. Commander Thomas Narut, a psychologist working at the US Naval hospital in Naples. He was attending a NATO conference held last week in a hotel near Oslo at which about 120 scientists, including five from Britain, exchanged information on psychological research designed to help people in tough jobs�especially soldiers�to cope with stress. 

Dr. Narut's story was later categorically denied-but no explanation was offered why a Navy officer should or could volunteer the detailed descriptions he did. 

The conference heard papers on the effect of battle stress on soldiers in the Yom Kippur War, as well as on the blacking out of supersonic fighter pilots and on the long-term effect of interrogation in enemy hands. 

Dr. Narut's paper appeared to be much the same: the abstract circulated before the meeting was entitled: "The use of symbolic model and verbal intervention in inducting and reducing stress." And in the course of a 110-minute discourse on it he did no more than hint at his work in teaching "combat readiness units" to cope with the stress of killing. It was only under private questioning afterwards with a small group of his listeners, and then later alone with Insight reporter, Peter Watson, that Dr. Narut began to unfold his remarkable story. 

Dr. Narut is in his mid-thirties. He completed a doctoral thesis several years ago on whether certain films could provoke anxiety and whether forcing a man to do tasks irrelevant to the film while watching it might help him cope with such anxiety (a technique described in "Clockwork Orange"). He began his speech to the conference by saying that in the U.S. Navy scientists were well provided with facilities for research. Psychologists, for instance, had access to computerized records, including psychological tests, of large numbers of personnel. 

His naval work involved establishing how to induce servicemen who mar not be naturally inclined to kill, to do so under certain conditions. When pressed afterwards as to what was meant by "combat readiness units," he explained this included men for commando-type operations and-so he said-for insertion into U.S. embassies under cover, ready to kill in those countries should the need arise. Dr. Narut used the word "hitmen" and "assassin" of these men. 

The method, according to Dr. Narut, was to show films specially designed to show people being killed and injured in violent ways. By being acclimated through these films, the men eventually became able to dissociate any feelings from such a situation. 
 
Dr. Narut also added that U.S. Naval psychologists specially selected men for these commando tasks, from submarine crews, paratroops, and some were convicted murderers from military prisons. Asked whether he was suggesting that murderers were being released from prisons to become assassins, he replied: "It's happened more than once." 
 
Another American delegate present in the group, Alfred Zitani, from New Jersey, was sufficiently surprised to remark to Watson: "Do you think Dr. Narut realizes what he has just said? That kind of information must be classified." 

Later in private conversation with Watson, Dr. Narut described the training in which he had been involved. It had, he said, been in three phases: 

Selection: 

Research on those given awards for valour in battle has shown, said Narut, that the best killers are men with "passive aggressive" personalities. They are people with a lot of drive-though they are well-disciplined and do not appear nervous who periodically experience bursts of explosive energy when they can literally kill without remorse. Dr. Narut says he and his colleagues have, therefore, been looking for men who have either shown themselves capable of killing in this premeditated way (in Vietnam perhaps, or in a murder in the barracks) or whom the Navy's test show as potentially capable of it. 

Among the tests used is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. This consists of hundreds of questions, and rates personality on many traits including such things as hostility, depression, psychopathy. Also used is the famous inkblot test in which the subject describes in detail what the various inkblots make him think of. Dr. Narut said that on this test he looks for men who respond at the extremes to the coloured cards rather than purely black and white. In clinical terms this is generally accepted as indicating that a patient is violent, The patient who responds excessively to the black and white cards is often regarded as a depressive. 

Stress reduction training

The men selected are brought either to the Navy's neuropsychiatric laboratory in San Diego, California (which also trains spies in techniques to counter interrogation), or to the laboratory where Narut works in the U.S. Naval Medical Center in Naples. They are first taught to shoot, and then the "Clockwork Orange" training begins in earnest, to rid them of any qualms they may have about killing. 

According to Dr. Narut, men are shown a series of special films "to heighten their dissociative powers with regard to killing." The films are gruesome and as the training proceeds they get progressively more horrific. Even so the trainee is forced to watch. His head is bolted into a clamp so that he cannot turn away and a special mechanism ensures that he cannot close his eyelids. 

Dr. Narut said that one of the first films a trainee sees is a brutal, blow- by-blow account of an African youth being crudely circumcised by fellow members of his tribe. No anaesthetic is used and the knife is obviously blunt (this film in fact is one regularly used in psychological experiments "to create experimental stress"). 

When the film is over the trainee is asked such questions as, "What color was the belt on the doctor's trousers?" or "What was the motif on the handle of the knife with which the circumcision was made?

>From here the trainees proceed to films with people from a little nearer home. In one the camera follows the movements of a man at work in a saw mill, slicing planks of wood along their length. The film shows his thrusting movements, back and forth until suddenly he slips-and cuts his finger off. 

In this way, said Dr. Narut, many of the trainees learn how to cope with even the most gruesome scenes with complete detachment. If physiological measures- like heart and breathing rate-which respond dramatically during the early films, calm down and resume their normal patterns as more bloodthirsty scenes are shown, the men are judged to have completed this stage. Many do not adjust, said Dr. Narut; presumably they are "failed." 

Dehumanization of The Enemy

In this last phase, the idea is to get the men to think of the potential enemies they will have to face as inferior forms of human life. They get lectures and films now which portray personalities and customs in foreign countries whose interests may go against the US. But the films and lectures are specially biased to present the "enemy" as less than human: the stupidity of local customs is ridiculed, local personalities may be presented as evil demigods rather than legitimate political figures. 

The process, according to Dr. Narut, takes a few weeks and the men are passed on. He refused to say where the men went, arguing that he did not have the necessary security clearance. However, at one point in our conversation he used the Athens Embassy as an example and he also said that his busiest time, when the largest batch of men went through this training, was towards the end of 1973, at the time of the Yom Kippur War. 

Since our reporter returned from Oslo on Thursday, Dr. Narut has not been either at his home or his laboratory in Naples to comment on the issues raised by the disclosures. 

When we gave the details to the US Embassy in London, they referred us to the U.S. Navy office here.

The Pentagon in Washington last night denied categorically that the US Navy had ever "engaged in psychological training or other types of training of personnel assassins." They also denied that any such training had ever taken place either in San Diego or in Naples. They had been unable to contact Lt. Commander Narut. All they were able to confirm was that he was indeed on the staff of the Navy Regional Medical Center in Naples as a psychologist. 

- Yipster Times Feb. '76 
pp.83-84