“CLOCKWORK ORANGE” ASSASSINS
In the summer of 1975, British clinical psychologist and writer Peter Watson attended a NATO-sponsored conference on stress and anxiety in Oslo, Norway. Watson sat in on a lecture about ‘symbolic modeling’ given by Dr. Thomas Narut from the U.S. Naval Hospital at its southern NATO headquarters in Naples, Italy. Symbolic modeling, according to Watson, is a “process whereby anxious people could be taught to cope with certain stresses by watching others (usually on film) cope with these stresses.”
During his prepared remarks, Narut strayed from his script and made a few comments that made Watson sit up straight in his chair and listen all the more attentively. Narut remarked that such coping techniques were being employed with “combat readiness units” to “train people to cope with the stress of killing.”
Intrigued by Narut’s presentation, Watson and another psychologist approached the Navy physician after his talk, wanting to ask him questions about the types of military units he was referring to. Dr. Narut, according to Watson, “said that he was referring to two types of combat readiness units: the ordinary commando unit, and also to naval men inserted into embassies abroad, under cover, ready to kill.” Dr. Narut told the two psychologists “that men were being sought from military prisons to act as assassins in overseas embassies.”
After Watson and his colleague, Dr. Alfred Zitani, concluded their questions and Narut departed, Zitani turned to Watson and asked, “Does that guy realize what he just said?”
Watson met again with Dr. Narut for a longer interview during which he took detailed notes. He wrote:
Several years ago Dr. Narut completed his doctoral thesis 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 to cope with the anxieties the film provoked. Narut’s naval work, however, appeared to involve establishing how to induce servicemen who might not be naturally inclined to kill to do so under certain conditions.
Dr. Narut told Watson that the method “was to screen films specifically designed to show people being killed or injured in violent ways. By being acclimatized through these films, the men were supposed eventually to become able to disassociate their emotions 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.
Narut further explained to Watson that the process had three phases. First was selection which involved looking for men “who had shown themselves capable of killing” in premeditated ways. Dr. Narut said the best killers were men with “passive-aggressive personalities” and men with “a lot of drive” who are well disciplined, not nervous, and “who periodically experience bursts of explosive energy when they can literally kill without remorse.” Second was stress reduction training, which involved taking selected trainees to special wards in Navy hospitals and to the Naval Neuropsychiatric Laboratory Center in San Diego, California. Here the men were “given a special type of Clockwork Orange training aimed at reducing and eliminating any qualms they had about killing. In this pursuit, the men were shown a series of gruesome films, which get progressively more horrific.” The men were forced to watch every frame of the films and to avoid their looking away they were fitted into head harnesses with devices that kept their eyelids always open. Said Dr. Narut:
One of the best films shows an African youth being crudely circumcised by fellow members of his tribe. No anesthetic is used and the knife is obviously blunt. When the film is over the trainee is asked irrelevant questions such as, ‘What was the motif on the handle of the knife?’
The third phase was dehumanization of the enemy. This was aimed at getting the men “to think of the potential enemies” they will have to kill “as inferior forms of life.” Narut told Watson that the films used “are biased to present the enemy as less than human” and that “the stupidity of local customs is ridiculed, [and that] local personalities are presented as evil demigods rather than as legitimate figures.” Narut said the entire process took a few weeks, and that its most recent usage had been “towards the end of 1973—at the time of the Yom Kippur War.”
After Watson wrote an article for London’s about Dr. Narut’s remarks, several American journalists attempted to interview the doctor. Contacted at home by one writer, an irritated Narut said, “I can’t say a word about the conference. I have nothing at all to add to things,” and he hung up. Other reporters who tried to reach Narut were less successful and were told that he was no longer employed at the Naples naval facility; one reporter was told that the facility had “nobody with the name Narut on staff.” Within days, Navy and Pentagon officials emphatically denied everything that Dr. Narut had said. Eventually, one persistent journalist was informed off the record that the Navy “kept elite units of trained assassins at secret locations across the world,” and that the overall designation for some of the units was Project Pelican. “The project is a matter of national security,” said one Navy official in the Pentagon. Not long after Watson’s article appeared, a psychologist at the San Diego Neuropsychiatric Center contacted him to say that the films indeed existed and that they were loaned out to other facilities."
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This reminded me of the things Tom said not in the book
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Jan, the last article you posted “Manson and Naval Intelligence", revealing Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) Charles Winans’ contact with Charles “Tex” Watson is especially intriguing, as researchers have long stated that it was Tex Watson who supplied the military-styled “Creepy Crawl” training and murder techniques and NOT Charles Manson. There’s little doubt this played a role in his being tried separately in Texas away from the fanfare of the very public California trial of Manson and the other members of the Family. Special thanks for following up on these important details of Lieutenant Commander Thomas E. Narut. I believe the operation he accidentally leaked plays a huge part of these "Wind-up Toy" serial and spree killers that were unleashed on the populace. I believe that the Navy's portion was revealed, but this training wasn't just limited to the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). You can be sure that this ran through many other agencies within the military/intelligence community.
Corroboration for the existence of an operational MK-ULTRA assassination program can be found in a declassified Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document prepared by the U.S. Army in January 1972 (Author: J.
LaMothe). Part III is titled "Mental Suggestion and Controlled Behavior." Section B elucidates how hypnosis can be used to create a multi-personality "super spy" assassin, based on the writings of psychologist and Army consultant George Estabrooks. Research indicates that MK-ULTRA sub-project ARTICHOKE played an early role in pursuing these methods of programming killers on command. The stated scope of the project was outlined in a memo dated January 1952 that stated: "Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self-preservation?" (CIA document, MORI ID 144686). In can be certain that black ops such as these can definitely be linked to elements of a U.S. domestic version of the Phoenix Project counter-insurgency, and Operation GLADIO strategy of tension programmes.
Also of note with the Navy's mind-control programming, recall when Albert DeSalvo was arrested on Saturday, February 25, 1967 after his “escape” from Bridgwater State Hospital. Three days later DeSalvo just up and turns himself into his lawyer where he is shortly arrested. Pictures show him wearing a U.S. Navy Dress Blue Uniform with Petty Officer 3rd Class insignia on his sleeve. Where did he get this uniform from? Post-programming at a nearby Naval base for the 3 days during his convenient escape? You see, the problem with this is, DeSalvo ONLY served in the U.S. Army and he was honourably discharged after his first tour of duty. He re-enlisted and, in spite of being tried in a court-martial, DeSalvo was curiously again honourably discharged. While in the Army, DeSalvo reportedly served as a Military Police Sergeant with the 2nd Squadron, 14th Armoured Cavalry Regiment.
The Yipster Times, Volume 3, issue 3, Fall-Winter 1975
"Sara Jane Moore, the misguided Gerald Ford groupie, was taken to the Naval Hospital in San Diego."
"Second was stress reduction training, which involved taking selected trainees to special wards in Navy hospitals and to the Naval Neuropsychiatric Laboratory Center in San Diego, California. Here the men were “given a special type of Clockwork Orange training aimed at reducing and eliminating any qualms they had about killing."
https://web.archive.org/web/20190725025448/https://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nhrc/aboutus/pages/home.aspx#history
NHRC History
Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) was initially established in June 1959 as the U.S. Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Research Unit (NMNRU). Designated as the Navy’s primary research capability in the areas of psychiatry and neurology, NMNRU’s mission, defined by the Secretary of the Navy, was to conduct research in the area of neuropsychiatry as it applies to the naval service. Due to its close proximity to a variety of potential research populations including recruits and patients, sailors and Marines, and all Naval platform types, Naval Base Point Loma, San Diego, was an ideal location.
The first Officer in Charge assumed command on August 1, 1959. The Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) approved the first formal research work unit in February 1960 launching the start of NMPRU’s longitudinal studies. In the spring of 1960, Naval Hospital San Diego agreed to provide space for NMPRU’s proposed research efforts in psychophysiology and neurophysiology. Eventually nine other WWII-era buildings were obtained, along with spaces at the Naval Training Center, buildings on the “seaside” area of Naval Base Point Loma, spaces at the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, and the more recent construction of human performance laboratory near the Navy’s Third Fleet headquarters.
In 1974, by authority of the Chief of Naval Operations, NMPRU was re-designated as the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) with the mission to study medical and psychological aspects of health and performance among naval service personnel. NHRC celebrated its 50th Anniversary in July 2009. Today, NHRC is housed in 24 historic military barracks buildings transformed into state-of-the-art laboratories and facilities overlooking the San Diego Bay. NHRC’s cutting-edge research and development is used to optimize the operational health and readiness of the nation’s armed forces.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1994-04-22-9404220867-story.html
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL
THOMAS E. NARUT, 59, 7469 Swallow Run Drive, Winter Park, died Tuesday, April 19, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Mr. Narut was a clinical psychologist and a retired U.S. Navy lieutenant commander. Born in Chicago, he moved to Central Florida in 1979. A Catholic, he also was past president of Central Florida chapter of Florida Psychological Association, member of Southeastern and American Psychological associations, Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects at UCF and adjunct professor for Florida Institute of Technology. He was a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars. Survivors: wife, Judie; sons, Thomas Michael, Orlando, David A. Drew, Seattle; daughters, Catherine Narut Conlan, Altamonte Springs, Angie Richardson, Orlando, Pamela Davis, South Carolina, Cindy; brother, Bruce Macey, Chicago; sister, Michelle Macey-Daniel, San Luis Obispo, Calif.; five grandchildren. Carey Hand Colonial Funeral Home, Orlando.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/07/archives/navy-denies-charge-it-trains-assassins.html
NAVY DENIES CHARGE IT TRAINS ASSASSINS
July 7, 1975
WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters)—A United States Navy spokesman categorically denied today a London newspaper report of a program in which the Navy allegedly prepared convicted murderers to carry out assassinations.
The report in The Sunday Times was based on an Interview with a Navy staff psychologist, Lieut. Comdr. Thomas Narut, in Oslo, Norway, where he delivered a paper on anxiety and stress at a conference sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Dr. Narut was quoted by a reporter, Peter Watson, as saying that the Navy training involved forcing men who were selected for their “passive‐aggressive personalities” to watch Increasingly horrific films of killing and maiming so as to generate detachment toward violence.
According to the newspaper, Dr. Narut said that Navy psychologists had picked men for commando‐type operations from among submarine crews, paratroops and “convicted murderers from military prisons.”
Dr. Narut said that the training took place at the Navy Neuropsychiatric Laboratories in San Diego and at the United States Navy Hospital in Naples, Italy, where the doctor works, according to The Sunday Times.
Asked about the repaint, a Navy spokesman in Washington said that he bad checked with the Naples and San Diego facilities and had “talked to 40 people.”
He said that he could make a categorical denial that men had ever been trained as assassins at either center.