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The Controllers

A new hypothesis of Alien Abduction

An essay by Martin Cannon exploring the thesis that claims of alien abduction may be manifestations of involvement in the MK-ULTRA and related mind control experiments.

Contents

• Section I. Introduction
• Section II. The Technology
• Section III. Applications
• Section IV. Abductions

I. Introduction

One wag has dubbed the problem "Terra and the Pirates."

The pirates, ostensibly, are marauders from another solar system; their victims include a growing number of troubled human beings who insist that they've been shanghaied by these otherworldly visitors. An outlandish scenario - yet through the works of such authors as Budd Hopkins and Whitley Strieber, the "alien abduction" syndrome has seized the public imagination. Indeed, tales of UFO contact threaten to lapse into fashionability, even though, as I have elsewhere noted, they may still inflict a formidable social price upon the claimant.

Some time ago, I began to research these claims, concentrating my studies on the social and political environment surrounding these events. As I studied, the project grew and its scope widened. Indeed, I began to feel as though I'd gone digging through familiar terrain only to unearth Gomorrah.

These excavations may have disgorged a solution.