Cheryl Hersha - Secret Weapons: Two Sisters Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies and Sabotage

SECRET WEAPONS

SECRET WEAPONS

Two Sisters Terrifying True Story
of Sex, Spies and Sabotage

Cheryl and Lynn Hersha
with Dale Griffis, Ph.D. and Ted Schwarz

New Horizon Press
Far Hills, New Jersey

Copyright 2001 by Cheryl Hersha, Lynn Hersha, Dale Griffis and Ted Schwarz

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Hersha, Cheryl, Lynn Hersha, Dale Griffis and Ted Schwarz Secret Weapons:

Two Sisters Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies and Sabotage

Interior Design: Susan M. Sanderson

Library of Congress Control Number: 00-132567

ISBN-13 (eBook): 978-0-88282-447-5

New Horizon Press

Manufactured in the U.S.A.

20052004200320022001/54321

There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he lookd upon, that object he became,
And that object became part of him for the day
Or a certain part of the day,
Or for many years, or stretching cycles of years.

Walt Whitman

One spy in the right place is worth twenty thousand men in the field.

Napoleon

To the women who told their story and the many who also have paid the price that bad dreams are made of, a sincere thank you.

To my wife, Anne, our children and my friends who gave me their support as this story unfolded into a new part of my life, thanks.

To the Captain, who made it on the back roads of this adventure but died before this story reached the public, rest in peace, you helped many with a job well done.

Dale Griffis

This book is based on the real experiences of Cheryl and Lynn Hersha and those of their family. The personalities, events, actions and conversations portrayed within the story have been largely taken from extensive interviews, sometimes taped, court testimony, including presidential hearings, physicians records, phone logs, research of government records and official documents, some confidential and others obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, participants memories and personal papers.

Some of the dialogue represented in this book was reconstructed from the Hershas memories, documents and/or the memories of others. The reconstructed dialogue represents the best recollection of these events and conversations and we believe more accurately reflects reality than paraphrase would. A few of the scenes depicted have been reconfigured and enhanced for clarity and dramatic impact, drawing on sometimes differing memories and versions, documents and interviews. The presumed thoughts and imagined words of the participants were written in consonance with the true actions of the people involved. When we were unable to determine precise dates, the relevant scenes were placed at the points in the narrative that are most consistent with the timing in other documents and interviews.

In order to protect their privacy, some characters have been given fictitious names and locations, descriptions, and identifying details have been altered. All of the events in this book are real; the people in the book are actual. There are no composites.

THE FAMILY

LYNN AND CHERYL HERSHA: Sisters inducted, at ages six and four, into covert CIA funded mind control programs to create perfect soldiers/spies.

LOUISE: Mother of Lynn and Cheryl Hersha.

DICK: Father of Lynn and Cheryl.

EVELYN: Maternal grandmother of Lynn and Cheryl.

CONNIE: Paternal grandmother of Lynn and Cheryl.

GEORGE: Paternal step-grandfather of Lynn and Cheryl.

CLARK RILEY: The sisters great uncle by marriage was a wealthy local businessman with mysterious political connections.

DON: Husband of Cheryl.

EDWARD: Husband of Lynn.

THE INVESTIGATORS

DR. DALE GRIFFIS: Internationally known law enforcement specialist and consultant to police departments worldwide with extensive experience in cases involving cults and ritual abuse of children.

TED SCHWARZ: Best-selling author who has written extensively on the subject of abnormal psychology. He has previously done extensive, in-depth interviews with sources from the intelligence community and researched CIA documents for Marita, the biography of a CIA contract agent.

THE CAPTAIN: Boston area police captain who, while investigating a case involving another woman who claimed to have been experimented upon by CIA researchers, assisted Dr. Dale Griffis at Still Pond, Maryland.

BRENT KING: Former student of Dr. Dale Griffis, with twenty-five years experience in military intelligence, shared his knowledge of various military bases and installations with Griffis during the investigation.

THE THERAPISTS

DR. ARTHUR TALBON: Cheryl Hershas psychotherapist.

DR. MICHELLE MORGAN: Lynn Hershas psychotherapist.

THE MIND CONTROLLERS

(HISTORICAL TIES)

DR. HUBERTUS STRUGHOLD: German scientist headed some of the most inhumane experimentation during the Nazi regime and was admitted to the United States after World War II under Operation Paperclip. He worked for Dr. Sidney Gottlieb in the CIAs MKULTRA program.

DR. WERNER STOLL: Scientist conducted research using LSD to control schizophrenia at the Swiss owned Sandoz Pharmaceutical Company during the late 1940s.

DR. MORTON PRINCE: Nineteenth century psychiatrist discovered four separate personalities in a female patient and whose careful documentation of the case assisted later mental health professionals in understanding Multiple Personality Disorder, now called Dissociative Identity Disorder.

ALLEN DULLES: Director of Central Intelligence from 1953 to 1961 and Deputy Director from 1951 to 1953. He approved PROJECT MKULTRA in 1953.

DR. JOHN LILLY: Scientist was a pioneer in brain mapping and worked at the National Institute of Health where he developed the sensory deprivation tank used in MKULTRA conditioning. When he objected to the CIAs methods, they allegedly tried to destroy his reputation.

DR. EWEN CAMERON: CIA funded psychiatrist conducted most of his mind control experiments at McGill University in Montreal in the 1950s and 1960s. He originated the technique of psychic driving, wherein unwitting subjects were kept in chemically induced comas for extended periods and administered electric shocks while repetitive, auditory messages were continuously played through electronic helmets strapped on the subjects heads.

DR. LOUIS JOLYON WEST: Psychiatrist was past Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA. He is alleged to have been a CIA contract agent in the MKULTRA program. He was a board member of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, an organization that seeks to discredit survivors of abuse and their therapists.

DR. MAITLAND BALDWIN: Scientist affiliated with the National Institute of Health; conducted LSD and mind control dolphin experiments.

MIND CONTROLLERS

(ACTUAL TIES)

DR. SIDNEY GOTTLIEB: Biochemist presided over the CIAs mind control programs during the 1950s, 60s and early 70s and destroyed reams of MKULTRA documents when the program was exposed in 1973. He officially retired from the CIA shortly thereafter, but is suspected to have retained links to the organization until his death in 1999.