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N1i19 Briefing Book INCIDENT N1I19 N1I19 BRIEFING BOOK INCIDENT N - 01 - I - 019 INCIDENT AND ANALYSIS WITH SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL COVERING THE TIME LINE 67-070 THRU 73-013 INCLUDING INVESTIGATIVE REPORT [C] 1983 BY W. C. VETSCH SECTION ONE - TIME LINE PERIOD ONE 003 PERIOD TWO 017 PERIOD THREE 023 PERIOD FOUR 027 INCIDENT N1I19 PERIOD FIVE 030 PERIOD SIX 036 PERIOD SEVEN 040 PERIOD EIGHT 051 PERIOD NINE 054 PERIOD TEN 055 N1I19 RELATED INCIDENTS 057 SECTION TWO - CASE HISTORIES THE PSYCHIATRIST 060 G E HERNDON 061 Q-273 063 MAGGIE 064 R WALTON 065 INCIDENT N1I19 THE ELECTRICIAN 067 MR. KENNEDY 067 THE NYMPHOMANIAC 068 EDWARD 068 THE SOLDIER 069 THE GIRL FROM LSU 070 THE GIRL WITH THE SCAR 071 CLAUDIA 071 SECTION THREE - STAFF DOSSIERS POLICY STATEMENT 074 PATRICIA B. WEST 074 DEARMAN 075 JAMES HENRY 075 BILLY GRAHAM 077 WILLIAM CHRISTIAN SUPER 077 CHARLOTTE LAMAR 079 INCIDENT N1I19 PHILIP A. SCHAEFER 079 W. L. WAALS 080 MARY JANE ALEXANDER 081 RALPH WELLS BUDDINGTON 082 JOYCE JEAN LEMMONS 083 DR & MRS METZ 083 MARTHA WICKETT 084 WALKER 084 SEVERENCE KELLY 085 J. B. LA ROSE 086 SECTION FOUR - SETS CHARITY HOSPITAL OF NEW ORLEANS (HB5) 087 SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA HOSPITAL (HB6) 095 SOUTHEASTERN M H CLINIC (HB7) 105 EAST LOUISIANA HOSPITAL (HB9) 111 SECTION FIVE - DRUGS AND OTHER TREATMENTS INCIDENT N1I19 INTRODUCTION 123 OBSOLETE PROCEDURES 124 MELLARIL 125 THORAZINE 127 STELAZINE 129 HALDOL 130 PROLIXIN 131 LSD-25 133 FUTURE SHOCK 135 ANTI PSYCHOTIC DRUGS 136 SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON DRUGS 137 THE SECRET OF THE MAJOR TRANQUILIZERS 140 THE METAPHYSICS OF THE MAJOR TRANQUILIZERS 140 SUMMARY 142 SECTION SIX - LAW THE MENTAL HOSPITAL SYSTEM AND CIVIL RIGHTS 143 ORIGIN OF THE "OLD LAW" 146 THE "OLD LAW" IN PRACTICE 147 ORIGIN OF THE "NEW LAW" 151 THE "NEW LAW" IN PRACTICE 151 THE 1978-1979 LA. LAW REVISIONS 152 THE LOUISIANA MEDICAL POLICE FORCE 155 THE LA. LAW IN THEORY & PRACTICE AS OF 1980 156 PREFACE TO THE FORMAL RELIGIOUS ARGUMENTS 160 THE FORMAL RELIGIOUS ARGUMENTS 161 SECTION SEVEN - STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE INTRODUCTION 168 LABELS AND DEFINITIONS 168 INCIDENT N1I19 THE ORIGINS OF PSYCHIATRY 172 THE MANDATE OF PSYCHIATRY 174 A QUICK COURSE IN NATIONAL SECURITY 176 PSYCHIATRY IN PRACTICE 177 DRUGS AND THE NATIONAL INTEREST 181 TULANE UNIVERSITY AND THE "IDA" 182 PSYCHIATRY AND RELIGION 183 CENTERS FOR CONDUCTING MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE NEW 185 ORLEANS AREA THE OFFICIAL POLICY OF IGNORANCE 186 THE SECRETS OF MENTAL ILLNESS 187 CONVERSION FACTORS FROM THE "MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM" 189 TO THE "CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM" FEDERAL BENEFITS 190 THE ROLE OF PSYCHIATRY IN THE STRATEGIC NATIONAL MODEL 194 THE GENERAL THEORETICAL MODEL FOR THE BEHAVIOR OF THE 198 US GOVERNMENT TOWARDS CITIZENS THE MEDICAL SECRETS 200 THE SECRETS OF EVIL 203 ANTI TECHNIQUES FOR THE SCHIZOPHRENIC GROUP 204 RELIGIOUS LEVEL EXPLANATIONS FOR SAMPLE MENTAL ILLNESS CASES 206 UNDERSTANDING WHERE PSYCHIATRISTS ARE "COMING FROM" 208 RELIGIOUS WAR 209 THE PLAIN TRUTH ABOUT PSYCHIATRY 210 SUMMARY 211 SECTION EIGHT - ARTICLES INTRODUCTION THE YEARS WITH AMY AND AL BUTTERWORTH THE REQUESTED COMMITMENTS A TRIP TO THE TULANE MEDICAL CENTER A TRIP TO THE LSU MEDICAL CENTER ON THE NOTION OF INCOMPETENCE ON THE NOTION OF IGNORING CRIMINALS AND PUNISHING VICTIMS INCIDENT N1I19 "BAIT AND SWITCH" MEDICAL STYLE THE MICHAEL TRAINA INTERVIEWS THE "OTHER SIDE" OF TULANE UNIVERSITY PART OF THE COST OF A MEDICAL DEGREE IS PAID IN BLOOD THE RECIPE FOR MIND CONTROL THE HEROIN GAME WHAT KIND OF "OATH" DO DOCTORS TAKE ? THE SLAVE LABOR MARKET IN FORMER MENTAL PATIENTS PSYCHIATRY AS A STATE RELIGION MURDER BY PARTS PATERNALISM THE DAMAGED HUMAN BODY MARKET YOU ONLY HAVE TO FOOL HALF OF THE PEOPLE HALF OF THE TIME ROLLERBALL - THE GAME YOU CAN'T WIN GENETIC GENOCIDE MEDICAL ENTRAPMENT AND THE ADVERSARY TECHNIQUE STRANGE ETHICS DR. HEATH'S ROBOTS DR. HEATH SPEAKS A TRIP TO THE ZOO SOCIETY IS THE REAL PATIENT TULANE UNIVERSITY AND THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION BRAINWASHING MURDER AND RAPE THERAPY MEDIEVAL MEDICINE RE-BORN WORDS OF WISDOM THE "US TRIP" CULTS AND THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES QUESTIONING THE LEGITIMACY OF THE US GOVERNMENT OCCULT ACTIVITIES AT CHARITY HOSPITAL (HB5) THE NURSING HOMES THE LAW OF KARMA IN N1I19 SQUIRREL SECTION NINE - CHARTS INCIDENT N1I19 INTRODUCTION TO SECTION NINE PERIOD ONE PERIOD THREE PERIOD FIVE PERIOD SEVEN PERIOD NINE PERIODS TWO, FOUR, SIX, EIGHT AND TEN SECTION TEN - CHARGES AND SPECIFICATIONS EXPLANATION OF CHARGES INCIDENT N1I19 CHARGES AGAINST ORGANIZATIONS CHARGES AGAINST INDIVIDUALS INCIDENT SUMMARY MATERIAL INCIDENT N-01-I-019 INTRODUCTORY M A T E R I A L DEDICATION WE DEDICATE THIS REPORT TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED BY THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, DEPARTMENT OF HOSPITALS INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT THE N1I19 report is a compilation of personal experiences and observations of events centering about the Mental Health System in the State of Louisiana during a critical period of US History and includes data with a broad scope of applications. N1I19 deals with the attempt by the government to suppress the publication of another book, called Plan Theory, and with the methods and techniques - seen from first hand experience - that the Government will use against the Citizens when it disagrees with them even though they have broken no law. During the N1I19 period, the US Government developed a Master Plan for establishing an absolute dictatorship. Part of this plan included the CIA project called "Mind Control" which was implemented using Psychiatrists. Both Tulane University and Louisiana State University had CIA contracts during the N1119 period and Charity Hospital of Louisiana was used as a setting for bizarre Medical experiments directed against INCIDENT N1I19 helpless people and others that the Government did not like. As a Tulane University student I was targeted for discreditation and destruction when it became known that I planned to write a book called "Plan Theory". Young then, I had no idea that what had happened was that innocently searching for the truth - and so finding it - I had been classified as an "enemy of the State" and it was the intent of the State to kill me. It seemed un-real then- and now as well - that the basic facts of life are the most closely guarded Government Top Secrets and that the US Government fears the TRUTH above all military weapons and will kill to prevent its public disclosure. However, experience has shown that this is the way it is. The system of political prisons in the United States is called the "Mental Health System" and It is - I learned - directly run by the Intelligence Community itself. Additionally, there are "secret police" known by various names who operate in "the interest of the Government". The "interest of the Government" is to keep the people in ignorance So that, helpless and frightened, they will "worship the political bosses". The President of Tulane University turned out to be a Government Agent and another Government Agent, named Phillip A. Schaefer was a Psychiatrist at the Student Health Service. Schaefer joined the Government Spy Network while in the US Air Force where he was initiated into the secret cult that runs the country and given a "Q-rating" (this is the code letter for "Top Secret" in the US System) Phillip Schaefer, whom I was ordered to talk to, said that he thought that my ideas were those that "might upset some people" and that he was empowered to lock up for life - on his own say so - any person who he felt knew things that might upset other people unless they agreed voluntarily take mind control drugs. He became very upset when I refused to take the mind destroying chemicals which he said he had the power to force on people at will. Schaefer, a Government Agent, acting under the authority of Longnecker, a secret agent for the IDA [Institute for Defense Analysis] who ran Tulane University as a secret front for the CIA project Mind Control, then said he would order me arrested under his absolute arbitrary authority to be sent to a forced drugging camp called HB6 which was also run by personnel from Tulane University. N1119 003 Once captured by the Medical Cult it proved difficult to escape. Systematic testing of all legitimate sources proved that there is no easily accessible group that has the power to stop psychiatrists from essentially doing whatever they want to a person - including murder. I tried lawyers, the ACLU, legal aid services, and all conceivable places that normally can help people who are under government attack, however none of these places had the power to stop psychiatrists. I was finally able to stop the psychiatrists myself by infiltrating the medical cult and learning its secrets and ways of operation and also by learning about another thing which has today been given the popular name "the Force" which means the power which comes from GOD. In the concentration camps I learned that I was never alone and that not only was the "Force" there but there were others - real people - who had assignments to help other people - sometimes they were patients - sometimes lowly staff like janitors - none of them had titles or were rich and famous - but they were "agents of the Force". They formed the counter-secret network to control the government - thru the "Force" - when it got out of line. So in N1I19 I will go with the student down the rabbit hole and try to give a fairly well rounded look at the Mental Health System in the United States and point at it from different perspectives to give a more complete viewpoint. People studying Nut Farms and the Psychiatric Movement should know that it is not a trivial subject.
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