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passionate about protecting his men in battle. There was no
better person to speak for this program than a man like him.
He thought he was doing something honorable.”
“But he recruited those soldiers for human experiments. The
people I saw were shells. They couldn’t think. They couldn’t
communicate. Did he really think that was better than shooting
them in the head?”
“It wasn’t like that, Josie. The briefing he received was not
truthful. He was given a set of parameters that he shared with
recruits. He believed they would be subjected to sleep
deprivation, hypnosis, and climate extreme experiments. This
was nothing more than what they might encounter as prisoners
of war. He had no idea about the drugs or the physical abuse.
Don’t forget, he wasn’t the only recruiter. There were two
others. They all worked the bases, identified the prospects,
signed them up, and sent them on. I have to assume they were
also duped, but I can only speak to what your father knew.”
“But we lived on a base, he collected his pension. How
could that be?”
“Every country has covert operations. The army cooperated
with the defense department and made it happen. It was simply
assumed your father was deployed overseas and on rotation
like everyone else. That meant he could be away from home
for long periods of time.”
“Then he rocked the boat and it wasn’t so simple anymore,”
Josie said.
“Your father became suspicious when he was denied
requested reports on some of his recruits. One thing led to
another and he put the pieces together. Your father went to his
superiors and threatened to go public if they didn’t shut the
program down. Instead, they decided to shut him down. He
never found out how they convinced your mother to leave the
house that night, but once she was part of the program they
had the leverage they needed.