Monday, 1 c. June 1959:
Daniel Ellsberg, 28, has relocated his family to California and he starts work at his permanent job at the RAND Corporation. His monthly salary is $1,000.00 [NOTE: Only the month and year are available.]
SOURCE: Book, "Wild Man; The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg," by Tom Wells
Monday, 1 c. June 1959:
Daniel Ellsberg is back at the Economics Department at Rand Corporation, this time "as a permanent employee." [NOTE: As so often with Ellsberg, there is no date in 1959, just "summer." It may have to be moved. Also: Much later, Ellsberg refers to CIA agent and NSC member Robert Komer as being "an old friend of mine from Rand days." Therefore this mention of Komer is being put here, though it is uncertain when Ellsberg could have been a "friend" of Komer at Rand, since no mention can be found, so far, of Komer being at Rand until 1969.]
SOURCE: Book, "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg
Tuesday, 2 June 1959:
"I am now busy making FCDC solvent and am sending Nibs over [from London] to see to it."
SOURCE: HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE, 37 Fitzroy Street, London W. I, HCO POLICY LETTER OF 2 JUNE 1959; "A COMMENT ON FINANCE"
Wednesday, 10 June 1959:
A bibliography is published: "Comprehensive Bibliography of Interrogation Techniques, Procedures, and Experiences," Air Intelligence Information Report, Unclassified, 10 June 1959.
The referenced source describes the report: "This bibliography of 158 items dating between 1915 and 1957 comprises 'the monographs on this subject available in the Library of Congress and arranged in alphabetical order by author, or in the absence of an author, by title.' No descriptions are included, except for explanatory sub-titles. The monographs, in several languages, are not categorized. This collection is extremely heterogeneous. Most of the items are of scant or peripheral value to the [CIA] interrogator."
SOURCE: A CIA manual, declassified in 1996, and available on the Internet: "KUBARK [Codename for CIA] COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INTERROGATION--July 1963."--Bibliography
Thursday, 11 June 1959:
Quoted from the source [NOTE: OSI is the Air Force Office of Special Investigations]:
Sylvia Hoke's CIA Security File contained "Two sealed envelopes" which were withheld as was "Information regarding father / 3rd Party / 3rd Agency Information Contained memo dated June 11, 1959, (3rd Agencies - OSI, U.S.A.F. + FBI)." [NARA CIA 1993.07.25.08:39:37:560310]
SOURCE: A.J. Weberman, Nodule 11
Wednesday, 1 c. July c. 1959:
A book is published: Gill, Merton, Inc., and Margaret Brenman, "Hypnosis and Related States: Psychoanalytic Studies in Regression," International Universities Press Inc., New York, 1959.
The referenced source describes the book: "This book is a scholarly and comprehensive examination of hypnosis. The approach is basically Freudian but the authors are neither narrow nor doctrinaire. The book discusses the induction of hypnosis, the hypnotic state, theories of induction and of the hypnotic condition, the concept of regression as a basic element in hypnosis, relationships between hypnosis and drugs, sleep, fugue, etc., and the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy. Interrogators may find the comparison between hypnosis and 'brainwashing' in chapter 9 more relevant than other parts. The book is recommended [for CIA interrogators], however, not because it contains any discussion of the employment of hypnosis in interrogation (it does not) but because it provides the interrogator with sound information about what hypnosis can and cannot do."
SOURCE: A CIA manual, declassified in 1996, and available on the Internet: "KUBARK [Codename for CIA] COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INTERROGATION--July 1963."--Bibliography
Wednesday, 1 C. July 1959:
A bibliography is published: "Interrogation Methods and Techniques," KUPALM, L-3, 024, 941, July 1959, Secret/NOFORN.
The referenced source describes the report: "This bibliography of 114 items includes references to four categories: books and pamphlets, articles from periodicals, classified documents, and materials from classified periodicals. No descriptions (except sub-titles) are included. The range is broad, so that a number of nearly-irrelevant [for CIA interrogators] titles are included"
SOURCE: A CIA manual, declassified in 1996, and available on the Internet: "KUBARK [Codename for CIA] COUNTERINTELLIGENCE INTERROGATION--July 1963."--Bibliography
Wednesday, 1 c. July 1959:
[NOTE: There is no date given for the following. This is merely an estimate based on when DeWolf is believed to have been supervising auditing in FCDC.] Quoted from the source:
"MR. SHOEMAKER: Mr. DeWolfe [sic--DeWolf], do you personally-- do you have firsthand knowledge of how the material that was obtained for the auditing process was used?
"MR. DeWOLFE: Yes of course, everybody was told that the files were confidential, that they were treated as if they were files of, say, a doctor or a priest or an attorney. And they were, in the main, by most people, but-- it was quite inviolate. But of course, Dad and I had complete access to it.
"And-one thing I ought to mention is that--it's kind of embarrassing to mention--I'm the one who originated the bugging of auditing rooms in the Hubbard Guidance Center in Washington, D.C. so we could pick up on what was going on in an auditing session. And what I told everybody at the time was that most of the people that worked in the Hubbard Guidance Center--the Hubbard Guidance Center was the auditing department. It was the--where people got their auditing.
"And--but most of the people there were students of mine. So, I put the microphones in and the speakers, et cetera, and the tape recorders so that I could monitor their progress as students. That's what they were told.
"But their files were used, as I said, for pressure, blackmail, and all these other--some of those bits and pieces back in--yesterday."
SOURCE: Ronald DeWolf in Clearwater Hearings, 6 May 1982
Wednesday, 1 c. July 1959:
Bernard Barker is in Cuba and has been "a regular contact of the Federal Bureau of Investigation," but is "turned over to the Agency [CIA]" around this time as a "source of information" until he is "evacuated" in "early 1960. [NOTE: Only date given for turn-over to CIA is "mid-1959."]
SOURCE: Memorandum of CIA Deputy Director Vernon Walters, 6 July 1972, Watergate Committee Exhibit No. 142
Wednesday, 1 c. July 1959:
Quoted from the source:
Abraham Zapruder...moved to Dallas, Texas and in 1953 he joined with Jeanne LeGon to form the clothing design firm called, Nardis of Dallas. Jeanne LeGon designed the clothing and Abraham Zapruder cut the patterns and the material for her. ...In 1959 the partnership broke up when Jeanne LeGon married George De Mohrenschildt. Zapruder established his own company manufacturing ladies dresses.
SOURCE: Abraham Zapruder bio on the web at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKzapruder.htm
Wednesday, 1 c. July c. 1959:
Quoted from the source for an entry that has no date, but must be in 1959 and before Zapata Offshore was created:
De Mohrenschildt's...personal address book...contained this entry: "Bush, George H.W. (Poppy) 1412 W. Ohio also Zapata Petroleum Midland." There is of course the problem of dating this reference. George Bush had moved his office and home from Midland to Houston in 1959, when Zapata Offshore was constituted, so perhaps this reference goes back to some time before 1959. There is also the number: "4-6355."
SOURCE: "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography"
Wednesday, 1 c. July 1959:
Quoted from the source:
Abraham Zapruder...moved to Dallas, Texas and in 1953 he joined with Jeanne LeGon to form the clothing design firm called, Nardis of Dallas. Jeanne LeGon designed the clothing and Abraham Zapruder cut the patterns and the material for her. ...In 1959 the partnership broke up when Jeanne LeGon married George De Mohrenschildt. Zapruder established his own company manufacturing ladies dresses.
SOURCE: Abraham Zapruder bio on the web at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKzapruder.htm
Wednesday, 1 c. July c. 1959:
Quoted from the source, Daniel Ellsberg [date 1959 can only be guessed at]:
As a RAND employee on Air Force contract, I became during 1959-60 a consultant to the Commander-in-Chief Pacific (CINCPAC)
SOURCE: A "Right Livelihood Biography Submission" by Daniel Ellsberg, on the web at http://www.ellsberg.net/content/view/45
Saturday, 4 July 1959:
L. Ron Hubbard reasserts ownership of copyrights and trademarks by HCO.
"L. Ron Hubbard and the Hubbard Communications Office, Ltd are the proprietors of all trademarks, copyrights and materials of Dianetics and Scientology.
"L. RON HUBBARD"
[NOTE: This reference, and the reference for 15 November 1958, specify "HCO Ltd." But, according to later Policy Letters (see, especially, 30 September and 6 November 1964 entries, and their referenced HCO PLs), neither HCO Ltd or HASI Ltd, per se, ever legally had any assets transferred to them, as they never were granted non-profit status.]
SOURCE: HCO PL 4 July 1959, "ACTIONS FOR HCO SECRETARIES FACED WITH ILLEGAL USAGE"
Saturday, 25 July 1959:
According to reports by (unnamed) sources in France, Westinghouse Corporation's Friendship Laboratory allegedly undertakes an experiment with the U.S.S. NAUTILUS, linking one person on Land (the sender or inductor) with another person in the submarine (the receiver or inductee), while the vessel is submerged. Representatives of the U.S. Navy and Air Force are present during the experiment, according to the reports.
The tests continue daily for a total of sixteen days. The person in charge is identified as Colonel William H. Bowers, director of the Biological Department of the Air Force research institute and the man who directs t experiments at Friendship. The sender or inductor is identified only as "Smith," a student at Duke University, who is confined in one of the Westinghouse laboratory buildings during the experiment.
According to the reports, the experiments result in a 70% success rate.
SOURCE: "Amplified Mind Power Research In The Former Soviet Union," by Martin Ebon
Saturday, 15 c. August 1959:
The East Grinstead Courier reports that the experiments being conducted at Saint Hill by the "nuclear scientist, Dr. Hubbard" promise to revolutionize gardening. By treating seeds with "radioactive rays" he is growing tomato plants 16 feet high, with an average of 15 trusses and 45 tomatoes on each truss. He has also discovered that an "infra-red ray lamp" provids complete protection against mildew, a discovery that is likely to save market gardeners "thousands of pounds."
SOURCE: Russell Miller, book: Bare Faced Messiah, Chapter 14
Saturday, 15 c. August c. 1959:
Ruth Hyde Paine and her husband Michael move from Paoli, Pennsylvania to Irving, Texas. They live in a small apartment for several weeks, then rent and move into the house they later will buy. [NOTE: Only date reference is "in the summer" of 1959, but they only are in an apartment "for a few weeks" and move into the house "in the fall," so this is being placed arbitrarily at 15 c. August c. 1959.]
SOURCE: Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine, Warren Commission, file 1
Saturday, 15 c. August c. 1959:
Ruth Hyde Paine and her husband Michael move from Paoli, Pennsylvania to Irving, Texas. They live in a small apartment for several weeks, then rent and move into the house they later will buy. [NOTE: Only date reference is "in the summer" of 1959, but they only are in an apartment "for a few weeks" and move into the house "in the fall," so this is being placed arbitrarily at 15 c. August c. 1959.]
SOURCE: Testimony of Ruth Hyde Paine, Warren Commission, file 1
Saturday, 15 c. August 1959:
David Ferrie, calling himself David Ferris, lands in Yale, Michigan at a tiny airport early in the morning, and follows the family of T. Casey Brennan northward to Hopeville, Michigan, where they go to the office of a hypnotist, "Dr. E," later named as being Dr. J.H. Earnshaw. He gives the children red lollipops that knock them out. This Hopeville office is an MK-ULTRA operation called "The Project."
SOURCE: Castle Mirage - The Prelude: Conjurella by T. Casey Brennan
Monday, 17 August 1959:
Quoted from the source regarding control of nuclear weapon deployment by "unified commanders" [NOTE: At the time, Daniel Ellsberg is a consultant via Rand Corporation, on a Navy contract, to Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Command (CINCPAC), Admiral Harry Felt.]:
Unified commanders--that is, the commanders-in-chief (CINCs) of regional, or theater, commands, such as European or Pacific, that included units from all three services--had control of nuclear bombs and missiles, as did, of course, SAC, the first specified command. The proliferation of nuclear weapons inevitably produced duplication of targets. Coordination conferences and special committee failed to solve this problem, much less resolve inter-service conflicts over the weight of a nuclear attack.
SOURCE: Article and supporting documents, "The Creation of SIOP-62: More Evidence on the Origins of Overkill," National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 130, Edited by William Burr, on the web at http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB130/index.htm