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Prior to writing this review, I read both of "John D. Lee's" outrageous character assassinations of Sue Ford (for Starshine, and also for her subsequent book, the one in which she names the names: THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES- THE TRUTH HAS SET ME FREE

Sue Ford is deeply respected by retired FBI agent Ted Gunderson, who has done much in his own right to expose satanism and MKULTRA Mind Control in America.

Sue Ford has a masters degree in psychology, and she is an expert in the use of a state of the art EEG technology which she is using to assist people to break free of CIA MKULTRA Mind Control just as she has done. Would such a person be targetted by poison penned CIA cowards attempting to do spin against her message? What do YOU think?

Sue and Steve Oglvie conduct a seminar for psychiatrists and psychologists to educate them in order to assist them in better understanding Satanic Ritual Abuse, and MKULTRA Mind Control to help them to deprogram abused people. You'd be hard pressed to find a more honest or courageous woman than Sue Ford.

"John Lee's" scurrulous attack on Ford causes me to doubt that "Lee" is his actual name.

His "review" of Ford's books reads way too much for my taste as an "infomercial" for O'Brien & Phillips latest book "Access Denied for Reasons of National Security."

The truth is that Rod Robinson helped Ford edit STARSHINE, not THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, and Rod's name IS on STARSHINE in the form of his pen name: PATRICK STONE.

This commentary by Ray Bilger about Mark Phillips certainly raises some interesting questions about these character assassinations. As you read Bilger's comments, and ponder what "Lee" is saying..... ask yourself WHO BENEFITS and consider the possibility that "Lee" is likely only the pseudonym of a gutless wimp who preys on women on behalf of the CIA and their Director, SATAN:

http://educate-yourself.org/mc/markphillipstruestory12jul00.shtml



By Ray Bilger (From www.davidicke.com)
http://educate-yourself.org/mc/markphillipstruestory12jul00.shtml
July 12, 2000

For those who have not heard of the man named Mark Phillips, he claims to be a "former" (retired) C.I.A. operative who was involved in mind control programming. Mark alleges that after he got out of the C.I.A., he decided he wanted to do something good. So he "rescued" an MKULTRA mind control victim, Cathy O'Brien, and together they wrote a book, Trance Formation of America, and now they travel around the United States on a speaking tour. It is this writer's contention that Mark is NOT a "former" operative, but that he is still heavily involved with the Agency, even though he may not know he is being programmed and used.

What you are about to read is the culmination of over 3 years of research and investigation into who Mark Phillips is, and why he is doing what he is doing. The statements made herein and the conclusions reached are not made lightly. This is very serious business and Mark Phillips is a very clever and ingenious man with a very clearly defined agenda. Unfortunately, that agenda does not appear to serve the interests of truth, but, in fact, it appears to be for the specific purpose of misinforming and misleading the public about what is really happening in America and the world. And it most certainly appears that Cathy O'Brien simply has a new handler who goes by the name of Mark Phillips.

The information used to compile this work has been drawn from numerous sources, including from a "close personal friend," Janus (not her real name-she is concealing her true identity for the present time), from others who have had the misfortune of being deceived by Mark, from Mark's own words, and from the observations of myself and others who have seen Mark in action as he does his work.

Let's begin with Janus, as this is where I first saw the real Mark Phillips begin to show his true self. Janus has been tortured and abused through MKULTRA trauma-based mind control programming since she was a baby. Her father, a career U.S. Military man, began sexually abusing her at a very early age. He has long been a personal friend of Gerald Ford, with whom Janus had much sexual contact while she was young.

Janus has been to Bohemian Grove in California, to the White House many times, and around the world, and she has been sexually abused by Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, Walter Cronkite, numerous other American officials, foreign heads of State, the Royal family in England, and on and on the list goes.

About the time Janus reached her thirties she was becoming less and less useful to her handlers, and she began to try to escape from the tortured life of abuse she had known. Her attempts to do this were met with swift and brutal retaliation to remind her that she should never again think of doing that. It eventually became apparent that she was being set-up to have an auto accident that was intended to result in her death. In the mid-1990s her car was hit from the rear by a tractor-trailer, but she escaped with relatively minor injuries.

In late 1996, while driving on a lonely stretch of road, Janus was involved in an auto accident where she was forced off the road by another car. She crashed head-on into a bridge abutment and her car burst into flames. Good fortune, or perhaps her own destiny, brought other motorists (including friends of mine) to the scene immediately who put out the fire, and worked as quickly as possible to cut her out of the car. The engine was in her lap, and she died twice and was revived before she was out of the car and into a helicopter on the way to the hospital.

I first met Janus in early 1997 when I heard from a close friend (who had been at the scene of her accident) that Janus said she had worked underground at China Lake Naval Weapons Station in the California desert. I wanted to interview her about this, and she hesitatingly agreed.

We got to know each other over the next couple of months (this is when I first found out about her being a victim of MKULTRA). In early April of 1997, a local TV station near my home was conducting a TV interview with a group of U.F.O. enthusiasts, and Janus and I happened to be present at the time. It was suggested by someone that if they wanted to know about mind control they should talk to Janus.

Janus nervously agreed, and told the interviewers a little bit about the subject. Remember, she was just beginning to break out of her programming, and she was very unsure of anything. She had never known a moment of freedom in her life, and she was still a long way from feeling it then. She didn't know how to think, as she had never been allowed to do so before.

The word about Janus' interview must have traveled fast, because the very next morning she got a phone call from her main handler, her uncle, and he said to her, "Who the hell have you been talking to?" He went on to tell her she would be leaving early the next morning to come and see him, and that "it was time that her family took care of her."

Janus called me later that same day and told me she would be going away for awhile and that she wouldn't be seeing me. She told me about what her uncle had said-that her family was now going to take care of her. I couldn't stop thinking about the double meaning of this expression, and I sensed that what it spelled was death. After all, Janus does have information that could seriously bring damage to the federal government and those pedophiles at the top who run things. Never before had she attempted to go public with her experiences.

I said nothing about her going away (I sensed that her phone was probably being tapped), but made plans in my mind to go see her that evening. When I got to her house, about an hours-drive south of where I live, she was surprised to see me. She had a suitcase packed, and I told her of the probable fate that awaited her if she left the next morning. After talking with her for awhile, I was able to convince her that she should come and stay with me for the time being.

On Sunday, April 13, 1997, David Icke spoke to an audience in Tehachapi, California. Janus and I attended and her spirits were lifted as David talked about what he was currently working on-exposing the pedophile governments around the world.

After the talk, I spoke with David privately and explained our situation. David was very interested in interviewing Janus, and since he had to leave the next morning we arranged to do so that same evening at the home of a mutual friend, a retired doctor, who also happened to be one of the people at the scene of her auto accident in late 1996.

That evening, we went back to the doctor's house and spent the next several hours listening to and recording a bizarre story that included Las Vegas, Nevada, the international pedophile capitol of the world. We were told that this is the place where people such as Britain's Prince Charles came to spend time with young boys. David got some good confirmation on things he himself had already been investigating.

At this point I had never met Mark Phillips, though I very much wanted to. On two prior occasions where I could have heard Mark and Cathy speak, I suddenly had to go away to Los Angeles on business. In retrospect I now know that this was probably meant to be, as we appeared to be destined to meet under very different circumstances.

David knew Mark Phillips and said that he would call him to see if he might be interested in meeting with Janus, as Mark was scheduled to be on the west coast shortly. Soon I was personally speaking with Mark Phillips in Tennessee, and he arranged to meet with Janus and myself while he was in San Diego in late April of 1997.

Janus and I arrived in San Diego the day before we were to meet, and relaxed as best we could. During this time I had to be ever alert as Janus would just go walking off, not knowing where she was going or what she was doing. It was as though she was mentally disconnected. At the time I knew very little about the real workings of mind control, but I have subsequently learned a lot, and we are both learning more each day.

Anyway, we met Mark and Cathy the next day and the four of us spent the next 8 hours in their hotel room. Janus had forgotten her reading glasses and Mark said she would need them. So, we went back to our hotel to get her glasses.

On the way driving back to our hotel, Janus said she was extremely uncomfortable about Mark. She said she felt that he was a doctor and that he wanted to lock her up in a mental institution. I didn't think that we would ever get back to their hotel, but I was eventually able to convince Janus that Mark appeared to mean well and that if he tried to do anything I would take her out of there immediately. I said she should at least give him a chance since we had come a long way to be there.

Not knowing any better, I felt that her programming and her microchip implants were probably telling her not to go to see someone who could really help her with her problem. I have since learned that Janus is extremely perceptive about many things, no doubt due at least in part to all that she has seen and been through in her life.

Mark was very emphatic about us not ever saying to anyone that we had met privately with him in this way. We agreed not to say anything. Mark then proceeded to talk to Janus and ask her all sorts of questions. He had her sit at a small desk and answer lists of various questions-things like what is your favorite food and what is your favorite color. These were questions she could not answer, because, as I was later to find out, she had never been allowed to think or make a decision on her own.

Mark made a quick examination of the back of her head and said that she had no implants. During the entire 8 hours, Mark chain-smoked cigarettes, pack after pack, while Cathy sat on the bed and said almost nothing until later on.

While Janus was answering the written questions, and for most of the entire time, Mark directed almost all of his attention to me. He explained that Janus did not appear to be a mind control victim, that she probably was not abused, and that her problem definitely appeared to be a chemical imbalance in the brain. He suggested that this was making her extremely depressed. In fact, Mark said to Janus, "You are the most depressed person I've ever seen in my life." Those were very powerful words to a woman in such a delicate situation.

Mark suggested some hospitals where I might be able to get Janus some serious help, if I was really interested in helping her, and I wrote down this information. Cathy O'Brien eventually spoke and said, "You should be glad you and your children have not been abused." By the time we left, Janus was shattered and had a splitting headache!

Since I was only beginning to unravel who Janus really was-remember, she never had the chance to have a real identity, only multiple personalities generated from trauma based programming-I believed what Mark had said, and now felt like I really had my hands full. Mark led me to believe I should be very careful for my own safety, so when we got home I hid all of the kitchen knives.

The next three days were some of the most difficult (and yet ultimately rewarding) of my life. I could not convince Janus to go to a hospital. She felt they would only do something terrible to her, and she just wanted to leave and run away. From everything she was saying, and from everything that Mark had said, I felt that something wasn't quite right. I still believed Mark must know what he was talking about, but I didn't know what to do.

After three days, I knew that Janus would not be going to a hospital voluntarily, and it began to appear that Mark had not told me the whole truth. Shortly after that, on May 2, 1997, we were driving around in the evening and we happened to turn on the radio and heard Lou Epton's radio talk show on AM 840 KXNT out of Las Vegas. His guests were none other then Mark Phillips and Cathy O'Brien on their west-coast tour.

We pulled the car over to a nice area and listened to the radio. Pretty soon Lou was taking telephone calls. I later obtained an audio-tape of the program to be absolutely certain of what Mark said. A caller to the program asked if Henry Kissinger is a pedophile? Mark answered, "No one has ever named Henry Kissinger as a pedophile. No one, that is, with any credibility has ever been able to show any kind of proof that he was involved in any sort of pedophilic activity." That sounds like a very thorough and well rehearsed response. Was Mark intentionally concealing Henry's very real pedophile activities? If so, why?

Mark Phillips, who appears as though he is very knowledgeable about who the pedophiles are in our government, would have to be naïve not to know about Henry Kissinger. Janus has been sexually abused by Henry several times at Bohemian Grove, and so has another woman (a MKULTRA victim) who will be introduced later in this article.

But one of the most striking things about the program was a caller from Las Vegas who asked Mark to comment on the pedophile activity in Las Vegas that takes place with the casinos. Mark responded, " &I don't happen to have any [information on that] and neither does Cathy O'Brien & As far as this being necessarily a center of that activity, I don't think so." That response is either a clear indication that Mark does not know what he is talking about, or else it is a very big intentional cover-up of the truth.

Earlier in the program, Mark had said that "Muskegon, Michigan is considered the capitol of the United States for pedophilia." Janus' comment was that, indeed, there is pedophile activity in Michigan, but it is by no means the capitol. Was Mark's comment designed to intentionally divert attention away from Las Vegas?

Janus and I sat there and looked at each other, and I realized that I had been taken for a big ride. It seemed inconceivable that Mark would not know that Las Vegas is the pedophile capital of the world. Of course, it appeared that he really did know better. I was mad, but I felt like this had all just been a test, and I felt somehow like I had passed it.

I have had a long time since then to think about all of this (and discuss it with others who are familiar with MKULTRA, or who have met Mark) and put the pieces of the puzzle together. And the conclusion I have reached I believe to be the truth. Before we ever met Mark Phillips, he must have been briefed about us, and he was told that Janus had to be eliminated, but that the only way to get to her was to get through to me, as I was protecting her. That's why all of his attention was focused on me. At the same time he did everything he could to make Janus look like a complete idiot, hoping that that would help convince me to drop her. But his plan (or the plan of his controllers) didn't work.

Mark does his job very well, I must say, but it is not the job that most people think it is. As I thought and thought about all of this and tried to put it into context with the Big Picture, of which this is but a small part, I finally came to the realization of who Mark Phillips is and why he had to be created.

The Elite One World forces who run the world from behind the scenes began to realize several years ago that some of the many MKULTRA mind controlled sex slaves (and others) were escaping, and some of them were talking. So, a conscious decision was made that a program needed to be put into place to counter any potential damage such exposure might produce.

To some extent, the mind control programming takes care of this itself. For example, many are programmed to self-destruct if they should ever escape. This programming would be activated when the victim/survivor begins therapy and too much is beginning to be remembered. Being programmed to drink heavily at such time is one example of this self-destruction. Or, as one woman I know about said, she has a neutron bomb implanted in her stomach and she is afraid it will be detonated at any time. These people are programmed to say the most unbelievable things, so that when an unenlightened person hears them they will think they are insane and in need of institutionalization. And if they get that, then they can be "fixed" permanently.

In any event, it appears that the powers that be put into motion a very complex plan that involved Mark and Cathy, and an unenlightened and unsuspecting public. They figured that if they could make it look like a rogue C.I.A. agent went astray and "rescued" a MKULTRA mind controlled sex slave, and escaped with her to write a book about it, and if it was all done just right, then the public might just buy it. And that plan has worked very well.

The book would have to contain enough factual truth to be interesting, and believable enough for the public to buy it. But then the real purpose of the whole plan would follow-travelling around the country on a speaking tour, where Mark Phillips (the expert) could answer questions, and debunk the real damage that has been (and is still being) done, and to tell those victims who might show up that they are really just delusional, that nothing ever happened to them, and that they should go to a hospital where they can get proper treatment!

The Elite's choice of Mark Phillips for this extremely important assignment was an excellent decision, as he does his job very well. He may himself be a mind control victim. Cathy's life seems to be better, but she is not free from the mind controlling, she just has a new handler named Mark!

Think about their whole story seriously for a moment. Don't you think that if the Elite Controllers wanted Mark and Cathy dead, that they would be dead by tonight? These Controllers kill presidents if they want to, but somehow they can't seem to kill a couple who are openly speaking to the public, and who stay in public hotels?

Let's listen to some of Mark's own words from his speech before an audience as he opens for Cathy. This quote (from 1996) comes after he has given a very lengthy explanation about all that he has done with the C.I.A. in the past: [Quoting]

I went to see a friend of mine from the U.S. Intelligence, and he was a General. And I explained to him what I had heard and what was going on, and I said, "This looks and smells and tastes exactly like mind control."

He said, "That's exactly what it is. The country is just saturated with it &"

I said, "Well, all I want to do is find out about this woman that Alex Houston handles, and this little bitty girl, because they are being used, under mind control, and they're being prostituted."

And he told me, he said, "Mark, this is the craziest thing that you have ever done in your life. Just forget about it. You didn't cause it. You didn't have anything to do with it. Mark, you just walk away from it &"

I said, "No, I'm going to give a little something back &. I'm going to see if I can find this woman and this little girl some help &."

I never seen him [the General] again because he passed away &. I decided that I was going to do something to help. [End quoting]

What a perfect story. And the General is supposedly dead now, so he can't be found to corroborate or deny Mark's story. It's the age-old story of a brave man who rescues a damsel in distress. It's all just too convenient, but it works so well for the average person. How many thousands, or tens-of-thousands, of people have been mislead or deceived by Mark Phillips? How many of them are real victims, like Janus, who don't need more lies, but need real help?

Let's go to another source to see if we can find out more about this man named Mark Philips. For those not familiar with Sherman H. Skolnick, he is a man on the cutting edge of exposing major conspiracies, and he writes about his findings and airs them on public access cable TV in Chicago. Listen to Mr. Skolnick's own words from February of this year (2000): [Quoting]

Several years ago this couple [Mark and Cathy] were set to be guests on my public access cable TV program cablecast within Chicago. Before coming here, Mark Phillips called me, as the producer/moderator of the show, and insisted on the following conditions: (1) All my questions were to be put in writing and submitted to them in advance, and (2) I was to make a written, ironclad guarantee that I as the moderator would NOT ask them or her any "negative questions." Having due regard for my integrity and being independent-minded, I refused these outlandish conditions. [End quoting]

Now, why would Mark Phillips make such strict and rigid requirements? If he were truly seeking to expose the many parameters of MKULTRA mind control programming, he would welcome any and all questions to help as many people as possible understand the magnitude of what we are facing. But he didn't do that. Mark was taking away the spontaneity that is the very essence of live interviews.

Does it seem at all possible that Mark may have wanted to portray things according to a very carefully planned agenda? If this were so, it would seem likely that Mark was intending to establish a very specific perception in the minds of the audience-in line with the overall plan put in place by his own controllers-and he wasn't about to have someone like Sherman Skolnick deviate from that agenda in the slightest. This is very serious, folks, and the stakes couldn't be higher-they are playing with our very Souls!

Let's turn now to some of the most compelling information about Mark Phillips, here from a woman who was a MKULTRA victim, and presidential sex toy and personal computer. Brice Taylor was a sex slave to Bob Hope, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Nelson Rockefeller, Gerald Ford, and on and on.

Brice lived for a time with Mark and Cathy, supporting all of them, and eventually she was able to publish her book, Thanks For The Memories-The Truth Has Set Me Free, published in 1999, by Brice Taylor Trust, P.O. Box 655, Landrum, South Carolina 29356. Here are some very telling excerpts from her book: [Quoting from pages 268 and 269]

"A breakthrough occurred. Ted Gunderson called to inform me that he had just heard from another woman [Cathy O'Brien] who lived across the nation, who had also sent him her memory work about being used as a sex slave to Ronald Reagan. Although it was a terrifying time for me, it also was an amazing time of discovery for all of us. Mark Phillips, her so-called therapist and deprogrammer, flew across the nation and told me that "Jimmy Carter's people" had called him in an attempt to stop him from meeting with me. I flew Mark and Cathy O'Brien to California to meet with me for the first time and I put on a seminar where they were the featured speakers. Mark Phillips knew all about my programming. Looking back on it now, he seemed to know way too much. He asked me if I had "a twin sister who was two inches shorter than me." This was a very powerful key and code into the programming of my "inner twin sister," Sharon, and this seemingly simple statement controlled my body in a very intimate way from the outside, showing me while in normal consciousness that I was indeed a robot, and not in control of my own body. Shortly after Mark and Cathy's arrival and seminar, a series of events occurred including an accident and ensuing hospitalization of the person that was living with me as my safe person. Mark Phillips explained that I was not safe in California and once again I ended up running. I paid to fly Mark, Cathy and I back to his mother's home in Charlotte, Tennessee where we began my process of what we then called "deprogramming."

Several weeks later, with nearly 10 years of recovery behind me, this so-called "retired?!" C.I.A. operative made dramatic changes in his living arrangements just to "help me deprogram." After relocating across the country to a home in Arab, Alabama, where I paid all domestic expenses for the three of us, a large sum of money for traveling expenses for both he, his girlfriend Cathy, and myself, and a large 'consulting fee,' this renegade C.I.A. operative read my lengthy journal entries daily for a year and a half and agreed that in his own words, "the memory work contains absolute elements of fact laced with verifiable details." But one and one-half years, forty-two journals, and $50,000+ traveling and living expenses later, Mark Phillips informed me that nothing had ever happened to me & nothing what-so-ever!

Cathy O'Brien said, "Well, you should be happy that nothing happened and that your children have not been abused!" I couldn't believe she was saying that, after all the common details of our histories we had shared.

I was devastated and went to bed and could not eat for three days and remained non-communicative and totally subdued for nearly a month afterwards. After all this time of intensely focused attention on my history, Mark informed me that I had never even been abused, and that I just had a big imagination. But, he seemed to appreciate that I was around to cover all of his expenses.

I suspect that Mark is some kind of "containment agent" who is being directed through his "handlers" whose motivations ultimately serve the New World Order. Through his containment expertise, the information I have conveyed to you in this book you are now reading was delayed in reaching you by nearly seven years & I have uncovered a string of lies he told others in an attempt to discredit me. I also reconnected with another Kissinger survivor that Mark Phillips had worked with for a time. Mark Phillips told her the same thing he told me-'THIS NEVER HAPPENED TO YOU!" & I left that home where I had paid all expenses & and went to live in Carbondale, Illinois. " [End quoting]

It is easy to see from the above that Cathy O'Brien indeed has a new handler, Mark Phillips. It would certainly appear that in their one-and-one-half years together, Brice and Cathy had a lot of time to share their common histories. Yet Cathy didn't seem to have any question whatsoever about Mark's sudden change of mind regarding Brice. On the contrary, Cathy seems to believe what Mark says, and then supports that with her own parroting statements. This acts as reinforcement to what Mark has already said. Very clever, and convenient. Mark has certainly trained Cathy well, and, as it appears, Mark himself has been trained well.

Brice Taylor's powerful book is highly recommended reading. It is the book that Trance Formation of America never could be, because of Mark Phillips' agenda. The cover of Mark and Cathy's book says "The True Life Story of a C.I.A. Slave." But that can't be so because even though the book does reveal a great deal of valuable information about mind control, the book doesn't reveal the true identity of who Mark Phillips really is. Since Mark has played such a large part in Cathy's life, and since the book doesn't tell the truth about Mark, by definition the book cannot possibly tell the true life story of Cathy O'Brien, and how she is being used today to help promote the New World Order agenda.

Over the past several decades, pedophiles have infiltrated into all levels of our government. It has become so all-pervasive today because once these degenerates get into the very highest levels of government, then they are in a position to appoint others of like mind into all other important positions in our government.

This has gone on until we have reached the point where we are today, with pedophiles dominating the Legislative, the Executive, and the Judicial branches of government. Our government today in the United States of America is one huge pedophile government.

Have you ever wondered what happens to the ever-increasing number of abducted and missing children in America, and who is doing this? Why don't you ever see any serious TV programs about the thousands upon thousands of America's missing children? Many people might be inclined to believe that a handful of child porno scum are responsible for this atrocity. How many would think that the entire operation is sanctioned and carried out by our own government in Washington, D.C.? Well, that's what is happening, folks, and that is what Mark Phillips is helping to cover-up and protect! (see the book, The Franklin Cover-Up, by John W. DeCamp, copyright 1992, by AWT, Inc., Lincoln, Nebraska)

It is a sick world we live in today that greatly needs healing. Mark Phillips is in a very unique and instrumental position to be able to help prevent and put a stop to what is going on. But instead he is helping to perpetuate the abuse and insanity by misleading and misinforming (i.e., lying) to those who most need to hear the truth.

The truth is often difficult to accept. Face it, Mark Phillips, that is what the people need and deserve to hear from you. If you can possibly break free from your own mind control programming, don't you think you should tell the people what is really happening in America and the world?


Ray Bilger 7-8-00


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THE TRUTH ABOUT: The Truth About Mark Phillips

Svengali and His Prize Parakeet - My Respectful Tribute

By Jon Gentry
7-22-00

I am an event, freelance, videographer. Counting on both hands I have met and videotaped Phillips and O'Brien nine times. Since my earliest meeting with them, June of 1996, I have taken a great deal of flak from ardent supporters for saying Cathy was still under mind control. My evidence? Watching Cathy's eye movements as she accesses eidetic memory. At least Alex Houston used a dummy to talk through (ventriloquist).

So, now that the pendulum has swung against Mark Phillips, my unchanged view through these years now appears like support. With all due respect to Ray Bilger's three years of research, the subject is an elephant, and we the blind men. Mark Phillips may look a lot to Ray like the hindquarters, but I see Mark Phillips as a kind of a hero. Why would I call Mark a hero? Because his init

"Brice Taylor's" actual name is Sue Ford, a Beverly Hills debutant, and victim of incest and perhaps Multiple Personality Disorder, now named Dissociative Identity Disorder in DSM-IV. Ford got her degree in psychology before she "recovered" her memories, and perhaps was falsely influenced by reading other people's life stories. According to Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips, in their 2004 book "Access Denied for Reasons of National Security", Ford stole the fictionalized novel from her "ex-roommate" and its ghost writer, Rod Robinson (also a victim of incest and perhaps DID/MPD. Robinson told O'Brien, "I am an author writing a FICTIONAL book on mind control that incorporates much of the information Sue was able to obtain THROUGH HER THERAPIST," (NOT from Sue herself). This book was never about Sue Ford, aka "Brice Taylor". It is more based on the life of Cathy O'Brien, who collaborated on the facts of her deprogramming for which Robinson's novel is loosely based. Ford paid Phillips $500/month rent in return for living with him and O'Brien and Phillip's brain-damaged mother, but Ford claims to have paid Phillips $75,000. After reading Ford's so-called notes of her memories, Phillips wrote, "she either is deliberately perpetrating fraud or is indeed the victim of false memories from her therapists." O'Brien's daughter is also named Kelly, who was kidnapped into a Satanic cult run by the state of Tennessee, and a Nazi electroshock hospital run by Vanderbilt University, and scheduled for a court-ordered "exorcism by Satanists" (oxymoron). "Laws do not apply for reasons of national security", according to Judge Andrew Shookhoff, ignoring the Tennessee legislature's new law in O'Brien's daughter's name. When Robinson said he was almost finished writing his novel, Ford replied, "Since my experience was only incest, I guess I have nothing to contribute.... I want my name on the cover." Robinson replied, "If you'll do the legwork on getting the book printed and pay half the printing cost, you can add your name to the cover." "Really? My name can be on the cover of STARSHINE?", she asked. Robinson replied, "Right after mine. You've got the manuscript right there. When you solidify the deal the deal to have it printed, I'll wire you half the money." O'Brien asked her why she wanted to use an alias on the book, wondering why a person with DID would want a new identity. "For legal reasons," Ford replied. "It never occurred to me, Mark or Rod that Sue would eventually remove Rod's name from his book entirely, ironically change the title to "Thanks for the Memories", and keep all the sales profits," O'Brien wrote. "She plans to release Rod's fiction book as her reality, so she can use mind control as a defense to any crime. We asked her to leave immediately." So "Brice Taylor's" book is useful, at least for general background on CIA' MKULTRA, and background on O'Brien's first book, "Trance Formation of America". producer@PirateNews.org

Thank you for coming forward. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I've watched so many honorable people be viciously attacked in the media by the likes of Shaun Hannity--commentators who bring nothing to the table beyond insults, and DON'T DARE address the issues. Brice resonates with a candid, level awareness of what was done to her, and has givin us the gift of that awareness so that the demented people in control of our society will be seen for what they truly are.

She's taken a great risk and we should be very grateful. Google "Kay Griggs"; she's another who has taken that risk and has suffered the same kind of harassment. But the word is spreading, and more than anything, 911 was so obviously an inside job that I believe America will soon be convinced that this "New World Order" is the last thing the world needs.

I hope you and your family stay safe, and may we all weather this storm to arrive at a new moral awakening for mankind.

I have to start by admitting that I have not read this series in a while. In fact, it has been over a decade since I've first read this series. As a kid I thought these books were great. Over the years, I've read other books and never thought back on the series.
Currently there is a television series on ABC entitled "LOST". Wow! Is it a hit! After first hearing about the series, I thought nothing of it, but after having watched a few episodes I was reminded of Coleman's "Escape from Lost Island" series.
This series really is a great read. It was good enough to still be in my mind after more than a decade.
I recommend this series to all those teens (and adults too) that are interested in the "LOST" television series. There are enough differences to keep the two from being spoilers to each other.
Seriously good read.

This book is a great book because it is action packed with adventure. I think it should be a best seller.

I read the "Escape From Lost Island" when I was in grade school, about 7 years ago, and they were the first books that I couldn't put down. I still remember the great story as something that could rival "Lord of the Flies."

This is a very interesting and informative book. It held my attention throughout, even at the beginning. I hardly ever read books. I found this in an old box and gave it a chance because of the cover. I couldn't put it down until i was finished. This is truly a great book.

This was written by the people that brought you "THE FIVE FINGERS".Not as good as the TFF,but still technically accurate and hard hitting.A little slow at first,but stick with it,you won't by disappointed.

The Teheran Contract is the real deal when it comes to special operations. Rivers' real life experience lends a realism to the story that keeps you turning the pages. No hype, no BS... just hard hitting mercenaries doing their job, trying to earn a paycheck. Gone are the testoterone fired one-liners, unrealistic weapons and ridiculous tactics that are so prevalent in mercenary stories today. The Teheran Contract is the real deal. Enjoy the read...and hold onto your seat!

Having been interested in adventure stories and the Choose your own Adventure series as a child, I picked up this book. What a great book - it combines elements of adventure, strange folk, and critical thinking/decision making. It's also virtually non-linear, making the reread value of this book high. I loved the fact that one could read this book, encountering so many different people and places, for days without getting bored or to the book's ending. I consider this the best of the Escape series, but the other three books aren't without their charm.
Whether one book, two books or the whole Escape series, this makes an excellent present for any child book-lover.

This is a great adventure book. I grew up with "Choose your own adventure" books. But the 'Escape' series was always my favorite. Instead of the usual pick from two or three questions and go to this page you actually have to travel around the Island of Tenopia with the help of a map decoder to find your way out. The coolest feature of this book is that if you happen to go to the same place twice something different happens. You might get new clues or helpful information the second time around. Basically this book feeds your imagination and it is very, very fun.

The style of this book makes a gem if you can find it. The regular choose your own adventure style has about 100- 180 pgs. and 10- 12 endings, some good (happily ever after) and some bad (you were eaten, thanks for playing) in regular choose your own adventure, you may only visit a page once and then make a choice out of two to three different pages. The book by Edward packard, however lets you visit a place more than once in your journey [each page represents a different place on the island of tenopia] when you reach a page it asks whether or not you have been here before. this allows you to ask people you met last time for any more information that they have learned in the time you were gone. This book has a great story-line and ends with you finding your way to the next book in the series.

The author-Stephen Bower Young-served as a gunner on one of the main turrets of the battleship U.S.S. Oklahoma. He was aboard the ship when she was torpeodoed during the surprise Japanese attack. This story is about his personal experiences during the December 7, 1941 attack and the escape from the ship when it rolled over.
Young offers recollections about the life aboard the battleship and the sailors he served with. Many of these sailors would not survive the attack (448 died).
The majority of the book was about the attack and the subsequent escape. I was most interested in Young's successful escape, when other sailors drilled holes into the bottom of the ship so those trapped could escape. A most interesting read.

This book is absolutely spellbinding. Once you open this book, you won't be able to put it down. The impact of this first-hand account of being trapped inside the capsized hull of the battleship USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor is resounding. Buy it for yourself but share it with anyone upon whom you wish to impress the courage of what has come to be called the Greatest Generation. The next time you hear someone complaining about how tough they have it (perhaps your kids or grandkids whining about not having the coolest sneakers or the latest Nintendo), give them this book to read. Perhaps the reality of how pampered our current lifestyle really is will sink in. I suspect this book will also help you put your own problems in perspective as well.

The author recounts his days in the pre-WWII navy with candor and affection. Honest without being coarse or too sentimental, he talks of his experiences and shipmates, good and bad. The account of USS Oklahoma's sinking and his later rescue is thrilling. I read it in one sitting.

I came across this book in the library. I read it to my 7 year old daughter and she and I both were delighted with this tale. As a fictional tale for children it embodies the spirit of community and culture the magic of nature and the ancestral-spiritual realm. The illustrations are beautiful which greatly embellishes the storytelling of the author. Well-written, beautifully illustrated and wonderful content. I highly recommend it.

"The Village That Vanished" is a story about the people of an African village who work together to avoid slavers that are coming their way, showing how faith and perserverence are rewarded. The story is set among the "Yao" people but no information is given as to who the Yao people are or where they live or whether this is a story told in Africa. The story seems to be set in East Africa (the slavers appear to be Arab, not European). Some background information would be very useful. The illustrations are excellent.

I got this book solely because of Kadir Nelson's magnificent illustrations in "Ellington Was Not a Street." Nelson again shows why he's one of the top kids' books illustrators. Moreover, the story skillfully weaves fact, spirituality, and suspense in an exciting, identifiable story of escape from danger--in this case slavers who will capture or kill them.

The narrative focuses on three members of a peaceful agricultural community in Africa, part of the Yao tribe: Abikanile (whose name means "listen") a pre-adolescent girl who embodies fear and courage, her mother, Njemile ("upstanding") the moral leader and embodiment of practical and sacred wisdom, and her grandmother, Chimwala ("stone"), brave and unyielding as a rock.
There's a pervasive theme of spirituality: The book opens with Njembile praying to her ancestors to keep the family safe, and her prayer foreshadows some of the ensuing events:

Do not deny me now!
Lend me and my children
The secrecy of the crocodile
Below your waters!

Oh, my ancestor spirits
We need your magic now!
Protect our village,
Keep us free!

Realizing that they can't successfully battle the slavers, and that hiding would be futile, Njembile convinces the small community that they must fool the slavers by destroying or hiding every trace of the village. They quickly take apart their reed huts, and carry as many items as they can. Chimwala is too frail to make the journey, but she stays behind as decoy, planning to tell the powerful traders that she is a witch, living alone in small jungle clearing. "The slavers will not take me! Am I not old and mean? Is it not said `The Crocodile will not eat old wrinkled adder snake?'"

When the villagers' escape route leads them to a wide, impassable river, the swift Abikanile runs to find a shallow crossing. She finds nothing. Then, this listener, remembering her mother's prayer, appeals to the ancestors, who reveal walking stones for those who have the faith to see them. Back in the deserted village, Chimwala uses her "stony face," and unwavering calm to deceive the gun-toting slavers atop their powerful horses.

Ann Grifalconi writes beautifully ("Young Abikanile waited, still as a bird, in the tall reeds that grew near the water's edge") and believably, although it is not stated whether this is indeed an authentic African tale. Many of Kadir Nelson's oil paint-on-photocopy pictures have a luminous, dramatic look, particularly his cover drawing of the slavers imagined in the clouds. The heavily crosshatched individual portraits add character, and Nelson's portrayal of the life-giving river, usually set against a beautifully luminescent sky, is spectacular (although several scenes take place at twilight or night). I missed some sense of the jungle, more over-head or long shots showing the jungle against the sky, and perhaps a small animal here and there would have conveyed more sense of setting. However, these are small objections in a highly accessible story about faith, the necessity for teamwork, and the power of the individual.

I couldn't put this book down. I have read quite a few books on the Holocaust and watched the major movies, but I never really felt the connection with an ordinary person living an ordinary life being thrust into extraordinary circumstances like this book has done. While reading, I was imagining myself being awakened by bombs on my wedding night and forced to make the unbelievably difficult decisions made by Ida, Morris and their families in Antwerp, Belgium. I also never really "got" that the US had rejected Jewish immigrants to the degree described in this book. I don't recall ever seeing a movie that addresses this issue and think that one needs to be made. I don't recall the US ever apologizing either...it seems like this is a piece of the Holocaust story that has been overlooked: that of the refugees who tried to get out and the countries that refused to help.

The monoprints made by Ida in the 1980's as a first step to telling her story are also quite extraordinary; now I'm curious about monoprinting and wish I could see someone actually doing it. It's hard to imagine how one could get so much detail with the process!

It could not have been easy to recall such horrible memories for Ida Piller-Greenspan and Susan Branting does an able job at moving the narrative along and maintaining the sense of urgency that Ida and Morris must have felt during their year+ ordeal. I am deeply grateful for this account. I believe these stories of ordinary individuals are priceless reminders of that horrible time and, as Peter Rose writes in his introduction, each provides a "small part in the overall catastrophe."

A great story with very expressive and well chosen prints by the author which encourage the dark but ultimately uplifting tale.
As it's quite a short book the end comes a little to soon for my liking, but I hope that the author will consider making a mid-quel
to add to the story. Fingers crossed...:-)

I was disappointed in this book as I did not find it particularly well written plus I felt it left a lot unsaid about the author's family and how they managed when they came to America. I realize the book was narrow in scope as it covered only the time of their flight to freedom but it still felt me feeling hanging. I wanted to know more.

Michelle and her familey are going to their aunts Beckys cousens for Thanks giveing.Michelle makes friends with a turkey named Tom.She finds out they are going to eat Tom.What does Michelle and her sisters do to save Tom from being eaten thanksgiving?Read the book and find out.I read this book in one day it was so good!

Michelle and her family visit a farm. Michelle sees a turkey that is realy cute. But then she hears they are going to cook him on Thanksgiving. Read the book to see what she trys.

I had the great pleasure of meeting Wayne Carlson on a cross-Canada music festival train trip in April 2004. Many of us on the train bought Wayne's book, and I read it with interest and pleasure. Doing so increased my astonishment that anyone could spend as much of a life in such lousy circumstances and emerge with humanity and humor intact. His narrative proves that he has. In an age when, certainly in the U.S., and probably to some extent in Canada as well, any pretense that the criminal justice system is intended to rehabilitate anyone is nothing but pretense, Wayne's story indicates that rehabilitation is possible. Great compelling read.

Every few months or so I need to read a book or at least an essay such as this account of man surviving the, for most, unsurvivable. Papillon is one such story I would compare to Carlson's, the indomitability of an undefeatable man. That must be redundant, but I'm a bit bleary because I haven't been able to put the book down.

What makes Carlson so winsome, beyond his genius for survival and escape, is his essential romantic innocence and affection for humanity. Despite his decades of imprisonment he seems to have maintained his human spirit, truly a miracle!

A wealth of observational detail on life, friendship and survival. One hopes he does a sequel.

Well written, fast paced, an exciting tale of human endurance, perseverance and ingeniuty. Hard to put down.

Henry Chancellor has written a book about the bad boys of Colditz - the true Houdini escape artists! Although they weren't as successful as Houdini, they showed absolute brillance in devising ways to escape out of Colditz. And the British agents in England were just as devious with respect to smuggling in contraband.

Chancellor deftly writes about the many escape attempts by the French, the Poles, the Brits and others. He captures a "you are there" feel as he describes their fears, their boredoms, and for some, there escape into lunacy.

If you have read other books about escape attempts from the German Stalags, then you are in for a treat with this book. Chancellor also describes how each side (German and Allied) held mutual respect for one another except toward the end of the war when things began to turn nasty for the Germans.

An excellent book and worthy of anyone's library.