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Excerpt from The Catcher in the Rye Enigma: J.D. Salinger's Mind Control Triggering Device or a Coincidental Literary Obsession of Criminals?:

J.D. Salinger was by all accounts a recluse and, of all the 20th Century’s masters of literature, he’s probably the one least is known about. This is due in part to his extreme desire for privacy. A good example of this was the reported act of painting his forest cabin in camouflage colors so nobody could find him!

Despite living until 2010, some 59 years afterThe Catcher in the Rye was first published and became a phenomenal worldwide bestseller, he never published another novel.



Salinger’s last published work, the short story collection Hapworth 16, 1924, came out in 1965. From that point on he continued to write, but his writing remained for his eyes only. Calls from his millions of fans eager to read more of his works apparently fell on deaf ears.

Besides being reclusive, many have labeled him eccentric and even mean-spirited. There are numerous colorful stories about him. These include him regularly drinking his own urine, becoming enraged whenever his infant children cried, being a hypochondriac, telling one of his wives never to disturb him “unless the house is burning down”, exploring Dianetics (later renamed Scientology) and meeting its founder L. Ron Hubbard, and having his photo removed from all his books’ jackets.

However, what many conspiracy theorists believe holds the key in the whole mystery surrounding Catcher is Salinger’s life before he wrote the book. During and immediately after WW2 to be precise.

And like many other instances of mind control operations conducted in the United States over the years, the controversies linked to Salinger’s masterpiece appear to lead directly back to the Nazis.

What few of Salinger’s fans ever fully comprehend is the man’s extensive military and intelligence employment history.

Employment that included working for the OSS – the forerunner to the CIA – on highly classified projects in Europe post-WW2.

According to the 1988 unauthorized biography In Search of J. D. Salinger, by Ian Hamilton, Salinger worked for the Defense Intelligence during WW2 and served with the Counter Intelligence Corps. His main duties, Hamilton wrote, involved interrogating captured Nazis.

And on September 3, 2013, The Telegraph ran an article headlined JD Salinger's five unpublished titles revealed, and how Second World War shaped his thinking. According to the article, one of Salinger’s unpublished books is “about his time interrogating prisoners of war when he served working in the counter-intelligence division”. That book, incidentally, has the revealing title, A Counterintelligence Agent’s Diary.

Equally intriguing is another unpublished Salinger book titled A World War II Love Story, which the same article claims is “based on his brief marriage to Sylvia, a Nazi collaborator, just after the war”.

Ian Hamilton’s In Search of J.D. Salinger also mentions that as the war came to a close Salinger was an active participant in the “deNazification of Germany”.

Now let’s think about that word for a moment…deNazification.

That word could very well mean Salinger was actively involved in the genesis of Project Paperclip, that clandestine program we detailed in chapter 2, which involved smuggling hundreds of Nazis into America and using them to progress the US intelligence and scientific sectors. After all, declassified files have since revealed that much of America’s (and the Soviet Union’s) efforts in deNazifying Europe in truth amounted to gathering up all the Nazi regime’s incredible scientific technologies, not to mention its scientists.

In fact, some researchers have gone as far as saying the process was more of a reNazification than a deNazification. Or, put another way, fascism continued, stronger than ever, but in another form and leaping across oceans to far-away countries like America.

As we’ve shown in earlier chapters through declassified documents and mainstream media reports, some of the Paperclip Nazi scientists squirreled into the US after WW2 were charged with developing America’s earliest attempts at mind control. This was due to the fact that the Nazis had made tremendous progress in the science of the mind – primarily because of the horrific experiments they conducted on live prisoners during the Holocaust.

Declassified documents also prove these Americanized Nazis had a major influence on the intelligence community in the West post-WW2, especially with US mind control programs which had fascist science written all over them.

Given Salinger’s top-secret wartime experiences, some conspiracy theorists have connected the dots. They assert that he planted mind control triggers in The Catcher in the Rye using the advanced knowledge he was exposed to in his dealings with Nazi scientists. This theory suggests the book was written in such a way that it could be used in MK-Ultra and the CIA’s earlier mind control projects such as Project Artichoke.

These are wild theories indeed. However, given what we now know (and are still learning) about how advanced Nazi mind technologies were, and how much they shaped the modern US intelligence community, these theories should not be wholly dismissed.

Whatever the case, the actual reason for Salinger’s reclusiveness may have been because of what he knew, or what he had been forced to do, in this so-called deNazification process after WW2.

This idea is potentially supported by Hamilton’s biography, which argues that Salinger had post-traumatic stress disorder due to wartime activities that left him a forever disturbed individual.

Has anyone read Salinger's last published book 'Hapworth 16, 1924'? Am wondering if some think he may have provided any additional clues about whatever secret info he may have known in that book.

Excerpt from The Catcher in the Rye Enigma: J.D. Salinger's Mind Control Triggering Device or a Coincidental Literary Obsession of Criminals?:

To shed a little more light on Salinger’s underreported work for the mysterious Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) aka America's Secret Army:

“America's Secret Army by Ian Sayer and Douglas Botting - Franklin Watts New York / Toronto 1989 tells the story of the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC). Established in World War I when the CIC was called the Corps of Intelligence Police (CIP) the Corps was greatly expanded in World War II but never had more than 5000 personnel. Many agents would travel with combat units. CIC Agents took basic training with combat troops and CIC training at Fort Holabird, Maryland. Agents learned many technical skills and Jujitsu. Some agents trained at the advanced school in Chicago, Illinois which gave them classification of Special Agents. Bud Uanna wrote a manual used by CIC Agents and taught at the CIC school in Chicago before being selected for Counter Intelligence and Security duties with the Manhattan Project. CIC agents were known for their self confidence, inquisitiveness, adaptability and timing. J. D. Salinger the author of The Catcher in the Rye was a CIC Agent in Europe. All had above average IQ's. Bud Uanna took 2 IQ tests scoring 160 on one and 180 on the other. Agents were never to divulge the existence of the CIC to anyone outside of the Army and although many of them were enlisted men they were not required to give their rank to officers under the rank of General. They were unknown to the American public and a puzzle to many in the U.S. Army. On the other hand the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) got the publicity. As perceived by the CIC the OSS, also known as "Oh So Social" because of the large number of society types in its ranks were "befuddled amateurs with an inexhaustible supply of funds and an air of mysticism" who claimed the credit for CIC achievements. Shown on the left side are Bud Uanna's CIC Association and Military Intelligence Association Membership cards for 1961 - the year he died.”

“Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.” –J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Operation Paperclip: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

In Search of J. D. Salinger

Excerpts follow from this article:
https://www.biography.com/news/j-d-sa...

3. Holden Caulfield “went to war” with Salinger.

Salinger served in the U.S. Army during WWII and was involved in the 1944 invasion of Normandy. From the day he landed on Utah Beach on D-Day, Salinger carried six chapters of The Catcher in the Rye and worked on the novel during his war years. On duty, he was one of the first U.S. soldiers to enter a liberated concentration camp, serving as a counter-intelligence officer responsible for interrogating prisoners of war.

4. His work was linked to three tragic events.

Tragically, the alienation of anti-hero Holden Caulfield has resonated with society's sociopaths. After assassinating John Lennon in 1980, Mark David Chapman was found by police casually thumbing through a copy of The Catcher in the Rye. Chapman later claimed that the novel was his statement and that it provided the answer to why he'd killed the legendary Beatle. In 1981, after John Hinckley Jr., attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan, investigators reportedly discovered a copy of the book in his hotel room. Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity. And, in 1989, Robert John Bardo, who had been carrying the book, murdered Rebecca Schaeffer, an actress whom he had become obsessed with.

6. He was a seeker who studied the world’s religions.

Salinger studied a number of religions during his lifetime, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Christian Science and Scientology. He also practiced yoga, homeopathy and macrobiotic eating, although his seeking may have taken an eccentric turn. According to his daughter Margaret’s 2000 biography, her father drank urine and sat in an orgone box, a device invented by Wilhelm Reich, to restore health. Eccentric or not, his pursuit of healthy living may have worked—he died in 2010 at the age of 91.

Interesting.

Drinking urine isn't particularly eccentric if he's doing yoga, etc. because Amaroli (urine therapy) is a solid part of the yogic tradition. The well-researched books about it show it to be effective. Maybe people also use it topically.