Dr. Louis "Jolly" West

Air Force Major, chairman of the Psychiatry Department of UCLA, director of the Neuro-Psychiatric Institute, expert in hypnosis.

West was a veteran of the CIA's MK ULTRA mind control program, and worked on interrogation techniques using hypnosis and LSD. West once killed an elephant by grossly overestimating a dose ofLSD (elsewhere, I have heard that the tranquilizers required to calm the animal caused its death).

West also studied the returning American POWs from Korea for the effects of brainwashing.
(Scheflin, Alan and Opton, Edward Jr., The Mind Manipulators, Paddington Press Ltd, 1978, pg 149-50)

Friends with Aldous Huxley. It was Huxley who suggested that West combine LSD and hypnosis in his experiments.
(Lee, Martin and Schlain, Bruce, Acid Dreams, Grove Press, 1985, pg 48)

West was to be the administrator of California Governor Ronald Reagan's proposed Violence Center at UCLA. The threat of psychosurgery, along with West's desire to acquire a closed Nike Missle base, derailed the plan.
(Scheflin and Opton, pg 318-20)

West examined Jack Ruby in prison after his assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald, concluded that he suffered from paranoid delusions, and prescribed medication. West was also a defense expert at the Patty Hearst trial.

According to an anonymous BBC television reporter, West headed up the medical oversight for the Ft. Meade remote-viewing operational unit.
(Constantine, Alex, "'Remote Viewing' at Stanford Research Institute or Illicit CIA Mind Control Experimentation?")<>hr> "Member of the medical oversight board for Science Applications International Corp. remote-viewing research in early 1990s"
(Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, pg 391)

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