Mrs Fennec Easterman

Baranczyk Letters

1959.08.03

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CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN OLIVIER W. BARANCZYK AND A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS

Bradley?

Have you been monitoring the PAPERCLIP work coming out of Los Alamos?

Dr. Wernicke's Sleep Therapy Lab (as extreme a Euphemism as the language allows) is showing an extremely suspicious fixation on the last few Reagents coming out of the Sinyala Facility. The PAPERCLIP gang has remained secretive and condescending as ever, speaking German when they wish to hide from me their research.

I have been attempting to learn the language, but I find it a revolting tongue. I have a secretary (the hausfrau of one of our Navy boys) who eavesdrops and translates for me. She told me Wernicke said, "This Doctor Easterman may have made the most fruitful mistake in modern science since the creation of Penicillin."

A provocative statement.

I am cautious to put too much stock in Rudolph Wernicke's words, on account of his superstition, his cynicism, his condescension of all things American, but still?. A provocative statement.

Anything you can tell me about PAPERCLIP activities at Los Alamos would be greatly appreciated. Perhaps there are details I can share with you.

We've allowed these National Socialists into our military apparatus, we must be extremely vigilant lest the tail begin to wag the dog.

Sincerely

(Signature)

Baranczyk Letters

1959.08.03

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CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN OLIVIER W. BARANCZYK AND H.J. EASTERMAN

Doctor Easterman,

Please send additional Reagents.

Reagent 0877 has proven a remarkable inspiration to our PAPERCLIP guests. I don't pretend to understand the details, some confluence of your behavioral work and this Rudolph's Dream Therapy.

Avellanos tells me it's rare for one of your test subjects to survive as long as 0877, but I hope you have others who have achieved similar levels of ascendance. Project funding will reflect Los Alamos contributions.

Respectfully,

(Signature)

Murkoff Minutes

1959.07.20

MURKOFF CORP

COPY (RETRIEVED FROM ARCHIVES 1960.04.15, AT REQUEST OF A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS)

TRANSCRIPTION OF INTERROGATION OF REAGENT 1733 BY OBSERVING SCIENTIST (UNNAMED)

EDITED FOR CLARITY

[minutes 37-40]

REAGENT 1733- Please don't tell anyone I told. We're secret friends.

OBSERVING SCIENTIST- Doctor patient confidentiality is sacred. How many times do I have to tell you? What about "Greed." What does the word "Greed" mean to you?

REAGENT 1733- Weakness.

OBSERVING SCIENTIST- Talk more about that.

REAGENT 1733- If you know what someone's greedy for, you know how to beat them.

OBSERVING SCIENTIST- This sounds like your friend Amelia again.

REAGENT 1733- But she just got it from Jesus. And Gandhi.

(pause, sounds of writing)

OBSERVING SCIENTIST- What about "Everyone." That word's in your poem three times. What did Amelia tell you about the word, "Everyone."

REAGENT 1733- Do you know the story of Moses?

''OBSERVING SCIENTIST- Moses?

REAGENT 1733- A Hebrew Prophet. You should read your bible.

OBSERVING SCIENTIST- Moses, of course.

Murkoff Minutes

1959.07.20

MURKOFF CORP

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TRANSCRIPTION OF INTERROGATION OF REAGENT 1733 BY OBSERVING SCIENTIST (UNNAMED)

EDITED FOR CLARITY

[minutes 33-36]

OBSERVING SCIENTIST- Easterman allows you self-expression inside the cells because we want to understand how the therapy is affecting you.

REAGENT 1733- I've been expressing myself.

OBSERVING SCIENTIST- These words, they're some sort of poem?

REAGENT 1733-Sure.[sic] Yeah. A poem.

OBSERVING SCIENTIST- What does "Regret" mean to you?

REAGENT 1733- She says regret's a good thing. You shouldn't avoid regret, because it just means you could have made another choice. If you've got regrets, you've got free will.

OBSERVING SCIENTIST- She? Who says this?

REAGENT 1733- My friend.

OBSERVING SCIENTIST- She must have a name.

REAGENT 1733- We have numbers here.

(Rustling, equipment prepared.)

A. Bradley Avellanos Letters

1959.06.29

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To: CLYDE PERRY,

From: A. Bradley Avellanos

Subject: Reagent 0877 to Los Alamos

Mr. Perry?

Many thanks for your continuing vigilance.

Based on confessional intelligence from the minister at St. Marks, Reagent 0877 has become a subject of interest.

Please retrieve Reagent 0877 and transport him to our office in Los Alamos for further study. Mr. Baranczyk will be on site by July 1 to receive and process the patient. Submit costs to Sinyala.

Please refrain from extracurricular habits.

DBNR

(Signature)

Clyde Perry Letters

1959.06.23

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TO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS SINYALLA FACILITY

FM: CLYDE PERRY IN FIELD MUNCIE, IN

SUB: "COMPLETED" & RELEASED REAGENT SURVEILLANCE 0946, TERMINATION

REAGENT 0946 TERMINATED 11:06 PM ON JUNE 22, 1959.

BODY WAITING CLEANUP IN BLAINE NEIGHBORHOOD OF MUNCIE, IN, CORNER OF WILLARD AND S. LUICK.

SUBJECT WAS OBSERVED AT THE RIVOLI THEATER FOR A SCREENING OF 'SLEEPING BEAUTY.' SUBJECT APPROACHED GROUP OF ADOLESCENTS AND CLAIMED EXTRA-SENSORY ABILITIES. ADOLESCENTS LAUGHED AND FLED. SUBJECT FOLLOWED ADOLESCENTS UNOBSERVED.

SUBJECT ATTEMPTED TO CLIMB INTO HOUSE OF YOUNGEST ADOLESCENT (VISUAL APPROXIMATION 12 YEAR OLD, FEMALE.) AT WHICH POINT I INTERCEPTED AND ENGAGED SUBJECT IN PHYSICAL ALTERCATION. SHOT SUBJECT SIX TIMES IN HEAD AND CHEST, (SILENCED ROUNDS, MINIMAL DISTURBANCE TO NEIGHBORHOOD,) THEN GARROTED SUBJECT. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE MINIMAL.

SUGGEST FILING AS 'FAILED CONDITIONING.' RETURNING TO SINYALA.

Clyde Perry Letters

1959.06.20

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TO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS Sinyala FACILITY

FM: CLYDE PERRY IN FIELD MUNCIE, IN

SUB: "COMPLETED" & RELEASED REAGENT SURVEILLANCE 0946

DAY 6 OF REAGENT 0946 SURVEILLANCE WAS EVENTFUL. SUBJECT EXITED APARTMENT BEFORE DAWN, WALKED LOOPING PATH THROUGH RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD, THEN OBSERVED BIRD FALLING FROM SKY OR TREE. SUBJECT STEPPED ON BIRD. BIRD DEAD.

TWO FITS OF CRYING THROUGHOUT DAY. ONE FIT OF UNCONTROLLABLE LAUGHTER. SUBJECT PERFORMED DUTIES AT INDUSTRIAL LAUNDRY TO SATISFACTION OF SUPERVISOR.

TRIGGER 8 TESTED AT 3:00PM WITH SATISFACTORY RESULTS.

TRIGGER 13 TESTED AT 9:30PM WITH EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS.

NOTE? SUBJECT HEARD TELLING COWORKER BIRD WAS PULLED FROM SKY WITH POWER OF MIND.

Murkoff Memorandums

1959.05.05

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To: THE BOARD

From: A. Bradley Avellanos

Dear Sirs-

Our partnership with Liberty Meat has revealed another unanticipated savings oppurtunity[sic]. We have purchased two dozen at-scale industrial meat grinders capable of reducing meat, tallow, and bone to a liquid-consistency paste. Bodies so processed present almost zero hazard of discovery or forensic revelation, with regard to mass desert burial.

As such, Slurry Burial will replace our former, much more complicated disposal process in the Biohazard Disposal Facility. Affective[sic] immediately, we will be shutting down Biohazard Disposal. Expect significant savings, along with fewer reports of sickness and injury among Biohazard Disposal staff.

Clyde Perry Letters

1959.04.12

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TO: A. BRADLEY AVELLANOS SINYALLA FACILITY

FM: CLYDE PERRY IN SAN ANTONIO, TX

SUB: "COMPLETED" & RELEASED REAGENT SURVEILLANCE 0877

DAY 28 REAGENT 0877 SURVEILLANCE. UNEVENTFUL. SUBJECT ATTENDED EPISCOPAL SERVICES AT SAINT MARKS. ATTENDED BASEBALL GAME, TWO MEALS TAKEN AT DINER. TRIGGER TESTS ACCPETABLE, SUCCESFULLY NEUTRALIZED BEFORE ACTION. AS UNEVENTFUL AS DAYS 1-27. SUGGEST REMOTE/PASSIVE SURVEILLANCE. REQUEST REASSIGNMENT.

Murkoff Accounts

1959.03.07

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In response to the unanticipated volume of patients volunteering at Charity Outreach Centers, Murkoff has purchased a controlling share in LIBERTY MEAT HAULING LLC.

Effective immediately, our cost of transport for patient volunteers to the Sinyala Facility will be cut by roughly 72%.

We can safely transport fifty sedated and hooded Experimental Population Volunteers per cattle car; using trucks only for the last 85 miles from Williams, AZ.

Expect Experimental Population Volunteers to require extra sanitization. The stink is considerable.

Murkoff Memorandums

1959.03.05

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PATIENT REPORT

ATTN: DR. H.J. EASTERMAN

Therapeutic Salvage initiative for Reagent 0985, Henrietta Grubbs, has proven a failure. Some background:

Henrietta Grubbs' participation in PROJECT LATHE diminished significantly following instigation of romantic relations with fellow Reagent 0486. Hormone and sleep therapy was increased accordingly, and erratic behavior lead to injuries in-Trial deemed fatal, (17 fractures, including skull, ruptured spleen, collapsed lung, and internal bleeding.)

Following period of unlikely survival, Henrietta Grubbs was determined to be a good candidate for Therapeutic Salvage to Experimental Population. Grubbs' reaction to hormone bath and bone extension was remarkable, and following salvage, she was reintroduced to the Trial Environment as Heavy Ex-Pop.

Murkoff Minutes

1959.02.12

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Please inform M. Scarfiotti and A. Bradley that thirty-seven of the Murkoff Charity Outreach Centers are operational and successfully intaking potential patients at a higher than anticipated rate.

An additional six Centers will be open before March 1, pending signage correction. (Scarfiotti's insistence that any Murkoff Corp. branding to be limited to inside the Outreach Center, out of public view.)

By March 1, we will have operational patient input in:

NEW YORK (7 Centers)

CHICAGO (3 Centers)

PHILADELPHIA (2 Centers)

LOS ANGELES (2 Centers)

DETROIT (2 Centers)

BALTIMORE

CLEVELAND

ST. LOUIS

WASHINTON, D.C.

BOSTON

SAN FRANCISCO

PITTSBURGH

MILWAUKEE

HOUSTON

BUFFALO

NEW ORLEANS

MINNEAPOLIS

CINCINNATI

SEATTLE

KANSAS CITY

NEWARK

DALLAS

INDIANAPOLIS

DENVER

SAN ANTONIO

MEMPHIS

OAKLAND

COLUMBUS

PORTLAND (OR)

LOUISVILLE

Murkoff Correspondence

1959.01.22

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INTER-OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN A. AVELLANOS AND M. SCARFIOTTI

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Moses,

Whatever you think of Easterman and his project, The Board is all hot and bothered over the tax savings inherent in populating the Trials with these Charitable Outreach Centers.

The entire cost of running the centers, recruiting volunteers, and trucking them to Sinyala is a bulletproof tax deduction. (And not a bad place to hide all the money coming in from Agency black book $$$.)

Hold your nose and think of the profits. Easterman will sabotage himself sooner or later. And if we get tired of waiting, I have ways to nudge him.

Murkoff Case Files

1958.09.19

MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS

PROJECT LATHE TWO

Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet Easterman

MEMORANDUM TO SINYALA STAFF

CLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: NIGHT HUNTERS

ARCHETYPE

Military volunteers whose surgical night-vision augmentation has inspired grandiose delusions, including identification as a figure from myth, or a new and nocturnally predacious species of sapiens.

AUGMENTATIONS

The technology has its roots in PAPERCLIP science. Based in a second-generation "Vampir" system, it was developed as a Wunderwaffe late in World War II. Still relying on an infrared light source, (chest-mounted,) vision is additionally augmented with photocathode elements, and direct pain stimulation of the primary sensory areas of the cerebellum, along with the primary and secondary visual areas of the brain.

Necessary pre-conditioning of Night Hunter patients includes a retinal isolation procedure originally developed in cooperation with Aribert Heim, in which patients' eyeballs are immobilized with pins through the sclera until the muscles atrophy, so that direct, undisturbed stimulation can be applied to the retina. As the entire head must move, (rather than the motion of the eyes,) autopsy of Night Hunters has shown significant enlargement of the colliculi.

PYSCHOLOGY

Beset by narcissism and a manic-depressive reaction, Night Hunters consider themselves perhaps literally super-human. Records show that our (since deceased) PAPERCLIP scientist in R&D may have been filling subject's heads with Teutonic fairy tales and ghost stories. He seems to have infected Night Hunters with both supernatural delusions and perhaps his Slavic accent.

DOCTOR'S NOTE

Murkoff Case Files

1958.09.19

MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS

PROJECT LATHE TWO

Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet Easterman

MEMORANDOM TO SINYALA STAFF

CLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: PUSHERS

ARCHETYPE

Shaman. Former Sinyala staff, driven to psychosis by chemical exposure, along with proximity to Trial populations.

AUGMENTATIONS

A rare example of permissiveness from Dr. Easterman. Pushers are equipped with basic aerosolized medication equipment, but are encouraged to develop their own psychoactive compounds. An exercise more in the art than the science of drug use. Their evolving amphetamine/hallucinogen mixture has managed to stay one step ahead of Reagent's acquired drug tolerance, and proven a remarkable partner in achieving truly remarkable states of psychosis.

PSYCHOLOGY

Pushers may have slipped in to their delusional state by a perceived relationship with the so-called "Skinner Man," somewhere between that of a child with an overly-affectionate uncle, or trusted priest. Pushers exhibit the pseudobulbar effect, (paradoxical laughter,) sometimes to such an extent that breathing is effected.

DOCTOR'S NOTES

The Pusher archetype is a reminder to all Murkoff staff and visitors to maintain strict security protocols and mental hygiene.

Murkoff Case Files

1958.09.19

MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS

PROJECT LATHE TWO

Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet Easterman

MEMORANDOM TO SINYALA STAFF

CLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: BERSERKERS

ARCHETYPE

Blind rage. Patients repurposed from a prison experiment in weaponized syphilis; we've compensated for blindness and disorientation with physical strength and extreme aggression.

AUGMENTATIONS

After engineered strain of syphilis resulted in blindness and dementia, patients were relocated to Los Alamos for further development as zero-sight assets; steel pins have been surgically inserted into sensitive skin areas in order to increase tactile awareness.

Berserkers have been developed for close-quarters combat in anticipation of urban/jungle warfare in the developing Communist arena. Considerable resources have been put into amplifying Berserker's strength and size via hormone and limb-lengthening therapy. Pending deployment, Berserkers are being temporarily utilized at Sinyala on assurance of minimal damage.

Metal plates have ben[sic] securely bolted to the patients' faces to deter self-mutilation.

PSYCHOLOGY

Berserkers seem to have found some sort of enlightenment at the extremes of pain; adding unexpected (at least psychological) legitimacy to Dr. Wernicke's (Los Alamos) theories of a Lateral Ascension. The central tenant of that enlightenment, however, seems to be in worship of violence against others. It could be considered a form of evangelism.

Berserkers do seem to have an unreasonable animosity toward their ruined eyes; patients sometimes obsessively picked at their own eyes and then the cavities beneath until they had sufficiently damaged their frontal lobes to essentially self-lobotomize. Addition of metal plates has all-but eliminated such activity.

DOCTOR'S NOTES

Murkoff Case Files

1958.09.19

MURKOFF PSYCHIATRIC SYSTEMS

PROJECT LATHE TWO

Project Lead: Dr. Hendrick Joliet Easterman

MEMORANDOM TO SINYALA STAFF

CLASSIFICATION GUIDELINES: IMPOSTERS

ARCHETYPE

Trickster. General Ex-Pop who have been given latex masks to imitate Reagents. A simple canard, but central to the psychological development of our Reagents; Trial subjects must learn than nothing and no one is to be trusted.

AUGMENTATIONS

Beside the masks, Tricksters are placed in environments nude. They are left to outfit themselves, acquiring clothing from corpses. They fashion small knives from whatever is at hand; often shards of glass, or pits of metal ground against stone until sharp.

To focus their utility on guile alone, patients to be developed as Tricksters have no other great physical advantage.

PSYCHOLOGY

Essentially General Experimental Population; they see their masks as an element in a children's game. Playful and sadistic, they have the remorseless cruelty of children pulling legs off of an insect.

DOCTOR'S NOTES

Use extreme caution in Trial Environments where Imposters have been inserted. In rare cases, Imposters have managed to steal clothing from Sinyala staff, taking on the appearance of scientists or security.