The Verney case
Y Cyfamodwr is the paper of the Welsh Nationalist organisation whose initials are CCCYCRh, but about whom I know nothing. The issue for Winter 1993/4 contained a piece on a mysterious, now abandoned, site in the middle of a forest in Wales. The site used to be guarded by armed troops, was said officially to have been used for ‘submarine communications systems’ and was the scene of ‘strange lights in the sky’ while it was in use.
ELF systems have been used in submarine communications; and Anthony Verney’s nightmare in the wood in Kent included strange lights in the sky at night. (When he described to me what had been happening to him and his wife, one of my first reactions was, ‘It sounds a bit like a UFO flap’.) It certainly seems possible that the Verneys’ nightmare began with them being the unintended victims of ELF experiments.
Anthony Verney’s account of his nightmare, The Happy Retirement, can be bought, in pamphlet form, from Open Eye, PO Box 3069, London SW9 BLU, price £1.50.
John Alexander loses his cool
The interest expressed in John Alexander by Armen Victorian in the UK and Martin Cannon in the US (see Lobsters 25 and 23 respectively) is having its effect. In May 1993, Martin Cannon received a message — left on his machine — from Mrs John Alexander, the former Victoria Lacas. The message was: ‘Martin, as an ex-friend I have to warn you. John and Hal [Puthoff] are really pissed off at you. And they’ve given the matter over to Gordon [Novel] to handle. Watch out.’
Cannon commented as follows to Armen Victorian in a letter:
‘I took this threat seriously and so did everyone who heard the tape. I immediately took the following steps:
- I notified the FBI in Los Alamos.
- I notified the White House Press office that a candidate for Undersecretary of Defense was making death threats.
- I notifed the Secretary of Defense’s office of same.
- I played the tape over the air on radio station KAZU and discussed the situation in great detail.
- I notified John Alexander’s superiors at Los Alamos National Laboratories.’
On 28 September 1993 Alexander sent a memo to a Gilbert Ortiz titled ‘FOIA [Freedom of Information] requests by “Dr Victorian” ‘. In it Alexander complains about Victorian’s success in getting information and notes on p. 2, ‘I have learned that the CIA has asked both British Intelligence and the police to assist in resolving problems’ with Victorian.
This may or may not have anything to do with the fact that Victorian no longer has a telephone. Last year British Telecom presented him with a quarterly bill for “5,000! (His usual bill was a couple of hundred.) And when he couldn’t pay it, cut his phone off. Victorian has to prove he didn’t make the calls — and how do you do that? This might just be a very strange coincidence but it seems more likely that the British (or American?) state has just come up with an extremely clever way of nobbling troublesome researchers.