Paulette's diary (17) being tested
Paulettec
Sorry folks, for a little while I will have to drop back to
once a week postings because these are taking a lot
of time (part of the problem is matching up the footnotes
to the sections) and I've got a new book that just hit the
bookstores, with lots of web page promotional work on
the two pet books out right now, etc.
Since I will be posting less frequently, I will summarize
what I posted the previous week and give a brief summary
of what the new section is about.
Summary: Another author (Roy Wallis) has interviewed
L Ron Hubbard Jr., (Nibs) who sort of boasts of his seeming
involvement in framing me. With this evidence, the government
starts backing down from the frame-up, but still insists on some
positive proof that I'm innocent. This section is about attempts
to be tested in various ways.
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HARASSMENT DIARY, by Paulette Cooper (1982)
Part 17: hypnosis, truth serum, etc.
My 1997 editorial comments are enclosed in [[double square
brackets]]. Some paragraphs have been added now.
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However they [[the government]] still wouldn't drop it [[the
case]] until I could give them some proof of innocence. (1)
(Funny, I always thought in our system of justice one was
innocent until proven guilty.)
I tried hypnosis twice, but couldn't relax enough. Sodium
pentathol or "truth serum" was suggested that summer,
but doctors thought it was highly dangerous in my poor
physical condition, especially since by then I only
weighed 83 pounds. (I spoke to Dr. Cath [[earlier psychiatrist
I went to, the one whose office the Scientologists broke into
looking for my records]] by phone on at least two occasions
concerning this, and it was his memos on those two
conversations that were later mailed anonymously to
me by the Scientologists.)
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(1) I tried another lie detector firm but they said my responses
showed too much stress to be conclusive. While they said
that that type of heavy stress is often manifested by guilty
people, it could also reflect the stress of an innocent person
going through such an ordeal.
We also called in Dr. Fred Barnett, the lie detector expert at
F. Lee Bailey's firm.... [[Note: F Lee Bailey's firm, realizing
this trial would get a lot of publicity, wanted this case and
offered to try it very cheaply. My parents refused, preferring
to go with far more expensive lawyers, because they felt
that the imge of F Lee Bailey was that he defended rich
guilty people.]]
Barnett [[the lie detector expert at Bailey's firm]] felt that not
only my unusual background, but also the way my (Jewish)
parents and grandmother were always trying to make me feel
guilty, would lead me to be a "guilt reactor" who would fail any
lie detector test if accused of anything, regardless of whether
or not they did it. He wanted me to be retested by a
Chicago specialist who had devised a test for people like me.
I was all for it, but my lawyers wanted the sodium pentathol.
[[truth serum]]