Did Wiliam Joseph Bryan, CIA hypnotist, know David Ferrie?

[Ralph Cinque]

Mae Brussell believed, as I do, that Jack Ruby was a mind control victim:

"Around the time that Kennedy died in Dallas, Jack Ruby had been in the
company of two known hypnotists. One of them was CIA agent David Ferrie,
from New Orleans. The other was Billie Del Mar, who was then entertaining
in Jack Ruby's Carousel Club. Del Mar fled from Dallas the day of the
Kennedy assassination, and was never called to testify before the Warren
Commission. " Mae Brussell

I already mentioned the reported connection between William Joseph Bryan
(the CIA hypnotist with suspected ties to Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray,
and Arthur Bremer) and David Ferrie, that they were both CIA and both
"bishops" in the "Old Catholic Church."

But now, I have a direct reference to an association between William
Joseph Bryan and David Ferrie. It is reported in the book A Secret Order
by H.P. Albarelli.

From Amazon:

Reporting new and never-before-published information about the
assassination of John F. Kennedy, this investigation dives straight into
the deep end, and seeks to prove the CIA’s involvement in one of
the most controversial topics in American history. Featuring intelligence
gathered from CIA agents who reported their involvement in the
assassination, the case is broken wide open while covering unexplored
ground. Gritty details about the assassination are interlaced throughout,
while primary and secondary players to the murder are revealed in the
in-depth analysis. Although a tremendous amount has been written in the
nearly five decades since the assassination, there has never been, until
now, a publication to explore the aspects of the case that seemed to defy
explanation or logic.

Now, here is the quote from page 435 of the book, but keep in mind that
Albarelli was quoting someone else. And, believe it or not, it's my old
nemesis Greg Parker. That's Prayermanite Greg Parker, you know, of the
Church of the Prayermanites. That's Greg Parker who has been defended by
Joseph Backes, who invited Backes to speak at his JFK conference in
Melbourne, Australia, and whom Backes described as being among the "honest
JFK researchers."

Now, here is what Greg Parker and his associate Steven Duffy wrote about
William Joseph Bryan:

"Steven Duffy and Greg Parker research on William Bryan, Jr.: Hypnotist
Bryan died under very strange circumstances in a motel room in Las Vegas.
The details of his death vary and are quite unclear. Some reports assert
that he died of heart attack; others state he was shot to death, and still
others claim he committed suicide after having a three-day party of sorts
with two underage prostitutes. One additional report states that Bryan was
killed by a prostitute after he told her he had hypnotized Sirhan Sirhan
to murder Robert Kennedy. (Some readers may recall that in the past 25
years at least ten CIA employees have died under strange circumstances in
various motel rooms across the country.) Bryan was once charged in Nevada
(his home state) for furnishing liquor to a young girl under the age of
eighteen while he was attempting to convince her of the merits of 'free
love.' In 1961 Bryan was extradited to California to face charges filed by
District Attorney William Raggio, who was a close friend of Frank Sinatra.
Reportedly, Bryan was very close to Sinatra. Bryan told a number of people
that Sinatra was responsible for his being hired as a consultant on the
film, The Manchurian Candidate. Bryan lost his license to practice
medicine in California. Bryan, like Dr. Renatus Hartogs before him, was
once found guilty of sexual misconduct with four female patients.
Reportedly, he paid another woman $50,000 to not file a sexual misconduct
complaint against him. There are also claims the Brian hypnotized and
programmed would-be-assassin Arthur Bremer to kill Gov. George Wallace in
Maryland. And last, but not least, Bryan was a close associate David
Ferrie, having taught Ferrie hypnosis. Bryan, like Ferrie, was a member of
the Old Catholic Church." (A Secret Order, H.P. Albarelli, pg. 435n)

Most of what it says there about William Joseph Bryan is widely reported
elsewhere. But that last thing: that Bryan was a "close associate" of
David Ferrie, HAVING TAUGHT HIM HYPNOSIS, that jumped out at me.

Now, I don't know who Steven Duffy is, and I have been mislead by Greg
Parker before, and I am VERY wary of him, and I have been since my days on
Education Forum. I have NO respect for him whatsoever. However, there is
this blogger who goes by the name VISUP who put it succinctly:

"As far as this researcher is aware, the above-mentioned Duffy and Parker
are the only individuals who have alleged that Bryan personally knew
Ferrie and had even trained him in hypnosis. Still, William Turner (a
former FBI agent) and John Christian in researching their classic The
Assassination of Robert Kennedy turned up evidence that Bryan and Ferrie
belonged to the same branch of the Old Roman Catholic Church. (both were
'bishops' in that church) Given their involvement in far right-wing
politics as well, the possibility that Ferrie and Bryan knew each other is
quite strong."

I should also point out that there have been reports that Ferrie tried to
hypnotize Oswald, and the one who claimed that was Richard Case Nagell.
However, I am not convinced that Oswald (the Oswald of fame, HARVEY in
John Armstrong's terminology) was mind-controlled by anyone. You can't
compare Oswald to Sirhan Sirhan or Jack Ruby. In comparison to those two,
Oswald was clear, sharp, and focused. I know of nothing that anyone can
point to in Oswald's behavior or statements to suggest that he was under
the influence of mind control.

And that's why if we are going to try to find a link between William
Joseph Bryan and the JFK assassination, I don't think it goes to Oswald. I
think it goes to Ruby. The fact is that William Joseph Bryan died under
very suspicious circumstances during the HSCA- like so many others. If
what Greg Parker said is true that Bryan was directly linked to Ferrie,
and if what Mae Brussell said is true that Ferrie was directly linked to
Ruby, then it means that Bryan was linked to Ruby.

The government sent Dr. Louis Joylan West out to treat Ruby, but Bryan had
lost his medical license at the time. The question is: how close were West
and Bryan?

If Bryan was killed, was that the reason he was killed, because of his
involvement in brainwashing Jack Ruby? I don't know of anything else in
the JFK realm that it could be.

[george....@gmail.com]

Great post. I was happy to find this when I myself was doing research into
the background of Dr. Bryan. While I can't answer whether Bryan and West
knew each other, there are marked similarities in their careers. Both of
them most worked for the CIA as part of MKUltra, and even more strikingly,
both of them became consultants to F. Lee Bailey for mind control-related
cases. If you look at Bailey's career, it becomes apparent that he was a
CIA-connected legal fixer:
http://cavdef.hopto.org/w/index.php?title=F._Lee_Bailey

Bryan was the hypnotist who extracted the confessions from Albert DeSalvo,
the purported "Boston Strangler", although as David McGowan explains in
_Programmed to Kill_, there are reasons to believe DeSalvo was just a
patsy. He was brought in by Bailey, who later became DeSalvo's defense
attorney, although he wasn't DeSalvo's attorney at that time. Bailey
appallingly claimed he wanted to defend DeSalvo from sexual assault
charges by proving he had committed 13 murders and showing he was not
guilty by reason of insanity.

West consulted with Bailey in his defense of Patty Hearst, who was
kidnapped and brainwashed by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). The
SLA, far from being a legitimate left-wing radical group, was almost
certainly an MKUltra project. Its leader, Donald DeFreeze, was
incarcerated at Vacaville Prison while MKUltra experiments were being
conducted there. And one of the most substantial influences on DeFreeze
there was Colston Westbrook, a former CIA operative involved with the
Phoenix Program. He began forming the SLA after his release. For Hearst's
trial, West supported the claim that Hearst had been mind-controlled by
the SLA, but conveniently pinned it on radical leftists rather than the
CIA.