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My husband was an MK Ultra kid from 1955 . One Sunday in 1960, his stepfather drove him down from their home in upstate NY to a ramshackle chicken farm in Elmo (?) NJ supposedly to meet "family".

Turns out that the owner of the chicken farm was a distant cousin of my husband's. He and his brother were Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany who once owned the famous Wertheim Department store in Berlin and escaped to America with barely the clothes on their backs .

But meeting these "relatives" was not the reason for the visit. After an hour or so, a black sedan drove up to the house and two men in full Nazi uniform get out and start walking towards my husband ( who was only 5 at the time) and his stepfather. One man was over 6 feet tall with enormous hands and a deep scar along his cheek; the other was short and walked with a limp due to a prothesis. The tall one shook my FIL's hand warmly and introduced himself as Otto Skorzeny and his buddy as Hans Rudel. Hans seemed fascinated by my husband . Upon lifting the boy's chin and staring deeply into his eyes, Hans asked Skorzeny, "He looks just like ME - don't you think?"

Rudel and my husband then sat down to chat while Skorzeny and the other adults retired to the small kitchen , presumably to talk "shop". When Rudel noticed that my husband staring at his prosthesis, he proudly pulled up his pant leg and explained to the wide eyed boy that he was a fighter pilot in Germany and lost his leg in a dogfight.

If you're wondering how my husband could recall the details of a meeting that took place over 60 years ago, it was because the children in his group were tortured into developing photographic memories for sights and sounds.

Regarding Mengele: two of my husband's handlers were named Dr Green and Dr Applebaum. "Dr Green" was Mengele and Applebaum was Mengele's Jewish assistant who was a chassidic teenager in Auschwitz . Mengele saved the boy from the gas chambers in return for teaching him the secrets of the Kabbalah to incorporate into his horrific mind splitting experiments on children.

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GreenEyedMamma's avatar

My mom was infatuated with the Bush “Family.” We summered by the Skull and Bones place in Northern NY. My grandmother raised me on those hard covered yellow books. Puzzle pieces.

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