Streaming Media Trail

Canto One
- the attraction was immediate
Canto Two
- surrounded by microphones
and darkness
Canto Three
- always replaying in my mind
Canto Four
- what was really happening
Canto Five
- but perhaps it began earlier
Canto Six
- in the early evening light
Canto Seven
- images of exploding spaceships
Canto Eight
- scenes from the performance
Canto Nine
- the clandestine battles
of spies against spies
Canto Ten
- certain names and dates

Advocacy

The parallel true details of our lives recorded in these Notes and the quotations from my
other works -- Ask for Sanctuary and Concerto for Narrative Data -- suggest the possibility
of interference in the lives of real people. The Notes do not always describe the overt
narrartive thread. In some cases they provide further information and/or explore contingent
pathways. The References are provided to suggest how the fictional characters in this story
arrived at plausible conclusions as well as to point to avenues of further research.

Thanks are due to the dedicated investigative reporters, historians, writers, and activists
who researched and wrote the important stories and books that informed this narrative --
and to those who provided these references both directly and indirectly.

"...it was as if I had known all along
what was really happening
or as if I should have known all along
what was happening."

Revelations of Secret Surveillance begins with a flashback to 1933 Nürnberg,
the storied German city that was a stage both for the unveiling of Nazi eugenics and
for the ultimate exposure of Nazi science.

It is the place where, about 35 years later in the 1960's, I was married. My then
husband -- who, before he was drafted, had written a letter to Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara protesting the Vietnam War -- was an enlisted man, stationed
in nearby Fürth at the William O. Darby Army Base. I lived on Dürerplatz,
a few blocks from the house that was the home of the Reformation artist Albrecht Dürer.
We were married in a German civil ceremony at a courthouse near the Nürnberg
Hauptmarkt.

In my family history, there was also a German marriage that did not take
place. When she was a young woman, my mother, Barbara Lillard, fell in love
with a German man whom she met at school in this country. In the 1930's,
she went with him to Germany. Horrified at the anti-Semitism and the
soldiers marching in the streets, she left him to come back to New England,
where she met and married my father, W. Langdon "Ike" Powers, a man
who would fight in France and Germany in the coming War.

Viewing the films of Nazi Germany from that era, I can imagine
what it would be like to have gone to Europe with a man you were in love with
only to have your dreams of happiness become a nightmare as he revealed his
allegiance to Hitler. One evening when we were watching the section in
The Sound of Music where Liesl's former boyfriend turned-Nazi,
corners the Trapp family, my mother left the room, saying that she could not
watch that part.

For Revelations of Secret Surveillance, rather than fictionalize the true
history of my family, I created a parallel history. First introduced in my l0ve0ne,
(Eastgate Web Workshop, 1994) German video artist Gunter, whose maternal
grandparents escaped Nazi Germany, and the American writer Gwen, whose
mother married a much older veteran of World War II, are the main characters in
Revelations of Secret Surveillance. Their gradual unraveling of a
web of surveillance and harassment are, of course, the actions of fictional characters.
However, in the aftermath of the dual tragedy of 911 -- both as a disaster itself
and an excuse for unregulated government surveillance -
Revelations of Secret Surveillance presents viable explorations
of the nature and causes of interference in the lives of artists, athletes, activists,
spiritual leaders and many other people. It also looks at the potential for
covert electronic weapons and brain interference technologies to be used
against civilian populations in our own country.

Informed by years of working as an arts journalist, by working as an information
specialist for defense and NASA-funded industries, by family histories, and by my
own life as an artist who has walked with crutches or cane since I was run down
in 1994, Revelations of Secret Surveillance calls attention to the potential for
technology-mediated repression in situations where governments encourage
intelligence agency stalking of civilian populations. It also postulates a covert system
of social control -- exploring its possible origins, as well as who might be attacked
by such a system. If, as the characters are beginning to understand, their relationship
choices were scripted by outside sources, how this interference effects not only the
entire lives of those whose life choices were diverted but also the communities and
communities of faith to which they belong, is not yet completely understood by the
men and women who are searching to understand what happened. But such questions
are not beyond the scope of the narrative's revelations.

The family lives and the research that informed Revelations of Secret Surveillance
were an integral part in the shaping of the narrative. Thus the fact that I was married in Nürnberg,
the chain of accidents that have scarred my life and the things that happened to my father and
mother, including my father's experience of the invasion of Normandy, are disclosed in more
detail in these notes.

Because the silencing of writers, artists, and many others took from Germany
the voices that might have helped set the country on a different path,
the German and German Jewish artists and activists created for Revelations of Secret Surveillance
serve as a constant reminder of the importance of freedom of expression.
In this work that deals with covert silencing of and attacks on artists and writers,
this truth is very important.

References
• American Library Association, "Book Burning in the 20th Century-1933" --
  http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bookburning/20thcentury/nazigermany/nazigermany.htm
  Photos of the Nazi book burnings are available on this website.
  Commentary: An echo of the May 10, 1933 Nazi book burnings took place the following year
  on February 10, 1934, when, on orders from John D. Rockefeller, Jr, workmen at
  Rockefeller Center used axes to destroy Diego Rivera's 63-foot-long mural
  Man at the Crossroads because it included a detail of Lenin in a May Day
  parade See "Diego Rivera's Man at the Crossroads" --
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/visualarts/diegorivera_a.html
  (PBS Culture Shock website)

• "Book Burning" -- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005852
  (Holocaust Encyclopedia )

• The City of Nürnberg
  http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Nurnberg/ Photos of the damage from
  Allied bombing are available on this site.

• Sayward H. Farnum, "The Five by Five", A History of the 555th
  Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (Mobile), Boston,
  The Athenaeum Press, 1946. The book includes a description of Camp Hulen.

• Douglas O. Linder, "The Nuremberg Trials, 1945 - 1949",
  Famous Trials, 2006 -- http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/nuremberg.htm

• Judy Malloy: Family History -- http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/sanctuary/familyheroes.html

• Judy Malloy, l0ve0ne, Eastgate Web Workshop, 1994. http://www.eastgate.com/malloy/

• Judy Malloy, Ask for Sanctuary, World Wide Web, 2002; 2007. http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/sanctuary_2007/begin_sanctuary.html

• Judy Malloy, Concerto for Narrative Data, World Wide Web, 2005-2006 http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/concerto/begin.html

• Heinrich Mann, Ein Zeitalter Wird Besichtigt, Frankfurt, Germany, Fischer, 2003. (first published in 1945)

• Heinrich Mann -- http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hmann.htm (Authors' Calendar)

• "Photos of Old Jewish Nurnberg" --
  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7279/nurnphoto.html
  (The Second Generation Group from Nuremberg Photos of the Hauptsynagoge
  that was destroyed by the Nazis are available on this site.

"I dreamed that everything I did was watched,
every moment of sorrow,
every intimate action,
was videotaped.
There was never a moment
when I was not forced to endure the surveillance."

- Ask for Sanctuary

The difficult climate that as an artist, writer, and arts journalist I had observed
for the creative community was one of the reasons that I began to write Revelations
of Secret Surveillance. I thought that, in the actual creation of the story,
why and how this was happening might become clearer. Thus the plot was slowly
developed in concurrent writing and research. Thus the plot was slowly developed in
concurrent writing and research. Initially told as a serial online, the narrative is a real-time
information mystery epic in that the discoveries that the fictional characters make about the
existence of surveillance in their environment reflect the writer's concurrent research and discovery.

For instance, background research into the lives of Gunter's
family began a harrowing journey into evidence of intelligence agency
surveillance of writers and artists. Gunter's mother's parents, Claidia,
a narrative poet and Avram, a journalist, fled Nazi Germany only to be in
danger once again in occupied France. Escaping Southern France on foot over
the Pyrenees, with the help of other journalists, they made it to America,
where, as did many other refugee writers and artists, they settled in
Los Angeles.

Researching what life might have been like for Claidia and Avram in Los Angeles,
I discovered Stephan Alexander's book: Communazis, FBI Surveillance
of German Emigre Writers. People who protested the Nazis and were persecuted
by the Nazis were not "Communazis". Nevertheless, Alexander's book convincingly
documents relentless FBI spying on and covert intrusion in the lives of German
writers and artists who came to this country to escape Nazi persecution.

Available on the FBI website, the archives of the FBI files themselves present
evidence that while intelligence agents whitewashed the backgrounds of the Nazi criminal
scientists who were given leading jobs in NASA, the military, and industry, they continued
to spy on the German and German Jewish writers who had criticized Hitler.

In Gunter's words:

"..They were watched night and day.
Their mail was censored.
Their phones tapped; their houses secretly ransacked.
They themselves followed.

My grandparents would almost surely have been watched.
Not only during the war. But also after the war.
My mother when she was growing up.

It did not matter that they were not Communists.
They would have been under surveillance
for all of their lives in this country.'"

It was only the beginning of a series of discoveries of well-documented
evidence that intelligence agencies spy on many writers and artists all
their lives. The feeling of being under constant surveillance, of having
one's life constantly interfered with, was beginning to seem less like
paranoia and more the likely result of unwarranted surveillance.


Of concern is not only the illegality of the surveillance but also the
potential that such surveillance allows for interference in the lives of those
who are spied on -- particularly given the covert technologies that are now
available to intelligence agents and law enforcement.

Whether or not the interference is direct, constant surveillance creates a
terrible stress, particularly for artists, because their awareness of their
surroundings is often heightened. The role of such surveillance in the suicide
of Ernest Hemingway and the deaths of many other writers and artists should be
more closely examined. According to Frances Stonor Saunders, (The Cultural
Cold War) Hemingway's suspicion that he was under relentless surveillance
by the FBI was posthumously justified when over 100 pages of FBI files on him
were released.

In Alien Ink, the FBI's War on Freedom of Expression, Natalie Robins reports
that in 1961 Hemingway went to the Mayo clinic under an assumed name because
he was suicidally depressed. Gunter describes what happened in this way:
"...in a chilling incident of collaborative FBI and medical profession
gang stalking, when Ernest Hemingway checked into the Mayo Clinic,
a psychiatrist at the Clinic contacted the FBI and then told Hemingway that
the FBI knew he had registered under an assumed name. The Mayo Clinic
gave Hemingway shock treatments; he lost his memory and ability to write.
A few months later, Ernest Hemingway, one of America's greatest writers,
committed suicide."

References
• Stephan Alexander, Communazis, FBI Surveillance of German Emigre Writers,
  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.

• Federal Bureau of Investigation, "FBI Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Reading Room Index" -- http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/foiaindex.htm
  

• Federal Bureau of Investigation, "Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph"
  http://foia.fbi.gov/arudolph/arudolph1.pdf
  If there are difficulties accessing this file, readers are advised to search the url
  on the Internet Archive -- http://www.archive.org/
  Commentary: While the FBI subjected artists and writers, including Jewish and anti-Nazi German refugees,
  to continuous, intrusive surveillance, the backgrounds of Nazi scientist
  war criminals were whitewashed. The FBI file on Arthur Rudolph repeatedly notes:
  "...consider Rudolph reliable, trustworthy, adaptable, conscientious and potentially good loyal American..."

  Arthur Rudolph was in charge of V-2 production at Mittelwerk where slave labor from
  the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp was used. About 20,000 workers,
  died at Mittlewerk and thousands of bodies were found when it was liberated
  (see A-4/V-2 Resource Site, "The Mittelwerk/Mittelbau/Camp Dora Mittelbau GmbH - Mittelbau KZ" http://www.v2rocket.com/start/chapters/mittel.html for details. Rudolph's role not only as a user of
  slave labor but also as an advocate for slave labor beginning in the Peenemunde
  Production Plant, is documented in Michael J. Neufield, The Rocket and the Reich,
  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995 pp. 184-189)

  Arthur Rudolph was made NASA Saturn Moon Rocket Project Director. But eventually he left this
  country rather than face charges for the murder of thousands of concentration camp workers.

• Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, Exiled German-Speaking Intellectuals in Los Angeles -- http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/feuchtwanger/
  This website is hosted by the Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, a collection
  donated to the University of Southern California by German exile writer
  Lion Feuchtwanger's widow, Marta Feuchtwanger.

• The Hollywood Ten -- http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/blacklist.html
  Media Resources Center, Moffitt Library, University of California, Berkeley.
  Imprisoned writers included Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk,
  Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and
  Dalton Trumbo.

• The painter Dorothy and the curator Sid were first introduced in Judy Malloy,
  Dorothy Abrona McCrae, World Wide Web, 2000
  and in "Interlude - Dorothy and Sid", Blue Moon Review, 2001.
  Dorothy is an old family friend. Gwen's grandmother was Dorothy's best friend
  as a young adult and was a bridesmaid at Dorothy's first wedding.
  The time that Gunter and Gwen spent in Colorado is set forth in Judy Malloy,
  The Roar of Destiny Emanated from the Refrigerator, World Wide Web,
  1995-1999.

  Dorothy and Sid's wedding is chronicled in Judy Malloy,
  A Party at Silver Beach, World Wide Web, 2002 and in
  Judy Malloy, Afterwards, The Iowa Review Web, 2003.
  Many of the other characters in Revelations of Secret Surveillance
  were also first introduced in these works.

• Herbert Mitgang, Dangerous Dossiers, Exposing the Secret War Against America's
  Greatest Authors, NY, Donald Fine, 1988.
  Mitgang documents FBI and/or US Army Intelligence and CIA surveillance of writers
  and artists. Among the writers and artists who were spied on by the US Government were
  Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Alexander Calder,
  Thomas Mann, Carl Sandburg, Dorothy Parker, Nelson Algren, Thornton Wilder,
  Lillian Hellman, Truman Capote, and Georgia O'Keeffe. There were 356 pages of
  FBI files on novelist Dashiell Hammet and over 600 pages of FBI files on poet
  Archibald MacLeish.

• William Morris
  Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company, "Mary Magdalene", drawing for stained
  glass window at Church of All Saints, Langton Green, Kent, 1862
  -- http://www.huntington.org/ArtDiv/Morris2003/Morris2003.html
  ("The Beauty of Life: William Morris & the Art of Design"
  The Huntington Library)

• "William Morris & Arts and Crafts", Against the Grain, KPFA, Mon 4.24.06
  A discussion of the Arts and Crafts movement and William Morris with historian
  Peter Stansky and curator Martin Chapman. Hosted by C.S. Soong --
  http://www.againstthegrain.org/

• Margot Pepper, "The Smell of Smoke", in Roger Burbach and Ben Clarke,
  September 11 and the U.S. War, Beyond the Curtain of Smoke, City Lights
  and Freedom Voices, 2002. An essay by writer Margot Pepper, whose father was
  blacklisted producer George Pepper, that includes how her family was spied on
  and harassed by the FBI -- http://www.freedomvoices.org/smoke/smellsmoke.htm
  (Freedom Voices website)

• Natalie Robins, Alien Ink: The FBI's War on Freedom of Expression,
  New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993. p. 213
  Robins documents FBI surveillance of writers, including James Agee, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway,
  John Cheever, Randall Jarrell, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Muriel Rukeyser,
  Langston Hughes, James Thurber, Kay Boyle and Mark Van Doren. There were at least
  1,429 pages in novelist James Baldwin's FBI file.
• Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War, the CIA and the World of Arts
  and Letters, NY, The New Press, 1999.

• Elizabeth Royte, "The Altered State", New York Times Magazine
  September 29, 1996. p. 158
  http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/news/altered.htm
  (on mindcontrolforums.org website)
  Reports on the research of Dr. Michael Persinger,
  a psychologist and neuroscientist, who has induced sexual arousal
  by aiming an electromagnetic device at a part of the brain
  known as the amygdala. See also John B. Alexander, "Acoustics", in Future War,
  Non-Lethal Weapons in Twenty-First Century Warfare, NY, Thomas Dunne Books, 1999.
  pp. 95-102

• Peter Stansky, Redesigning the World, William Morris, the 1880's,
  and the Arts and Crafts, Princeton, NY: Princeton University Press, 1985
  

• Neely Tucker, "An Affair Of the Head; They Say Love Is All About
  Brain Chemistry. Will You Be Dopamine?", Washington Post,
  February 13, 2007
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021201657.html

• The Varian Fry Foundation -- http://www.almondseed.com/vfry/
  Varian Fry helped thousands of refugees from Nazi Germany escape
  from Vichy France. Among the people he rescued were Marc Chagall, Max Ernst,
  Hannah Arendt and Jacques Lipchitz.

• Varian Fry Institute -- http://www.varianfry.org/

• Giorgio Vasari, "Masaccio", in Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Artists,
  A Selection Translated by George Bull. Vol I, London: Penguin Books, 1971.
  pp. 124-132
  A different translation is available online at
  http://rubens.anu.edu.au/raider4/texts/vasari/vasari.masaccio.html
  (Australian National University ArtServe)
  Commentary: Masaccio was among the first Renaissance artists to paint explicit nudes.
  He died at age 26 of suspected poisoning, a few years after he painted
  Expulsion from the Garden of Eden in the Brancacci Chapel
  in the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. Echoing the painting,
  Felice Brancacci, the patron of this work, was later expelled from Florence.
  Vasari is a rich source of primary information about the lives of artists,
  and connections with their work and what happened in their lives.
  For more on this theme, see: Judy Malloy, The Wedding Celebration of Gunter and Gwen -- http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/celebration/one.html
  Concluding Note to Chapter Two

  It is important to note that not only are there honorable agents, who served or now serve
  with honor in all the services, but also that the sometimes criminal behavior of intelligence
  agencies is unlikely to reflect the will of the people of the countries they purport to represent.

"In the dream, I was in a room
where the records of everyone in the country
were stored on silent supercomputers.
The doors were guarded by uniformed sentries;
a group of people were gathered around a monitor.

On the screen, a complex visual came slowly into focus.
I saw my name and beside it,
details of meetings with past boyfriends,
known, I thought, only to me."

- Concerto for Narrative Data

Still lingering in the policies and publications of crypto-eugenic institutions
such as The Pioneer Fund, eugenics has gone underground. But the narrative in
Revelations of Secret Surveillance suggests that the national government
supervised human breeding program, proposed by Harvard anthropologist
Earnest Hooton (according to David H. Pierce's Threatening Anthropology,
McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists) was
secretly implemented on a somewhat limited scale. Whether or not this is the case,
the World War era cluster of eugenics advocates in Cambridge, MA -- the academic
home of MIT professor Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific
Research during World War II -- is of interest.

My mother went to Radcliffe, graduating in 1937, a few years earlier than Irish American
John F. Kennedy, whose 1940 Harvard senior thesis, Why England Slept, criticized
British Military readiness.

As if the Harvard legacy of eugenics still clouds the lives of many whom it touched,
Earnest Hooton's picture stares at me from the opening pages of my mother's yearbook
that was in the papers I received after she died of brain cancer.

In addition to proposing a national human breeding system, Earnest Hooton was
responsible for the collection of thousands of bizarre nude photographs of Ivy League men
and women. The so-called "posture photographs" taken by Hooton and W.H. Sheldon,
(The New York Times, January 15, 1995) were clearly eugenic and could even be seen in
the context of eugenic match making.

"There is a nastiness to the system,
as if am on a treadmill,
and if I don't keep working every minute, I will be prodded.
Yet the prodding is often destructive -- slowing down my work,
even sometimes destroying it,
as if those in charge of the system
are more interested in torturing me
than they are in their so-called research."

-Ask for Sanctuary

Also at Harvard were:
• Henry A. Murray, who became director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic in 1937.
  According to Jonathan Moreno, ( Jonathan D. Moreno, Mind Wars, Brain Research
  and National Defense, NY, NY; Washington, DC: Dana Press, 2006) Murray
  helped the OSS assess agents during World War II. In the Cold War era Murray headed
  a series of unethical experiments at Harvard in which young men, who were not given all
  the details of the experiment, were given LSD, strapped to electrodes, humiliated and later
  forced to watch videos of themselves in these humiliating situations. Unabomber
  Ted Kaczynski was one of these young men.

• Three professors who proposed brain surgery on minorities whom they thought
  predisposed to violence - William Sweet, chief neurosurgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital,
  Vernon Mark, and Frank Ervin.

• Psychology professor B.F. Skinner, who in Beyond Freedom and Dignity
  (New York: Bantam Vintage 1972) advocated using science and technology to improve social behavior.

• Professor Lucien Howe who promoted legislation that would not
  allow people with blindness or mental health problems in their family to get married.

• Harvard Genetics professor Edward East, who also was Acting Chief of the Food
  Administration during World War II, was the author of a series of influential
  books that promoted racist, eugenic, and sexist strategies. For instance, in Heredity and
  Human Affairs, he denigrated African American artists, writers, and musicians
  and he used the theory that educated women with careers would be less
  likely to have children to suggest the curtailing of opportunities of women. "What one has
  to consider in this connection," he wrote, "is whether any real economic equality between
  men and women is compatible with family life and children."

  I had assumed that such attitudes were a thing of the past at Harvard, but in January
  2005, (shortly after I had written about covert University subversion of the careers of
  women) Harvard University President, Lawrence H. Summers discounted the role of
  discrimination in the lack of women professors in science and engineering and suggested
  that innate differences between men and women might be one of the reasons that there
  were fewer women with successful math and science careers. (Boston Globe,
  January 17, 2005) The heated reaction to Summers' comments contributed to his decision
  to resign as President of Harvard.

  In the context of the pattern of co-opting places connected with liberal or
  spiritual leaders that Archie observes in "Canto Nine" and the possibility of covert British
  operations in America after the Revolution that Sid suggests in "A Gathering of Artists", the fact
  that Harvard was an important center in the birth of the American Revolution is of
  interest in this narrative that postulates covert social engineering by defeated enemies.