Lyn Buchanan

They drove me around Fort Meade.

And basically they said, you know, we want you to do things to affect Gorbachev and all this.

And I said, no, I'm not going to do that.

For one thing, we were, this was another edict we had on us that there would be no active mental work.

We were there to collect intelligence, not to do influencing or anything like that.

And so I said, no, I can go to jail for that.

And so anyway, when I got out of the car, I don't know what made me say it, but just sort of to be nasty to those two guys.

I leaned back down to the open door and I said, but maybe I can make him end communism, you know.

And anyway, when I got home that evening, I thought, I wonder if I could do something like that.

I said, no, it's stupid, you know.

So I started doing sessions.

And what surprised me was

the speech where they ended communism, the words in that speech were the words that I had been pumping into him.

Yeah.

Like what?

Well, it's all in Russian.

Oh, yeah.

Like what?

Well, that's not the point I'm trying to make here.

The point is that for a good year, year and a half before that,