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Secret Weapons : Two Sisters' Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies and Sabotage Hardcover – February 15, 2001

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Now in their late 30s, the Hersha sisters claim to have experienced chilling childhoods, recounted here by two Ohio-based investigators Schwarz (The Hillside Strangler) and former police captain and "ritual abuse expert" Griffis who say they have studied declassified CIA files and interviewed military personnel in an effort to bolster the Hersha memories. Before the age of seven, the sisters say, they were inducted into a covert, government-authorized, mind-control program designed to spawn spies and assassins. During weekends and summers, they were subjected to traumatizing experiments. Cheryl tells of her days as a caged "lab rat," released to navigate electrified mazes. The two became "psychological captives," programmed to respond to code words. Following practice in weaponry, martial arts and flight training, altered identities were purportedly introduced. At 15, Lynn "was made part of a unit that experienced murder," and she assumed the identity of team leader "Lt. Rick Shaw." As the seductive "Samantha Gooding," Cheryl would paralyze her victims, and she later became the cocky chopper pilot "Sgt. Thomas O'Neil." Naturally, these two "men," long separated, were destined to meet: "Cheryl Hersha! It's me, Lynn, your sister. You've got to let me go. You can't shoot me." Credibility collapses, as improbabilities are piled on inconsistencies, and the truth is buried beneath simplistic, pulp-adventure prose. In closing, the authors claim that "Their story is true," following with an admission that they found no government documents about the program or the sisters. An elaborate disclaimer about the "presumed thoughts and imagined words of the participants" will lead many readers to ponder just how much real events have been fictionalized.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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All research materials obtained by author Ted Schwarz, including declassified documents about these programs, will be made public through his archives at Hayden Library, Special Collections Division, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

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  • Publisher : New Horizon Press; First Edition, First Printing (February 15, 2001)
  • Language : English
  • Hardcover : 434 pages
  • ISBN-10 : 0882821962
  • ISBN-13 : 978-0882821962
  • Dimensions : 6.6 x 1.53 x 9.28 inches
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