James Collins, professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University, has studied using the technology to prevent the elderly from falling and to help people with an impaired sense of balance.

Other "neutralisations" verge on the bizarre.  An individual who must remain nameless for a variety of reasons - but whose name is known to this writer - underwent an experience that is both horrific and chilling.  Readers are warned that what follows is not at all pleasant.  For sake of ease we shall call this individual “Mr X” or simply “X.”

Mr. X was a leader of one of the largest CIA-backed Contra groups.  He recently testified before the US Senate Intelligence Committee.  Formerly, Mr X was a senior executive in a South American subsidiary of leading US soft drinks corporation.  During his Senate testimony, he denied any knowledge of CIA involvement in the narcotics trade, adding that condoning such activity would have been foreign to his way of life.  Not so, says Tatum.  Mr X had been recruited into the CIA by then Director, William Casey, with the assistance of Oliver North.
 
In 1990, when Nicaraguan leader, Daniel Ortega, announced there would be "free elections," X was ecstatic.  He began jostling for position and asked President Bush ensure he be given a prominent position in the new government - in return for his years of toil at the behest of the CIA and the “Enterprise.”  The pressure came in a form that Bush could not ignore.  Failure  to help his friend would result in X’s intimate knowledge of Bush's involvement in the dope trade being made public.  His threat left Bush with a sour taste.  A Pegasus team was assigned to “neutralise” him in early 1990.
 
X, Tatum states "fancied himself a lover of women.  Tall, large-breasted blondes were his favourite.  It was determined that, if effectively neutralised, [X] could be an asset.  Therefore, it was decided that intimidation would be used to control [X]."  They choose to use the drug "Scopolamine" which also went by the nickname "Burundanga" or the "Voodoo drug."
 
The drug is extracted from the pods of a flowering shrub that grows in remote regions of South America.  In it's processed, powdered form, "Scopolomine" is "void of smell, void of taste."  When properly administered "it causes absolute obedience," without this being "observable by others."  Importantly, the target will not recall any of the events that occurred during the period they were under the spell of the drug.  In outlining these details, Tatum adds that it is important to administer the drug in the correct dosage and that he has known targets to die from too high a dose.  Others have "remained under the influence of Burundanga for up to three weeks."  Precise dosage can be achieved by liquid ingestion; the powder being readily soluble.  Ingestion via cigarettes is also an optimum method of ingestion.  It is fast acting and takes no more than 20 minutes to work.
 
X was invited to spend a relaxing week-end at a luxury hotel as a guest of his friend George Bush.  The evening started with cocktails and was followed by a fine meal.  "Nothing but the best were the orders."  Following the meal, he was ushered into the suite of a blonde “bomb-shell,” supplied by the CIA.  A dose of Burundanga had been ingested during pre-dinner cocktails.
 
His host for the week-end was a trusted18 year veteran field intelligence officer.  X was gallant with the blonde as they both moved into the bedroom where video cameras were already set-up in one corner.  In short order, the blonde had X standing naked in front of her, slipping his manhood in her mouth.  All the while the video cameras whirred.  Slowly stripping off, the blonde then instructed X to reciprocate the favour.  Naked, the blonde boasted a large erect penis, saying "now take it in your mouth,"  He obliged, his love-making recorded 24 frames a second on celluloid.  The male prostitute was hired, Tatum says, from a bar in New York and killed the same evening.
 
Two weeks later, X - wholly unaware of the events of that evening - was visited in Nicaragua.  He was presented with a copy of the video footage along with instructions.  Tatum says that X can never allow that video to be seen… "Not only does it reveal his homosexuality, but it also reveals his bestiality and satanic worship rituals."  As frame after frame flicked by, X wept, forced to watch himself kill and gut his homosexual lover, and then eat the still warm heart.  Neutralised, Mr X became a leading member of the Nicaraguan government a few short weeks later.

Michael