Candy Jones, originally known as Jessica Arline
Wilcox (December 31, 1925 - January 18, 1990), was an American fashion
model, writer and radio talk show hostess.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, she was
raised and educated in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
In the 1940s and 1950s she was a leading model and pin-up girl,
and afterwards established a modeling school and wrote
several books on modeling and fashion. In 1972, Jones married the popular radio
show host Long John Nebel (he was her second husband),
and became the co-host of his all-night talk-show on WMCA in New York
City. The show dealt with paranormal, UFO, and conspiracy
theory claims.
Controversially, Jones claimed to be a victim of the CIA mind-control program, Project
MKULTRA, in the 1960s.
Biography
Early life and career
Candy Jones was born to a well-off family. Jones reported
vivid, conscious memories of physical
abuse by her parents, and that she had vague memories of sexual abuse in her
youth. She
was shuttled between relatives, and her mother, Jones insisted, often kept
her cloistered or
locked in dark rooms. As a child, Jones said she had an imaginary
friend named Arlene to help through her lonely episodes.
She grew into an attractive, statuesque young woman who was
very tall, about 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m).Changing
her name, she pursued a career as a fashion model. She was a quick success,
becoming a runner up for Miss
New Jersey in the Miss
America contest. Jones was able to parlay this into a hostess job at
the main Miss America
During a lengthy United Service Organizations (USO)
tour in the Philippines, Jones fell ill in 1945, and was treated by a
doctor who was still alive when Candy publicised her mind-control claims;
Donald Bain gave this doctor the pseudonym "Gilbert
Jensen".[2] According
to researcher Martin Cannon, who
interviewed Jones before she died in 1990, the "Marshall Burger"
pseudonym in Bain's book who worked with Jensen on the Jones case was actually
Dr. William Kroger, a psychologist at
once time associated with UCLA.
First marriage
In 1946, Jones married fashion czar Harry Conover, one of the first
model agents. They had three sons, and Jones says she didn't realize Conover
was bisexual until
some years into their marriage. She recognized some people might consider this
naive, but Jones insisted her abusive childhood had made her wary of intimate
relationships, and though she had many suitors, she was rather sexually
inexperienced when she married. She
reported that Conover initiated sexual activities with her very few times, and
only when he was intoxicated.
Without notice, Conover disappeared in late 1958. Jones
notified police, and Conover's absence made the news. When he returned after a
long binge, Jones sued for divorce in 1959. After the divorce, she was left with
$36, and considerable debts.
Jones opened a modeling school, and she also began appearing
regularly on NBC's weekend radio news program Monitor.
Second marriage and radio career
On December 31,
1972 , Jones married radio host Long
John Nebel after a one-month courtship; they had briefly met decades
earlier when Nebel was a photographer. Jones
was soon the regular co-host of Nebel's popular overnight radio talk show,
which usually discussed various paranormal topics.
Mind-control claims
Shortly after their marriage, Nebel said, he noted that
Jones exhibited violent mood swings, and, at times, seemed to display a
different personality. Nebel called this "The Voice ... a look, a few
moments of bitchiness." The
Voice usually vanished rather quickly, but the change was so drastic from
Jones's usually pleasant demeanor that Nebel was startled and distressed.
Colin Bennett writes, "A few weeks after their
marriage, [Jones] did tell Nebel that she had worked for the FBI for some time,
adding mysteriously that she might have to go out of town on occasion without
giving a reason. This left Nebel wondering whether there was a connection
between the 'other' personality within Candy and the strange trips she said she
made for the FBI."
Nebel began hypnotising Jones,
and uncovered an alternate personality named
"Arlene". Under hypnosis, Jones related a lengthy, elaborate account
of her being trained in a CIA mind-control program, often at west coast colleges
and universities. Jones and Nebel eventually recorded hundreds of hours of
these hypnotic sessions.
Jones said she had some conscious memories of her
involvement in the mind-control program: it began in 1960, she said, when an
old USO acquaintance (an unnamed retired army general) asked to use Jones'
modeling school as a mailing address to receive some letters and packages.
Jones agreed, she said, out of a sense of patriotism.
Eventually, said Jones, she was asked to deliver a letter
to Oakland, California on
a business trip she had scheduled. Again, Jones reported she agreed, and was
surprised to discover the letter was delivered to the same Dr. Jensen who had
treated her in the Philippines
During hypnosis sessions, an alternate personality called
"Arlene" was reportedly groomed by Jensen, so that Jones would have
no memory of Arlene's activities. Jones allegedly made trips to locations as
far away as Taiwan.
While hypnotized, Jones claimed that she was subjected to painful tortures in
order to test the effectiveness of the alternate personality. Donald Bain
writes, "[Jones] would be a messenger for the agency in conjunction with
her normal business trips."
Again with the USO, Jones visited South
Vietnam in 1970; she later suspected her visit had some connection to
a disastrous attempt to free American prisoners of war from North Vietnam.
Jones's and Nebel's claims were first made public in 1976
(in Donald Bain's The Control of Candy Jones,
published by Playboy
Press). Nebel apparently accepted his wife's claims, and openly discussed
killing Dr. Jensen in revenge. However, Nebel was a prankster and a hoaxer of
long standing and as he was not above hoaxing his radio audience, some
of whom doubted the recovered memories of Candy Jones's past were genuine. Later
skeptics[who?] would argue that an
alleged false memory syndrome was a more
plausible explanation.
Several years later, Jones' story gained more notice after
the public disclosure of MK-ULTRA in 1977.
Bain reported
that associates in Jones' modeling schools asserted that Jones indeed had some
puzzling absences — supposed business trips where little or no business seemed
to be conducted. Bain also
writes that another piece of evidence came forth when "Candy inadvertently
held onto a passport of 'Arlene Grant': Candy in a dark wig and
dark makeup". Jones says she had no memory of dressing up in such an
outfit, or of posing for a passport in a different name.
Bain also
claimed that a tape recorded answering
machine message was left on Jones and Nebel's home telephone number on
July 3, 1973 :
"This is Japan
Airlines calling on oh-three July at 4.10
p.m. ... Please have Miss Grant call 759-9100 ... she is holding a
reservation on Japan Airlines Flight 5, for the sixth of July, Kennedy to Tokyo, with an option
on to Taipei.
This is per Cynthia that we are calling". When Jones telephoned the number
and asked for Cynthia, she was told that no one of that name worked at the
reservations desk.
BaiN speculates
that "Cynthia" might have been a code word for "CIA ".
Additionally, Brian Haughton notes that "There was also
a letter [Jones] wrote to her attorney, William Williams, to cover herself in
case she died or disappeared suddenly or under unusual circumstances; she told
him she was not at liberty to reveal exactly what she was involved in. Bain
wrote to Williams who corroborated this fact."
Bain also
notes that in 1971, an article by hypnosis expert George Estabrooks was
published in Science Digest, wherein Estabrooks openly discussed
the successful creation of amnesiac couriers of the type Jones claimed to have
been.
Dr. Herbert
Spiegel, a nationally-recognized hypnosis expert, wrote the foreword
to The Control of Candy Jones.
Candy Jones is the subject of the Exit Clov song,
"MK ULTRA."
The story of her mind control claims was featured in an
episode of Dark Matters: Twisted But True in
a segment entitled "Sexy Secret Agent".
Death
Books by Jones
Make Your Name in Modeling and Television, Harper and Brothers, 1960
Between Us Girls Harper
and Row, 1966
Just for Teens , Harper and Row, 1967
Modeling and Other Glamour Careers, Harper and Row, 1969[8]
Candy Jones' Complete Book of Beauty and Fashion, Harper and
Row, 1976
More Than Beauty: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Modeling
World, Harper and Row, 1970
See also
References
Bain, Donald. (1976)The Control of Candy Jones, Chicago
Bennett, C (2001-07-01). "Candy
Jones: How a leading American fashion model came to be experimented upon by the
CIA mind control team".Fortean
Times. Retrieved 2008-10-16.
Cannon, Martin. "The Controllers: A new
hypothesis of Alien Abduction."
Candy Jones
page at hypnotism.org
Hypnosis
Comes of Age, George Estabrooks, Science Digest, April 1971
Bibliography
Bain, Donald. The Control of Candy Jones, Playboy
Press, Chicago, 1976.
External links
William Kroger was an expert
in hypnosis who worked with the Los Angeles Police Department and, it seems,
the CIA according to Martin Cannon who
interviewed Candy Jones (stage name of Jessica Wilcox) before her 1990 death.
According to Cannon, Jones identified Kroger as a partner of the un-namedCIA
doctor who programmed her to be a CIA
courier and endure torture testing from 1960-1972 as described in Donald Bain's
1976 book, 'The Control of Candy Jones,' based on audio cassettes of her under
regression therapy hypnosis sessions conducted by her husband who was
originally just trying to relax her to deal with insomnia when she slipped into
a trance state and an aggressive alter identity came out.
According to Cannon, Jones identified Kroger as a partner of the un-named
Multiple sessions with Candy from 1973-74 gradually revealed what had happened to her after the FBI asked to use her office as a maildrop and then put her in touch with a doctor in Oakland, California who had treated her in 1945 when she got sick on a USO tour. This doctor used drugs and hypnosis on her and even programmed her to eventually commit suicide, an end thwarted by intervention.
That same year of Blain's expose, 1976, William S. Kroger and William D. Fezler published 'Hypnosis and Behavior Modification: Imagery Conditioning' as a guide to hypnotherapists on how to cure a handful of the most common ailments brought to them by patients, a benign use of this too-easily weaponized science which was used on the patsy, Sirhan Sirhan, for the murder of Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968....
In a Chicago Tribune (June 7, 1959) article, Dr. William
Kroger wrote about a flashing light mind control device, “New Device To Induce
Hypnosis Developed. Dr. Kroger had tested the use of flashing lights on 200
obstetric patients at the Edgewater hospital in Chicago
By 1969, Tulane University of New Orleans was at least a
decade ahead into producing trances and dissociated states with flashes of
light.
“It seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be
within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love
their servitude, and producing…a kind of painless concentration camp for entire
societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from
them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire
to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by
pharmacological methods.”ALDOUS HUXLEY, quoted in John Marks, The Search
for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and
Mind Control, (1980)
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