The presumed thoughts and imagined words of the participants were written in consonance with the true actions of the people involved. A few of the scenes depicted have been reconfigured and enhanced for clarity and dramatic impact, drawing on sometimes differing memories and versions, documents and interviews. The reconstructed dialogue represents the best recollection of these events and conversations and we believe more accurately reflects reality than paraphrase would.

Some of the dialogue represented in this book was reconstructed from the Hershas’ memories, documents and/or the memories of others. The personalities, events, actions and conversations portrayed within the story have been largely taken from extensive interviews, sometimes taped, court testimony, including presidential hearings, physician’s records, phone logs, research of government records and official documents, some confidential and others obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, participants’ memories and personal papers. This book is based on the real experiences of Cheryl and Lynn Hersha and those of their family. Thomas O’Neil.” Naturally, these two “men,” long separated, were destined to meet: “Cheryl Hersha! It’s me, Lynn, your sister. Rick Shaw.” As the seductive “Samantha Gooding,” Cheryl would paralyze her victims, and she later became the cocky chopper pilot “Sgt.

At 15, Lynn “was made part of a unit that experienced murder,” and she assumed the identity of team leader “Lt. Following practice in weaponry, martial arts and flight training, altered identities were purportedly introduced. The two became “psychological captives,” programmed to respond to code words. During weekends and summers, they were subjected to traumatizing experiments.Ĭheryl tells of her days as a caged “lab rat,” released to navigate electrified mazes. 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.

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.

Secret Weapons by Cheryl Hersha