1989 President George Herbert Walker Bush / Public Law 101-58

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After George Herbert Walker Bush was replaced as director of Central Intelligence by Stansfield Turner in 1977, a person by the name of Morgan Downey began to lobby Congress for a grand initiative to unlock the secrets of the human brain. He found an ally in Silvio Conté, a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts, but Downey's efforts were unsuccessful until Bush became President in 1989. Then a joint resolution of the Senate and the House of Representatives named the decade beginning January 1, 1990 the "Decade of the Brain" and authorized and requested the former Director of Central Intelligence "to issue a proclamation calling upon all public officials and the people of the United States to observe such decade with appropriate programs and activities". Thus it was that the death squad operations, formerly run out of the White House through FEMA, acquired a certain legitimacy and some permanence.

Please note that the original purpose of Public Law 101-58 of July 15, 1989 was to raise public awareness of "disorders and disabilities that affect the brain" and make the prevention and treatment of such disorders and disabilities a health priority. All of the mental health activity which ensued lent a certain legitimacy to the ongoing interest of the Central Intelligence Agency in creating an agent with no provable connection to any American intelligence organization, the so-called Manchurian Candidate. It also lent legitimacy to their ambition to disable and/or destroy their enemies by remote electronic means and, ultimately, to the creation of the Electronic Camp System (ECCS) which exists today.

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