Margaret Truman's Experiment in Murder by Margaret Truman

as possible to the authorities. Then we develop Personality B (PB), the secondary personality, the unconscious personality, if you wish, although this is somewhat a contradiction in terms. This personality is rabidly American and anti-communist. It has all the information possessed by PA, the normal personality, whereas PA does not have this advantage.
    My super spy plays his role as a communist in his waking state, aggressively, consistently, fearlessly. But his PB is a loyal American, and PB has all the memories of PA. As a loyal American, he will not hesitate to divulge those memories.
    Borger eagerly signed on with Landow and the CIA-funded project. Money wasn’t a motivating factor. The deaths of his mother and father had left him with millions, so he didn’t need income from his practice, with which he’d become bored anyway.
    Participating in clandestine research was a heady experience, and he was devoted almost full time to the agency’s mushrooming project. Funding was no object; he needed only to request money and it was there, delivered surreptitiously through myriad front groups. He eventually became the project’s leader, traveling the country and the globe to confer with other physicians and to recruit those with the training and temperament necessary to fit in with the team. Unlike him, most of the doctors he recruited were enticed by the money being paid for their efforts. Psychiatry has never been as lucrative as orthopedic surgery or performing triple heart bypasses.
    After a few years of working out of his Washington condo, he convinced his overseers at the CIA that it would be more secure to shift the center of research away from the capital and the continuing threat of congressional oversight. He lobbied for a front organization to be established in California, to which his superiors agreed. The plan made sense from the CIA’s perspective. It also fit into Borger’s personal agenda. Lately he’d been spending more time than he wanted to in Washington and yearned to get back to his beloved Nob Hill mansion and the California lifestyle that he much preferred to the cold, bureaucratic atmosphere of the nation’s capital.
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    He’d spent the morning of the day after his introduction to Iskander Itani at the office he maintained at the Lightpath Psychiatric Clinic in Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco. The one-story gray building on the northern end of Shattuck Avenue had once housed a small import firm that had gone belly-up. Using CIA funds, Borger had purchased the building and established the clinic in which he and a small handpicked group of psychiatrists and psychologists carried out the agency’s mind-control experimentation.
    On this particular morning, two of Borger’s colleagues worked with a young man to regress him back to infancy using hypnosis. Borger observed through a one-way mirror that had been installed to allow visual access to the clinic’s “session rooms.” It wasn’t going well. Previous attempts to bring about regression with other subjects had been successful, in one instance allowing a woman to regress to the suckling stage of her infancy. Other experiments in which hypnosis was used to anesthetize pain had been equally successful. But this particular young man surprisingly fought the trance state, which frustrated the two physicians working with him. They abruptly ended the session and escorted him from the room.
    The subjects for these experiments had been chosen from a patient population provided by psychiatrists and psychologists on the CIA’s clandestine payroll. Because only those with an extremely high capacity for entering into trance (4–5 on the HIP scale) were selected, the number of potential subjects was small. Most came from the San Francisco–Oakland area. But when a psychiatrist from another part of the country reported having a patient whose HIP score was a