Thursday, September 1, 2022

Thirty Years of Publishing and Advocacy

 Thirty Years of Publishing and Advocacy – Neil Brick

From the 2025 Online Annual Ritual Abuse and Mind Control Conference Presentation –  Sunday August 17, 2025

Thirty Years of Publishing and Advocacy – Neil Brick

Neil Brick will discuss how and why he created the SMART Newsletter.  He will talk about how the newsletter and the field of ritual abuse have changed over the years. He will discuss the importance of advocacy and public education.  Ideas for the future growth of the field will be discussed.

Neil Brick is a survivor of ritualistic abuse. His work continues to educate the public about child abuse, trauma and ritualistic abuse crimes. His child abuse and ritualistic abuse newsletter S.M.A.R.T. https://ritualabuse.us  has been published for over 30 years. http://neilbrick.com

Parts of this presentation may be triggering and may describe abuse or violence. All accusations are alleged.

In March 2025, SMART celebrated thirty years of printing newsletters.  The newsletter has been published bi-monthly since March 1995. In July 2025, we published our 183rd issue.  Originally the newsletter was only mailed to subscribers.  In March 1996, we began publishing the newsletter online and we started our email address smartnews@aol.com .  In August 1998, we had our first ritual abuse conference in Connecticut. We have had yearly summer conferences since then. This is our twenty eighth conference.

I originally started the newsletter because I believed no one was fully covering the issue of secretive organizations and groups involvement in the abuse of others. There were a few newsletters covering the topic of ritual abuse in the United States and Australia during the 1990’s. Most of those stopped publishing during that decade.  Survivorship started publishing their newsletter in 1989.  Their publications of their bi-monthly notes and twice a year journals are still being published today.

Ritual abuse crimes began being fully uncovered in the 1980’s. One of the first books describing these crimes was Michelle Remembers by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder, MD. Though the book has been viciously attacked by child abuse skeptics, the reality is that the facts in the book were vetted by the publisher:

Two experienced interviewers journeyed to Victoria and talked to Dr. Pazder’s colleagues, to the priests and the bishop who became involved in the case, to doctors who treated Michelle Smith when she was a child, to relatives and friends. From local newspaper, clergy, and police sources they learned that reports of Satanism in Victoria are not infrequent and that Satanism has apparently existed there for many years. Satanism in Western Canada flourished in many areas with activities far more ominous than some of the innocuous groups now found in parts of the United States who claim some connection with Satanism.

The source material was scrutinized. The many thousands of pages of transcript of the tape recordings that Dr. Pazder and Michelle Smith made of their psychiatric sessions were read and digested; they became the basis of this book. The tapes themselves were listened to in good measure, and the videotapes made of some of his sessions were viewed. Both the audio and video are powerfully convincing. It is nearly unthinkable that the protracted agony they record could have been fabricated.@ (A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER@ pages xi B xiii).

Dr. Alison Miller also verified the existence of ritual abuse in that area of Canada.

“I can add more about Michelle Remembers. Larry Pazder practised in the same city as me, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. I knew him slightly and once shared a case of a teenage boy with DID caused by abuse by a babysitter. It was in Victoria that I encountered my first four survivors of organized abuse, and they were all members of the same coven of a Satanic cult, the Serpents. They shared past and (then, early 90s) current memories of abuse by that cult. Some of their parents were leaders in the cult. They remembered rituals at the same locations that Michelle reported (in particular, Ross Bay cemetery.)…I have no question that he and Michelle were talking about very real events.”  (correspondence with the SMART newsletter).

The notes from the publisher and Dr. Miller’s complete statement is available online at https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/michelle‑remembers/ 

The McMartin Day Care Case was the one of the first major day care cases to uncover ritual abuse crimes in detail. There has been a great deal of misinformation produced about this case by skeptics of ritual abuse crimes.  This case began in 1983 and ended in 1991.

(See Chronology of the McMartin Preschool Abuse Trials https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/mcmartin‑preschool‑case‑what‑really‑happened‑and‑the‑coverup/  )

In February 1984 seven defendants were arrested and charged with 207 counts of child molestation and conspiracy. On April 2, 1984, the L. A. Times reported that students at McMartin had been fondled, raped, drugged, photographed nude, forced to witness animals being slaughtered and threatened to keep silent. In May 23, 1984, the prosecution filed 93 new counts. The indictment count reaches 208, involving 40 alleged child victims. On August 8, 1984, Prosecutor Lael Rubin announced that the seven McMartin teachers committed 397 sexual crimes, in addition to the 115 for which they already faced charges.

On January 7, 1985, Doctor Astrid Heger testified that she found physical evidence of sexual assaults on 33 of the child witnesses. On June 11, 1985, Judge Bobb ruled that child witnesses will not be allowed to use the new statute allowing child victims of abuse to testify over closed circuit TV. The prosecution immediately announced that it would not call any of its remaining witnesses. Only 5 of those 28 were willing to testify at all and then only by way of closed-circuit TV. Six other witnesses dropped out because Rubin said they could not withstand even the protective TV procedure. The remaining 16 witnesses had been withdrawn by their parents after they saw the effects of lengthy cross‑examination on the early witnesses. This reduces the number of witnesses from 43 to 13 and, as a result, the reduces the number of counts.

On January 17, 1986, before the case is assigned to a trial judge and after losing 28 witnesses because of brutal defense tactics during the pretrial weakened the case, District Attorney Ira Reiner decides to drop charges against five of the seven defendants. Reiner tells parents that Betty Raidor has enough remaining counts to face trial, but says he thinks she would not fit in prosecuting mother and son, Peggy and Ray Buckey. The two are prosecuted on 79 counts and 20 counts, respectively, of child sexual abuse.

In August 1987 the first victim witness, a girl now age 12, takes the stand as a witness for the prosecution. October 12, 1987, Judge Pounders dismisses 27 of the 100 counts. Some parents again refuse to let their children testify under adverse conditions.

December 10, 1987, a retired former police investigator Paul Bynum is called to testify at the trial by prosecutor Lael Rubin. The morning he was to appear, a juror’s home was burglarized and Bynum’s testimony was rescheduled for the next morning. Bynum was found dead by his wife at 5:45 that morning, shot in the head by a .38 caliber pistol. Bynum had conducted the first search for evidence at the preschool site in 1984 at the request of Ray Buckey. ANone of the half dozen people questioned who were close to Bynum could think of any reason why his involvement in the case might have driven him to suicide, reported Kevin Cody of the Easy Reader in Manhattan Beach. “Paul was kind of a worrier,” said Stephen Kay, a deputy district attorney and friend of the Bynum family, “but there was no hint of suicide. He was very upbeat about his wife and new daughter, both of whom he adored.”

In January 18, 1990, the jury returns its verdict in the first McMartin trial. Peggy and Ray Buckey are acquitted on 52 counts. The jury deadlocks on 13 counts, all against Ray Buckey. The jurors are polled and say they believe molestation took place at the preschool but that the prosecution did not prove the case. They expressed disappointment at not hearing more from the children.

In April and May 1990 Tunnels are found under the foundation of the McMartin Preschool building by a team of Archaeologists headed by Dr. Gary Stickel. Ground Penetrating Radar recently developed by the U.S. Army is used to define the location of anomalies underground. Three segments of tunnel, one over 45 feet in length with a 9 x 9 room area are found exactly where the children said they were. District Attorney does not use the evidence because of time and money constraints and the fact that they would have to start a new investigation of their own at the site as they did in 1985. The discoveries are widely reported in the news. (Archaeological Investigations of the McMartin Preschool Site, Manhattan Beach, California

(http://web.archive.org/web/20010123212200/members.cruzio.com/~ratf/McMartin.html/    )

In July 27, 1990, on their 15th day of deliberations, the jury tells the judge they are hopelessly deadlocked on all 8 counts. The judge declares a mistrial. Juror L. I., a 64 year old treasury department employee said, “I don’t know how you could get 12 people to be unanimous in this case. There are too many unanswered questions. Too much time has passed.” Again because of money and time constraints, DA Ira Reiner decides not to ask for a third trial of Ray Buckey. The first two prosecutions have consumed over $15 million and seven years of court time. He is under tremendous political pressure because he has failed in prosecuting the case.

Large collection of data and articles on the McMartin Preschool Case https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/mcmartin‑preschool‑case‑what‑really‑happened‑and‑the‑coverup

In the early 1990’s accounts of government mind control began to be discussed. One of the most well-known of these was the “The Greenbaum Speech.” This was a presentation at a conference called Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse by D. C. Hammond Ph.D. in 1992. It was Adelivered at the Fourth Annual Eastern Regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality, Thursday June 25, 1992, at the Radisson Plaza Hotel, Mark Center, Alexandria, Virginia. Sponsored by the Center for Abuse Recovery & Empowerment.  D. C. Hammond was a well-trained psychologist. His credentials are cited in the link below this section.

Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse

“Okay. I want to start off by talking a little about trance‑training and the use of hypnotic phenomena with an MPD dissociative‑disorder population, to talk some about unconscious exploration, methods of doing that, the use of imagery and symbolic imagery techniques for managing physical symptoms, input overload, things like that. Before the day’s out, I want to spend some time talking about something I think has been completely neglected in the field of dissociative disorders, and that’s talking about methods of profound calming for automatic hyper‑arousal that’s been conditioned in these patients.”

“Here’s where it appears to have come from. At the end of World War II, before it even ended, Allen Dulles and people from our Intelligence Community were already in Switzerland making contact to get out Nazi scientists. As World War II ends, they not only get out rocket scientists, but they also get out some Nazi doctors who have been doing mind‑control research in the camps.” https://ritualabuse.us/smart‑conference/2023‑conference/the‑effects‑of‑social‑movements‑on‑survivor‑support‑systems‑and‑survivor‑recovery‑neil‑brick  

“Greenbaum Speech” audio https://archive.org/embed/thegreenbaumspeech&playlist=1&autoplay=1

Greenbaum Speech” text https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52e9ece3e4b074062a41314d/t/5c53a2e1104c7bd8f7751256/1548985059033/The+Greenbaum+Speech%2C+Corry+Hammond.pdf

In March 1995 therapist Valerie Wolf and her patient Claudia Mullen testified at the Presidential Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.

“My name is Valerie Wolf. In listening to the testimony today, it all sounds really familiar. I am here to talk about a possible link between radiation and mind control experimentation that began in the late 1940’s. The main reason that mind control research is being mentioned is because people are alleging that they were exposed as children to mind control, radiation, and chemical experimentation which were administered by the same doctors who were known to be involved in conducting both radiation and mind control research. Written documentation has been provided revealing the names of people, and the names of research projects in statements from people across the country. It is also important to understand mind control techniques and follow‑ups into adulthood may have been used to intimidate particular research subjects into not talking about their victimization in government research. As a therapist for the past twenty‑two years, I have specialized in treating victims and perpetrators of trauma, and their families. When word got out that I was appearing at this hearing, nearly forty therapists across the country (and I had about a week and a half to prepare) contacted me to talk about clients who had reported being subjected to radiation and mind control experiments. The consistency of people’s stories about the purpose of the mind control and pain induction techniques, such as electric shock, use of hallucinogens, sensory deprivation, hypnosis, dislocation of limbs, and sexual abuse is remarkable.”  (CKLN‑FM Mind Control Series ‑‑ Part 3 Mind Control Survivors’ Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings: Valerie Wolf ‑‑ Claudia Mullen ‑‑ Christine deNicola  http://www.whale.to/b/wolf3.html )

MKULTRA victims ‑ Claudia Mullen Testimony https://vimeo.com/26846581

MKUlLTRA victims ‑ Valerie Wolf & Christine deNicola Testimonies

A good articles about the research on DID and ritual abuse and the cover up by child abuse skeptics is Disinformation and DID: the Politics of Memory by Brian Moss, MA, MFT  https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/disinformation‑and‑did‑the‑politics‑of‑memory

This article contains information about now closed The False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF). AIn March of 1992 the False Memory Syndrome Foundation was formed claiming to have discovered a new syndrome. “Syndrome” is a clinical term that requires certain agreed upon signs and symptoms indicative of a disorder. The FMSF definition of “false memory” does not meet these criteria:  Despite the fact that “False Memory Syndrome” remained undefined and had never been the subject of any research, the FMSF focused its early activities on influencing the media and legal system. The definition of “False Memory Syndrome” did not evolve from clinical studies; rather the purported syndrome’s description is based on the accounts of parents claiming to be falsely accused of child sexual abuse, usually by their adult daughters. (Disinformation and DID: the Politics of Memory)

The FMSF group started in the early 1990s. In the 1980s and the early 1990s, there was mixed coverage of ritual abuse crimes, some favorable coverage and some unfavorable.  By the mid-1990s, most of the media coverage about ritual abuse crimes was biased and unfavorable.

I started remembering ritual abuse memories in 1990 when I stopped using alcohol and I moved away from the area where I grew up.  I had already started a period of self exploration prior to this, meditating and working on building meditative mind states.  There was very little information available at that time. A few years later I found about Survivorship and other ritual abuse newsletters.  In SMART Issue 4 – September 1995 (https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue‑4‑september‑1995/ ) I republished a copy of an interview I did with S.O.A.R. (Survivors of Abusive Rituals) in July 1993. I discussed my allegations of Masonic Ritual Abuse and my healing process at that time.  The first ten issues of SMART in 1995 and 1996 covered allegations against the Masons and the Mormons.  In 1997, we started to cover the issues of Government Mind Control (as discussed above in the Presidential Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.)  In our seventeenth issue we have an article about Claudia Mullen.  https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue‑17‑november‑1997/

A quick reference list for all of our newsletters is at https://ritualabuse.us/newsletter/back‑issues‑ordering‑form/ 

We also have a search engine bar at our website  https://ritualabuse.us in the top right-hand corner.

This following may be very triggering for RA/MC survivors.

In our thirty-fourth issue in September 2000, I discussed how I realized that I am an alleged survivor of mk‑ultra programming, and Illuminati programming. I had known for many years that I was a survivor of alleged Masonic ritual abuse. The last few years I had been having more memories about being experimented on in lab settings and electroshocked. While talking to friends, I had a very strong emotional feeling, like I had been hit by an incredible wind in my midsection, and I felt very disorientated. I realized that all sorts of walls had gone down in my system and that I was very confused and disorientated, like spin programming. I really knew at that moment I was Illuminati. This fits with the Masonic piece I had talked about for years.

I didn’t fully realize this until this particular moment, but I had always kept my mind open to whatever memories or feelings I had, thinking about them to see if and how they fit.

After talking to my friends, I had an incredible deal of trouble finding my way out of where I was via car and drove around lost for about ten minutes or so until I could find the highway. I realized that this was a disorientating program that I was supposed to have once I got to this layer of programming. That whole night until I fell asleep, I was terrified someone was going to come and get me or kill me because I had remembered all this. I realized this was also programming. The next day I felt a lot better, having worked through the feelings accompanying these programs. I began to work on unraveling the memories and programs that had been put in me.

I realized that I was trained by delta force programs, to kill. I had memories of being put on planes with groups of other mk‑ultra delta survivors to do certain jobs, usually to kill, but sometimes to get information. My jobs varied on different missions. Sometimes I killed but I was also supposed to clean up and/or be a lookout.

I have memories of sometimes being drugged or blindfolded or having a rope tied around me so I wouldn’t know exactly where we were going or what we were doing. It was usually dark and my vision had never been very good anyway. Missions were on a “need to know” basis.

Now I realize I am a survivor of Illuminati programming, Masonic section. The Illuminati symbols had always bothered me, they are sometimes similar to the Masonic ones and historically, I believe the groups are connected. I was also used in mk‑ultra type experiments to see how someone would react and how much pain they could take before passing out, at least on the East Coast. This fits with my extremely high pain threshold.

After having all of these memories, I felt like a huge weight had been lifted off of me. I had not had any major memories in a while. I also felt much stronger and much more confident. I am now much more aware of triggers and much more in tune with my gut feelings about what and who is and isn’t safe. This increased confidence had helped me state my needs clearer and stronger in my relationships with others. I am also a lot less afraid and terrified of the world. I think that this is due to the fact that I have worked through a lot of fear and confusion or disorientation type programming. I have increased clarity and energy because I no longer need to hold all of this inside me anymore behind amnesic barriers. (https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue‑34‑september‑2000/ )

In the early 2000’s. SMART Newsletter began to cover clergy abuse issues and other cult abuse and mind control cases. Though these cases had been discussed since the 1990’s, they became well known in 2002. SMART Newsletter March 2002 – Issue 43 discusses a wide variety of clergy abuse cases including those in the Boston area.  https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue‑43‑march‑2002/ These cases showed how severe abuse crimes can be covered up for decades.

One major case was described in Geoghan found guilty of sex abuse – Boy was assaulted at Waltham pool By Kathleen Burge, Globe Staff, 1/19/2002 AThe Archdiocese of Boston, which has settled 50 civil lawsuits filed by victims of Geoghan at a cost of at least $10 million, released a three‑paragraph statement saying it was grateful that a verdict had been reached….Geoghan has been accused of molesting at least 130 children since the 1960s, but he has been criminally charged with assaulting just three. Geoghan is also named in 84 civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse. https://web.archive.org/web/20020208002253/http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/019/metro/Geoghan_found_guilty_of_sex_abuse+.shtml

We have additional articles listed at https://ritualabuse.us/research/clergy‑abuse/

In 2008, we published information on the Extreme Abuse Survey.  https://extreme‑abuse‑survey.org/   The Extreme Abuse Survey final results are online with findings, questionnaires and presentations for download as pdf‑files. More than 750 pages of documentation.

Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three online surveys B Handout for Karriker, Wanda. (2008, November). Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three online surveys. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Chicago, IL.

10 Extreme Abuse Survey Findings Helpful to Understanding Ritual Trauma

  1. Ritual abuse/mind control (RA/MC) is a global phenomenon.

  2. A diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder is common for persons who report histories of RA/MC. (84% of EAS respondents who answered that they have been diagnosed with DID [N=655] reported that they are survivors of RA/MC).

  3. Ritual abuse (RA) is not limited to SRA, i.e., satanic ritual abuse, sadistic abuse, satanist abuse.

  4. RA is reported to involve mind control techniques.

  5. Some extreme abuse survivors report that they were used in government‑sponsored mind control experimentation (GMC).

  6. RA/MC is reported to be involved in organized Aknown@ crime.

  7. RA/MC is reported to be involved in clergy abuse.

  8. Most often reported memories of extreme abuse are similar across all surveys.

  9. Most often reported possible aftereffects of extreme abuse are similar across all surveys.

  10. In rating the effectiveness of healing methods, therapists tend to favor stabilization techniques; survivors are more open to alternative ways to cope with indoctrinated belief systems.

http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas‑studies/understanding‑ritual‑trauma‑a‑comparison‑of‑findings‑from‑three‑online‑surveys  https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas‑studies/

MEDIA PACKET – Torture‑based, Government‑sponsored Mind Control Experimentation on Children   Documentation that torture‑based, government‑sponsored mind control (GMC) experimentation was conducted on children during the Cold War. Data from two international surveys that give voice, visibility, and validation to survivors of these crimes against humanity. SURVEYS B EAS: Extreme Abuse Survey for Adult Survivors (An International Online Survey for Adult Survivors of Extreme Abuse) January 1 – March 30, 2007 with 1471 respondents from 31-named countries. P‑EAS: Professional B Extreme Abuse Survey (An international Online Survey for Therapists, Counselors, Clergy, and Other Persons Who Have Worked Professionally with at Least One Adult Survivor of Extreme Abuse) April 1  June 30 2007 with 451 respondents from 20 named countries.  https://web.archive.org/web/20100215090206/http://my.dmci.net/~casey/GovernmentSponsoredMindControlExperiments‑MediaPacket.pdf  

In 2007, Carol Rutz presented at our SMART conference – The World Will Know: Results of the 2007 International Survey For Adult  Survivors of Extreme Abuse – Transcript from Carol Rutz’s presentation at The Tenth Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference, August, 2007.  Carol Rutz is a survivor of SRA and Government Mind Control Experiments. Her book is A Nation Betrayed: Secret Cold War Experiments Performed on our Children and Other Innocent People.  https://ritualabuse.us/smart‑conference/conf07/the‑world‑will‑know‑results‑of‑the‑2007‑international‑survey‑for‑adult‑survivors‑of‑extreme‑abuse/

Additional EAS resources are listed at: https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/

The SMART conference had unfortunately attracted media attacks. We found that for the most part the media was not interested in being objective or citing the actual research we had developed over the years.

In 2009, our conference was attended by a now well known child abuse skeptic, Douglas Misicko.

Douglas Misicko has used various aliases to attack survivors. His best known aliases are Doug Mesner and Lucien Greaves (of the Satanic Temple). He did not notify the conference that he was a journalist. He and his group (The Satanic Temple and Grey Faction) has attacked many other survivor and professional groups, including Survivorship.org and the ISSTD.  His groups have also harassed clinicians, filing licensing complaints against them.  He worked with the False Memory Syndrome Foundation and has continued their work since they have closed down. SMART and others groups have successfully rebutted his false claims against DID sufferers and ritual abuse survivors.

Grey Faction, Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves Fact Sheet:

For almost a decade Douglas Misicko using several aliases (including Douglas Mesner and Lucien Greaves) has harassed groups helping child abuse, rape and trauma survivors. He has also harassed groups providing research in support of child abuse, rape and trauma survivors.

In 2013, he and others created a group called the Satanic Temple. One part of this group is called the Grey Faction. The Grey Faction states they “invade” conferences. These conferences are provided to help and educate child abuse, rape and trauma survivors and their helpers.  https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey‑faction‑satanic‑temple‑and‑lucien‑greaves‑fact‑sheet/

Satanic Temple – Grey Faction Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience: Denial that memories can be repressed.  Pseudoscience: Denial that DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) is caused by trauma. https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/satanic‑temple‑grey‑faction‑pseudoscience/

Doug Mesner (Lucien Greaves, Satanic Temple, Grey Faction) Anti‑Semitic Statements, Eugenics Policy, Interview with former KKK member and neo‑Nazi group founder  https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/doug‑mesner‑lucien‑greaves‑satanic‑temple‑grey‑faction‑anti‑semitic‑statements‑eugenics‑policy‑interview‑with‑former‑kkk‑member‑and‑neo‑nazi‑group‑founder

Stop Misinformation and Attacks on Survivors of Trauma and Their Helpers by The Satanic Temple=s Grey Faction https://www.change.org/p/trauma‑survivors‑and‑their‑helpers‑stop‑attacks‑on‑survivors‑of‑trauma‑by‑the‑satanic‑temple‑s‑grey‑faction

In March 2020, COVID became a global pandemic.  This changed the world interacted and presented data and research. SMART moved to online conferences in 2020.  This allowed survivors from all around the world to attend our conference. We posted our conference presentations online with their pdfs, so that all survivors could watch the videos, even if they were unable to attend the conference. We eventually moved our newsletters entirely to email and webpages, no longer printing and mailing newsletters.

In the thirty years that SMART has been in existence, we have developed one of the largest databases in the world for survivors and their supporters.

Our newsletters contain data about child abuse, ritual abuse, cults, mind control, DID/MPD, dissociation, sex trafficking and trauma.   https://ritualabuse.us/newsletter/

Content listings for all of our newsletters: https://ritualabuse.us/newsletter/back‑issues‑ordering‑form/

All twenty seven of our past conferences are listed at https://ritualabuse.us/smart‑conference/  We have conference transcripts available from 1999 – 2024 and videos available from 2020 – 2024.

We have strong data that shows ritual abuse exists all over the world. We cite reports, journal articles, web pages and the criminal convictions of these horrific crimes against children and adults. https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/

We have a large list of ritual abuse references  http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic‑ritual‑abuse‑evidence‑with‑information‑on‑the‑mcmartin‑preschool‑case/  Satanic Ritual Abuse evidence with information on the McMartin Preschool Case

One of the major areas child abuse skeptics have attacked child abuse survivors is the area of ritual abuse day care cases.  SMART has worked hard to present accurate information about these criminal cases.  https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/day‑care‑and‑child‑abuse‑cases/

We presented information about the McMartin Child Abuse Case and Michelle Remembers above.

Our page also covers the Fells Acres – Amirault Case, the Wenatchee, Washington Case, the Dale Akiki Case, the Glendale Montessori – Toward case, the Little Rascals Day Care Center case, Fran’s Day Care case, the Baran case, the Halsey case, the West Memphis 3 case, the Friedman’s case,   the Christchurch Civic Creche sex abuse – Peter Ellis case, the Ramona case and the West Point Day Care Case.

We have published research on propaganda and mind control issues https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/

We have published research on mk‑ultra, the CIA, mind control, Operation Paperclip and the Nazis, the 1995 congressional hearings, the 2010 veterans vs CIA court case, Artichoke, the CIA Supreme Court cases, Ewen Cameron and the Sleep Room and the MK/Naomi project. This includes information on the ACHES hearings discussed above. https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/mc‑documents‑links/  We have had several conference presentations covering these issues.

Here is a small selection of important links.  These may be triggering to RA/MC survivors.

The Shock Doctrine B by Naomi Klein B Chapter 1 B The Torture Lab B Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the maniacal quest to erase and remake the human mind.   http://books.google.com/books?id=b1uQNYbE8DkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:0805079831#PPA25,M1

1995 U. S. congressional hearing: MKULTRA Victim Claudia Mullen  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=het0FIAtH3M

MKULTRA Victim Christine DeNicola: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=‑cS6QW3sXzQ

MKULTRA Victim Full Testimony (U.S. Mind Control Child Abuse Victims A‑C Testimony, U.S. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments Public Meeting, Washington DC, March 1995. Valerie Wolf (A), Chris DeNicola Tucson Arizona (B), Claudia Mullen (C): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbhpRmsEq44

Mind Control Survivors Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings: Valerie Wolf – Claudia Mullen – Christine deNicola  http://www.whale.to/b/wolf3.html

Valerie Wolf – Therapist of mind control survivors who gave testimony about mind control experiments in the 1995 US Presidential hearings on radiation experiments. http://www.whale.to/b/wolf.html

http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/valeriewolf_box.htm

1977 Congressional Hearings Project MKULTRA, The CIA=s Program Of Research In Behavioral Modification JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY‑FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION AUGUST 3, 1977   http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf

Project Paperclip

Declassified Papers Show U.S. Recruited Ex‑Nazis by SAM ROBERTS December 11, 2010 After World War II, American counterintelligence recruited former Gestapo officers, SS veterans and Nazi collaborators to an even greater extent than had been previously disclosed and helped many of them avoid prosecution or looked the other way when they escaped, according to thousands of newly declassified documents. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/12holocaust.html

The report, Hitler’s Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence and the Cold War, (HITLER’S SHADOW Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War Richard Breitman and Norman J.W. Goda Published by the National Archives  http://www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/hitlers‑shadow.pdf

SMART has also done extensive research on DID/MPD, dissociation, trauma and recovered memory accuracy.  https://ritualabuse.us/research/ 

This research rebuts the pseudoscientific research of the child abuse skeptics.

Here is a small sampling of our research.

Recovered Memories and Dissociative Amnesia B Scientific Evidence and Accuracy Rates

Recovered memories have been defined as the phenomenon of partially or fully losing parts of memories of traumatic events, and then later recovering part or all of the memories into conscious awareness. They have also been defined as the recollections of memories that are believed to have been unavailable for a certain period of time. There is very strong scientific evidence that recovered memories exist. This has been shown in many scientific studies. The content of recovered memories have fairly high corroboration rates.

A body of empirical evidence indicates that it is common for abused children to reach adulthood without conscious awareness of the trauma. There is scientific evidence in support of the phenomena of dissociation and recovered memory in Holocaust survivors.  https://ritualabuse.us/research/recovered‑memories‑and‑dissociative‑amnesia‑scientific‑evidence‑and‑accuracy‑rates/

Recovered Memory Data with information on recovered memory corroboration, theories on recovered memory, legal information, physiological evidence for memory suppression, replies to skeptics and books and articles on memory. http://ritualabuse.us/research/memory‑fms/recovered‑memory‑data/

Recovered memory corroboration rates B There are many studies that show fairly high corroboration rates for recovered memories.  http://ritualabuse.us/research/memory‑fms/recovered‑memory‑corroboration‑rates/

Basic Information on Dissociative Identity Disorder with sections on Basic Information on DID from the DSM IV TR, The History of DID/MPD, Diagnosing DID, Responses to those that state that DID is iatrogenic or a social construct,  MPD/DID connection to severe abuse, Recent information and DID resources   http://ritualabuse.us/research/did/basic‑information‑on‑didmpd/

Delineates the etiological antecedents of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and enumerates upon the scientific evidence proving the existence of DID. This paper explains the diagnostic criteria of DID, its incidence rates and cross‑cultural characteristics, present arguments to counter the idea that suggestibility may be a factor in its misdiagnosis and delineate the data that shows a clear connection between traumatic wartime experiences and dissociation and trauma and DID. It considers the historical development of the debate surrounding DID, including its increased diagnosis around the turn of the last century, reasons for its decline in diagnosis in the mid part of the last century and reasons for its increased diagnosis toward the end of the 20th century. It deliberates upon the claims made by several researchers that DID can be created in the laboratory as well as the critiques surrounding those claims. It discusses the neurobiological evidence proving the connection between DID and certain neurobiological indicators. Included is a discussion of the modern theory of iatrogenic DID and a critique of this theory. A debate about the creation of DID as a social construction and critiques of this theory are presented as well. It concludes, by presenting the argument that the research on DID shows it to be a valid psychiatric diagnosis which robustly meets all the necessary validity requirements. http://ritualabuse.us/research/did/the‑etymological‑antecedents‑of‑and‑scientific‑evidence‑for‑the‑existence‑of‑dissociative‑identity‑disorder/

On our website’s main page https://ritualabuse.us 

Stop Mind Control and Ritual Abuse Today

SMART is celebrating our 30th anniversary.

S.M.A.R.T. ritual abuse newsletter was founded in 1995 by Neil Brick. http://neilbrick.com

The purpose of S.M.A.R.T. is to help stop ritual abuse and child abuse and to help those who have been ritually abused.  We work toward this goal by disseminating information on the connections between secretive organizations, ritual abuse, and mind control and by providing resources to survivors of child abuse, ritual abuse and mind control.

We publish scientific information about ritual abuse and trauma crimes.

We have this web site, a bimonthly newsletter, an e‑mail discussion list, and annual conferences. If you have resources with information about ritual abuse and mind control, especially information about secretive organizations, please send them to smartnews@aol.com for inclusion in the newsletter. Please note: S.M.A.R.T. has no paid employees and all money paid to S.M.A.R.T. goes toward efforts to educate survivors and the general public about survivor issues and research.

Advocacy and public education are crucial to developing a safer world for children, child and ritual abuse survivors and the entire world.  Trauma can cause severe damage to its victims, as shown by the ACE study https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html

We can prevent trauma, but we need to discuss it and acknowledge its existence.  Over the last thirty years, progress has been made to expose child abuse, sexual abuse and RA/MC crimes.  Many of the sources listed on the Internet are now pro-survivor and accurate.  A few biased ones, like wikipedia, which has biased and inaccurate pages which attack the reality of child abuse crimes still unfortunately exist.

Wikipedia has a long history of problems with accuracy, bias and allegations of connections to pedophilia and pornography. https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/wikipedia‑has‑a‑long‑history‑of‑problems

ritualabuse.us blacklisted by wikipedia

https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/ritualabuse‑us‑blacklisted‑by‑wikipedia/

The Truth about Satanic Ritual Abuse – Wikipedia rebuttal  https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/the‑truth‑about‑satanic‑ritual‑abuse/

SMART recommends that people do not use Wikipedia as a source of information for child abuse or other topics, due to its potential for having inaccurate and biased information.

The good news is that there are many accurate pages now on the Internet.  Over the last thirty years, the exposure of clergy abuse, cult abuse, sex trafficking and serial pedophiles with legal consequences, has helped the general public learn about the high numbers of abuse and mind control victims.

We still have work to do.  People are still strongly affected by propaganda and mind control. We can fight this by telling the people we know how to avoid being controlled by these techniques. We need to publish more research, build more websites and use social networking to let everyone know about the realities of ritual abuse and mind control.

We have come a long way to exposing RA/MC crimes. As the Extreme Abuse Survey says: The World Will Know

Contact information

S.M.A.R.T. https://ritualabuse.us 

Neil Brick http://neilbrick.com

E‑mail address smartnews@aol.com

Reference List

 In order of presentation

S.M.A.R.T. https://ritualabuse.us

Neil Brick http://neilbrick.com

E‑mail address smartnews@aol.com

Michelle Remembers  https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/michelle‑remembers/

Chronology of the McMartin Preschool Abuse Trials https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/mcmartin‑preschool‑case‑what‑really‑happened‑and‑the‑coverup/

Archaeological Investigations of the McMartin Preschool Site, Manhattan Beach, California  http://web.archive.org/web/20010123212200/members.cruzio.com/~ratf/McMartin.html/

Large collection of data and articles on the McMartin Preschool Case https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/mcmartin‑preschool‑case‑what‑really‑happened‑and‑the‑coverup/

Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse ‑ excerpts https://ritualabuse.us/smart‑conference/2023‑conference/the‑effects‑of‑social‑movements‑ on‑survivor‑support‑systems‑and‑survivor‑recovery‑neil‑brick

“Greenbaum Speech” Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse audio https://archive.org/embed/thegreenbaumspeech&playlist=1&autoplay=1

“Greenbaum Speech” Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse text https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52e9ece3e4b074062a41314d/t/5c53a2e1104c7bd8f7751256/1548985059033/The+Greenbaum+Speech%2C+Corry+Hammond.pdf

CKLN‑FM Mind Control Series ‑‑ Part 3 Mind Control Survivors’ Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings: Valerie Wolf ‑‑ Claudia Mullen ‑‑ Christine deNicola  http://www.whale.to/b/wolf3.html

MKULTRA victims ‑ Claudia Mullen Testimony https://vimeo.com/26846581

MKUlLTRA victims ‑ Valerie Wolf & Christine deNicola Testimonies

Disinformation and DID: the Politics of Memory by Brian Moss, MA, MFT https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/disinformation‑and‑did‑the‑politics‑of‑memory

Claudia Mullen SMART information  https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue‑17‑november‑1997/

Reference list for all of our newsletters https://ritualabuse.us/newsletter/back‑issues‑ordering‑form/

We also have a search engine bar at our website  https://ritualabuse.us in the top right hand corner.

SMART #34 Neil Brick article https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue‑34‑september‑2000/ )

SMART Newsletter March 2002 ‑ Issue 43 clergy abuse cases including those in the Boston area.  https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue‑43‑march‑2002

One major case was described in Geoghan found guilty of sex abuse ‑ Boy was assaulted at Waltham pool By Kathleen Burge, Globe Staff, 1/19/2002

https://web.archive.org/web/20020208002253/http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/019/metro/Geoghan_found_guilty_of_sex_abuse+.shtml

Clergy abuse articles https://ritualabuse.us/research/clergy‑abuse/

Extreme Abuse Survey.  https://extreme‑abuse‑survey.org/

Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three online surveys – Handout  for Karriker, Wanda. (2008, November).

http://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas‑studies/understanding‑ritual‑trauma‑a‑comparison‑of‑findings‑from‑three‑online‑surveys   https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas‑studies/

MEDIA PACKET B Torture‑based, Government‑sponsored Mind Control Experimentation on Children ‑ Extreme Abuse Survey  https://web.archive.org/web/20100215090206/http://my.dmci.net/~casey/GovernmentSponsoredMindControlExperiments‑MediaPacket.pdf

In 2007, Carol Rutz presented at our SMART conference ‑ The World Will Know: Results of the 2007 International Survey For Adult Survivors of Extreme Abuse ‑ Transcript from Carol Rutz=s presentation at The Tenth Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference, August, 2007  https://ritualabuse.us/smart‑conference/conf07/the‑world‑will‑know‑results‑of‑the‑2007‑international‑survey‑for‑adult‑survivors‑of‑extreme‑abuse/

Additional EAS resources are listed at: https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/

Grey Faction, Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves Fact Sheet  https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey‑faction‑satanic‑temple‑and‑lucien‑greaves‑fact‑sheet/

Satanic Temple – Grey Faction Pseudoscience https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/satanic‑temple‑grey‑faction‑pseudoscience/

Doug Mesner (Lucien Greaves, Satanic Temple, Grey Faction) Anti‑Semitic Statements, Eugenics Policy, Interview with former KKK member and neo‑Nazi group founder   https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/doug‑mesner‑lucien‑greaves‑satanic‑temple‑grey‑faction‑anti‑semitic‑statements‑eugenics‑policy‑interview‑with‑former‑kkk‑member‑and‑neo‑nazi‑group‑founder

Stop Misinformation and Attacks on Survivors of Trauma and Their Helpers by The Satanic Temple=s Grey Faction https://www.change.org/p/trauma‑survivors‑and‑their‑helpers‑stop‑attacks‑on‑survivors‑of‑trauma‑by‑the‑satanic‑temple‑s‑grey‑faction/

SMART Newsletters contain data about child abuse, ritual abuse, cults, mind control, DID/MPD, dissociation, sex trafficking and trauma.   https://ritualabuse.us/newsletter/

Content listings for all of our newsletters; https://ritualabuse.us/newsletter/back‑issues‑ordering‑form/

SMART past conference informationare https://ritualabuse.us/smart‑conference/

Conference transcripts available from 1999 ‑ 2024 and videos available from 2020 ‑ 2024.

Data that shows ritual abuse exists all over the world. https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/

Large list of ritual abuse references   http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic‑ritual‑abuse‑evidence‑with‑information‑on‑the‑mcmartin‑preschool‑case/  Satanic Ritual Abuse evidence with information on the McMartin Preschool Case

Day Care and Child Abuse Cases  https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/day‑care‑and‑child‑abuse‑cases/

Research on propaganda and mind control issues https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/

Research on mk‑ultra, the CIA, mind control, Operation Paperclip and the Nazis, the 1995 congressional hearings, the 2010 veterans vs CIA court case,  Artichoke, the CIA Supreme Court cases, Ewen Cameron and the Sleep Room and the MK/Naomi project. https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/mc‑documents‑links/

The Shock Doctrine – by Naomi Klein B Chapter 1 – The Torture Lab – Ewen Cameron, the CIA and the maniacal quest to erase and remake the human mind.  http://books.google.com/books?id=b1uQNYbE8DkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:0805079831#PPA25,M1

1995 U. S. congressional hearing:  MKULTRA Victim Claudia Mullen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=het0FIAtH3M

MKULTRA Victim Christine DeNicola: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=‑cS6QW3sXzQ

MKULTRA Victim Full Testimony (U.S. Mind Control Child Abuse Victims A‑C Testimony, U.S. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments Public Meeting, Washington DC, March 1995. Valerie Wolf (A), Chris DeNicola Tucson Arizona (B), Claudia Mullen (C): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbhpRmsEq44

Mind Control Survivors – Testimony at the Human Radiation Experiments Hearings:  Valerie Wolf – Claudia Mullen – Christine deNicola  http://www.whale.to/b/wolf3.html

Valerie Wolf – Therapist of mind control survivors who gave testimony about mind control experiments in the 1995 US Presidential hearings on radiation experiments. http://www.whale.to/b/wolf.html   http://www.tulanelink.com/mind/valeriewolf_box.htm

1977 Congressional Hearings  Project MKULTRA, The CIA=s Program Of Research In Behavioral Modification JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY‑FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION AUGUST 3, 1977  http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13inmate_ProjectMKULTRA.pdf

Project Paperclip

Declassified Papers Show U.S. Recruited Ex‑Nazis By SAM ROBERTS December 11, 2010  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/12holocaust.html

Hitler’s Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence and the Cold War, ( HITLER’S SHADOW Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War Richard Breitman and Norman J.W. Goda Published by the National Archives  http://www.archives.gov/iwg/reports/hitlers‑shadow.pdf

Extensive research on DID/MPD, dissociation, trauma and recovered memory accuracy.  https://ritualabuse.us/research/

Recovered Memories and Dissociative Amnesia B Scientific Evidence and Accuracy Rates https://ritualabuse.us/research/recovered‑memories‑and‑dissociative‑amnesia‑scientific‑evidence‑and‑accuracy‑rates/

Recovered Memory Data with information on recovered memory corroboration, theories on recovered memory, legal information, physiological evidence for memory suppression, replies to skeptics and books and articles on memory   http://ritualabuse.us/research/memory‑fms/recovered‑memory‑data/

Recovered memory corroboration rates B There are many studies that show fairly high corroboration rates for recovered  memories.  http://ritualabuse.us/research/memory‑fms/recovered‑memory‑corroboration‑rates/

Basic Information on Dissociative Identity Disorder with sections on Basic Information on DID from the DSM IV TR, The History of DID/MPD, Diagnosing DID, Responses to those that state that DID is iatrogenic or a social construct,  MPD/DID connection to severe abuse, Recent information and DID resources  B http://ritualabuse.us/research/did/basic‑information‑on‑didmpd/

Delineates the etiological antecedents of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and enumerates upon the scientific evidence proving the existence of DID. http://ritualabuse.us/research/did/the‑etymological‑antecedents‑of‑and‑scientific‑evidence‑for‑the‑existence‑of‑dissociative‑identity‑disorder/

SMART’s main page https://ritualabuse.us

Neil Brick web page http://neilbrick.com

ACE study https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html

Wikipedia has a long history of problems with accuracy, bias and allegations of connections to pedophilia and pornography. https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/wikipedia‑has‑a‑long‑history‑of‑problems

ritualabuse.us blacklisted by wikipedia   https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/ritualabuse‑us‑blacklisted‑by‑wikipedia/

The Truth about Satanic Ritual Abuse – Wikipedia rebuttal https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/the‑truth‑about‑satanic‑ritual‑abuse/