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the catcher in the rye

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The Catcher In The Rye, is a novel by J.D. Salinger published in 1951. The novel details two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school. Confused and disillusioned, Holden searches for truth and rails against the “phoniness” of the adult world. He ends up exhausted and emotionally unstable. The events are related after the fact.

A well-known theory about The Catcher In The Rye is that it is a trigger for sleeper assassins trained by the CIA’s MK-Ultra mind control program to take out individuals. This applies most strongly to John Lennon’s murder. The claim is that the book is the trigger used to wake trained sleeper assassins to something they learn while under mind control.

What makes this all a bit more interesting and sinister is the fact that Salinger checked himself in to a mental hospital shortly after he returned from being a soldier in World War 2. While there, he completed the novel and some think that it is Salinger's attempt at dealing with his PTSD...or something else entirely.

after publication

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After the publication of the novel, Salinger became a hermit. When asked for the rights to adapt it for Broadway or Hollywood, he emphatically declined.

The reclusive habits of Salinger in his later years made his personal life a matter of speculation among devotees, and his small literary output was a subject of controversy among critics. The last work Salinger published during his lifetime was a novella titled Hapworth 16, 1924, which appeared in The New Yorker in 1965. Salinger died in 2010, meaning he spent roughly 45 years not writing. This is odd, given his initial success.

project artichoke

Project ARTICHOKE[1], started in 1951, was a program to determine if people could be made to assassinate someone against their will. This project also used hypnosis and LSD to accomplish goals. This project sought to be able to force someone to take out "a prominent politician or if necessary, [an] American official" (Jones). It is possible that Catcher was written in order to socialize individuals into assassinating political figures.

connection to catcher

In Catcher, Holden purposely manipulates and lies to others in order to accomplish his goals.

For example, after Holden lies to and purposely confuses an elevator operator, he remarks: “All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to” (Salinger 157-158). After he was initially refused by the operator, Holden manipulates him into doing what he wants.

This quote shows Holden's ability to trick and deceive other characters, which fits in line with MK-Ultra's goal of mind control. This furthurs the idea that Catcher was a tool used by the CIA to influence individuals in the program. Individuals like Mark David Chapman were obsessed with Holden and wanted to be like him (King). This is the primary way the book influenced their thoughts.

john lennon's assassination

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On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman recieved an autograph from Beatle's founding member John Lennon. Hours later, he killed him. When the police arrived at the scene, he was reading the novel The Catcher in the Rye with fervor. Days before, he had even attempted to change his name to Holden Caulfield, but couldn't finish the forms.

Mark David Chapman said himself the killing was "quick" and that Lennon "never saw anything coming."

Chapman has been theorized to have been a sleeper agent influenced by the CIA through project MK-Ultra. His reading of Catcher immediately after the assassination may be a callback to the influence the book had on him.

jfk's Assassination

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in broad daylight by Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy made a lot of enemies in office, so it is a hot topic for conspiracy theorists to assign blame to others besides just Oswald.

According to documents released by the CIA, it has been theorized that Oswald was directed by the CIA and the mob to assassinate JFK, and then was subsequently murdered by Chicago mob member Jack Ruby.

After the assassination, the police found a copy of Catcher in the Rye in his apartment, meaning Oswald had read the book in the prior to the shooting. Catcher likely influenced him, and it is possible the CIA used it to grow feelings of hatred towards society.

ronald reagan assassination attempt

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On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley Jr. shot President Ronald Reagan and four other men. All four men recovered, and Hinckley was found not guilty by case of insanity.

This is another potential example of Catcher in the Rye being used to manipulate people. Catcher was found in Hinckley's hotel room, meaning he had read the book in the days prior.

It has been theorized that Catcher invokes violence in certain individuals.

One reason Hinkley attempted the murder was because of his obsession with actress Jodie Foster. Psychopaths have been characterized as both incompetent with women and extremely obsessive. Holden mirrors these traits identically, notably when he's with the prostitute. Holden says, “She made me so nervous, I just kept on lying my head off."

references

  1. ↑ https://ahrp.org/artichoke-1951-1973-a-major-multi-faceted-military-cia-project/

further reading

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