they were almost sherlock holmes stories and edgar allen poe and movies like gaslight and who could makepeople do whatever he wanted. and i think maybe whatever they could imagine, science could make real. so 1951, they decided to formalize the cia search for the key time control. he decided to go out of sight of the cia to find somebody who could direct this project. he called it an okay ultra and i think that reflects what he thought about the project. it was the ultra project. if you can find a way to control peoples minds, the prize would be nothing less than global mastery. little successes in the early 1950s like overthrowing the government of iran or overthrowing the government of guatemala would pale in significance if you could find a way to control peoples minds. most of the officers in those days were silver spoon in aristocratic products of investment banks that knew each other through family ties. he was the son of jewish immigrants and grew up in the bronx, went to the city college of new york and later caltech. he had a stalker comes with 32-years-old and with all of this