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...JANUARY 16, AT 2 p.m., Wes Lockwood, a 20-year-old junior at Yale, left his job at the Yale Faculty Club. He was due back to work at 6 p.m. and had a dental appointment at 4 p.m. He failed to show up at either time...
...Pennsylvania Turnpike. Someone in the car screamed at the top of his lungs, "I am being kidnapped." The car drove on, but the attendant called the police. Though the troopers had only a poor description of the car, they gave chase and stopped it. As soon as Wes Lockwood saw the troopers, he said, "Thank God you are here." A man in the car, Ted Patrick, apparently falsely identified himself to the police as a clergyman. Wes's father, who was also in the car, showed the troopers a letter purportedly from a psychiatrist, stating that Wes was being taken...
...eight days my friend Wes and his entire family were away, they were unreachable by any Yale officials. On January 24, Wes Lockwood called Yale officials to state that he was well and "happy," and that he was taking a leave of absence. Since that time no one at Yale has had any contact with Wes Lockwood except by permission of his parents and in their presence. Since then, Wes has stated that he had not left Yale under any pressure, that he was not kidnapped and that he is glad for what happened. He has also foresworn his closest...
...victim is mentally and emotionally exhausted, the deprogrammers move in the for the kill. The victim "breaks" and accepts the arguments and opinions of those who deprogrammed him. Indeed, the process does not stop until the victim disavows the beliefs offensive to those who seized him. No matter how Wes is today and what he says about his experience with the deprogrammers, he did not arrive at his new outlook by his own volition. It is the result of kipnapping, imprisonment and brainwashing...
...Wes is back home in Los Angeles, living with his parents and showing ev ery sign that the deprogramming was a complete success. He attends the evangelical church where he first committed himself to Christ. He now says he was not forcibly abducted by his father but went along willingly. "When I left Yale," he says, "I was a zombie. I had a shell around me. What the deprogrammers did was like unwrapping a mummy, taking off layer after layer of hardness, of the fear that they would destroy me or send me away...