The Greenbaum Speech (D. Corydon Hammond, 25 June 1992) — Where the Term Enters Circulation

[Report #192] The lecture that puts 'Monarch' into circulation, read in full from the transcript (71,738 bytes) rather than from any summary of it. Delivered as 'Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse' at the Fourth Annual Eastern Regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder, Radisson Plaza Hotel, Alexandria, Virginia, Thursday 25 June 1992. Speaker: D. Corydon Hammond, PhD, then Research Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Utah School of Medicine, editor of the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis and sitting President of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis — credentials verified against the live University of Utah faculty page. WHAT HE ACTUALLY SAYS. He uses 'Monarch Project' twice, both times answering questions from the floor, never in prepared remarks, and never the form 'Project Monarch': 'I've had some that were originally part of the Monarch Project, which is the name of the government Intelligence project.' He describes a Greek-letter programming system ('Alphas appear to represent general programming... Betas appear to be sexual programs... Deltas are killers trained in how to kill in ceremonies... Thetas are called psychic killers'), and an origin story running through Allen Dulles, Nazi scientists, and a Hasidic teenager who took the name Greenbaum. WHAT HE SAYS HIS EVIDENCE IS — asked directly from the floor for documentation of government involvement, verbatim: 'There isn't great documentation of it. It comes from victims who are imperiled witnesses. The interesting thing is how many people have described the same scenario.' His method as stated is cross-patient convergence under hypnosis, with an explicit anti-contamination instruction repeated to the room: 'I can't underline enough: DO NOT LEAD THEM.' He hedges the wider frame himself — on the Illuminati, 'Is this true? Well, I don't know.' WHAT THE SPEECH DOES NOT CONTAIN. Measured directly in the transcript: 'Mengele' occurs 0 times; 'MK-ULTRA'/'MKULTRA' occurs 0 times; 'Project Monarch' occurs 0 times. The later identification of 'Dr. Green'/Greenbaum WITH Josef Mengele, and the attachment of the account to MKULTRA by name, are accretions downstream of this lecture and are not in it. AFTERWARDS. Utah's Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing, in a signed GRAMA response dated 8 May 2017: 'Dennis Corydon Hammond has not been disciplined by the Division nor have any citations been issued.' Licence status active, disciplinary action NO. He stopped lecturing in the area by September 1993 (Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep 1993). He did not retract; in the Fall 1993 Bulletin of the APA's Psychological Hypnosis Division he wrote 'Where there is so much smoke, may there not be some fire?' In 2004 he was one of several defendants in the Elizabeth Gale malpractice settlement, reported at $7.5m in total across the defendants (Chicago Sun-Times, 12 Feb 2004). The frequently repeated claim that he was named an unindicted co-conspirator in United States v. Peterson does not appear in the full text of that opinion (71 F. Supp. 2d 695) — 'Hammond', 'Braun', 'Sachs' and 'unindicted' all occur zero times; the claim traces to the opposing plaintiff's own counsel. INTERESTED-PARTY FLAG: much of the secondary reporting on the aftermath is hosted by the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, a party to this controversy, dissolved 31 December 2019; its transcript nonetheless matches the independent archive copy word for word.