Thanks for the Memories

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Thanks for the Memories: The Truth Has Set Me Free is a self-published memoir by Brice Taylor — the pseudonym of Susan Ford — first published in 1999. The book documents Taylor's alleged experiences as a mind-controlled government and entertainment industry asset, spanning several decades from her childhood through to adulthood. Taylor claims to have been subjected to systematic trauma-based programming as part of clandestine CIA operations related to, or directly descending from, MK-Ultra. The book remains one of the most detailed and controversial survivor accounts in the independent research community, and has been cited as a primary source by researchers and authors including Veronica Swift in An Illuminati Primer.

CIA headquarters, Langley, Virginia

Publication History

Thanks for the Memories was self-published by Taylor through her own imprint, Brice Taylor Trust, in 1999. Like many books dealing with CIA mind control programmes and secret society involvement in government abuse, the book was considered unpublishable through conventional channels. Taylor has stated that no mainstream publisher would touch the material, given its naming of prominent political and entertainment figures still active or recently deceased at the time of writing.

The self-publication route — common among survivor-authors such as Cathy O'Brien and Fritz Springmeier — meant that the book received no mainstream review coverage and was effectively excluded from standard distribution networks. It has nonetheless circulated widely through independent booksellers, online platforms, and within targeted individual and mind control research communities. Physical copies are periodically difficult to obtain, and researchers have noted that the book has experienced episodes of suppression including removal from sales platforms, reinforcing claims made by Taylor and her supporters that the contents are considered threatening by powerful interests.

Core Claims

Origins of Programming

Taylor alleges that her programming began in early childhood, initiated by her father and later formalised through contact with CIA-affiliated handlers. Like many accounts consistent with the trauma-based mind control framework described by researchers such as Fritz Springmeier and Cisco Wheeler, Taylor describes a process of deliberate, repeated trauma designed to shatter the psyche into compartmentalised alter personalities. Each alter, she claims, could be programmed with specific knowledge, skills, or behaviours and triggered on command by authorised handlers.

Taylor's account is consistent with the documented goals of MK-Ultra subprojects — particularly those involving the creation of couriers who could carry sensitive information without conscious knowledge, effectively making surveillance and interception impossible.

The Human Laptop Concept

One of the book's most striking and frequently cited contributions to mind control research is Taylor's description of what she calls the human laptop function. According to Taylor, programmed assets could be used as living information storage and retrieval systems. Sensitive intelligence — the content of private conversations, classified briefings, diplomatic communications — could be encoded into amnesic alter states and retrieved later by authorised personnel using specific trigger protocols.

The advantage of this system, as Taylor describes it, is its complete imperviousness to conventional surveillance. A human courier carrying information in a dissociated alter state cannot be detected by electronic countermeasures, wiretaps, or physical search. The information exists nowhere external to the person — no document, no recording, no transmission. This makes the human laptop concept, if operationally real, a near-perfect intelligence mechanism.

This concept is cross-referenced by Cathy O'Brien in Trance Formation of America and discussed in independent research as a plausible operational outcome of trauma-based dissociation at the level described in MK-Ultra documentation released under Freedom of Information Act requests.

High-Level Government and Entertainment Access

Taylor names a substantial number of prominent figures as alleged participants in or aware of her programming and use. These include sitting and former US Presidents, senior intelligence officials, and major figures from the American entertainment industry. Because many named individuals retain living relatives or remain involved in public life, the book has operated in a legal grey zone since publication, and Taylor has faced challenges relating to its contents.

Taylor describes being used as a sexual slave and courier across a network that intersected the upper echelons of US political power and the entertainment industry. She describes being transported to private meetings, political gatherings, and entertainment industry events where she was deployed both as an information carrier and as a sex slave — functions that, she argues, were used to compromise and control powerful individuals through blackmail as much as to serve intelligence gathering purposes.

Bob Hope and the Entertainment Industry Network

A recurring and distinctive element of Thanks for the Memories is the prominent role Taylor assigns to the entertainer Bob Hope. Taylor alleges that Hope functioned not merely as a passive participant but as an active manager and facilitator within the network — organising the transportation of programmed assets, overseeing their use at events connected to the USO and broader entertainment industry, and maintaining relationships with both CIA handlers and political figures.

Taylor's account of Hope is one of the more specific and detailed in survivor literature, and distinguishes her book from contemporaneous accounts. She describes Hope as having been aware of the programming process, participating in the abuse, and using his considerable social and logistical access — including international travel facilitated by USO tours — to move assets across jurisdictions without scrutiny.

This framing places the entertainment industry not as an incidental backdrop but as a structural component of the alleged control network — a theme echoed in the research of Fiona Barnett and others who have documented alleged links between Hollywood, intelligence agencies, and ritual abuse.

Bob Hope performing for audiences

Memory Recovery

Taylor describes a lengthy and non-linear process of memory recovery that began in the late 1980s and continued through the 1990s. She attributes the emergence of memories to a combination of factors: the death of key handlers (which she claims deactivated certain control structures), physical illness that she believes was itself a programmed response, and therapeutic work — though she is careful to note that conventional therapists were often ill-equipped to handle the nature of what she was recovering.

Taylor describes memories surfacing involuntarily, triggered by sensory cues, and presenting with accompanying physical symptoms consistent with trauma re-experiencing. She also describes a more deliberate process of internal communication with alter personalities as her awareness of the system grew — a process aligned with what trauma researchers describe as ego state therapy, though Taylor's account exceeds typical clinical frameworks in scope and content.

The recovery process, as described, spanned over a decade, and Taylor notes that she was aware for much of that time that the information she was recovering carried personal risk — that those named in her memories remained powerful and potentially dangerous.

Relationship to Other Survivor Testimonies

Thanks for the Memories occupies a significant position within the broader body of survivor literature relating to CIA mind control and elite-level organised abuse.

Cathy O'Brien and Trance Formation of America

The most direct parallel is with Cathy O'Brien's Trance Formation of America (co-authored with Mark Phillips, 1995). Both books describe:

  • Childhood trauma used to initiate dissociative programming
  • Use as a courier and sex slave at the highest levels of government
  • Named political figures as perpetrators or knowing participants
  • The intelligence community's operational interest in trauma-induced dissociation
  • Suppression and difficulty of mainstream publication

Taylor and O'Brien do not name identical perpetrators in every case, but there is substantial overlap in the structural description of the system. Both books have been cited together as corroborating testimony by researchers including Fritz Springmeier and, more recently, by Veronica Swift in An Illuminati Primer.

Cisco Wheeler and Fritz Springmeier

The theoretical framework for what Taylor describes — the deliberate creation of dissociative identity as a programmable system — is most extensively documented in the work of Fritz Springmeier and Cisco Wheeler, particularly in The Illuminati Formula Used to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Controlled Slave. Taylor's experiential account maps closely onto the technical and procedural descriptions provided by Springmeier and Wheeler, lending each body of work a degree of mutual corroboration.

Jessie Czebotar and Fiona Barnett

More recent survivor-witnesses including Jessie Czebotar and Fiona Barnett have described structural elements consistent with Taylor's account — particularly the intersection of secret society networks, intelligence agencies, and entertainment industry figures in the organisation and concealment of abuse. While these accounts differ in geographical and temporal detail, the systemic picture they collectively describe reinforces the core claims of Thanks for the Memories.

Independent research books and documents

Reception and Suppression

Thanks for the Memories has never been reviewed in mainstream media and has been the subject of active suppression efforts according to Taylor and her supporters. These include:

  • Removal from major online retail platforms on multiple occasions
  • Difficulty maintaining a stable print run without institutional distribution
  • Social media censorship of discussions referencing the book's specific claims
  • Legal pressure reportedly applied to researchers who cite it extensively

Within independent research communities — particularly those focused on MK-Ultra, trauma-based mind control, and elite network abuse — the book is considered essential reading and is frequently listed alongside Trance Formation of America and the Springmeier/Wheeler material as foundational survivor testimony.

Role in An Illuminati Primer

Veronica Swift's research compendium An Illuminati Primer cites Thanks for the Memories as a primary source in its treatment of mind control as an operational tool of elite control networks. Swift uses Taylor's account — particularly the human laptop concept and the Bob Hope material — to illustrate how programmed assets function within a broader system of information control and blackmail. The citation of Taylor alongside documentary evidence from MK-Ultra declassified files positions the memoir not as isolated testimony but as one strand in a convergent evidential picture.

Significance and Legacy

Whatever the ultimate assessment of its specific claims, Thanks for the Memories remains a significant document in the history of independent investigation into state-sponsored mind control. It is:

  • One of the most detailed survivor accounts in the literature
  • Among the first books to articulate the human laptop concept in operational terms
  • A key source for subsequent researchers and authors working in this field
  • An example of the self-publication model as a form of resistance to information suppression

The book continues to be read, cited, and distributed within communities investigating CIA abuse, MK-Ultra legacy programmes, trauma-based programming, and the relationship between intelligence agencies, secret societies, and elite power networks.

See Also

References and Further Reading

  • Taylor, Brice (Susan Ford). Thanks for the Memories: The Truth Has Set Me Free. Brice Taylor Trust, 1999.
  • O'Brien, Cathy, and Mark Phillips. Trance Formation of America. Reality Marketing, 1995.
  • Springmeier, Fritz, and Cisco Wheeler. The Illuminati Formula Used to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Controlled Slave. Self-published, 1996.
  • Swift, Veronica. An Illuminati Primer. Nano World Order Wiki.
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