Names from the Mul'da Complex Telephone Directory

Léonide Baryshnikov – Director of the Mul’da Complex.
Died 1975.

Natalia Bessmertnova - Senior Medical Officer. Mul'da Complex.
Died 1997

Natalia Dudinaskaya - Assistant physicist. TOPAZ Project.
Last known location; St Peter's Institution. Moscow.

Pavel Gerdt – Director of the TOPAZ Project.
Died 1981.

Viktor Gratshev - Neurologist. TOPAZ Project.
Died 1979.

Vadim Grebennikov - Chemist. Advanced Rocket Fuel Development Program. Mul'da Complex.
Died 2002.

Ilya Gruzinov - Director. Moscow Institute for Neurological Research.
Died 1980.

Ivan Kolpakova – Physicist. Expert in electro-magnatism. TOPAZ Project.
Defected to the USA in 1972.
Last known location; Paris.

Pavel Lopokova - Principal Secretary. Ministry of Armaments. Moscow.
Died 1982.

Alexander Semyonova  - Chief Designer. Karalli Design Bureau.Kiev.
Died 2003.

Akaki Turashvili – Assistant physicist to Pavel Gerdt. TOPAZ Project.
Last known location; Tbilisi. Georgia. 2012.
Last known communication; Article published on advanced EM theory in a Serbian Science Journal in 2012

Vladimir Vasiliev - Lt General. Regional Commander. GRU.
Died 1977. 

Case Nr 10-036

Irving Moore is 64 years old (see image to right). He was born in 1949. His biological father, Randolph Lee Gillis (see image below) was a radio operator on a B-17 in the US 8th Bomber Command. During a mission over Germany in 1944, he was badly wounded by shrapnel from an anti-aircraft shell and he was sent back to the USA to recover. The war ended before he was able to rejoin his unit, and he was discharged in 1946. A year later, Randolph married a nurse named Emma Jane Carlton and in 1949 Irving was born. As he was good with radio equipment Randolph applied to work at Moore Electronics where he was employed in the Research Division. He began to work on various military projects, eventually constructing classified electronics hardware for the US military, US intelligence services and NASA.

In 1964 Randolph was part of a small group attending a seminar at Sturgeon Bay when there was an outbreak of the unusual phenomenon called mass psychogenic illness. Hundreds of people in the vicinity of Sturgeon Bay suffered attacks of uncontrollable laughter over the course of several days, followed by a long period (seven weeks) of hysteria, fainting, memory loss and disorientation. When the incident was over, seventeen people were critically ill and four people had gone missing, including Gillis and one of his coworkers (a man named Art Garber). At the time of their disappearance the missing men were involved in the construction of an advanced fluxgate magnetometer.

The police soon called in the FBI, but neither were able to construct a plausible theory as to what had happened or what had become of the missing people. Unknown to both, the CIA also undertook an investigation. Their report did offer an explanation, and pointed the finger at the Soviet Union which they proposed may have deployed some kind of chemical neurological weapon. Reports indicated the Soviets had used similar weapons on several separate occasions at various locations around the globe. In each incident, people had gone missing and in four examples, those people had been involved in sensitive military work for a western power. The CIA report also pointed to the presence of two known GRU operatives in nearby Chicago two days prior to the disappearance. These were named as Nikolai Glinka and Oleg Taneyev.

Another investigation was carried out by a private detective on the behest of Randolph's wife. Lemmy Rogers was a former police detecive from Chicago. His investigation ended after when he also went missing.

No bodies were ever recovered and the official CIA investigation was closed on 24th November 1966 with no official conclusion.

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Irving Moore wants to know what happened to his father (Randolph Lee Gillis) who went missing under the mysterious circumstances in 1964. To this end he is prepared to hire the full services of Dyson and Hahn for a period of two months with the possibility of extending the investigation if positive results indicate a favourable outcome.

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Preliminary investigation report; filed by Ted Turner. 

Asked to look into the case regarding the disapearance of Randolph Lee Gillis (1964) so I began at the beginning. Interviewed the client and there after his mother (Emma Jane Gillis/Moore) in order to learn more about Gillis. The client does not have a reliable memory of his father, but his mother describes an easy going man who had managed to over come the trauma of war and settle into a comfortable civilian existence. He appears to have enjoyed his work, and was, by Emma Jane's account, a loving and considerate husband. There is no obvious reason why he might choose to disappear of his own accord.

Emma Jane hired a private detective named Lemmy Rogers to find Gillis, but he went missing after ten days. Emma Jane informed the authorities but then heard nothing more until the case was closed in 1966. Unsure what to do next, she then contacted Gillis's boss, Walter E. Moore and persuaded him to help her. Moore wrote a long series of letters to various politicians and government authorities but to no avail. He also hired a private investigator in 1968, though Emma Jane was unable to remember this detective's name. Nothing further was discovered however and Emma Jane, having fallen in love with Walter E. Moore ceased her efforts to find Randolph and married Walter in 1969.

Emma Jane had a clear memory of Lemmy Rogers. He was an ex US Marine and former police detective who had been given the elbow for a drunken shooting in which he accidently killed two African Americans. Plagued by horrific memories of the war in the Pacific, and especially his experiences during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, she remembers him as a gruff, no nonsense kind of man whose tenacious character meant he never backed down. He appeared to be confident when he took on the case but for the first week he had no viable leads until he investigated one of the other missing men; named Ossip Brown. Brown was a guest in the same motel (The Star Shine Guest House) and Rogers tracked down a local prostitute named Bethany Williams whom Emma Jane remembers had been seen several times with Brown.

Emma Jane never met Bethany Williams but she remembers what Rogers told her. He said he had questioned Williams regarding Ossip Brown and had formed suspicions rearging Brown's identity. He learned that for several days preceding the outbreak, Brown would hang around the Bermuda Bar (which adjoined the Star Shine Guest House) every evening and Williams was paid to accompany him and sometimes have sex when the night was over. On only four occasions did Brown leave the Bermuda Bar during the evenings of that time, and in each time it was to follow a man who was described as 'tall and grey'. Williams never met with Brown on the day the outbreak took place, nor did she ever see him again. The owner of the Star Shine Guest House reported Brown as missing when he never returned despite having booked his rooms for a full week. Bethany Williams had no recollection of Randolph Lee Gillis nor Art Garber. Garber however, might fit the description of 'tall and grey'. If Brown was shadowing Garber then he might have been a Soviet agent (Ossip being a Russian name) and I think this may be the basis for the conclusion reached by the CIA during their investigation.

Due to the amount of time which has passed since then I decided that the best course of action would be to read any CIA documents available at the National Intelligence Archives. These were so sketchy that I suspect they have been tampered with, or possibly replaced. The existing document talks about known Soviet GRU agents working in the Chicago and Great Lakes area, with special emphasis on two names; Nikolai Glinka and Oleg Taneyev (see attached images). Neither agent was arrested and both disapeared within weeks of the Sturgeon Bay incident. Also mentioned briefly in the CIA report is a Russian ex-patriot named Ossip Bunin. Bunin is conjectured to be Ossip Brown, but there is no photographic evidence nor any information regarding what became of Bunin.

Nikolai Glinka (first image) is listed in the National Intelligence Archives as having been a high standing officer in the GRU. His case file suggests he was withdrawn from the United States when the Sturgeon Bay Incident drew attention to him and there is no further information about his subsequent career or what beame of him. If still alive, he would be about eighty years old.

Oleg Taneyev (second image) was also withdrawn from the United States but in 1986 he was discovered in West Germany posing as a Finnish business man. He was arrested and held for two years, during which time he was debriefed by Germany and American intelligence services. When told he was to be returned to the Soviet Union as part of a prisoner exchange he inexplicably committed suicide (by hanging) in his cell at Frohenhoff Prison four days before he was due to be released. Taneyev's CIA debriefing notes are still classified, but a copy of a German report indicates the Germans at least were completely baffled by Taneyev's death and were able to think of no other reason than fear of returning to the Soviet Union.

My recommendation is, this investigation be continued by our European branch. Many of the answers required appear to be located in Russian archives, and D&H E have a much better relationship with the Russian Federal Government than we do.

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Reports of Mass Psychogenic Illness from the National Intelligence Archives

The Mount Pearl Incident

Local records show that in 1891 an outbreak of contagious laughter affected several families on the east coast of Newfoundland. Very little information is known about the incident as the local authorities had no idea how to treat the matter. Local doctors were unable to reach the families before the attack was finished and the only surviving account was written by a local clergyman. One person is known to have died.



On the Fourth of August I was called to the Mackay House by Robert Earl Mackay. His Children were unable to stop laughing and he was afraid they had been possessed. I hurried forth only to find the entire household in paroxysms of laughter and unable to tell me why. At first I was moved to chuckle myself, but when I saw the exhaustion of the children, still laughing merrily to themselves and helpless in their mirth, I understood the importance of the situation at once and sent for Doctor Mortimer.

This laughter I learned had been ongoing for several hours and showed no signs of abating. There were lulls and crescendos and in between gasps Millicent Mackay begged me for help. I began to look about the house for some clue as to how I might do so, when I felt an over powering urge to laugh myself. It was like a sudden inspiration that flashed through my mind, and before I understood it, I too was laughing merrily along, happy at first but becoming increasingly concerned by my lack of self control. It were as if I was drunk, though no wine, ale or spirit had passed my lips and as time passed it became increasingly difficult to move. After a while I was left helpless, rolling about on the floor. I laughed for almost the whole night before blessedly I passed out. When I came to, Doctor Mortimer had pulled me away from the house and would let no one near it. I later learned that a small crowd which had gathered about the house were all similarly struck down by the contagious laughter at the same time as I was. People who arrived after this, such as Doctor Mortimer were not affected.

I later learned that the laughter had begun when the Mackay family were seated about their mid day meal. Grace had just been said when the children saw a pale figure peering through a window. Robert Earl Mackay went outside but could find no one. When he returned he found his children giggling uncontrollably and unable to stop not even when threatened with a spanking.

Lambert Fairhurst later told me he too had seen a tall pale ghost like figure, around about the same time as I was in the Mackay House.

The story of the grey ghost took on a life of its own shortly afterwards, but no one else came forward to speak of the apparition and the Mackay children have since told me that the face they saw was not a ghost but probably a vagrant. Four days after the attack, we buried old Mrs Halliday whose heart had burst as she laughed.

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The Lublin Incident.

1959. 

Signals Intercepts from NATO listening posts in Turkey indicated an outbreak of mass psychogenic illness took place in the vicinity of the village of Lublin. Naturally, no information was forthcoming from the Soviet Union, but in 1985 a defected GRU officer, code named 'Highball' reported that the incident had involved a laughter epidemic at the damaged Mayak nuclear processing plant in the Chelyabinsk Oblast (Mayak had been involved in a serious contamination accident  in 1957). At the time the CIA had little idea of what was really taking place and began flying U2 spy planes over the area. In 1960 one of these spy planes was shot down leading to the capture of Francis Gary Powers.

According to 'Highball', the Lublin Incident was sporadic in nature and took place over the course of several days. A KGB operation covered up the details, but in 1960 the GRU was tasked with investigating all international incidents of Mass Psychogenic Illness.

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The Tanganyika laughter epidemic

The Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962 was an outbreak of mass psychogenic illness (MPI) rumored to have occurred in the vicinity of the village of Kashasha on the western coast of Lake Victoria in the modern nation of Tanzania near the border of Kenya.
It is possible that, at the start of the incident, a joke was told in a boarding school, and that this joke triggered a small group of students to start laughing. The laughter perpetuated itself, far transcending its original cause.

The Tanganyika laughter epidemic is often understood as implying that thousands of people were continuously laughing for months. However, since it is physiologically impossible to laugh for much more than a few minutes at a time, the laughter must have made itself known no more than sporadically. The epidemic reportedly consisted of occasional attacks of laughter among groups of people, occurring throughout vicinity of the village of Kashasha at irregular intervals. According to reports, the laughter was incapacitating when it struck.

The school from which the epidemic sprang was shut down; the children and parents transmitted it to the surrounding area. Other schools, Kashasha itself, and another village, comprising thousands of people, were all affected to some degree. Six to eighteen months after it started, the phenomenon died off. The following symptoms were reported on an equally massive scale as the reports of the laughter itself: pain, fainting, respiratory problems, rashes, and attacks of crying.

Reports of the incident
There are only a few reports of this occurrence. These reports have been embellished and misquoted.
In cases of mass psychogenic illness there are often not many reports of the incident.

Misinterpretations
Due to its nature the incident has been confused with positive humorous or infectious laughter as seen in phenomena like the holy laughter movement. The nature of MPI, however, is quite dissimilar to these euphoric experiences.

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The Sturgeon Bay Incident

1st April. 1964.

An outbreak of infectious laughter took place at Cherry Hills, near the town of Sturgeon Bay on the Door Peninsula and lasted for three days.

Two hundred and twelve people were recorded as having been subjected to a mysterious bout of contagious laughter that could not be stopped. Medical authorities declared the incident to be a rare and extremely unusual case of mass psychogenic illness. Federal Authorities took over the investigation when four people were found to have mysteriously disapeared during the incident. All information pertaining to the incident was subsequently classified.

A CIA document partially declassified and released in 1986 revealed that the United States Government had been concerned the incident might be the work of Soviet agents, or possibly a domestic vigilante group, as two of the missing persons had been employees at Moore Electronics, a company which routinely handled government defence contracts. Several experts in toxicology, chemical and biological warfare examined the incident but found nothing of interest. The investigation was terminated 12th June 1955.

On 14th June 1965, Mrs Emma Jane Gillis, the wife of one of the missing men, hired a private detective from Chicago, named Lemmy Rogers to investigate the Sturgeon Bay Incident and find her husband. Rogers conducted numerous interviews over the course of ten days before also suddenly disappearing on 24th June. 1965. Gillis reported Lemmy Rogers's disappearance to the local Sheriff's office.

Due to the previous interest by Federal Authorities of the Sturgeon Bay Incident and suspecting foul play, the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a team of investigators to Sturgeon Bay to help find the missing man. After nine weeks of extensive searching, no body nor trace of Lemmy Rogers was found and the investigation ended blindly. The case remained active until 1972 but no further investigations took place. A court of inquiry declared Lemmy Rogers to be missing presumed dead on 12th October. 1973.

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NPC's

Contemporary NPC's.

Listed alphabetically; 

Nicole - Secretary at D&HE.
Turner, Ted - D&H Case Officer. International Tracking Dept. New York Office.
Vunscher, Max. D&HE Dept head for B2.
Vybornov, Dimitry 'Dima'. D&HE's liason with the Russian Interior Ministry.

Case Nr 11-011

Kirdar, Claudia - The Client. The German wife of Zeki Kirdar.
Kirdar, Zeki - A Turkish born, German hotel owner. Found burned to death in his car along side an unknown man.

Case Nr 10-036.

Boyd, Jeff - A Deputy Director at the CIA. Contact of Ted Turner
Brown, Ossip - Listed missing in 1964.
Cuso, Paul - Police Detective Inspector. Paris division. 
Dudinaskaya, Natalie - Former Assistant physicist at the TOPAZ Project.
Ecclestone, Bernard - Physicist at CERN.
Garber, Art - Electrician. Moore Electronics. Listed missing in 1964.
Gillis, Randolph Lee - Electrician. Moore Electronics. Irving Moore's natural father. Listed missing in 1964.
Glinka, Nikolai - GRU officer thought to have been in the vicinity of Sturgeon Bay in 1964.
Gruzinov, Ilya - A former Director of the Moscow Institute for Neurological Research.
Kolpakova, Ivan – Physicist and former scientist at the TOPAZ Project. Murdered in Paris.
Martin, Ruth - Telephone exchange operator for the Starshine Motel. 1964. Listed as a secondary witness.
Martino, Donald - Lawyer. Gambolli, Haines and Saaci. New York. Employed by Irving Moore.
Mayon, Jaques - D&HE's legal representative in France.
Miller. Roger D. - The last known scientist to be abducted by the Grey Man. 
Moore, Irving - The Client. CEO Moore Electronics. 
Rogers, Lemmy - Private Detective. Listed missing in 1964.
Semenoi - Georgian interpretor. 
Short, Wanda - Listed missing in 1964.
Tanayev, Oleg - GRU officer thought to have been in the vicinity of Sturgeon Bay in 1964.
Turashvili, Akaki - Georgian physicist and former technician at the TOPAZ project.
Turashvili, Anna - Akaki's wife. 
Williams, Bethany - Prostitute. Sturgeon Bay. Listed as a secondary witness.

Lemmy Rogers

Lemmy Rogers: b. 3rd May. 1911.

Rogers graduated from Saint Roux Police Academy in 1934 at the age of twenty three. He spent two years on the streets before being transferred as a uniformed officer to Vice Dept. In 1936 he was wounded in the line of duty and spent eight months in recovery. He was awarded the Police Medal for bravery and returned to work in 1937. Three months later he requested and received a transfer to Criminal Investigations Dept. He made Detective in 1938, but this was the last promotion he would receive. Archived reports indicate he was difficult to work with, he made several accusations of corruption against fellow officers and in 1939 he was once more wounded in the line of duty. A report from Internal Affairs dated 2nd August 1939 indicates that Rogers was shot by one of his own colleagues. The matter was covered and the offending officer removed from the Police Force. Rogers returned to duty in 1940 and served without distinction until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. Several archived reports during this last period of his police career detail numerous reprimands for drunken behaviour and insubordination but Rogers record shows he had a higher frequency of arrests and convictions than any other officer in the Criminal Investigations Dept during this period.

19th December. 1941. Rogers enlisted in the US Marine Corps and passed through basic training without distinction. He joined General Infantry in 1942 and served in the Pacific Theatre. During this time he saw several engagements with Imperial Japanese forces and his record shows several mentions of brave and outstanding conduct. He was recommended for the Silver Star in 1943, but the recommendation was declined. He fought at the Battle of Leyte and was seriously wounded by a land mine for which he was awarded a Purple Heart and an Honourable Discharge in 1944. He spent the next four years in recovery.

After several years of odd jobs, problems with alcohol and declining health, Rogers was unable to rejoin the police force and so he set up business as a Private Detective. He married Gale Anne Clyne in 1957 and was divorced in 1958. The reason given for the divorce was infidelity.

Lemmy Rogers was declared missing on 24th June 1965 and officially presumed dead on 24th November. 1966. His body was never found and there is no official explanation as to what became of him.