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A few weeks after their marriage, [Jones] did tell Nebel that she had worked for the FBI for some time, adding mysteriously that she might have to go out of town on occasion without giving a reason. This left Nebel wondering whether there was a connection between the 'other' personality within Candy and the strange trips she said she made for the FBI. Nebel began hypnotizing Jones, and uncovered an alternate personality named "Arlene". Under hypnosis, Jones related a lengthy, elaborate account of her being trained in a CIA mind-control program, often at west coast colleges and universities. Jones and Nebel eventually recorded hundreds of hours of these hypnotic sessions. Jones said she had some conscious memories of her involvement in the mind-control program: it began in 1960, she said, when an old USO acquaintance (an unnamed retired army general) asked to use Jones' modeling school as a mailing address to receive some letters and packages. Jones agreed, she said, out of a sense of patriotism. Eventually, said Jones, she was asked to deliver a letter to Oakland, California, on a business trip she had scheduled. Again, Jones reported she agreed, and was surprised to discover the letter was delivered to the same Dr. Jensen who had treated her in the Philippines nearly two decades earlier. Jones said that Jensen and his associate, Dr. "Marshall Burger" (another alias) offered hefty amounts of cash if she was willing to engage in further plans; in their earlier meetings, Jensen had noted that Jones was an ideal subject for hypnosis. Jones agreed, she said, because her modeling school was faltering, and she wanted to keep her sons in their costly private schools. During hypnosis sessions, an alternate personality called "Arlene" was reportedly groomed by Jensen, so that Jones would have no memory of Arlene's activities. Jones allegedly made trips to locations as far away as Taiwan. While hypnotized, Jones claimed that she was subjected to painful torture in order to test the effectiveness of the alternate personality. Author Bain writes, "[Jones] would be a messenger for the agency in conjunction with her normal business trips." Again with the USO, Jones visited South Vietnam in 1970; she later suspected her visit had some connection to a disastrous attempt to free American prisoners of war from North Vietnam. Jones's and Nebel's claims were first made public in 1976 (in Donald Bain's The Control of Candy Jones, published by Playboy Press). Nebel apparently accepted his wife's claims, and openly discussed killing Dr. Jensen in revenge. However, Nebel was a prankster and hoaxer of long standing and as he was not above hoaxing his radio audience, some doubted the recovered memories of Candy Jones's past were genuine. Several years later, Jones' story gained more notice after the public disclosure of MK-ULTRA in 1977. Bain reported that associates in Jones' modeling schools asserted that Jones indeed had some puzzling absences – supposed business trips where little or no business seemed to be conducted. Bain also writes that another piece of evidence came forth when "Candy inadvertently held onto a passport of 'Arlene Grant': Candy in a dark wig and dark makeup". Jones says she had no memory of dressing in such an outfit or of posing for a passport in a different name. Bain also claimed that a tape-recorded message on an answering machine was left on Jones and Nebel's home telephone number on July 3, 1973:
This is Japan Airlines calling on oh-three July at 4.10 p.m. ... Please have Miss Grant call 759-9100 ... she is holding a reservation on Japan Airlines Flight 5 for the sixth of July, Kennedy to Tokyo, with an option on to Taipei. This is per Cynthia that we are calling. When Jones telephoned the number and asked for Cynthia, she was told that no one of that name worked at the reservations desk. Additionally, Brian Haughton notes that
There was also a letter [Jones] wrote to her attorney, William Williams, to cover herself in case she died or disappeared suddenly or under unusual circumstances; she told him she was not at liberty to reveal exactly what she was involved in. Bain wrote to Williams who corroborated this fact. Bain also notes that in 1971, an article by hypnosis expert George Estabrooks was published in Science Digest, wherein Estabrooks openly discussed the successful creation of amnesiac couriers of the type Jones claimed to have been. Dr. Herbert Spiegel, a nationally recognized hypnosis expert, wrote the foreword to The Control of Candy Jones. The story of her mind-control claims was featured in an episode of the Science Channel's Dark Matters: Twisted But True in a segment entitled "Sexy Secret Agent".
== Death == Jones died of cancer on January 18, 1990, at Lenox Hill Hospital. She was 64 years old and had been living in Manhattan.
== Books by Jones == Make Your Name in Modeling and Television, Harper and Brothers, 1960 Finishing Touches, Harper & Brothers, 1961 Between Us Girls Harper and Row, 1966 Just for Teens , Harper and Row, 1967 Modeling and Other Glamour Careers, Harper and Row, 1969 More Than Beauty: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Modeling World, Harper and Row, 1970 Candy Jones' Complete Book of Beauty and Fashion, Harper and Row, 1976
== See also == MKUltra – CIA program involving illegal experimentation on human test subjects (1953–1973) Remote viewing – Pseudoscientific concept
== References ==
Bibliography
Bain, Donald. The Control of Candy Jones, Playboy Press, Chicago, 1976.
== External links ==
Candy Jones at IMDb