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Moe's Final Session: March 10, 2005

Television, print and online media reverberated with reports about the attack. Everyone was shocked that chimpanzees could do so much damage to a human being, especially without being provoked. Animal trainers and zookeepers stressed that all adult chimps, no matter how tame they seem, are unpredictable and dangerous. Nobody, however, could recall hearing about an attack that was as vicious as this one. Unfortunately, some internet postings said that Moe was the attacker. When Moe contacted me, St. James was still in very critical condition.

“I don’t think St. James is going to visit me for a long time. I don’t think he’ll want to,” Moe said.
“I just hope he survives,” I replied. “LaDonna is watching over him in the hospital. How are you doing?”
“I just want to sleep.”
“The news reports said it happened right in front of you.”
“The whole thing was all my fault.”
“You may feel like that, but...”
It was the first time I heard Moe raise his voice. “Buddy and Ollie didn’t hate St. James and LaDonna. They hated me.”
Animal behaviorists thought that the chimps might have attacked because they were jealous of all the attention Moe was getting from the Davis’. With the birthday cake and celebration, Buddy and Ollie may have felt they weren’t being treated fairly.
“They were jealous of you?” I asked.
“Not at all. Just the opposite. Buddy and Ollie didn’t want their attention. They hated me because I loved to be visited by St. James and LaDonna.”
“I don’t understand,” I said.
“When I got here, I tried to be friends with the other chimps. I told them my whole life story. I thought since we all had been in the entertainment business, they’d understand how I felt about the Davis’.”
“And they didn’t?”
“Ollie and Buddy said I was spoiled. They told me I should be like them.”
“How so?”
“All their life, they lived in cages with other chimps. They thought it was disgusting that I cared about two humans.”
“Okay, so you were different,” I remarked.
“For months, they tried to convince me they were right. I kept telling them I could be a friend to humans and to chimps. They grew more and more angry with me.”
“So what happened?”
“A few weeks ago, they said I had to make LaDonna and St. James go away.”
“Or?”
“Or they were going to do it for me, for my own good.”
“So when they saw the Davis’ coming for your birthday, they knew you still hadn’t listened to them,” I said.
“That’s part of the reason it was my fault. I should have done what they told me. And I should never have told them my story.”
“Did you know what they were going to do next?”
“No. I think the girls, Suzie and Bones, knew what was going to happen. That’s why they ran away. I thought Buddy and Ollie were just going to scare St. James and LaDonna. I tried to warn them, but there was no time.”
“And then the whole thing happened in front of you.”
“That’s why I just want to sleep. During the attack, I knew they were making me remember what humans had done to my chimpanzee mother. They were recreating my story. That’s why they went after LaDonna first. When St. James protected her, they attacked him.”

“Humans tore apart your chimpanzee mother and then chimpanzees tore apart your human father. Where does that leave you, Moe?” I asked.
“Right here at Animal Haven Ranch. I still don’t know who I am, or what I want to be. But I know I’m not like Buddy or Ollie. I could never be that vicious.”
“That’s important,” I said.
“I know that about myself. But you can never be sure of that. You don’t know what somebody else might do.”
I had to agree with him.
“It’s a chimp thing,” he said.
“It’s a human thing, too,” Moe told me.

Posted on Friday, April 1, 2005 at 02:43PM by Registered Commenterimaginarytherapy.com | Comments2 Comments

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Unusual baby with human and simian features was born to a Mongolian prostitute woman in special Beijing hospital last year. SARS story was government cover up to close down all hospitals to prevent story from getting out. This baby was kept a big secret by the Central Committee. Some doctors and nurse disappear. Rumor among physicians in Beijing is that father of baby is the chimp/man named Oliver. I saw this baby for only a few minutes, it looked like human with facial structure hints of a chimp. Baby had much hair and large hand/foot structure. Appeared very odd, but intelligent. The mother is good-for-nothing street whore claiming that she was paid big money by Russian man to have sex with special chimp. She says the chimp was like man in many ways and drinking much Beijinger whiskey. Who knows, maybe true? Anyway, baby is now in the Chinese Space Agency headquarters building located at #2, Jiang Tai Lu, Chao Yang District in Beijing not far from the Lido. This building is top security and very difficult to enter, but you can see windows from street where sometimes chimp like figure is seen inside reading newspaper and smoking cigar. Some CP big shots talk quietly about this chimp/man going to moon on Chinese rocket because too dangerous for human. This is possible because China always take safe approach to risky operations so not to loose face if failure.

Dr. Shen Xia Yen

June 17, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterDr. Shen Xia Yen
The notes above do capture much of Oliver’s public life, but only those elements specifically created by the government to gather open attention. There is much more to the story.

Hello. I am an older gentlemen now and while I prefer to stay in the shadows, my failing health and age continue to reduce the potential for reprecussions.

In the middle 70s, I ran an elite aviation/aerospace group in southern California for a little known agency. Located in the town of Upland, my team was quartered at a small private airfield called Cable. Our public front was that of a civilian aviation patrol club, ostensibly formed to conduct pilot training and air search, etc.

In the spring of 76, I was contacted through my channels and instructed to perform support assistance for what was then termed Operation BAKER BREAD. In short course, my team Squadron Two Five received ample funding, and received a liaison visit from the Op Controller who was known to me only as Richard. I meet with him in a small place on the Foothill Blvd., the Upper Crust, where I received my general tasking: design and test flight control and operating modules that could be understood and used by a chimp. According to Richard, the protocol was established as a Hot Sheet item, the desire being to preclude any further incident such as that which had befallen Gary Powers.

Over the months, my team commenced design and prototyping in a private hangar at Cable (N 2-4). We installed the controls and surrogate lifting surfaces onto a sled of sorts in order to permit a controlled examination of the operations without flight risk. In the fall of the year, I first met Oliver.

One our introduction, he merely strolled into our quonset hut, touched two fingers to his right brow without breaking gait, and helped himself to my package of Camel cigarettes. I was simply astonished. I had been working on a personal device, a machine designed to clean and polish Golf balls, that I intended to market to luxory hotels. Within several hours, Oliver had become familiar enough with the machine to safely operate it - he even adjusted a troublesome switch for the ejection/removal.

Over the winter months, we began testing our monkey piloted rocket sled. These tests occured far out in the desert; you may still visit the area now by driving 90 or so miles east of a small town called Halloran Springs. While the mechanical testing went well, I began to see the ugly side of Oliver - a side that perplexed and frightened me. A chronic smoker, he would slip into despondant periods during which he would drink alcohol heavily and show aggressive behavior. Several instances nearly shut down the project; one involved his brandishing an empty bottle and striking an assistant (it was poor old man Miller) over the head, apparently to take possession of his felt hat. As Miller lie in the sand, unconcious, I observed Oliver to exhault in the moment, wavering both limbs wildly and flashing his teeth while hooting. He wore the hat for several days, then filled it with his own urine and left it.

Still more troubling was his untoward sexual conduct. In another incident, a young support staff worker, Patty, fled the camp in a rush and did not return the following week. Months later I was to learn that Oliver had attacked her sexually, and that their union had in fact resulted in pregnancy. Richard arrived to discuss the matter and here revealed that Oliver was, indeed, a hybrid simian. Attempts to breed him to human females had taken place, with those results being termed horrible “pirates and ringmasters”. I learned only later that Patty had been spirited off from the area in order to deliver the offspring of Oliver. I was only to glad when testing was complete. I never heard another word regarding the Op or of Oliver until recently. The recent spate of news makes me wonder if it is all timed to coincide with the progeny of Oliver.

June 17, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterJoe Shea

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