FBI Interviews Lansberry. 1976
On January 16, 1976, LANSBERRY was interviewed in his room at the YMCA by Special Agent X. He furnished the following information during a general conversation with him:
He is the subject of constant harassment. He hears voices via radio transmissions and is able to receive these transmissions because of an electrode receiver which has been placed in his ear, a tooth or his throat. Those responsible for these voices are HEW, CIA and the University of Pittsburgh. Al three organizations wish to brain-control people. He is a guinea pig for a large experiment. The aforementioned voices have dictated thousands of letters to him and he transcribes these is longhand and sends them out to various officials in all walks of life.
He has sent out 2,700 letters during the past several weeks and 200 in the past three days. No one will escape these voices, if they want to be heard. None of the letters contains threats because he has a certain control over these voices that forbid them from forcing him to threaten anyone in the letters dictated. The voices have even given him the addresses of those who are to receive letters. He has received very few replies, but one reply came from Director CLARENCE KELLEY, of the FBI, who assured him that no files exist concerning him. Those to whom he writes include Congressmen, newspapers and radio stations. All of the letters are handwritten at his YMCA desk.
He is presently on welfare and receives $162 a month. Most of this money is spent on writing equipment and stamps. He eats at the local Salvation Army or wherever he can find a free handout. During one period he went twelve days without eating because the voices forgot to tell him to eat. These same voices tell him when to take a shower, and they forgot, recently, for a period of about two weeks.
He is not on drugs and has never undergone psychiatric treatment. He is a "high-cycle-hearing" person who has the capacity to receive ultra-sonic messages. He continues to write because the letters he writes are funny and he often laughs a lot while he is writing. Several of the voices have a distinct sense of humor. HEW and the CIA have promised to pay him for his writing, but no money has been forthcoming as yet. He has no television, car, radio, clock, calendar or watch. He only does what the voices tell him to do. Members of his family have forsaken him and have forbidden him to return home. His wife does not want his young daughter to see him "slowly going insane." He will refuse all psychiatric treatment, because he feels there is nothing wrong with him. He simply cannot get out from under the pressures of the voices from the three organizations mentioned.
