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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 09:08:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Patricia Neill 
Wonder of Burandanga is related to "roofies" ....
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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 12:24:41 -0400
From: Ignition-Point 
Subject: IP: Burandanga
To: celano@ic.NET
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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 09:47:26 -0600
From: BARR DOUG 
To: lloyd@a-albionic.com
Subject: Re: ADMISSION OF REMOTE MIND CONTROL?
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.mindcontrol
From a medical source:
        Scopolamine can be used as a presurgical drug for the purpose of
impairing memory of surgical trauma. It provides an initial knowckout
effect, before the anaesthesia proper is administered, and has the added
benefit of preventing long term memory formation during the period of
time. At one time scopolamine was given to women during childbirth.
Exerpt from Wall Street Journal Article, July 3, 1995 (the comments in ()
are mine)
Dateline Bogota, Colombia If you thought cocaine was bad news, wait until
you hear about Burandanga.
     Burundanga is a kind of voodoo powder obtained from a Colombian local
plant of the nightshade family, a shrub called barrachera, or "drunken
binge". Used for hundreds of years by Natie Americans in religious
ceremonies, the powder when ingested causes victims to lose their will and
memory, sometimes for days. (This drug is also known as Nightshade or "CIA
drugs).
     When refined the powder yields scopolamine, a well-know drug with
legitimate uses as a sedative and to combat motion sickness. (Mengele of
Nazi fame also had and experimented with scopolamine as a truth serum).
But in Colombia, the drug's most avid fans are street criminals. Crooks
mix the powder with sedatives and feed the Burundanga cocktail to
unsuspecting victims whom they then proceed to rob - or worse.
     Doctors here estimate that Colombian hustlers slip the odorless,
colorless and soluble Burundanga (pronounced boor-oon-DAN-ga) in food or
drink to about 500 unwitting victims in the city each month. About half of
the city's total emergency room admissions for poison are Burundanga
victims.
     "It is a very serious problem," says Fernando Botero, Colombia's
defense minister. Adds Camilo Uribe, the doctor who runs the city's
formost toxicology clinic and who is in charge of toxicology for all of
Bogota's public hospitals.  "It's epidemic".
     It seems that everyone in Bogota knows someone who has been
victimized by the drug, Burundanguiado, as the say in Spanish. In one
common scenario, a person will be offered a soda or drink laced with the
substance. The next the person remembers is waking up miles away,
extremely groggy and with no memory of what happened. People soon discover
that they have handed over jewelry, money, car keys, and sometimes have
even made multiple bank with- drawals for the benefit of their assailants.
Because Burundanga is often given at seedy bars or houses of prostitution,
many victims are reluctant to come forward.
     "The victim can't say no; he has no will and becomes very open to
suggestion. It's like CHEMICAL HYPNOTISM," says Dr. Uribe. "From the
moment it's given, the victim remembers absolutely nothing of what
happened."  He adds, "From a criminal point of view, it's got a lot of
advantages".
      Architect David Neneses says he was Burundanguiado twice in one week
last December. Mr. Meneses' first encounter with Burundanga took place on
a Friday night when he stopped at a pharmacy to buy antacid. Two
well-dressed men approached hes car. Teh last thing Mr. Menses remembers
is one of the men unwrapping a piece of candy. "I woke up the next day at
noon at my house."  he says. He had no memory of how he got there, though
the doorman in his building told Mr. Menseses he saw him com in at 7 a.m.
looking nervous and confused.
     On Monday, Mr. Meneses checked with his bank, where he was told that
his ATM card made 13 withdrawals for a total of about $700 on that lost
Friday night. Concerned that he might have unwittingly been involved in
criminal activity, or that his car had been used, Mr. Meneses went to the
local prosecutors office where he made a sworn statement saying he wasn't
respon- sible for anything that had happened during the hours he was under
the influence of the drug.
     Three days later, the luckless Mr. Meneses noticed that he had a flat
tire. Two men on the street approached him and offered to change it. "I
remember they gave me something to drink, which I can't imagine why I
drank."  he says. Police found him asleep in his car six hours later. He
had been robbed of his radio and about $125.
     These days, Mr. Meneses is careful to drive with the windows rolled
up.  He doesn't venture out much at night anymore. "Burundanga is a very
dangerous weapon in the hands of the underworld" he says.
     Not all cases of Burundanga involve theft or robbery. Sometimes
victims have been used as mules to carry cocaine, says Dr. Uribe's brother
Manuel, a neurologist practicing at the clinic. In one incident, says
Manuel Uribe, a well-known Colombian diplomat disappered shortly after
leaving a function in Bogota, only to reappear in Chile under arrest for
cocaine smuggling. Medical tests showed he had been under the influence of
Burundanga, and no charges were filed.
     Camilo Uribe said that in a minority of cases Burundanga is used to
lure young women who are then abused sexually. When they are found days
later, they have no memory of what has happened to them. "You see that a
lot with university coeds." he says.
     Camilo Uribe is often called by companies and embassies to talk about
the perils of Burundanga. One diplomatic mission that takes the problem
very seriously is the U.S. Embassy. Its orientation manual warns freshman
diplomats never to visit bars or nightclubs alone. "Druggings in group
situations are far less common" the manual says, adding that food and
drinks should never be left unattended. At the Colombian unit of Dow
Chemical Co.  (now there's an organization that knows about drugs!)
security officials periodically tell employees how to avoid getting
Burundanguiado "There have been many cases." says Oswaldo Parra, the
company's legal officer. "It's a very common practice in Colombia."
    Curiosly, just next door i Ecuador, where the plant is grown
commercially for medical purposes, its criminal use is unknown. Instead,
the plant is the subject of poetry and myth. If one sleeps under the plant
i Ecuador, he will be able to tell the future, legends say.
    Here, however, Pedro Gomez Silva, a forensic chemical expert, tells
police cadets that for fear of Burundanga, Colombians shouldn't accept
food, drinks or cigarettes from strangers, nor buy them from street
vendors.
    What' smore, to be on the safe side, Colombians shouldn't help when
asked for directions or the time of day. And forget sidewalk romances. Teh
way things go with Burundanga, flirting with a stranger could lead to a
really lost weekend.
End article.
NOTE. THIS SUBSTANCE CAN BE GIVEN BY LIQUID, CIGARETTE OR INHALANT. IT IS
TASTELESS AND ODERLESS AND CAN GIVEN WITH A DRUG THAT MAKES THE VICTIM
TEMPORARILY BLIIND. THE VICTIM UNDER THIS DRUG, WITH AN EXPERIENCED
OPERATOR, WILL TELL THE TRUTH TO ANY QUESTION ASKED. THE VICTIM MAY HAVE
NO MEMORY OF THE EVENT, OR MAY REMEMBER THE EVENT AS A DREAM. MEMORIES OF
EVENTS WHILE ON THIS DRUG MAY COME INTO CONCIOUSNESS MANY YEARS LATER. THE
CIA/FBI/NSA AND MOST POLICE DEPARTMENTS KNOW ABOUT THESE DRUGS. THIS DRUG
IS USED BY SECURITY FORCES TO "MAKE PEOPLE FORGET" OTHER EVENTS. VICTIMS
OF THIS DRUG OFTEN REPORT DISTORTED VISION, ESPECIALLY THINGS BEING MADE
WIDE AND SMALL, OR THE GIVER'S HEAD STARTING TO STRETCH.
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