My Card Was On The Table

by Tom Meyers

I, Tom Meyers, am the original manchurian candidate.

I'm 67 years old. I am only now after years of therapy able to tell what happened to me during and after the Korean War. Although I always remembered being confronted by the enemy, while me and six or seven others were on a mission on or beyond the Korea DMZ.

For many years I thought that all that happened was that they told us to leave, I guess that's how my mind protected my from recalling all the horrible things that followed. Some years ago I flashed back and had to be admitted to the V.A. hospital. I had to go through intensive therapy to be able to deal with the truth of what happened. The doctors encouraged me to file for a service connected disability.

I was given a card for medical care and pending benefits. But as more and more of the truth came out, they told me that they made a mistake and I was not eligible for benefits and started saying they have no records of this happening to you, and I can believe that, because for some strange reason, I remember before the mission the officer in charge said this mission will not go on your 201 file.

I'm going to cut it short now for I'm getting a little jumpy. I do remember a man in Highland Falls N.Y. asking me if I would show him around town, he was a merchant marine,he ask me to go back to his place so he could change his shirt when we got there, I near a table and he handed me a deck of cards, and said why don't you play a game of solitare while your waiting, I said I didn't care to but he said he was going to be awhile and I said okay.

I don't know how long after that, but I was standing the sidewalk, in Highland Falls with other people, waiting to see President Eisnhower to pass through on his way to West Point. I rushed toward his car, and was then grabbed by a whole bunch of guys. I know that after that I was used by the CIA as an assassin and a spy for about six years. There is so much more I'd like to say, I'm okay now but I'm getting tired. To contiue

by Tom Meyers

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