Cathy O’Brien is an American conspiracy theorist and author who claims to have been a victim of a government mind control program called “Project Monarch”. She alleges that this program was part of the CIA’s infamous Project MKUltra. O’Brien made these assertions in her books “Trance Formation of America” (1995) and “Access Denied: For Reasons of National Security” (2004), both of which she co-authored and self-published with her husband, Mark Phillips¹.

In “Trance Formation of America”, O’Brien describes her childhood sexual abuse by her father and a network of child pornographers. She then claims that she was forced by the CIA to participate in Project Monarch, which she believes is a subsection of Project MKUltra and Project ARTICHOKE. Under hypnosis, she recalled memories of sexual abuse—both of herself and her daughter—by international pedophile rings, drug barons, and satanists. These alleged abusers supposedly used a form of “trauma-based mind control programming” to make her a sex slave¹.

O’Brien accuses a wide range of prominent individuals—from government officials to country music stars—of being part of a Project Monarch conspiracy to operate sex slave rings and commit child abuse. For instance, she claims that former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid used holograms to appear to her in altered forms. According to O’Brien, Bush activated a hologram of a lizard-like “alien,” creating the illusion of his transformation before her eyes