AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY
Think Tank was originally funded as a joint project between the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) and the Princeton University Music Department’s Experimental Counter-Intelligence Anti-Non-Subversive Artificial Music Initiative (ECIANSAMI). Utilizing resources originally earmarked for the SETI program in the 1960’s, Think Tank released an audio recording entitled “Hack 1″ in 1991, primarily as a psycho-acoustic experiment similar in scope and methodology to the MK-ULTRA series, utilizing psychoactive sound elements in place of pharmacological agents. Partnered with this effort was a second initiative (known as a “B-Side”), called “A Knife & A Fork,” which was designed by NORAD’s specially-trained corps of programmers on a modified Cray 3, utilizing a children’s nursery rhyme to mask the potentially subversive nature of the project.
The executives at Tommy Boy Records were duped into releasing the experiment to the public, on the fictional HAKATAK label. This was accomplished with the assistance of our deep cover music industry operative, Paul Robb (code names: “the Great Gazoo,” “Satan’s Little Helper,” “Scrootape”), who had nurtured the front organization Information Society for several years prior to the first release. The self-replicating psycho-acoustic virus/meme contained in the recording was released onto the public-at-large in the United States, the United Kingdom, and in Japan. We noted at the time with some satisfaction that the virus propagated itself successfully in all three areas, and even spread to other locales worldwide.
After the Senate Intelligence Committee’s hearings into CIA involvement in the electronic music industry, Think Tank was shelved indefinitely. Sometime in 1996, however, it was learned by this office that our operative Paul Robb had gone rogue, and had revived Think Tank, along with the HAKATAK operation. With the release of two new initiatives, “Mandroid” and “Skullbuggery,” it was immediately apparent that it was his intention to continue with what has been recognized for several years now as a reckless and potentially devastating experiment. Presumably, the intervening years have served only to provide a comfortable period for Robb to make the virus/memes encoded within the “music” even more debilitating, or even lethal.
It is our recommendation that the rogue be allowed to continue with his experiments, in the hopes that we can learn more about the dangerous yet potentially invaluable constructs known to the public-at-large as Think Tank’s “songs”. It is forecast, moreover, with a 90% probability that his operations will be destroyed in their entirety, due either to a reactionary music industry-based backlash against his efforts, or to the lethargic and apathetic hopelessness and despair, and inertia that we have successfully inculcated in the public-at-large, vis-a-vis electronic music. Furthermore, should his efforts meet with success, it is our opinion that we can co-opt his entire organization with a few well-directed bribes and/or threats. It would not be the first time we have neutralized potential adversaries with help from our operatives in the Warner, Sony, and Polygram front-organizations. Should we ever find ourselves in extremis (e.g. facing a total synthcore meltdown), we can always revert to the surest way (code-name “Big Hit”) of neutralizing any revolutionary: we can make him rich.
Report Filed: 10-31-96
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