Why would a guy who seemed so passive end up working for the CIA in the French Resistance?
KF: Some of them were already involved in covert work at Harvard, but being covert it was secret, which is why they showed little indication of it. Others were simply among the many people who did extraordinary and brave things in wartime. BRC: Luke eventually discovers that he’s been subjected to a treatment that causes global amnesia. In what little information I was able to find, global amnesia is generally referred to as transient rather than irreversible. Have there been case studies in which this type of amnesia was found to be permanent? KF: No. I have imagined that the CIA research program was successful in finding a way to cause permanent amnesia. In real life the program was totally unsuccessful, despite costing millions of dollars. BRC: The government-sanctioned low-profile experiments that Billie’s research team conducted on drug effects and mind control are reminiscent of actual experiments that have been exposed to public scrutiny in recent years. Do you believe most of t
