This is the room that the leaders of the intelligence agencies of the most powerful countries in the world go to discuss matters of the utmost national security. In this room are hatched the plans that lead to assassinations, corporate espionage, and government destabilization.
Inside this room, through hermetically sealed doors, twelve shadowy figures sit around a table, their bodies illuminated only by the flicker of a manual projector. Against the wall, on a screen, are the words "Project Circe". Next to the screen is the dark outline of a man. What is visible of his body caught in the light of the projector is a dark suit. His face lives in shadows. The figure looks around the room. The only way to tell is the slight shift of the head. Light reflects off his square-framed glasses. In a non-inflected accent of European origin, the man begins to speak.
"As you are all aware, espionage groups around the world have been experimenting with thought reform since the nineteen thirties with limited success. Most of these attempts have taken four distinct phases, or combinations of behavior change: drug cocktails (usually a mixture of sodium benethol and LSD), environment control through 3-D projection or sensation deprivation chambers, or outright crude methods such as prolonged periods of torture, as seen here."
Click, Click, Click.
The projector whirred and projected several images; an American prisoner in a Vietnamese torture camp, members of the Japanese Supreme Truth cult being forced-starved and placed in small metal boxes, a Russian sensory deprivation chamber.
The man continued.
"Though these brutal and heavy-handed methods have been moderately successful at behavior modification, they all involve an incredible amount of damage to the subject's psyche making them virtually unusable in the field afterward. In short, we can change their behavior, but only by destroying their identity. Making them obviously unusable as a counter-agent."
"Gentlemen, you know what we need; Agents who are 100% loyal to us, not the cause, not America, but to the twelve of us in this room. Agents who retain all of their intellectual capacity, and all of their skills, but who must use them only for our benefit, not because they have been coerced, but because their very biology allows them no other alternative."
"Thus Project Circe, which proposes to use the subjects own hormonal system against them. Through the use of chemically enhanced pheromones, we induce the subject to follow our commands without any outside direct interference. Simply by being near us, we can create incredibly effective modes of behavioral modification. These behaviors can be highly complex and are based on biological models similar to the way pheromones control bee behavior in nature. Strictly speaking, we found several pheromones such as the queen pheromone or master pheromone which when chemically enhanced forces the subject's body to react to the control body as their master. There are "alpha dog" and "protector" pheromones which induce the subjects body into a state of trust, or CHILD state with the agent, pheromones for "command", pheromones to induce cooperation between subjects at the agents request, to change the subject's sexual orientation, even to induce biological change in the subject such as age regression, breast enlargement, and lactation."
"These, of course, are merely a few of the modes we have achieved, not to mention sexual submission modes. Since most biological behavior is based upon reproduction, so are many of these pheromones. Pheromones tend to work most effectively across gender, and create "natural" order hierarchies, where young more fertile women become especially submissive to older more dominant men."
Click.
It is a picture of a young girl naked and on her knees in front of an older man. A collar is around her neck with designation Alpha 1-9. A man is standing in front of her in a suit, his face blurred. In his hand, he holds the leash attached to her collar.
"Meet Alpha 1-9, formerly Cassandra Napier, a freshman at Brown University whose mother was a dogged investigative reporter who came across a report she shouldn't have. Alpha 1-9 was crucial in getting access to the mother and the files."
The twelve murmur in the dark.
"Through slight shifts in bio-chemicals released through the master-subjects skin we can alter the slave-subjects; Submissiveness both to the master subject and others, sexuality, intelligence, ethical system, suggestiveness. Later in our labs, we can use genetic re-sequencing to evolve the objects endocrine system to our exact needs."
"For a case study of the effectiveness of our methods, we'd like you to meet Officer McMurty."
The projector shows a picture of a young woman. Age. 25-30, Red Hair. A picture appears to have been taken at her graduation from the police academy. She is wearing police blues and is smiling for the camera. Around her are other police officers.
