Mark Chapman’s Bellevue Hospital Toxicology Report Has Surfaced - Update

Mark Chapman was tested for drugs in his system the day after John Lennon’s assassination. Glutethimide and Quinine were found in his system.

After much debate and research from our Substack community, I think it is safe to now assume that Chapman had a ‘positive’ result for Glutethimide and there was also a trace of Quinine in his system. Thanks to everyone who offered up their thoughts and analysis on this.

As I mentioned in the original article, MK Ultra Doctor, Ewen Cameron, was using Glutethimide on patients as a hypnotic sedative.

More information on this can be found here.

As for Quinine, some of you may be surprised to discover that this seemingly harmless anti-malaria drug was being used on some MK Ultra projects, via a generic ‘quinoline’ category. Quinine and Cinchonine are two alkaloids that come from cinchona bark. It was revealed in a senate hearing in 1977, that the CIA were conducting research into quinolines, the class of drug that include Cinchonine, and Quinine. These drugs were part of MK Ultra sub-projects 43 and 45.

More information on this can be found here.

Sub-project 43 was for a study of ‘disassociated states’. This aimed to explore the psychological experience of feeling detached from oneself or the surrounding world Dissociation was characterised by disruptions in memory, identity, perception, and consciousness. There is a strong relationship between hypnosis and dissociation, with hypnosis being used to induce a dissociative state.

Sub-project 45 was a biochemical investigation of curare-like effects of certain thiols, and the preparation of quinolines and indole alkaloids. A curare-like effect refers to a situation where a substance, other than curare, causes a block in the transmission of signals between nerves and muscles at the neuromuscular junction, resulting in paralysis.

Quinine being associated with these two MK Ultra projects is deeply disturbing but with what we now know about Chapman and his behaviour, a trace of quinine being found in his system is not really surprising. Hypnosis and paralysis were possibly both in play when Chapman was standing in the Dakota driveway and imagining things that were not happening in front of him. Or perhaps, Chapman just had a drink of tonic water earlier that day. We sadly now will never know for sure.

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The British barrister Fenton Bresler interviewed NYPD Lieutenant Arthur O’Connor for his ground-breaking 1989 book, ‘Who Killed John Lennon’. On the possibility of Mark Chapman being drugged and programmed, O’Connor didn’t pull any punches:

“It’s possible Mark could have been used by somebody. I saw him the night of the murder. I studied him intensely. He looked as if he could have been programmed, and I know what use you are going to make of that word. That was the way he looked and that was the way he talked. It could have been drugs – and no, we did not test for drugs! It was not standard procedure. But looking back, he could have either been drugged or programmed – or a combination of both.”

The 20^th precinct police department were clearly not interested in conducting a drugs test on Chapman on the night of the assassination but thankfully Bellevue hospital were. It was standard procedure for a toxicology test to be conducted on a newly arrived patient. Before we get to that, let’s just quickly remind ourselves of any evidence of drugs being administered on Chapman in 1980.

Thanks to the Castle Memorial hospital whistle-blower Dr. Barnett Salzman, we now know that Chapman was being ‘looked after’ by Dr. Ram Gursahani. Salzmann revealed that Gursahani was using brain-washing drugs such as Thorazine on his patients. Chapman though, left the special ‘care’ of Castle Memorial and Gursahani in December 1979, just one year before John Lennon’s assassination.

In the autumn of 1980, a now somewhat crazed and aggressive Mark Chapman was deep into a campaign of intimidation and sometimes violence against a Hawaiian Scientology centre. A centre which coincidentally through its leader Dennis Clarke, was also having a legal battle with the Chief Executive of Castle Memorial hospital, Dennis Mee-Lee. Clarke and his Scientology organisation wanted to give Hawaiian mental health patients the right to refuse therapies that they were not comfortable with. Therapies such as electro-shock and Dr. Gursahani’s brain-washing programmes, were squarely in Clarke’s crosshairs. Clarke won his battle and many may wonder whether Chapman’s random and bizarre hatred of Clarke’s Hawaiian scientology centre was instigated by persons unknown at Castle Memorial. Clarke certainly thought this might be the case.

Clarke also wondered whether Chapman may have been getting psychotropic drugs by prescription in 1980. From time to time, Chapman appeared very lethargic to Clarke and in general, Chapman seemed to only function in spurts. Clarke suspected that drug prescriptions might have been obtained for Chapman from Castle Memorial’s Dr. Lee or his trusted sidekick, Dr. Marvitt.

Proof that Chapman was almost certainly taking drugs leading up to John Lennon’s assassination, was found in Chapman’s hotel room after the murder. 122 unidentified pills were discovered in Chapman’s Sheraton room. As you can see, vitamins were suspected, but no information was ever offered up as to what the NYPD labs may have found contained in these pills. Disgracefully, for over 40 years, the Manhattan DA’s office and the NYPD covered up the discovery of these pills in Chapman’s hotel room. They wanted to regularly talk about a Todd Rundgren tape or a Wizard of Oz movie still, but the discovery of the drugs just somehow slipped their mind.

We now thankfully may have an idea of what may have been contained in Chapman’s hotel drugs cabinet. In 2003, persons unknown auctioned Mark Chapman’s Bellevue Hospital toxicology report. The report image provided from the auction sale is sadly not of a good resolution; but we can decipher that this report was probably compiled from Chapman’s blood taken on the night of 9^th December 1980 at Bellevue - just 24 hours after John’s assassination. The report also has a date of 11^th December, which I suspect is when the report was compiled from the Chapman blood sample.

There appears to be two indicators of something found in Chapman’s system. A ‘trace’ is found for Quinine and there also appears to be a ‘positive’ recording for Glutethimide. Glutethimide is a hypnotic and a sedative drug. In a class action lawsuit, it was discovered that the evil and infamous MK Ultra Doctor, Ewen Cameron, was using Glutethimide on patients as a hypnotic sedative.

The Bellevue toxicology report would not have been shared with the media as Chapman’s drug usage would have been seen as a private matter and a crucial component of the upcoming trial – a trial that conveniently for many, never happened. There is no question though, that the DA’s office and Chapman’s defense lawyers would have been made aware of the toxicology report findings. We know that Kim Hogrefe at the DA’s office was not great at revealing Chapman’s possible drug dependency at the time. Hogrefe was a young and highly ambitious man and he had a suspect he desperately wanted to prosecute and probably didn’t want to promote any ‘issues’ that may have hindered that prosecution. As for Jonathan Marks, Chapman’s so-called defense lawyer, he seemed to be more comfortable with sending CIA hypnotists into Chapman’s cell, rather than telling the world that his client might have had a hypnotic drug in his system when he allegedly shot John Lennon.

One of my subscribers called Daniel, recently brought this toxicology report to my attention and I want to thank him for his sterling detective efforts in finding this report. I always hoped other people would take up the baton and dig further into this case with me. Daniel embodies this hope.