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I I p. s. Piii. iging aft at a London hotel. )EPUTY Assistant-Commissioner lAN FORBES has just retired ram Scotland Yard after a career that gave him the record solving EVERY murder case he investigated.

In next week's Sunday Mirror lAN FORBES opens his iecret casebook to reveal far the first time his own stories of: Pictures: DENNIS STONE THE MOST EVIL WOMAN IN BRITAIN THE INCREDIBLE HUNT FOR A SEX FIEND THE MURDERER BETRAYED BY HIS EYES THEE INSIDE STORY OF A GANG KILLING. cries in next week's SUNDAY MiRROR I Pow 1..... FOr '( 1 cries in the. HEY call it mind processing. It is a curious business involving coffins, whips, screams in the night.

And lumpy custard. So curious that the mind processor have been banned from the Excelsior Hotel at Heathrow Airport Recently, they held one of their fourday management training courses £385 a head. And staff at another of the mind men's meeting places, the Bellhouse Hotel at Beaconsfield. Bucks, told of strange and frightening goings- On. It was at the Bellhouse that the astonishing group specially ordefed unpalatable food, like lumpy custard.

and pork chops with too much fat. Why so And what about the coffins, whips and screams All essential, it seems, to the methods of the Leadership Dynamics Institute, a business training organisation based at Watford. The Institute is connected with an American company, Holiday Magic. Holiday Magic is a direct-selling cosmetics firm. It operates on the pyramid system, a marriage of door-to-door selling and chain-letter techniques.

In February, the Sunday Mirror published an inquiry into Holiday Magic and its selling methods. The Excelsior Hotel wants no thing more to do with the Leadership Dynamics Institute. A hotel spokesman said last week: "Have them back here? You must be joking." Damage He claimed that the mindprocessors and their uurpils, many of them housewives, set fire to the dance floor, causing damage. And, he said, their irregular behaviour upset the staff. But what ABOUT the coffins, the whips and the screams Institute president Sharon.

Shumate, 32, says A is all to get, rid of bad things in people. This sometimes involved getting into coffins. Sometimes maple were slapped during training. The screams? Loss of temper, explained Mr. Shumate.

thrash The whips To StOOIS with, he said. And as far as he knew. body whipped ANYBODY. tk to the Bellhouse Hotel. General manager William Craven explained the poor food order.

SUNDAY MIRROR, May 14, 1972 Time to make friends and influence other Institute boss Sharon Shumate people at the mind-processing course. He says nobody whipped anybody. SUNDAY MIRROR, a 1 ,:1, 1 ii ii: cf i y. 1 'f. :1 1 i f.

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I ll HEY call it mind process- ing. It is a curious 05: Nusi ss involvingc offi igh ns whips, screams in he And lumpy custard. si -i So curious the mind a processors have been banned from gt, 600 1 the Excelsior Hotel at Heathrow Airport. "ir da eee nt a ag th ern ey en eld ai in the ir nur fo es r- £385 a head. 6: M.

3 iKitt: mess And meeting staff places, theof el lho i is i a ng a "frightening told of On. custard. a.st ni sh as ing at th ro op Ee lh pe i a lly that oroor tti unpalatable food, like lumpy fat. the "ApP.M.t .1 and vi what a out coffins, whips and scream tk, 1:.. Allth methods of the business a ta Leadership i i i Dynamics or alii.s the a.

4 Itl.Kgpcm.10.??, I i i i tut basede at Watford. st i ut an is 7 connected ad i eme i ei el i i ll an American te a Tl -i cl a Magic cosmetics i a rat ain on -let pyramid system, a 'marriage of techniques. Dynamics Ins titute. "th the Leaders hip door-to-door seliin tis the Sunday Mirror business trainPng ses.s,on WA In February, to Holiday published an inquiry in Magic and its selling methods. Two couples relax in the nicest ossible way at the hotel after a II LeadergsEhmxipcoerlseDioytronaildmooitcewslit wantsthe you sp ke jo snz aid last iv till lhh ine- "Have them back here? Damage i the I.

ls ra er 3 a i i eh a din a co a lsf ie i ow oirv: in ur a ill li es ing damage. in lax And, he said, their irregular behaviour upset the staff. whips and the sharoll i coons, ffi the what Institute president all to -4 Shumate, 32, sass IA .2: 4 people. i. get rid of bad tiling 3 This sometimes involved sonie.

.:4 4 1k getting into coffins. 4 ...,,,.:,..1.4. were slapped of 5.,.. '-w-- te li i pe gc pe tra in i i lg .:41: 1 110 creams? Loss ained Mr. Shumate.

The E.T I 3 stools A le with, a i Ip I far as saasidT.o he ikl knew. a yw 9 1t thewhi ilf General manager "poor i i A Ir 41:. Craven explained the food "order. i ii 2 lA' menus 6.,......., it ,5 gisiii 5 had to be taug W. :eW.Mii',.

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I C4 i iira a i 1 a lu ou ri inr :1 Th la p-u em cel time i a a de i tl i soite apart fom the main most of their hed early yl Often building. i hr es i 3, isolated from other guests. that worked until the 011 i Mr. Craven confirmed ice of the morning. coffins were part of the cou equipment.

influence other whipped anybody. a i Time to make friends and He says nobody ora ke a dd ii Ap a conference suite in feet people condition." Institute boss Sharon Shumate at the mind-processing cours e. Two couples relax in the nicest possible way at the hotel after a business training session with the Leadership Dynamics Institute. 1 i I 4 :g.i.., fi s' 4 1 i i. 2 gA, 4 it, t.

1 I f4tANlt ii 44 7 l4: .) I 1 iiiiiii 1 5 5.:: yy ir 4' it i 511:.: i i l. ii.4:4:gitiii4i:4N!:-.;ff..:' 1 tii -4- iii.1ikt44:„..,...it:,4L.:'.:•:'::::::,,.4--"...::::,;•Ri::::.;....:;:,:::::;.:.i...fi'.4.;;':.f 1 1 1.., i 4. Menus As I understand the thinking behind the special menus, people had to be a ugh to appreciate things. On the final day they had a slap-up celebration lunch." The members of the course twenty men and ten most of their time in a detached conference suite apart fom the main hotel building. Often they worked until the early hours of the morning.

isolated from other guests. Mr. Craven confirmed that coffins were part of the course equipment. He added: "Apart from one cracked window they left the conference suite in perfect condition." By COLIN WILLS.