Was Jim Morrison a secret agent?

A rodeo photographer in Oregon named Gerald Pitts maintains a website with a regularly updated schedule of rodeo-related events in that region. Pitts claims that the late poet, songwriter and vocalist James Douglas "Jim" Morrison, frontman of sixties rock and roll group, the Doors, who supposedly died in 1971, reemerged in the Oregon rodeo scene circa 1998 to aid Pitts in the promotion of his rodeo Western, "Redeemed." Copies of this film, purportedly starring the resurrected Morrison, are available for sale at his website. The man in question, William JamesWilliam James Loyer, proprietor of Jim Morrison's Sanctuary Ranch in Eagle Point, Oregon, severed all relations with Gerald Pitts (who still claims to be "Jim MorrisonJim Morrison's manager" on his website, using photos of Loyer as evidence) in 1999.

Says Loyer's wife, Marsha (who is referred to on Pitts's website as "AKA Marsha Morrison"), in a letter to author Adriana Rubio, who has written two books on the possibility Morrison faked his own death, Jim Morrison: Ceremony and The Jim Morrison Manual Case (both available from Arts Publications Books): "We have completely disassociated ourselves from Mr. Pitts and his friends and his family. We have nothing to do with Gerald Pitts! ‘A Current Affair' representatives came to our home unannounced on three days in a row this past March and were denied interviews or photos. They attempted to take photos from our neighbors' property. Their June 2005 episode on FOX TV featured Gerald Pitts and made a FARCE of the entire thing! . . . My husband previously had expressed an interest in meeting with [Doors member] Ray Manzarek. Unfortunately, [Doors manager] Danny Sugerman interfered with that in 1996."

On her website, Rubio makes clear that she in no way wishes to confirm Gerald Pitts's allegations about the Oregon cowboy, having encountered a labyrinth of puzzles in her efforts to solve that particular mystery. William James Loyer's own apparent identification with Morrison, whether real or imagined, remains uncontested. In The Jim Morrison Manual Case, she says that after discovering the "false French name" this Oregon cowboy lives under, she contacted him. When Pitts found out, he became enraged, leaving a message with Rubio's publisher saying, "You are NEVER to call him again." She says she felt partially lucky for being in touch with the supposed Morrison and his wife Marsha for approximately a year and a half, even after being informed by his wife that the man in question, whatever his true identity, was undergoing chemotherapy treatments for "a liver illness."

Unbeknownst to many Doors fans, Jim's father was a Naval Admiral with access to classified intelligence. Whoever they are-the cowboy exposed as, or accused of being, or pretending to be Jim Morrison, and his wife Marsha-given all of Jim's dad's shadowy connections, it seems possible to this reporter that something more than meets the eye might well be going on with Morrison's life or death, and whereabouts. He's long been thought of as one of America's most influential rock and roll greats, full of interesting lyrics about evil lizards, cut down tragically young by his life of deliberate excess and honored by a million CD tributes, but allegations have been made for years that Jim had secret government connections, and considering the intentional misdirecting of public awareness required to conceal this kind of seceret if it is true, for all the average person knows, Jim Morrison might be a CIA drone, the product of lifelong hypnotic conditioning. All those interesting lyrics on lizards might have been poems about mind control.

At the height of the Doors' success, Jim told reporters his parents were dead. Admiral Steve's comment at the time, that he probably said it to "protect the family," assumes a sinister quality when seen in the light of Jim's alleged involvement with the government as a "sleeper agent" enacting an MK-ULTRA study of the effectiveness of rock music as a mind control tool. Equally disturbing in the same connection are the elder Morrison's addition to Jim's tombstone in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris of a Latin phrase translating roughly, "True To His Own Mastermind."

Given all Jim's dad's exclusive connections, he might well have faked his death upon conclusion of an MK_ULTRA plan to test the efficacy of rock music as a tool for youth mind control. A proven lover of excitement, punch-drunk after years of deliberate excess, he turned up briefly in the rodeo circuit thrill-seeking under a different name, let his true identity slip one night drunk at the campfire, and got fingered by a rodeo photographer with uncertain motives. This could have happened, and for all we know, it happened. On his website, Gerald Pitts apologizes for his inability at this time to answer emails and/or voice mails, instead providing a phone number he says is the best way to reach him directly. What's his angle? I wondered. Is he trying to promote the rodeo business or something? I tried calling, but nobody answered. All I got was the operator's message saying the person I was calling had not yet set up a voice mail account. I did a search on "William James Loyer" and sent this email to Jim Morrison's Sanctuary Ranch:

To William J. and Dr. Marsha F. Loyer,

My name is Zack Kopp. I'm a freelance journalist currently living in Denver, Colorado. I've been reviewing books and interviewing authors for the online portal of the Examiner there, and recently interviewed Adriana Rubio about the Jim Morrison as rodeo cowboy case. Here's a link to that article: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-8359-Denver-Books-Examiner~y2009m7d11-Did-Jim-Morrison-fake-his-death

I've tried to get in touch with Gerald Pitts, but so far, I've been unsuccessful. I came across your name in my research, and I'm writing to get your perspective on the case. I hope you won't mind a few questions. Are you Jim Morrison? Why is your ranch named after him? What do you think about Gerald Pitts?
Thanks a million.
Zack out

To this date, there has been no response. With the passage of time, the amount of public interest in Jim's disputed death has lessened progressively. Director Oliver StoneOliver Stone's movie The Doors, released in 1991, made no mention of a faked death beyond an exposition of the rumors afoot when he died, none of which focused on his family ties. The same director's ambitious JFKJFK was released the same year, leaving little if any doubt in the mass mind that Kennedy's death was most likely an inside job of some sort, but pop culture had outgrown the issues involved, if only in a superficial sense-the general public didn't care anymore.

When I asked Ms. Rubio the significance of all Jim's lizard lyrics according to her research, she responded with a lengthy excerpt from The Jim Morrison Manual Case which stated that the agents involved in the highest echelons of the MK-ULTRA program were commonly referred to as "lizard men" or "lizard people" and declassified MK-ULTRA documents confirming that the relationship of personality to hypnotic susceptibility was studied in the early 1950s as a way of "creating anxieties," presumably in certain target personality types-i.e. the youth. The excerpt included some lyrics from Doors song, "Celebration of the Lizard", which are highly suggestive of the introduction and onset of a hypnotic session when viewed in this light, at one point referring to the process as "a little game" just as it might have been introduced to Morrison by his own spook father as a child.