# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cathy-o-brien
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:15:39.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cathy-o-brien"
name: "Cathy O'Brien"
slug: "cathy-o-brien"
description: "Cathy O'Brien is an American author who claims to have been a victim of a government mind control program called \"Project Monarch\", which she alleges was part of the CIA's Project MKUltra. O'Brien made these assertions in Trance Formation of America (1995) and Access Denied: For Reasons of National Security (2004), both of which she co-authored and self-published with her husband, Mark Phillips. According to scholars, there is no credible evidence for O'Brien's claims and there are numerous inconsistencies in her story."
tagline: "American writer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-12-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.03
  momentum:             2.885196374622356
  historical:           6.658485333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%AA%DA%BE%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%86_(%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%B4%DB%8C_%D8%AA%DA%BE%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%B9)"
    title: "کیتھی اوبرائن (سازشی تھیوریسٹ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "كاثي أوبراين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_O%E2%80%99Brien_(Autorin)"
    title: "Cathy O’Brien (Autorin)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_O'Brien_(conspiracy_theorist)"
    title: "Cathy O'Brien (conspiracy theorist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_O'Brien_(essayiste)"
    title: "Cathy O'Brien (essayiste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_O'Brien"
    title: "Cathy O'Brien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_O'Brien"
    title: "Cathy O'Brien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q890164"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump