Weird though if Ron's brother never said anything, even years later. Maybe the woman he allegedly left with was married. Also, he could have made cash money playing pick up music gigs.
Very likely about the cash/money thing. Anything could be possible with this case, even the far-fetched theories. Which I would never rule out. With a new identity back in 1953, (aside from the CIA aspect) I'm not sure how a young adult would get a new Social Security card without being questioned exstensively. He could have simply stolen a deceased person's name from any cemetery and taken on that identity. It's happened on a few cases that I've come across on
The Doe Network. One of those cases is an unidentified old man who did that. He died and they discovered he wasn't who be claimed to be in life. He had stolen the identity of a young child who died in a car accident decades earlier. But somehow, the man used that stolen identity to find employment. Even with current computer technology, the Feds still come across Social Security fraud cases when someone dies. It's interesting how some of these SS numbers aren't extensively crossed referenced with deceased individuals instantly. As for the old man, sheesh, it could have been Tammen. I should put in a request through
NamUs, that Ron's DNA (provided from his sister) be checked against the old man's DNA.
Also, been thinking about Ron's poor performance in school during his second year. If the CIA aspect is true, perhaps he was already focused upon their basic training courses, ready to do so at a later date (after April 19, 1953) and he thought that continuing on with the courses at Miami U was completely moot. But he stayed on long enough to give the appearance of a successful student while keeping his grades at mediocre standing. Looking at his 1952-1953 college transcript on J. Wenger's blog,
Tammen's total credit hours for both semesters combined was only 11 credit hours total–from Fall 1952 to Spring 1953 up to the time of his disappearance. Something was seriously wrong with his time management. What was he doing? What was keeping him occupied from doing his schoolwork and studies? Especially when he was known to be
alway busy doing something–with school and music activities, especially always seen studying. Perhaps this questionable time studying was really for the CIA basic training, but no one would suspect or question such a thing. And–that would be a reason for Carl Knox to lie to the media, stating that Tammen's grades were in good standing, when he must have known they that were not and only part-time.
And ... if he wasn't recruited for anything covert, he could have been hired or volunteered to be a subject for the MKUltra project, possibly being paid to participate. Around 1951, some subjects, especially children, were forced to partake in CIA experiments at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in nearby Dayton, Ohio, not far from Oxford–which is 44 miles from there, close to an hour away. Some of those surviving children that attended Dayton at that time period have come forward the last several years, describing the horrific mental, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse they endured under the CIA's MKUltra project.
J. Wenger states in one of her blog posts that
the FBI had purged Ron’s fingerprints in 2002, which was a big surprise because purged files at that time usually happened
7 years after a person's confirmed death or when the person's age hits 110 years old. This suggests that the FBI received confirmation that Ron Tammen died 7 year prior in 1995.
Perhaps they could have been purged accidentally, or the FBI purposely stated this to protect Tammen, who still may be alive. Or, maybe
they are telling the truth and Tammen did actually die in 1995. But whatever the case, they knew he was alive and had died at that time. If Tammen did not live his life as a high-ranking spy within the CIA, then I wonder if he was alive all these years as a byproduct of the MKUltra program? Perhaps from an erased memory, irreversible and psychological damage due to LSD side-effects. Just like Frank Olsen's 1953 MKUltra incident, his fragile state of mind after the agency unknowingly gave him LSD was so bad, the CIA was going to place him into a mental institution. But he was murdered before that happened as his thought process was still intact from what he knew of the U.S. government and what they were doing in regards to biological warfare.
Could that same incident happened to Ron Tammen? Could he have turned into a vegetative state from the MKUltra project, placed into a mental institution, where he would be kept for the remainder of his life until 1995? Perhaps!
Like I said, I'm not ruling anything out!
