Thank you for directing us to Jill's site.....
this is sobering to read. however, i recall something on NEIN a while back that had posited aljernaan was a psyops (aljernaan spencer is a cognate of a character name from an old short story 'flowers for algernon')...so, hoping this is the case.
Not gonna leave Jill out of the loop. I found it there, thus the link to her site.