"It increases my paranoia" (CSNY) more provocateur history

[Michael Bailey]

http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=551614

The voluminous files of John Marks in Washington, D.C. (139 boxes
obtained under FOIA, to be exact, two-fifths of which document CIA
interest in the occult) include an Agency report itemizing a $30,000
grant to Orne from Human Ecology, and another $30,000 from Boston's
Scientific Engineering Institute (SEI) - another CIA funding cover,
founded by Edwin Land of the Polaroid Corporation (and supervision of
the U-2 spy plane escapades). This was the year that the CIA's Office
of Research and Development (ORD) geared up a study of parapsychology
and the occult. The investigation, dubbed Project OFTEN-CHICKWIT, gave
rise to the establishment of a social "laboratory" by SEI scientists
at the University of South Carolina - a college class in black
witchcraft, demonology and voodoo.

...Testimony before the 1977 Church Committee's probe of the CIA
hinted that, as of 1963, the scientific squalor of the CIA's mind
control regimen, code-named MKULTRA, had abandoned military and
academic laboratories, fearing exposure, and mushroomed in cities
across the country. Confirmation arrived in 1980 when Joseph
Holsinger, an aide to late Congressman Leo Ryan (who was murdered by a
death squad at Jonestown) exposed the formation of eccentric religious
cults by the CIA. Holsinger made the allegation at a colloquium of
psychologists in San Francisco on "Psychosocial Implications of the
Jonestown Phenomenon." Holsinger maintained that a CIA rear-support
base had been in collusion with Jones to perform medical and mind
control experiments at People's Temple. The former Congressional aide
cited an essay he'd received in the mail, "The Penal Colony," written
by a Berkeley psychologist. The author had emphasized: Rather than
terminating MKULTRA, the CIA shifted its programs from public
institutions to private cult groups, including the People's Temple.

...
Jonestown had its grey eminence in Dr. Lawrence Laird Layton of the
University of California at Berkeley, formerly a chemist for the
Manhattan Project and head of the Army's chemical warfare research
division in the early 1950s. (Larry Layton, his son, led the death
squad that murdered Congressman Leo Ryan, who'd arrived at Guyana to
investigate the cult.) Michael Meiers, author of Was Jonestown a CIA
Medical Experiment?, scavenged for information on the People's Temple
for six years, concluding:

"The Jonestown experiment was conceived by Dr. Layton, staffed by Dr.
Layton and financed by Dr. Layton. It was as much his project as it
was Jim Jones"

Though it was essential for him to remain in the background for
security reasons, Dr. Layton maintained contact with and even control
of the experiment through his wife and children." The African-American
cult had at its core a Caucasian inner-council, composed of Dr.
Layton's family and in-laws.

The press was blind to obvious CIA connections, but survivors of the
carnage in Guyana followed the leads and maintained that Jim Jones was
"an employee, servant, agent or operative of the Central Intelligence
Agency" from 1963 - the year the Agency turned to cult cut-outs to
conceal MKULTRA mind control activities - until 1978. In October 1981
the survivors of Jonestown filed a $63 million lawsuit against
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Stansfield Turner, former director
of the CIA, currently a teacher at the University of Maryland and a
director of the Monsanto Corporation. The suit, filed in U.S. district
court in San Francisco, accused Turner of conspiring with Agency
operatives to "enhance the economic and political powers of James
Warren Jones," and of conducting "mind control and drug
experimentation" on the Temple flock.

The suit was dismissed four months later for "failure to prosecute
timely." All requests for an appeal were denied.


Small wonder, then, that Ted Goertzel, director of the Forum for
Policy Research at Rutgers, which maintains a symbiosis with the CIA
despite media exposure, should write that the most susceptible victims
of "cryptomnesia" (a synonym for false memories) believe "in
conspiracies, including the JFK assassination, AIDS conspiracies, as
well as the UFO cover-up." The problem, Goertzel says, "may have its
origins in early childhood," and is accompanied by "feelings of anomie
and anxiety that make the individual more likely to construct false
memories out of information stored in the unconscious mind."

This side of gilded rationalizations, the CIA's links to the cults are
no manifestation of "cryptomnesia."

Like Jonestown, the Symbionese Liberation Army was a mind control
creation unleashed by the Agency. The late political researcher Mae
Brussell, whose study of The Firm commenced in 1963 after the
assassination of John Kennedy, wrote in 1974 that the rabid guerrilla
band "consisted predominantly of CIA agents and police informers."
This unsavory group was, Brussell insisted, "an extension of
psychological experimentation projects, connected to Stanford Research
Institute, Menlo Park." (She went on to lament that "many of the
current rash of 'senseless killings,' 'massacres,' and 'zombie-type
murders' are committed by individuals who have been in Army hospitals,
mental hospitals or prison hospitals, where their heads have been
literally taken over surgically to create terror in the community.")

Evidence that the CIA conceived and directed the SLA was obvious. The
SLA leadership was trained by Colston Westbrook, a Pennsylvania
native. Westbrook was a veteran of the CIA's murderous PHOENIX Program
in South Vietnam, where he trained terrorist cadres and death squads.
In 1969 he took a job as an administrator of Pacific Architects and
Engineers, a CIA proprietary in Southern California. Three of
Westbrook's foot soldiers, Emily and William Harris and Angela Atwood
(a former police intelligence informer), had been students of the
College of Foreign Affairs, a CIA cover at the University of Indiana.
Even the SLA symbol, a seven-headed cobra, had been adopted by the OSS
(America's wartime intelligence agency) and CIA to designate precepts
of brainwashing.

The CIA and Pentagon have quietly organized and influenced a long line
of mind control cults, among them:

The Riverside Lodge of the Ordo Templis Orientis:
...According to a Riverside County Sheriff's report, a six year-old
child burned the group's school house to the ground. The boy was
punished by solitary confinement in a locked shipping crate left in
the desert, where the average temperature was 110 degrees, for two
months. The boy was chained to a metal plate.

When police freed him, they were nauseated by the suffocating stench
of excrement. The child was smothered in flies swarming from a tin-can
toilet.

**NB Riverside Lodge was a renegade Lodge...

The Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Movement:
In 1985 the Portland Oregonian published a 36-part, book-length series
linking the cult to opium trafficking, prostitution, money laundering,
arson, slave labor, mass poisonings, illegal wiretaps and the
stockpiling of guns and biochemical warfare weapons. The year-long
Oregonian investigation revealed cult ties to CIA-trained mercenaries
in El Salvador and the Far East. Domestically, Rajneesh's secret
police force worked with Agency operatives.

The Finders:
On February 7, 1987 Customs agents raided a child-porn ring in
Tallahasee, Florida. Eight suspects and six children were taken into
custody. The children, according to a Customs Department memo, behaved
"like animals in a public park," and "were not aware of the function
and purpose of telephones, televisions and toilets."

... The investigating agents contacted the State Department and were
advised to "terminate further investigation."

They investigated anyway, reporting that "the CIA made contact and
admitted to owning the Finders ... as a front for a domestic training
organization, but that it had 'gone bad.'" The late wife of Marion
David Pettie, the cult's leader, had worked for the Agency, and his
son had been an employee of Air America, the heroin-riddled CIA
proprietary. Yet Pettie denied to a reporter for U.S. News & World
Report any connection to the Firm. Police in Washington refused to
comment. Officials of the CIA dismissed as "hogwash" allegations of
any connection to the Finders cult.


MOVE:
On May 13, 1985 MOVE's Philadelphia headquarters was firebombed by
local police. Not only did the fire consume the cult's home - it
devastated the entire neighborhood, leaving 11 dead and 250 homeless.
The group was cofounded by Vince Leapheart, aka John Africa, a Korean
veteran. His intellectual mentor and source of funding was Donald
Glassey, a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania's School of
Social Work. Glassey was an admitted police "informant," but conducted
himself like a paid provocateur. He purchased weapons for the cult
with cash drawn from city coffers. John Africa, the cult's titular
head, claimed to be a messiah, and like Jim Jones to have Godly
"healing" powers and "total control" over his followers.


False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF)
The Foundation's distinctive handling of statistics is incessant. In
April of this year the FMSF claimed 12,000 families have been strained
by false child abuse allegations. A month later, the figure dropped
to"9,500 U.S. families." Yet the Foundation prides itself on accuracy.
One FMSF newsletter advises members to insist the media "report
accurate information. The rumors and misinformation surrounding the
false accusations based on recovery of repressed memories are
shocking." The same author regrets that "65% of accusations of abuse
are now unsubstantiated, a whopping jump from 35% in 1976." This
figure, once gleefully disseminated by such pedophile defense groups
as NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) and VOCAL (Victims
of Child Abuse Laws) was debunked years ago. It was fabricated by
Douglas Besherov of the American Enterprise Institute, a hard
right-wing propaganda factory fueled by the Olin Foundation, a CIA
funding cover. (Christian conservatives are often accused of
propagating ritual abuse "hysteria," yet in the 1992 presidential
election the para-conservative wing of the Republican Party slipped
into its platform a strategy to put an end to investigations of child
abuse.)

The FMSF selectively ignores child abuse data that disagrees with
their own. Judith Herman, author of Trauma and Recovery, reported in
the Harvard Mental Health Letter that false abuse allegations by
children "are rare, in the range of 2-8% of reported cases. False
retractions of true complaints are far more common, especially when
the victim is not sufficiently protected after disclosure and
therefore succumbs to intimidation by the perpetrator or other family
members who feel that they must preserve secrecy."

...The FMS Foundation is no less eccentric. Within two years of its
founding, it was clear that the Foundation leadership was far from
disinterested on the workings of childhood memory, and concealed a
secret sexual and political agenda.

FMSF founder Ralph Underwager, director of the Institute of
Psychological Therapies in Minnesota, was forced to resign in 1993.
Underwager (a former Lutheran pastor) and his wife Hollida Wakefield
publish a journal, Issues in Child Abuse Allegations, written by and
for child abuse "skeptics." His departure from the False Memory
Syndrome Foundation was hastened by a remark in an interview,
appearing in an Amsterdam journal for pedophiles, that it was "God's
Will" adults engage in sex with children. (His wife Hollida remained
on the Foundation's board after he left.) As it happens, holy
dispensation for pedophiles is the exact credo of the Children of God
cult. It was fitting, then, when Underwager filed an affidavit on
behalf of cult members tried in France in 1992, insisting that the
accused were positively "not guilty of abuse upon children." In the
interview, he prevailed upon pedophiles everywhere to shed
stigmatization as "wicked and reprehensible" users of children.

In keeping with the Foundation's creative use of statistics, Dr.
Underwager told a group of British reporters in 1994 that "scientific
evidence" proved 60% of all women molested as children believed the
experience was "good for them."

Dr. Underwager invariably sides with the defense. His grandiloquent
orations have graced courtrooms around the world, often by satellite.
Defense lawyers for Woody Allen turned to him, he boasts, when Mia
Farrow accused her estranged husband of molesting their seven year-old
daughter. Underwager is a virtual icon to the Irish Catholic lobby in
Dublin, which raised its hoary hackles against a child abuse
prevention program in the Irish Republic. He was, until his advocacy
of pedophila tarnished an otherwise glittering reputation, widely
quoted in the press, dismissing ritual child abuse as a hysterical
aberration.

He is the world's foremost authority on false memory, but in the
courtroom he is repeatedly exposed as a charlatan. In 1988, a trial
court decision in New York State held that Dr. Underwager was "not
qualified to render any opinion as to whether or not (the victim) was
sexually molested." In 1990 his testimony on memory was ruled improper
"in the absence of any evidence that the results of Underwager's work
had been accepted in the scientific community." And In Minnesota a
judge ruled that Underwager's theories on "learned memory" were the
same as "having an expert tell the jury that (the victim) was not
telling the truth."


usw; and so it goes...



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"But I'm not givin' in an inch to fear" - CSNY, Almost Cut My Hair