Chapter
23:
CREATING
CULTS
R.D. Laing,
author of the popular The Politics of Experience and an
associate of the
Tavistock Institute, probably
knew what he was
talking about when
he stated in
an interview in Omni magazine,
"In the
late 'sixties it
became apparent to
the elite with responsibilities for
'control of the
population' that the
old idea of putting
people in the
proverbial bin and
keeping them there for life—warehousing people—wasn't
cost-effective. The Reagan administration in
California was one
of the first
to realize this. So
they had to
rethink just what
the name of
the game was.
That has
led to a schism
between what is
said to the
general public and what
is practiced by
the executive in
control of mental health.
The same problem
prevails across Europe
and the Third World.
"To see
what is happening,
look at the
textbook or manual called DSM-III: The Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual on Mental Disorders
(third edition, published
by the American Psychiatric Association). Translated
into economic and
political terms, mental disorder
means undesired mental
states and behavior. The
criteria for mental
disorder in DSM-III
include any unusual
perceptual experience, magical
thinking, clairvoyance,
telepathy, sixth sense,
sense of a
person not actually
present. You're allowed to sense the
presence of a
dead relative for
three weeks after their
death. After that
it becomes a
criterion of mental disorder to
have those feelings.
"...these are
not exceptional examples
out of DSM-III.
The overall drift is
what contemporary modern
psychiatry, epitomized by this
DSM manual translated
into eighteen languages, is
imposing all over
the world—a mandate to
strip anyone of their
civil liberties, of
habeas corpus; and
to apply involuntary incarceration, chemicalisation of
a person, electric shocks, and
non-injurious torture; to
homogenize people who are out of line. Presented as a medical
operation, it is an undercover operation." [1]
With increased
scrutinization by Congress
and the American people in the late
1970s the CIA
and possibly other intelligence agencies moved
their experimentation out
of the laboratories and went
underground. One of
their strategies for experimentation as
well as social
manipulation was in the
creation of mind control cults.
I do
not maintain that
all off-the-wall mystical
or religious groups
practicing mental manipulation
were formed by intelligence agencies
as test tubes
for their projects.
Examining various groups, however,
solid connections to
intelligence agencies are apparent
in many of
them. The apparency
is that many of these groups have
been formed in this way, while others
have been infiltrated and influenced. A few examples:
—Charles Manson's
leering face—with or
without the homemade swastika
tattoo on his
forehead—is one of the
defining images of
the 1960s. It
is perhaps one
of the " Changing
Images of Man."
Presented by the
media as a madman
holding his small
band of followers
under his sway
in the desert, sallying
forth to murder
the rich and
the famous, there is much to
suggest that this is not the wholeof the story.
Manson was
released from a
California prison in
1967, and under the
stipulations of his
parole reported to
Roger Smith at the
Haight Ashbury Medical
Clinic in San
Francisco, a facility
sponsored by NIMH.
The Haight Ashbury
district itself was termed
a "human guinea
pig farm" by one CIA
agent. Dr. Louis Jolyon West, for one, was running a
mysterious safehouse in the Haight in the Summer of Love.
While in
prison Manson was
connected to the
AMORC Rosicrucians, the same
group that Sirhan
Sirhan had ties to. Manson
was also in
touch with members
of The Process,
an apocalyptic Scientology spinoff
group, and he
dubbed his own group
the Final Church
using Process terminology.
In San Francisco Manson
lived at 636 Cole
Street while the Process group lived
at number 407,
close to the
center of activity
in the Haight. Manson's
reported plan to
unleash the apocalyptic "Helter Skelter"
revolution also seems
to have been copped straight from
Process theology, but
there is a
familiar ring. The "process" of
The Process is
identical to that
of Tavistock, the return of the blank slate, the tabula
rasa through violence.
David Berkowitz,
convicted for the
Son of Sam murders, later linked Manson to the L.A.-based wing of
the Sataniccult he was a member of, reportedly
termed "the Children." Manson is
also alleged to have been connected to Scientology, as well as to a coven in
New Orleans whose
members supposedly included Janis Joplin
and the University
of Texas tower
sniper Charles Whitman. [2]
Manson's base
of operation was at the
Spahn Movie Ranch, later
bought out by
the owners of
the ranch next
door, the German Krupp
family, who were
key to the
arming of the
Third Reich. [3]
Manson—as well
as alleged RFK
assassin Sirhan Sirhan—are reported to
have attended drug
orgies at the
Polanski/Tate mansion.
Actress Sharon Tate
was the daughter
of an Army Intelligence officer,
and her husband,
Roman Polanski, directed the
satanic-themed film Rosemary's
Baby. Polanski later
fled the United States
after a statutory
rape accusation. British
warlock Alex Saunders claims
that he personally
initiated Sharon Tate into
witchcraft. Jay Sebring,
another of the
victims, according to Sammy
Davis Jr.'s biography,
Why Me?, had
acted as a high
priest at a
satanic simulated sacrifice.
Sebring had visited
the Spahn Ranch in
the company of
a woman in
a wig identified
as "Sharon."
Robert F.
Kennedy is reported
to have eaten
dinner at the Polanski
place the day
before his assassination, a
connection that may resonate with
the Sirhan role in the murder.The
mansion where the
five murders were
committed on August 9,
1969, at 10050
Cielo Drive, was
sublet by Roman Polanski from
Terry Melcher, who
was friends with
Manson.
Three days
before the murder,
a drug dealer
was publicly whipped at
Cielo. According to
actor Dennis Hopper, "They had fallen
into sadism and
masochism and bestiality—and they recorded it
all on videotape,
too. The L.A.
police told me
this. I know that
three days before
they were killed
twenty-five people were invited
to that house
for a mass
whipping of a dealer
from Sunset Strip who'd given them bad dope."
On August
5, shortly before
the murders, Manson
was at the Esalen Institute
in Big Sur,
California. Esalen, remarkably enough, is a New Age capitol
assisted in its founding in 1962 by Aldous
Huxley, and involved
in sponsoring various
kinds of meditational training
and speakers. Process
founder Robert DeGrimston is reported
to have spoken
at Esalen. One
of the victims of
the Tate murders
was Abigail Folger,
the coffee heiress. She had attended sessions at Esalen.
According to
an Esalen newsletter,
"Esalen started in
the fall of 1962
as a forum
to bring together
a wide variety of approaches to
enhancement of the
human potential... including
experiential sessions involving encounter groups, sensory awakening, gestalt
awareness training, and
related disciplines.
Our latest step is to fan
out into the community atlarge, running programs in
cooperation with many
different institutions,
churches, schools, hospitals,
and government." In
other words,
"societry," to use the terminology of another organization.At the
murder site, Tate
was hung upside
down in the
image of the Hanged
Man Tarot card,
a popular way
for dispatching occultic
traitors.
Were there
puppeteers other than
Charlie standing behind the
Manson family murders?
David Berkowitz, convicted
for the Son of
Sam killings, said
that Manson "volunteered to do the killings" for
someone else. One
of the names
that consistently comes up
in investigations of the Manson
family is The
Process, but investigator Ed
Sanders, who wrote
a book on
the Manson family, said,
"There were so
many investigations going
on out there after
the murders that
I began to
wonder if the
Process was a front for some intelligence operation."
An ex-Processan
provides more solid
information: "You know, a
lot of people
say The Process
is a fascist
organization. It's actually half-true.
It was founded
by the German
Democratic Party, a neo-Nazi
group in Germany
as a front
to raise money over
here in the
States. But since
that time it's
grown more or less
independent of the
German group. I
know a number
of American Nazis and fascists
who won't have anythingto do with The Process. They
say they don't
want to be
a part of a group that's run by Europeans."[4]
—An operation
apparently sprung from
the dragon's teeth
of the CIA and
the Louis Jolyon
West Violence Center
project was the Symbionese Liberation
Army. Colston Westbrook was a Black CIA
psychological warfare expert
who had participated
in Operation Phoenix in
Vietnam, and was
a part of
Pacific Engineering Company, a
subsidiary of Pacific
Corporation, reportedly the largest
CIA cut-out in
the world. Time
Magazine at the time
simplified things by
abbreviating his credentials
to being simply a
"linguist." Apparently based
upon that job description, Westbrook got a job teaching
"Black Lexicon" at UC Berkeley,
then whipped up
what was called
the Black Cultural Association at
the infamous Vacaville Medical Facility—actually a prison—in California.
The program was
organized by Donald DeFreeze, who
had been a
member of the
Los Angeles Police Department's Public Disorder Unit
between 1967-69.
DeFreeze, according
to researcher Alex
Constantine,"described
his incarceration on
the prison's third
floor, where he was corralled by
CIA agents who drugged him and said he would
become the leader
of a radical
movement and kidnap
a wealthy person. After
his escape from
Vacaville (an exit door was
left unlocked for
him), that's exactly
what he did."
Westbrook reportedly
gave DeFreeze the
handle "Cinque
Mtume," and worked
up the cobra
logo for the
SLA. The same logo
was also used
by alleged police
agent Ron Karenga
and his US Organization. [5]
After DeFreeze
escaped from Vacaville
he ended up
on the doorsteps of the
Vietnam Veterans Against
the War and
the Venceremos Brigade, offering his services as a hit man. This is a standard method
of establishing an
identity in underground cadres, by stepping forth as the
"baddest of the bad."
Joseph Remiro
and Nancy Ling
Perry, members of
the SLA, were political
conservatives, according to
researcher Mae Brussel, "with
a kill-a-Commie-for-Christ background." Both were
also drug addicts,
a useful part
of their profile.
Bill and Emily Harris,
also members, had no discernible
background in radical politics,
but came from
the University of
Indiana, a school used
in the recruitment
of the CIA.
They had worked as a
narc team for
the Indiana State
Police. The majority
of individuals linked to
the SLA by
the police, in
fact, had no earlier
connection to radical
politics, although several
had worked with Colston
Westbrook and Donald
DeFreeze at Vacaville. [6]
On February
4, 1974, the
SLA kidnapped Patricia
Hearst, heir to the
Hearst newspaper fortune.
She was reportedly brainwashed and
recruited as a
member of the
group, and was utilized in
several very visible
fund-raising events held
at banks. She was arrested on
September 18, 1975.
During the
period that Hearst
was eluding the
police, there were one
or more Hearst
doubles in action.
Researcher John Judge said
in an interview,
"There was a
pick-up of somebody who said that
she wasn't Patty Hearst but she looked exactly
like her and she
had gone to
school up in
Cleveland. A cop
picked her up, and she had a scar in the same place, and everything was
identical, but she
wasn't Patty Hearst.
Then an FBI agent supposedly came
into the scene
and said that
if she ever got picked
up again all
she had to
do was tell
them to call
this FBI agent and he would clear
her—so it was a perfect way for Patty to move
if there was
an accidental pick-up—they
had created a phony double." [7]
The media
inflated stories of the SLA
into what seemed
to be the beginnings of a racial
war—although it may haveactually been planned that way. Then the cavalry
arrived. On May 17, 1974, the
headquarters of the
SLA in Los
Angeles was surrounded
by 150 LAPD officers,
100 FBI, 100
Sheriffs Department officers,
15 highway patrolmen,
and 25 motorcycle
officers providing traffic control.
The cops flamed
the place, with
six SLA members killed.
After the
burning of the
SLA headquarters, CIA-funded psychiatrists Martin
Orne, Louis Jolyon
West, and Robert
Jay Lifton provided psychological
pre-trial examinations of
Patty Hearst. Another psychiatrist
called upon to
testify in the Hearst trial
was Margaret Singer,
who had studied
returned Korean War
prisoners at the
Walter Reed Army
Institute of Research
in Maryland, worked with
West at his
Hashbury safe house, and who
provided a book
blurb on Raven,
by Tim Reiterman
and John Jacobs, a
report on the
Jim Jones' People's
Temple that conveniently overlooked
information linking the
group to the CIA.
Orne and
Singer later turned
up as directors
of the False Memory Syndrome
Foundation, a group whose board is
primarily made up of
CIA and military
doctors. The purpose
of the group is to disprove
claims of cult mind control. [8]
Here is
Hearst's account of
what happened after
her arrest: "When the first
of the psychiatrists
came to see me
on September 30, just
eleven days after
my arrest, I
simply crumbled under his
scrutiny. I cried,
murmuring and mumbling out replies
that were not answers to
his questions. He thought
I was refusing to
cooperate with him.
This was Dr.
Louis Jolyon West, Chairman
of the Department
of Psychiatry at
UCLA, Director of the
Neuropsychiatric Institute, Psychiatrist-in-Chief of UCLA Hospitals, a
licensed M.D., Chairman of theCouncil on Research and
Development of the
American Psychiatric
Association, psychiatric consultant
to the Air
Force, author of books
and studies on
prisoners of war,
an internationally recognized expert
in his field.
I thought he
had a creepy hypnotic voice. A tall, heavy-set man
who appeared to be kindly, I suspected
'Jolly' of being
too smooth, too
soothing to be trusted." [9]
Another of
the shrinks to
examine Hearst after
her capture was Dr.
Martin Orne, a
CIA/Navy doctor involved
during the 1960s in
mind control experiments
underwritten by the
Human Ecology Fund and
the Scientific Engineering
Institute, both CIA fronts.
At one point
Orne boasted that
he received routine briefing on
all CIA behavior
modification experiments. Orne
is also one of the original members of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation,
a group of psychiatrists, many of them with backgrounds linked to
the CIA, whose
mission is to
prove that cult mind control and
ritual child abuse does not exist. [10]
—The sound
track for the
'60s is of
course provided by the Grateful
Dead LSD and
rock and roll
organization. Until the death
of leader Jerry
Garcia, the Dead
were arguably the
most influential
"cult" in operation.
The first member
of the Grateful Dead to take LSD, Robert Hunter, did so under the auspices
of a "government
sponsored" Stanford University drug
study. An FBI internal
memo from 1968
also mentions the
employment of Jerry Garcia of the
Grateful Dead as an avenue "to
channel youth dissent and rebellion
into more benign
and non-threatening
directions." It is
obvious that with
their "laid-back," non- politically involved
stance, that the
Grateful Dead have performed a
vital service in
distracting many young persons
into drugs and mysticism,
rather than politics.
Whether they knew they were performing the service is a
matter of argument. [11]
—Another repository
of deadheads was
Jonestown, the dystopic community
established by evangelist
Jim Jones in Guyana, South America. Most of us are
familiar withthe tragedy: nearly
1,000 members of
the People's Temple
are reported to have
committed suicide there
by drinking cyanide
on the orders of Jones.
But there is
more to this
apparent mass suicide
than meets the eye
in the triangle.
Jonestown, without a doubt,
was an MKULTRA project.
Suspicious associations
of Jim Jones
go back many
years, to the man's
boyhood, and his lifelong friendship
with Dan Mitrione. Mitrione trained
in the CIA-financed
International Police
Academy. He may
have been the
source of Jones' unexplained funding
when in 1961
Jones travelled to Brazil. Mitrione, "working
closely with the
CIA at that
point", accompanied
him. At the
time, Jones explained
to his Brazilian neighbors that
he was employed
by Navy Intelligence,
and both his food
and the large
house he and
his small group lived
in were provided by
the U.S. Embassy.
According to a
local resident, Jones "lived
like a king."
At the time,
Jones was making regular
trips to Belo
Horizonte, the headquarters
of the CIA in
Brazil. In 1963
Jones returned to
the States, with
an unexplained windfall of
$10,000, sufficient to
launch his next operation. [12]
In Ukiah,
California, Jones established
the first People's Temple. The
Happy Havens Rest
Home was also
set up in the
same location, guarded
by electric fences,
guard towers, dogs, and
armed guards dressed
in black. Persons
attempting to leave the compound were sometimes forcibly
restrained. There were at least 150
foster children living at the camp, along with elderly persons, prisoners, and
psychiatric patients.
At that
time the People's
Temple linked up
with the Mendocino State
Mental Hospital, and
members of the group were trained
in medical techniques
there. It is
reported that in a
short while the
entire staff of
the mental hospital
were members of Jones' People's Temple.
California virtually
handed the Mendocino
State Mental Hospital to
Jim Jones on
a silver platter.
According to researcher Michael
Meiers, "The Mendocino
Plan was a
pilot program of the
federal government designed
to evaluate the feasibility of
deinstitutionalizing the mentally
ill. Dennis Denny, Mendocino's Director
of Social Services,
has speculated that
the Mendocino Plan was
the sole reason
that Jim Jones
moved to Ukiah." During
the period that
Jones was in
Ukiah, Jones' group conducted
behavior modification experiments
on both the patients
in the mental
hospital, and on
Jones' congregation.
Jones used
sensory deprivation on
some of his
congregation during this period,
and it is
said that Jones'
expertise in the technique
was passed on
to Donald DeFreeze
of the Symbionese Liberation Army,
who would later
use the method
on Patty Hearst. [13]
In Ukiah,
Jones is reported
to have been in
touch with CIA- connected World
Vision, an evangelical
anti-Communist church union that
includes far-right church
groups like Carl
McIntyre's International Council of Christian Churches. World Vision is said to have
employed Mark David
Chapman, the murderer
of John Lennon. John
Hinckley, Sr., the father of
the man who
shot Ronald Reagan, is
a friend of Reagan's Vice
President George Bush—significant
for the possible motive—and ran a World Vision mission in Denver, Colorado.
Another of Hinckley Sr.'s sons was to
have dinner with
Neil Bush on
the day of
the attempted assassination.
Hinckley, Jr.
was a prime candidate
for mind control assassination programming.
He was the
recipient of mood- altering drugs
from his hometown
psychiatrist, and was on
Valium when he
shot Reagan. His
"double," a man
named Richardson, who followed
Hinckley in Colorado
and wrote love letters to Jody Foster,
was a follower of Carl McIntyre.
Hinckley also claimed to
have met with
David Berkowitz, the
"Son of Sam" murderer,
while in Colorado. [14]
In Ukiah
Jim Jones hobnobbed
with all the
pillars of the community, and
allied himself with
Walter Heady, the
leader of the local John Birch
Society. Members of the People's Temple organized voting
drives for Richard
Nixon, worked with
the Republican Party, and
Jones was appointed
chairman of the county grand jury.
A number
of persons who
would soon be
influential in the People's
Temple joined the group in
Ukiah. According to researcher
John Judge, "Most
of the top
lieutenants around Jones
were from wealthy,
educated backgrounds, many with connections to
the military or intelligence agencies.
These were the people
who would set up the
bank accounts, complex legal actions,
and financial records that
put people under
the Temple's control." [15]
Among the
most important of Jones'
known supporters—who knows what
scoundrels might have
been lurking behind
the scenes?—were the aristocratic
Layton family, who
financed Jones with large
sums of money,
and are related
to wealthy British and
German families. Dr. Lawrence Layton
was Chief of Chemical
and Ecological Warfare
Research at the
infamous Dugway Proving Grounds
in Utah, working
later at the
Navy Propellant Division, as
Director of Missile
and Satellite Development. Layton's
stockbroker father-in-law represented the German
I.G. Farben monolith.
The parents of
George Philip Blakey, the husband
of the former Debbie Layton, also had large holdings in
Solvay Drugs, a
division of I.G.
Farben. Blakey is reported
to have been
a CIA operative
and to have
run mercenaries out of
Jonestown, supplying forces
to the CIA- backed
UNITA in Angola.
Blakey is reported
to have made
the original $650,000 deposit
on the land in
Guyana that was to
become Jonestown. [16]
Another prominent
alleged member of
the People's Temple was
Timothy Stoen, the
Assistant District Attorney
of San Francisco. Jones
utilized his people
to organize a voting drive for Mayor Moscone, and was rewarded by
being put incharge of the San Francisco
Housing Commission, a
fact never mentioned in
the mainstream press.
Many of Jones'
followers obtained jobs at
the city Welfare
Department, and were
able to use
those positions to gain recruits for the Temple.
Seven mysterious
deaths connected to
the People's Temple were
reported in the
local press, and increased
scrutinization by the media
and politicians apparently
led Jones to
pull up stakes and move his operation to Guyana. Guyana was not Jones' initial choice as
a site for
relocation. He had
earlier decided on Grenada,
and deposited $200,000
in the Grenada
National Bank in 1977.
After the Jonestown
massacre, $76,000 remained
in the bank.
The Jonestown
location is a rich
source
of minerals and had earlier
been the site
of a Union
Carbide bauxite and
manganese mine. There had
been earlier plans
to bring in
large numbers of workers
to the area,
going back as
far as 1919.
In current years, the
area has been
repopulated by 100,000
Laotian Hmong people. [17]
After the
Guyanese location for
the People's Temple was decided upon,
it was prepared
for habitation by
members, with the cooperation
of local officials and
the U.S. Embassy.
The Information Services Company
states that "The
U.S. Embassy in Georgetown
Guyana housed the
Georgetown CIA station.
It now appears that the
majority and perhaps all of the embassy
officials were CIA officers operating under State Department covers."
Among embassy
officials verified as
being agents of the
CIA are U.S. Ambassador
John Burke, who
attempted to stop Congressman Leo
Ryan's investigation of
Jonestown; Dan Webber, who
was at the
site of the massacre the
following day; and Chief
Consular Officer Richard
McCoy, on loan
from the Defense Department and reportedly
"close" to Jones.[18]
The Jonestown
compound in Guyana
consisted of an hierarchical structure
with an elite composed of
all white male camp
guards who received
special privileges, and
who were allowed to
leave the camp
freely and to
carry money. Some
of the white guards
had been employed
as mercenaries in
Africa and elsewhere. The
guards survived the
Jonestown tragedy.
The rest of the camp was 90%
women, and 80% Black, and they existed under
slave labor conditions, working
16 to 18 hours daily,
with miserable rations. When
Black members of the
Temple arrived from
the United States,
they were bound
and gagged before being
taken to the
compound. Once inside Jonestown, perceived
infractions led to
forced drugging, public rape, torture, and beatings. [19]
Jeannie Mills,
a member of the People's
Temple, reported that she
had seen films
taken inside a
Chilean torture camp, either
Colonia Dignidad or
another located at
Pisagua, while at Jonestown.
These camps have
documented connections to the
CIA as
well as to
Fourth Reich Nazis,
with visits reported
from the negatively notable
such as Dr.
Josef Mengele and
Martin Bormann.
The Jonestown
mass suicide (or murder) was
probably set off by the
arrival in Guyana
of Congressman Leo
Ryan, who was perhaps
the most active
investigator in Washington
of CIA abuses, and
arguably number one with a
bullet on the CIA's
lengthy hate list. Among other accomplishments,Ryan had Introduced the
Hughes-Ryan Amendment to
the National Assistance Act,
transferring the overseeing
of the CIA
from the Armed Forces
Committee—known for looking
the other way in
matters relating to
the CIA—to the
International Relations Committee
of the House and Senate. [20]
Ryan had
uncovered information linking
the CIA to the
creation of mind
control cults, including
the Unification Church of
Reverend Sung Myung
Moon, and the
Symbionese Liberation Army. In
response to stories
of atrocities at
Jonestown, Ryan decided to
investigate for himself—and
that determination sealed his
fate.
After travelling
to Jonestown and attempting to
return to the States,
Ryan, several reporters,
and a Jonestown
defector were killed on
an airstrip at
nearby Port Kaituma,
with the mass Jonestown deaths
taking place shortly
afterward. Observers
reported that Ryan's
group was killed
by armed men
who acted like
"zombies."
Cheering was
heard 45 minutes
after the mass
death at Jonestown, and
those persons have
never been accounted
for. For that matter,
practically no one
at Jonestown has
been accounted for. Robert
Pastor, an aide to
Zbigniew Brzezinski, at the
time national security
advisor to Jimmy
Carter, sent orders to the
U.S. military to
remove "all politically
sensitive papers and forms of identification
from the bodies." [21]
Dr. Mootoo,
a Guyanese pathologist,
was the first
medical person on the
scene, and the
first to examine
the bodies of the
victims. Mootoo determined
that there were
fresh needle marks on the left
shoulder blades of
80-90% of the
bodies. Some of the
victims had been
shot or strangled.
The gun that Jones had
reportedly used to
commit suicide lay
200 feet away from his
body. Mootoo concluded
to the Guyanese
grand jury that all
but three of
the victims had
not committed suicide, but were
murdered. When autopsies
were performed at
Dover, Delaware, the forensic
doctors were not
informed of Dr. Mootoo's
findings.
The body
identified as Jim
Jones did not
have Jones' chest tattoos, and
was so decomposed
that it was
not recognizable. Fingerprints on
the body were
checked twice, for no
apparent reason—could it have
been that they
did not match Jones?—while his dental records were
not consulted.[22]
The recovery
of the bodies
to the United
States was botched, with all
identification removed, and a delay of a week before they were transported.
Rotting made autopsies
impossible. Due to the decomposition only 17 of the bodies
could be identified in Delaware. Although the Guyanese had initially identified
174 bodies, that information was destroyed.
There were
at least 200
survivors of Jonestown,
and they were never contacted
by the press. Jeannie
and Al Mills,
two survivors who were
planning on writing
a book about Jones
and the cult, were
murdered, while another
survivor was murdered in Detroit,
with the perpetrator
never captured. According
to John Judge, "Yet
another was involved
in a mass
murder of schoolchildren in
Los Angeles." The
acknowledged survivors of Jonestown
were represented legally
in the U.S. by Joseph Blatchford, who
had been accused
of being involved
in the CIA infiltration of the Peace Corps.
At the
time of the
Jonestown massacre, CIA
agent Richard Dwyer, Deputy Chief
of Mission for the U.S. Embassyin Guyana, was
present. In a
tape recording made
immediately prior, Jones can be heard saying, "Get Dwyer
out of here."
At the
end, Jones had
accumulated assets estimated
to be between $26
million and $2
billion. The government
receiver- ship determined a
figure of $10 million. Much
of this money unaccountably disappeared.
Joe Holsinger,
Congressman Leo Ryan's
attorney and friend, said
that a few
hours after the murder of
Ryan he had
heard from a White House official that "we have a CIA report from
the scene." Holsinger wrote,
"The more I
investigate the mysteries of
Jonestown, the more
I am convinced
there is something sinister behind
it all. There
is no doubt
in my mind
that Jones had very
close CIA connections.
At the time
of the tragedy,
the Temple had three
boats in the
water off the
coast. The boats disappeared shortly
afterwards. Remember, Brazil
is a country that Jones
is very familiar
with. He is
supposed to have money there.
And it is
not too far from Guyana.
My own feeling
is that Jones was
ambushed by CIA
agents who then
disappeared in the boats.
But the whole
story is so
mind-boggling that I'm willing to concede he escaped with
them." [23]
Not surprisingly,
Louis Jolyon West
wrote an article
offering the sanitized version
of Jonestown—sans conflicting evidence or CIA involvement. [24]
—Another cult
with curious, somehow
non-religious under- pinnings is
the Unification Church
of Reverend Sun
Myung Moon, the power
behind literally hundreds
of fronts and businesses internationally. Among
the acquisitions of
the UC are the
University of Bridgeport
in Connecticut, which
cost Moon a cool
$50 million, and
the Washington Times
newspaper, which he admitted had
set him back "close to one billion dollars."
Before its
incorporation in the
U.S., Moon was
closely connected to the
South Korean Central
Intelligence Agency (KCIA), with four
of Moon's followers in positions of
prominence in the intelligence organization.
Bo Hi
Pak—one of Moon's
top aides—was a
liaison to U.S. intelligence agencies
for the KCIA.
In 1962 he
travelled to the U.S.
where he met
with CIA Director
John McCone, Defense Secretary Robert
McNamara, and Defense
Intelligence Agency Director
General Joseph Carroll.
Pak was also
known to make frequent trips
to the National
Security Agency at
Fort Meade, Maryland.
Moon has
received large contributions
from right-wing politicians in
Japan, and in
1970 Moon's Japanese
organization hosted the rightist
World Anti-Communist League
annual conference. [25]
—The Church
of Scientology is a group
with incredible sway over
the minds of
its adherents. The
founder of the group,
L. Ron Hubbard, was
reportedly a member
of Naval Intelligence during World War II, as well as being a friend
and participant in magickal workings
with Jack Parsons,
the head of
the California Ordo Templi
Orientis group of
Aleister Crowley. In
one of his recorded
lectures, Hubbard describes
Parsons as being
the most brilliant man
he ever met.
Hubbard seems to
have been a sincere
Crowleyite, regardless of the
protestations of the
church hierarchy. According to
his son, Ron
DeWolf, "He was
very interested in... the
creation of what some people
call the Moon Child.
It was basically
an attempt to
create an immaculate conception, except
by Satan rather
than by God...
getting a satanic or
demonic spirit to
inhabit the body
of a fetus.
This would come about
as a result
of black-magic rituals,
which included the use of
hypnosis, drugs, and
other dangerous and destructive practice...
He thought of
himself as the
Beast 666 incarnate... the
Antichrist. Aleister Crowley
thought of himself as
such... When Crowley
died in 1947,
my father decided
that he should wear
the cloak of the
beast
and become the
most powerful being in the universe." [26]
It is
quite possible that
Hubbard continued to be connected to U.S. intelligence after World War
II. According to former CIA officer Miles
Copeland, "arrangements" were
made between the Agency
and Scientology as well as
the group Moral
Re- Armament. The CIA's
covert support for
MRA is confirmed
by the late CIA
agent Jim Wilcott. Certainly there
cannot have been too
much animosity between
the CIA and
Scientology, judging from the Agency's Project Grill Flame remote viewing experiments, in
which 14 Scientologists graded
"Clear" and above
participated.
According to
a source quoted by Daniel Brandt,
in the early 1960s
Hubbard was given
an award by
the American Ordnance Association. According
to this source,
Hubbard "was on a friendly
basis with top
generals and admirals
and their military- industrial associates." [27]
—The Finders
group appears to be another
cult created as a pet project
of American so-called
intelligence. Since 1987,
the Finders have been
on a roll,
expanding their real
estate holdings with properties
estimated to be worth more
than $2.2 million.
The Washington
City Paper reports
that "the Finders constantly walk the
streets, following people
home and taking
extensive notes and pictures."
Researcher Daniel
Brandt was contacted
by members of the
Finders in 1984.
They told him
that they were
members of the "Information Bank,"
and provided gratis
a computer program that
Brandt needed. One
of the men
who approached Brandt was
later caught rifling
the files of Washington,
D.C. researcher Kris Jacobs.
At that time
he claimed he
was from the
National Journalism Center. In
another encounter, the
same person showed a
business card with
the legend "Hong
Kong Business Today".
According to
Brandt, who visited
the warehouse headquarters of the
Finders in Washington,
D.C, "It was
clear... that most group members
were world-class travelers,
which included travel to
numerous Eastern Bloc
countries. It was
all a game
to them. This was
a small group—perhaps
40 adults—but they
had no visible income to support their far-flung activities."
The founder
of the group
is retired USAF
Master Sergeant Marion David
Pettie. He reportedly
started the outfit
as early as the
1950s, originally calling
the group the
Seekers. His wife, Isabel,
was a support
secretary for the
CIA in Frankfurt, Germany, from
1957-61. Pettie's son
George, according to one
report, "served in the CIA's drug activities in AirAmerica during the
Vietnam War."
"A three-page
non-government memo of
undetermined origin"
cited by Daniel
Brandt provides additional
information about Pettie. According
to the memo, Pettie began
his career in contact
with a number
of OSS agents,
and was the
chauffeur to General Ira
Eaker. He was
a protege of Charles Marsh,
who ran a private
intelligence agency, and
received training in counterintelligence in
Baltimore and Frankfurt,
Germany. Pettie's control agent was Colonel Leonard N. Weigner of Air Force intelligence
and the CIA,
and his case
officer was Major George
Varga, who passed
on instructions from
Weigner until Varga died
in the 1970s.
Pettie resigned—or should
it be "resigned"?—from the
military only to
don bellbottoms and beads and plunge headlong into the
counterculture.
One oft-cited
incident involving the
Finders took place
in 1987, in Tallahassee,
Florida, when the
local police department was alerted
to suspicious activities,
and apprehended two
men transporting six children.
According to the
report of the
police officers, "The
police had received
an anonymous telephone
call relative to two
well-dressed white men wearing
suits and ties
in Myers Park, [Tallahassee], apparently
watching six dirty
and unkept [sic] children
in the playground
area. A Mr. HOULIHAN and AMMERMAN were near a 1980
blue Dodge van bearing the Virginia license number XHW-557, the inside of which
was later described as foul-smelling, filled
with maps, books,
letters, with a mattress
situated to the
rear of the van which
appeared as if it were used
as a bed.
The overall appearance
of the van
gave the impression that
all eight persons
were living in
it. The children were
covered with insect
bites, were very
dirty and most of the
children were not
wearing underwear and
all the children
had not been bathed in many days."
One of
the arresting officers
voiced suspicions about
the children being used
in pornography in
Mexico. A search warrant was
issued for the
Finders' Washington, D.C. headquarters, and
police entered the
building on February
5, 1987. Special Agents
for the Department
of the Treasury Ramon Martinez
and Lynwood Rountree
said in their
report that, "During the
course of the
search warrants, numerous documents were
discovered which appeared
to be concerned with international
trafficking in children,
high tech transfers
to the United Kingdom
and international transfer
of currency."
The computer/cult connection
will rear its head again.The report continued,
"Further inspection of
the premises disclosed numerous
files relating to activities of
the organization in different
parts of the
world. Locations I
observed are as follows:
London, Germany, the Bahamas,
Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Africa,
Costa Rica and
Europe. There was
also a file identified as
Palestinian. Other files
were identified by
member name or 'project'
name. The projects,
appearing to be
operated for commercial purposes
under front names
for the FINDERS.
There was
a file entitled
'Pentagon Break-In' and
others which referred to members
operating in foreign countries. Not observed by
me but related
by an MPD
[Metropolitan Police Department] officer,
were intelligence files
on private families not
related to the
Finders. The process
undertaken appears to have
been a systematic
response to local
newspaper advertisements for baby-sitters,
tutors, etc. A
member of the Finders
would respond and
gather as much
information as possible about
the habits, identity,
occupation, etc. of
a family.
The use to which this
information was to be put is still
unknown. There was also
a large amount
of data collected
on various child care organizations.
"The warehouse
contained a large
library, two kitchens,
a sauna, hot tub
and a video
room. The video
room seemed to be set up
as an indoctrination center. It
also appeared that
the organization had the
capability to produce
its own videos.
There were what appeared
to be training
areas for children
and what appeared to
be an altar
set up in a
residential area of the
warehouse. Many jars
of urine and feces were
located in this area."
According to
researcher Wendell Minnick,
the author of Spies and
Provocateurs: An Encyclopedia
of Espionage and Covert
Action, a telex
was found in the 1987
raid that ordered, "the purchase
of two children
from Hong Kong
to be arranged through a
contact in the
Chinese embassy there."
In substantiation, at the
time of the raid a
Chinese graduate in anatomy from Georgetown University, Wang
Gen-xin, was living with the Finders.
A Washington,
D.C. police detective
named Bradley was contacted
by one of
the officers involved
in the search
of the Finders' headquarters,
at which time
it was agreed
that the documents seized
would be reviewed
within a few
days. An internal "Memo
to File," dated
April 13, 1987,
and written by one
of the Customs
agents participating in
the raid reported what ensued:
"On April
2, 1987, I
arrived at MPD
at approximately 9:00 AM. Detective Bradley was not available.
I spoke toa third party who was willing to discuss the case with me on a
strictly 'off the record' basis. I
was advised that
all the passport
data had been turned
over to the
State Department for
their investigation. The State
Department in turn
advised MPD that
all travel and
use of the passports
by the holders
of the passports
was within the
law and no action
would be taken.
This includes travel
to Moscow, North Korea
and North Vietnam
from the late
1950s to mid 1970s."
The same memo also stated,
"CIA made one contact and admitted
to owning the
Finders organization... but
that it had "gone bad."... [I was advised]
the investigation into the activity of the
Finders had become
a CIA internal
matter. The MPD
report has been classified Secret and was not available for review. I
was advised that the
FBI had withdrawn
from the investigation several weeks
prior and that
the FBI Foreign
Counterintelligence Division
had directed MPD
not to advise
the FBI Washington Field Office
of anything that had
transpired. No further information will
be available. No
further action will
be taken." [28]
—David Berkowitz,
convicted of the
"Son of Sam"
New York murder series, was
a "son of
Uncle Sam" and,
evidence suggests, the member
of "the Children," an
international satanic murder cult
with links to
the military. Terry
Patterson, an army buddy
of Berkowitz, stated
that when Berkowitz
joined the army he
entered a special
program reportedly for
"profiled" candidates
of an unspecified
character, and was
given hallucinogenic drugs, he admits, by the "brass."
Berkowitz may
have known the
source of his programming, as well.
In the first
handwritten missive he
sent to the
New York police he
wrote, "I am the 'Son
of Sam.' I
am a little
'brat'," the possible implication
being that he
is an army
brat. He also wrote, "I
am on a
different wave length
than everybody else—programmed to
kill." [29]
Berkowitz joined
the New York
Police auxiliary while
in high school, and
it is reported
that he was tipped off
from within the department when
the police became
aware that he was
the—or one of the—Son of Sam murderers. Retired NYPD detective Sgt. Joseph Coffey
has stated that
he was ordered
to destroy a
letter that was sent
to Berkowitz by Police
Commissioner Michael Codd, and
that he carried
out the order.
Berkowitz has said
that three members of
the Yonkers police
department were members of the
cult responsible for the Son of Sam murders. [30]
A letter
from Berkowitz that
was withheld from scrutiny
for four years by
the police states,
"I David Berkowitz have been chosen
since birth, to
be one of the
executioners of
the cult." Berkowitz
estimated the cult
to have several
thousand members.
He linked
the killing of
Arlis Perry, butchered
in a satanic
ritual at Stanford University
in California, to
members of the group
in Los Angeles. Perry
had only moved
to California from
South Dakota a few
weeks before, and
the killing was
reportedly done by the
L.A. group as
a favor to a chapter
in Bismarck, North Dakota.
The Los Angeles
group supposedly counted
Charles Manson as a member before his arrest.
John Carr,
nicknamed "John 'Wheaties'", the Son of Sam
(Carr), in one
of the anonymous
Son of Sam
letters, associated with Berkowitz, and fits the description of one
of the Son of Sam murderers. Berkowitz
has confirmed the
man's involvement in the
crimes. Arlis Perry
was murdered on
Carr's birthday. Can- is
alleged to have
been involved in satanism since
high school, and was
in the Air
Force until being
discharged a few
months before the beginning
of the Son
of Sam murders.
He was a staff
sergeant and stationed
in Minot, North
Dakota, with the headquarters of
the satanic group
he was associated with in Bismarck.
He travelled back
and forth between
North Dakota and Yonkers, New
York, where Berkowitz
lived, with trips coinciding with several of the
"Son of Sam" killings.
Berkowitz was
also identified by a witness
as being in North Dakota,
and John Hinckley,
who attempted to
assassinate Ronald Reagan, has
stated that he met Berkowitz
in Colorado. John Carr
was receiving psychiatric
counseling during the
period of the Sam
murders. After the
slayings, a body
identified as Carr's was
found at his
home in South
Dakota, allegedly murdered
for "knowing too much,"
but identification on
the corpse was questionable.
Carr's brother
Michael was an executive in
Scientology and had received
therapy for a drug habit
in New York.
Berkowitz insisted that Michael
Carr was a
member of the
New York cult, and
involved in the
murders. He also said that
Michael and John were
members of "an
offshoot, fringe" group
connected to Scientology. It is possible
that this was
The Process, the apocalyptic cult
formed by disaffected
Scientologists Robert
DeGrimston and Mary
Ann McLean DeGrimston.
Charles Manson knew members
of The Process,
and may have
been a member.
Michael Carr
died in a
car accident at
the height of the Son of
Sam investigation. The
side window of
Carr's sister's policeman husband John
McCabe was shot
out the next
night, as it was driven
by another officer
taking McCabe's usual
route. McCabe had phoned in sick
so that he could identify Michael Carr's body.
At almost
the same time,
two friends of
John Carr were
forced off the road in a car in Minot. A Yonkers mailman who had been threatened by
the New York
group committed suicide
a month after Berkowitz'
arrest. And there
were other murders apparently linked
to the coverup
of the Son
of Sam killings.
Abundant evidence
proves that there
were several persons involved in the "Son
of Sam" murders,
apparently all of
them linked to a single satanic cult, although no others than Berkowitz
were arrested for the crimes. [31]
—Maria Devi
Khrystos claimed that
she was the
reincarnation of Christ, and
predicted the end of
the
world on November
10, 1993. She planned
to commit suicide
with her estimated 12,000 followers
in the White Brotherhood in
St. Sophia's Square in Kiev, the
city they called the New Jerusalem.
According to
the London Daily
Mail, "She is
young and sexually attractive,
with large, dark,
kohl-smudged eyes and full lips.
Her posters, in
which she wears long
white robes, holds
a staff and has
two fingers raised
in a Christ-like
gesture of peace, are
plastered across Russia
from Vladivostok to the
western borders and throughout
the other Slavic
states, Ukraine, Byelorussia and
Moldova."
Born Marina
Tsvyguna in 1960
in the Ukraine,
she worked as a
newspaper and radio
reporter, as well
as an organizer
for Komsomol, the Soviet
youth organization. She
abandoned her husband and son
when she met Yuri Krigonogov, whom she
later married. Krigonogov goes
by the name
Ioann Vamy ("John
is with you") and
is reported to
resemble Rasputin in
his facial features. He
had formerly been a
member
of the Hare Krishna movement, but
after being expelled from
that group he
formed the Center for
Higher Yoga in Kiev in
1990. That group
was turned into the White Brotherhood after he met Khrystos.
Suggesting that
the CIA is not the
only intelligence agency implicated in
the creation of
cults, Krigonogov worked
for four years at
the Kiev Institute
for Cybernetics, in
a secret KGB laboratory, researching
drugs for psychological
warfare. He is said
to have learned
hypnosis while working
at the lab.
According to
the Associated Press,
"There is little doubt
that Khryvonohov [Krigonogov] writes
the pastiche of
prophecy, political ravings and
instructions in civil
disobedience that constitute the
group's theology."
Alexander Naumov
of the Ukrainian
Ministry of the
Interior, speaking of the
recruits for the White Brotherhood, said "They are the
top of the
class, the gold
medalists at school.
They come from good
families, they are
intelligent and receptive
to ideas, and at
the same time
used to behaving
themselves and doing
as they are told."
White Brotherhood
members are reported
to live in
squats, or abandoned buildings,
migrating from one
location to another to escape
detection. When apprehended
the followers of Khrystos, some
of them as young as four years old with many in their early
teens, have gone
on hunger strikes.
The members, according to the reports of people in Kiev, all have glazed
expressions with out-of-focus eyes, and a slight smile.
"What is
frightening is that
they are well
trained to cope
with hunger strikes," said
Dr. Anatoly Gabriel
of the Number
One Hospital of Kiev.
"They switch into
well-rehearsed mass meditation to
overcome their hunger pains."
Some psychiatric
professionals in Kiev
believe that there is a secret code
composed of words
or music that
the followers of Khrystos
are programmed to
respond to, but
they also confess they are unable to undo the
programming.
When individuals
join the group they
go
through a ceremony in
which they are
'cleansed' with what
is called 'Jordan
Water.' Attempting to understand
the makeup of
the concoction, scientists in
Kiev mixed red
blood cells with
the liquid and found
that it caused
mutations and the destruction of
the cells' ability to
create antibodies. They have speculated
that Krigonogov was
using his expertise
in biowarfare to
concoct a chemical that aided in
brainwashing.
As Doomsday
approached Khrystos and
60 followers were arrested
by troops as
they camped inside
St. Sophia's Cathedral. "Today, Maria
Devi has fulfilled
her prophecy," said
Khrystos. "Two years ago, I spoke of my final sermon at St. Sophia.
Today you have captured
God's house of
worship, taking her as
prisoner, arresting the living God."
Three leaders
of the White
Brotherhood were sentenced
to prison terms on
February 9, 1996,
in Kiev. Members
of the group wept openly in the
courtroom as Khrystos received a four- year sentence for the seizure of public
property—for invading the cathedral.
Her husband received
a seven-year sentence
for the same charge
and for inciting,
causing public disorder,
and resisting arrest. A
third group leader,
Vitaliy Kovalchuk, who terms
himself Apostle Peter
II, received six
years on similar charges.
Khrystos and
Kovalchuk were freed
from prison on
August 18, 1997, by
presidential amnesty commemorating
the first anniversary of the
Ukraine constitution. There
is no information on whether
Khrystos has re-scheduled
the end of the
world at this time. [32]
—In the
fall of 1994
in chalets in
Granges, Switzerland, and Morin
Heights, Quebec, Canada,
53 members of
the Sovereign Order of
the Solar Temple
were found dead.
Sixteen members are reported to
have later committed suicide, in France in 1995.
The leader
of the Solar
Temple, Luc Jouret,
was born in the
Belgian Congo in
1947, leaving with
his parents during decolonization. Jouret attended the
Free University in Belgium, and is reported
to have graduated
in the mid-'70s
with a degree in
medicine, although his medical credentials
were later challenged in
Canada. While in school he
reportedly attracted the interest of Belgian police for Maoist
activities.
After leaving
school, Jouret became
interested in alternative medical therapies,
including homeopathy. In
1976 he visited the Philippines
to study the
techniques of spiritualist
healers, and in the
early 1980s moved
to the Lake
Leman area between France and
Switzerland to work as a homeopathic physician, reportedly gaining a wide following
in Europe.
In the
early 1980s Jouret
began lecturing, catering to
the New Age movement
in France. He
established an organization named Club
Amenta (later the
Club Atlanta), with
branches in Switzerland, France,
Canada, and Martinique.
Jouret's "Club" was associated
with the neo-Templarian tradition
of Bernard- Raymond
Fabre-Palaprat, who claimed
during the French Revolution to
be in possession
of documents confirming
the continuation of the
historical Knights Templar.
One of the organizational offshoots
of Fabre-Palaprat's Templars
was the Sovereign Order of the
Solar Temple, founded by Jacques Breyer in
1952. That group
generated another offshoot,
the Renewed Order of the Temple, formed in 1968.
The Renewed
Order was founded
by rightwing political activist Julien
Origas, and it was apparently
Origas' Renewed Order that
Luc Jouret joined
in 1983. Jouret
left the Renewed Order in 1984 to found Club Amenta.
According to
documents mailed to the
press before the
mass deaths of the
Solar Temple group, "the
Grail, Excalibur, the Candalabra of
the Seven Branches
and the Ark
of the Covenant were revealed
to the living
witnesses, the final
and faithful Servants of
the Eternal Rose+Croix.
Following which false slanders and
every kind of
treason and scandal,
judiciously orchestrated by different
existing powers, sounded
the knell for a last attempt to regenerate the Plans of
Conscience."
In 1984
Jouret founded the Club Archedia,
for the more dedicated members
of his group,
with another, a yet
more rarified and secret
level being the International Chivalric Organization, Solar
Tradition (the French
acronym being OICTS), also
known as the
Solar Tradition, and
later, the Solar Temple.
Jouret is
said to have
been a friend
of Third Position—European fascist—leader Claudio
Mutti. Mutti was jailed
in 1980 for
a Bologna, Italy,
railroad station bombing.
A Sufi, Mutti is a proponent of the philosophy of thefascist/mystic
Baron Julius Evola.
Joseph Di
Mambro, a leader
in the Solar
Temple, met Jouret in the
1980s, in Geneva,
Switzerland. Di Mambro
ran his own New Age group, called
the Golden Way Foundation, aswell as a more
secretive inner order
called "the Pyramid." Di Mambro
is also said to have been an associate of an alleged organizer of the Nazi
Black International, Francois Arnoud.
Through Di
Mambro were allegedly
developed links with
the SAC private intelligence
group in France
and the P-2
Masonic order headquartered in
Italy. According to
French-Canadian journalist
Pierre Tourangeau, Jouret's
endeavors were financed in
part by European
and South American
gun-running, with millions
of dollars of
profits laundered through
the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
At about
the same time
as his meeting
with Di Mambro, Jouret also
became associated with
Julien Origas. Origas
is alleged to have been a Nazi collaborator during World War II, was the French
Grandmaster of the neo-Templar Renewed
Order of the Temple,
and an associate
of Arnoud's Black
International Nazi group. Origas was a confidante of Raymond Bellio, a
friend of Francois Arnoud
and a writer
on qabalism. After
the death of Origas
in 1983 the
membership of the
Renewed Order of the
Temple was transferred in the main to the Solar Temple.
In early
1986 Di Mambro
made contact with
an Australian Third Position
leader in Geneva.
In his first
trip to Australia
in 1986, Di Mambro
is said to
have held secret
talks with "individuals known
to be linked
to extreme Nazi-Maoist activities in
Australia." Over the
next few years
Di Mambro and Jouret
would collectively make 11 trips
to Australia, open several bank accounts, and start a book
publishing company.
In 1993,
Jouret and other
members of the
group in Canada were
brought to trial
on illegal weapons
charges. Jouret pleaded guilty, then
departed for France.
According to one
of the documents mailed
to the press
before the mass
death, "...the year 1993 was
marked in Quebec by the political-judicial scandal perpetrated against
the Order of the Solar
Temple and ARCHS.
Amongst numerous
members as well as the
principal people in charge,
Mr. Jean-Pierre Vinet
and Dr. Luc
Jouret were the victims
of slander and
false accusations of
the most sordid
kind for many months,
such as: debauchery,
individual or collective manipulation, swindling,
illegal drug dealing,
possession of weapons, etc...
"Let us
remember that more
than 80 agents
of the Security Guard of Quebec were mobilized to
launch a general investigation of the
activities of the
above-mentioned organizations.
During this whole
affair, the attitude
of the Security Guard
of Quebec was
particularly questionable, ambiguous
and cowardly. The
investigation and the
different police operations (the
use of armored
cars, machine guns,
untimely arrests...) carried out
with a great
deal of publicity,
have cost Quebec and
Canadian taxpayers more than $6
million. If it were not
for its tragic
and pitiful aspect,
one would want
to laugh at the absurdity of the affair.
"Throughout the
investigation, unscrupulous reporters excelled in
perfidious manipulations consisting
of misinforming the public.
We specifically mention
Mr. Pelchat, whose responsibilities were
great during this
somber and nauseating spectacle.
"Since no
proof existed, government
and police officials strove to
fabricate an evil
scenario of a
'plot of terrorists
whose subversive activities were financed by dangerous sects...'"
After the
mass death of
the Solar Temple,
variously claimed to be suicide
or murder, the
Swiss magazine L'Hebdo stated that between
$127 million and
$253 million had
been deposited in Australian
bank accounts by the Solar
Temple. These funds were allegedly
withdrawn from the accounts
prior to the mass death, but are otherwise not accounted
for. [33]
—In the
well-to-do suburb of
Rancho Santa Fe
near San Diego, California, between
March 23-25, 1997,
39 members of the
Heaven's Gate UFO
cult ate phenobarbital-laced pudding,
chased it with vodka,
put plastic bags
over their heads,
and died. The group
was founded by
Marshall Herff Applewhite,
the son of a Presbyterian minister
who became a
family man while working as a
music professor at
the University of
Alabama in the
1960s. Applewhite left his
family and the
college amid accusations
of a homosexual affair,
and migrated to the University
of St. Thomas in
Houston, Texas. Applewhite
left there in
1970 due to
"health problems of an
emotional nature." Allegedly
suffering from depression and
hearing voices in his head,
he checked into a
hospital, asking for
a cure for
his homosexuality. According
to Applewhite's sister he
had experienced a
heart attack and a near death
experience at this
time—some have suggested
that, given his later career as a New Age messiah, this is the time that
Applewhite may have
been contacted by
an unspecified intelligence
agency and activated as a cult leader.
During this
period Applewhite met
Bonnie Lu Trusdale Nettles, a
New Ager who
left her husband
and four children
for Applewhite. They dubbed each other "Bo" and
"Peep," but also called
themselves The Two,
from the Book
of Revelations. They began
recruiting followers for
HIM, Human Individual Metamorphoses, promising
inductees that they would be
leaving on a UFO soon.
The philosophy
was a typically
byzantine New Age formulation: There
are two universes,
one governed by
physical laws, space and
time, the other
referred to as
the Non-Temporal Universe, the
Next Level, God,
the Spiritual Ground,
and the Holodeck (from
Star Trek: The Next Generation),
where the Energy God
Being (EGB) exists.
The Next Level
is structured like a
massive Earth corporation,
with a complex
pyramidal organization chart. Beings on the Next Level do noteat, but take their nourishment
straight from the EGB.
At a
certain time in
the past, Lucifer,
a vice president
of the Next Level,
and some of
his followers broke
away and tried
to form their own
corporation. The Luciferians,
according to the HIM
philosophy, are the
guys who pilot
the UFOs we
see in the sky,
and are engaged
in performing medical
experiments and cloning on
human beings. The
master plan of
the EGB is to harvest
souls from the
temporal universe every
2,000 years.
Representatives act
as recruiters, and
then the enlistees
are beamed to the Next Level.The
group forbade intoxicants
and sex—some of
the members even going
so far as
to be castrated
to avoid carnal
desires. Contact with families
was discouraged, and
the members were monitored closely,
reportedly checking in
with the leader
every 12 minutes during waking hours.
When the promised
UFO didn't show,
most of the
the HIM recruits defected,
with the core
of the group,
about 50 members, staying
together and moving
from one place to another around the country.
Apparently Applewhite
and Nettles changed
their names every month
or so to
confuse the Luciferians
who were hot on
their trail. At
some point The Two began
calling themselves "Do" and
"Ti," from the
musical scale. In
1985 Ti died
from liver cancer.
By 1993
the cult had
taken on a more public
face, and started calling themselves
Heaven's Gate, announcing
themselves with an ad in USA
Today declaring, "UFO Cult Resurfaces
with Final Offer." The ad
promised "the last
chance to advance beyond human."
In 1996
Heaven's Gate started
a business designing
Internet Web pages, called
"Higher Source Contract
Enterprises." They designed
cut-rate Web pages for groups varying froma San Diego polo club
to a Christian
music group. Living
in a $7,000-a- month mansion,
the group is
said to have
become increasingly fearful of
the government.
Learning about
a UFO trailing
the Hale-Bopp comet
from the Art Bell radio show, the
collective decided that was the sign that
they were going
to be taken
up from Earth.
As the comet approached the
group prepared to
shed their "earthly containers."
Curiously, some
of the members
talked about having
a Chip of Recognition implanted
in their skull, whereby
they were able
to recognize Luciferians when
they came into
contact with them. Whether
this was a
metaphor of 'spiritual
sight,' or an
actual physical implant has
not been determined.
It is unlikely
that autopsies of the members of the group included skull x-rays.
A telling
connection to Heaven's
Gate was the
murder of Ian Stuart
Spiro, his wife,
and three children,
on November 1, 1992.
His family were killed
in their home
in San Diego,
while Spiro was later
found dead in
the desert. Spiro
was extensively connected to the
CIA and British
intelligence, and is
reported to have been
involved in a wide range
of spy-biz, including
Iran- Contra and the
October Surprise. At
the time of his
murder Spiro was assisting
"Danger Man" Michael
Riconisciuto in the collection of
documents substantiating the
Inslaw case, documented by
myself and co-author
Kenn Thomas in The
Octopus. Spiro, who
lived only a short distance
away from the Heaven's Gate compound in San Diego, is
alleged to have been a member of the
group. [34]
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