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From: Alex Constantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Linda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The OTO and the CIA: A Response to Jerry Cornelius' Scribe Article
Date: Sunday, June 04, 2000 5:00 AM
THE OTO & THE CIA: A Response to Jerry Cornelius' Scribe Article
While skimming the Internet recently, I found myself the subject of
scorn for my reports on the history of the OTO and its relations with the
CIA (see Virtual Government, 1997). Jerry Cornelius, the critique's author,
did not send me a copy for a response, and I had no idea in 1997 that this
essay had appeared in Scribe, so my response is belated, regrettably.
To be fair, Cornelius did catch me with a typo in the spelling of a
name ‹Marcello Motta, not "Matta"‹that crept into the book (Cornelius
misspells the name himself once or twice with "Motto"). But the remainder of
his "criticism" is strictly false.
Be advised that the OTO began as a fascist front in proto-Nazi Germany,
and its defenders continue, by and large, to have absolutely no credibility
when discussing the organization's history. Lying is an OTO trademark.
I'll take his deliberately misleading statements concerning my account
of the Solar Lodge and the early history of the OTO one at a time.
Cornelius writes in Scribe (vol.1, no, 7, 1997):
1) "The main tragedy of [Karl] Germer's death was that although he
dictated where the O.T.O. property should go, he never officially named a
successor. This is contrary to what some individuals, like Alex Constantine,
would have us believe by claiming that 'Germer, on his death bed, had
insisted that Matta (sic) succeed him as the Outer Head of the occult
order.'"
Crowley (a fascist propagandist before the war) himself believed that
German-born Karl Germer was a Nazi agent, but had no qualms about handing
the mantle of OTO high priest to him. These are the caliber of men we are
discussing here. In Virtual Government, I note that Germer's wife wrote a
letter to Marcelo Motta, "an OTO official in Brazil. She informed him that
Germer, on his death bed, had insisted that Motta succeed him as the Outer
Head of the occult order." This was Motta's statement, repeated in many a
personal correspondence at the time. Cornelius attributes it to me. I make
no "claims," The statement concerning a successor to Germer came from a
published history, "The OTO Since Crowley's Death." Crowley left it to
Germer to choose a successor, and he selected Motta as "Outer Head,"
according to letters from Germer's wife. Grady McMurty DID allege falsely
after the fact that SHE was "lying"‹ not Motta‹ about Germer's true
successor, but he was mounting a coup at the time and this entailed the
discreditation of his rival for the throne. Even McMurtty did not say that
Motta had fabricated these details. Cornelius does, without basis.
2) "... This false claim of succeeding Germer was fostered by Motto
[sic] himself, a man who lived in a paranoid delusional world believing
himself a Napoleon when in fact he was little more than a school teacher
baked too long in the Brazilian sun."
Amusing? To judge by his writings, Motta was as lucid and intelligent as a
follower of Crowley can be, not at all "delusional." It is a tried-and-true
cult tactic to dump on whistle-blowers with ridicule and claims of mental
illness.
Motta knew he'd been squeezed out of the OTO, and that the CIA had taken an
interest in co-opting the organization. This was not "paranoia." Cornelius
carefully avoids mentioning that Grady McMurty, who assumed the mantle of
leadership via dirty tricks, hailed from the State Department. He was an
"intalligence agent," according to "The OTO Since Crowley's Death." McMurty
had been admitted to the OTO by Jack Parsons, who worked with principals of
the Nazi "Paperclip" program after the war, and believed in demons (what was
that about delusions?). How does staking a claim as head of the OTO suggest
that Motta believed himself "Napolean?" What is funny about fascism and
covert ops?
3) "The most common misconception about the Solar Lodge that authors
love to foster is the connection with Charlie Manson. Contrary to what some
would like readers to believe, this is a misconception. He was not a member,
nor is there any strong evidence that he ever visited the group. The sole
source of these stories is found in Ed Sanders' book The Family published in
1971. Here Sanders wrote that at "least five separate individuals have
claimed that they were told by a member of Brayton's rebel O.T.O. Lodge that
Manson was involved with the Lodge." (1) These allegations have never been
substantiated and appear to be only second hand gossip told to a third party
who then talked to Sanders, hardly the type of evidence which would stand up
in a Court of Law...."
It sounds to me as though Sanders had it right, if he had five independent
sources giving consistent accounts. No doubt, five witnesses wouldn't do so
badly in a court of law, but then Cornelius is biased.
4) The only tenuous connection to the Manson murders is that the Solar
Lodge problems occurred two months before the Tate-LaBianco murders. The
paranoia of the general public dictated that since, both incidents were
committed by hippie drug cults in the Los Angeles area they must be
connected. Many researchers have spent years in their quest to tie these two
groups together but to no avail. There was no vast hippie conspiracy. Still,
with all the information available on the Solar Lodge we find authors like
Alex Constantine whose article recently appeared in Paranoia Magazine titled
"The False Memory Hoax" (2) along with Peter Levenda, the author of The
Unholy Alliance, (3) promoting the same old, tired misconceptions, if not
creating new outright lies..."
Excuse my awe-struck expression. Did I make the statements attributed to me
here? All of this hot air. I wrote that "LIKE Charles Manson," the Solar
Lodge of the OTO went in for sadomasochistic sex and orgies and devil
worship. This is documented in police reports written by cops called to the
scene, and witnesses. I have never said that there was a "hippie
conspiracy." I have never maintained that Manson had any connection beyond a
flirtation with members of the Solar Lodge of the OTO. Mr. Cornelius does
not footnote here. Slick. He does carefully give citations for some
statements, but not others, because the claims about me are completely
unsupportable. Speaking of "outright lies"
5) "Some writers, like myself, strongly believe these authors simply
think it's plausible to attach all the evils of society from drug
trafficking, sexual promiscuity, satanic murders, child abuse and
kidnapping onto the Ordo Tempil Orientis ."
Please pay attention to my actual words, Mr. Cornelius. I do not "attach
all the evils of society" to the OTO.
6) " Anyone with half a brain, or capable of doing the simplest of
research, quickly uncovers that this is not the case. The above mentioned
travesties are totally foreign to the O.T.O.'s thinking and have absolutely
nothing to do with the practices taught within its hallowed halls. However
the Great Beast is the man whom everyone loves to hate and is often called,
wrongly so, the father of modern Satanism."
Let me be clear, now, because Cornelius seems incapable of concentrating on
my actual words. I have never faulted the OTO for anything beyond the
documented fascist and intelligence connections I've written about ‹ I have
concentrated on RENEGADE lodges and SPIN-OFFS, mostly, and these were
involved in serious crimes. I never said that the OTO thinks and teaches
feloniously. I have never said that Crowley was the "father of modern
Satanism," but this case could be made. What of it?
As for Motta's "paranoia"
7) "The first break-in occurred in the summer of 1965, the second in
1966. Both were at Mildred Burlingame's house, an old Agape Lodge member
whose husband had died shortly before the first incident. The third
break-in occurred shortly afterwards and was at Israel Regardie's house
while he was away. The fourth house which was ransacked was at West
Point, Califomia, the home of Sascha Germer. Soror Meral's fears had
come true. This break-in occurred over the Labor Day weekend of 1967 .
The break-ins were one reason that Marcelo Motta feared a CIA takeover of
the OTO, and this is the only sane conclusion. Yet Cornelius ridicules him,
and me. Valuable property was stolen after Germer's death from his widow,
including some Crowley artifacts. There were strange deaths. Motta's mail
was opened and some of it disappeared. Rumors were spread defaming him. He
lost his teaching position. Who was behind this harassment? Motta blamed
Opus Dei, the notorious fascistic Vatican order with extensive intelligence
ties, and the CIA. Anyone familiar with these corrupt organizations knows
that they are capable of anything. The skullduggery within and around the
OTO was rampant. So how was Motta suffering paranoid "delusions?"
8) "Other modern allegations are equally groundless, as when Mr.
Constantine writes that the O.T.O. is a 'cult' being 'influenced' by the
CIA, this too is totally baseless and deserves a round of hearty laughter."
This is what I actually wrote: "A number of intelligence agents with occult
interests already had their hooks into the OTO. One of them was Gerald
Yorke, a veteran British intelligence agent working, an advocate of Motta
argues, 'with American intelligence in an attempt to absorb the OTO into the
ideological warfare network of the political right.' Before the horns of
Thelemite succession were bestowed upon [the State Department's] Grady
McMurty, Yorke the prelate spy 'misinterpreted' Germer¹s will and named
Joseph Metzger, a ranking Thelemite (and the son of a former Swiss
intelligence chief), to the office of high caliph. One order adept, Oskar
Schlag, was an alleged "psychological warfare" specialist from Israel." In
addition, the head of the OTO's Solar Lodge in Riverside was Georgina
Brayton, the daughter of a ranking Air Force officer. The intelligence
connections of Jack Parsons are well-known. Why does all of this push
Cornelius to "hearty laughter?" He should be crying.
Jerry Cornelius makes other statements about my research on the OTO that are
equally stupid. He criticizes passages on the Solar Lodge that are based on
actual police reports and eye-witness accounts, primary source material. So
have a good laugh, Mr. Cornelius. See you in the funny papers.
‹ Alex Constantine
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