Doomsdayers - note Russia refused to admit 19 of them to Russia
supposedly, but were they there for a little training maybe?
The date this one member was executed, the sarin gas was loosed in the
subway of Japan.
Now wonder - why would they change their name to "itself
Aleph".....Aleph is part of Hebrew Alphabet - number 22. This 119th
psalm of degrees comes to mind, tarot card assassins.....MEM means in
world of Tarot Cards (see The Wasteland and reference to this title also
in Ezekial).....anyway, MEM means maybe also to walk in big bear trap.
Song of Degrees....masonic stuff....strange this killer kult would take
this name, right?
OSaba
Under subject matter look at this site - all in red. But why did
Russia refuse these people 19 of them entry to Russia while we have
opened the doors to these assassins some of whom work well it seems with
"connections".
Aum Shinri-kyo and Related Controversies
"Police raid Todai lab linked to apprehended Aum cultist"
("Japan Times," October 26, 2000)
An Aum Shinrikyo member under arrest was recently hired as a contract
employee by a corporation affiliated with the Science and Technology
Agency and had been involved in the development of computer systems at
the University of Tokyo's graduate school, police said Wednesday.
Prompted by the new revelation about Atushi Ogata, 45, who was arrested
Tuesday for allegedly submitting a false resident registration document
to a Tokyo ward office, police searched the astronomy laboratory at the
university, also known as Todai, on Wednesday morning.
Police are also analyzing some 2,000 items confiscated from the cult's
facilities, they said.
Ogata was employed by Japan Science and Technology Corp. on a contract
from May to next spring. He has been developing a program to manage data
on research results at the laboratory, police said, adding that another
33-year-old Aum member has also been working at the lab.
An official at the corporation said the firm was not aware that Ogata,
who had responded to a help-wanted ad, is a member of Aum and added that
the firm will decide his status after considering further developments.
Police arrested Ogata, alleging he had submitted a resident registration
document to the Bunkyo Ward office last December that stated that he
would move in from Adachi Ward. Instead, he moved into a condominium in
Taito Ward the following month.
Police apparently used the false registration as a pretext to search
several sites linked to the cult.
These included the condo, which they believe is housing other cultists
and is an office to develop personal computer software.
On Tuesday, they searched an Aum site in Adachi Ward where senior cult
member Fumihiro Joyu lived from Sept. 20 to Oct. 8, a Kita Ward condo
where he is currently living and a PC shop opened by cult members in
June in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district.
An Aum official said the false resident registration is a kind of
"procedural confusion" that was caused by local governments' refusal to
allow Aum members to register as residents.
Aum members in the recent past had gained access to the computer systems
of various government entities, including the Defense Agency.
Some members of Aum -- which now calls itself Aleph -- have been
convicted of crimes or are on trial in serious criminal cases, including
the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 12
people and injured more than 5,000 and other mass murders.
"University of Tokyo searched for employing arrested AUM cultist"
(Kyodo News Service, October 25, 2000)
TOKYO, Oct. 25 (Kyodo) - Police on Wednesday searched the University of
Tokyo after learning that an AUM Shinrikyo cultist had been working in
its science faculty as a government contractor prior to his arrest
Tuesday, police officials said.
Police are worried about the doomsday cult's apparent penetration of
Japan's top state-run university, they said.
The allegation follows the disclosure earlier this year that followers
of AUM, which is suspected of orchestrating the deadly 1995 sarin gas
attack on the Tokyo subway system, had developed software for government
departments including the Defense Agency and major corporations.
Atsushi Ogata, 45, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly submitting a false
residency registration to Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward Office. The Wednesday
search was focused on a graduate science laboratory located in Bunkyo
Ward.
According to investigations, Ogata was hired in May by the Japan Science
and Technology Corp., an affiliate of the Science and Technology Agency.
He was working on an astronomy computer project at the laboratory,
police said.
Under a contract in effect through spring 2001, Ogata, who is believed
to be an AUM computer specialist, was developing a program to process
data for astronomy research, they said.
Another AUM believer is currently working at the lab, according to
police.
An official at the Japan Science and Technology Corp. said it was not
aware of Ogata's AUM affiliation as his resume did not reflect it.
He had applied for the job of research assistant on the strength of his
personal computer experience after responding to an advertisement in a
job magazine. He was hired as he looked like a decent person, the
official said.
But AUM spokesman Hiroshi Araki said Wednesday, ''It is not true that
Ogata was developing software at a graduate-school laboratory in the
University of Tokyo. He was hired as a clerical worker and was handling
miscellaneous duties such as making photocopies.
''He does not have knowledge or technological expertise in computer
software development.''
Police will likely analyze items seized in the Wednesday search as well
as possible evidence recovered in searches of locations connected with
Ogata that were carried out Tuesday. Investigators will be looking into
what information Ogata had access to at the university, police said.
Earlier this year, police learned that an AUM company was delivering
software to government offices and major companies. The cult, which
renamed itself Aleph, disbanded the firm in March, saying it could not
gain public understanding about the company's business.
Araki said AUM does not engage in software development, adding that if
followers do so on an individual basis, their names and addresses are
reported to the Justice Ministry's Public Security Investigation Agency.
"AUM cultist nabbed for allegedly faking resident registration"
(Kyodo News Service, October 24, 2000)
TOKYO) - Police on Tuesday arrested a member of the AUM Shinrikyo cult
for allegedly submitting a false resident registration document to a
Tokyo ward office, and searched condominiums, the cult's facility and a
personal computer shop.
According to police investigations, Atsushi Ogata, 45, submitted a
resident registration document to the Bunkyo Ward office in December
last year, saying that he would move in from Adachi Ward, although he in
fact moved into a condominium in Taito Ward the following month.
Police apparently used the false registration case as a pretext to
search several locations including the condo in Taito Ward, which police
believe is used as an accommodation for other cult members and office to
develop personal computer software.
Police also searched the cult's facility in Adachi Ward, where Fumihiro
Joyu, a senior cult member, lived from Sept. 20 to Oct. 8, a condominium
in Kita Ward where Joyu is currently living, and a PC shop cult members
opened in June in Tokyo's Akihabara shopping district.
Ogata is thought to be a computer specialist for the cult, which now
calls itself Aleph.
An AUM official attributed the false resident registration to confusion
caused by efforts of local communities to prevent AUM members from
taking residence within them.
Some members of AUM have been convicted of crimes or are on trial in
serious criminal cases, including the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo
subway system that killed 12 people and injured more than 5,000.
"AUM's Joyu to leave Tokyo apartment next month, cult says"
(Kyodo News Service, October 16, 2000)
TOKYO - AUM Shinrikyo has sent a notice to the residents of the
apartment building in Tokyo's Kita Ward in which senior AUM member
Fumihiro Joyu resides, telling them Joyu will leave within a month, a
ward official said Monday.
The notice, dated Saturday and signed by an AUM follower who moved into
the apartment before Joyu did on Oct. 8, said the top AUM official is
staying in the apartment on a ''temporary'' basis, adding he himself
will leave by the end of November.
Last Monday, the ward set up a task force headed by ward chief Masao
Kitamoto to deal with incoming AUM members and work out measures to
prevent the apartment from becoming the cult's new head office.
On Sept. 20, Joyu evacuated AUM's Yokohama branch and moved to a
three-story building in Tokyo's Adachi Ward.
He lived in the branch after being released from Hiroshima Prison in
late December, where he served out a three-year term for perjury and the
falsification of documents.
The Yokohama District Court on Sept. 6 ordered AUM to vacate the
Yokohama branch, located in an apartment building, in line with demands
by the building's residents.
"4 charges dropped against Aum leader"
("Yomiuri Shimbun," October 13, 2000)
The Tokyo District Court on Thursday approved the withdrawal of four
illicit drug manufacturing charges against Aum Supreme Truth cult
founder Chizuo Matsumoto, 45, better known as Shoko Asahara.
Earlier this month, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office had
applied to the court for the withdrawal of the charges.
With Thursday's approval by presiding Judge Fumihiro Abe, the number of
charges against Matsumoto has been reduced from 17 to 13.
The prosecutors began proceedings on Oct. 6 on the 13th charge against
Matsumoto, in which he allegedly ordered construction of a sarin gas
plant. With the opening of the 13th case, court proceedings have now
begun on all charges against Matsumoto.
"Security agency inspects AUM facilities"
(Kyodo News Service, October 13, 2000)
TOKYO, Oct. 13 (Kyodo) The Public Security Investigation Agency
inspected a Tokyo facility and the Nagoya branch of AUM Shinrikyo on
Friday in line with a law aimed at cracking down on the religious cult.
It was the first search by the agency of the cult's facilities since
Sept. 14 and the 11th since it has begun searching AUM facilities.
It was also the first time for the agency to inspect the Nagoya branch
since AUM resumed its activities at the branch's rented building in
Nishi Ward, agency sources said.
The cult moved into the Shin Senju facility in Tokyo's Adachi Ward and
the Nagoya branch in August.
Police believe AUM uses the Tokyo facility to train its members, as
followers are frequently seen entering and leaving it.
Several AUM-related facilities are located in the ward, including a
building where senior AUM member Fumihiro Joyu, 37, lived until Oct. 8
before moving to an apartment in neighboring Kita Ward.
AUM had previously occupied the Nagoya building, vacating it late last
December. When the cult resumed renting it in August, it promised the
landlord it would stop holding religious seminars there.
However, the activities resumed and AUM followers have frequented the
building, according to investigators.
The agency said it has been monitoring the branch, suspecting it may
become AUM's new headquarters in central Japan.
Under the law, enacted in December last year, occupants of AUM
facilities who refuse or hinder police searches can face up to one year
in prison.
"Death penalty sought for ex-AUM member for sarin attack"
(Kyodo News Service, October 11, 2000)
TOKYO, Oct. 11 (Kyodo) - Prosecutors on Wednesday demanded the death
penalty for a former member of the AUM Shinrikyo who allegedly took part
in a 1994 nerve-gas attack that killed seven people in Matsumoto, Nagano
Prefecture.
The prosecutors, who made their demand at the Tokyo District Court, said
Noboru Nakamura, 33, also abducted the 68-year-old relative of an AUM
follower in 1995 and conspired to kill a 27-year-old AUM member in 1994.
Nakamura has pleaded not guilty to all the charges during earlier
hearings at the court.
In the sarin gas attack of June 27, 1994, Nakamura allegedly served as a
lookout while other AUM members released the gas. The attack, that
targeted a condominium where judges lived, killed nearby residents.
Two other former AUM members who took part in the attack have already
been sentenced. Satoru Hashimoto, 33, who drove a van equipped with a
sprayer and a fan that released the deadly gas, was sentenced to death,
and Takashi Tomita, 42, who drove another lookout van, was handed a
17-year prison term.
Both men have appealed the rulings.
"Senior AUM member Joyu moves to Tokyo's Kita Ward"
(Kyodo News Service, Oct. 9, 2000)
TOKYO, Oct. 9 (Kyodo) - Senior AUM Shinrikyo member Fumihiro Joyu has
moved to an apartment in Tokyo's Kita Ward, near the cult's facility in
Adachi Ward where he temporarily lived after leaving the sect's Yokohama
branch last month, police sources said Monday.
Joyu, 37, and several other AUM members left the facility around 10 p.m.
Sunday for the apartment, some 10 kilometers west of the facility,
according to the sources.
Adachi Ward had requested the owner of the building to evict the AUM
members and local residents had begun preparations for a protest
movement.
Joyu gave a letter dated Sept. 25 to the owner, in which he pledged to
move out within two weeks.
Kita Ward set up a task force on Monday headed by ward chief Masao
Kitamoto to deal with incoming AUM members and work out measures to
prevent the apartment from becoming the cult's new head office, ward
officials said.
Kitamoto called the move by Joyu and other AUM members to the ward
''very regrettable,'' as it could cause anxiety among residents and
adversely affect their lives.
''I will discuss this issue with the ward assembly and local people and
immediately work out countermeasures,'' he said.
Kita Ward has confirmed that the apartment in the seven-story building
is the only place in the ward where AUM members reside, the officials
said.
According to the police, the apartment in Kita Ward was formerly used by
AUM members to develop computer software.
On Sept. 20, Joyu evacuated AUM's Yokohama branch and moved to a
three-story building owned by a metal processing company in Adachi Ward.
He had been living in the branch after he was released from Hiroshima
Prison in late December after serving out a three-year term for perjury
and document falsification.
The Yokohama District Court on Sept. 6 ordered AUM to vacate its
Yokohama branch, located in an apartment building, in line with demands
by the building's residents.
Joyu became well-known to the Japanese public through his media exposure
as AUM's spokesman until his arrest in October 1995.
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