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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector-CONSPIRACY IN THE URANTIA MOVEMENT:
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MKULTRA
The purpose of the CIA's MKULTRA was to research and develop methods of covert control of unwitting people for exploitation by government defense and intelligence agencies. Drugs, hypnosis, electronics, and psychology (including parapsychology and the occult) were their basic research areas. Like any good scientists they thoroughly reviewed the historical documentation which related to their areas of interest. They farmed out experimental projects to a list of prestigious universities and to government agencies such as the National Institute of Health and the National Institute of Mental Health (these also funded their university contract work with grants).
The chief officers, MKULTRA Director Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, and his superior, Richard Helms, when their pernicious activities came to light, burned all the records (fortunately overlooking boxes of financial records that had been stored separately). They did what they could -- which was considerable -- to keep the general public and responsible government authorities from knowing what they were up to, as well as the precise reasons for it. Some things are generally understood, however. Gottlieb, Helms, and other knowledgeable officials were required to testify before Congress, many of them have been interviewed by writers, and some of the science which their researchers originated has been replicated outside of their curtain of secrecy. So there is information from fairly reliable sources. The waters, however, have been muddied by purposeful disinformation as well as by conspiracy theory fanaticism and paranoia. It is not always possible to know where to draw the line.
Although government mind-control projects were in operation as early as the 1940's (during which along with other things the Russian, drug-brainwash "show trials" were studied), MKULTRA, which both grew out of them and absorbed some of them, began operating about the time that the North Koreans were brainwashing POWs with a little help from their Chinese friends (1950s). And the Chinese techniques motivated them to do a little reverse engineering, that is, the Americans copied the Chinese methods. But they did not limit themselves to just that.
The Penetration of Off-Beat religions
Author Miles Copland states that when the CIA’s Special Projects Division makes "connections with international religious groups for the purposes of aiding or supplementing espionage operations (it) is almost as touchy an issue as its association with criminal rings. To start with, Jewish and Catholic organizations are out. . . . Organizations stemming from other religions are fair game, however." And he quotes one CIA official as saying that before they "tie into a religious group it’s got to be so offbeat that anyone in the agency who belongs to it may be fired as a security risk."
The records show that shortly before The URANTIA Book was published, the CIA began an extensive search for, and development of exceptionally-gifted persons exhibiting perfect esp performance (1952), and the following year MKULTRA planted at least one “very specialized observer” at seances, seeking a “broad surveillance of all individuals attending meetings”. In studying the literature they would have undoubtedly encountered Dr. Sadler, who might be characterized as the "midwife" of The URANTIA Book had previously published writings debunking spiritualism. From them MKULTRA's analysts would have learned about the "contact personality" and might have been very interested.
In 1958 MKULTRA LSD supplier and running dog, Al Hubbard contacted Urantia movement inner circle habitué, Meredith Sprunger, for information about The URANTIA Book and the Urantia movement. Sprunger, however, does not remembers the outcome if any. He was, however, impressed with Hubbard's credentials and associates, among whom were some of the elite of the psychedelic drug fraternity. (see letter at, http://urantiabook.org/archive/history/sprung_1.htm)
The "Voices" of Findhorn
Britain and Canada were partners with USA in the early mind-control studies -- in fact British Intelligence was thought to be its most important liaison. In 1951 the CIA induced Britain to begin its ownn experimental projects shortly before Eileen Caddy began hearing an inner voice which identified itself as "God". Her then-current husband, Andrew Combe, from whom Peter Caddy virtually stole her away -- who was, by the way, Caddy's own Royal Air Force (RAF) commander -- was a member of Moral Rearmament, into which the CIA had known ties. Circa 1956 Peter Caddy and Sheena Govan (ex-British Intelligence) isolated Eileen Caddy on the Scottish island of Mull. It is populated largely in the south by Duart Clan Maclean. Eileen was subjected to what appears to be nothing other than a classical (Chinese/Korean-type) brainwashing procedure -- isolation, sleep deprivation, prolonged maintenance of painful positions, ego-devastating disparagement, etc. -- and was possibly given drugs as well. This followed a previous, aborted, less intense episode which culminated in a suicide attempt by Eileen. Before the second, more intense procedure was performed Eileen refused to believe the "voice" was God apparently because her upbringing was strictly Protestant. Afterwards she accepted it.
The British military psychologists were at that time beginning to write the book on an infant field of research: personality testing and assessment. Whether Eileen scored high on tests or whether her husband just wanted to dump her is unknown. Also, before her first marriage, she and her brothers had run an inn catering to the RAF -- so she was a known entity. In any event it appears that she was picked for some reason, and then RAF Officer, Peter Caddy, procured and developed her, exploiting her marital dissatisfaction. And it was not long (1954) until she was beginning to hear an inter-cerebral "voice" which identified itself as "God". Peter encouraged her to listen and accept by regaling her with tales of his own purported spiritual contact years earlier in Jerusalem, when a "voice" -- so he claimed -- had spoken to him..
She was led by the "voice" and accompanied or encouraged by two female ex-members of British Intelligence (one, Sheena Govan, who was married to but separated from Peter Caddy, and the other, Dorothy Maclean, who had been a subordinate of Goven in British Intelligence, and was then-currently her "disciple") along with her husband, Peter, who had undertaken at least one secret wartime mission for his government. Working together they established (1962) the "spiritual" New Age community of Findhorn abutting an RAF reconnaissance base in Scotland. Directly adjoining the Findhorn property was a fenced area, marked secret, and guarded by dogs.
Later, in 1965, Peter Caddy would gate crash a New Age event where a majority of its leaders had gathered at the home of the nephew of a former wartime propagandist to announce the existence of Findhorn (admonishing them that while they were just "talking", he was "doing"). Present at this event was the former chief officer of British Air Intelligence. Ostensibly Caddy had no connection with the "New Agers" then.
That was the same year that A Course in Miracles (ACIM) channeler Helen Schucman began "a dramatic progression of waking dreams . . . culminating with her experiencing a Voice" while employed at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons Psychology Department, where expert brainwasher and hypnotist, Herbert Speigel, was her colleague. The head of Schucman's department was William Thetford, a former spy who would contract for a research grant from MKULTRA (Subproject 130) during the channeling of ACIM. Another of her colleagues (though apparently not at the University), who was also co-author with both her and Thetford of scientific papers on MKULTRA's chief psycholigist, John Gittinger's Personality Assessment System (PAS), David Saunders, was also an MKULTRA researcher who was mentioned in John Marks book, "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate".
And that was also the same year that then-future Urantia movement official, General (then Major) Duane Faw, was poised just over the horizon from the Dominican Republic with his combat-ready Marine amphibious unit, ready to go ashore and seize its government if need be during the CIA operation there. However, because of the way events fell out he was not used then. He also had been nearby and available in a similar capacity during the CIA's Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba four years earlier. President Kennedy, however, forbade overt USA intrusion.
One of the seminal "members" of the Findhorn community was a man named Robert O. Crombie (called "Roc"). Crombie had been a virtual hermit before Caddy took him under his wing. Then he and Peter Caddy traveled around Europe and during their trip Roc began to have what were called spiritual experiences, but which when described by writer Paul Hawkin (The Magic of Findhorn) read like nothing other than guided LSD trips during which he "saw" and communicated with "the great God Pan", a goat-like humanoid. Also, one of the ex-British Intelligence members, Dorothy Maclean (the same name as the Mull Island folk), began to "see" and communicate with garden fairies who purportedly caused giantism to manifest in Findhorn garden produce -- an effect similar to that documented around Chernobyl after the nuclear accident there released radioactive materials into the local environment. These peoples' purported "contacts" were taken seriously at Findhorn! And huge radishes were displayed as being evidence of authenticated spirituality!
Even the garden itself was hailed as a "miracle", growing as it did in a cold climate and purportedly unproductive soil. But Caddy had worked tons of seaweed compost into it, and it goes unremarked that later visitors included a grand niece of a former Prime Minister, who was herself a renowned expert gardener, another visitor was a man who bore the dubious title of "King of Compost". It must not be ruled out that they may have been employed as advisors before their public appearances at Findhorn. A buried heating system is not out of the question, either. And the Findhorn garden may have also been bathed with radiations from the airbase next-door.
Hawkin who visited Findhorn in the 1970s claimed that there was an energy field felt and commented upon by all members, which permeated the community, but which could not be felt across the road. He depicts it as not quite a "buzz". A "buzz" such as that has been associated with Channeling (see 1979, Ken Cory, below). There are other descriptions in his book that appear to be drug reactions. Hawkin, I should point out, was oblivious to anything but surface implications. And all of these phenomena were represented by Findhorn management to be "spiritual" or proof of genuine spiritual bona fides! He hardly questions that assertion.
It seems obvious for these and other reasons that Findhorn was the British mind-control experimental project which they had agreed with the CIA to undertake. It appears from what went on there that they were field testing mind-altering drugs and other agents (microwaves, focused energy fields?) as they were being researched and developed in the USA by MKULTRA. Some of the most obvious substances, according to Hawkin's descriptive writings, were marijuana derivatives, "love drug", and LSD. As early as 1957 the CIA had been using at least six drugs operationally -- a number which doubtlessly grew over time. Many more substances no doubt needed testing. Drugs represented the main thrust of MKULTRA research in those days by all accounts. And they scoured the world's tropical rain forests and pharmacopoeia for possibilities.
A religious community provides a number of distinct advantages for experimenting on human guinea pigs. It creates an isolated environment like a laboratory. And since it attracts relatively undiscriminating people (the others can be weeded out, like the hippies were at Findhorn, who might have been expected to know LSD from G-O-D) and who therefore cannot easily be seduced into accepting as "spiritual" whatever weird, drug- like symptoms happen to effect themselves and their consciousness. The seducer's job, apparently, belonged to Peter Caddy, and had been his from the beginning with Eileen -- both sexually and spiritually. After becoming her adulterous bedmate, he always helped her overcome her tendencies to disbeelieve in the authenticity of the "voices". William Thetford played a similar role to ACIM channeler Helen Schucman in the 1960s. And General Dwane Faw was on hand to officially encourage and promote Teaching Mission channeling within the Urantia movement in the early 1990s.
"CIA Cults"
So, the USA, apparently following the British lead developed Jim Jones and the People's Temple, co-opting an already existing, more or less legitimate, non-mainstream church ministered to by the charismatic Jones. The CIA's fingerprints are all over the project, including the fact that some of the People's Temple members assassinated Congressman Leo Ryan (who was then-currently engaged in uncovering what he called "CIA cults") near Jonestown earlier in the day of the 1978 "massacre" (falsely called a "mass suicide", although that was one aspect of it), which terminated the experiment and "sacrificed" the lab animals -- who in this case happened to be human. It appears that Jonestown also provided field testing for MKULTRA mind-control drugss. See: Was Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment? A Review of the Evidence, by Michael Meiers
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