-Caveat Lector- from: http://www2.flatlandbooks.com/flatland/wrcw.html <A HREF="http://www2.flatlandbooks.com/flatland/wrcw.html">Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War: a forthcoming b </A> ------ Will the True Story of Wilhelm Reich in America be Buried and Lost Forever? A Forthcoming Book: Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War by Jim Martin, editor of Flatland Lost Knowledge. Something happened to me recently that made me pause and think about the value of information and knowledge, and what it means when it's lost forever. While driving to the airport for a trip to visit my mother, I stopped in San Francisco for a bite to eat. It was pouring rain, in the early darkness of winter. I only wanted to quickly park, jump out of the car and duck into a pub called Tommy's Joynt on Van Ness for some food. Twenty minutes later, we discovered that our car had been broken into and that my luggage and lap-top computer had been stolen. Not being a clothes horse, my wardrobe could easily be replaced, but losing my lap-top, with all my e-mails, my personal phone numbers and addresses of friends, and most importantly, the book I have been working on for five years, on Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War-this was a shock. Fortunately, I had the book backed up elsewhere, but it made me think: what a great loss it would be, not only to me personally, but to history, if my research was to become lost, stolen, or buried. That was the late Dr. Wilhelm Reich's greatest fear as well. In the face of near-universal opposition to his work, Reich spent his last years working furiously on basic science, publishing books at a rate of one or two a year, and fighting a legal battle against malignant social forces. They eventually succeeded in burning his books (unconstitutionally) and throwing him in prison where he died, but they never succeeded in destroying his basic discoveries. A Conspiracy of Dunces. Ignorance is the greatest handicap; there have been many points in human history when knowledge has been lost, sometimes forever. How were the pyramids built? What did Native Americans use for birth control? We may never know. There is a dark side to ignorance, too: along with the willful denial of the truth so ever-present today, there is an official culture of secrecy, born in the post-W.W.II era, called the national security state. This conspiracy to keep the public ignorant is inextricably bound with the real history of the life and times of Wilhelm Reich in America. This meditation of mine, triggered by the theft of my computer, convinced me that I must complete my history of Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War as soon as possible. Conducting a course of research as vast as this subject requires, without the support of a major publisher, has drained my financial resources. I've decided to appeal to the world-wide community of serious student of Reich and orgonomy, and offer a hardbound, private first edition of the book. Signed by the author, the edition with be limited to 500 copies. It will be a minimum of 500 pages, full of photographs, with appendix material, index and documentary evidence. The book will be an entirely new history of Reich and his times in America, during the period 1939-1957. Of course, there will be a complete overview of his life, but this book will examine, for the first time, the context of world history in which Reich conducted his affairs. I'll be including all of the relevant articles and interviews that have previously been published in Flatland Magazine, as well as completely new interviews and archival material. Here's what some early previewers of my book have to say: "I thought your documentary proof of how the Stalin-headed conspiracy used character analysis negatively was a most important insight. Altogether excellent research. Congratulations." -Eva Reich, MD "Jim Martin's thorough investigation into the mysterious life-and-times of Wilhelm Reich is a compelling and fascinating read, also bringing together many new elements about the secret history of the Cold War." -Dick Russell, best-selling author of The Man Who Knew Too Much "One of the most eagerly awaited histories of one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century, Wilhelm Reich. Amassing a great deal of new information from previously untapped historical sources, Martin not only illuminates the life of Reich but puts the Cold War years into an entirely new perspective." -Kenn Thomas, Steamshovel Press publisher "Jim Martin has done an excellent job in digging up fascinating facts supporting the more remarkable claims of Wilhelm Reich as made during his last years, filling in details about his Tucson desert-greening experiments, his UFO observations, and so much more. Martin also sheds light on the dark side of Reich's detractors during that same period, exposing the people who publicly threw dirt and stimulated the FDA attack which led to the burning of his books and Reich's death in prison. They were, just as Reich claimed, deeply committed Communists (with a capital "C"), possibly even paid Soviet agents as well. Some have chosen to view Reich's work and claims during his last years as evidence of delusion or paranoia -- Martin provides additional proof that Reich was correct." -James DeMeo, director of the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory, author of Saharasia; the 4000 bce Origins of Child Abuse, Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence in the Deserts of the Old World (1998). "Jim Martin's tenaciously thorough research and lucid engaging style combine to offer a fascinating insight into the latter years of Reich's life, a period sadly neglected by many other biographers. His meticulous digging into Reich's labyrinthine past has turned up some startling connections with other historical figures (eg Kim Philby) and offers a desperately needed fresh insight into the complex issue of Reich's downfall in the 1950s. Recommended." -Jon East, British film & television producer/director. What's the story? Who, What When Where and Why? It's an incredible story. I believe Wilhelm Reich was correct in much of his later research into UFOs, orgone energy, cloudbusting, and that the US government was interested in this. He also had good reason to suspect an international conspiracy against him. This book will not only rewrite the history of Wilhelm Reich, it will rewrite the history of the American-Russian Cold War period. Who needs this book? Anyone who wants to understand not only Reich, his science of orgonomy, but his life in the context of the whole post-war period: exploding technological advances, power-block politics, subversion of democracy. Environmentalists will learn how the Earth's biological "orgone energy envelope" is literally dying, causing horrendous changes in weather, air quality, and livability. Ufologists will find important keys to understanding the nature of the US government's early responses to UFO sightings in the 40s and 50s. Cold War historians and espionage researchers will find a completely new angle on the machinations of the Soviet, American and British intelligence services. Leftists will be fascinated by new disclosures about the German Communist Party, the Social Democrats (Sopade) and Euro-Asian- American political struggles behind the scenes. Conservatives will find new ammunition against totalitarianism. What will be in my book? I've researched Reich's most controversial work in America and Europe since 1983, and I intend to put every scrap of detail into this reference work. I've interviewed many of the last living contemporaries and coworkers of Reich's, and I'll be including each and every witness interview in the appendices. I trace Reich's experiences in Europe and America, and through new Freedom of Information Act releases I have obtained conclusive evidence of government knowledge of Reich's discoveries. For example, did you know that weather-modification technicians working for the US Air Force developed a device they called a "cloudbuster"? Have you ever wondered what was in Mildred Edie Brady's FBI files, and whether the government knew she was a Soviet asset? You'll find answers to these questions, and many more, in this book. Ur-Mole Kim Philby, honored with a postage stamp by the USSR; had a life-long interest in Wilhelm Reich. The Social Context: Reich's colleagues, and his antagonists, are one of the most influential groups of people living in the latter part of the 20th century. You'll meet Karl Frank, the leader of an underground anti-Nazi group of Germans, calling themselves "New Beginning." Karl Frank was a friend of Reich's in Vienna in the 20s; he later worked for Allen Dulles' intelligence agency Office of Strategic Services (OSS). It was Karl Frank who confirmed to Reich that Mildred Edie Brady, the instigator of the FDA's persecution of Reich, was indeed a fully committed Soviet agent. You'll listen in on my conversations with Michael Straight, who is still living, and who was the publisher of Mildred Brady's article in the New Republic. You'll hear his explanation of his tangled past involvement with the notorious den of Soviet moles, the Cambridge Five spy ring that included Anthony Blunt, Kim Philby, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess. You'll learn how Stalin's agents used Reich's own techniques of character analysis in a perverted way, in order to find psychological "hooks" into the minds of innocent people in order to conform them to conspiracy. You'll see what Mildred Brady did to her own daughter; and what a personification of what Reich called the "emotional plague" she really was. You'll travel with me to Tucson, Arizona, and visit the p laces where Reich conducted his atmospheric medicine, which some have called "weather control," under the noses of an official government weather modification Institute of Atmospheric Physics. You'll meet the famed Dr. James E. McDonald, and speak with his colleague at the University of Arizona, about McDonald's ground-breaking work on weather modification and UFO research - he was one of the first mainstream scientists, along with Reich, to blow the whistle on a government cover-up. Michael Whitney Straight at Cambridge, 1935 The beauty of this book is in the details: How Reich's lawyer, Arthur Garfield Hays, had a professional relationship with his client's gadfly, Mildred Edie Brady, as cosponsors of the Consumers Union. Learn that Hays was also the lawyer for the Waldemar Eitingon estate, which provided millions of dollars to Max Eitingon, Sigmund Freud's right-hand man, his "sword and shield," as Freud said it best; how the Eitingon money came from a near-monopoly concession on the Soviet-sanctioned Russian fur export trade; and Max Eitingon's role in the secret expulsion of Wilhelm Reich from psychoanalysis. We'll examine the evidence that shows that Max Eitingon was indeed related to the infamous Leonid Eitingon, the KGB general who was personally responsible for the assassination of Trotsky. Why Lewis W. Douglas, a member of President Eisenhower's "kitchen cabinet," assisted Reich in his efforts to bring "desert greening" to the arid lands around Tucson Arizona; and how Douglas himself was linked to the Rockefeller Foundation, the Sloan-Kettering Foundation, and the World Bank, as well as how Douglas established a nuclear arsenal at US air bases on British soil. Whether Emmy Rado, Wilhelm Reich's dance partner in Vienna, was the lover of Allen Dulles of the OSS, and what her role might have been amongst leftist German exiles in the early American intelligence establishment. Survey a comprehensive chronology of the "Reichian century" (1897-1997) with intriguing stream of events which set Reich's life in a new perspective Weather Modification device developed by the U.S. Air Force in the early sixties and named the "Cloudbuster." When will the book be published, and how much will it cost? When you buy this book in advance, when can you expect delivery? Most of the book has been written already and I've been circulating some of the chapters to fellow researchers and I've gotten a lot of good feedback. The most common reaction is "wow," and "I hardly knew any of the material you laid out here." I expect the book to be published in the Fall of this year and it will definitely be delivered to you no later than December 25th, 1999. The retail price of this massive, unique book will be $150.00 when it is in print. Due to the limited number of copies in this special first edition of Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War, it will a rare item that will only go up in price. Don't expect to find this item in stores, or discounted at a chain bookstore. But you can reserve your copies of the book for only $99.00 each by taking me up on this pre-publication offer. You'll save $51.00 by pre-ordering, assuring that you won't be miss out. Buy a few copies for holiday presents; you can only guarantee you will get a copy of this extremely limited edition if you order by June 15, 1999. I have reserved a dozen copies for the most helpful research-assistants any author could hope for, my all-volunteer staff of co-conspirators. Why should you pay $99 for a book you won't lay eyes on for months? I have invested thousands into this research. It's a passion with me, not something I have done to see a profit. Maybe the book will be published by an established press one day, in an abbreviated form, in a cheaper paperback edition. I don't know. I do know that I will be forced into compromises and cut back on the detail if this book will ever be published and available from a main-line publishing house. I have reached a point when the book must be produced - whether or not there is a "commercial market" for it at this moment in history. It's too big a story to allow it to be buried, stolen or lost. It's the scientific version of the Kennedy assassination. You can help preserve this knowledge by subscribing to the book in advance, assuring that the history, the memory, will not be lost. It's in your hands. If you've enjoyed Flatland Magazine over the past ten years, I assure you that the book will read like a 500-page Flatland. There will not only be new material on Reich, but a heavy emphasis on those related topics that make Reich such a relevant subject of study today. It will be a collector's item as soon as the first edition is born. My "thank you" for your support: In addition to setting the record straight on Wilhelm Reich's later, misunderstood and misrepresented work, I'd like to offer an additional thank-you to all advance buyers of my book: a free, four-issue subscription to Flatland Magazine, worth over $20. Your subscription will start immediately, with the forthcoming issue #16, due out in March, 1999. If you are a current subscriber to Flatland, the four issues will be added to your already-paid remaining issues (if you live outside the US, I'll add a two-issue sub because of the additional postage cost.) That's to keep all of you current on the latest developments, new historical discoveries, that will inevitably come to light after the publication of Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War. So, pick up the phone and call me at 707-964-8326 weekdays (9-5 pacific time) to reserve your personal copy of Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War through Flatland Books. MasterCard and Visa are accepted. You can also email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or send check, cash, or a money order to Flatland, POB 2420, Ft. Bragg, Ca 95437. Remember, this offer is only good until June 15, 1999. I cannot guarantee any more copies after that. Order now, and you can be sure you will get a low-numbered edition of this book. If you order by June 15, 1999, I will be grateful enough to add a bonus to the deal: I will immediately send you your choice of any two of the three Reich-related videos, "Wilhelm Reich and the UFO Phenomena; Desert Orop Ea - an interview with Eva Reich," "Gentle Bioenergetic Baby Massage" (the one where Eva Reich teaches Sigmund Freud's great-granddaughter how to use therapeutic infant massage), or "Interview with Myron Sharaf," my interview with the author of Fury on Earth, a biography of Wilhelm Reich, just prior to his death. The two videos, in addition to the free subscription to Flatland Magazine, amounts to a $90 value, but this only applies for a very limited time. It's been nearly twenty years since a major book on Wilhelm Reich has been published. Yet, Reich's ideas and discoveries are more relevant now than ever. With your support, we can shift the public debate away from the slander and disinformation about Reich's work, while refocusing the discussion to the facts. As always, this book carries Flatland's 100% no-risk guarantee: if you are not completely satisfied with Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War, you can return it for a full refund. Warm regards, Jim Martin, publisher, Flatland * P.S. Imagine the cold chill I felt, as I stood there in the rain in the dark city, pounding the hood of my car, realizing my computer had been stolen. It was nearly worthless as a machine - the disk-drive didn't work, the keyboard was sticky, and the model so outdated that the damn thing couldn't have fetched more than one tiny rock of crack. But the information inside it, if lost irretrievably, was priceless to me and to others. Luckily, I backed-up the data. I was lucky that time. But in the larger picture, will I be able to preserve and defend this record? You can make sure it isn't lost. Give me a call, or send a check for $99 per copy to Flatland, POB 2420, Ft. 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