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                          Harlan Girard
                          Alex Constantine

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    Excerpted from:

    Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A.

    By Alex Constantine

    Portland, OR : Feral House, 1995

    Chapter Three

    THE FALSE MEMORY HOAX

    Part I:

    CIA CONNECTIONS TO THE MIND CONTROL CULTS

    Swiss newspapers described the carnage inside the charred
    farmhouse as a "wax museum of death." Within hours, 27 other
    members of the Sovereign Order of the Solar Temple were found
    dead at chalets in Granges, Switzerland and Morin Heights,
    Quebec. Luc Jouret, the Temple's grand master, the London Times
    reported, "espoused a hybrid religion that owed more to Umberto
    Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum than to any bible. His followers
    called themselves 'knights of Christ.' The crusading codes of
    the Knights Templar, the rose-and-cross symbolism of the
    medieval Rosicrucian Order, Nazi occultism and new age mysticism
    were joined together into a mumbo-jumbo mishmash that seemed
    more designed for extracting money from disciples than saving
    souls."
            Jouret, born in the Belgian Congo in 1947, set out in
    youth as a mystic with communist leanings, but his politics
    apparently swung full circle. He has since been linked to a
    clutch of neo-Nazis responsible for a string of bombings in
    Canada. He told friends that he had once served with a unit of
    Belgium paratroopers.
            French-Canadian journalist Pierre Tourangeau investigated
    the sect for two years. A few days after the mass murder, he
    reported that the sect was financed by the proceeds of
    gun-running to Europe and South America. Simultaneously, Radio
    Canada announced that Jouret's Templars earned hundreds of
    millions of dollars laundering the profits through the infamous
    Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI),  closed by
    authorities worldwide in 1991. Montreal's La Presse observed:
    "each new piece of information only thickens the mystery"--but
    the combination of international arms smuggling and BCCI
    presented a familiar enough picture of CIA sedition. The
    Manhattan D.A. who closed the American branch announced that 16
    witnesses had died in the course of investigating the bank's
    entanglements in covert operations of the CIA, arms smuggling to
    Iraq, money laundering and child prostitution.
            The average coffee table would crumple under the weighty
    BCCI Book of the Dead. Journalist Danny Cassalaro and Vince
    Foster appear in it--grim antecedents to the Solar Temple
    killings. The cult's connection to BCCI (reported in Europe but
    filtered from American newspaper accounts) fed speculation among
    Canadian journalists that followers of Jouret were killed to bury
    public disclosures of gun-running and money laundering.
            But the fraternizing of America's national security elite
    and the cults did not begin in Cheiry, Switzerland. Jouret's
    Order of the Solar Temple was but the latest incarnation of mind
    control operations organized and overseen by the CIA and
    Department of Defense.

                            In a sense, we are in the same ethical
                    and moral dilemma as the physicists in the days
                    prior to the Manhattan Project. Those of us who
                    work in this field see a developing potential for
                    a nearly total control of human emotional status.

                                    -- Dr. Wayne Evans
                                       _U.S. Army Institute
                                       of Environmental Medicine_

            Scientists in the CIA's mind control fraternity lead
    double lives. Many are highly respected, but if the truth were
    known they would be deafened by the public outcry and drummed out
    of their respective academic haunts.
            Martin T. Orne, for example, a senior CIA/Navy
    researcher, is based at the University of Pennsylvania's
    Experimental Psychiatry Laboratory. He is also an original member
    of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation's advisory board, a
    tightly-drawn coterie of psychiatrists, many with backgrounds in
    CIA mind control experimentation in its myriad forms. The
    Foundation is dedicated to denying the existence of cult mind
    control and child abuse. It's primary pursuit is the castigation
    of survivors and therapists for fabricating accusations of ritual
    abuse.
            Dismissing cult abuse as hysteria or false memory, a
    common defense strategy, may relieve parents of preschool
    children. In a small percentage of cult abuse cases it's possible
    that children may be led to believe they've been victimized.
            But the CIA and its cover organizations have a vested
    interest in blowing smoke at the cult underground because the
    worlds of CIA mind control and many cults merge inextricably. The
    drum beat of "false accusations" from the media is taken up by
    paid operatives like Dr. Orne and the False Memory Syndrome
    Foundation to conceal the crimes of the Agency.
            Orne's forays into hypno-programming were financed in the
    1960s by the Human Ecology Fund, a CIA cover at Cornell
    University and the underwriter of many of the formative mind
    control experiments conducted in the U.S. and abroad, including
    the gruesome brainwashing and remote mind control experiments of
    D. Ewen Cameron at Montreal's Allen Memorial Institute. Research
    specialties of the CIA's black psychiatrists included
    electroshock lobotomies, drugging agents, incapacitants,
    hypnosis, sleep deprivation and radio control of the brain, among
    hundreds of sub-projects.
            The secondary source of funding for Dr. Orne's work in
    hypnotic suggestion and dissolution of memory is eerie in the
    cult child abuse context. The voluminous files of John Marks in
    Washington, D.C. (139 boxes obtained under FOIA, to be exact,
    two-fifths of which document CIA interest in the occult) include
    an Agency report itemizing a $30,000 grant to Orne from Human
    Ecology, and another $30,000 from Boston's Scientific Engineering
    Institute (SEI)--another CIA funding cover, founded by Edwin
    Land of the Polaroid Corporation (and supervision of the U-2 spy
    plane escapades). This was the year that the CIA's Office of
    Research and Development (ORD) geared up a study of
    parapsychology and the occult. The investigation, dubbed Project
    OFTEN-CHICKWIT, gave rise to the establishment of a social
    "laboratory" by SEI scientists at the University of South
    Carolina--a college class in black witchcraft, demonology and
    voodoo.
            Dr. Orne, with SEI funding, marked out his own mind
    control corner at the University of Pennsylvania in the early
    1960s. He does not publicize his role as CIA psychiatrist. He
    denies it, very plausibly. In a letter to Dr. Orne, Marks once
    reminded him that he'd disavowed knowledge of his participation
    in one mind-wrecking experimental sub-project. Orne later
    recanted, admitting that he'd been aware of the true source of
    funding all along.
            Among psychiatrists in the CIA's mind control fraternity,
    Orne ranks among the most venerable. He once boasted to Marks
    that he was routinely briefed on all significant CIA behavior
    modification experiments: "Why would they come to him," Martin
    Cannon muses in The Controllers, which links UFO abductions to
    secret military research veiled by screen memories of "alien"
    abduction, "unless Orne had a high security clearance and worked
    extensively with the intelligence services?"
            To supplement his CIA income, the influential Dr. Orne
    has been the donee of grants from the Office of Naval Research
    and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. "I should like
    to hear," Cannon says, "what innocent explanation, if any, the
    Air Force has to offer to explain their interest in post-hypnotic
    amnesia."
            According to Army records, Orne's stomping grounds, Penn
    U., was a bee-hive of secret experiments in the Vietnam War
    period. The Pentagon and CIA--under the auspices of ORD's Steve
    Aldrich, a doyen of occult and parapsychological studies--
    conferred the Agency's most lucrative research award upon the
    University of Pennsylvania to study the effects of 16
    newly-concocted biochemical warfare agents on humans, including
    choking, blistering and vomiting agents, toxins, poison gas and
    incapacitating chemicals. The tests were abruptly halted in 1972
    when the prison's medical lab burned to the ground.
            Testimony before the 1977 Church Committee's probe of the
    CIA hinted that, as of 1963, the scientific squalor of the CIA's
    mind control regimen, code-named MKULTRA,  had abandoned military
    and academic laboratories, fearing exposure, and mushroomed in
    cities across the country. Confirmation arrived in 1980 when
    Joseph Holsinger, an aide to late Congressman Leo Ryan (who was
    murdered by a death squad at Jonestown) exposed the formation of
    eccentric religious cults by the CIA. Holsinger made the
    allegation at a colloquium of psychologists in San Francisco on
    "Psychosocial Implications of the Jonestown Phenomenon."
    Holsinger maintained that a CIA rear-support base had been in
    collusion with Jones to perform medical and mind control
    experiments at People's Temple. The former Congressional aide
    cited an essay he'd received in the mail, "The Penal Colony,"
    written by a Berkeley psychologist. The author had emphasized:
    Rather than terminating MKULTRA, THE CIA SHIFTED ITS PROGRAMS
    FROM PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS TO PRIVATE CULT GROUPS, including the
    People's Temple.
            Jonestown had its grey eminence in Dr. Lawrence Laird
    Layton of the University of California at Berkeley, formerly a
    chemist for the Manhattan Project and head of the Army's chemical
    warfare research division in the early 1950s. (Larry Layton, his
    son, led the death squad that murdered Congressman Leo Ryan,
    who'd arrived at Guyana to investigate the cult.) Michael Meiers,
    author ofWas Jonestown a CIA Medical Experiment?, scavenged for
    information on the People's Temple for six years, concluding:
    "The Jonestown experiment was conceived by Dr. Layton, staffed by
    Dr. Layton and financed by Dr. Layton. It was as much his project
    as it was Jim Jones'. Though it was essential for him to remain
    in the background for security reasons, Dr. Layton maintained
    contact with and even control of the experiment through his wife
    and children." The African-American cult had at its core a
    Caucasian inner-council, composed of Dr. Layton's family and
    in-laws.
            The press was blind to obvious CIA connections, but
    survivors of the carnage in Guyana followed the leads and
    maintained that Jim Jones was "an employee, servant, agent or
    operative of the Central Intelligence Agency" from 1963--the
    year the Agency turned to cult cut-outs to conceal MKULTRA mind
    control activities--until 1978. In October 1981 the survivors of
    Jonestown filed a $63 million lawsuit against Secretary of State
    Cyrus Vance and Stansfield Turner, former director of the CIA,
    currently a teacher at the University of Maryland and a director
    of the Monsanto Corporation. The suit, filed in U.S. district
    court in San Francisco, accused Turner of conspiring with Agency
    operatives to "enhance the economic and political powers of James
    Warren Jones," and of conducting "mind control and drug
    experimentation" on the Temple flock.
            The suit was dismissed four months later for "failure to
    prosecute timely." All requests for an appeal were denied.
            Ligatures of the CIA clung to the cults. Much of the
    violence that has since exploded across the front pages was
    incited by CIA academics at leading universities.
            Small wonder, then, that Ted Goertzel, director of the
    Forum for Policy Research at Rutgers, which maintains a symbiosis
    with the CIA despite media exposure, should write that the most
    susceptible victims of "cryptomnesia" (a synonym for false
    memories) believe "in conspiracies, including the JFK
    assassination, AIDS conspiracies, as well as the UFO cover-up."
    The problem, Goertzel says, "may have its origins in early
    childhood," and is accompanied by "feelings of anomie and anxiety
    that make the individual more likely to construct false memories
    out of information stored in the unconscious mind."
            This side of gilded rationalizations, the CIA's links to
    the cults are no manifestation of "cryptomnesia."
            Like Jonestown, the Symbionese Liberation Army was a mind
    control creation unleashed by the Agency. The late political
    researcher Mae Brussell, whose study of The Firm commenced in
    1963 after the assassination of John Kennedy, wrote in 1974 that
    the rabid guerrilla band "consisted predominantly of CIA agents
    and police informers." This unsavory group was, Brussell
    insisted, "an extension of psychological experimentation
    projects, connected to Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park."
    (She went on to lament that "many of the current rash of
    'senseless killings,' 'massacres,' and 'zombie-type murders' are
    committed by individuals who have been in Army hospitals, mental
    hospitals or prison hospitals, where their heads have been
    literally taken over surgically to create terror in the
    community.")
            Evidence that the CIA conceived and directed the SLA was
    obvious. The SLA leadership was trained by Colston Westbrook, a
    Pennsylvania native. Westbrook was a veteran of the CIA's
    murderous PHOENIX Program in South Vietnam, where he trained
    terrorist cadres and death squads. In 1969 he took a job as an
    administrator of Pacific Architects and Engineers, a CIA
    proprietary in Southern California. Three of Westbrook's foot
    soldiers, Emily and William Harris and Angela Atwood (a former
    police intelligence informer), had been students of the College
    of Foreign Affairs, a CIA cover at the University of Indiana.
    Even the SLA symbol, a seven-headed cobra, had been adopted by
    the OSS (America's wartime intelligence agency) and CIA to
    designate precepts of brainwashing.
            When the smoke cleared at SLA headquarters in L.A., Dr.
    Martin Orne was called upon to examine Patricia Hearst in
    preparation for trial. The government charged that she had
    participated voluntarily in the SLA's gun-toting crime spree.
    Orne's was a foregone conclusion--he sided with the government.
    His opinion was shared by two other psychiatrists called to
    appraise Ms. Hearst's state of mind, Robert Jay Lifton and Louis
    Jolyon West. Dr. Lifton was a co-founder of the aforementioned
    Human Ecology Fund. The CIA contractor that showered Orne with
    research grants in the 1960s. Dr. West is one of the CIA's most
    notorious mind control specialists, currently director of UCLA's
    Neuropsychiatric Institute. It was West who brought a score of
    mind control psychiatrists of the ultra-right political stripe to
    the UCLA campus.
            Drs. Orne, Lifton and West unanimously agreed that Patty
    Hearst had been "persuasively coerced" to join the SLA. She had
    been put through a grueling thought reform regimen. She'd been
    isolated and sensory deprived, raped, humiliated, badgered,
    politically indoctrinated with a surrealistic mutation of Third
    World Marxism. Ms. Hearst was only allowed human companionship
    when she exhibited signs of submission. Orne and his colleagues
    assured that attention was narrowed to their psychologizing,
    conveniently rendering evidence of CIA collusion extraneous to
    consideration by the jury.
            Another psychiatrist called to testify at the trial of
    "Tania" surfaced with Dr. Orne in 1991 on the board of the False
    Memory Syndrome Foundation. (The FMSF board is almost exclusively
    composed of former CIA and military doctors currently employed by
    major universities. None have backgrounds in ritual abuse--their
    common interest is behavior modification. Dr. Margaret Singer, a
    retired Berkeley Ph.D., studied repatriated prisoners-of-war
    returning from the Korean War at the Walter Reed Army Institute
    of Research in Maryland (1952-58).
            Singer turned up in 1982 on the book jacket of Raven--
    the CIA's code-name for Jim Jones--by San Francisco Examiner
    reporters Tim Reiterman and John Jacobs, a thoroughly-researched
    account of the People's Temple that completely side-steps CIA
    involvement. Co-author John Jacobs was supposedly one of the
    country's leading authorities on CIA mind control, a subject he
    studied at length for a series published by the Washington Post.
    Reiterman had been the Examiner  reporter on the Patricia Hearst
    beat. Yet both writers managed to avoid obvious intelligence
    connections. Dr. Singer commended the book as "the definitive
    psychohistory of Jim Jones." Raven, she opined, conveyed "the
    essence of psychological and social processes that Jim Jones, the
    ultimate manipulator, set in motion." The true "manipulators," of
    course, were operatives of the CIA, and the public disinformation
    gambit lauded by Dr. Singer was, according to Meiers, in tune
    with "a concerted attempt to suppress information, stifle
    investigations, censor writers and manipulate public
    information."
            The CIA and Pentagon have quietly organized and
    influenced a long line of mind control cults, among them:
            The Riverside Lodge of the Ordo Templis Orientis: Also
    known as The Solar Lodge of the OTO, which followed the teachings
    of cult messiah Aleister Crowley, whose fixed gaze on the astral
    equinox resulted in instructions from his deities to form a
    religious order. Crowley, high priest of the OTO and a British
    intelligence agent, gave Winifred T. Smith a charter to open an
    OTO lodge in Pasadena. The high priest of the lodge was Jack
    Parsons, a rocket expert and founder of the California Institute
    of Technology. Parsons, who took the oath of the anti-Christ in
    1949, contributed to the design of the Pentagon under subsequent
    CIA director John J. McCloy. He was killed in a still unexplained
    laboratory explosion. There is a crater on the moon named after
    him.
            The OTO's Solar Lodge in San Bernardino was presided over
    by Georgina "Jean" Brayton, the daughter of a ranking Air Force
    officer in the 1960s. The cult subscribed to a grim, apocalyptic
    view of the world, and like Charles Manson believed that race
    wars would precipitate the Big Cataclysm. In the Faustian Los
    Angeles underworld, the lodge was known for its indulgence in
    sadomasochism, drug dealing, blood drinking, child molestation
    and murder.
            Candace Reos, a former member of the lodge, was deposed
    by Riverside police in 1969. Reos said that Brayton controlled
    the thinking of all cult members. One poor soul, she said, was
    ordered to curb his sexual urges by cutting his wrists every time
    he was aroused. Mrs. Reos told police, according to the report,
    that when she became pregnant, Georgina was angry and told her
    that she would have to condition herself to hate her child. Reos
    told police that children of the cult's 43 adult members were
    secluded from their parents and received "training" that took on
    "very severe tones."
            "There was a lot of spanking involved," she said, "a lot
    of heavy criticism. There was a lot of enclosed in dark rooms."
    The teachers, she added. "left welts."
            If so ordered, adult cultists would beat their children.
            According to a Riverside County Sheriff's report, a six
    year-old child burned the group's school house to the ground. The
    boy was punished by solitary confinement in a locked shipping
    crate left in the desert, where the average temperature was 110
    degrees, for two months. The boy was chained to a metal plate.
            When police freed him, they were nauseated by the
    suffocating stench of excrement. The child was smothered in flies
    swarming from a tin-can toilet.
            The Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Movement: In 1985 the Portland
    Oregonian published a 36-part, book-length series linking the
    cult to opium trafficking, prostitution, money laundering, arson,
    slave labor, mass poisonings, illegal wiretaps and the
    stockpiling of guns and biochemical warfare weapons. The
    year-long Oregonian investigation revealed cult ties to
    CIA-trained mercenaries in El Salvador and the Far East.
    Domestically, Rajneesh's secret police force worked with Agency
    operatives.
            Finders: On February 7, 1987 Customs agents raided a
    child-porn ring in Tallahasee, Florida. Eight suspects and six
    children were taken into custody. The children, according to a
    Customs Department memo, behaved "like animals in a public park,"
    and "were not aware of the function and purpose of telephones,
    televisions and toilets."
            The children told police that they were forced to live
    outdoors and were given food only as a reward. A check on the
    backgrounds of the adults turned up a police report, "specific in
    describing 'bloody rituals' and sex orgies involving children,
    and an as-yet unsolved murder." Customs agents searched a cult
    safe house and discovered a computer room and documents recording
    "high-tech" bank transfers, explosives, and a set of instructions
    advising cult members on moving children through jurisdictions
    around the country. One photographic album found in the house
    featured the execution and disembowelment of goats, and
    snapshots, according to a Customs report, of "adults and children
    dressed in white sheets participating in a bloody ritual."
            An American passport was found. The investigating agents
    contacted the State Department and were advised to "terminate
    further investigation."
            They investigated anyway, reporting that "the CIA made
    contact and admitted to owning the Finders ... as a front for a
    domestic training organization, but that it had 'gone bad.'" The
    late wife of Marion David Pettie, the cult's leader, had worked
    for the Agency, and his son had been an employee of Air America,
    the heroin-riddled CIA proprietary. Yet Pettie denied to a
    reporter for U.S. News & World Report any connection to the Firm.
    Police in Washington refused to comment. Officials of the CIA
    dismissed as "hogwash" allegations of any connection to the
    Finders cult.
            MOVE: On May 13, 1985 MOVE's Philadelphia headquarters
    was firebombed by local police. Not only did the fire consume the
    cult's home--it devastated the entire neighborhood, leaving 11
    dead and 250 homeless. The group was cofounded by Vince
    Leapheart, aka John Africa, a Korean veteran. His intellectual
    mentor and source of funding was Donald Glassey, a lecturer at
    the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Work. Glassey
    was an admitted police "informant," but conducted himself like a
    paid provocateur. He purchased weapons for the cult with cash
    drawn from city coffers. John Africa, the cult's titular head,
    claimed to be a messiah, and like Jim Jones to have Godly
    "healing" powers and "total control" over his followers.
            O.T.A.: The Order of the Temple of Astarte in Pasadena,
    California is a "hermetic" occult organization that practices
    "Magick in the Western Tradition." The cult is led by Fraters
    Khenemel, a police officer, and Aleyin, a veteran Green Beret.
    The cult's everyday language is unusual for a mystical order--
    one group schedule is laden with words like "operation,"
    "sixteen-thirty hours," and "travel orders." Demonology is among
    the OTA's primary occult interests.
            The police connection recalls the statement of Louis
    Tackwood, the former LAPD provocateur whose revelations of secret
    police subterfuge set off a political tempest in Los Angeles in
    1973. "You don't know," he told journalist Donald Freed, "but
    there's a devil worship cult in Pasadena. Actually in Altadena."
    Tackwood alleged that the cultists were "on the LAPD payroll."
            The CIA and Pentagon cooperate in the creation of cults.
    To be sure, the Association of National Security Alumni, a public
    interest veterans group opposed to covert operations, considers
    it a "primary issue of concern" that the Department of Defense
    has a "perceived role in satanic cult activities, which qualify
    in and of themselves as very damaging exercises in mind control
    and behavioral modification."
            It is beginning to dawn on the psychiatric community at
    large that the CIA's mind control clique is a menace reminiscent
    of Nazi medical experimentation. In 1993, Dr. Corydon Hammond, a
    professor at the University of Utah's School of Medicine,
    conducted a seminar on federally-funded mind control experiments.
    Topics covered by Hammond included brainwashing, post-hypnotic
    programming and the induction of multiple personalities by the
    CIA. Hammond contended that the cult underground has roots in
    Nazi Germany, and that the CIA's cult mind control techniques
    were based upon those of Nazi scientists recruited by the CIA for
    Cold Warfare. (Researcher Lenny Lapon estimates in Mass Murderers
    in White Coats that 5,000 Nazis resettled in the U.S. after WW
    II.) Hammond was forced to drop this line of inquiry by
    professional ridicule, especially from the CIA's False Memory
    Syndrome Foundation, and a barrage of death threats. At a recent
    regional conference on ritual child abuse, he regretted that he
    could no longer speak on the theme of government mind control.
            The psychological community is waking to the threat in
    its ranks, to judge by APA surveys and personal communications
    with ranking members of the mental health field, but the world at
    large remains in the dark. The "mass hysteria" and "false memory"
    bromides disseminated by the establishment press obscure federal
    and academic connections to the mind control cults, which are
    defended largely by organized pedophiles, cultists and hired guns
    of psychiatry. An ambitious disinformation gambit has led the
    world at large to side with cultists operating under federal
    protection. As at Jonestown and Chiery, Switzerland, the
    denouement of cult activity often ends in the destruction of all
    witnesses. This cycle of abuse and murder can only be ended by
    full public awareness of the federal mind control initiative.

    Part: II

    The CIA, THE FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME FOUNDATION AND THE POLITICS
    OF RITUAL ABUSE

            The conference session bears a passing resemblance to a
    12-Step meeting. Assembled in a Portland religious retreat,
    members of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF), all
    accused of child abuse, are encouraged to unload their anguish.
    Only women take the stage (they leave reporters with a
    sympathetic impression--men stigmatized by child abuse do not).
    Pamela Freyd, a Foundation founder, assures these victims of
    pernicious therapies they are not alone. The Foundation's office
    in Philadelphia, she says, takes 60 calls on a typical day from
    distraught adults hounded by their own confused children, rogue
    therapists and sensation-seeking pack journalists.
            The number of dues-paying members (each contributes $100
    a year) varies according to the source. The group reported in
    January 1993 that 1,200 families had made contact in its first
    year of operation. The same month, the San Jose Mercury News
    declared flatly that "nearly 3,000 families" from across the
    country had been recruited. The FMSF now claims 5,000 families.
    Time magazine raised the figure to "7,000 individuals and
    families who have sought assistance."
            The Foundation's distinctive handling of statistics is
    incessant. In April of this year the FMSF claimed 12,000 families
    have been strained by false child abuse allegations. A month
    later, the figure dropped to "9,500 U.S. families." Yet the
    Foundation prides itself on accuracy. One FMSF newsletter advises
    members to insist the media "report accurate information. The
    rumors and misinformation surrounding the false accusations based
    on recovery of repressed memories are shocking." The same author
    regrets that "65% of accusations of abuse are now
    unsubstantiated, a whopping jump from 35% in 1976." This figure,
    once gleefully disseminated by such pedophile defense groups as
    NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) and VOCAL
    (Victims of Child Abuse Laws) was debunked years ago. It was
    fabricated by Douglas Besherov of the American Enterprise
    Institute, a hard right-wing propaganda factory fueled by the
    Olin Foundation, a CIA funding cover. (Christian conservatives
    are often accused of propagating ritual abuse "hysteria," yet in
    the 1992 presidential election the para-conservative wing of the
    Republican Party slipped into its platform a strategy to put an
    end to investigations of child abuse.)
            The FMSF selectively ignores child abuse data that
    disagrees with their own. Judith Herman, author of Trauma and
    Recovery, reported in the Harvard Mental Health Letter that false
    abuse allegations by children "are rare, in the range of 2-8% of
    reported cases. False retractions of true complaints are far more
    common, especially when the victim is not sufficiently protected
    after disclosure and therefore succumbs to intimidation by the
    perpetrator or other family members who feel that they must
    preserve secrecy."
            Other statistics shunned by the False Memory Syndrome
    Foundation include a survey presented at a 1992 psychiatric
    conference that found that a full 88% of all therapists in a
    large sampling consider ritual child abuse to be a very real
    social problem with devastating emotional effects. Another: In
    1990 the State University of New York at Buffalo polled a
    national sampling of clinical psychologists on ritual abuse.
    About 800 psychologists--a third of the poll--were aware of
    treating at least one case. Only 5% of all child abuse cases ever
    enter the courtroom--half of these end with the child in the
    custody of the abusive parent..
            The recovered memory debate was discussed at a 1993
    conference on multiple personality disorder. Richard Lowenstein,
    a psychiatrist from the University of Maryland Medical School,
    argued that the Foundation is "media-directed, dedicated to
    putting out disinformation."
            Other conference participants contemplated funding
    sources and "possible CIA connections."

    The Devil Denuded

            The CIA, in fact, has several designates on the FMSF
    advisory board. They have in common backgrounds in mind control
    experimentation. Their very presence on the board, and their
    peculiar backgrounds, reveal some heavily obscured facts about
    ritual child abuse.
            Martin T. Orne, a senior CIA researcher, is an original
    board member of the Foundation, and a psychiatrist at the
    University of Pennsylvania's Experimental Psychiatry Lab in
    Philadelphia. In 1962 his forays into hypno-programming (the
    elicitation of "anti-social" behavior, dissolving memory and
    other mind-subduing techniques) were financed by a CIA front at
    Cornell University. He was also funded by Boston's Scientific
    Engineering Institute, another front, and a clearinghouse for the
    Agency's investigation of the occult.
             The CIA and Pentagon have formed a partnership in the
    creation of cults. To be sure, the Association of National
    Security Alumni, a public interest veterans group opposed to
    clandestine ops, considers it a "primary issue of concern" that
    the Department of Defense has a "perceived role in satanic cult
    activities, which qualify in and of themselves as very damaging
    exercises in mind control."
            The smoothing over of the national security state's cult
    connections is handled by academic "experts."
            A forerunner of the Foundation is based in Buffalo, New
    York, the Committee for Scientific Examination of Religion, best
    known for the publication of Satanism in America: How the Devil
    Got More Than His Due, widely considered to be a legitimate
    study. The authors turn up their noses to ritual abuse,
    dismissing the hundreds of reports around the country as mass
    "hysteria." Cult researcher Carl Raschke reported in a March,
    1991 article that he coincidentally met Hudson Frew, a Satanism
    in America co-author, at a Berkeley bookstore. "Frew was wearing
    a five-pointed star, or pentagram, the symbol of witchcraft and
    earth magic," Raschke says. Shawn Carlson, a contributor to the
    book, is identified by the media as a "physicist." Yet he runs
    the Gaia Press in El Cerrito, California, a New Age publishing
    house with an  emphasis on witchcraft and occultic lore. Carlson
    is also a "scientific and technical consultant" to the Committee
    for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal" (a
    promoter of the "false memory" theory of ritual abuse and UFO
    abductions), publisher of the Skeptical Inquirer.

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