The Firm: Scientology and the CIA

[Minstrel Boy]

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The Firm



Everywhere you look, people are talking Scientology. You'd almost think they'd never heard of Xenu before. And you know what? They probably hadn't. And to know another thing, many of them, even rank and file Scientologists, still haven't.

Certainly Scientology's creed says nothing of the meat of L Ron Hubbard's space opera. Typical of occult orders, it shows an exoteric face to the general public and lower initiates, and reserves esoteric teachings for its inner circle. Its supposed creed is nothing but mealy words of "equality" and "inalienable rights" to such things as freedom of thought and "sanity." Who could argue with that? Well, maybe L Ron Hubbard for one, who said a lot of other things, like "If you really want to enslave people, tell them that you're going to give them total freedom," and whose secret creed has driven higher inititates out of their skulls. Reportedly Tom Cruise, and reputedly only temporarily, counted among that number:

Tom Cruise became psychotic during a secret Scientology initiation in which one is told that rather than being one person, one is composed of thousands of aliens from all over the universe fighting for control of your body. After completing this initiation, known as OT III, Tom appeared sickly with black circles under his eyes and pasty skin. He said he wanted to be away from Scientology for good. He just wanted to go back to Hollywood and his home and be left alone by Scientology. This would not happen; David Miscavige ordered Cruise could not be let go. Scientology worked on Cruise day and night until he finally returned to Scientology.

Miscavige is the Black Pope of Scientology, Chairman of the Board of the "Religious Technology Center," and so heads the organization which "holds the ultimate ecclesiastical authority regarding the standard and pure application of L. Ron Hubbard’s religious technologies."

Here's Cruise snapping a crisp salute to Miscavige at a meeting of the International Association of Scientologists:



Besides suggesting just how impossibly short Miscavige must be, the photograph also demonstrates something of the church's bizarre militarism, which is on prominent display in its naval cadet-like "Sea Org" and the church's intelligence wing, the Office of Special Affairs. Bob Minton, Scientology's "Enemy Number One," describes the Sea Org as "totalitarian" and the OSA as "paramilitary organized Mafia" in possession of "rocket launchers, bazookas, countless other weapons," led by a "management that seeks "world domination."

A portion of the OSA's mandate is described in this policy letter of Hubbard's, where he set forth "the vital targets on which we must invest most of our time":

T1. Depopularizing the enemy to a point of total obliteration.

T2. Taking over the control or allegiance of the heads or proprietors of all news media.

T3. Taking over the control or allegiance of key political figures.

T4. Taking over the control or allegiance of those who monitor international finance and shifting them to a less precarious finance standard.

It's fascinating to consider that Hubbard's pastiche of science fiction and Crowleyania, which can count the berserkers of Manson's Family and the Process Church as its stepchildren, can now contend for Middle American respectability just as has Mormonism, which itself was the creature of a ceremonial magician. And as Mormons, who enjoy a disproportionate representation" in the US intelligence community, Scientologists have formed a peculiar cadre of para-military intelligence.

Curiously, there was "disproportionate representation" of Scientologists in the CIA's remote viewing program. The NSA's Major Hal Puthoff was an "Operating Thetan, Level III" when he took on the the program at Stanford Research Institute in 1972, where he remained until 1985. Puthoff's senior colleague was Ingo Swann, who himself had reached OT VII, then the highest initiatory level of Scientology. (That is, before Hubbard felt assured enough to fulfill his longtime fantasy and introduce OTVIII, the gist of which is Surprise - I'm the Antichrist!) Swann, in fact, was a founder of the Scientology Center in Los Angeles. Pat Price, "widely considered to be the best of the remote viewers," was OT IV.

Alex Constantine writes in Virtual Government:

When Swann joined SRI, he stated openly that fourteen "Clears" participated in the experiments, "more than I would suspect."... The projects at SRI were augmented by a parapsychology team at Fort Meade in Maryland under INSCOM and the NSA. Military intelligence personnel were recruited, including Major Ed Dames, the Psi-Tech founder. General Stubblebine ran the project and broadened it to include tarot and the channeling of "spirits."

Well, perhaps the representation is not so disproportionate after all. According to doctrine, a "clear" Scientologist, free of the infestation of thousands of "body thetans," is alleged to have godlike mastery of the material world, including an ability to operate free of the body. A handy talent for a remote viewer, that.

Hubbard, of course, was with Naval Intelligence at the time he was conjuring with Jack Parsons in the "Babalon Working." Scientology would have it that he was operating undercover, to bust up a black magic ring. What remains hidden in plain sight is not only Scientology's occult legacy, but that of US military intelligence.

[Mizmoon]

1. oh for christ sake who gives a rat's ass about scientology

They believe in strange things. BFD.

This is the same abusive thing that people do to smokers and the obese - when they find a group that no one likes they just kick them over and over again.

They're freaks. So what. Don't join and you should never have any problem with them ever.

[The Magistrate]

2. Thank You, Ma'am

You have warmed a tired old heart with your wisdom....

[Minstrel Boy]

3. Did you read anything more of my post than

the word "Scientology" in the subject line?

[ArkDem]

4. Methinks, she doth protest too much!

[Mizmoon]

5. yeah, if I defend Jews I must be a Jew.

Or do you want to call me a "scino-lover" or something like that? :eyes:

[ArkDem]

14. Methinks, Thou doth protest too much!

[ET Awful]

9. Never? Tell that to the numerous people who have been attacked

by them merely for criticism.

Ask Keith Henson about them, he never joined them. He sure suffered their wrath for being a critic though.

When you're done with that, check into what they did to Bob Minton. He never joined them either, but they sure tried to destroy him.

Or check into what they did to this animal sanctuary merely for being witnesses in a case (yup, these folks were members at one time, but that wasn't the reason they were attacked): http://www.solitarytrees.net/racism/external/ars_rvy.htm?FACTNet

[gandalf]

12. If I understand the article correctly

it deals with the association of Sci. and CIA. It has nothing to do with Sci.-bashing. Or what exactly is your point?

[sam sarrha]

6. They Literally ADVERTIZE it on CNN .. on Prime Time..!!!

[Celebration]

7. well the remote viewers

Were kicked out of the program a decade or more ago!! Too bad, I bet the Chinese and Russians are getting ahead of us on the psi ops stuff.

My objection to Scientology has to do with my great dislike of authoritarianism. Why ditch authoritarian religions to join some seemingly authoritarian cult? I say seemingly because I could be wrong-- haven't wanted to take the time to investigate it.

I like some of the pseudoscience behind Scientology-- in practice though, they are too concerned about money and secrecy, and at times intolerant.

As far as their being aggressive against foes, maybe the Democratic Party could take a few lessons?

[Taverner]

8. Doesn't surprise me

Rev Moon, Hubbard, Jim Jones...the CIA has always had strange bedfellows...

[blogslut]

10. Bob Dobbs sez...

they're all pinks

http://subgenius.com/pam1/pamphlet_p1.html

[Octafish]

11. Jack Parsons saw more flying saucers than most.

Sex and Rockets

The first in-depth look at the life of John W. Parsons, January 20, 2000

Reviewer: A reader from London

The first in-depth look at the life of John Whiteside Parsons -
pioneering rocket scientist, and ardent disciple of the
notorious magus, Aleister Crowley - is finally available
courtesy of Feral House in Sex and Rockets by John Carter. The
release of this book, in my opinion, is an event long overdue,
as I see in Parsons one of the most fascinating and important
figures of the late 20th century; a man of great promise, who
somehow fell short of his staggering potential. What makes this
book all the more fascinating is the shift in focus that takes
place throughout, as the author demarcates between "John
Parsons" the brilliant rocket engineer, and "Jack Parsons" the
failed magician, who in his attempt to cross the Abyss, fell
into it instead, fulfilling a fiery destiny, which Parsons
himself prophesied. Parsons, in many ways, possessed two
separate selves - rocket scientist and magician - and this
literary device is used throughout Sex and Rockets to illustrate
the many contradictions that personified the life of a truly
gifted, though equally flawed human being.

For those not in the know, Jack Parsons was a founding member of
Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL) back in the late 30's, and one
time head of the California branch of the magical order the
Agape Lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientalis (O.T.O.)...

Going back to the original documents, Carter outlines Parsons'
numerous technical achievements, and his key role in the pre-
NASA development of space technology. This, in itself, makes Sex
and Rockets an invaluable resource for those interested in a
broader historical perspective of John Whiteside Parsons.
Starting in late 30's, Parsons was an early pioneer in Rocket
Engineering, a member of a group funded by the Guggenheim
Aeronautical Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
(GALCIT), which later evolved into JPL. This group's
contribution to the war effort - as Carter points out - cannot
be overlooked; nor can their early efforts in rocket
engineering, which provided much of the impetus for later NASA
projects in the late 50's and 60's, and the eventual landing of
men on the moon. Although Parsons has been memorialized by his
peers with a statue at JPL - as well as the singular distinction
of having a crater on the moon named after him (on the dark
side, no less) - he still remains an obscure figure in the halls
of academia. (In a recent discussion with an aeronautical
engineer, I mentioned the name 'Jack Parsons', and he had no
clue as to whom I was referring!)

In Sex and Rockets, Carter brings a measure of much needed
clarity to the life and times of the enigmatic Parsons; an
enigma that has been compounded over the years by varying
degrees of misinformation and exaggeration as to just who
Parsons was, and exactly what he was trying to accomplish with
the Babalon Working rituals, performed in part with L.Ron
Hubbard, the future founder of Scientology. The end result of
the Babalon Working was to birth an elemental being; a
'Moonchild' that - as Crowley stated in his Book of the Law -
would be "mightier than all the kings of the Earth."

According to Thelemic legend, in 1918 Aleister Crowley came into
contact with a interdimensional entity named Lam, who by the way
is a dead ringer for the popular conception of the 'alien grey '
depicted on the cover of Whitley Strieber's Communion. From this
purported encounter, some have inferred that the industrious Mr.
Crowley intentionally opened a portal of entry - through the
practice of a magick ritual, The Amalantrah Working - which
allowed the likes of Lam and other 'alien greys' a passageway
onto the Earth plane. Furthermore, this portal may have been
further enlarged by Parsons and Hubbard in 1946 with the
commencement of the Babalon Working, thus facilitating a
monumental paradigm shift in human consciousness. In Sex and
Rockets, Carter quotes Crowley successor Kenneth Grant, who
wrote, "The Working began...just prior to the wave of
unexplained aerial phenomena now recalled as the 'Great Flying
Saucer Flap'. Parsons opened a door and something flew in."
Carter also suggests it might have been the atomic bomb that
opened this door between dimensions. He then further illustrates
the importance of the year 1947, which ended the first stage of
the Babalon Working, as Parsons and Hubbard parted ways amidst a
cloud of turmoil. 1947 was the year that the Dead Sea Scrolls
were discovered. In that very same year, Israel became a nation
state, the transistor was invented and the sound barrier broken.
Last, but certainly not least, the Modern Age of UFO's flew into
view with the Kenneth Arnold sightings, followed not long after
by the alleged saucer crash in Roswell, New Mexico. 1947 was
also the year the Great Beast, Aleister Crowley died.

CONTINUED...

http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2005/jun/m17-012.shtml

[Minstrel Boy]

13. That's a great book.

Really opened my eyes to the Military-Occult Complex.