Take this with as many grains of salt as you like...
Extracted from:
http://g-john-edwards.monsterkidclassic ... m.yuku.com
PARSONS - HUBBARD - Manhattan Project - PAPERCLIP
http://www.winterspells.com/2239/babalo ... moonchild/
"One of the A-bomb scientists, Robert Cornog, was for a while a lodger at Parsons' mansion. However, there's no evidence that they worked together either scientifically or magically."
http://plaguedocs.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_archive.html (quoting "Strange Angel"):
"After the war ended, nuclear physicist Robert Cornog moved into Parsons' mansion <around the same time> as did L. Ron Hubbard."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cornog
Robert Alden Cornog (1912-1998), was a physicist and engineer who helped develop the atomic bomb and missile systems. During World War II, Cornog designed magnetic equipment for ships and went to work on the Manhattan Project, successively at UC Berkeley, Princeton University and in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Cornog became chief engineer of the ordnance division of the atomic bomb team and was involved in the development of the bomb's trigger mechanism.
Cornog was a close associate of rocket pioneer and occultist Jack Parsons.
Robert A. Heinlein, a friend, dedicated "Stranger in a Strange Land" to Cornog.
http://enter.net/~torve/critics/Dimension/hd02-3.html
[Robert Heinlein's story] "Solution Unsatisfactory" [published] in the May [1941] Astounding, is about atomic war and is more dramatized essay than story. Heinlein had the benefit of knowing Dr. Robert Cornog, a physicist who was later part of the Manhattan Project, and who helped draw Heinlein's attention to some of the possibilities of atomic power.
"They," Heinlein's [previous] story published in April 1941 issue of <John W. Campbell's> Unknown, is about a man in an insane asylum who is either suffering from delusions of persecution or is an immortal being about whom the universe centers. The second of these turns out to be the case.
In [Heinlein's] "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" [published in Oct 1942] our world is [controlled by] unpleasant creatures known as "the Sons of the Bird" who were cast down and made subordinate to human beings (who are their own creations) because of their pride ..
http://www.troynovant.com/Stoddard/Hein ... -Hoag.html
This novella is a big departure for Heinlein in a number of ways. It's not hard science fiction, or science fiction of any kind, but fantasy. The story becomes increasingly weird, building up to a final revelation. The Sons of the Bird walk among human beings but are not human. They have mysterious powers and can do things that defy rational explanation. They live in a hidden realm from which they can enter our world at will. They enter dreams; they create illusions and distort memories; they are creatures of glamour, in the old magical sense of the word
http://everything2.com/title/The+Heinle ... Wager+Myth
Bill Patterson, Chairman of the Heinlein Society <http://everything2.com/title/the+Heinlein+Society> "[Robert Heinlein] and [L. Ron Hubbard] had one or more discussions in 1944 or 1945 when they were both in Philadelphia <http://everything2.com/title/Philadelphia> , [during which] RAH pointed out that religions had an inordinate amount of legal latitude in the U.S. and churches could engage in a great many activities otherwise thought of as secular <http://everything2.com/title/secular> , under the tax and other protection churches enjoy. He had already explored these ideas in some of his stories and was to revisit these notions in Stranger. It is possible that this took place as late as Dec 1945 or early 1946 in Los Angeles."
http://www.heinleinarchives.net/upload/ ... ductId=884
General Correspondence 1948-1951
"Extended correspondence with L. Ron Hubbard, including letter to Heinlein in March 1949 talking about some of the concepts that would form the backbone of Dianetics. ...
"Robert [Heinlein] supplies an affidavit to the Department of the Army attesting to the loyalty to the United States of Robert Cornog ...(Cornog was a nuclear physicist and friend of Robert's.)
http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archi ... 00109.html
I have [Cornog] placed at a November 15, 1945 meeting of Cal Tech's short-lived chapter of the Federation of Atomic Scientists. The source who described him was also at this meeting, so I have them together. The source described <Cornog> as having been "fired by Nixon in the 50s." Nixon only took public credit for "firing" one atomic scientist that I can recall. That is when he, as Vice President , caused Edward Condon to be denied a security clearance due to his left-leaning politics early in his career. Condon was ultimately exonerated of any wrongdoing, but Nixon used it to get as much political mileage as he could.
http://plaguedocs.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_archive.html quoting "Strange Angel":
By the late 1940s, anticommunist feelings ran high, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities was in full swing. Frank Malina left the U.S. in 1946 because he was afraid of the FBI. Robert Cornog lost his security clearance, and was effectively unable to continue working in an industry that dealt largely with classified government contracts. Parsons was investigated, listed as an "Undesirable Employee for National Defense Work," and consequently lost his job with North American Aviation.
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/54/54_35.pdf Nazi hunter John Loftus:
Richard Nixon's political career began in 1945, when as a navy officer he was assigned to review some captured Nazi documents. Allen Dulles told Nixon to keep quiet about what he was seeing and, in return, arranged to finance the young man's first congressional campaign. The Dulles brothers took Nixon under their wing and escorted him on a tour of <<Paperclip>> operations in Germany.
When Truman was reelected in 1948, Nixon became Allen Dulles'mouthpiece in Congress. Both Nixon and Senator Joseph McCarthy received volumes of classified information to support the charge that the Truman administration was filled with "Communists". Nixon worked with CIA director Bedell Smith to steer investigations away from [Nazis] in the intelligence community.
Richard Milhous Nixon's work with Navy Intelligence at the end of World War II included the importation of Nazi criminals through the Gould family estate on Long Island. Among them was Nicolae Malaxa, who had belonged to Otto von Bolschwing's Gestapo network. Malaxa's collaboration with Hermann Goering was no problem for Nixon, who [in 1951 personally arranged for] his U.S. citizenship. Afterwards, when Malaxa went to Argentina in 1952, he linked up with Otto Skorzeny
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/socio ... clip03.htm
"The Paperclip office operated out of the intelligence division's headquarters in Heidelberg, under Deputy Director Col. Robert Schow, who would become assistant director of the CIA in 1949." ("Secret Agenda") After assuming the directorship of the newly created CIA, Allen Dulles assumed control over Project Paperclip. In 1947, Dulles's [German] translator was an army intelligence officer named Henry Kissinger, who would become secretary of state under President Richard Nixon, a lifelong friend to Dulles
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Contrast the following with what Robert Heinlein was assumed to believe, judged only by his "Stranger in a Strange Land," viewed as a kind of manifesto for hippiedom:
"The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual. Nobody preached duty to these kids in a way they could understand -- that is, with a spanking. But the society they were in told them endlessly about their 'rights.' The result of which should have been predictable, since a human being has no natural rights of any nature."
--Col. Dubois in "Starship Troopers"
http://www.quotableheinlein.com/html/home.html
www.cbc.ca/arts/features/heinlein/
Robert James, who is writing a biography of Heinlein, says ... Heinlein worked for Upton Sinclair's political campaign. The muck-raking author of The Jungle had long pushed for social reform in the United States. In 1934, Sinclair ran for governor of California as a Democrat. Sinclair was crushed by the Republicans and the conservative California newspapers. In 1938, [Heinlein] ran for the California state assembly in a district that included Beverly Hills and part of Hollywood, losing to a Republican.
James quotes Heinlein as telling another science-fiction writer about the later changes in his political philosophy: "I've simply changed from a soft-headed radical to hard-headed radical, a pragmatic libertarian."
James also says the World War II and the Cold War, including the threat from Communism, influenced Heinlein's change of political philosophy. He supported Senator Barry Goldwater for president in 1964.
Heinlein, however, opposed what today is known as social conservativism. In ["For Us the Living"], his first draft included a take-over of the United States by "Neo-Puritans," led by the televangelist Nehemiah Scudder, a character who is also prominent in his 1941 novella If This Goes On, the story of a second American revolution when libertarians finally overthrow a dictatorship of the religious right.
That really makes me wonder what role Heinlein might have played when Parsons (as much a libertarian as himself) was investigated by the the U.S. government for possible Communist associations, just like his longtime pal Cornog (apparently a "no nukes" activist like Einstein), whose loyalty you notice he defended, filing an affidavit with the authorities while remaining silent in Parsons' case. And why, in the feud between the socially naive Parsons and classic con artist Hubbard, who had obviously ripped off Parsons financially (as well as stealing his wife), did he side with Hubbard, a fellow Navy man?
Odd too that Heinlein, opposed as he was to the "tyranny" of religions and cults, raised no objections when Hubbard (allegedly) confided to him the future aims of Dianetics>Scientology. (Indeed, according to his archivist, Heinlein may have been the one to outline for Hubbard the specifics of how a group incorporated as a religion could get away with a lot more, legally, than an informal cult.)
TO RECAP: During the time of the Manhattan Project, Operation Paperclip, MK-ULTRA, and Joe McCarthy's and insider Dick Nixon's purge of lefties via their House Un-American Activities Committee, Parsons was investigated by the FBI and stripped of his security clearance, his friends Robert Cornog and Hsue-Shen Tsien suffered the same fate, and Frank Malina, in terror of the FBI, quit the industry and ran off to work for UNESCO. Both the Agape Lodge and the Parsonage, and everyone associated with them, were repeatedly investigated by the local authorities as well as by the FBI. And yet, when the dust settled, only Hubbard and Heinlein somehow managed to emerge unscathed.
Hubbard, who later claimed --without any evidence-- to have been an infiltrator sent by the government to "penetrate" this circle of wife-swapping, drug-abusing, fantasy-driven "Commies," apparently had no problem (until decades later) dealing with the Establishment: His first "Clear" was John Starr Cooke, brother-in-law of OSS & CIA official Sherman Kent, "father of intelligence analysis" and intimate friend of the Dulleses. "Cooke hobnobbed with Sherman Kent at annual family reunions and is said to have made the acquaintance of a number of CIA operatives." Acid Dreams, p. 157.
Heinlein was already well-known to military intelligence and the FBI, having been interrogated in 1944 during their investigation of possible Manhattan Project "leaks" that could account for a story by Cleve Cartmill (Heinlein's friend) in John W. Campbell's Astounding that detailed how an A-bomb was constructed. And possibly even earlier, because it was nuke-guy Cornog's pal Heinlein himself who had first described in print the A-bomb's composition earlier, in 1940.
http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0311/ref2.shtml
Hmm ...
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Before and after becoming Hubbard's first "Clear," John Starr Cooke was a Thelemite, who sometime after 1944 (late in the Agape Lodge period) met Aleister Crowley himself and was still in possession of an outline for a new Tarot deck written in the Beast's own handwriting. Shortly after parting company with Hubbard in the very early 1950s, Cooke --wheelchair-bound as a result of polio and longing to be free at least in mind-- dropped acid ... and suddenly the occult made even more sense ...
Since this was around the same time the CIA had begun making LSD more widely available for experiments on test subjects including its own personnel and their families, no doubt he obtained it through his family's Ivy League OSS/CIA social connections. For example, Cooke's family, heirs to the Castle & Cooke fortune (making them Hawaii's equivalent of the Rockefellers), was on intimate terms with the Mellon dynasty (bankers, Wall Street financiers, and OSS/CIA officials), of which Billy Hitchcock --Timothy Leary's first high-society patron-- was a member. Mary Pinchot Meyer, who turned JFK on, moved in that same circle, being married to CIA official Cord Meyer, so well-positioned he could invite the CIA's Counterintelligence Director James Jesus Angelton over for dinner frequently.
By 1953, alongside Marjorie Cameron who claimed to be exiled "high priestess" of the Agape Lodge from the time Jack Parsons presided over it, John Starr Cooke could be found at Sampson de Brier's Hollywood salon where he would expound on Crowley's secret teachings to a younger generation that would come to be known as Beats (pre-Beatles) or "beatniks." Kenneth Anger was there too but, oddly, seems never to have made any reference to him (as far as I can tell). That old Agape Lodge hanger-on John Carradine often visited (as would his son David Carradine in later days), bringing along his wife Sonja Sorel, an actress he had met and wooed on the set of "Bluebeard" (1944) between Universal horrors. Probably a mistake, because Sonja was stolen away from Carradine by guru John Starr Cooke's star disciple, Michael Bowen.
On John Starr Cooke's instructions, Michael Bowen went to San Francisco, where MK-ULTRA's Louis Jolyon West had just opened a hippie "crash pad" to observe first hand the effects of LSD on altering personal and social behavior. In 1967 Bowen organized the "Human Be-In," attended by Tim Leary, that inaugurated the Haight-Ashbury's Summer of Love. Whether or not also doing Cooke's bidding, Kenneth Anger was on the scene too, marking the opening of the Straight Theatre with a performance (featuring Anton LaVey and Bobby Beausoleil) billed as "the Equinox of the Gods," a kind of diabolical counterpole to the "Be-In." (Charles Manson is thought to have been in the audience.) It turned into an ugly scene, in contrast to the Flower Children's version. Later in the year, Bowen, again with Anger beside him, marched on the Pentagon, attempting to subdue it with the Pentagram's superior fire power, and Peggy Hitchcock, sister of Cooke's east coast ally Billy Hitchcock, picked up the tab for the ritual. The "Flower Children of Light" failed and faded, but the Sixties kept marching onward, to Anger's beat.
Cooke's brother-in-law (his sister's husband's brother) Sherman Kent, a high-ranking CIA functionary, had been quite a busy man during the days when Parsons and Hubbard were trying to invoke elemental forces. He was in fact at the forefront of what would become Operation Paperclip, seated at the table beside Allen Dulles at the historic crossroads when America sold its soul to the Devil.
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board/v ... 1a165e496c
from Carl Oglesby's "The Secret Treaty of Fort Hunt"
Acting without orders, [General Edwin L.] Sibert listened to [the proposal offered by Nazi spymaster Reinhard] Gehlen for several days before informing Eisenhower's chief of staff, General Walter Bedell Smith. Smith and Sibert continued to develop their relationship with Gehlen secretly, choosing not to "burden" Eisenhower with knowledge of what they were doing. (Eisenhower had strictly forbidden U.S. fraternization with [Nazis].) Gehlen was encouraged to resume contact with his comrades still at large, releasing them from their vow of silence. Within weeks he and his comrades were "discharged from prisoner of war status so we could move around at will." They were encouraged to form a unit first within G-2's Historical Research Section, then later in the Seventh Army's Intelligence Center in Wiesbaden, where they were treated as VIPs. Soon Gehlen and his men were en route to Washington.
A momentous relationship was established at Fort Hunt, one that had the profoundest effects on the subsequent evolution of United States foreign policy during an exceptionally difficult passage of world history. The Cold War was laden with the peril of nuclear war. (On at least one occasion, in 1948, Gehlen almost convinced the United States that the Soviet Union was about to launch a war against the West and that it would be in the U.S. interest to attack first to preempt it.)
Clearly it is important to know who made and authorized the decisions that led to our national dependency on an underground network of Nazis, yet because the relevant documents are still classified this central part of the Gehlen story still cannot be reconstructed.
From the handful of published books about the Gehlen affair (none of which cite their sources on this point) we can list only 7 Americans who were said to be [negotiating the fateful deal] with Gehlen at Fort Hunt:
--Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of staff end Truman's national security advisor.
--Allen Dulles, OSS station chief in Bern during the war.
--Sherman Kent, head of OSS Research and Analysis Branch, a Yale historian <and Skull & Bones member?>.
--General George V. Strong, head of Army G-2.
--Major General Alex H. Bolling of G-2.
--Brigadier General John T. Magruder, first head of the Army's Strategic Services Unit, a vulture of OSS.
--Loftus E. Becker, a G-2 lawyer associated with the Nuremberg war-crimes operation and first deputy director of the CIA.
We do not know if these people were involved as a committee, if they talked with Gehlen and his six aides a lot or a little, separately or all at once, or if they sent their own aides to work out the details. We do not know how a POW-interrogation was transformed into a bargaining process. Above all, we do not know what kind of communication the American participants in the Fort Hunt-Gehlen talks had with the political authorities to whom they were responsible. Leahy is the only one who had obvious contact with President Truman, but there is nothing in the record to indicate that he ever discussed Gehlen or the Fort Hunt deal with Truman, or took the least trouble to explain to Truman the implications of [absorbing] a Nazi spy network.
From the edge of total defeat Gehlen moved into his vintage years, more powerful, influential and independent than he had been even in the heyday of the Third Reich. Minimally supervised, first by the War Department's Strategic Services Unit under Fort Hunt figure Major General John Magruder, and then by the SSU's follow-on organization, the Central Intelligence Group under Rear Admiral Sidney Souers, the Org grew to dominate the entire West German intelligence service. When NATO was established he came to dominate it too. By one estimate "some 70 percent" of the total intelligence take flowing into NATO's military committee and Allied headquarters (SHAPE) on the Soviet Union, the countries of East Europe, the rest of Europe, and indeed the rest of the world was generated [by Gehlen's org]. Not even the establishment of the CIA in 1947 lessened the reliance of American intelligence on Gehlen's product.
From the beginning days of the Cold War through the 1970s and beyond, the United States', West Germany's, and NATO's beliefs about the nature and intentions of the Soviet Union and world communism would be supplied by an international network of utterly unreconstructed SS Nazis whose primary purposes were to cover up for ODESSA and make the world safe for the [Fourth Reich].
In making the Gehlen deal, the United States did not acquire an intelligence service. That is not what the Gehlen group was or was trying to be. The military intelligence historian Col. William Corson put it most succinctly: "Gehlen's organization was designed to protect the ODESSA [network of] Nazis. It amounts to an exceptionally well-orchestrated diversion." The only intelligence the Gehlen Org provided to the United States was intelligence crafted specifically to worsen East-West tensions and increase the possibility of [a mutually destructive war] between [Nazi Germany's enemies,] the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
