	id AA07750; Sun, 22 Jan 95 05:13:40 CST
Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3 Num. 60


              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3  Num. 60
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")
 
 
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>From the upcoming issue of Steamshovel Press (#12, due in two
weeks):
 
A Day In The Life
A Newly Declassified Document on Wilhelm Reich
 
In 1991 Steamshovel Press editor Kenn Thomas began a Freedom of 
Information Act search of government files on Wilhelm Reich, the 
orgone psychologist and UFO combatant whose scientific equipment 
was destroyed and books burned by the federal government after it 
sent him to certain death in the federal prison in Lewisberg, 
Pennsylvania in 1957. The FOI search yielded many interesting 
documents and a never before published photograph of Reich from 
his prison file.  In November 1994, the Immigration and 
Naturalization Service declassified a document that had been 
withheld from the original FOI request. It details an attempt by 
the FBI in 1953 to get Dr. Reich to identify "suspected 
subversive aliens and to furnish information gained while a 
former member [sic] of the Communist Party in Germany" in the 
1930s.
 
As the document reveals, the hapless agent assigned to this task 
stumbled upon a Wilhelm Reich quite removed from the narrow 
political preoccupations of his young adulthood. Reich had 
reached an advanced stage of his study of the orgone and had 
become convinced of its role in the developing awareness of the 
UFO phenomenon. The FBI agent had preoccupations of his own--the 
nudes in the artwork around Reich's Orgonon lab, for instance, 
and any potential information on the two suspected Communists 
(names deleted for the most part, in compliance with FOIA privacy 
protections)-but reached the surprising conclusion that Reich had 
"information which may be helpful to the government of the United 
States." By visit's end, however, the agent came away thoroughly 
chastised for his McCarthyist inquiry and with a clear glimpse of 
Reich's rage over his overlooked and misunderstood work. It 
clearly vindicates Reich from any suspicion that he fell prey to 
the McCarthyist temperament, as he gave none of the corroboration 
sought by the FBI and demanded from the agency acknowledgement of 
the real issues he felt he faced, not the agency's red-baiting 
fantasies.
 
Reich's widow, Ilse Ollendorff, mentioned this incident in a 1978 
interview with Reich biographer Myron Sharaf (Fury On Earth, St. 
Martin's Press, 1983), but this is the first time the agent's 
report has been published. Steamshovel acknowledges with 
gratitude the FOI declassification procedure that led to this new 
look at a day in Reich's career.
 
 
DETAILS
 
SUBJECT was interviewed by the writer on November 24, 1953 in the 
office of the Wilhelm Reich Foundation, known locally as ORGONON, 
which he heads, about four miles west of Rangeley, Maine, off 
Maine Route 16.
 
ORGONON consists of several hundred acres of open fields and 
sparse to heavy forest, situated on a slope overlooking Rangeley 
Lake. Visible structures consist of one dwelling house, one small 
structure signed "STUDENT LABORATORY", two garages, and one two 
and a half story wood and stone structure overlooking the 
surrounding property which is used as ORGONON laboratory- 
observatory. A private road leads to ORGONON property from the 
public highway through stone columns with a chain barring fence. 
The chain was not in place upon my arrival. Signs at the gate 
point to ORGONON and proclaim "RESEARCH AREA" and "RESTRICTED 
AREA". A sign at the laboratory indicates "BY APPOINTMENT ONLY." 
The first floor contains much medical testing and electrical 
equipment. The office, library and observation platform are 
located on the second floor. A vertical metal tower on the roof 
contains several aerials for ultra-high frequency reception, but 
no radio receiving or sending apparatus was to be seen. Hung on 
the walls of the second floor, office and library, are several 
large paintings of nude women and one American eagle. Also 
visible were several statues of nudes, and one photograph of a 
famous statue of a nude man and woman. Just inside the door 
leading to the observation platform were three shot guns and 
rifles with a supply of ammunition unboxed, in position for 
instant use. A holstered pistol of heavy calibre hung by a belt 
from the chair-back in which SUBJECT sat during the interview. A 
system for interoffice communication was visible as was a 
portable record player and standard radio receiver. Judging from 
my seating arrangement during the interview and by suspicious 
actions of SUBJECT, it is believed a recording of the 
conversation was made, or intended.
 
Upon examination of my identification card and badge, SUBJECT 
invited me into his office. He had apparently been working in the 
laboratory with another man who was visible upon my entrance 
through the main door. Again asking to see my identification, 
SUBJECT informed me he is a psychiatrist and a scientist, and as 
such he questioned my honesty and loyalty and said I may be a 
Communist underground worker testing his knowledge of Communist 
activities. SUBJECT stated he had been interviewed at Rangeley 
about one year ago by a government agent (not otherwise 
identified) and that SUBJECT had "thrown him off the property" as 
he was a Communist sympathizer, arriving at that conclusion upon 
the basis of his knowledge and training as a psychiatrist. 
SUBJECT said he had subsequently reported the matter "to the 
government", but he would not elaborate further on the details.
 
SUBJECT was informed that the purpose of the interview was to 
obtain his testimony regarding knowledge of the Communist 
movement and to determine his spirit of cooperation in disclosing 
Communist aliens in the United States. SUBJECT replied that he 
would cooperate fully, but said his exact words should be 
recorded, either by tape or record, or by appearance before a 
public hearing body. The fact that he was about to be asked to 
identify a specific alien was not made known to SUBJECT until his 
true feelings concerning cooperation were known. General 
questions concerning Communism were put to SUBJECT for this 
purpose, in replies to which SUBJECT stated he had not engaged in 
Communist activity "in over 20 years", that over six million 
Germans had been Communist members during his own membership, 
that he is opposed to Communism as Communism is against the three 
things that he considers most important in life, namely, "Love, 
Freedom and Babies", that he was in favor of the execution of the 
Rosenbergs but would not have wanted to be the executioner, that 
he hated persons who "hid behind the Fifth Amendment", and that 
his study of the face of Malenkov revealed that Malenkov to be a 
psychopath. After a lengthy dissertation on Communism SUBJECT 
said he was aware he was being tested as to his attitude toward 
Communism and asked that he now be questioned as to the specific 
reason for the interview.
 
SUBJECT was then shown the photos of LIO [deleted] and asked if 
he knew of the Communistic activity of either. SUBJECT almost 
instantly replied that he had never met either alien, that he had 
no reason to believe either alien was a Communist, in fact he 
believed both aliens were completely innocent and that the 
suspicion was baseless, but that he had seen FEUCHTWANGER's photo 
somewhere.
 
SUBJECT then lost self control. He paced the floor and pounded 
the table. His face reddened and his speech became at times 
incoherent. When asked if he had been offended in some way which 
caused his excitement, SUBJECT said he had been. SUBJECT then 
went on to say that in effect, he had been insulted in being 
asked to merely identify a suspected Communist, that I did not 
realize who he, SUBJECT, was, that I did not understand how minor 
was the importance of questioning him concerning individual 
Communists as he wanted it plainly understood that his personal 
knowledge of Communism extended beyond the "political field" of 
Communism and went deep into the heart of the philosophy of 
present day Communism-dictatorship as compared with Marxism. From 
that point on SUBJECT pounded on the theme that the danger to the 
United States and the free world did not stem from the actions of 
mere individual Communists, but because the United States failed 
to understand and get to the root of the "Communist disease"...
 
--more in Steamshovel Press #12
 
Steamshovel Debris: Reich wrote a letter to the Immigration 
Service as a follow-up to this visit. In it, he asked, "How is it 
possible that many millions of decent, hard-working people are 
falling prey to little political horsethieves of the Moscow or 
any other kind?" He also identified three major dangers to 
society: power drunkards, neurotic passivity, and the threat from 
outer space.
 
Currently available in Steamshovel Press #11:
 
JFK, LSD and the CIA, Part 3, with rare photographs;
Chicago Conspiracy Researcher Sherman Skolnick Speaks!
Dr. Alan Cantwell on Genetically Engineered AIDS;
An Ugly American in Dallas? Ed Lansdale and the JFK Tramps
Inslaw-Whitewater Connection
BioSphere 2 Shakedown
John Mack's UFO Abductees
Beat Poet Lew Welch Alive?
Jack Nicholson and Wilhelm Reich
 
$5 postpaid in the US; $6 postpaid elsewhere from: Steamshovel 
Press;
POB 23715; St. Louis, MO 63121 USA. Foreign Subsciptions: $26; US
Subs: $20.
Back issues available.
 
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