> Thomas writes:
>
> "As you mention, in terms of sexuality, there is
> Wilhelm Reich but, on the one hand, you get the
> extreme prudishness of the Chinese Communist Party
> that emphasized pre-marital chastity, prudishness to
> the nth degree. I am less knowledgeable about
> sexuality in the former Eastern Bloc, though I suspect
> it never approached the repressiveness of China."
>
> Very true about prudishness in China, but not entirely fair to blame it
> on the
> commies. CK Liu has just published 3 parts of a 4-part series on Asia and
> modernity
> (Asia TImes) in which he sketches out a fairly long and solid tradition
> of social
> conservatism in China. A revolution that is engineered from above is not
> likely to
> change age-old social and sexual practices. And if one form of
> authoritarianism is
> substituted for another, there's not going to be much of a change in
> sexual
> repression since, as Reich argued, authoritarianism depends upon that
> kind of
> repression.
And does Henry Liu, Hedge Fund Millionaire Maoist who once on pen-l extolled the full employment policies of the Third Reich, w/ a (deceased?) Uncle of the CC of CCP, have anything to say about Mao sleeping w/ 12 yr. old girls? (See the bio by Mao's physician.)
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> ..."Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War, " by Jim Martin
...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 places 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.
Weather Modification device developed by the U.S. Air Force in the early sixties and named the "Cloudbuster." -- Michael Pugliese