By Michelle Steinberg

The immediate source for the Port Kaituma mass
murder-suicide can be partially traced to a recent closed-door meeting of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies in West Berlin, at which Rand Corporation terrorist controller Brian Jenkins gave a five-hour presentation on coming terrorist scenarios. The
Jenkins scenario, which emphasized the time-bomb
quality of cults as sources of terrorism was given just
prior to the bloodbath carried out by Rev. Jimmy
Jones’s Peoples Temple in Guyana.
The Rand connection, along with the appearance of
Dr. Joel Fort, lawyer Mark Lane, and the Glide
Memorial Church of Berkeley, California in the
dossier on Rev. Jimmy Jones confirms, in shorthand,
that Jones’s death cult is the offspring of British
intelligence’s 50-year campaign in the United States to
create cult formations among the general population
through the use of drugs and Dionysian rituals.
In official channels, the British Secret Intelligence
Services’ experiment was run under former CIA Director Allen Dulles, and conducted through the Central
Intelligence Agency, under the codename MK-Ultra.
The project, first named Operation Bluebird in 1949,
then Operation Artichoke, and renamed MK-Ultra in
1953 under direct orders from Dulles, studied the
application of LSD, psilocybin (hallucinogenic
mushrooms), peyote, and other hallucinogens in
mind-control and brainwashing techniques. The early
phases involved the administration of hallucinogens to
volunteers in university, hospital, and mental institution settings. By 1963, it was openly stated in a
CIA document that “the final phase of testing MKUltra materials involves their application to unwitting
subjects in normal life settings,” a phase which began
on the U.S. West Coast in 1955, and which by the late
1960s had created thousands of counterculture
followers of the cult of LSD and other hallucinogens,
aided by the importation and mass marketing of
British ritualistic rock music.
Ultra
Although MK-Ultra was a CIA black operation
nominally under the control of Dulles, it was in reality
a British intelligence operation run into the United
States under the cover of the CIA and the Rand
Corporation. Furthermore. the presence of the Office
of Naval Intelligence and Air Force Intelligence in the
original Operation Artichoke and MK-Ultra task
force and the subsequent importance of trained
operatives of ONI and Air Force Intelligence in the
creation of U.S.based terrorist cults points to heavy
contamination of these agencies in particular by
British SIS. 

The British Priesthood 

The three British intelligence agents heading up MKUltra as research directors from 1952 on were Aldous
Huxley, Albert Hoffman of the Warburg-owned Sandoz drug firm (where Hoffman first synthesized LSD
in 1943), and Humphrey Osmond, a close Huxley
family friend and physician based at the University of
London Hospital where he studied schizophrenia.
The key American researcher complicit with
Huxley, Hoffman, and Osmond was Gregory Bateson,
husband of the late Dame Margaret Mead of the Order
of St. John of Jerusalem. Bateson headed a Veterans
Hospital in Palo Alto, California where he aided in
criminal experiments administering LSD to patients
in the hospital. Bateson was a special advisor
to California’s Governor Jerry Brown – the politician
with whom Reverend Jimmy Jones maintained a
close relationship for many years.
Huxley was not merely the ranking British intelligence officer in the MK-Ultra infiltration project, but
he was literally a high priest of the drug cult that grew
out of the California experiments. Aldous Huxley,
along with his brother Julian was tutored at Oxford
University, England in the 1920s by futurist H.G. Wells, head of British foreign intelligence during
World War I. Wells’s writings and those of his proteges
the Huxleys and George Orwell, such as The Time
Machine, Brave New World, 1984 and Animal Farm,
spelled out in fictional form the mind-control that MKUltra was later to implement.
In 1929, under the influence of occultist Aleister
Crowley, Aldous Huxley was initiated into the Isis-Urania Temple of Hermetic Students of the Golden
Dawn, a secret cult tracing back to the Scottish Rites
of the Freemasons and run directly out of the British
Colonial Office at the same time. Crowley introduced
Huxley to hallucinogenic drugs.
From 1937 to 1945. Huxley lived in California where
he worked as a Hollywood scriptwriter along with
Christopher Isherwood and other British operatives.
Isherwood had been a British intelligence agent stationed in Weimar Berlin through the 1920s, specializing in cultural subversion projects. During this
period, Huxley and Isherwood organized cults around
the Isis Temple of the Golden Dawn and the translation of Eastern mystical documents. Preliminary
investigations suggest that one of the centers of Isis
cult activity founded by the Huxley team in 1937-1945
was Ukiah. Cal. later the West Coast center of Jones’
Peoples Temple.
Huxley’s critical training occurred in Britain from
1945 to 1952 when. in tandem with the British Psychological Warfare Division (then centered at the London
Tavistock Institute). he organized a study group at the
London National Hospital with Osmond on inducing
schizophrenic states through the taking of mescaline.
Subsequently. Osmond was hired by Allen Dulles to
play a leading role in the MK-Ultra project. In 1953. in
the U. S., Osmond gave Huxley a supply of mescaline
for his personal consumption. The next year. as the
result of his psychedelic experience. Huxley wrote
The Doors of Perception. the first public manifesto of
the drug cult advocating “expanded consciousness
through hallucinogens. " 

U.S. drug networks in place 

By 1954. MK-Ultra was fully operational. Dr. Timothy
Leary was already conducting LSD experiments at Harvard University. Hoffman had been
brought to the United States for continued MK-Ultra
work. And Huxley returned to California where he recruited his 1937-45 associates Bateson and Alan Watts, who later became a propagandist for the study of Eastern
religions. Osmond, meanwhile, was stationed at the
New Jersey Neuro-Psychiatric Institute in Princeton.
N.J .. conducting experiments on the effects of LSD in
schizophrenia.
In 1960, as MK-Ultra entered its "final phases.”
Huxley was appointed Visiting Professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.
There he created a circle paralleling his West Coast
LSD team. including Leary and associate Richard
Alpert who later became “guru” Baba Ram Das.
This circle created a following of thousands of LSD
veterans who were then deployed to proselytize for
drugs.
One direct result of the Huxley Harvard operation
was the International Federation for Internal
Freedom Psychedelic Training Center in Zihuatenejo, Mexico set up and headed by Leary in 1963. Zihuatenejo, an isolated Mexican resort town. was the
site for a two-year project involving 500 people –
chosen according to Leary out of over 5,000 applicants. The objective of Zihuatenejo was to train psychologists and other professionals, religious leaders, teachers. etc. in the values of psychedelic drug use.
The center administered LSD to residents several
times a week, conducting group sessions based on the
Boston work of Leary and Alpert, the writings of
Huxley. and particularly Leary’s translation of the
Tibetan Book of the Dead. The Tibetan sacred book
was to be read by participants before taking the LSD, then read aloud by another person as the subject sank
into a schizophrenic state.
Indeed. the death experience attitude was a central
consideration of the center’s profiling. After an LSD
experience one group showed that: “Some now felt
convinced that there is no death, that life is really continuous despite physical change. Death to them now
seems simply continuation toward the mystical goal of
oneness with God…associated with lessened
anxiety, greater acceptance of death … ” (Richard
Blum and associates Utopiates. London: Tavistock
Publications. 1965).
The names of the participants in the Zihuatenejo
project have never been made public although they included clinical psychologists. ministers, teachers, and
businessmen. In 1963, during the second year of its
operation, the center was closed by Mexican authorities.
It is known that the Mexican project was one feature
of the “private.” i.e .. nongovernmental. side of MKUltra. The above-cited 1965 Tavistock Institute report
also featured reports by Timothy Leary. Richard
Alpert. and San Francisco’s Dr. Joel Fort. who has
already been identified as a principal figure in the
creation of Jones’s Peoples Temple.
Simultaneously. the Rand Corporation, home of
present-day terrorist specialist Brian Jenkins. was
conducting a “medically oriented ” experiment in
LSD. According to a 1962 Rand Abstract. W.H.
McGlothlin conducted a preparatory study on the
“Longlasting Effects of LSD on Certain Attitudes in
Normals: An Experimental Proposal” The following
year, McGlothlin conducted a year-long experiment
with 30 human guinea pigs. called “Short-Term
Effects of LSD on Anxiety. Attitudes and Performance.” The study incredibly concluded that LSD
improved emotional attitudes and helped resolve
anxiety! Also in California, the guinea pigs at Bateson’s Palo
Alto Veterans Hospital were being groomed as future
leaders of the drugged Isis cult. Foremost among
Bateson’s recruits was Ken Kesey who received his
first LSD dose from Bateson in 1959. Other “subjects”
included Jerry Garcia, later the founder of the Grateful Dead rock band. Another outstanding member of
the Grateful Dead is the son of Wharton School professor Eric Trist, the leading Tavistock Institute
operative in the United States and a principal controller of the MOVE black terrorist gang that recently
staged a gun battle with Philadelphia police.
Much of the LSD used to build the Isis counterculture cult in the Haight-Asbury section of San
Francisco found its way into the streets from MKUltra channels. In 1963, when Leary left Harvard, the
Leary LSD operations were funded principally by
Billy Mellon Hitchcock. Hitchcock’s contributions to
Leary were paid out through a British West Indies conduit known as the Fiduciary Trust – a wholly controlled subsidiary of the Investors’ Overseas Service,
which is and was an Israeli dirty-money operation coordinated on the U.S. side through the New York
holding company, the Dreyfuss Corporation. Hitchcock, an heir to the Mellon banking family of Pittsburgh, not only funded Leary’s pet projects, but
financed Leary’s Brotherhood of Eternal Love as a
major hashish marketing and LSD manufacturing
operation which was based, like Jones’s Peoples
Temple, in California and the Caribbean.
In 1968, Leary, Ken Kesey, Alan Watts, and homosexual poet Allen Ginsberg from New York organized
the so-called Summer of Love. This nationwide Dionysian celebration provided the context for a massive
infusion of drugs into every part of the USA which left
thousands of youth ravaged by their first experiences
with addictive and hallucinogenic chemicals. To
service the psychological disorders and human
misery resulting from the drug epidemic, institutions
such as the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic were
created. Today, these clinics serve as centers for the movement to decriminalize “recreational” drugs, and
as recruiting centers for cult outfits such as the Glide
Memorial Church and Jones’s People’s Temple.
Dr. Joel Fort’s Project One mental health clinic in
San Francisco was part of the network of clinics set up
to service the growing number of youth who quickly
went from marijuana and an occasional hallucinogenic trip to hard-core heroin addiction and psychosis.