Below is an article about can. It is noteworthy that the original BATF interest in the B-D

Below is an article about can.  It is noteworthy that the original 
BATF interest in the B-D sect came from a report from Australia from 
a  can related individual.  Also, it was can experts  and the ADL who 
advised the FBI on their ill-fated raid.



Cult Awareness brainwashers, Galen
Kelly exposed at last 

 by Warren A.J. Hamerman

Self-styled ``cult deprogrammer'' Galen Kelly,
who is actually a professional kidnapper and brainwasher,
was indicted on March 3, 1993 by a federal grand jury at
the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia on a
felony charge that he kidnapped Debra Dobkowski on May 5,
1992. The indictment comes just as Kelly and his cronies
in the Cult Awareness Network (CAN) had geared up a
propaganda campaign to present themselves as legitimate
consultants on so-called cults in the aftermath of the
Feb. 26 bombing of the New York World Trade Center (being
blamed on Islamic radicals) and the Feb. 28 shootout
between the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF)
and the Branch Davidian religious group in Waco, Texas.
The kidnapping for which Kelly has been indicted is
described in the prologue to a new book to be released
this month by Executive Intelligence Review, entitled
{Travesty--A True Crime Story.} 
   Kelly is not just another thug; he is part of an
international apparatus of Israeli, American, and British
secret intelligence communities' ``wetworks'' capability.
Kelly is on the board of JINSA, the Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs, a liaison group between Israeli
and American military establishments that is suspected of
having been at the center of the Jonathan Pollard spy
ring. Kelly is also the security henchman and a paid
operative of CAN. 
   Immediately after the Waco, Texas incident erupted,
Kelly and one of his CAN deprogramming sidekicks named
Rick Ross appeared on national media as experts to
``explain'' the events. According to various media reports
the central ``deprogramming'' adviser to the ATF and FBI
on the Branch Davidian sect is, in fact, the self-same
Rick Ross. Along with Kelly, Ross is a leading
deprogrammer for CAN. Ross is a convicted jewel thief. He
was arrested in November 1975 and pled guilty to the crime
of Conspiracy to Commit Grand Theft Second Degree-Open
End, according to a Phoenix Police Departmental Report.
Ross was under criminal investigation in Washington state
for a failed 1991 deprogramming attempt. 
   Ross was publicly described by CAN Executive Director
Cynthia Kisser as ``among the half-dozen best
deprogrammers in the country.'' Priscilla Coates, the
director of CAN in Los Angeles, said of Ross: ``Rick
has helped me with all kinds of questions. He has also
competently counseled many parents and cult members.''
Ross is a member of two national committees for the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations and an outspoken critic
of Christian fundamentalist groups. He is past chairman of
the Religious Advisory Committee to the Arizona Department
of Corrections and of the International Coalition for
Jewish Prisoner Services of the B'nai B'rith
International, Washington, D.C. 
   The victim of Kelly's latest kidnap indictment is
Debra Dobkowski, the roommate of the intended target, who
was on her way home from work late at night when she was
grabbed by two men and two women and forcibly taken to
Leesburg, Virginia, some 40 miles northwest of Washington.
On the way, she asked one of her abductors his name and he
replied, ``Galen Kelly,'' according to court papers. A
study of telephone records showed that the mother of
Dobkowski's roommate had placed calls to the Cult
Awareness Network in Chicago three months before the
abduction. 
   Kelly is to be arraigned in U.S. Magistrates Court
in Alexandria on March 15. Assistant U.S. Attorney
Lawrence Leiser told the media that, if convicted, Kelly
faces a maximum sentence of up to life in prison. Kelly,
45, was acquitted Dec. 31 of plotting to kidnap Lewis du
Pont Smith. 

                   - What is CAN? -
   ``We're not a criminal organization, we don't engage
in kidnappings,'' was the public comment of CAN's Cynthia
Kisser, upon hearing
of the arrests last September of Galen Kelly, Don Moore,
Newbold Smith, Bob Point, and Tony Russo for conspiracy to
kidnap LaRouche associate Lewis du Pont Smith. Oh, but the
lady doth protest too much. 
   The evidence that has emerged from what has been
called the ``Kidnappers, Inc.'' trial, only provides more
confirmation that the Cult Awareness Network is exactly
what Kisser says it is not. 
   Originally called the Citizens Freedom Foundation,
CAN was founded in 1974 by Henrietta Crampton and a small
group of advocates of ``deprogramming,'' a euphemism for
making someone change his or her beliefs by force, which is
otherwise called ``brainwashing.'' Crampton described Ted
Patrick as a prime force behind the formation of CFF. 
   Patrick, a pioneer of ``deprogramming'' who has been
convicted numerous times for violent crimes, wrote in his
book {Let Our Children Go!} that deprogramming involves
``kidnapping at the very least, quite often assault and
battery, almost invariably conspiracy to commit a crime
and illegal restraint.'' 
   Since its founding, CFF changed its name to CAN,
obtained more prominent sponsors, and broadened its
affiliations; but it has always remained the same--a
clearinghouse and referral service for people who, for a
fee, will do whatever it takes to break a targeted
individual from his or her beliefs. 
   Bucknell University religion professor Larry Shin
told the {Philadelphia Inquirer} in 1992 that
deprogramming is ``the most destructive of the legacies of
the great American cult scare.... CAN is much closer to a
destructive cult than most of the groups they attack.'' 
   From the mid-1980s forward, CAN has functioned as the
most active of a throng of so-called anti-cult
organizations which sprang from the ravages of the
counterculture. Such groups as the Jewish Community
Relations Council's (JCRC) Task Force on Missionaries and
Cults, the American Family Foundation, the International
Cult Education Project and the Interfaith Coalition of
Concern about Cults, all share interlocking boards of
directors and funding. They give each other awards and
share referrals. Through these associations, CAN has
enjoyed the support and protection of powerful elements of
the eastern liberal financial establishment. 
   It was through CAN that all the conspirators in
Kidnappers, Inc. became associated. 

             - `There's money to be made' -
   When E. Newbold Smith wanted a kidnapper/deprogrammer
to go after his son, Lewis du Pont Smith, he called CAN,
and they referred him to Galen Kelly, who in turn
received payments from CAN. When Smith needed a
psychiatrist who would testify to have his son Lewis
declared mentally incompetent, Smith called CAN and they
referred him to Dr. David Halperin, a board member of the
American Family Foundation, CAN's sister organization. Don
Moore needed work after he was fired from the Loudoun
County, Va., Sheriff's Department for rummaging through
department files. So, as he told another former sheriff's
deputy, Doug Poppa, after he sought to recruit Poppa to
the ``Kidnappers, Inc.'' scheme, ``I'm working for CAN.''
Moore added, ``There's money to be made in the anti-cult
work.'' And when Moore and Kelly wanted legal cover for
their kidnapping plans, lawyer Bob Point offered to
provide that cover under the auspices of the work he does
for CAN. 
   Cynthia Kisser has gone to
great lengths to deny CAN's involvement in kidnappings and
coercive deprogrammings, but there is ample evidence that
points precisely to that. 
   Estimates are that CAN maintains a network of 20 to
25 full-time deprogrammers, and 30 or so part-time
deprogrammers. Each full-time deprogrammer handles
approximately 25 deprogramming jobs per year, making a
conservative estimate of over 500 deprogrammings per year.
Of those deprogrammings, some 25% involve outright
kidnapping. The rest involve ``detaining'' the victim
against his or her will. It has been reported that at the
1992 CAN conference in Los Angeles, a CAN deprogrammer
claimed that over 2,000 deprogrammings occurred in the
United States in the last year. 
   Occasionally, deprogrammers are arrested. Most
frequently they plead guilty to lesser charges and spend
little or no time in jail. Often they go scot-free. 
   At CAN's national conferences and local meetings,
family members interested in having someone kidnapped or
deprogrammed can meet professionals like Galen Kelly, whom
they can hire. CAN claims to maintain files on over 1,000
organizations which it deems to be ``destructive cults,''
and it distributes hate literature on many of them. But if
an inquirer asks for more information about a particular
organization, CAN will eagerly refer the inquirer to their
``experts'' on the particular organization. The
``experts'' are deprogrammers, who, for a fee, will arrange
a kidnapping/deprogramming. A typical ``deprogramming''
fee is $20,000. 
   Cynthia Kisser has personally referred callers to
Galen Kelly as CAN's ``expert'' on LaRouche. 
   A critical element in CAN's deprogramming operations
is maintaining a continuous barrage of its hate propaganda
in the major media. If CAN succeeds in creating a hostile
environment around a particular target, that limits or
mitigates the reaction if they get caught. Such an effect
can certainly be seen in the case of the December 1992
Kidnappers, Inc. trial in Virginia. 
   There has also been no shortage of credulous
journalists who will do CAN's bidding. Former Loudoun
County Sheriff's Lt. Don Moore referred to this type of
operation with respect to the political movement around
Lyndon LaRouche, as ``busting the covey.'' Patricia Lynch,
a former NBC reporter who produced several TV slanders
against LaRouche in the mid-1980s, testified that
Priscilla Coates, the head of CAN in the mid-1980s, was a
major source for her stories. Moore had regular contacts
with reporters in Washington, D.C., Loudoun County, Va.,
and Philadelphia. 
   In any case, the arrest of Newbold Smith, Kelly,
Moore, and Point was not the first time that CAN had to
disavow illegality by its members. In October 1990, the
Rev. Michael Rokos, an Episcopal priest, who was then
president of CAN, resigned after it became publicly known
that he had a sexual preference for young boys. 
   At that time, news stories broke in the {Baltimore
Sun} and elsewhere that Rokos had been arrested in July
1982 for soliciting sex with a Baltimore vice squad
officer posing as a minor. According to an affidavit from
arresting officer Joseph G. Wyatt, Rokos solicited him,
saying, ``I want you to tie me up, put clothespins on my
nipples, and make me suck your dick.'' 
   While hiding his perverted criminal past, Rokos spoke
before law enforcement and civic groups slandering
LaRouche. He portrayed himself as an expert on ``political
cults'' and ``Satanism.'' Rokos also fraudulently
portrayed himself as the chaplain for the Maryland State
Police. 
   Another embarrassment CAN suffered was the defection
of ``cult deprogrammer'' Gary Scarff. In November 1991, Scarff
told a Los Angeles press conference that he had falsely
claimed to be a survivor of the 1978 mass suicide by the
People's Temple followers of the Rev. Jim Jones in Guyana.
Scarff said he lied in order to raise ``hundreds of
thousands of dollars'' for the Cult Awareness Network.
According to a sworn affidavit, Scarff says he was associated
with CAN for ten years. His affidavit recounts his
participation in kidnappings and deprogrammings. During
the preparations for one deprogramming, Scarff says, he
was sodomized by deprogrammer Ray Brandyberry. According
to Scarff, Cynthia Kisser was actively involved in
organizing deprogrammings. He also accused CAN attorney
Ford Greene of drug abuse and homosexuality. 

           - Helen Overington: a case study -
   Sometimes a CAN deprogramming does not need the use
of thugs to forcibly kidnap someone. In those cases, CAN
uses other forms of pressure and intimidation to break the
target's beliefs. An example of this is the case of Helen
Overington. 
   Helen Overington is a former financial and active
political supporter of the LaRouche movement. When
LaRouche associate Rochelle Ascher was convicted on
securities violations in 1989, and given a barbaric
86-year sentence by a Virginia jury (later reduced to 10
years by the judge), Mrs. Overington wrote a letter to the
judge, Carleton Penn, vigorously denouncing the sentence.
But one year later, after being subjected to strong family
pressure and intensive sessions with CAN deprogrammers,
Mrs. Overington withdrew her support. 
   Pressure was brought on Mrs. Overington because her
daughters, Mary Rotz and Peggy Weller, and her son, John
Overington, opposed her political views, and wanted her
money. 
   Mrs. Overington's children first called the Virginia
Attorney General's Office and spoke with Assistant
Attorney General John Russell, who would later give false
testimony in the Kidnappers, Inc. case against government
witness Doug Poppa; Mrs. Overington's children also spoke
with Russell's investigator, Virginia State Police agent
C.D. Bryant. 
   Bryant later testified in court that he referred the
family to Mira Lansky Boland, the LaRouche case officer
for the Anti-Defamation League, because the family
believed Mrs. Overington had been ``brainwashed.'' Boland
in turn put the family in touch with CAN. 
   Soon, Mrs. Overington's children moved her from her
apartment in Baltimore, where she had been living on her
own, to a house next to her daughter's in Pennsylvania,
where she found herself under virtual house arrest. She
was worked on by Boland, then-CAN president Rev. Michael
Rokos, and Bryant, who all told her lies, slanders, and
half-truths about LaRouche and his associates. Mrs.
Overington resisted the pressure for some days, refusing
to believe the lies. She later told the news media that
her family had to work on her pretty hard before she would
believe she had been ``brainwashed'' when she supported
LaRouche. 
   In a January 1991 article in {Woman's Day} magazine,
Helen Overington described her political disagreements
with her family: ``When I tried to talk politics with my
children, they'd say, `Oh, Mom, you really don't believe
that stuff, do you?' or `Oh, Mom, you've been reading all
that conservative literature again.' Especially Peggy, the
most liberal. She finally told me, `Look, Mom, we can't
discuss these things. We just don't agree.'|'' 
   In an interview with an investigator, Peggy
Overington Weller said her mother was deprogrammed with
the help of CAN. 
   The Overington children then teamed up with Newbold
Smith to organize and fund the ``LaRouche Victims Support
Group,'' which specifically targets supporters of LaRouche.
The group has a special phone number in CAN's office so
that callers can be referred to Kelly and other
``experts'' on LaRouche. 
   Once Mrs. Overington had been ``deprogrammed,'' her
family tried to use her to extort money from Rochelle
Ascher, threatening to testify against Ascher in a criminal
proceeding if Ascher didn't pay Overington some money. The
family hired the Harrisburg law firm of McNees Wallace
which had worked with the ADL and CAN in a previous case.
When Ascher's attorney exposed the extortion attempt,
McNees Wallace dropped out of the case. 
   The Overingtons also sought revenge by launching a
national media campaign using journalists sympathetic to
CAN and the ADL, like Pat Lynch of NBC. John Overington, a
West Virginia state legislator, sent CAN's hate literature
to every state legislator in the country, seeking to
harass LaRouche supporters through instigating bogus legal
proceedings. Overington also proposed legislation which
would effectively outlaw political fundraising. 

            - The MK-Ultra mind controllers -
   CAN's theories of the psychology of mind control are
rooted in the CIA's mind control project, MK-Ultra. The
MK-Ultra project came out of the British Tavistock
Institute's studies of Nazi social control techniques.
After World War II, up through the 1960s and 1970s, the
CIA and U.S. military agencies funnelled money through
research foundations and universities to study the various
effects of torture, brain surgery, hypnosis, sensory
deprivation, and hallucinogenic drugs on individuals.
These experiments were seeking to perfect methods of mind
control. In many cases, the subjects were not volunteers,
but were given drugs and otherwised tortured without their
permission. 
   Many of the CIA's pioneer experimenters from the
MK-Ultra project are today board members and advisers to
the Cult Awareness Network and the American Family
Foundation. 
   For example, Dr. Louis Jolyon West received CAN's
1990 Leo J. Ryan Award for ``extraordinary courage,
tenacity and perseverance in the battle against tyranny
over the mind of man.'' Tyranny over the mind of man is
certainly Dr. West's stock in trade. Over the course of 30
years, West has experimented on the minds of veterans,
prisoners, alcoholics, and drug addicts with
hallucinogenic drugs, electroshock, isolation, and small
group behavior-control techniques. 
   In 1977, Dr. West was exposed on the front page of
the {New York Times} as being funded by the CIA to perform
experiments in mind destruction using LSD, as part of the
MK-Ultra project. In John Marks's book {The Search for the
Manchurian Candidate,} West was exposed as a pioneer of
LSD and mind control experiments funded by the CIA.
Despite these and other damaging stories, West continues
to be held in high regard among CAN's members, and is a
frequent lecturer and oft-cited researcher. West is also
an advisory board member of the American Family
Foundation. 
   Trained in group dynamics at the British Tavistock
Institute, the ``mother'' agency for most of the postwar
Anglo-American intelligence and ``dirty tricks''
apparatus, West set out to manipulate
group behavior with hallucinogenic drugs. 
   He ran ``field studies'' in the Haight-Ashbury
district of San Francisco in the early 1960s to study the
effect of drugs on youths, at a time when the hallucinogen
LSD was making it into the ``Bohemian'' groups via the
numerous MK-Ultra experiments. 
   West studied how drugs could be used ``as adjuncts to
interpersonal manipulation or assault.'' He studied the
use of drugs in controlled groups, such as Charles
Manson's killer cult. He wrote that the government could
supply drugs to control a group or a select portion of the
population. ``This method, foreseen by Aldous Huxley in
{Brave New World} (1932), has the governing element
employing drugs selectively to manipulate the governed in
various ways,'' West wrote. ``In fact, it may be more
convenient and perhaps even more economical to keep the
growing numbers of chronic drug users (especially of the
hallucinogens) fairly isolated and also out of the labor
market, with its millions of unemployed. To society, the
communards with their hallucinogenic drugs are probably
less bothersome--and less expensive--if they are living
apart, than if they are engaging in alternative modes of
expressing their alienation, such as active, organized,
vigorous political protest and dissent.'' 
   To further his studies in LSD, he collaborated with
Age of Aquarius guru Aldous Huxley, the British pioneer
promoter of LSD and Satanism. Huxley praised West in a
1957 letter to Dr. Humphrey Osmond, the man who coined the
phrase ``psycho-delic'' (later changing it to
``psychedelic'' to take away any connotation of madness).
Huxley wrote: ``Dr. L.J. West, of the Medical School of
University of Oklahoma, was here a few weeks ago--an
extremely able young man, I think. His findings are that
mescalinized subjects are almost unhypnotizable. I
suggested to him that he should hypnotize his people
before they took LSD.'' 
   After America's ghettoes exploded in violence in the
late 1960s, West promoted chemical castration and the
implanting of electrodes into people's brains as a means
of controlling violent behavior and political activity. In
1973, West proposed the creation of a Center for the Study
and Reduction of Violence. Among the programs planned were
genetic, biochemical, and neurophysiological studies of
violent individuals, including prison inmates and
``hyperkinetic'' children. West wrote to the California
director of health that a Nike missile base, which the
Army was turning over to civilian use, would be a perfect
setting for his center. ``Such a Nike missile base is
located in the Santa Monica Mountains, within a
half-hour's drive of the Neuropsychiatric Institute. It is
accessible but relatively remote. The site is securely
fenced.... Comparative studies could be carried out there,
in an isolated but convenient location, of experimental or
model programs for the alteration of undesirable
behavior.'' 
   Although West's Violence Center was never approved,
he received millions of dollars in research funding for
the study of gangs, violence, alcohol and drug abuse. 
   West became an ``expert witness'' for several court
cases, including the Patty Hearst Symbionese Liberation
Army kidnapping case; and he interviewed Jack Ruby, who
murdered alleged John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey
Oswald, to evaluate Ruby's sanity. During the Hearst
trial, West gave away the ``family secrets'' about
brainwashing, when he said ``perhaps the most insidious
domestic threat posed by `brainwashing' is the tendency of
Americans to believe in its power.'' 

            - Who's who among brainwashers -
   @sb^{{Dr. Margaret Singer}} is considered
the {grande dame} of the Cult Awareness Network. Singer,
who is also an advisory board member of the American
Family Foundation, got her start as an Army psychiatrist,
studying Korean War veterans and prisoners of war. She
worked in projects with Drs. Edgar Schein and Albert
Biderman, both exposed in Marks's {The Search for the
Manchurian Candidate} as running the parallel military
MK-Ultra programs. Singer's writings are also cited by the
CIA front, the Society for the Study of Human Ecology,
Inc. 
   Together with Dr. West, she ran a survival and
torture-resistance study for Air Force Intelligence at
Stead Air Force Base in 1966. They helped devise a program
of ``survival training,'' by putting a group of airmen in
the desert, where they were forced to scrounge and eat
lizards to stay alive. They were kept in isolation boxes
overnight. The results of this experiment were a failure.
The training was so severe that it made the men weaker instead
of stronger. 
   Also working with West, Singer studied the
Haight-Ashbury hippie drug ``culture.'' She interviewed
hundreds upon hundreds of drug-crazed hippies, and
examinined their LSD-induced religious experiences in
order to build psychological profiles on them. 
   Singer has expended a great amount of energy trying
to give credence to her version of ``brainwashing,'' and
speaks regularly on the subject at CAN's annual
conferences. However, her theories have been discredited
by both the American Psychological Association and the
American Sociological Association. 
   Singer holds herself out as an expert witness for
legal proceedings involving what she calls ``mind control
or coercive persuasion.'' 
   In a 1990 federal court case in California, Singer
was not allowed to testify as an expert witness on ``mind
control.'' In his ruling rejecting Singer's expertise,
U.S. Judge Lowell Jensen said, ``The evidence
before the court ... shows that neither the APA nor the
ASA has endorsed the views of Dr. Singer.... Her proffered
testimony in this case has been challenged by the
scientific community on grounds of both scientific merit
and methodological rigor.'' 
   In another case, Judge Jensen stated,
``Significantly, the APA ultimately rejected the Singer
task force report on coercive persuasion when it was
submitted for consideration.'' 
   Frustrated at the failure to get the courts to adopt
her absurd theories, Singer and her cohort Dr. Richard
Ofshe filed a racketeering suit in 1992 against the
American Psychological Association and the American
Sociological Association for refusing to sanction her
work. 
   @sb^{{Dr. Robert Jay Lifton}} is noted for
his groundbreaking work on Nazi interrogation and torture
techniques. He is a favorite of CAN and the ADL, and is
often cited as an authority on mind manipulation. Lifton
analyzed Korean brainwashing techniques by studying
American prisoners of war and Korean War veterans. He was
named in John Marks's book as heading one of the CIA-run
MK-Ultra parallel programs for the Air Force. 
   Lifton worked with Dr. Singer and others at the
Walter Reed Army Medical Center on ``Chinese Communist
thought reform, the assault upon identity and belief.''
His book, {Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism,}
is the bible for those who believe in brainwashing.
Deprogramming victims frequently are forced to read
Lifton's writings during their ordeal. What Lifton
describes in his book as thought reform, is remarkably
similar to what CAN calls ``deprogramming.'' 
   He studied subjects who had been brainwashed in
Chinese Communist jails. The brainwashing succeeded
because the victims were forcibly detained, and subjected
to a selective use of physical force. The victim could
alleviate the physical pain by submitting to ``confession
and re-education.'' One of the subjects Lifton studied was
a Catholic priest who was forced to denounce his church to
relieve his suffering. 
   Compare Lifton's description of Chinese brainwashing
to a Galen Kelly deprogramming, for example, the woman
Kelly and Moore kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in May 1992.
The victim was forcibly detained. Kelly
told the woman that he had a whole slew of techniques from
drugs to various other methods, to force her to cooperate.
The situation would become progressively adverse, unless
the woman cooperated. 
   Lifton studied how to manipulate populations by fear
and guilt. His studies of the victims of Nazi Germany and
the Nazi doctors have been criticized for being overly
sympathetic to the Nazi doctors. Dr. Bruno Bettelheim
argued that Lifton went too far in ``understanding'' the Nazi
doctors. 
   @sb^{{Rabbi Maurice Davis}} is a member of the
CAN advisory board who works closely with Dr. John G.
Clark of Harvard in arranging ``deprogrammings.'' 
   Davis was an early sponsor of Galen Kelly, and
also
helped create cult leader Jim Jones by arranging for an
empty Indianapolis synagogue to house Jones's early
activities. Jones later moved to San Francisco, where he
founded the People's Temple. In 1978, after moving his
followers to Guyana, Jones led a mass suicide of his
followers after one of them murdered U.S. Rep. Leo
J. Ryan. The resulting publicity propelled the anti-cult
mafia into prominence. Patrician Ryan, the late
congressman's daughter, is now the president of CAN. 
   Davis worked in the MK-Ultra program at the U.S.
Public Health Service's prison in Lexington, Kentucky with
Dr. Harris Isbell, who was administering psychotropic
drugs to inmates. One subject was kept on LSD for 77 days. 
   @sb^{{Rabbi Arnold James Rudin}} and his wife
{{Marcia Rudin}} are leaders of the ``interreligious''
group within the Cult Awareness Network and the American
Family Foundation and frequent spokesmen for the
American Jewish Committee. Marcia Rudin is head of the
International Cult Education Project, a spinoff of the
B'nai B'rith. 
   Rudin was an Air Force chaplain stationed in Korea
and Japan in 1960-62. He participated in the formation of
the New Religions Movement in America, along with such
pioneers of LSD-induced ``religious experiences,'' as Dr.
Timothy Leary's sidekick Richard Alpert (now Baba Ram
Das). The New Religions Movement, centered at the Graduate
Theological Union, Berkeley, California, was a project
which spawned numerous ``religions,'' New Age belief
systems, and helped revive ``old religions,'' such as
witchcraft and Satanism. 
   @sb^{{Herbert Rosedale,}} president of the American
Family Foundation, is a partner in the New York law firm
of Parker, Flatau, Chapin and Klimpl, chief representative of
Israeli-owned Bank Leumi and Bank Hapoalim. Rosedale sent
a letter praising Galen Kelly, to help get Kelly out of
jail after his Kidnappers, Inc. arrest. 

            - Where does CAN get its money? -
   The Cult Awareness Network is incorporated in
California and lists 2421 W. Pratt Blvd., Chicago, Illinois as
its address, but this is just a mail drop. CAN's real
headquarters is at 301 East Main St., Barrington, Ill. 
   CAN has tax-exempt status from the IRS, and lists its
annual income at around $250,000. The associated American
Family Foundation reports about the same amount of
income. The funding for CAN and the AFF comes from
families who hire their deprogrammers, and from donations
from establishment foundations. The Crestlea Foundation of
Wilmington, Delaware, which is the personal foundation of
E. Newbold and Margaret du Pont Smith, parents of intended
kidnap/deprogramming victim Lewis du Pont Smith,
contributes over $10,000 a year to CAN. 
   The American Family Foundation has been funded, for
the most part, by a handful of top Wall Street family
foundations. Among them are the Scaife Family Foundation,
the J.M. Foundation, and the Pew Foundation. In recent
years, the San Francisco-based Swig Foundation has
provided crucial support. Foundation trustee Melvin Swig
is a national commission member of the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL), and a national executive board member of the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). 
   The single largest financial promoters of the AFF for
the past decade have been the Bodman Foundation and the
Achellis
Foundation. The Bodman and Achellis foundations combined
to grant over a half-million dollars to the AFF during the first decade of its
existence. The two separate foundations have overlapping
trustees and officers and are both housed in the New York
City law offices of Morris and McVeigh, which also acts as
general counsel for both foundations. Both the Bodman and
Achellis Foundations and the Morris and McVeigh law firm
are chock-full of New York-based intelligence and banking
families, who generally avoid the political limelight,
preferring to shape national, political, and cultural
policy through private foundation grants. 


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The above article was from Executive Intelligence Review V20, #12.

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         John Covici
          covici@ccs.covici.com