Ryan Dube: Was CIA unwittingly infiltrated by Scientologists?

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Was CIA unwittingly infiltrated by Scientologists?


REALITY UNCOVERED's Ryan Dube latest blog post suggests the story behind the AVIARY "Core Story" of US government contact with an intelligence not of this Earth begins with L. Ron Hubbard and the inner teachings of Scientology.

In a piece titled "How Scientologists Created a Cult of the U.S. Government," Dube writes:

... in the 1970’s, the CIA was not averse to using Scientology auditing “technology” through the employment of high-level Scientology OTs. Keep in mind, these were guys where active members of a cult that was actively taking part in Intelligence warfare with the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies. Yet the top three guys running the SRI-CIA contract were, all three, high level Scientologists.

Never mind that the "guys running the SRI-CIA contract" were not the researchers at SRI but various persons at CIA Technical Services Division (TSD) including Sidney Gottlieb, Office of Research and Development (ORD), Office of Technical Services (OTS) and others from Life Sciences (CIA Science and Technology).

Dube appears so focused on the connection of key researchers at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) to Scientology that he completely overlooks the game of 'psychic (cold) warfare' CIA and KGB initiated at least ten or more years prior to the effort at SRI.

Dube continues: The CIA allowed these three Scientologists to spread this belief system created by the cult of Scientology, and allowed them to infect other personnel within the agency with this doctrine and these practices. These personnel in turn, as well as Swann himself, spread these techniques to other agencies as well as the military, such as the research and operations conducted at INSCOM, Fort Meade. A religion was born…except our government could legally practice it.

Dube rather naively appears to believe that the Intelligence Community overlooked the influence of Scientology on the belief systems of key persons involved in the CIA psychic research program.

A preliminary psychological examination of six key test subjects at SRI, released by CIA in the STAR GATE collection, noted:
When looked at from the point of view of psychopathology, the indicators both in projective and in objective testing do not appear to me to show marked trends, either for the six subjects taken together or for the subjects in each group ...

To elaborate, all six subjects tended to have high feminine scores on the masculinity-femininity scale of the M.M.P.I. ... Both the men and the women in this group of subjects tended to have high feminine scores. The trend is seen again in the vocational aptitude survey, the Strong Vocational Interest Blank, wherein all of the subjects tended to achieve high scores in music, art and writing, but particularly in writing was this consistent ... This pattern is common in people who tend to be introspective, to have a rich inner fantasy life, and in fact to refer that kind of expression of their emotions to interpersonal expression. The capacity to stand back from one's feelings, observe them, analyze them, even savor them, is common among artists and particularly among writers ... A tendency toward artistic interests, a rich fantasy life and an introversive style of emotional expression may be accidental in all of these six subjects. It may be characteristic of persons who are willing to participate in parapsychological studies. It may be characteristic of person's who have some extrasensory capacity, whether great or small, or it may relate to some other variable which happens to be common to these six subjects. At least four of the subjects in this study describe to me an interest in scientology and two of then indicate that they have been involved in the Church of Scientology for some time. This commonality may account for the similarity described above.

Clearly the CIA-contracted psychologists were aware of the influence of Scientology.

Dube rapidly moves towards his conclussion that the government had been infiltrated and overrun by persons emersed in the doctrine of Scientology. He naively writes:
Little did the CIA know that they had just allowed an infectious virus into their inner sactum.

However, the historical record of the US government clearly shows that CIA knew exactly what they were dealing with.

Indeed, it was CIA's Technical Service Division (TSD) that covertly experimented on unwitting test subjects under MKULTRA and related mind-control research efforts beginning nearly twenty years prior to funding part of the SRI program.