Wilhelm
Reich
and
the Cold War
by Jim Martin
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2000
Winner
of
the Hochberg Award
for
Historical Research and Outstanding Journalism
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Lost Knowledge.
Something happened to me recently that made me pause and think
about the value of information and knowledge, and what it means
when it's lost forever.
While driving to the airport for a trip
to visit my mother, I stopped in San Francisco for a bite to
eat. It was pouring rain, in the early darkness of winter. I
only wanted to quickly park, jump out of the car and duck into
a pub called Tommy's Joynt on Van Ness for some food.
Twenty minutes later, we discovered that
our car had been broken into and that my luggage and lap-top
computer had been stolen.
Not being a clothes horse, my wardrobe
could easily be replaced, but losing my lap-top, with all my
e-mails, my personal phone numbers and addresses of friends,
and most importantly, the book I have been working on for five
years, on Wilhelm Reich and the Cold Warthis was a shock.
Fortunately, I had the book backed up elsewhere,
but it made me think: what a great loss it would be, not only
to me personally, but to history, if my research was to become
lost, stolen, or buried.
That was the late Dr. Wilhelm Reich's greatest
fear as well. In the face of near-universal opposition to his
work, Reich spent his last years working furiously on basic science,
publishing books at a rate of one or two a year, and fighting
a legal battle against malignant social forces. They eventually
succeeded in burning his books (unconstitutionally) and throwing
him in prison where he died, but they never succeeded in destroying
his basic discoveries.
A Conspiracy of Dunces.
Ignorance is the greatest handicap; there have been many points
in human history when knowledge has been lost, sometimes forever.
How were the pyramids built? What did Native Americans use for
birth control? We may never know. There is a dark side to ignorance,
too: along with the willful denial of the truth so ever-present
today, there is an official culture of secrecy, born in the post-W.W.II
era, called the national security state. This conspiracy to keep
the public ignorant is inextricably bound with the real history
of the life and times of Wilhelm Reich in America.
This meditation of mine, triggered by the
theft of my computer, convinced me that I must complete my history
of Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War as soon as possible. Conducting
a course of research as vast as this subject requires, without
the support of a major publisher, has drained my financial resources.
I've decided to appeal to the world-wide community of serious
student of Reich and orgonomy, and offer a hardbound, private
first edition of the book. Signed by the author, the edition
with be limited to 500 copies. It will be a minimum of 500 pages,
full of photographs, with appendix material, index and documentary
evidence.
The book will be an entirely new history
of Reich and his times in America, during the period 1939-1957.
Of course, there will be a complete overview of his life, but
this book will examine, for the first time, the context of world
history in which Reich conducted his affairs. I'll be including
all of the relevant articles and interviews that have previously
been published in Flatland Magazine, as well as completely new
interviews and archival material.
Here's what some early previewers of
my book have to say:
"I thought your documentary
proof of how the Stalin-headed conspiracy used character analysis
negatively was a most important insight. Altogether excellent
research. Congratulations."
-Eva Reich, MD
"Jim Martin's thorough investigation
into the mysterious life-and-times of Wilhelm Reich is a compelling
and fascinating read, also bringing together many new elements
about the secret history of the Cold War."
-Dick Russell, best-selling author of The Man Who Knew Too
Much
"One of the most eagerly awaited
histories of one of the most significant figures of the twentieth
century, Wilhelm Reich. Amassing a great deal of new information
from previously untapped historical sources, Martin not only
illuminates the life of Reich but puts the Cold War years into
an entirely new perspective."
-Kenn Thomas, Steamshovel Press publisher
"Jim Martin has done an excellent
job in digging up fascinating facts supporting the more remarkable
claims of Wilhelm Reich as made during his last years, filling
in details about his Tucson desert-greening experiments, his
UFO observations, and so much more. Martin also sheds light on
the dark side of Reich's detractors during that same period,
exposing the people who publicly threw dirt and stimulated the
FDA attack which led to the burning of his books and Reich's
death in prison. They were, just as Reich claimed, deeply committed
Communists (with a capital "C"), possibly even paid
Soviet agents as well. Some have chosen to view Reich's work
and claims during his last years as evidence of delusion or paranoia
-- Martin provides additional proof that Reich was correct."
-James DeMeo, director of the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory,
author of Saharasia; the 4000 bce Origins of Child Abuse,
Sex-Repression, Warfare and Social Violence in the Deserts of
the Old World (1998).
"Jim Martin's tenaciously thorough
research and lucid engaging style combine to offer a fascinating
insight into the latter years of Reich's life, a period sadly
neglected by many other biographers. His meticulous digging into
Reich's labyrinthine past has turned up some startling connections
with other historical figures (eg Kim Philby) and offers a desperately
needed fresh insight into the complex issue of Reich's downfall
in the 1950s. Recommended."
-Jon East, British film & television producer/director.
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.
Survey a comprehensive chronology of the
"Reichian century" (1897-1997) with intriguing stream
of events which set Reich's life in a new perspective.
Weather Modification device
developed by the U.S. Air Force in the early sixties and named
the "Cloudbuster."
If you've enjoyed Flatland Magazine over
the past ten years, I assure you that the book will read like
a 500-page Flatland.
It's been nearly twenty years since a major
book on Wilhelm Reich has been published. Yet, Reich's ideas
and discoveries are more relevant now than ever. With your support,
we can shift the public debate away from the slander and disinformation
about Reich's work, while refocusing the discussion to the facts.
Warm regards,
Jim Martin,
publisher, Flatland
P.S. Imagine the cold chill I felt, as
I stood there in the rain in the dark city, pounding the hood
of my car, realizing my computer had been stolen. It was nearly
worthless as a machine - the disk-drive didn't work, the keyboard
was sticky, and the model so outdated that the damn thing couldn't
have fetched more than one tiny rock of crack. But the information
inside it, if lost irretrievably, was priceless to me and to
others. Luckily, I backed-up the data. I was lucky that time.
But in the larger picture, will I be able to preserve and defend
this record? You can make sure it isn't lost. The bastards have
been trying to kill something they never understood for fifty
years now, it's time to set the record straight.
Wilhelm Reich and the Cold War
by Jim Martin
now in print: 500-copy limited edition,
signed and numbered by the author, with photographs, chronology,
interviews, bibliography, index, etc.
hardcover, 6" x 9" - 562 pages.
$150.00 postpaid worldwide.
