QUOTE(Jan Klimkowski @ Jun 20 2008, 06:23 PM)

I do think occult knowledge may have been involved right from the beginning of Bluebird and other covert projects. However, my strong suspicion is that this occult knowledge came from the Western Magical Tradition - as epitomised by the Ordo Templis Orientis of known spy Aleister Crowley, and rocket scientist Jack Parsons - and the Thule Gesellschaft which was the occult inspiration of the Nazi cult and its "philosophical" wing, the Ahnenerbe-SS.
I very agree with your analysis Jan. An additional consideration is that Crowley's O. T. O. was a German/Austrian Order founded in the mid-late 1890's that was later brought to prominence by Crowley. Also, the nazi occult order, Thule Gesellschaft, was linked to Crowley's O. T. O.
According to L Ron Hubbard Jnr., his father received the complete Thule Gesellscahft teachings directly, via courier. L Ron Jnr., makes no bones, nor pulls any punches in stating that his father's creation, Scientology, was based exclusively, not just on occult techniques, but specifically the satanic/black magic variant of the occult -- as also transmitted to him directly, in this case by Jack Parsons, the head of Crowley's
Church of Thelema in Pasadena, the Agape Lodge. Parsons, as we know, was the leading light of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Leading NASA movers and shakers were former Nazi scientists.
According to Peter Levenda, in 2005 at a conference in Santa Clara, California, Daniel Sheehan stated his understanding that the secret society that is operating behind the scenes in America and the rest of the world is the Thule Gesellscahft.
Since the earliest experiments in mind control appear to have begun in the "camps" of Nazi Germany during WWII on unwilling inmates, I suppose it should no longer come as a surprise that this tried and tested techniques would reappear in the US (and UK) after the war, and also to be perpetrated on unwilling and unwitting subjects.