Presidency 1980 - FTP Directory Listing

Ian Cleveland, whose expertise isturning society against science.• Dennis Meadows: author ofthe Club of Rome's original reportcalling for reducing the world'spopulation by two-thirds.• Theodore Roszak: one of thearchitects of the counterculture.Roszak just published a book, Person/Planet:The Creative Disintegrationof Industrial Society,which praises death as "the core ofthe human experience."• Willis Harman: based at StanfordResearch Institute, Harmanled the study group that producedthe Institute's 1974 report, TheChanging Images of Man. Thatstudy, which is the conference'sworking document, details howmankind's behavior can bechanged from industrialism into anonmaterial "spiritualism."• William Whitsun: Director ofmilitary and defense policy divisionof the Congressional ResearchService, Whitsun is now workingfull-time on injecting the Aquarians'proposals into the 1980 presidentialcampaign. A controller ofCalifornia's Zen Buddhist governorJerry Brown and a backer ofJohn Anderson, Whitsun recentlytold a reporter that "There is awhole new line of technology comingup which could render defenseweapons obsolete. Consider this:The targeting mechanisms for ourICBMs are on magnetic tape. Byan active mind, Uri Geller (theIsraeli-born psychic who bendsspoons with "mind waves") hasalready wiped out information onsuch tapes. What happens if, as awar is initiated, you discoveryou've lost the guidance programsbecause of the enemy wiping outthe key parts of the tape?" Whitsun'sproposal that the UnitedStates develop "psychic weapons"has been taken up by the Pentagon.And this is only for starters!—Kathleen M. MurphyMere "information," spiced with mindaltering chemicals, will create theBrave New World, in the vision of thezero-growth kooks behind the Torontoconference. Left: the cover of theirpromotional magazine. Above, top tobottom: conspirators Aurelio Peccei,Dennis Meadows and Willis Harman.July 1980 / War on Drugs 5