Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 22:15:21 -0500
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From: Kenn Thomas <skthoma@umslvma.umsl.edu>
Subject: Re: Court records WR vs USA
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu

>Kenn Thomas wrote a fantastic article on how to use the Freedom of Information
>Act and the National Archives. He used his research into Reich's case as an
>example. Thanks Kenn! (Will appear in Flatland #13, now at the printers.)

You just said that flatter me out of lurker mode.

As long as we're doing shameless self-promotion, I would like to note that 
Jim's articles on Reich and Michael Straight, and how all this relates to 
Bill Clinton's conspiratological mentor, Carroll Quigley, and a lot of other 
interesting writing besides, appear in Popular Alienation, the new 
Steamshovel Press anthology. It's a good book to get an overview on 
conspiracy issues, and it's available from Flatland.

I just finished R. A. Wilson's Cosmic Trigger III and would like to 
recommend it here because of its small section on Reich. In addition to 
giving a thorough plug from Jim DeMeo's great work (not just a passing 
reference), it compares Reich to Tim Leary (Rest In Future Peace). The 
well-taken point is that it is illegal to replicate the research of both, 
although privately their work is highly regarded in the psychological 
community. He also mentions, however, that 18 scientists protested the 
burning of Reich's books, but he does not cite a source. I checked 
Greenfield's book and couldn't find mention of this. Can anyone help me out? 
Is it in Sharaf?

Wilson also exposes Carl Sagan as the huckster he is in his attacks on 
Velikovsky.

(Flatland can get you a copy of Cosmic Trigger III also.)

On the topic of the court documents:

I understand that the briefs were filed with the First District Court in 
Boston, which routinely turned them over to the National Archives - New 
England Division, 380 Tupleo Road, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154. It's case 
#5160 and consists of 754 pages. They told me it would cost 25 cents a page, 
a total $188.50. Checks should be made out to the National Archives Trust 
Fund. I am reluctant to spend the money because I have a copy of Contact 
With Space and even the Conspiracy! compendium, and like everyone else, I'm 
not sure what else, if anything, is in Red Thread. It's odd that Reich filed 
this stuff to keep the public record straight and here in 1996 it's still a 
bog. 

Which brings to mind an unstated point about mismanagement at the museum: if 
anyone else ever does decide to publish Contact With Space because of its 
public status, I would strongly suggest that they pay the museum a royalty. 
I don't like the decisions they make either, but it is Reich's old place and 
I'd like to see it survive until Reich's position in scientific history is 
restored, or at least until better management comes along. The biggest thing 
on my mind is the possibility that the archives that WRITF sits on contain 
Creation, Reich's final manuscript. Eden's
book suggest that drafts may have been smuggled out or prison; Reich was 
working on it before he went in. That it was not among his things in prison 
is a strong suggestion to me that it was confiscated by authorities and may 
have been
the reason he was killed.

kt
Kenn Thomas



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