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From the Archives: Aum Shinrikyo to Cult Researcher James T. Richardson

by plasticscreen, posted in From the Archives, True Crime, Corruption & Deep Politics

Courtesy of the James T. Richardson special collection at San Diego State University, some files related to Aum Shinrikyo, sent from the group’s New York chapter to Richardson in 1995. Also included a paper on the “new neo-religions” of which Aum and Happy Science are only a couple of the politically motivated/activated new religious movements. With Halloween coming up going to try to do at least one video on a “spooky” subject from the rare docs I’ve been collecting over the past year while working on the Kai the Hitchhiker book.

Up next? Expect some MK-Ultra researcher Dr. Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West connection to the rise of the Satanic Panic in the late 80s.

In the meantime, the book about Aum I mentioned was Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura and keep your eyes open for the US release of Aganai (The Cult Leader and Me) by Aum sarin attack survivor Atsushi Sakahara. The documentary A (1998) and A2 (2001) are currently available to view online, including at YouTube.

Speaking of New Religious Movements, I met with Happy Science last month and bought a couple books. The embedded video below is from the Manila International Book Fair directly skip to 17 minutes and 15 seconds to jump to the spot where I get to the Happy Science booth. Keep scrolling for the Aum documentaries A and A2.



A (1998)

A2 (2001)

The Moonies, The CIA and the Shinzo Abe Assassination

by plasticscreen, posted in True Crime, Corruption & Deep Politics

Most people are aware of the domestic terror events of 1995 in Tokyo that were perpetrated by the Aum Shinrikyo cult. Not as many, however, are aware of that group’s ties to Japan’s internal intelligence and military or of how Aum was just one of many cults that arose in Japan especially from the 1980s on. The Unification Church of Reverend Sun Myung Moon is still dealing with a schism but the original church has definite ties to the Korean CIA (KCIA) which was created by the US CIA and has an important role in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Japan’s deep state.