Blog: Spy v. Spy (Part I) - 2011-04-19

Spy v. Spy (Part I) April 19, 2011, Jonny Jacobsen, Infinite Complacency

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We know that Scientology and United States government agencies have spied on each other over the years: what is less clear is whether they ever collaborated.

In his cheerfully cynical memoirs, The Game Player , former CIA operative Miles Copeland mentions a scheme put into action in the early-to-mid 1950s by colleague Bob Mandlestam called "Occultism in High Places (OHP).

The idea was simple: given that some world leaders had the habit of consulting astrologists and other "occult" advisers, they needed to ensure that the ones they consulted were those who had been properly primed by the Agency.