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Subject: Should Clinton resign over the "Primary Colors" Cultgate national security scandal?

Date: 1998/02/28

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The movie Primary Colors, due out March 20th, depicts a southern

governor who lies, seduces women, and is running for president, and was

actually modeled after Clinton. Actor John Travota, Scientologist and

celebrity spokesman for the cult, is playing the Clinton character in

the film.

In its March issue George Magazine says John Travolta went to Washington

just before he began filming his lead role in Primary Colors. Travolta

told the magazine, "The next day, I met with Clinton. He told me: `Your

program sounds great. More than that, I'd really love to help you with

your issue over in Germany with Scientology.' I was waiting for the

seduction that I had heard so much about. I thought, `Well, how could he

ever seduce me? And after we talked, I thought, `Bingo!' He did it.

Scientology is the one issue that really matters to me."

According to George Magazine, "[Clinton] went to the extraordinary

length of assigning his national security advisor, Sandy Berger, to be

the administration's Scientology point man." Berger even briefed

Travolta as he would a senior senator. George also reported that

compared to the book it is based upon, the film is much more sympathetic

to the Clinton character. A New York Post article quoted Travolta as

saying, "You have to be dead not see that the film favors Clinton. More

than anything, it promotes what a decent person he is." [2/12/98,

"Travolta Admits Bill Used Sects Appeal to Woo Him"].

Reconstructing who manipulated who and how Primary Colors was altered is

interesting, but the real concern about this probable quid pro quo

involves Clinton's altering US foreign policy to improve his image.

For months after the Clinton-Travolta meeting, the State Department

uncharacteristically chided Germany in human rights reports and public

forums for Germany's treatment of Scientology. The Meet the Press

television show recently addressed the Cultgate controversy in an

interview with national security advisor Sandy Berger.

Tim Russert asked Berger, "Did you or the president hope to influence

Mr. Travolta, and make `Primary Colors' more favorable to the

president?" and "But isn't it unusual for the national security advisor

to brief an actor from Hollywood?" Berger told Russert, "Uh, it sounds

to me, Tim, like you're getting, you're getting uh, developing your own

conspiracy theories here."

Cultgate vs. Lewinsky: The difference is national security

In the Lewinsky affair, the President may be lying on the issue of sex

to protect himself and his family from personal embarrassment. In

Cultgate the president may be jeopardizing international relations with

one of our strongest allies by trading national security favors for

personal gain, and in the process protecting a dangerous political cult.

To understand the seriousness of Cultgate, it is necessary to review

some of the vast public record on Scientology.

a.) Scientology's headquarters in Los Angeles was the object of the

biggest FBI raid in U.S. history, involving almost 150 agents.

In this raid the FBI discovered many secret policy documents authored by

Scientology's founder laying out Scientology's real political goals. For

example: "The vital targets on which we must invest most of our time

are: (T1) Depopularizing the enemy to the point of obliteration. (T2)

Taking over the control or allegiance of the heads or proprietors of all

news media. (T3) Taking over the control or allegiance of key political

figures. (T4) Taking over the control or allegiance of those who monitor

international finance... Intelligence is not concentrating on what they

should be - the WFMH [World Federation of Mental Health], the NAMH

[National Association of Mental Health] These are the groups I want

destroyed." [Scientology's Secret Hubbard Communications Office Policy

Letter, 1/14/69].

Other secret documents found by the FBI indicate that Scientology uses

its status as a religion as a facade to hide its true political and

commercial objectives.

b.) Another widely-available public document clearly stated the dangers

of Scientology. A U.S. federal prosecutor's memorandum to a judge urged

stiff jail sentences for nine top leaders of Scientology who had pleaded

guilty to burglaries, forgeries, infiltration, obstruction of justice,

and other crimes against more than 100 U.S. federal agencies including

the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense, and the IRS.

The

memo stated, "The crime committed by these defendants is of a breadth

and scope previously unheard of. No building, office, desk, or file was

safe from their snooping and prying. No individual or organization was

free from their despicable conspiratorial minds. The tools of their

trade were miniature transmitters, lock picks, secret codes, forged

credentials and any other device they found necessary to carry out their

conspiratorial schemes." [U.S. v. Heldt et al. 688 F.2d. 1238. (D.C. Cir

1980) Cert. Den. 456 U.S. 926 (1982)].

How US federal agencies, even intelligence agencies, have been caught

so off-guard by this cult's covert operation is baffling. Especially as

more and more stories are aired describing Scientology's mysterious cult

member deaths, outrageous free speech and human rights abuses, bizarre

UFO cosmology, and para-military structure. Time Magazine's cover

article [5/6/91] quoted a cult expert who described Scientology as 'the

most ruthless, the most classically terroristic, the most litigious and

the most lucrative cult the country has ever seen." It is frightening

that such a politically dangerous, extremist cult could devise a plan to

leverage the US President into shaping foreign policy according to its

Machiavellian ends without our federal intelligence or state agencies

interceding.

Cultgate is a serious national security issue because:

1.) Cultgate may indicate a critical information breakdown in the US

intelligence community, the State Department, and the White House

administration to protect the president and the nation from dangerous

covert operations (i.e., Clinton should have been made aware of

Scientology's dangers. Whether or not he was is unknown).

2.) At the end of World War II, the Allies forced provisions into the

new German democratic constitution for enhanced surveillance and

special counter-measures to prevent extremist groups from growing in

Germany and throwing the world into another social catastrophe.

3.) Above and beyond what Germany's Ally-created constitution compels

the nation to do, Germany has a "never again" responsibility to the

world to closely monitor extremist political groups, just as the US

secretly monitors extremist, neo-Nazi or Ku Klux Klan-type groups.

How to begin to cleaning up the Cultgate national security mess

1.) If the President was not forewarned of Scientology's dangers by the

US intelligence community, the State Department, or his administration,

these agencies owe a public apology to Clinton and the American people.

Clearly, this would indicate a breakdown in critical national security

issues.

2.) The State Department should formally apologize to Germany over

Clinton's biased criticism of Germany's treatment of Scientology.

3.) If it turns out that Clinton was uninformed on national security

issues and used Travolta for personal gain, while Travolta used Clinton

to leverage Scientology's covert operations on Germany. In that case,

Clinton owes the citizens of both the US and Germany an immediate public

apology and explanation. The country can probably forgive

"Let's-make-a-deal-Bill" if he was truly uninformed by the proper

intelligence agencies as to Scientology's real nature, motives, and

history. But only if he personally comes forward quickly to clear up

this situation.

4.) Citizens worldwide should boycott Primary Colors for John Travolta's

involvement in a covert Scientology operation to leverage the president

of the world's most powerful country on national security issues. The

last time a cult tried to manipulate a movie, the Moonie Inchon movie

became a box office disaster despite big names and big money. Promoters

of Primary Colors already appear to be working heavily on Cultgate

damage control. Maybe they will rush back to edit scenes to undo the

Scientology-Travolta-Clinton whitewash.

5.) If Clinton WAS informed about Scientology's history as an extremist

political cult, and he bargained his influence for a positive portrayal

in Primary Colors, he has falsely accused a long-time US ally and traded

the US's best interests for his personal gain. If this is true, it is

easy to understand why some are already calling for an immediate

resignation.

According to the New York Post, Congressman and member of the Foreign

Affairs Committee Michael Forbes is calling for a hearing to bring John

Travolta, Scientology officials, and Secretary of State Madeleine

Albright before Congress to testify about the Cultgate deal between the

actor and the President. At issue for Congress is the fact that,

according to a Washington insider, "A resolution was put before Congress

last year to press Germany to recognize the Scientologists. It didn't

pass. So when the Clinton Administration lobbied Germany on behalf of

the cult, they acted against the express wishes of Congress."

Finally, let's hope for the sake of national security that something has

been learned from Cultgate. In the future if a cult like Aum Shin Rikyo

imitates Scientology's successful leverage of the president, maybe the

State Department will not be ordered to tell the Japanese government to

lighten up on its surveillance of the dangerous cult.

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For more on the story behind the story and all the recent updates on

Cultgate, see:

For more on the political extremist activities of Scientology see:

For more on the criminal activities of Scientology see:

For more information both on Scientology celebrities such as John

Travolta, Tom Cruise, Ann Archer, Lisa Marie Presley, Jenna Elfman, and

Nicole Kidman, and on celebrities who do not view Scientology favorably,

see:

For more information on Scientology and its occult anti-Christian nature

as a religion, see:

For more information on the other US politicians who have been stung by

Scientology's multi-billion dollar influence, see:

For a great new story on how deep the Primary Colors people are involved

in Cultgate, see the Irish Times, 2/27/98 article by Fintan O'Toole

called "Not even fiction's safe from ultimate spin doctor." Available at

For more information on Scientology in general, see:

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