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Subject: LEWINSKY-CLINTON-TRAVOLTA-PRIMARY COLORS PANDORA'S BOX

Date: 1998/03/12

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Did Clinton trade national security in exchange for reversing the

adverse impact Primary Colors would have had on his image and on the

Lewinsky and Jones affairs? Did John Travolta run a sting operation on

President Clinton for his Scientology cult? Will the March 20th movie

release of Primary Colors be a huge deception of the movie-going public?

These are just a few of the questions that have been swirling since

George Magazine opened the Pandora's Box of this new Clinton

controversy. What follows is background on just part of the growing

controversy.

THE PRIMARY COLORS BOOK -- BACKGROUND

A recent article by reporter Fintan O'Toole provided a concise summary

of the Primary Colors book:

"Most people will remember Primary Colors, the novel by Anonymous

(later

unmasked as the journalist Joe Klein), that became a huge international

best-seller in 1996. In America, partly because it is an extremely good

read and partly because its release was brilliantly timed to coincide

with an unusually dull 1996 primary season and to ensure saturation

coverage, it sold 1.2 million copies...

"Its attraction was obvious. It had thinly disguised portraits of

Clinton (Governor Jack Stanton), his wife Hillary, his campaign manager,

James Carville, and other members of the inner circle. And because its

author was unknown, it was assumed to be the work of an insider. Within

a broadly accurate account of the 1992 Clinton campaign, it dropped a

number of salacious sexual details. These, naturally, were read as the

inside dope, the stuff that the political elite knew about but wouldn't

tell.

"Once you had read it, it became, at some semi-conscious level, part of

what you "knew" about Clinton. It conditioned you to believe that most

of what was thrown at Clinton - Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky and the

rest - was undoubtedly true." [Irish Times, 2/27/98].

THE PRIMARY COLORS MOVIE -- CURRENT EVENTS

Last April, John Travolta, already chosen as the star of the movie,

addressed a big conference on volunteer work in Philadelphia on behalf

of the cult he belongs to, Scientology. At the same conference, he met

Clinton.

Travolta told George 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.

Clinton was reportedly incensed with the Kennedy clan (fellow democrats)

for the George article; John Kennedy, Jr. runs the magazine. In an

effort to stop the George story from going to press, the usually

reclusive leader of lawsuit-happy Scientology met with the editors of

the magazine. But David Miscavige was unsuccessful. Later, in a

seemingly desperate action to protect his cult, Travolta began denying

he made the implicating statements, but George was still unmoved. The

interview is reportedly well documented on tape.

THE EVENTS THAT FOLLOW

For months after the April 1997 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 addressed the growing Cultgate controversy in an

interview with national security advisor Sandy Berger in February.

Host 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."

As Fintan O'Toole wrote, "Even before he was re-elected, Clinton knew

that a slick, big-budget film of a novel that purported to reveal the

secrets of his sex life would be released half-way through his second

term. Clinton and his advisers set about the task of doing to the film

fiction of Primary Colors what they are so used to doing to real life.

They seduced and charmed and finessed it into the shape they wanted."

[Irish Times, 2/27/98]

WILL THE PRIMARY COLORS RELEASE FLOP?

Normally controversy is good for a film's publicity. Unfortunately for

Primary Colors, this may not be the case. What is controversial about

the film is not what's in it, but what's not in it.

The Primary Colors movie took a highly critical and embarrassing best

selling Primary Colors book and whitewashed it into what now appears to

be a Clinton infomercial. Adding insult to injury, the Primary Colors

stars have been on the promotion circuit trying to convince the media

and public that this movie might hurt or upset Clinton.

Therein lies a big Primary Colors deception. For more on how Clinton

procured Primary Colors and how the Primary Colors people may have

helped sell out the content of the Primary Colors book, see Fintan

O'Toole's full article at the Irish Times' web site at

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WHAT'S NEXT?

As if turning the movie from political commentary to commercial were not

enough of a disaster for the Primary Colors studio, investors, and

promoters, the controversy deepens. John Travolta's appeasing Clinton

through the movie was his way of using the movie as a perverse

bargaining chip for the defense and promotion of one the world's most

dangerous cults. Clinton's offer to "help" Scientology in Germany

contradicts the US's national security interests.

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

movie, it became a box office disaster despite big names and big money.

Did Primary Colors creators forget that? Or did they just make a very

bad decision in allowing a celebrity employee to use their business as a

vehicle for his cult's political agenda?

To understand the severity of how bad a decision it may have been to

assist Scientology, it is necessary to briefly 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, January 14, 1969].

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 Primary Colors (and US intelligence agencies in not protecting the

President from the Travolta sting operation) have been caught so

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

more stories are aired describing Scientology's mysterious cult member

deaths, outrageous human rights abuses, bizarre UFO cosmology, and

para-military structure. Time Magazine's cover article [May 6, 1991]

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 this infamous history of Scientology's that begs the question: did

Travolta disclose Clinton's Scientology-Primary Colors quid pro quo

because Clinton did not deliver the promised German protection for

Travolta's cult? Was Travolta's subsequent denial of that disclosure

just another Scientology ruse to divert attention from Scientology's

notorious vindictiveness toward those who cross it or do not deliver?

THE CONSEQUENCES

It remains to be seen if moviegoers worldwide will boycott Primary

Colors because of John Travolta's involvement in a Scientology covert

operation to leverage the President of the world's most powerful

country. Or whether they will avoid the film because no substance

remains. At the least, Primary Colors promoters should consider

correcting the deception by placing a warning label on their film.

Perhaps:

Warning: the Primary Colors movie differs greatly from the Primary

Colors book. The film you are about to see is a Clinton infomercial.

Will Hollywood studios and investors learn something from the Primary

Colors scandal? Maybe they will learn that celebrities like John

Travolta, Tom Cruise, Kirste Alley, Ann Archer, Lisa Marie Presley,

Jenna Elfman, and Nicole Kidman cross the line when they use studio

promotions, investments, and business to promote their cult's bizarre

political agenda for world domination. Such promotions done on their own

time, with their own funds, is the celebrities' constitutional right.

But using the time, money, and tacit support of Hollywood not only

inculpates the industry but also jeopardizes its interests. Maybe the

movie and television industry will think twice before again allowing its

investments and interests to be colored by one of the world's most

dangerous cults.

OTHER MEDIA COMMENTS ON PRIMARY COLORS

"Primary Colors is a 'celluloid valentine' to the president..." --George

magazine.

"But the prospect of a wide screen valentine became ever more probable

as Mr. Clinton took the moment to feel Mr. Travolta's pain. And told him

he would try to make it go away." --The Wall Street Journal

"For it is now clear that Bill Clinton has just pulled off an

extraordinary feat of image-making. He has ensured that a major

fictional film about a president whom everyone assumes to be Clinton

will, instead of being a damaging attack, convey a favorable impression

of its subject... And so, Primary Colors, when it

is released in a few weeks' time, will be anything but the devastating

satire on the President that was widely expected." --Irish Times

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

anything, it promotes what a decent person he is." --John Travolta as

quoted by the New York Post

"As if President Clinton doesn't have enough to worry about these days,

his administration is now being accused of pandering to prominent

Scientologist and actor John Travolta, in order to influence his

portrayal of the president in 'Primary Colors.'" --Contra Costa

Newspapers

"Still reeling from the Zippergate scandal, Bill Clinton has been hit

with yet another 'seduction' charge--this time by Hollywood hunk John

Travolta!" --National Enquirer

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

Cultgate Updates at

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For more details on the national security issues mentioned above, see

"Should Clinton resign over the Primary Colors Cultgate national

security scandal?" at

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For more information both on Scientology celebrities such as John

Travolta, Tom Cruise, Kirste Alley, Ann Archer, Lisa Marie Presley,

Jenna Elfman, and Nicole Kidman, and on celebrities who do not view

Scientology favorably, see "Scientology's Celebrities" at

.

For more on the political extremist activities of Scientology, see

"Scientology as an Extremist Political Movement" at

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For more on the criminal activities of Scientology, see "Scientology and

Criminality" at

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

as a religion, see "Scientology, Satanism, and the Occult" at

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For the largest on-library of information on Scientology in general, see

"Scientology and Dianetics" at

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