disinfozone/The_Info_Web
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity Actions

vault backup: 2026-10-09 22:00:52

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
disinfo.zone 2026-10-09 22:00:52 -04:00
parent a407e691bc
commit 5a67e27f97
No known key found for this signature in database
300 changed files with 3832 additions and 1650 deletions
Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

24
10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Wilhelm Reich.md
View file

@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ On December 9, 1957 Dr. Leon A. Witkin, chief medical officer of the penitentiar
### Footnotes
[^1]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington Field Office report of June 16, 1941 (case 100-1849), in the Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 1, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI (reich1). Sole source for the passages so cited: immigration record of admission August 28, 1939, visa No. 19 of August 11, 1939, destination 66 West 12th Street, birth at Dobrzanice, children Eva and Lore.
[^1]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington Field Office report of June 16, 1941 (case 100-1849), in the Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 1, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI (reich1).
[^2]: Leon A. Witkin, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, U.S. Penitentiary, Lewisburg, to the Director of the FBI, December 9, 1957 ("who died suddenly on November 3, 1957"), Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 6 (page 21 of the PDF), https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI. A Bureau memorandum in Part 3 and Time, "Milestones," November 1957, p. 110, as quoted in it, give the death as November 1957 and the cause as a heart attack.
[^3]: Witkin to the Director, December 9, 1957; autopsy report of November 26, 1957 signed by L. L. Ashburn, M.D., Chief, Section on Pathologic Anatomy; FBI Laboratory report to Witkin, January 2, 1958 (FBI file 95-72739; Laboratory No. PC-51232 II), Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 6 (pages 21 to 24 of the PDF), https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^4]: FBI New York report of December 24, 1941, "Dr. Wilhelm Reich, Alien Enemy Control," NY file 100-8422, synopsis of facts, Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 1, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ On December 9, 1957 Dr. Leon A. Witkin, chief medical officer of the penitentiar
[^7]: FBI memorandum of May 6, 1941, Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 1, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^8]: FBI New York report of December 24, 1941, NY file 100-8422, page 7 (visa under Section 4(D); the Bureau's account of the State Department's statement on the Norwegian party), Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 1 (page 42 of the PDF), https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^9]: Edward A. Tamm, memorandum for Mr. Kramer, May 7, 1941; R. P. Kramer, memorandum for Mr. E. A. Tamm, May 8, 1941 (Bufile 100-14601), Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 1 (pages 16 and 17 of the PDF), https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^10]: Wilhelm Reich, Biographical Material, History of the Discovery of the Life Energy, Documentary Supplement No. 2, "The Red Thread of a Conspiracy" (Orgone Institute Press, 1955), p. 10, forwarded by the New York office with a memorandum of September 26, 1955, Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 2 (page 64 of the PDF), https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI. Sole source for the passage so cited.
[^11]: "The Red Thread of a Conspiracy" (Orgone Institute Press, 1955), pp. 7 to 8 (running head "The Einstein Affair"), as reproduced in the Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 5a, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI. Sole source for the passages so cited.
[^10]: Wilhelm Reich, Biographical Material, History of the Discovery of the Life Energy, Documentary Supplement No. 2, "The Red Thread of a Conspiracy" (Orgone Institute Press, 1955), p. 10, forwarded by the New York office with a memorandum of September 26, 1955, Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 2 (page 64 of the PDF), https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^11]: "The Red Thread of a Conspiracy" (Orgone Institute Press, 1955), pp. 7 to 8 (running head "The Einstein Affair"), as reproduced in the Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 5a, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^12]: FBI New York report of December 24, 1941, NY file 100-8422, interview pages 8 and 9 (names redacted), Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 1, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^13]: M. A. Jones to L. B. Nichols, memorandum of February 14, 1957 (Part 2, pages 123 and 124 of the PDF), "Dr. Wilhelm Reich, Alban Towers Apartments," Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 2 (reich2), https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^14]: "Wilhelm Reich Lectures, New School for Social Research (1940), 2018," New School Archives, box Mixed k_24 (R), folder 3, https://findingaids.archives.newschool.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/58166.
@ -167,26 +167,26 @@ On December 9, 1957 Dr. Leon A. Witkin, chief medical officer of the penitentiar
[^20]: Reich to the Police Commissioner, June 2, 1942; Wendell Berge memorandum of June 10, 1942; Bureau letter of July 15, 1942; FBI New York letter of July 27, 1942 signed by P. E. Foxworth, Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 1, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^21]: Attorney General memorandum of July 16, 1943 (Part 1, page 76 of the PDF); Hoover to the SAC, Newark, July 21, 1943; SAC Newark to the Director, August 10, 1943, Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 1, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^22]: FBI correspondence of 1947 with the Food and Drug Administration, Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 1, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^23]: "The Red Thread of a Conspiracy" (Orgone Institute Press, 1955), pp. 7 to 9 (running head "The Einstein Affair"), Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 5a, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI. Sole source for the passages so cited.
[^23]: "The Red Thread of a Conspiracy" (Orgone Institute Press, 1955), pp. 7 to 9 (running head "The Einstein Affair"), Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 5a, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^24]: "The Red Thread of a Conspiracy" (Orgone Institute Press, 1955), pp. 9 to 10 and 28 to 29, sent to the Director with a New York memorandum of September 26, 1955, Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 2 (pages 63 to 66 of the PDF), https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI. Brady's article, "The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich," The New Republic, May 26, 1947, is quoted there; the date also appears in Sharaf's statement to the Bureau (Part 2, page 11 of the PDF).
[^25]: Ilse Ollendorff, secretary, for the Wilhelm Reich Foundation, to J. Edgar Hoover, August 5, 1952, Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 6 (page 20 of the PDF), https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI. The Bureau's reply of August 19, 1952 referred the matter to the FDA Commissioner.
[^26]: Wilhelm Reich, The Oranur Experiment, First Report (1947-1951) (Orgonon, Rangeley, Maine: Wilhelm Reich Foundation, 1951), chapter "Orgone Energy Runs Amok (DOR): The Oranur Sickness," https://archive.org/details/the-oranur-experiment-first-report-1947-1951. Sole source for the passages so cited.
[^26]: Wilhelm Reich, The Oranur Experiment, First Report (1947-1951) (Orgonon, Rangeley, Maine: Wilhelm Reich Foundation, 1951), chapter "Orgone Energy Runs Amok (DOR): The Oranur Sickness," https://archive.org/details/the-oranur-experiment-first-report-1947-1951.
[^27]: FBI New York letter to the Director, NY 62-10139, pages 1 to 6 (Part 2, pages 10 to 13 of the PDF; Sharaf interview of October 11, 1949), Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 2, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI. The student's name is given in the file as William Washington; the account is Sharaf's report to the Bureau.
[^28]: Wilhelm Reich to the Justice Department, July 22, 1952, copy in the Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 2, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^29]: Reich to Judge John D. Clifford, February 25, 1954, and the Decree of Injunction of March 19, 1954 with FDA press release, Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 4c, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^30]: Reich v. United States, 239 F.2d 134 (1st Cir. 1956) (decided December 11, 1956), https://static.case.law/f2d/239/cases/0134-01.json. The opinion states that the individual defendants were sentenced to terms of imprisonment; the length of each sentence is from the Bureau memorandum cited in a later note.
[^31]: M. A. Jones to Mr. Nichols, memoranda of March 25, 1954 (pages 1 to 3) on the visit of William Moise to the Crime Records Division, Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 2, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^32]: William Moise, "Information to be transmitted to the FBI," February 26, 1957 (two pages, signed; Part 3, pages 27 and 28 of the PDF), Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 3, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI. Sole source for the passages so cited.
[^33]: Wilhelm Reich, CORE (Cosmic Orgone Engineering) vol. 6, nos. 1 to 4, July 1954, "OROP Desert, Part 1: Space Ships, DOR and Drought," https://archive.org/details/contact-from-space-by-wilhelm-reich. Sole source for the passages so cited.
[^34]: Wilhelm Reich, Contact with Space: Oranur Second Report, 1951-1956 (Core Pilot Press, 1957), chapter "Contact with the U.S. Air Force," https://archive.org/details/wilhelm-reich-contact-with-space (letters of 29 January, 10 March, 16 March and March 19, 1954 reproduced from the Archives of the Orgone Institute). Sole source for the passages so cited.
[^32]: William Moise, "Information to be transmitted to the FBI," February 26, 1957 (two pages, signed; Part 3, pages 27 and 28 of the PDF), Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 3, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^33]: Wilhelm Reich, CORE (Cosmic Orgone Engineering) vol. 6, nos. 1 to 4, July 1954, "OROP Desert, Part 1: Space Ships, DOR and Drought," https://archive.org/details/contact-from-space-by-wilhelm-reich.
[^34]: Wilhelm Reich, Contact with Space: Oranur Second Report, 1951-1956 (Core Pilot Press, 1957), chapter "Contact with the U.S. Air Force," https://archive.org/details/wilhelm-reich-contact-with-space (letters of 29 January, 10 March, 16 March and March 19, 1954 reproduced from the Archives of the Orgone Institute).
[^35]: Letter of William Moise, October 9, 1954, reproduced in Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 4c, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^36]: Petition for a writ of certiorari of Wilhelm Reich and Michael Silvert, reproduced in Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Parts 5b and 5c, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI. Sole source for the passages so cited.
[^37]: Wilhelm Reich, Contact with Space: Oranur Second Report, 1951-1956 (Core Pilot Press, 1957), pp. 78 to 88, "First Direct Contact with the Air Force Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) in Dayton, Ohio," and "Report to WR of conference at Air Force Technical Intelligence Center," https://archive.org/details/wilhelm-reich-contact-with-space. Sole source for the passages so cited; the report is Moise's, published by Reich.
[^36]: Petition for a writ of certiorari of Wilhelm Reich and Michael Silvert, reproduced in Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Parts 5b and 5c, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^37]: Wilhelm Reich, Contact with Space: Oranur Second Report, 1951-1956 (Core Pilot Press, 1957), pp. 78 to 88, "First Direct Contact with the Air Force Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) in Dayton, Ohio," and "Report to WR of conference at Air Force Technical Intelligence Center," https://archive.org/details/wilhelm-reich-contact-with-space. The report is Moise's, published by Reich.
[^38]: L. B. Nichols to Mr. Tolson, office memorandum of October 7, 1955, "Wilhelm Reich" (Part 2, page 109 of the PDF), Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 2, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^39]: M. A. Jones to L. B. Nichols, memorandum of February 14, 1957 (Part 2, page 124 of the PDF), https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^40]: Wilhelm Reich, Contact with Space (1957), passage on the transmission of the 1945 pendulum-law manuscript to the CIA in April 1956 ("my unlawful arrest in Washington on May 1, 1956"), https://archive.org/details/wilhelm-reich-contact-with-space; William Moise statement of February 26, 1957, item 13, Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 3 ("May 2nd, 1956"). Sole source for the passages so cited.
[^40]: Wilhelm Reich, Contact with Space (1957), passage on the transmission of the 1945 pendulum-law manuscript to the CIA in April 1956 ("my unlawful arrest in Washington on May 1, 1956"), https://archive.org/details/wilhelm-reich-contact-with-space; William Moise statement of February 26, 1957, item 13, Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 3 ("May 2nd, 1956").
[^41]: Reich et al. v. United States, No. 688, 352 U.S. 1004 (February 25, 1957) ("C. A. 1st Cir. Certiorari denied"; petitioners pro se), https://static.case.law/us/352/cases/1004-02.json.
[^42]: David Rosen, review of Christopher Turner, Adventures in the Orgasmatron (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), The Brooklyn Rail, February 2012, https://brooklynrail.org/2012/02/books/wr-the-wanderings-of-a-lost-soul. Sole source for the passages so cited.
[^42]: David Rosen, review of Christopher Turner, Adventures in the Orgasmatron (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), The Brooklyn Rail, February 2012, https://brooklynrail.org/2012/02/books/wr-the-wanderings-of-a-lost-soul.
[^43]: SAC, Washington Field Office, memorandum to the Director, "Wilhelm Reich aka Dr. Walter Roner," file 100-1849, on the interview of February 25, 1957 (Part 2, pages 129 and 130 of the PDF), Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 2, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^44]: SAC, Boston, airtel to the Director, March 12, 1957, Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 6 (page 18 of the PDF), https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.
[^45]: William S. Moise to Senator Margaret Chase Smith, March 21, 1957, as transmitted with the Bureau memoranda of 25 and March 27, 1957, Wilhelm Reich FBI file, Part 6, https://archive.org/details/WilhelmReichFBI.