Wilhem Reich - C.O.R.E. (Cosmic Orgone Engineering)

Some time in early spring I had visited Bar Harbor region where my daughter Eva lives and practices medicine. I had sought advice regarding my will at the Trust Bank in Bar Harbor. I met a very kind bank official with whom I left my will and some documents regarding the transformation of the Wilhelm Reich Foundation into an Infant Trust Fund.

Only a short while later, the request for OROP Ellsworth came in from the blueberry growers. I could not refute my impression that this OROP had been a staged one, a public test, as it were. However, it remained a riddle how then the designers of OROP Ellsworth had succeeded to induce out Hancock operator to offer help by the Orgone Institute to the fruit growers.

Geological surveyors appeared at Rangeley, prepared to study the widespread deterioration of granite rock in our vicinity.

A tower for relaying radio messages had been erected near the Observatory in December 1952, and now RCA outfits visited the region of Rangeley with a purpose not quite unknown to me.

Boston Radio had mentioned the Orgone Institute and its weather control success.

The newspapers, too, had for the first in a decade treated orgonomic research with candid open­mindedness. No sneers, no insinuations, none of the "usual" unpleasantness that orgonomy had gone through for such a long period of time, in fact, ever since the first bions were seen in a microscope in 1936 in Norway.

I had the distinct feeling that there was a group of good friends around, still hidden, since orgonomy had been presented by some kind of "Devil's Scheme" to destroy the world. But now we were dealing with unknown good friends. I was delighted. I did not dare tell this to my coworkers. They would have shaken it off as WR's usual illusionary optimism. I, however, was convinced that I was right. It seemed as if OROP Desert which I had announced to the US Government in August 1952 while applying for a passport, had finally broken not only the drought but also the spell of silence and slander that had threatened to engulf my labors. This belief had not been shaken since. On the contrary, it had been confirmed.