And L.Ron Hubbard lived with Jack Parsons in his mansion and they practiced the occult together
I've been catching up on the Moonchild subthread. I could add a number of things on that, but I'll focus on one key point in connection to Pizzagate: the CIA started using occult groups for covert operations in the 1950s, including Scientology. The operation was described in the memoirs of CIA agent Miles Copeland, who said it was run by one Robert Stanley Mandelstam. I have independently documented that there were several CIA personnel associated with the early days of Dianetics/Scientology in the 1950s. In the 1960s there was some overlap between the CIA, Scientology, a Scientology spinoff called the Process Church of the Final Judgment (now going under the front name of the Best Friends Animal Society), and an international drug-trafficking operation that used Hubbard's yacht fleet. In the 1970s, the CIA was using the Process to run a child prostitution ring in New York City that targeted U.N. staff members for blackmail, according to a retired NYPD detective who worked vice squad. This was part of a broader sexual blackmail operation that was being run in other cities as well, including Washington, DC with the call girl ring run by Heidi Rikan of Watergate fame, who was acting on behalf of mob boss Joe Nesline as well as the intelligence community. My working hypothesis is that Pizzagate descends from this operation, with one of the connections being Max Maccoby, who served as an attorney for James Alefantis and was linked to an orphanage service involved in the Lauren Silsby sex trafficking operation in Haiti.