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Felt's Daughter Tied to Cult
NewsMax ^ | 6/12/05 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 06/12/2005 2:03:11 PM PDT by wagglebee

As an FBI agent under J. Edgar Hoover like all Bureau men of his time, Mark Felt was a spit and polish company man who spent much of his time investigating radical hippie movements, wiretapping groups like the Weather Underground and registering disgust over the so-called free love counter-culture.

But apparently the counter-culture had captured his own daughter Joan. In an extensive profile of Felt's rebel daughter the Washington Post revealed her ties to the Adidam cult.

The paper reported that the cult’s leader is a "a self-proclaimed guru who, in two California lawsuits and several public statements 20 years ago, was accused of sexual abuse, slavery, false imprisonment, assault and brainwashing that was said to include persuading people to give him all their money."

The lawsuits that dogged the group in the mid-1980s were settled with payments and confidentiality agreements, a California lawyer, Ford Greene, who handled three such cases, told the Post.

Joan Felt refused to discuss the group and suggested that her involvement was past history.

But the Post revealed that Felt’s name and home phone number are currently listed on the Internet as a contact for an Adidam Study Group in Santa Rosa, Calif., where she lives with her father and sons.

It is not known whether she ever lived at any of the cult's many communal households and sanctuaries throughout California and elsewhere.

She did, however, live at a commune in 1974 where her eldest son, Nick Jones was born - a birth recorded for a documentary called "The Birth of Ludi," according to the Vanity Fair article which revealed Mark Felt as Deep Throat.

The article also described Felt's parents visiting her there and finding her sitting naked in the sun while breast-feeding her baby.

Adidam is named for its leader, Franklin Albert Jones who was born in New York in 1939.

The guru who founded his cult in 1972 in Los Angeles has also been known as Adi Da Samraj, Bubba Free John or Da Love-Ananda, as well as several other names.

Since 1982, he has lived in seclusion with a harem and devotees on the tiny Fiji island of Naitouba, according to defectors from the cult as well as news articles. The Post reported that he bought the island for $2.1 million from actor Raymond Burr.

According to an Adidam Web site, the cult practices "the devotional and spiritual relationship with Adi Da Samraj," and seeks "to bring one's life and body-mind into greater balance." Its purpose is "to transform every moment in life -- whether one is eating, sexing, meditating, doing business or whatever -- into Divine Communion."

The Adidam movement is believed to have just a few thousand followers, with groups and book stores in several major cities, including one in the suburbs of Washington D.C.

Steve Hassan, a licensed mental health counselor and a Boston-based cult expert for nearly 30 years, told the Post that Adidam fits the classic cult model. "I have counseled victims of this man," says Hassan, " . . . a couple dozen over 20-plus years," including as recently as 2002. Joan Felt bristled when the Post asked about Adidam, noting that "her pleasant disposition turns testy when she is pressed to discuss past allegations against the guru."

She told the paper during a phone call, "That's all way far in the past. This is 20 years ago, 20 years ago, that you're digging up stuff."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adida; adidam; adidamned; bubbafreejohn; commune; cult; deepthroat; franklinjones; joanfelt; markfelt
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But the Post revealed that Felt’s name and home phone number are currently listed on the Internet as a contact for an Adidam Study Group in Santa Rosa, Calif., where she lives with her father and sons.

This just keeps getting better!

1 posted on 06/12/2005 2:03:11 PM PDT by wagglebee
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To: wagglebee

Whoa! Maybe she's pimping her father for money on behalf of the cult.


2 posted on 06/12/2005 2:04:52 PM PDT by Peach
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To: wagglebee
Why is the Post tearing her down?

Could it be to discredit her enough so no one will publish her book?

Ah the snakes hissing at each other!!!!

3 posted on 06/12/2005 2:06:05 PM PDT by OldFriend (MAJOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH.....INSPIRATIONAL)
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To: wagglebee

The last comment in the article is priceless.....


4 posted on 06/12/2005 2:06:31 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: wagglebee

more:
http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/entry/2005/06/03

...'In 2002, J. Todd Foster was in discussions with the Felt family while preparing a magazine story on Deep Throat's identity. The former freelance journalist wrote about it this week for The News Virginian in Waynesboro, Va., where he serves as managing editor:

Ultimately the story died because of money. The Felt family and their attorney wanted a lot of money, and People magazine -- with my blessing -- backed away in what would have been a case of "checkbook journalism." Reputable news organizations don't pay a penny for news.

In an e-mail this morning, Foster told me the subject of Adidam never came up with the Felts: "My partner dealt with Joan, and she didn't mention it to him either. Money was a prime motivator, but mostly for her son's law school bills." '


5 posted on 06/12/2005 2:07:28 PM PDT by bitt ("There are troubling signs Bush doesn't care about winning a third term." (JH2))
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To: wagglebee

Well I'll be damned.

You couldn't invent a story better than this entire fiasco.


6 posted on 06/12/2005 2:08:25 PM PDT by Mears (Keep the government out of my face!)
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"A motorist passes and wants to know: "Where's the Deep Throat house?"

"I'll tell ya but it'll cost ya five bucks..."


7 posted on 06/12/2005 2:10:27 PM PDT by bitt ("There are troubling signs Bush doesn't care about winning a third term." (JH2))
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The article also described Felt's parents visiting her there and finding her sitting naked in the sun while breast-feeding her baby.

***

.......... film at 11:00.

8 posted on 06/12/2005 2:10:28 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my open ears exciting and inviting me)
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The last comment in the article is priceless.....

She told the paper during a phone call, "That's all way far in the past. This is 20 years ago, 20 years ago, that you're digging up stuff."

That's just the way it works. If you are a conservative EVERYTHING you have ever done at any point in life is fair game, but if you're a leftist it's their "private life" and nobody's business.

9 posted on 06/12/2005 2:10:38 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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Franklin Jones, founder of Adidam


10 posted on 06/12/2005 2:12:00 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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The full Washington Post story... you'll laugh yourself silly...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/02/AR2005060202026.html?nav=rss_politics

11 posted on 06/12/2005 2:12:10 PM PDT by bitt ("There are troubling signs Bush doesn't care about winning a third term." (JH2))
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To: wagglebee


More insanity from the left.


12 posted on 06/12/2005 2:13:19 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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But apparently the counter-culture ( free love counter-culture) had captured his own daughter Joan.

Hmm. Who is the real 'Deep Throat' in that family?

13 posted on 06/12/2005 2:13:41 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my open ears exciting and inviting me)
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She did, however, live at a commune in 1974 where her eldest son, Nick Jones was born - a birth recorded for a documentary called "The Birth of Ludi,"

Ludi is a West Indian board game played in places like Jamaica, Trinidad, etc.

14 posted on 06/12/2005 2:13:52 PM PDT by ikka
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To: wagglebee

Interesting.


15 posted on 06/12/2005 2:14:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
male or female?

;-)

16 posted on 06/12/2005 2:14:33 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my open ears exciting and inviting me)
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To: Mears

I knew she was a freaky lady. The way she giggled and smiled like she won the lottery. She just looked wierd. And the son coming out calling his grandfather a hero??? WTH? So it's herois to overthrow a President?? Yeah...weird family he has there. [rolleyes]


17 posted on 06/12/2005 2:14:38 PM PDT by Shaka
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To: ikka

Who was the father of Nick Jones......... Franklin Jones?


18 posted on 06/12/2005 2:16:08 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my open ears exciting and inviting me)
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To: wagglebee

Listing is not enough. Anybody can list ANYone.

If I was a cult and trying to cultivate legitimacy, it would be very easy to include a few "respectable" names in the rolodex.

Is in not par for the course, BTW, for the cults to seek out the children of the influential? Seems the number two at the FBI would be a good porson to have leverage upon.


19 posted on 06/12/2005 2:16:27 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: wagglebee
"That's all way far in the past. This is 20 years ago, 20 years ago, that you're digging up stuff"

Yeah, and Watergate was 30+ years ago. The stunning hypocrisy of the left again :-(

20 posted on 06/12/2005 2:17:00 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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