cash; however, the offer was refused by the - owner. Table of Contents – Volume 5, Number 4âAugust 1999, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. When the Staff inquired as to why the Aum would be interested in Tesia's The Aum also tried to hire earthmoving equipment from a mining operation at an adjoining Among the cult leaders, "Doomsday guru" Shoko Ashahara is the undisputed head. There is substantial documentation of efforts by Hiraoka and her staff to sell dozens of books In this haunting work of journalistic investigation, Haruki Murakami tells the story of the horrific terrorist attack on Japanese soil that shook the entire world. After successfully completing their mission, the cultists drove off to Kamakuishki, a rural community at the foot of Mount Fuji, home to golf courses, parks, dairy farms, small villages, and the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo in Japan. sources, when Maha Posya sent more than 5 million yen at a time it reported the money as being The objective of the Tokyo subway attack was not irrational. In 1994, the Aum completed two sales transactions with Lydall Technical Paper of Rochester, The Japanese press claims that this Aum Active recruiting is under way. This media, which is roll goods, is utilized for air filtration in "clean rooms." the office purported to promote the cult's book sales and recruitment of followers, the Staffs Matters. corporations are Aum members. The 1995 Aum Shinrikyo attack on the Tokyo subway system was a seminal event in the history of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons. his papers and research notes. Various police sources indicate that Gakkai and Aum Shinrikyõ form part of a historical continuity of high-profile "new religions" that public moralists have consistently scapegoated for political gain throughout the modern era. Found inside – Page 516These sources estimate that at least 700 members are live-in, fully committed devotees. Mind control is still a part of the cult's package. Cult members can be seen in Aum-owned houses wearing bizarre electric headsets, ... Superhuman Power, The Doom's Day, and Curable High Blood Pressure. The suited sect members were standing by a twin pleaded guilty, and were fined about $1,750 each. end of 1994. Found insideAum Shinrikyo specifically sent recruiters to universities with instructions to target intelligent young people.70 Where ... or small leadership clique, complete control over the lives of the cult members.72 The use of mind control ... means for extending awareness(sic), such as meditation, seminars, classes, workshops, to offer All payments for the chemicals were made in cash. They were a self-legitimized group that had rejected and, ultimately, felt obliged to confront society. The thoroughly investigate the Aum. front company to purchase Banjawarn Station for approximately $400,000. An Aum Shinrikyo member is believed to have helped develop the key command and control system of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, sources in police and the Defense Agency said Thursday. Found insideMost have a history of criminality, violence and/or authoritarian control of their members. They are ranked in descending order of that heritage. 1. Aleph or Aum In 2007, twelve years after Aum Shinrikyo staged its deadly sarin attack ... Founded by Shoko Asahara in the early 1990s, Aum Shinrikyo was a doomsday cult based in Japan. Found inside – Page 150Its goal under Asahara's leadership was to seize control of Japan and then the world. ... 25 At its peak membership, Aum Shinrikyo ̄ had perhaps 9,000 members in Japan and 40,000 members around the world, thousands of them in Russia.26 ... Japanese officials and cult documents. Computers and Peripherals ("ICP") was a U.S. business in California formed to export computer A spokesman for the Public Security Investigation Agency said Aum "is no less dangerous than it was seven years ago, in the sense that all of its members are under … The group was also banned from further television In Japan, the Aum Shinrikyo cult released the chemical agent sarin in a terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway. engineers to Japan to help train sect members to maintain the helicopter, according to official The number of Aum followers is levelling off, not decreasing. efforts to militarize in the U. S. According to corporate records, the New York City office was initially organized by Fumihiro Only 2-3 liters of Aleph (Japanese: アレフ, Hepburn: Arefu), formerly Aum Shinrikyo (オウム真理教, Oumu Shinrikyō), is a Japanese doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1984. Matsumoto is born in Kumamoto Prefecture in March 2, 1955. And 12 people were dead. In January 1995, the Staff has learned that Maki and Hiramatsu began to seek military equipment Found inside – Page 27Larsen, Jeffrey A., and James J. Wirtz, Arms Control and Cooperative Security (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2009). Aum Shinrikyo The Japanese apocalyptic group Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) has been credited with opening the Pandora's ... speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov. The request included the names of ten Ukrainians Aum Shinrikyo, whose name means "supreme truth", began in the 1980s as a spiritual group mixing Hindu and Buddhist beliefs, later working in elements of apocalyptic … There are New York City under the name Aum USA Company, Ltd., a not-for-profit corporation. The following are some of the allegations made by Russian and Japanese press reports: All of the officials have denied allegations that they helped the Aum. Still, the possibility exists that casualties associated with some of these releases might have not been detected or were attributed to other causes. A staff member of the Interior Ministry also publicly claimed that the Ministry would not The two bottles cost the Aum a total of $136 -- in order to obtain them, the At the same time, I also confirm that Aum Shinrikyõ did, in a way, change everything: Aum may have marked the end of Baniawarn, Australia located approximately 375 miles northeast of Perth, Western Australia's Silbermann-Hashimoto, asking her to translate it into Frenchnd to send it to the AFP. Although After receiving a $1,906.00 wire transfer to their account, Rothco sent samples of the requested What they did was unforgivable, and the human cost, devastating. official religious organization. Outnumbered as they were by Japanese police and military might, one can argue that developing and even using an asymmetric capability was a logical consequence of their situation. commercial/military use item, the system has numerous applications including the measuring of where 'There is a weapons market" and noted its distance from Moscow, according to Japanese 1992. Both Aum USA and Maha Posya have Chisuo In February, Maki requested Rothco change the purchaser to Maha Posya Inc. This document suggested the sect may have been scientific configuration was feasible but wold only be the first step in development. mid-March of that year -- presumably paving the way for Asahara's late March visit. Aum Shinrikyo managed to obtain a Mil Mi-17 "Hip", which is a Russian medium transport chopper … The master of the group, Asahara, was featured on TV broadcasts. given access to the base. California, and told company representatives that he should stop selling to Maha Posya because Aum Shinrikyo, which is also known as Aum and Aleph, is a Japanese cult that combines tenets from Buddhism, Hinduism, and is obsessed with the apocalypse. the court case against the Aum, charged that the Aum continued to operate underground. development through the study and practice of eastern philosophy and religion to encourage Focusing on the principal controversial religions and movements that have attracted major media attention, the book also includes profiles of hundreds of minority religions, from Jesus People and Rastafarians to voodoo practitioners and the ... special training in the Russian armed forces. Shimada, an Australian citizen of Japanese descent and sect member were named as directors of the public relations office of the Center announced that the Center has never had any contact sophisticated weapons, are not affected by export restrictions. with the numbers in Japan which are 18,000 and 35,000 respectively. and Lobov with Aum leader Asahara. nutritional information and exercises which will further the development of spiritual well-being.". Aum Shinrikyo: Once and Future Threat?. Aum had allegedly member who is an Australian citizen and Tsuyoshi Maki, a Japanese citizen who had been part of geodynamics in the early 1900's. 1995, President Yeltsin publicly ordered Russia's Prosecutor General, the Federal Security letter, Wakatake had been a member of the A since 1986 and was a teacher of meditation Banjawarn Station well in advance of the trip. at Moscow's "Airfield Number 3" $15,000 each for a rigorous training course. as Director of the corporation. Found insideThis arrangement demonstrates that the one who controls sexuality in the group has social control over the group. ... This is the case in Aum Shinrikyo or the suicide religions of Jonestown, Order of the Solar Temple and Heaven's Gate. They petitioned government penned" for national security reasons. Police in Tokyo have questioned former AUM Shinrikyo cult member Yoshihiro Inoue, who is on death row, as part of their investigation into a case involving another former leading member who turned himself in to police over the weekend after almost 17 years on the run, investigative sources said Thursday.. Kyodo News reports. Aum Shinrikyo conducted a deadly … Khushchov, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. consistently refused to provide detailed information on either the company (Aum) or the intended equipment. Found inside – Page 17... of 74 members of the Solar Temple in Switzerland and Quebec in 1994, 1996, and 1997, the Aum Shinrikyo murders of about 23 ... Galanter argues that another dynamic in violent episodes is leaders' need to maintain absolute control. Aum offices in New York and Bonn. But at no point did Aum Shinrikyo represent an existential threat to Japan or its people. About 94% of the "ordained" members and 73% of the "lay" members had joined the cult before the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack in the Tokyo Subway, so the group is still considered to have many members who are strongly influenced by Asahara. Aum Shinrikyo, whose name means "supreme truth", began in the 1980s as a spiritual group mixing Hindu and Buddhist beliefs, later working in elements of apocalyptic Christian prophesies. confirmed that Aum leader Shoko Asahara and the Maha Posya executive visited Taiwan Even before the Tokyo sarin gas subway incident, the Aum had become controversial in Russia. Through telefax, telephone, and personal contacts, ICP developed a business relationship with ICP, through a freight forwarder, started the process of relationships alleged above, if indeed a relationship existed, remains unconfirmed. October 30, 1993 and stayed at Banjawarn Station until April 1994. exercises were performed under the supervision of former Spetznaz members of the Russian consisted of a telephone call requesting literature, a sales order and a shipment. How did Aum Shinrikyo, which began as a peaceful Buddhist sect, devolve into violence? documents (bills, ledgers, accounts, tax records) were in her name. 8 East 48th Street; #2E; 242 East 87 Apt 5d; 8 East 48th Street Apt. sending the items to Japan in March of 1995. Aum Shinrikyo began its public campaign of terror on June 27, 1994. Did Aum Shinrikyo change the face of Japanese religion - forever? In June 1993, the Aum established a It is unclear whether the The Staff was unable to confirm many of these allegations whilein Moscow investigating this Beginning in June 1994, the Aum established a relationship with a purchasing agent on the West Aum Shinrikyo, Al Qaeda, and the Kinshasa Reactor: Implications of Three Case Studies for Combating Nuclear Terrorism. The articles The latter live in 15 cult bases across Japan. their consulting geologist. The subway attack was the most deadly assault in an. The press as well as the parent's organization opposed to the Aum, have publicly criticized the Hayakawa was in Russia from March 17-22 of this year during the sarin attack in Tokyo. radio tower in Vladivostok to Japan every evening. mining. charge of planning military training in Russia under a special Russian unit. would note that the Aum constructed "clean rooms" at their compounds in Tokyo in facilitate the Committee told fellow parliamentarians that, " his committee seriously suspected that Aum The Cult operates in Japan, but previously had a presence in Australia, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Taiwan, Sri Lanka, the former Yugoslavia, and the United States. This The Aum members insisted that either the At its peak, Aum boasted 10,000 Japanese members and another 30,000 in Russia. One gas mask was left behind Japan hangs 6 remaining AUM death row inmates. According to the Australian Federal Police Autralia. The official Russian In According to the address on the registration documents, the firm was located in decree. Azerbaijan Air and that the Aum subsequently inquired about certification for a larger MI-26 countries including Libya, Iran, North Korea and Cuba. Australia is one of the world's leading exporters of uranium ore. by Australian authorities. members petitioned the Western Australian Pastoral Board to de-stock Banjawarn station of its According to representatives with Cache, the entire contact with the Aum Soon after receipt "Aum Protect." Objectives: Aum Shinrikyo aimed to control Japan, then the world in the hopes of creating a global utopian society under Asahara's religious . York area. Although the Staff is aware that U.S. government agencies are registration of the Russian branch of the Aum on technicalities having to do with the registration countries appear to have been used for recruitment purposes, while others appear to have been Prior to the violence, Aum Shinrikyo was a very popular sect. He also The two members subsequently appeared in Australian court, But Asahara wanted more. Japanese writing. Various containers were forwarded to sheep station by its new owners who had found papers with Japanese writing and various bank. They chartered three aircrafts and, having lost . Recounts the rise of Shoko Asahara, his creation of the Aum Supreme Truth cult, and the deadly March 1995 nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway that led to the capture and trial of Asahara Following the revelation that the Aum was suspected in the Tokyo gas attack, information about a gas laser weapon. According to their public relations … company in Taiwan by the name of Dai Hanei (Great Prosperity) as a purchasing agent, Japan executed 15 people throughout the course of 2008, the largest number to be sent to the gallows in a single year in recent history.. The last contact Tripos had with Hiramatsu was on March 21, 1995, the day after the Tokyo gas At the time of the Tokyo attack, however, Satyan 7 was not in service, having been mothballed after an accident during the previous summer. The first cult laboratory for toxin production was actually in place by 1990 and was subsequently replaced with two new laboratories, one at Kamakuishki and the other in Tokyo. members who wished to leave the cult. weapons. They hired an Australian citizen Please read the following guidelines and call (212)421-3687 considerable assets in Sri Lanka, including a tea plantation that the Aum began operating in clearly is still a devotee of Asahara. According to Hiraoka, in late March 1995, within days after the subway attack in The cult utilized various corporate entities to facilities these transactions including its primary $507,000. gas masks. According to press acounts, Japanese The Aum wanted the laser to be operable from within a glove box, a sealed room environment, purchase of their software from early on. noted that Tesia had developed a "ray" gun in the 1930's which was actually a particle beam It is also extremely strong and can withstand high pressure. The attack was carried out at virtually the same moment at five different locations in the world's largest city: five trains, many kilometers apart, all converging on the center of Tokyo. & Welfare for the Aum; and Tomomasa Nakagawa, a dical --were charged with carrying proceed quickly. By May 1993, four other Aum members, including a nuclear physicist arrived on site. the sheep were killed with blunt force to the head. A review of the records He visited three other times before The Staff has reviewed the business records of the cult's New York Office provided by Hiraoka According to the company, they are 1 "Some observers believe that the Aum is an aberration and that its Tokyo attack was an isolated incident unlikely to be repeated. to even $100 million from the Aum. Kerr said that the Aum's original advance team. Approximately 120 are still in jail, on trial, or have been convicted. Linking to a non-federal website does not constitute an endorsement by CDC or any of its employees of the sponsors or the information and products presented on the website. These two arrived in Perth on Inspections by Western Australian Pasostral Board members report also states that the Russian sect had 5,500 full-time monks who lived in Aum sheep. In March 1995, shortly after the Tokyo subway attack, the Australian police were invited to the In early 1994, cult doctors were quoted on Russian radio as discussing the possibility of using Ebola as a biological weapon. As it recruited thousands of members, the group used mind control, psychedelic drugs, secret rituals, violence, and blackmail to keep them in line. Tsuyoshi Maki, applied for tourist visas at the Australian Embassy in Tokyo. during Wakatake's stay in Germany, as well as for his personal conduct while in Germany. laboratory-size rock crushing machine and two small generators. At least one member, a French national named Pauline Silbermann- The head of the cult was Chizuo Matsumoto, also known as Shoko Asahara, a partially blind, charismatic former acupuncturist and yoga instructor, self-styled as the “one and only person who has acquired supreme truth” and who attributed to himself supernatural powers. . Currently, Aum has an estimated 2,000 followers, including more than 500 live-in members. Also in the group were. properties in Western Australia which were then for sale. Olson, K. B. stockpiled large amounts of sheet AIOx for this purpose. Through a number of private and government sources, including Aum documents, the staff has According to Russian press reports, the Aum was very specific in targeting its recruiting in Aum Shinrikyo's next major act of violence would serve as a wake-up call to the world regarding the prospects of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. St. Petersburg, Kazan, Perm, Vorkuta, Tyumen, Samara, Vladivostok, Elista, and Vladikavkaz. installation support. There were limestone or calcrete type rocks on the floor. provided, however, establishes that the cult in the years preceding the attack sold less than 100 use for the software. Together with 200-300 available) from the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank. On that Monday in Matsumoto, a city of 300,000 population 322 kilometers northwest of Tokyo, a group of cult members drove a converted refrigerator truck into a nondescript residential neighborhood. received flight lessons from Kimura, International, a private flight School in Opa Locka, Florida. We will greatly appreciate your cooperation.". In 1997 a government panel decided not to invoke the Anti-Subversive Law against the cult, which would have outlawed the sect, by the Cult remains under close surveillance by the Japanese Police authorities. The sarin gas attack on the Tokyo Metro in Japan took place a quarter of a century ago this Friday, an act of domestic bioterrorism that shocked the world.. Members of the sinister Aum Shinrikyo . CDC is not responsible for Section 508 compliance (accessibility) on other federal or private website. United States, a representative of the Aum in New York City, Yumiko Hiraoka, inquired into the effort, Hiramatsu, on behalf of the Aum, contacted Biosym Technologies, Incorporated, also a Asahara petitioned his visa denial with a letter to the of their licenses, the cult obtained the helicopter from Russia. 1994. Hayakawa and Australia in September 1993. weapons. In addition to obtaining conventional arms and training, the Aum apparently saw Russia as a authorities were conducting a probe into an alleged bribe of a former Russian parliamentarian in both of whom were Australian citizens, to obtain new chemicals for them from chemical Ashahara himself has been on trial for 3 years. In June, 1994, the Aum, pursuant to subpoena. Two telephone numbers are listed for the office in the name of Naruhito Noda; The objective that day was to kill as many policemen as possible; Aum Shinrikyo had become aware of police plans to conduct raids against cult facilities, beginning on March 20. On March 20, 1995, Aum deployed sarin in an ev … Wakatake Buddhismus and Yoga Center Aum." Nearly 19 years after members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult used nerve gas to kill 13 people in Tokyo, the final trials are drawing to a close. Experts have advised the staff that this is particularly useful if biologic toxins, aerobic or contact The document states: In addition, the Staff has been able to confirm, through a visit to the Kurchatov Institute, that an In the section of the application requesting a obtain high technology equipment, computer software and hardware, and other items from the immediately. Found inside – Page 113... the United Nations stated after the vote that Pakistan shared the general view of the UN membership that the Security ... Aum Shinrikyo , a Japanese religious cult , used a sarin gas in the Tokyo subway and elsewhere , but , as an ... The purpose of this study is to focus attention on the types of individuals and groups that are prone to terrorism in an effort to help improve United States counterterrorist methods and policies. Led by Shoko Asahara, a partially blind man whose given name was … In this section we will examine the Aum's activities in seven because U.S. company representatives were suspicious of the Aum and its purportednd-use of the In early June of 1993, another attempt was made to release botulin toxin, this time in conjunction with the wedding of the crown prince. report, among the baggage was a mechanical ditch digger, picks, petrol generators, gas masks, with the New York Office and translated Asahara's work into English. Hiramatsu negotiated with Biosym for the purchase of a sophisticated computer hardware means.". Japanese press, citing police sources, have Russia, the Aum also established a presence and/or undertook activities in a number of other and equal amounts of camcorder batteries. Japanese citizens left Australia by 4 October 1994. Thomas, said that she and other Aborigines saw about five people wearing full- length suits and would then be used to justify the importation and usage of chemicals such as arsenide, chlorides As a result of the search, two Aum members -- Seichi Endo, a biochemist and Minister of Health experimenting on sheep. Posted on March 22, 2015 by rdinitto@uoregon.edu. Minister Kiyohide Hayakawa, who was also the person instrumental in setting up the Aum's Found inside – Page 12743 Aum Shinrikyo ( 1995 ) The Alphabet Bomber ( 1974 ) Muharem Kurbegovic , known as the “ Alphabet Bomber , " may be the first lone ... The Aum was particularly controlling over its hierarchical structure , and members acquiesced ... Australian Federal Police have also confirmed that some of the information it contained. The property was sold in late July 1994 for $237,000, almost $165,000 less The articles of incorporation were amended in 1988 and at that time Chisuo Matsumoto appeared Maki handled the details of the sale and seemed anxious that the sale In at least one country it officials in Kiev to recognize the Aum as an official religious group in September 1993. of Japanese heritage who was a real estate agent based in Perth, to view remote farming items to Japan. scientist who experimented in the fields of atmospherics, electromagnetics, fluid dynamics, and The equipment and chemicals inside the laboratory were removed about March or Police entered cult facilities carrying sophisticated detection systems and wearing military-issued chemical gear (which was issued to the Tokyo police the week before the subway attack). it lost its registration as an official religion. He is the most charismatic member of the cult, other than Ashahara. In addition to its efforts to recruit members and obtain and test weapons and technology in Beaverton, Oregon. Additionally, in the 1990's the cult utilized a purchasing agent in California to facilitate According to their allegations, only one of the Aum's seven centers was closed The police sources reportedly quoted bank officials in Tokyo as saying that a high-ranking Aum The Chief of Staff of the Far Eastern Military District of Ruia has publicly denied rumors that Today, Aum Shinrikyo is once again soliciting donations, collecting tithes, selling materials to members, holding seminars, conducting training, and selling computers. Yamamoto and others. As indicated in this section, some of the items sought by the Aum were not delivered with Aum officials but states that he was duped by them due to his "charitable nature" and Inoue, 42, was questioned on a voluntary basis as the police . By the end of that day, 15 subway stations in the world's busiest subway system had been affected. that Rothco send the gas masks to ICP of Freemont, California, who would act as a freight The majority of the Russian Aum members were disaffected university students. The disk drive containing the software was A report from the Security Committee states that the Aum's followers numbered cease to exist in Russia. Maki inquired about survival equipment and items without applying for or obtaining a State Department license which is required. But the Public Security Intelligence Agency said it will closely monitor Joyu's group, with its official saying the agency believes Joyu is . The group indicated that they wanted to inspect properties Coast to assist in obtaining military technology and hardware. front company in Silicon valley. reference to a Toru Toyoda, a sect member who arrived in Australia with Asahara. Mark per month. As early as April 1990, the cult had tried to release botulin toxin from a vehicle driving around the Diet and other government buildings in central Tokyo. Under Japan's Foreign Exchange Control Law, transfers of sums in excess of 5 million yen Found inside – Page 218Those rated most harmful applied mind control in recruiting and controlling members. ... with three widely publicized incidents: the People's Temple at Jonestown, the Branch Davidians at Waco, and the Aum Shinrikyo group in Tokyo. The cult owns 28 compounds in 18 Japanese prefectures for religious training, missionary work and other operations. The cult's facilities consisted of a number of motley buildings, factories, and dormitories. told Australian Federal Police that the laboratory contained laptop computers, digital equipment, The CEO of Tripos told the Staff that the software could be used to determine if a elsewhere in this statement, the Staff has confirmed that Kibe did receive helicopter training in That same year, Joyu, as Treasurer/Director members of Aum Shinrikyo arrived in Perth from Tokyo. In December 1991, this business person visited Rusa with Hayakawa, then the cult's As indicated The Aum group traveled with chemicals and mining equipment on which The Staff has confirmed from Australian authorities that most of the sect members who are The total worth of the software was over The Aum cult was established in 1987 by Shoko Asahara, its aims are to take over Japan and then the world; its organizational structure mimics that of a nation-state, with "ministries" and mock government departments. 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