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	The Rajneeshee Cult (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As the summer of 1984 waned, a cult led by the Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh near the town of The Dalles, Oregon, used a biological agent to sicken hundreds in an apparent dress rehearsal to sway the outcome of a local election.
		To outmaneuver the attorney general, the cult’s hierarchy hatched a plan to make the Wasco county residents too sick to vote in November, enabling the Rajneeshees to seat their favored candidate on the county court.
		Several cult members were involved in the planning and execution of the salmonella attacks, but only two of the Baghwan’s chief lieutenants were prosecuted.
	hem.passagen.se /jan.olofsson/biowarfare/history/rajneeshee.html (499 words)

	Rajneesh :: Ex-Rajneeshee gets probation in murder plot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Citing his duty to mete out both justice and mercy, a federal judge Monday sentenced a former member of the Rajneeshee commune to five years' probation for her role in an aborted 1985 plot to kill the top federal prosecutor in Oregon.
		Catherine Jane Stork, 60, described by prosecutors as a former top lieutenant in the Central Oregon commune, pleaded guilty last fall to conspiring to murder Charles Turner, the former U.S. Attorney in Oregon, and the unlawful purchase and transportation of a firearm.
		Stork recalled the journey she and her former husband and two children took to the cult known as Rajneeshpuram, which operated in Central Oregon from 1981 to 1985.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /13444 (539 words)

	NMS BioDefense » History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Rajneeshee religious cult intentionally contaminates salad bars in Oregon restaurants with Salmonella, causing 751 cases of enteritis -- gut infections.
		The Aum Shinrikyo cult attacks Tokyo subways with the nerve gas sarin, killing 12 and injuring 5,000.
		Investigators learn the cult is also working with several biological warfare agents, including anthrax and botulism toxin.
	www.nmsbiodefense.com /company/history.htm (993 words)

	Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in the News
		A disciple of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was sentenced Monday in Portland to five years probation for her lead role in a conspiracy more than 20 years ago to kill the United States Attorney for Oregon, bringing closure to a bizarre chapter in the state's history.
		...The cult arrived at the Big Muddy Ranch in 1981 and attracted thousands to live in the supposedly idyllic and agrarian setting, which was patrolled by armed guards...
		The cult members had hoped to incapacitate so many voters that their own candidates in the county elections would win...
	www.cultsoncampus.com /shree.html (1006 words)

	An unlikely threat \| thebulletin.org
		In 1984, members of the Oregon-based Rajneeshee cult deliberately contaminated restaurant salad bars in the town of The Dalles with salmonella bacteria, affecting 751 people temporarily with a diarrheal illness.
		A sudden epidemic of illness resulting from the deliberate release of a microbial agent--particularly an indigenous strain--could be misinterpreted as a natural outbreak of disease, reducing or eliminating its ability to terrorize.
		Despite the cult's vast financial resources (approximately $1 billion) and access to trained scientists, it was unable to overcome the technical hurdles associated with the acquisition of a virulent strain, cultivation of the agent, and efficient delivery.
	www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=ja99tucker (4024 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Technical Hurdles Separate Terrorists From Biowarfare
		Hoping to hasten the doomsday their leader foretold, scientists who were members of Japan's Aum Shinrikyo cult brewed batches of anthrax in the early 1990s and released it from an office building and out the back of trucks upwind of the Imperial Palace.
		The cult's experiences demonstrate just a few of the myriad technical obstacles that terrorists who might try to manufacture biological weapons could face, problems that would confound even skilled scientists who tried to help them, biological warfare experts say.
		Members of the Rajneeshee cult sickened 750 people in 1984 when they contaminated salad bars in 10 Oregon restaurants with salmonella.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A35011-2004Dec29?language=printer (1791 words)

	USATODAY.com - Apocalyptic cult methods explain bin Laden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At the Pentagon memorial service last month, President Bush called the al-Qa'eda network "a cult of evil," and for the first time, I thought: "Yes, that sounds right." It is a kind of cult, and Osama bin Laden — far from being the Muslim world's Che Guevara, is its evil and manipulative guru.
		In Aum Shinrikyo's ranks one found doctors, research scientists and other members of the Japanese professional classes — not unlike the demographics of the Rajneeshee cult in Oregon, whose members laced salad bars with salmonella bacteria in 1984, or the members of Jonestown who committed mass suicide in 1978.
		The cult framework goes a little way to explaining the dissonance between who these hijackers were and what they eventually did on behalf of al-Qa'eda.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/2001-11-05-ncguest1.htm (1023 words)

	FACSNET Issues Bioterrorism: No Longer Fiction
		Until last year's anthrax attacks, the only recorded biological attack in the United States occurred in 1984 in Oregon, where Rajneeshee cult members spread salmonella on salad bars.
		Cult members hoped to sicken enough people so they wouldn't show up at the polls for local elections, and cult members could then elect their own candidates to local offices.
		In another incident not considered a bioterrorism attack, Milwaukee was struck by an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis, a waterborne parasite, in 1993.
	www.facsnet.org /issues/specials/terrorism/Hamburg.php3 (2035 words)

	New Criminologist (Print version): Al Qa’ida and Bioterrorism. By Dr. Janet Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		One example of germ warfare was the attack by the Rajneeshee cult in Oregon in 1984.
		The reason for the cult’s failure to successfully deploy bioterrorist agents may have been not having the right agents or the right technologic facilities; they could have overcooked the bioagents or not known how to use them.
		But perhaps the most importantly the cult was unable to be very successful in its efforts to recruit biological scientists.
	www.newcriminologist.co.uk /print.asp?id=-53146331 (1144 words)

	Welcome to Adobe GoLive 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fact: In 1984, the Rajneeshee cult in The Dalles, Oregon intentionally contaminated local salad bars.
		By poisoning restaurant food with salmonella, it was thought that voters who favored the opposition for political office would not leave their homes in a sickened condition.
		While their attempts were not overall successful, the cult did manage to infect 751 members of the local population.
	www.college.ucla.edu /webproject/micro12/Honorsprojects/Christmansp01/myth2.html (219 words)

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		The Ranjneeshee religious cult, headquartered 40 miles (65 km) south of The Dalles, Oregon, had contaminated salad bars in local restaurants with Salmonella bacteria to prevent people from voting in a county election, thereby, it was hoped, allowing the cult’s chosen candidates to win a bitterly contested election.
		The nearly 7,000 members of the Rajneeshee religious cult had incorporated their 100 square mile (262 km2) commune as a city with its own police force and stockpile of weapons.
		Residents suspected the cult members were behind the poisonings and went to polls in groups to make sure the cult did not win any county positions.
	www.seas.gwu.edu /~cbrubin/Part2final-Jan24.doc (12920 words)

	Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - People really can get sick of politics
		David Siegrist, a research fellow at the Potomac Institute of Policy Studies in Arlington, Va., recalled that the largest biological attack recorded in the United States was carried out in a bid to influence an election.
		In 1984, members of the Rajneeshee Cult, trying to win control of the local government in Wasco County, Ore., spread salmonella over salad bars in eight local restaurants, sickening more than 700 people.
		The idea was to keep longtime residents away from the polls, so cult members would make up a majority of voters.
	www.caller2.com /2000/february/04/today/national/7780.html (307 words)

	History of Terrorism
		In September, the Rajneeshee cult contaminates salad bars of The Dalles, OR and Wasco County, OR with Salmonella.
		It is only discovered a year later when members of the cult turned informants.
		The attack was averted when a cult member substituted a non-toxic agent instead.
	www.fortworthgov.org /health/threats/bio_history1.asp (1170 words)

	Overview of Potential Agents of Biological Terrorism
		Indian religious cult headed by Rajneeshee plotted to contaminate restaurant salad bars with Salmonella typhimanice in Dallas, Oregon.
		New Age Doomsday cult seeking to establish a theocratic state in Japan attempted at least 10 times to use anthrax, botulinum toxin, Q fever agent and Ebola virus in aerosol form.
		The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo that released the nerve gas Sarin in the Tokyo subway also had plans for biological terrorism (27).
	www.siumed.edu /medicine/infec/patinfo/current/bioterrorism.htm (9713 words)

	Sannyasnews-Kroll3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		However it refuses to declassify the historical references to a Rajneeshee Cult.
		It is deeply regrettable that a man of such wisdom is linked to that attack, but he is also linked to immigration fraud and was deported from the United States for such violations.
		The listing of those groups in historical databases does not detract from the greater Palestinian cause not represented by the PLO nor from the anti-apartheid movement conducted by Africans and ethnicities in South Africa not represented by the ANC.
	www.sannyasnews.com /Articles/Washington3.html (453 words)

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		The cult planned to infect residents with Salmonella on election day to influence the results of county elections.
		Although bioterrorism was considered a possibility when the outbreak was being investigated by public health officials, it was considered unlikely.
		A vial of S. Typhimurium identical to the outbreak strain was found in a clinical laboratory on the cult's compound, and members of the cult subsequently admitted to contaminating the salad bars and putting Salmonella into a city water supply tank.
	ftp.cdc.gov /pub/EID/vol4no3/ascii/mcda.txt (795 words)

	Baylor Health Care System: Preparing for bioterrorism
		In 1984, the Rajneeshee cult in Oregon contaminated 10 salad bars and restaurants with Salmonella, resulting in an outbreak of >750 cases.
		It was not until the FBI investigated the cult for other criminal activities that it found a vial of the same strain of Salmonella.
		Members of the cult subsequently confessed and also told the FBI that they had put the agent in the city's water supply.
	www.baylorhealth.edu /proceedings/14_3/14_3_lathrop_cme.html (3645 words)

	StandardNET/Standard-Examiner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		They poisoned food supplies on election day, hoping locals would be too sick to vote and the Rajneeshee candidates would win.
		Several Rajneeshee leaders were convicted or fined, and the bhagwan returned to India, where he died several years later.
		The affected Oregon community remains scarred from the cult's depradations.
	www.standard.net /standard.php/64255?printable=story (825 words)

	Historical Trends Related to Bioterrorism: An Empirical Analysis
		Since the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo released sarin nerve gas on the Tokyo subway in March 1995, killing 12 people, terrorist incidents and hoaxes involving toxic or infectious agents have been on the rise.
		Before the late 1990s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) typically investigated a dozen cases per year involving the acquisition or use of chemical, biological, radiologic, or nuclear materials; however, FBI opened 74 such investigations in 1997 and 181 in 1998 (1).
		Religiously motivated cults such as Aum Shinrikyo and the Rajneeshees are cut off from the outside world and are often guided by a charismatic, all-powerful leader, making them less subject to societal norms.
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/EID/vol5no4/tucker.htm (2211 words)

	Biological and Chemical Terorrism
		In 1972, members of a cult called the Order of the Rising Sun were arrested for possession of 40 kilograms of typhoid bacteria, which they were planning to put into the water supply in certain U.S. cities.
		The first known successful use of bioterrorism occurred in 1984, when followers of the U.S.-based Rajneeshee cult tried to influence a local election in Oregon by contaminating salad bars with salmonella; more than 750 people were infected.
		These views were reinforced by the failure of the Japanese Shinrikyo cult, which, even with huge amounts of money and advanced biological knowledge at its disposal, failed numerous times to effectively deliver chemical and biological weapons.
	www.ncsl.org /programs/environ/envHealth/ehterorrism.htm (3007 words)

	Ovid: Christopher: JAMA, Volume 278(5).August 6, 1997.412-417
		Although the Rajneeshees were suspected, and despite rigorous epidemiologic analyses by the Wasco-Sherman Public Health Department, the Oregon State Health Division, and the Centers for Disease Control, [49,50] the origin of the epidemic as a deliberate biological attack was not confirmed until a cult member admitted to the attack in 1985.
		The cult was allegedly conducting research of B anthracis, Clostridium botulinum, and C burnetii.
		[53] The cult had allegedly launched 3 unsuccessful biological attacks in Japan using B anthracis and botulinum toxin and had sent members to the former Zaire during 1992 to obtain Ebola virus for weapons development.
	info.med.yale.edu /therarad/summers/ovidweb.cgi (5923 words)

	News about religious cults, sects, and alternative religions - December 20, 2000 (Vol. 4, Issue 299) - 2/2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Two high-ranking officials in Oregon's once notorious Rajneeshee cult pleaded guilty Friday to 15-year-old federal wiretapping charges, canceling international warrants that effectively confined them to Great Britain.
		Croft and Hagan were among thousands of followers of the late Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, an Indian guru who created a cult devoted to a religious practice made up of bits and pieces of several religions and philosophies.
		I wouldn't say it has changed her.' But Rick Ross, a leading American expert on cults, has had hundreds of pleas for help from participants in Landmark seminars and their families.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /news/an201220b.html (4712 words)

	Is Our Food Supply Safe From Terrorist Attack?
		The group was practicing for a large-scale attack designed to influence the results of local elections, and the plot was only discovered after the cult collapsed and former members told authorities about it.
		Although the Rajneeshee cult attack sickened hundreds of people, it was a fairly crude attempt at bioterrorism, says Caroline Smith DeWaal of the advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest.
		She says future attempts at terrorism aimed at the food supply are likely to be more sophisticated, and more successful.
	www.webmd.com /content/article/35/1728_92477 (874 words)

	Osho'ites terrorists? :: sannyasworld.com :: the global sannyas portal
		It appears that the Osho 'cult' has been tagged as a terrorist group, according to an article in the Milli Gazette, an leading English newspaper for Muslims in India.
		Founded in 1996, the TRC Inc. claims to be an "independent institute dedicated to the research of terrorism, information warfare and security, critical infrastructure protection and other issues of low-intensity political violence and gray-area phenomena".
		At least that is the view of Oshoites here who were amused with an American think tank's listing of the "Rajneeshee cult" among 38 "known and unknown" terrorist organisations in India.
	www.sannyasworld.com /print.php?sid=590 (1325 words)

	Statement of Dr. Alibek
		One incident, in 1984, involved members of the Rajneeshee cult contaminating restaurant salad bars in Oregon with salmonella, sickening 751 people.
		Although best known for its chemical attack in the Japanese subway system in 1995, the cult also attempted to release anthrax from the rooftop of a Tokyo building in 1993.
		No casualties resulted, but had the cult better understood cultivation of anthrax spores and urban air flow dynamics, the results might have been quite different.
	www.iwar.org.uk /cyberterror/resources/house/00-05-23alibek.htm (2344 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> 'Rajneeshees used weapons of mass destruction'
		Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> 'Rajneeshees used weapons of mass destruction'
		Washington: Calling for decisive action against proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), a senior US official has cited the alleged salmonella poisoning by members of Rajneeshee cult as an early example of its use.
		To be effective, "Our strategy must encompass a broad range of policies and programmes, including proactive measures." On the international front, he said, "we need to expand and enhance enforcement of existing international non-proliferation treaties and regimes."
	news.indiainfo.com /2002/08/01/01poison.html (181 words)

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