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### Viewing cable 03MONTREAL1, CLONING CLAIM PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON QUEBEC-BASED

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03MONTREAL1 | 2003-01-03 16:05 | 2011-04-28 00:00 | UNCLASSIFIED | Consulate Montreal

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 MONTREAL 000001

    SIPDIS

    E.0. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: TBIO ECON KIRF CA
    SUBJECT: CLONING CLAIM PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON QUEBEC-BASED
    RAELIAN GROUP

    ¶1. SUMMARY: THE FOLLOWING IS SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON
    THE MONTREAL-BASED RAELIAN GROUP, WHOSE MEMBER DR. BRIGITTE
    BOISSELIER ANNOUNCED AT A DECEMBER 27 PRESS CONFERENCE IN
    HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA THE BIRTH OF THE FIRST CLONED HUMAN
    BEING, A 7 POUND BABY GIRL NICKNAMED EVE. AND ITS TWO MAIN
    FIGURES LEADER CLAUDE VORILHON, BETTER KNOWN AS RAEL, AND
    DR. BOISSELIER.  ONE LIKELY RESULT OF THE BOISSELIER
    ANNOUNCEMENT IS THAT CANADA'S PENDING LEGISLATION TO BAN
    HUMAN CLONING COULD CONTAIN STRICTER RESTRICTIONS. END
    SUMMARY.

    ¶2. THE RAELIAN MOVEMENT WAS FOUNDED BY FRENCHMAN CLAUDE
    VORILHON, A FORMER SPORTS JOURNALIST, FAILED SINGER, RADIO
    COMMENTATOR AND AVID STOCK CAR RACER. VORILHON CLAIMS TO
    HAVE BEEN CONCEIVED ON DECEMBER 25, 1945, BY A FRENCH MOTHER
    AND AN ALIEN FATHER. SPECIALISTS SAY HE WAS BORN IN VICHY,
    FRANCE IN 1946. VORILHON WHO USES THE NAME RAEL  (GOD'S
    LIGHT) (PRONOUNCED RA-EL IN FRENCH (RHYMES WITH KAL-EL AND
    JOR-EL)) SAYS HE CREATED THE MOVEMENT AFTER ALIENS VISITED
    HIM IN CENTRAL FRANCE IN 1973. AT THAT TIME, LITTLE GREEN
    ALIENS (APPROXIMATELY 4 FT TALL) TOLD HIM --IN FLUENT FRENCH-
    - EARTHLINGS HAD BEEN CREATED IN A LABORATORY 25,000 YEARS
    AGO. SINCE THESE ALIENS WHICH HE CALLS THE ELOHIM (THE
    HEBREW WORD FOR GOD) ARE 25,000 YEARS AHEAD OF US, RAEL SAYS
    CLONING IS VERY SIMPLE TASK FOR THEM.

    ¶3. ALTHOUGH THE SECT IS BASED IN MONTREAL--AND NOT
    SWITZERLAND AS THE BRITISH TABLOID PRESS HAS REPORTED --RAEL
    MOVED HIS PERSONAL HEADQUARTERS TO FLORIDA IN THE EARLY
    NINETIES. WHEN IT WAS ANNOUNCED RAEL WAS MOVING TO FLORIDA,
    RADIO COMMENTATORS JOKED HE WAS SIMPLY IMITATING QUEBEC
    SNOWBIRDS OR THAT HE WANTED TO GET CLOSER TO NASCAR
    CIRCUITS. HOWEVER, SOME SAW U.S. EXPANSION AS A LOGICAL
    BUSINESS MOVE. ON THE ONE HAND, SINCE THE 1960S, QUEBEC HAS
    PROVEN TO BE TOUGH RECRUITING GROUNDS FOR ALL RELIGIOUS
    GROUPS, MAINSTREAM OR OTHERWISE. ON THE OTHER, THE U.S.
    OFFERS MUCH BIGGER POOLS OF MONEY AND TARGET AUDIENCES FOR
    RAELIAN COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES. BECAUSE THE GROUP IS
    RECOGNIZED AS AN ATHEIST RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION BY THE
    QUEBEC GOVERNMENT IT ENJOYS THE SAME FISCAL ADVANTAGES AS
    OTHER RELIGIOUS GROUPS.

    ¶4.  THE GROUP OPERATES A THEME PARK CALLED UFO LAND IN
    QUEBEC'S EASTERN TOWNSHIPS AREA. THE FACILITY, WHICH
    CONSISTS MAINLY OF A LARGE FLYING SAUCER, A LARGE-SCALE DNA
    MOLECULE AND SOME ROOMS FOR SUMMER SEMINARS AND MEDIA
    INTERVIEWS, WAS RECENTLY VANDALIZED BUT IS SCHEDULED TO
    REOPEN THIS SUMMER.

    ¶5. IN PHOTOS AND TELEVISION APPEARANCES, RAEL SURROUNDS
    HIMSELF WITH BEAUTIFUL WOMEN. RAELIAN MEDIA KITS INCLUDE
    MANY PICTURES OF SCANTILY DRESSED "MEMBERS." RAEL PREACHES
    "SENSUAL MEDITATION" WHICH ENABLES THE FAITHFUL TO REACH THE
    "COSMIC ORGASM."

    ¶6. DESPITE THE SECT'S TWO POWERFUL MARKETING TOOLS, SEX AND
    UFOS, THE RAELIANS HAVE VERY FEW MEMBERS.   THEIR WEB SITE
    WWW.RAEL.ORG CLAIMS -IN TWENTY LANGUAGES-- TO HAVE 55,000
    MEMBERS IN 84 COUNTRIES. HOWEVER MIKE KROPVELD, EXECUTIVE
    DIRECTOR OF THE MONTREAL-BASED INFO-SECTE (NO RELATION WITH
    THE PARIS ORGANIZATION OF THE SAME NAME) TOLD POST THAT THE
    RAELIANS INFLATE THEIR FIGURES WITH PAST AND OCCASIONAL
    MEMBERS. BECAUSE OF ALL THE MEDIA ATTENTION, THE GROUP
    CREATES A LOT OF CURIOSITY -A RAEL SPOKESMAN STATED IN THE
    LOCAL PRESS ON DECEMBER 30 THAT THE WEBSITE WAS GETTING ONE
    MILLION HITS PER HOUR ON DECEMBER 26 -- BUT MOST VISITORS
    ONLY ATTEND A FEW MEETINGS. THE ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP IS BETWEEN
    2,000 AND 3,000 WORLDWIDE AND ABOUT 700 IN MONTREAL, SAYS
    KROPVELD.

    ¶7. ACCORDING TO LOCAL NEWS ANALYSTS, THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF
    RAELIANS IS TO CREATE LIFE IN A LABORATORY WHICH WOULD MAKE
    HUMAN BEINGS IMMORTAL AND ENABLE THEM TO CREATE ANOTHER
    CIVILIZATION ON ANOTHER PLANET. IN THE MEANTIME, RAEL WANTS
    TO BUILD AN EMBASSY IN ISRAEL TO WELCOME THE ELOHIM WHEN
    THEY COME BACK IN 2035. THE GROUP HAS ALSO BEEN CRITICIZED
    FOR ADVOCATING THE USE OF GENETICS FOR EUGENIC ATTEMPTS AT
    IMPROVING THE HUMAN RACE. THE GROUP'S STRUCTURE WITH PRIESTS
    AND BISHOPS IS BASED ALONG THE LINES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

    ¶8. UNTIL RECENTLY THE GROUP AVOIDED SERIOUS CONTROVERSY.
    THERE HAVE NOT BEEN ANY STORIES OF FORMER MEMBERS
    COMPLAINING ABOUT BEING CONNED OUT OF THEIR MONEY OR
    PHYSICALLY ABUSED OR SEDUCED, AND NO INVOLVEMENT WITH MINORS
    -- EXCEPT ONE CASE IN FRANCE.

    ¶9.  NONETHELESS, THE RAELIANS KNOW HOW TO PIGGYBACK ON
    STORIES TO GET PUBLICITY. WHEN IN 1993, AUTHORITIES IN
    QUEBEC DECIDED AGAINST INSTALLING CONDOM DISTRIBUTORS IN
    SCHOOLS, RAELIANS VISITED THE KIDS WITH FREE SAMPLES. IN THE
    WAKE OF THE RECENT PEDOPHILE CHARGES AGAINST VARIOUS
    RELIGIOUS ORDERS, THE GROUP WENT BACK TO THE SCHOOLS IN
    QUEBEC. THEIR PLAN THIS TIME WAS TO HAND OUT SMALL WOODEN
    CROSSES FOR THE STUDENTS TO BURN. BUT PUBLIC AND
    GOVERNMENTAL OPPOSITION STOPPED THE LATER PROJECT. IN BOTH
    CASES, ALMOST ALL THE PUBLICITY THEY GARNERED WAS BAD.

    ¶10. SENSING A SIMILAR WAVE OF CONDEMNATION, RAEL HAS
    PUBLICLY DISTANCED HIMSELF FROM DR. BOISSELIER, A RAELIAN
    BISHOP, AND HER CLONING WORK, SAYING HE HAD GOTTEN RID OF
    CLONAID TWO YEARS AGO. HOWEVER, KROPVELD BELIEVES THAT
    CLONING IS BY FAR THE GROUP'S MOST DANGEROUS WORK. KROPFELD
    EVEN DOUBTS RAEL REALLY BELIEVES IN CLONING HUMAN BEINGS
    BEYOND ITS MARKETING POSSIBILITIES FOR HIMSELF AS SECT
    LEADER.

    ¶11. AS FOR DR BRIGITTE BOISSELIER, SHE WAS BORN IN 1956 IN
    FRANCE. SHE HOLDS TWO PHDS IN CHEMISTRY, ONE FROM THE
    UNIVERSITY OF DIJON IN FRANCE AND ONE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF
    HOUSTON. AFTER HOUSTON SHE WAS HIRED BY AIR LIQUIDE THE
    FRENCH INDUSTRIAL AND MEDICAL GAS MULTINATIONAL TO WORK ON
    REVERSIBLE OXYGEN BINDING. IN 1989, AIR LIQUIDE PROMOTED HER
    TO VP RESEARCH.

    ¶12. PRIOR TO JOINING CLONAID (SEE WWW.CLONAID.COM) IN 1997,
    DR. BOISSELIER HAD NOT WORKED IN BIOLOGY OR REPRODUCTION
    TECHNIQUES. THE LAS VEGAS-BASED CLONAID RECEIVED $500,000
    FROM MARK HUNT TO BUILD A LABORATORY IN WEST VIRGINIA BEFORE
    MR. HUNT DECIDED TO STOP FINANCING THAT PROJECT. CLONAID
    ALSO CLAIMS TO HAVE RECEIVED $200,000 FROM 250 DIFFERENT
    DONORS IN THE HOPE OF CLONING A FAMILY MEMBER. ON MARCH 28,
    2001 DR. BOISSELIER AND RAEL DEFENDED THEIR CLONING PROJECTS
    BEFORE A SENATE COMMITTEE.

    ¶13.  COMMENT. THE PUBLICITY GARNERED BY THE CLONING
    ANNOUNCEMENT MAY BE USED BY THE RAEL ORGANIZATION TO GAIN
    NEW ADHERENTS IN THE UNITED STATES.

    ¶14.  CANADA LIKE MANY OTHER COUNTRIES IS IN THE PROCESS OF
    ADOPTING LEGISLATION BILL C-113 WHICH WOULD BAN HUMAN
    CLONING. ONE LIKELY RESULT OF THE BOISSELIER ANNOUNCEMENT IS
    THAT SUCH LEGISLATION COULD CONTAIN STRICTER RESTRICTIONS.
    END COMMENT.
    KANTER

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