Unexplained Mysteries of THE KALPA VIGRAHA
Submitted by Robert Menard
The following has been revealed to us by two retired CIA agents who wish to remain anonymous
The loss of a small 47
gm ancient Hindu brass-like metal idol of extreme antiquity called the
Kalpa Vigraha has caused the American Central Intelligence Agency
considerable anxiety. This unusual disclosure was made recently by a
retired CIA agent on condition of absolute anonymity.
Firstly, what was the importance of this idol; what was the
CIA doing with an ancient Hindu relic; and why the angst?
The story begins almost half a century ago. A heavy chest
containing the idol was reportedly given to CIA officials for
safekeeping at Lo Monthang (called "Mustang" in CIA files) by a Tibetan
monk accompanied by Khampa bodyguards sometime in 1959-60. The monk
apparently related to the CIA officials the importance of the chest and
its contents. A curious CIA official meticulously wrote down the details
of what the Buddhist monk told them about the chest and its contents.
Why he thought it important to record the Buddhist monk's story is
anybody's guess. But it also appears that the Americans were initially
not quite impressed with the quaint values attached to objects of
Oriental worship at that time when their priority was conducting a
guerrilla war against the Chinese forces advancing into Tibet.
In the same week that
the CIA officials received the chest a skirmish erupted with Chinese
forces in which the Tibetan monk and his guards were killed. The CIA
officials not knowing what to make of the curious chest loaded it onto
an aircraft and had it sent to a secret airbase in India, later
transporting it to Camp Hale, a now-abandoned Army base near Vail,
Colorado. A few weeks later the chest wound up at a CIA store-room in
Washington DC labeled "ST Circus Mustang-0183".
Many months would elapse before someone in the CIA decided to take an
interest in the chest and its contents. A strange manuscript found
inside and the unusually age-worn chest coupled with its noticeably
unique design prompted them to conduct a radiocarbon test of the timber
with which the chest was made. The results given to them by the
University of California Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley astounded the
CIA officials. The antiquity of the worn-out wooden chest and the idol
was mind-boggling to say the least. It did not belong to this "yuga" or
epoch on the Hindu time scale just as the monk had claimed. That is to
say, it belonged to a period called the Dwapara yuga, making it the
oldest human artifact in existence. Radiocarbon (C14) dating conducted
by the University of California Radiation Laboratory on the heavy 9-inch
thick timber sides and lid of the chest in which it was discovered
arrived at readings that indicated a period around 26,450 BCE. That
would make it over 28,450 years old today, and about 23,300 years older
than the legendary Hindu Kurukshetra war. The idol was also tested by
experts who concluded that it was the oldest Hindu idol in existence.
None of the known ancient excavated civilizations of history – Egyptian,
Mesopotamian or Indus Valley existed before 6000 years ago.
The Kalpa Vigraha idol was reportedly found placed inside this heavy
metal-lined wooden chest with a socket-and-pivot hinged lid and an
ancient loop-and-rod lock assembly. The chest itself presented a
curiosity, as the space within the box was barely 8 X 8 X 8 inches while
the timber pieces used to construct all its five sides was about 8
inches thick each! The timber of which the lid of the chest was made
also measured about 6 inches in thickness. The teak-wood timber was
further protected by a 1-inch thick bronze-like alloy plate on all sides
which despite severe external corrosion had preserved the teak-wood of
the box to a fair extent. The metal plate appears to have been riveted
into the teakwood with nails of some similar metal alloy. Though many
rivets were missing, the metal casing held well. The appearance of the
chest suggested that it might have lain buried for a considerable period
of time, though scrape-marks from attempts made to clean the corrosion
on the outside were visible.
Corrosive salts or dampness had not crept into the chest despite its
age, though some degree of natural oxidation and decay was noticed in
the contents of the chest which included a manuscript written on wooden
slats and the small brass-like crude metal idol. The old pre-Rigvedic
Sanskrit-type manuscript was translated by the CIA with difficulty. In
fact it reportedly took two long years to decipher, employing experts
including some Indian and Nepalese. They concluded that the language
belonged to the proto-historic period of Hinduism when it was thought no
language existed and that the Vedas were being passed down orally. The
manuscript appeared to be something akin to Sanskrit, but not quite
anything any archaeologist or historian had ever encountered before. The
manuscript mentioned the name of the idol – "kalpa maha-ayusham
rasayana vigraha" abbreviated in CIA files to "Kalpa Vigraha."
The
Kalpa Vigraha is a small crude brass idol weighing about 47.10 gms
depicting a deity resembling the Hindu god Shiva kneeling or seated on
one knee, a serpant's hood forming a canopy above the head of the idol.
In the right hand of the figure was a discus or circular weapon, perhaps
the "sudharshan-chakra" of Hindu mythology. Around its neck was a
string of beads. The metal formed three "loops" on one side caused by
the snake, an arm holding a conch-shell and the discus. It measured
about 5.3 cm tall and about 4.7 cms wide, with an oval base 2.5 cms long
and 1.7 cms wide. There was no doubt the small statue was of some
extreme importance to have been preserved with such care in a chest of
such strength and durability.
But following the translation of the manuscript, events surrounding the
Kalpa Vigraha suddenly took a mysterious turn. The UCRL's records were
impounded by the CIA and a shroud of silence was cast over all matters
regarding the chest and the Hindu idol. "ST Circus Mustang-0183" was
removed from the inventory at the CIA storehouse records, and the whole
episode was swept under the carpet for some inexplicable reason.
However, the unnamed
source, a retired CIA agent, revealed recently that based on the text of
the manuscript found along with the idol, a series of top-secret
experiments were conducted by the CIA on unsuspecting human subjects in
the United States and elsewhere in the world. According to this unnamed
source in Langley, Virginia, an "inner-circle" of the CIA dedicated most
of their time in the early 1960s conducting experiments based on the
ancient manuscript, and the Kalpa Vigraha idol itself played the most
important role in this bizarre research.
The source, who was partially involved in the research, explained that
one of the experiments was particularly intriguing. It required a human
subject to consume a tumbler of water each day for 3 days. This water
was earlier "charged" by CIA agents by simply placing the idol in a
large copper vessel containing drinking water for nine days before the
human subject was required to drink it. What results the "inner circle"
officials expected to see by this innocuous experiment was not known to
anybody at that time, but top CIA officials evinced great interest in
it. The "charged" water was also sent to various laboratories under
heavy security and all reports and documents received from the labs were
sent directly to the CIA director, John McCone.
The unnamed source also recalled that during this period a number of
packages containing literature on homeopathy and ayurveda were received
from various parts of the globe and often circulated in the department
with markings and footnotes. Barring perhaps the inner-circle, nobody
quite knew what this was all about.
A month later, the source was asked to head a nine-member team
consisting mostly of women whose sole task was to feed this water to
unsuspecting citizens in the US. They called themselves the "Watering
Team". It was not known to the Watering Team whether the subjects to
whom the water was to be fed were randomly chosen by the inner-circle
officials, but what was certain as the team met up with the target
recipients of the water was that they were of all ages- some in their
teens, some even past their middle-ages and many being above the age of
sixty or sixty-five at least. Detail instructions were handed out as to
how they were to go about the "watering". What was also apparent to the
team later was that all the subjects were born Americans, both black and
white from various walks of life. Many were African American women. The
"watering" had to be done without the subjects' knowledge by
befriending them or by looking for innocuous opportunities to get them
to consume a glass of water for three consecutive days in a row. The
team often failed, with some other members of the target recipient's
family ending up drinking the water inadvertently. The CIA required them
to report such slips also.
This
went on for a few months. Some of the human test subjects chosen were
in far-flung states and in remote towns and cities of the United States.
Apparently the CIA had some system in place to monitor their subjects
for whatever results they expected as an outcome of the experiment for
the "Watering Team" was not required to hang around once the subject had
consumed the water over three days. "Ease-out of the acquaintance
without raising any questions", they were told.
For the purpose
of keeping a personal record, the source also made notes in his private
diary - the names and addresses of the various recipients his team was
required to befriend to feed the water. Maintenance of any such record
was forbidden by the agency, nevertheless many agents did it and the CIA
was aware of it.
The source recalls with amusement that during this time the agents in
the CIA who were in-the-know about these experiments, including the
members of their own "Watering Team" often doubted and double-checked
their own drinking water, often leaving the office to fetch drinking
water for themselves or settling for coffee, juice or soft-drinks. "It
was a period of discomfort and uneasiness for reasons we could not
fathom," the source recalls.
Soon after the
"watering" experiments were completed, the assignment was abruptly
called off. In the subsequent years that the unnamed CIA official served
in the agency not much was heard or spoken of this experiment, except
as a joke. The inner-circle members were deployed to more pressing
assignments around the US and the world. The reason for the bizarre
experiment was never revealed, neither were the results ever known. Over
time it was quite forgotten, and treated as some of the many
idiosyncrasies that the CIA indulged in during the cold war years.
A recent long-distant telephone call from another state in the US on the
morning of December 2008 changed all that. The source, now long
retired, with great-grandchildren playing around him, was unexpectedly
informed one night by another retired agent of the CIA that the Kalpa
Vigraha was "missing". The agent who made the call was once a member of
the "inner circle", a man who knew what the experiments conducted in the
early 1960s was all about.
As he listened, it took our long-retired CIA source some time to
remember what "idol" was being referred to, as today he was more
familiar with the popular "American Idol" music competition program he
enjoyed watching on TV with his grand and great-grand children.
"The Hindu idol, my dear Mac (name changed), don't you remember, the one
they called the Kalpa Vigraha?" the voice said. "Don't you remember the
experiments that put you in charge of the Watering Team assignment? I'm
only calling you this morning because I knew for certain that you would
be alive and well to hear this news."
"Ken (name changed), you call me today, thirty-two years after my
retirement to tell me about an old forgettable idol that never made
sense to any of us! So, what if it's missing? What's the big deal here,
Ken?"
The Big Deal
The voice at the other end of the phone had an astounding story to tell.
The inside story of CIA experiments involving the Kalpa Vigraha as
revealed to Mac was stuff that would rival even the fictional and
immensely popular X-File TV serial.
Ken the CIA agent who made the telephone call to his former colleague on
the morning of December 2008 and who was once a member of the
inner-circle was a microbiologist with expertise in immunotherapy when
he was initially recruited by the CIA in 1946 to analyze "Lebensborn"
data confiscated from Nazi Germany after the downfall of Hitler. Ken was
only 38 years old then. That makes him about 100 years old when he made
the telephone call to his former CIA colleague Mac (our source), aged
98 years on the morning of December, 2008.
Ken, the inner-circle CIA agent reminded Mac of the many subjects the
CIA had targeted for consumption of the "charged" Kalpa Vigraha water
back in 1960-61, many of whom had been fed the water personally by Mac.
Mac could recall many of the names and even crossed-checked in his own
diary to confirm and refresh his memory of all the people he had
surreptitiously befriended to feed the "charged" water.
A
week later Ken and Mac met to discuss the matter. They went over the
list in Mac's old diary, and for the first time in decades, recalled the
events of more than 45 years ago. Ken updated Mac with facts of the
CIA's Kalpa Vigraha experiments that were not revealed to him earlier.
For the first time Mac learnt that there had been other "watering teams"
operating in many parts of the world in the early 1960s. Ken had
brought with him a much longer list, showing corrections made over time
to the names of female test-subjects who had married or remarried and
stopped using their maiden names.
The CIA had been keeping a
meticulous watch ("kalpa-tag", they called it) over almost all
test-subjects around the globe, and monitoring their lives in secrecy.
There was not much to monitor, really. CIA's kalpa vigraha cell's job
was, and still continues to be, to report back if a recipient of the
charged water (wherever he or she was in the world) was alive. The
Reason? All persons subjected to the Kalpa Vigraha experiment were
expected to live very long lives, past the age of 100 at least, perhaps
crossing 110 and even reaching the age of 120. Of course this does not
include those who died unnatural deaths in road-accidents or other
mishaps, murder, suicide, accidental poisoning, or dying in conflicts or
war.
Mac updated and
corrected the names on his own list, of people whom his own Watering
Team had subjected to the experiments in the United States. In some
cases he replaced the word "negro" to "African American" as it is
accepted today. Ken would not have him keep the names on the larger list
of people world-wide. It was irrelevant, he said.
Ken also revealed to him that he had learnt many years after he had
retired that both he and Mac apart from a dozen other CIA staff had also
been unsuspectingly subject to the Kalpa Vigraha experiment before
being allotted their watering team assignment. Both men shed tears
following this disclosure. It was deeply disturbing now despite the
loyalty with which they had served the agency.
Mac, our source, the now-retired CIA agent who led the Watering Team in
the United States chose to disclose his own list to us. But before he
did that he removed the names of those test subjects he believed were
still alive, as he felt he would not be able to "face" any of them if
they were to ever appear on TV against the CIA when the list was
published by us.
The list of those who had died comprised of the following names. What is
astonishing is that all the persons whose names Mac gave us had lived
to an age of above 110 before they died, some even reaching the age of
115 and above.-
Fannie Thomas, Sarah Knauss, Mary McKinney, Lucy Hannah, Margaret
Skeete, Elizabeth Bolden, Maggie Barnes, Edna Parker, Bettie Wilson,
Susie Gibson, Zora Wriggle, Maude Davis Farris-Luse, Delina Filkins,
Mathew Beard, Carrie Lazenby, Myrtle Dorsey, Elena Slough, Wilhelmina
Geringer Kott, Clara Huhn, Ettie Mae Greene, Emma Verona Johnston, Odie
Mathews, Florence Knapp, Irene Frank, Emma Tillman, Grace Thaxton,
Minnie Ward, Arbella Ewing, Catherine Hagel, Fred H. Hale, Sr., Bertha
Fry, Mae Harrington, Agatha Mitchell, Moses Hardy, Corinne Dixon Taylor,
Bettie Chatmon, Mary Christian, Johnson Parks, Mary Parr, John Ingram
McMorran, Mary Electa Nobel Bidwell, Martha Graham, Gladys Swetland,
Mary Randall, Mary Anna Boone.
Four names, that of Ruth Golonka, Willie Lee Morgan, Steven Martin and
Bert Jenkins were found to be of people who had died "accidentally".
Ruth Golonka, died of a car accident, Willie Lee Morgan was murdered.
Both Steven Martin and Bert Jenkins had died in Vietnam.
The Loss of the Kalpa Vigraha
(The following information was sought and received by us from another source (No. 2) still working in the CIA)
The Kalpa Vigraha, the CIA store-room inventory item labeled "ST Circus
Mustang-0183", was not seen or heard of for many decades. An audit
conducted in 1996 revealed that the heavy metal-lined chest was very
much in the store, but that the idol and the manuscript had been
"misplaced". In a search conducted over many weeks, spanning many
states, and enquiries made from many retired personnel, the agency was
able to trace the manuscript from the house of a microbiologist the CIA
had many years ago hired for analysis of the "charged" kalpa vigraha
water. The manuscript was found but the whereabouts of the Kalpa Vigraha
is still a mystery. Following the discovery of the manuscript, a spate
of mysterious deaths of microbiologists followed. The media and the
internet were rife with conspiracy theories on the death of the rather
alarming number of them, but few laid suspicion on the CIA until our
above-mentioned source No 2, a serving agent of the CIA spilled the
beans. However hard it will be to pin all these inexplicable deaths on
the CIA, the coincidences are equally hard to rule out if source No.2 is
honest regarding the facts. We would not like to go into the details
revealed to us and would rather allow police and the investigation
agencies to arrive at their own conclusions with regard to the deaths.
According to our CIA source no.2 the Kalpa Vigraha has since been
smuggled out of the United States to India. The latest information
received at the CIA headquarters is that it lies in the possession of
some software employees or IT professionals at Hyderabad, in the Indian
state of Andhra Pradesh. For the first time in 48 years, photographs of
the Kalpa Vigraha, depicting the idol from four different directions
were circulated around the world by the CIA with an enormous cash reward
for its recovery.
Submitted by Robert Menard
