X-Message-Number: 6807
From:  (hEpCaT)
Subject: Platt/Leary
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 09:06:27 -0700 (PDT)

> 
> Message #6806
> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 19:05:55 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Charles Platt <>
> Subject: Mondragon/Leary
> 
> I've been told that in a letter to the latest edition of The Alcor
> Phoenix, Alcor director Carlos Mondragon reiterates some of the
> allegations that he and his partner David Cosenza have already made online
> regarding myself and CryoCare in connection with the Timothy Leary case. 
> 
> So far as I know, neither Mondragon nor Cosenza visited the Leary house
> personally during the CryoCare standby, and therefore their statements 
> about events in the house must be considered hearsay. 

Just because something is heresay doesn't mean that it isn't true.  While
Charles was busy alienating everyone in sight and planning his journalistic 
masterpiece, I, not being content to wait for his opus, was busy on the 
phone gathering facts. Apparently, Charles assumes that he was the only 
participant who would ever have relayed the story. 

> 
> My own account of the Leary standby is still on the CryoCare web page at
> http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare, and this account will be printed in the
> upcoming issue of CryoCare Report, with several photographs. The Report is
> being assembled now and should be mailed within two weeks. 
> 
> I won't be saying anything more about this case, since I've said it all
> before. 
> 
> --Charles Platt
> 

I read Platt's article, and I agree with Carlos Mondragon's assement. I
did find it appalling though that CryoCare would have intentionally taken
someone without full funding-- something one of the founders of CryoCare
was doing 25 years ago before CSNY went belly up. This might be excusable
if Alcor were to do it, but CryoCare just doesn't have the resources to
absorb the cost. The admission of CryoCare's motives in Platt's article 
was unexpectadly frank and hardly needs further comment from me. -dc

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