TL;DR: Investigation: The 1979 Religious Revival — CIA Backing and Global Phenomenon: 1979 was a watershed year for global religious revival, characterised by the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Grand Mosque siege in Mecca, the founding of the Moral Majority in the U.S., and Pope John Paul II's transformative pilgrimage to Poland.
1979 was a watershed year for global religious revival, characterised by the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Grand Mosque siege in Mecca, the founding of the Moral Majority in the U.S., and Pope John Paul II's transformative pilgrimage to Poland. This investigation examines the hypothesis that the CIA and allied intelligence services were largely behind the worldwide phenomenon — through direct support for the ayatollah revolution, propaganda funding, and possibly through the synchronisation or exploitation of events that pushed Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the West toward fundamentalism. A secondary thread: the use of invisible or low-frequency technology in religious settings to simulate euphoria, divine presence, or altered states — claims that require source verification.
Broader thesis: The ayatollah may represent a late stage of a plan that began after WWII. The United States helped initiate Iran's nuclear program in the 1950s and 60s under Atoms for Peace; those same facilities would become the primary driver for the WW3 narrative lasting into the present. A counter-narrative: rather than Iran having no weaponised nuclear program, Iran may possess one — kept deliberately hidden from the Iranian people by the CIA-backed ayatollah regime, whom the populace has no choice but to trust on this matter. This arrangement sets up Israel for an existential crisis that has now lasted half a century. All behaviour of the CIA during its entire existence appears centred around routing, controlling, and manipulating world religions.
| Date | Event | Significance |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 1979 | Khomeini returns to Iran; revolution succeeds | Islamic theocracy replaces secular monarchy |
| Feb 1979 | Shah flees; Khomeini consolidates power | End of U.S.-backed Pahlavi regime |
| Jun 1979 | Moral Majority founded (Jerry Falwell, Paul Weyrich) | U.S. Christian Right institutionalised |
| Jun 1979 | Pope John Paul II visits Poland | Millions rally; "We want God"; seeds of Solidarity |
| Nov 1979 | Grand Mosque siege, Mecca (Juhayman al-Utaybi) | Saudi Arabia pivots to Wahhabism; anti-American riots |
| Nov 1979 | U.S. Embassy hostage crisis, Tehran | 444 days; deepens U.S.–Iran rupture |
On 20 November 1979, Juhayman al-Utaybi and ~200–600 militants seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca, declaring the arrival of the Mahdi (Muhammad Abdullah al-Qahtani). Saudi forces, assisted by French GIGN (tear gas), retook it by 4 December. Juhayman and 68 others were beheaded.
Consequences: Saudi Arabia, humiliated, turned to Wahhabism to restore religious legitimacy. Stricter Sharia, restrictions on women, bans on cinemas and music, export of Wahhabi ideology globally. Before 1979, Saudi had been relatively modern — women drove, cinemas operated.
Khomeini's claim: He falsely accused the U.S. and Israel of orchestrating the siege, triggering anti-American riots across the Muslim world. Whether the siege was in any way facilitated or exploited by external actors is unconfirmed — no direct CIA link has been documented in open sources. Ongoing.
Founded June 1979 by Jerry Falwell Sr. and Paul Weyrich (who coined "moral majority"). Prompted by a meeting of conservative activists — Weyrich, Terry Dolan, Richard Viguerie, Howard Phillips — who urged Falwell to establish the group after struggles over Christian Voice (1978).
CIA connection: No direct evidence of CIA funding or direction of the Moral Majority in open sources. Operation Mockingbird (CIA media influence) was exposed in the 1970s; Bernstein's 1977 Rolling Stone piece documented 400+ press assets. Deborah Davis's 1979 book named "Operation Mockingbird." Whether the CIA or allied actors influenced the timing, messaging, or funding of the Moral Majority remains speculative. The synchronisation of 1979 — Iran, Mecca, Moral Majority, papal Poland — is striking; correlation is not causation.
John Paul II (elected Oct 1978) made his first papal visit to Poland, the first pope to visit a communist-ruled nation. ~11 million of 36 million Poles saw him. In Warsaw's Victory Square, crowds chanted "We want God." The visit is widely credited as catalytic for Solidarity (founded 1980) and the eventual fall of the Iron Curtain.
CIA connection: The Vatican and the CIA had a long-standing alliance against communism (documented in various histories). Whether the 1979 visit was coordinated, encouraged, or simply welcomed by Western intelligence is undocumented in this investigation. Open question.
| Technology | Mechanism | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| God Helmet (Persinger/Koren) | Weak magnetic fields (10 nT–1 µT) to temporal lobes | "Sensed presence," mystical experiences reported; replication failures and controversy |
| Infrasound (19 Hz) | Below human hearing; resonates with human eyeball; pipe organs produce ~16.4 Hz | 2003 London experiment: 22% increase in "unusual experiences" (shivering, anxiety, emotional memories) with 17 Hz exposure |
| Dreamachine (Gysin, 1962) | Stroboscopic flicker to optic nerve | Altered brain oscillations; "religious and mandalic" visions (Ginsberg) |
| "Voice of God" (Bompas & Parr) | Infrasound at 19 Hz through cathedral-like structure | Eyeball distortion; theorised to explain sensations in churches with powerful pipe organs |
The investigator reports having seen videos of invisible ray technology used in churches to simulate euphoria, simulated deities, and related effects. No corroborating sources found in web search or standard literature. Possible directions:
Status: ongoing. If you have links, citations, or video references, please add them.
Irony (widely acknowledged): The U.S. has spent decades trying to prevent Iran from weaponising; Iran has the technology today because the U.S. gave it to them.
The 1979 revolution did not destroy Iran's nuclear infrastructure; it transferred control from a U.S.-allied secular monarchy to a theocratic regime with documented CIA contacts. If the ayatollah was — or became — a CIA asset, then:
Across its history, CIA behaviour appears consistently oriented toward routing, controlling, and manipulating world religions — not merely exploiting them tactically, but shaping which religious movements gain power, which are suppressed, and how faith intersects with geopolitics. Examples often cited: Vatican alliance; support for mujahideen and Islamist proxies; management of the Iranian revolution; possible influence on the 1979 religious revival across Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. The 1979 pivot — Iran, Mecca, Moral Majority, papal Poland — fits a pattern of religious currents being channelled rather than merely observed.