Cross-project check: the owner's Moray project text (review/Morray-TH/_text)

Not a web site: done 2026-10-08 during the Step I run, because the web snippets (Academia.edu, Slideshare) showed that Moray's The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats quotes Le Bon, and the owner already has Moray's books extracted. Method: grep for "le bon|lebon" across review//_text/.txt. Source folder for these texts: the Moray project manifest (review/Morray-TH/_text/manifest.json). Tags below are [read] (project text), with file and PDF page.

Moray's own writings citing Le Bon [read]

1. T. H. Moray, Radiant Energy ("For Beyond the Light Rays Lies the Secret of the Universe / The Evolution of Energy and Matter"), compiled 1926 - _text/Books-Works-by-Moray-Radiant-Energy-radiant-energy-1926-a4beae.txt, pp.41-42: - "idea is to study the research work of a score of scientists of 50 years or more ago. We will learn there are no so-called atomic secrets. A few of these scientists were Gustave Le Bon, Davy, Ampere, Faraday, Fleming, Galileo, Kalahne, David Henry, and others." He quotes Lucien Poincaré, then: "To substantiate the above statements we can quote Gustave Le Bon." - There follows a passage that matches, nearly word for word, Le Bon's own introduction to L'Évolution de la matière (compare the French at https://gustavelebon.org/livres/levolution-de-la-matiere): "Dr. Le Bon noted the emission by all bodies of particles endowed with immense speed, capable of making the air a conductor of electricity, of passing through obstacles, and of being thrown out of their course by a magnetic field ... One only--that the dissociation of atoms, which Dr. Le Bon advanced at the commencement of these researches--has resisted all criticism"; "When Dr. Le Bon formulated for the first time this generalization ... it attracted hardly any attention. In the whole world one physicist, the learned Prof. de Heen, alone grasped its import and adopted it after having verified its perfect correctness." - Note the 1926 booklet's subtitle "The Evolution of Energy and Matter".
2. Moray, The Sea of Energy in Which the Earth Floats, 4th ed. - two scans (…4thed-4e182f.txt, …4thed-a49807.txt): the same Le Bon passage ("It is now nearly seventy years since Dr. Le Bon proved by experiment..."), and the bibliography (PDF p.197 of a49807) lists "Evolution of Matter by Dr. Gustave LeBon" and "Evolution of Forces by Dr. Gustave LeBon" beside Tesla's 1904 Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency.
3. Moray, Sea of Energy, 5th ed. (1978, edited by John E. Moray) - …5thed-0d3c5c.txt: - p.13 (John Moray's introduction): "Fifty years before the advent of the atomic bomb, Dr. Gustav LeBon published a book describing what a nuclear fission reaction would be like, estimating it would be equivalent to the energy released by '1,340,000 barrels of gun powder.' I am told that, years later, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to LeBon's daughter stating that Dr. LeBon, physician turned physicist, was truly the father of nuclear physics." (The 1,340,000 barrels figure is Le Bon's, Matter Book II, for the speed of dissociated particles, not for fission.) - p.187: Henry Moray "became deeply involved particularly in the study of synthetic radioactivity as described by Gustave LeBon in his book, The Evolution of Matter. He ran into a new problem at this point; he found that for some reason the book had been withdrawn from the public libraries. As a result of Henry's inquiries about the book, FBI agents came by and asked why he wanted the book. He told them, very plainly, 'To read!'" - The 1960s-dated Le Bon passage reappears at p.214-216 with the footnote "*The Evolution of Matter, by Gustave LeBon".
4. John E. Moray, talk to the U.S. Psychotronics Association, 1980 (audio transcript, …Media-Audio-John-E-Moray-1980-…txt, lines 59-63): "I can remember the FBI coming to my father's door and demanding why he was using the Salt Lake City Library copy of Le Bon's book. They took a book that had been out for 30 years and classified it top secret to help run the Manhattan Project. I remember after that my father tried to, he started collecting any of Le Bon's work he could get, and we'd go to bookstores all over the West looking for Le Bon's evolution of matter." Dated by him to "1940-41 when the Manhattan Project first got started."
5. Moray, Isotopes in Ionic Recovery of U3O8 (…Istopes…txt, p.9): "The great French Scientist, Dr. LeBon, wrote 'Matter may be Reconverted' (please note he wrote 'reconverted' not just 'converted') into force ..." and "Dr. LeBon ... held he had proven that matter was a particular form of energy."
6. Air Force Materials Command file, "Direct Energy Conversion from Radioactive Materials" (Moray proposal, …gov-Airforce…txt, p.2): "Sir Ernest Rutherford, James Chadwick ... and C.D. Ellis ... referred to direct conversion as a means of identifying particles in 1899, while Dr. Gustave LeBon referred to it as early as 1897."
7. Also in the Moray folder: Nuenergy (zz-Misc, p.186 cited inside it) repeats the "synthetic radioactivity as described by Gustave LeBon" sentence.

How it bears on claim 6

• The 1990 review asserts, without quoting Moray, that Moray studied Le Bon. Moray's own 1926 booklet and Sea of Energy do cite Le Bon by name, paraphrase his Evolution of Matter introduction closely, and list both books in the bibliography. So the core of claim 6 (Moray read and used Le Bon) is documented in Moray's own writings [read], not only in Vassilatos's assertion.
• The library/FBI story comes from the Moray family (John E. Moray, 1978 edition and 1980 talk), i.e. an interested party (heir, and head of the Research Institute that promoted the Moray process). It is a first-person recollection by the son of events in 1940-41, documented in two of his statements; no FBI or library record has been found yet. Vassilatos's "during the war" and "supposedly illegal to possess" are probably derived from this family account (inference).
• "Einstein wrote a letter to LeBon's daughter" is hearsay in John Moray's words ("I am told"). Separately, a 1922 Einstein-Le Bon exchange does exist (see research/2026-10-08-cairn-moatti.md), which may be the kernel of the story (inference).
• The "third book ... 'The Evolution of Matter And Energy'" that the review attributes to "Girard Le Beau": Moray's own 1926 booklet is subtitled "The Evolution of Energy and Matter". One reading is that the hearsay title is a garbled reference to Moray's booklet or to a privately circulated compilation; another is that a separate text exists. No copy under "Girard Le Beau" was found in HathiTrust, Open Library or Google (see sites.md). Inference only.
• The Moray family's wording "synthetic radioactivity as described by Gustave LeBon" corresponds to Le Bon's claims that light, chemical action and electric discharge induce radioactive-like emission in ordinary bodies (claim 3).