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>Cult was promoted in the "West" and spread by British Intel officer

Then there's this novel, part of the "Club of Rome Quartet", written by another Brit.

Amazing amount of coincidences (see sauce). A major part of the plot:

>House’s roommate Donald Hogan embarks on an even more challenging project — one that requires him to operate as a spy in a hostile Asian country, loosely based on Indonesia, where amazing breakthroughs in genetic research have been announced.

https://themillions.com/2013/03/the-weird-1969-new-wave-sci-fi-novel-that-correctly-predicted-the-current-day.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brunner_(novelist)