Sigh, I'lll guess I'll have to take this one on as nobody else seems interested.
3HO is a cult. And a particularly nasty, powerful, and well-connected one. Good place to start: Rick's page of multiple links about the dark side of 3HO.
http://www.culteducation.com/groups/3ho.html#A%20Special%20Reportfun facts:
-YB got his start as a customs official at the New Delhi airport in India, a country notorious for corrupt customs officials.
-He then came to Sunset Blvd in the late 60s and joined the other cult leaders trying to recruit burned out hippies off the street.
-He then moved his organization to New Mexico and turned it into a paramilitary org, including a very successful security company with multiple contracts with the government. If you saw the news about the security guard who was killed in Las Vegas last week, for example, he worked for 3H0's Akol Security, which frighteningly has contracts with everyone from DHS to Treasury to airports. They were also in charge of security at Oklahoma City during that bombing.
-While it is strange enough that a yoga group (peace and love, man!) would be involved in Homeland Security contracting and profiteering in general, it becomes outright disturbing when coupled with the fact that major 3HO leaders were convicted of drug trafficking in the SF Bay Area during the 80s, as part of a Thai-based smuggling operation. This has never caused them to lose their government contracts, amazingly enough.
It is possible that his work with American intelligence gave him a "get out of jail free" card for his shadier enterprises.
[fateh.sikhnet.com]
Richardson confided that he had arranged for top American intelligence officials to consult with "Yogiji" in Washington D.C. on the potentially explosive dynamics of South Asian politics concerning India and Pakistan.