 On 5 June 1956 two FDA officials arrived at Orgonon to supervise the destruction of the accumulators . Most of them had been sold by that time and another 50 were with Silvert in New York . Only three were at Orgonon . The FDA agents were not allowed to destroy them , only to supervise the destruction , so Reich 's friends and his son , Peter , chopped them up with axes as the agents watched . Once they were destroyed , Reich placed an American flag on top of them . 
