Sanity for Superheroes

Jesus plus nothing: Undercover among America's secret theocrats—By Jeff Sharlet (Harper's Magazine)

2012-02-03T05:07:00.003-06:00

Jesus plus nothing:

by Jeff Sharlet, harpers.org

And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
—Matthew 10:36

This is how they pray: a dozen clear-eyed, smooth-skinned “brothers” gathered together in a huddle, arms crossing arms over shoulders like the weave of a cable, leaning in on one another and swaying like the long grass up the hill from the house they share. The house is a handsome, gray, two-story colonial that smells of new carpet and Pine-Sol and aftershave; the men who live there call it Ivanwald. At the end of a tree-lined cul-de-sac, quiet but for the buzz of lawn mowers and kids playing foxes-and-hounds in the park across the road, Ivanwald sits as one house among many, clustered together like mushrooms, all devoted, like these men, to the service of Jesus Christ. The men tend every tulip in the cul-de-sac, trim every magnolia, seal every driveway smooth and black as boot leather. And they pray, assembled at the dining table or on their lawn or in the hallway or in the bunk room or on the basketball court, each man's head bowed in humility and swollen with pride (secretly, he thinks) at being counted among such a fine corps for Christ, among men to whom he will open his heart and whom he will remember when he returns to the world not born-again but remade, no longer an individual but part of the Lord's revolution, his will transformed into a weapon for what the young men call “spiritual war.”

“Jeff, will you lead us in prayer?”

Surely, brother. It is April 2002, and I have lived with these men for weeks now, not as a Christian—a term they deride as too narrow for the world they are building in Christ's honor—but as a “believer.” I have shared the brothers' meals and their work and their games. I have been numbered among them and have been given a part in their ministry. I have wrestled with them and showered with them and listened to their stories: I know which man resents his father's fortune and which man succumbed to the flesh of a woman not once but twice and which man dances so well he is afraid of being taken for a fag. I know what it means to be a “brother,” which is to say that I know what it means to be a soldier in the army of God.

“Heavenly Father,” I begin. Then, “O Lord,” but I worry that this doesn't sound intimate enough. I settle on, “Dear Jesus.” “Dear Jesus, just, please, Jesus, let us fight for Your name.”

Ivanwald, which sits at the end of Twenty-fourth Street North in Arlington, Virginia, is known only to its residents and to the members and friends of the organization that sponsors it, a group of believers who refer to themselves as “the Family.” The Family is, in its own words, an “invisible” association, though its membership has always consisted mostly of public men. Senators Don Nickles (R., Okla.), Charles Grassley (R., Iowa), Pete Domenici (R., N.Mex.), John Ensign (R., Nev.), James Inhofe (R., Okla.), Bill Nelson (D., Fla.), and Conrad Burns (R., Mont.) are referred to as “members,” as are Representatives Jim DeMint (R., S.C.), Frank Wolf (R., Va.), Joseph Pitts (R., Pa.), Zach Wamp (R., Tenn.), and Bart Stupak (D., Mich.). Regular prayer groups have met in the Pentagon and at the Department of Defense, and the Family has traditionally fostered strong ties with businessmen in the oil and aerospace industries. The Family maintains a closely guarded database of its associates, but it issues no cards, collects no official dues. Members are asked not to speak about the group or its activities.

The organization has operated under many guises, some active, some defunct: National Committee for Christian Leadership, International Christian Leadership, the National Leadership Council, Fellowship House, the Fellowship Foundation, the National Fellowship Council, the International Foundation. These groups are intended to draw attention away from the Family, and to prevent it from becoming, in the words of one of the Family's leaders, “a target for misunderstanding.” ¹1. The Los Angeles Times reported in September that the Fellowship Foundation alone has an annual budget of $10 million, but that represents only a fraction of the Family's finances. Each of the Family's organizations raises funds independently. Ivanwald, for example, is financed at least in part by an entity called the Wilberforce Foundation. Other projects are financed by individual “friends”: wealthy businessmen, foreign governments, church congregations, or mainstream foundations that may be unaware of the scope of the Family's activities. At Ivanwald, when I asked to what organization a donation check might be made, I was told there was none; money was raised on a “man-to-man” basis. Major Family donors named by the Times include Michael Timmis, a Detroit lawyer and Republican fund-raiser; Paul Temple, a private investor from Maryland; and Jerome A. Lewis, former CEO of the Petro-Lewis Corporation. The Family's only publicized gathering is the National Prayer Breakfast, which it established in 1953 and which, with congressional sponsorship, it continues to organize every February in Washington, D.C. Each year 3,000 dignitaries, representing scores of nations, pay $425 each to attend. Steadfastly ecumenical, too bland most years to merit much press, the breakfast is regarded by the Family as merely a tool in a larger purpose: to recruit the powerful attendees into smaller, more frequent prayer meetings, where they can “meet Jesus man to man.”

In the process of introducing powerful men to Jesus, the Family has managed to effect a number of behind-the-scenes acts of diplomacy. In 1978 it secretly helped the Carter Administration organize a worldwide call to prayer with Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, and more recently, in 2001, it brought together the warring leaders of Congo and Rwanda for a clandestine meeting, leading to the two sides' eventual peace accord last July. Such benign acts appear to be the exception to the rule. During the 1960s the Family forged relationships between the U.S. government and some of the most anti-Communist (and dictatorial) elements within Africa's postcolonial leadership. The Brazilian dictator General Costa e Silva, with Family support, was overseeing regular fellowship groups for Latin American leaders, while, in Indonesia, General Suharto (whose tally of several hundred thousand “Communists” killed marks him as one of the century's most murderous dictators) was presiding over a group of fifty Indonesian legislators. During the Reagan Administration the Family helped build friendships between the U.S. government and men such as Salvadoran general Carlos Eugenios Vides Casanova, convicted by a Florida jury of the torture of thousands, and Honduran general Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, himself an evangelical minister, who was linked to both the CIA and death squads before his own demise. “We work with power where we can,” the Family's leader, Doug Coe, says, “build new power where we can't.”

At the 1990 National Prayer Breakfast, George H.W. Bush praised Doug Coe for what he described as “quiet diplomacy, I wouldn't say secret diplomacy,” as an “ambassador of faith.” Coe has visited nearly every world capital, often with congressmen at his side, “making friends” and inviting them back to the Family's unofficial headquarters, a mansion (just down the road from Ivanwald) that the Family bought in 1978 with $1.5 million donated by, among others, Tom Phillips, then the C.E.O. of arms manufacturer Raytheon, and Ken Olsen, the founder and president of Digital Equipment Corporation. A waterfall has been carved into the mansion's broad lawn, from which a bronze bald eagle watches over the Potomac River. The mansion is white and pillared and surrounded by magnolias, and by red trees that do not so much tower above it as whisper. The mansion is named for these trees; it is called The Cedars, and Family members speak of it as a person. “The Cedars has a heart for the poor,” they like to say. By “poor” they mean not the thousands of literal poor living barely a mile away but rather the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom: the senators, generals, and prime ministers who coast to the end of Twenty-fourth Street in Arlington in black limousines and town cars and hulking S.U.V.'s to meet one another, to meet Jesus, to pay homage to the god of The Cedars.

There they forge “relationships” beyond the din of vox populi (the Family's leaders consider democracy a manifestation of ungodly pride) and “throw away religion” in favor of the truths of the Family. Declaring God's covenant with the Jews broken, the group's core members call themselves “the new chosen.”

The brothers of Ivanwald are the Family's next generation, its high priests in training. I had been recommended for membership by a banker acquaintance, a recent Ivanwald alumnus, who had mistaken my interest in Jesus for belief. Sometimes the brothers would ask me why I was there. They knew that I was “half Jewish,” that I was a writer, and that I was from New York City, which most of them considered to be only slightly less wicked than Baghdad or Amsterdam. I told my brothers that I was there to meet Jesus, and I was: the new ruling Jesus, whose ways are secret.

At Ivanwald, men learn to be leaders by loving their leaders. “They're so busy loving us,” a brother once explained to me, “but who's loving them?” We were. The brothers each paid $400 per month for room and board, but we were also the caretakers of The Cedars, cleaning its gutters, mowing its lawns, whacking weeds and blowing leaves and sanding. And we were called to serve on Tuesday mornings, when The Cedars hosted a regular prayer breakfast typically presided over by Ed Meese, the former attorney general. Each week the breakfast brought together a rotating group of ambassadors, businessmen, and American politicians. Three of Ivanwald's brothers also attended, wearing crisp shirts starched just for the occasion; one would sit at the table while the other two poured coffee.

The morning I attended, Charlene, the cook, scrambled up eggs with blue tortillas, Italian sausage, red pepper, and papaya. Three women from Potomac Point, an “Ivanwald for girls” across the road from The Cedars, came to help serve. They wore red lipstick and long skirts (makeup and “feminine” attire were required) and had, after several months of cleaning and serving in The Cedars while the brothers worked outside, become quite unimpressed by the high-powered clientele. “Girls don't sit in on the breakfasts,” one of them told me, though she said that none of them minded because it was “just politics.”

The breakfast began with a prayer and a sprinkle of scripture from Meese, who sat at the head of the table. Matthew 11:27: “No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” That morning's chosen introduced themselves. They were businessmen from Dallas and Oregon, a Chinese Christian dissident, a man who ran an aid group for Tibetan refugees (the Dalai Lama had been very positive on Jesus at their last meeting, he reported). Two ambassadors, from Benin and Rwanda, sat side by side. Rwanda's representative, Dr. Richard Sezibera, was an intense man who refused to eat his eggs or even any melon. He drank cup after cup of coffee, and his eyes were bloodshot. A man I didn't recognize, whom Charlene identified as a former senator, suggested that negotiators from Rwanda and Congo, trapped in a war that has slain more than 2 million, should stop worrying about who will get the diamonds and the oil and instead focus on who will get Jesus. “Power sharing is not going to work unless we change their hearts,” he said.

Sezibera stared, incredulous. Meese chuckled and opened his mouth to speak, but Sezibera interrupted him. “It is not so simple,” the Rwandan said, his voice flat and low. Meese smiled. Everyone in the Family loves rebukes, and here was Rwanda rebuking them. The former senator nodded. Meese murmured, “Yes,” stroking his maroon leather Bible, and the words “Thank you, Jesus” rippled in whispers around the table as I poured Sezibera another cup of coffee.

The brothers also served at the Family's four-story, redbrick Washington town house, a former convent at 133 C Street S.E. complete with stained-glass windows. Eight congressmen—including Senator Ensign and seven representatives²2. According to the Los Angeles Times, congressmen who have lived there include Rep. Mike Doyle (D., Pa.), former Rep. Ed Bryant (R., Tenn.), and former Rep. John Elias Baldacci (D., Maine). The house's eight congressman-tenants each pay $600 per month in rent for use of a town house that includes nine bathrooms and five living rooms. When the Times asked then-resident Rep. Bart Stupak (D., Mich.) about the property, he replied, “We sort of don't talk to the press about the house.”—lived there, brothers in Christ just like us, only more powerful. We scrubbed their toilets, hoovered their carpets, polished their silver. The day I worked at C Street I ran into Doug Coe, who was tutoring Todd Tiahrt, a Republican congressman from Kansas. A friendly, plainspoken man with a bright, lazy smile, Coe has worked for the Family since 1959, soon after he graduated from college, and has led it since 1969.

Tiahrt was a short shot glass of a man, two parts flawless hair and one part teeth. He wanted to know the best way “for the Christian to win the race with the Muslim.” The Muslim, he said, has too many babies, while Americans kill too many of theirs.

Doug agreed this could be a problem. But he was more concerned that the focus on labels like “Christian” might get in the way of the congressman's prayers. Religion distracts people from Jesus, Doug said, and allows them to isolate Christ's will from their work in the world.

“People separate it out,” he warned Tiahrt. “'Oh, okay, I got religion, that's private.' As if Jesus doesn't know anything about building highways, or Social Security. We gotta take Jesus out of the religious wrapping.”

“All right, how do we do that?” Tiahrt asked.

“A covenant,” Doug answered. The congressman half-smiled, as if caught between confessing his ignorance and pretending he knew what Doug was talking about. “Like the Mafia,” Doug clarified. “Look at the strength of their bonds.” He made a fist and held it before Tiahrt's face. Tiahrt nodded, squinting. “See, for them it's honor,” Doug said. “For us, it's Jesus.”

Coe listed other men who had changed the world through the strength of the covenants they had forged with their “brothers”: “Look at Hitler,” he said. “Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Bin Laden.” The Family, of course, possessed a weapon those leaders lacked: the “total Jesus” of a brotherhood in Christ.

“That's what you get with a covenant,” said Coe. “Jesus plus nothing.”

To the Family, Jesus is not just a name; he is also a real man. “An awesome guy,” a Family employee named Terry told the brothers over breakfast one morning. “He excelled in every activity. He was a great teacher, sure, but he was also a real guy's guy. He would have made an excellent athlete.”

On my first day at Ivanwald, on an uneven court behind the house, I learned to play a two-ball variant of basketball called “bump” that was designed to sharpen both body and soul. In bump, players compete at free throws, each vying to sink his own before the man behind him sinks his. If he hits first then you're out, with one exception: the basket's net narrows at the chute so that the ball sometimes sticks, at which point another player can hurl his ball up from beneath, knocking the first ball out. In this event everyone cries “Bu-u-ump,” with great joy.

Bengt began it. He was one of the house's leaders, a twenty-four-year-old North Carolinian with sad eyes and spiky eyebrows and a loud, disarming laugh that made him sound like a donkey. From inside the house, waiting for a phone call, he opened a second-floor window and called to Gannon for a ball. Gannon, the son of a Texas oilman, worked as a Senate aide³3. Gannon worked for Senator Don Nickles, then the second-ranking Republican. The man who oversaw Ivanwald and interviewed us for admission was a lawyer named Steve South, who formerly had been Senator Nickles's chief counsel and was still a close associate.; he had blond hair and a chin like a plow, and he sang in a choir. He tossed one up, which Bengt caught and dispatched toward the basket. “Nice,” Gannon drawled as the ball sank through.

As soon as the ball bounced off the rim, Beau was at the free-throw line, taking his shot. Beau was a good-natured Atlantan with the build of a wrestler; as a bumper he was second only to Bengt.

“It's okay if you bump into the other guys, too,” Gannon told me as my turn approached. “The idea's kinda to get that tension building.” Ahead of me Beau bent his knees to take another shot. The moment the ball rolled off his fingers, Wayne, also from Georgia, jumped up and hurled his own ball over Beau's head. As he returned to earth, his elbow descended on Beau's shoulder like a hammer. “Bump that,” he said.

Bump was designed to bring out your hostilities. The Family believes that you can't grow in Jesus unless you “face your anger,” and then abandon it. When bump worked right, each man was supposed to lose himself, forgetting even the precepts of the game. Sometimes you wanted to get the ball in, sometimes you wanted to knock it out. In, out, it didn't matter. Your ball, his, who cared? Bump wasn't horseplay, it was a physicalized theology. It was to basketball what the New Testament is to the Old: stripped down to one simple story that always ends the same. Bump, Jesus. Bump, Jesus.

I stepped to the line and, after missing, moved in for a layup. Wayne jumped to the line and shot. “Dude!” he shouted. I looked up. His ball, meant to hit mine, slammed into my forehead. Bu-u-ump! the boys hollered. They had bumped me with Christ.

Bengt bumped. Beau bumped. Gannon bumped. I was out of contention. Gannon joined me, then Beau. The game was down to Bengt and Wayne. When Wayne threw from behind Bengt, he hurled the ball with such force that it sent Bengt chasing his ball into the neighboring yard. “Tenacious Wayne!” Gannon roared. Wayne scooped up his own ball, leapt, and slam-dunked Bengt out. “That's yo motha!” he hollered.

Trotting back to the court, Bengt shook his head. “You the man, Wayne,” he said. “Just keep it calm.” Wayne was ready to burst.

“Huddle up guys,” said Bengt. We formed a circle, arms wrapped around shoulders. “Okay,” he said. “We're gonna pray now. Lord, I just want to thank you for bringing us out here today to have fellowship in bump and for blessing this fine day with a visit from our new friend Jeff. Lord, we thank you for bringing this brother to us from up north, because we know he can learn to bump, and just—love you, and serve you and Lord, let us all just—Lord, be together in your name. Amen.”

The regimen was so precise it was relaxing: no swearing, no drinking, no sex, no self. Watch out for magazines and don't waste time on newspapers and never watch TV. Eat meat, study the Gospels, play basketball: God loves a man who can sink a three-pointer. Pray to be broken. O Heavenly Father. Dear Jesus. Help me be humble. Let me do Your will. Every morning began with a prayer, some days with outsiders—Wednesdays led by a former Ivanwald brother, now a businessman; Thursdays led by another executive who used tales of high finance to illuminate our lessons from scripture, which he supplemented with xeroxed midrash from Fortune or Fast Company; Fridays with the women of Potomac Point. But most days it was just us boys, bleary-eyed, gulping coffee and sugared cereal as Bengt and Jeff Connolly, Bengt's childhood friend and our other house leader, laid out lines of Holy Word across the table like strategy.

The dining room had once been a deck, but the boys had walled it in and roofed it over and unrolled a red Persian carpet, transforming the room into a sort of monastic meeting place, with two long tables end to end, ringed by a dozen chairs and two benches. The first day I visited Ivanwald, Bengt cleared a space for me at the head of the table and sat to my right. Beside him, Wayne slumped in his chair, his eyes hidden by a cowboy hat. Across from him sat Beau, still wearing the boxers and T-shirt he'd slept in. Bengt alone looked sharp, his hair combed, golf shirt tucked tightly into pleated chinos.

Bengt told Gannon to read our text for that morning, Psalm 139: “'O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.'” The very first line made Bengt smile; this was, in his view, an awesome thing for God to have done. Bengt's manners and naive charm preceded him in every encounter. When you told him a story he would respond, “Goll-y!” just to be nice. When genuinely surprised he would exclaim, “Good ni-ight!” Sometimes it was hard to remember that he was a self-professed revolutionary.

He asked Gannon to keep reading, and then leaned back and listened.

“'Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.'”

Bengt raised a hand. “That's great, dude. Let's talk about that.” The room fell silent as Bengt stared into his Bible, running his finger up and down the gilded edge of the page. “Guys,” he said. “What—how does that make you feel?”

“Known,” said Gannon, almost in a whisper.

Bengt nodded. He was looking for something else, but he didn't know where it was. “What does it make you think of?”

“Jesus?” said Beau.

Bengt stroked his chin. “Yeah . . . Let me read you a little more.” He read in a monotone, accelerating as he went, as if he could persuade us through a sheer heap of words. “'For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb,'” he concluded. His lips curled into a half smile. “Man! I mean, that's intense, right? 'In my mother's womb'—God's right in there with you.” He grinned. “It's like,” he said, “it's like, you can't run. Doesn't matter where you turn, 'cause Jesus is gonna be there, just waiting for you.”

Beau's eyes cleared and Gannon nodded. “Yeah, brother,” Bengt said, an eyebrow arched. “Jesus is smart. He's gonna get you.”

Gannon shook his head. “Oh, he's already got me.”

“Me, too,” Beau chimed, and then each man clasped his hands into one fist and pressed it against his forehead or his chin and prayed, eyes closed and Jesus all over his skin.

We prayed to be “nothing.” We were there to “soften our hearts to authority.” We instituted a rule that every man must wipe the toilet bowl after he pisses, not for cleanliness but to crush his “inner rebel.” Jeff C. did so by abstaining from “shady” R-rated movies, lest they provoke dreams of women. He was built like a leprechaun, with curly, dark blond hair and freckles and a brilliant smile. The Potomac Point girls brought him cookies; the wives of the Family's older men asked him to visit. One night, when the guys went on a swing-dancing date with the Potomac Pointers, more worldly women flocked to Jeff C., begging to be dipped and twirled. The feeling was not mutual. “I just don't like girls as much as guys,” he told me one day while we painted a new coat of “Gettysburg Gray” onto Ivanwald. He was speaking not of sex or of romance but of brotherhood. “I like”—he paused, his brush suspended midstroke—“competence.”

He ran nearly every day, often alone, down by the Potomac. On the basketball court anger sometimes overcame him: “Shoot the ball!” he would snap at Rogelio, a shy eighteen-year-old from Paraguay, one of several international brothers. But later Jeff C. would turn his lapse into a lesson, citing scripture, a verse we were to memorize or else be banished, by Jeff C. himself, to a night in the basement. Ephesians, chapter 4, verses 26–27: “'In your anger do not sin': Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold.”

Jeff C.'s pride surfaced in unexpected ways. Once, together in the kitchen after lunch, I mentioned that I'd seen the soul singer Al Green live. Jeff C. didn't answer. Instead he disappeared, reemerged with a Green CD, and set it in the boom box. He pressed play, and cracked his knuckles and his neck bones. His hands balled into fists, his eyes widened, and his torso became a jumping bean as his chest popped out on the downbeat. He heard me laughing, applauding, but he didn't stop. He started singing along with the Reverend. He grabbed his crotch and wrenched his shirt up and ran his hand over his stomach. Then he froze and dropped back to his ordinary voice as if narrating.

“I used to work in this pizza parlor,” he said. “It was, like, a buncha . . . I dunno, junkies. Heroin.” He grinned. “But man, they loved Al Green. We had a poster of him. He was, he was . . . man! Shirtless, leather pants. Low leather pants.” Jeff C. tugged his waistband down. “Hips cocked.” He shook his head and howled. Moonwalking away, he snapped his knees together, his feet spread wide, his hands in the air, testifying.

Jeff C. figured I had a thing against Southerners. Once, he asked if I thought the South was “racist.” I got it, I tried to tell him, I knew the North was just as bad, but he wouldn't listen. He told me I could call him a redneck or a hillbilly (I never called him either), but the truth was that he was “blacker” than me. He told me of his deep love for black gospel churches. Loving black people, he told me, made him a better follower of Christ. “Remember that story Cal Thomas told?” he asked. Thomas, a syndicated columnist, had recently stopped by Ivanwald for a mixer with young congressional staffers. He had regaled his audience with stories about tweaking his liberal colleagues, in particular about when he had addressed a conference of nonbelievers by asking if anyone knew where to buy a good “negro.” Jeff C. thought it was hilarious but also profound. What Thomas had meant, he told me, was that absent the teachings of Jesus there was no reason for the strong not to enslave the weak.

Two weeks into my stay, David Coe, Doug's son and the presumptive heir to leadership of the Family, dropped by the house. My brothers and I assembled in the living room, where David had draped his tall frame over a burgundy leather recliner like a frat boy, one leg hanging over a padded arm.

“You guys,” David said, “are here to learn how to rule the world.” He was in his late forties, with dark, gray-flecked hair, an olive complexion, and teeth like a slab of white marble. We sat around him in a rough circle, on couches and chairs, as the afternoon light slanted through the wooden blinds onto walls adorned with foxhunting lithographs and a giant tapestry of the Last Supper. Rafael, a wealthy Ecuadoran who'd been a college soccer star before coming to Ivanwald, had a hard time with English, and he didn't understand what David had said. So he stared, lips parted in puzzlement. David seemed to like that. He stared back, holding Raf's gaze like it was a pretty thing he'd found on the ground. “You have very intense eyes,” David said.

“Thank you,” Raf mumbled.

“Hey,” David said, “let's talk about the Old Testament. Who would you say are its good guys?”

“David,” Beau volunteered.

“King David,” David Coe said. “That's a good one. David. Hey. What would you say made King David a good guy?” He was giggling, not from nervousness but from barely containable delight.

“Faith?” Beau said. “His faith was so strong?”

“Yeah.” David nodded as if he hadn't heard that before. “Hey, you know what's interesting about King David?” From the blank stares of the others I could see that they did not. Many didn't even carry a Hebrew Bible, preferring a slim volume of just the New Testament Gospels and Epistles and, from the Old, Psalms. Others had the whole book, but the gold gilt on the pages of the first two thirds remained undisturbed. “King David,” David Coe went on, “liked to do really, really bad things.” He chuckled. “Here's this guy who slept with another man's wife—Bathsheba, right?—and then basically murders her husband. And this guy is one of our heroes.” David shook his head. “I mean, Jiminy Christmas, God likes this guy! What,” he said, “is that all about?”

The answer, we discovered, was that King David had been “chosen.” To illustrate this point David Coe turned to Beau. “Beau, let's say I hear you raped three little girls. And now here you are at Ivanwald. What would I think of you, Beau?”

Beau shrank into the cushions. “Probably that I'm pretty bad?”

“No, Beau. I wouldn't. Because I'm not here to judge you. That's not my job. I'm here for only one thing.”

“Jesus?” Beau said. David smiled and winked.

He walked to the National Geographic map of the world mounted on the wall. “You guys know about Genghis Khan?” he asked. “Genghis was a man with a vision. He conquered”—David stood on the couch under the map, tracing, with his hand, half the northern hemisphere—“nearly everything. He devastated nearly everything. His enemies? He beheaded them.” David swiped a finger across his throat. “Dop, dop, dop, dop.”

David explained that when Genghis entered a defeated city he would call in the local headman and have him stuffed into a crate. Over the crate would be spread a tablecloth, and on the tablecloth would be spread a wonderful meal. “And then, while the man suffocated, Genghis ate, and he didn't even hear the man's screams.” David still stood on the couch, a finger in the air. “Do you know what that means?” He was thinking of Christ's parable of the wineskins. “You can't pour new into old,” David said, returning to his chair. “We elect our leaders. Jesus elects his.”

He reached over and squeezed the arm of a brother. “Isn't that great?” David said. “That's the way everything in life happens. If you're a person known to be around Jesus, you can go and do anything. And that's who you guys are. When you leave here, you're not only going to know the value of Jesus, you're going to know the people who rule the world. It's about vision. 'Get your vision straight, then relate.' Talk to the people who rule the world, and help them obey. Obey Him. If I obey Him myself, I help others do the same. You know why? Because I become a warning. We become a warning. We warn everybody that the future king is coming. Not just of this country or that, but of the world.” Then he pointed at the map, toward the Khan's vast, reclaimable empire.

One night I asked Josh, a brother from Atlanta who was hoping to do mission work overseas, if I could look at some materials the Family had given him. “Man, I'd love to share them with you,” he said, and retrieved from his bureau drawer two folders full of documents. While my brothers slept, I sat at the end of our long, oak dining table and copied them into my notebook.

In a document entitled “Our Common Agreement as a Core Group,” members of the Family are instructed to form a “core group,” or a “cell,” which is defined as “a publicly invisible but privately identifiable group of companions.” A document called “Thoughts on a Core Group” explains that “Communists use cells as their basic structure. The mafia operates like this, and the basic unit of the Marine Corps is the four man squad. Hitler, Lenin, and many others understood the power of a small core of people.”

Another document, “Thoughts and Principles of the Family,” sets forth political guidelines, such as

21. We recognize the place and responsibility of national secular leaders in the work of advancing His kingdom.

23. To the world in general we will say that we are “in Christ” rather than “Christian”—“Christian” having become a political term in most of the world and in the United States a meaningless term.

24. We desire to see a leadership led by God—leaders of all levels of society who direct projects as they are led by the spirit.

and self-examination questions:

4. Do I give only verbal assent to the policies of the family or am I a partner in seeking the mind of the Lord?

7. Do I agree with and practice the financial precepts of the family?⁴4. The Family's “financial precepts” apparently amount to the practice of soliciting funds only privately, and often indirectly. This may also refer to what some members call “biblical capitalism,” the belief that God's economics are laissez-faire.

13. Am I willing to work without human recognition?

When the group is ready, “Thoughts on a Core Group” explains, it can set to work:

After being together for a while, in this closer relationship, God will give you more insight into your own geographical area and your sphere of influence—make your opportunities a matter of prayer.
. . . The primary purpose of a core group is not to become an “action group,” but an invisible “believing group.” However, activity normally grows out of agreements reached in faith and in prayer around the person of Jesus Christ.

Long-term goals were best summarized in a document called “Youth Corps Vision.” Another Family project, Youth Corps distributes pleasant brochures featuring endorsements from political leaders—among them Tsutomu Hata, a former prime minister of Japan, former secretary of state James Baker, and Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda—and full of enthusiastic rhetoric about helping young people to learn the principles of leadership. The word “Jesus” is unmentioned in the brochure.

But “Youth Corps Vision,” which is intended only for members of the Family (“it's kinda secret,” Josh cautioned me), is more direct.

The Vision is to mobilize thousands of young people world wide—committed to principle precepts, and person of Jesus Christ. . . .
A group of highly dedicated individuals who are united together having a total commitment to use their lives to daily seek to mature into people who talk like Jesus, act like Jesus, think like Jesus. This group will have the responsibility to:
—see that the commitment and action is maintained to the overall vision;
—see that the finest and best invisible organization is developed and maintained at all levels of the work;
—even though the structure is hidden, see that the family atmosphere is maintained, so that all people can feel a part of the family.

Another document—“Regional Reports, January 3, 2002”—lists some of the nations where Youth Corps programs are already in operation: Russia, Ukraine, Romania, India, Pakistan, Uganda, Nepal, Bhutan, Ecuador, Honduras, Peru. Youth Corps is, in many respects, a more aggressive version of Young Life, a better-known network of Christian youth groups that entice teenagers with parties and sports, and only later work Jesus into the equation. Most of my American brothers at Ivanwald had been among Young Life's elite, and many had returned to Young Life during their college summers to work as counselors. Youth Corps, whose programs are often centered around Ivanwald-style houses, prepares the best of its recruits for positions of power in business and government abroad. The goal: “Two hundred national and international world leaders bound together relationally by a mutual love for God and the family.”

Between 1984 and 1992 the Fellowship Foundation consigned 592 boxes—decades of the Family's letters, sermons, minutes, Christmas cards, travel itineraries, and lists of members—to an archive at the Billy Graham Center of Wheaton College in Illinois. Until I visited last fall, the archive had gone largely unexamined.

The Family was founded in April 1935 by Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian immigrant who made his living as a traveling preacher. One night, while lying in bed fretting about socialists, Wobblies, and a Swedish Communist who, he was sure, planned to bring Seattle under the control of Moscow, Vereide received a visitation: a voice, and a light in the dark, bright and blinding. The next day he met a friend, a wealthy businessman and former major, and the two men agreed upon a spiritual plan. They enlisted nineteen business executives in a weekly breakfast meeting and together they prayed, convinced that Jesus alone could redeem Seattle and crush the radical unions. They wanted to give Jesus a vessel, and so they asked God to raise up a leader. One of their number, a city councilman named Arthur Langlie, stood and said, “I am ready to let God use me.” Langlie was made first mayor and later governor, backed in both campaigns by money and muscle from his prayer-breakfast friends, whose number had rapidly multiplied.⁵5. As Vereide recounted in a 1961 biography, Modern Viking, one union boss joined the group, proclaiming that the prayer movement would make unions obsolete. He said, “'I got down on my knees and asked God to forgive me . . . for I have been a disturbing factor and a thorn in Your flesh.'” A “rugged capitalist who had been the chairman of the employers' committee in the big strike” put his left hand on the labor leader's shoulder and said, “'Jimmy, on this basis we go on together.'” Vereide and his new brothers spread out across the Northwest in chauffeured vehicles (a $20,000 Dusenburg carried brothers on one mission, he boasted). “Men,” wrote Vereide, “thus quickened.” Prayer breakfast groups were formed in dozens of cities, from San Francisco to Philadelphia. There were already enough men ministering to the down-and-out, Vereide had decided; his mission field would be men with the means to seize the world for God. Vereide called his potential flock of the rich and powerful, those in need only of the “real” Jesus, the “up-and-out.”

Vereide arrived in Washington, D.C., on September 6, 1941, as the guest of a man referred to only as “Colonel Brindley.” “Here I am finally,” he wrote to his wife, Mattie, who remained in Seattle. “In a day or two—many will know that I am in town and by God's grace it will hum.” Within weeks he had held his first D.C. prayer meeting, attended by more than a hundred congressmen. By 1943, now living in a suite at Colonel Brindley's University Club, Vereide was an insider. “My what a full and busy day!” he wrote to Mattie on January 22.

The Vice President brought me to the Capitol and counseled with me regarding the programs and plans, and then introduced me to Senator [Ralph Owen] Brewster, who in turn to Senator [Harold Hitz] Burton—then planned further the program [of a prayer breakfast] and enlisted their cooperation. Then to the Supreme Court for visits with some of them . . . then back to the Senate, House. . . . The hand of the Lord is upon me. He is leading.

By the end of the war, nearly a third of U.S. senators attended one of his weekly prayer meetings.

In 1944, Vereide had foreseen what he called “the new world order.” “Upon the termination of the war there will be many men available to carry on,” Vereide wrote in a letter to his wife. “Now the ground-work must be laid and our leadership brought to face God in humility, prayer and obedience.” He began organizing prayer meetings for delegates to the United Nations, at which he would instruct them in God's plan for rebuilding from the wreckage of the war. Donald Stone, a high-ranking administrator of the Marshall Plan, joined the directorship of Vereide's organization. In an undated letter, he wrote Vereide that he would “soon begin a tour around the world for the [Marshall Plan], combining with this a spiritual mission.” In 1946, Vereide, too, toured the world, traveling with letters of introduction from a half dozen senators and representatives, and from Paul G. Hoffman, the director of the Marshall Plan. He traveled also with a mandate from General John Hildring, assistant secretary of state, to oversee the creation of a list of good Germans of “the predictable type” (many of whom, Vereide believed, were being held for having “the faintest connection” with the Nazi regime), who could be released from prison “to be used, according to their ability in the tremendous task of reconstruction.” Vereide met with Jewish survivors and listened to their stories, but he nevertheless considered ex-Nazis well suited for the demands of “strong” government, so long as they were willing to worship Christ as they had Hitler.

In 1955, Senator Frank Carlson, a close adviser to Eisenhower and an even closer associate of Vereide's, convened a meeting at which he declared the Family's mission to be a “worldwide spiritual offensive,” in which common cause would be made with anyone opposed to the Soviet Union. That same year, the Family financed an anti-Communist propaganda film, Militant Liberty, for use by the Defense Department in influencing opinion abroad. By the Kennedy era, the spiritual offensive had fronts on every continent but Antarctica (which Family missionaries would not visit until the 1980s). In 1961, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia deeded the Family a prime parcel in downtown Addis Ababa to serve as an African headquarters, and by then the Family also had powerful friends in South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya. Back home, Senator Strom Thurmond prepared several reports for Vereide concerning the Senate's deliberations. Former president Eisenhower, Doug Coe would later claim at a private meeting of politicians, once pledged secret operatives to aid the Family's operations. Even in Franco's Spain, Vereide once boasted at a prayer breakfast in 1965, “there are secret cells such as the American Embassy [and] the Standard Oil office [that allow us] to move practically anywhere.”

By the late sixties, Vereide's speeches to local prayer breakfast groups had become minor news events, and Family members' travels on behalf of Christ had attracted growing press attention. Vereide began to worry that the movement he had spent his life building might become just another political party. In 1966, a few years before he was “promoted” to heaven at age eighty-four, Vereide wrote a letter declaring it time to “submerge the institutional image of [the Family].” No longer would the Family recruit its powerful members in public, nor recruit so many. “There has always been one man,” wrote Vereide, “or a small core who have caught the vision for their country and become aware of what a 'leadership led by God' could mean spiritually to the nation and to the world. . . . It is these men, banded together, who can accomplish the vision God gave me years ago.”

Two weeks into my stay, Bengt announced to the brothers that he was applying to graduate school. He had chosen a university close enough to commute from the house, with a classics program he hoped would complement (maybe even renew, he told me privately) his relationship with Christ. After dinner every night he would disappear into the little office beside his upstairs bunk room to compose his statement of purpose on the house's one working computer.

Knowing I was a writer, he eventually gave me the essay to read. We sat down in Ivanwald's “office,” a room barely big enough for the two of us. We crossed our legs in opposite directions so as not to knock knees.

My formal education has been a progression from confusion and despair to hope, the essay began. Its story hewed to the familiar fundamentalist routine of lost and found: every man and woman a sinner, fallen but nonetheless redeemed. And yet Bengt's sins were not of the flesh but of the mind. In college he had abandoned his boyhood ambition of becoming a doctor to study philosophy: Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Hegel. Raised in the faith, his ideas about God crumbled before the disciplined rage of the philosophers. “I cut and ran,” he told me. To Africa, where by day he worked on ships and in clinics, and by night read Dostoevsky and the Bible, its darkest and most seductive passages: Lamentations, Job, the Song of Songs. These authors were alike, his essay observed: They wrote about [suffering] like a companion.

I looked up. “A double,” I said, remembering Dostoevsky's alter egos.

Bengt nodded. “You know how you can stare at something for a long time and not see it the way it really is? That's what scripture had been to me.” Through Dostoevsky he began to see the Old Testament for what it is: relentless in its horror, its God a fire, a whirlwind, a “bear, lying in wait,” “a lion in secret places.” Even worse is its Man: a rapist, a murderer, a wretched thief, a fool.

“But,” said Bengt, “that's not how it ends.”

Bengt meant Jesus. I thought of the end of The Brothers Karamazov: the saintly Alyosha, leading a pack of boys away from a funeral to feast on pancakes, everyone clapping hands and proclaiming eternal brotherhood. In Africa, Bengt had seen people who were diseased, starving, trapped by war, but who seemed nonetheless to experience joy. Bengt recalled listening to a group of starving men play the drums. “Doubt,” he said, “is just a prelude to joy.”

I had heard this before from mainstream Christians, but I suspected Bengt meant it differently. A line in Dostoevsky's The Possessed reminded me of him: when the conservative nationalist Shatov asks Stavrogin, the cold-hearted radical, “Wasn't it you who said that even if it was proved to you mathematically that the Truth was outside Christ, you would prefer to remain with Christ outside the Truth?” Stavrogin, who refuses to be cornered, denies it.

“Exactly,” Bengt said. In Africa he had seen the trappings of Christianity fall away. All that remained was Christ. “You can't argue with absolute power.”

I put the essay down. Bengt nudged it back into my hands. “I want to know what you think of my ending.”

As I have read more about Jesus, it ran, I have also been intrigued by his style of interaction with other people. He was fascinated in particular by an encounter in the Gospel of John, chapter 1, verse 35–39, in which Jesus asks two men why they are following him. In turn, the men ask where Jesus is staying, to which he replies, “Come and see.” I am not sure how Jesus asks the question, Bengt had concluded, but from the response, it seems like he is asking, “What do you desire?”

“That's what it's about,” Bengt said. “Desire.” He shifted in his chair. “Think about it: 'What do you desire?'”

“God?”

“Yes.”

“That's the answer?” I asked.

“He's the question,” Bengt retorted, half-smiling, satisfied with his inversion by which doubt became the essence of a dogma. God was just what Bengt desired Him to be, even as Bengt was, in the face of God, “nothing.” Not for aesthetics alone, I realized, did Bengt and the Family reject the label “Christian.” Their faith and their practice seemed closer to a perverted sort of Buddhism, their God outside “the truth,” their Christ everywhere and nowhere at once, His commands phrased as questions, His will as simple to divine as one's own desires. And what the Family desired, from Abraham Vereide to Doug Coe to Bengt, was power, worldly power, with which Christ's kingdom can be built, cell by cell.

Not long after our conversation, Bengt put a bucket beside the toilet in the downstairs bunk room. From now on, he announced, all personal items left in the living room would go into the bucket. “If you're missing anything, guys,” Bengt said over dinner, “look in the bucket.”

I looked in the bucket. Here's what I found: One pair of flip-flops. One pocket-sized edition of the sayings of Jesus. One Frisbee. One copy of Executive Orders, by Tom Clancy, hardcover. One brown-leather Bible, well worn, beautifully printed on onion skin, given to Bengt Carlson by Palmer Carlson. One pair of dirty underwear.

When I picked up the Bible the pages flipped open to the Gospel of John, and my eyes fell on a single underlined phrase, chapter 15, verse 3: “You are already clean.”

Whenever a sufficiently large crop of God's soldiers was bunked up at Ivanwald, Doug Coe made a point of stopping by for dinner. Doug was, in spirit, Christ's closest disciple, the master bumper; the brothers viewed his visit as far more important than that of any senator or prime minister. The night he joined us he wore a crisply pressed golf shirt and dark slacks, and his skin was well tanned. He brought a guest with him, an Albanian politician whose pale face and ill-fitting gray suit made Doug seem all the more radiant. In his early seventies, Doug could have passed for fifty: his hair was dark, his cheeks taut. His smile was like a lantern.

“Where,” Doug asked Rogelio, “are you from, in Paraguay?”

“Asunción,” he said.

Doug smiled. “I've visited there many times.” He chewed for a while.

PROMIS Software evolution to Ptech

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PROMIS Software evolution to Ptech

altacocker.com | Nov 7th 2001

Michael Kane

"I believe that Dick Cheney also had the ability using evolutions of the PROMIS software, to penetrate and override any other radar computer or communications system in the government."

- Mike Ruppert, in "Summation: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury," from Crossing The Rubicon, p.592

[At the heart of our story is a program (we'll call it Ptech, after the company that produced it) that combines artificial intelligence, datamining, and "interoperability," the capacity for one program to read, operate, and modify the source codes of other programs. The computational power of the Ptech evolution of PROMIS represents a daunting new surveillance-and-intervention capability in the hands of the same elites who planned 9/11, prosecute the subsequent resource wars, and are presiding over what may become a full economic and military disaster for the resource-consuming citizens of America and the world. Since the "War On Terror" and the coming dollar/fossil fuel collapse will necessitate new levels of domestic repression, this is just the capability those elites require. Ptech is the functional equivalent of Total Information Awareness.

The human side of Ptech is where the thievery and murder come in: among the financiers and programmers of Ptech are apparent members of an international network of organized criminals involved in decades of narcotraffic, gunrunning, money laundering, and terrorism. Their personal and professional connections reach up into the highest levels of the American government, and their activities are still underway.

The issue of Saudi complicity in the attacks of 9/11 has played out into two different views. The first is the idea that the Saudis were solely responsible. This has been pumped up by Fox News and largely accepted as gospel in certain parts of the mainstream media. The second view is that the Saudis were set up to take the fall for having pulled off 9/11, covering up U.S. complicity. Neither view is correct, and both depend on a mistaken view of that country as a monolithic, homogeneous actor on the world stage. The opposite is true.

At the top of Arabian society is the giant royal House of Saud, descendants of Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, a charismatic warlord who used religious and marital alliances to consolidate his military conquests and, eventually, found a modern state on the Arabian Peninsula in 1932. Ibn Saud's success was partially dependent on his powerful religious allies, the inheritors of a doctrinaire form of Islam founded by the cleric Mohammed bin Abdul Wahhab (1702 - 1793). That coalition became increasingly unstable with the massive influx of oil wealth that began shortly after the first Arabian discoveries by SoCal (now Chevron) and Texaco, also in the 1930's.

Like virtually all Islamic states, Saudi Arabia has been the target of ongoing efforts by American intelligence aimed at suppressing any stirrings of incipient secular leftism. This is opposed, we believe, to what may be convenient and clandestine support for "al-Qaeda" terrorists (i.e. fundamentalists), acting as US proxies, who might destabilize the kingdom in advance of the US carving off only those regions with oil reserves. Socially polarized oil wealth, the ever-changing Arab-Israeli conflict, and American geopolitical maneuvering configure a daunting matrix of hidden forces that can't be fully understood or managed - not least because the intelligence elements are often double or triple agents with inscrutable loyalties.

The Ptech story is of intense interest for its implications about US government guilt in 9/11. As Ralph Schoenman, Michel Chossudovsky, Paul Thompson and others have argued, "al Qaeda" is not only traceable to CIA activity in Pakistan and Afghanistan during the Soviet period, it is also a current tool of American imperial ambitions. That directly contradicts the official story, in which al Qaeda is the foreign devil incarnate, a militant hate group formed straight from the soil of Saudi ideology - with no economic grievances, no interests in common with anyone in the non-Muslim world, and above all, no connections to the United States through funding, personnel, armaments, drug trafficking, visa assistance, or communications. It certainly is a militant hate group, but the rank and file may be totally unaware of real connections between their own leaders and the people they oppose with their very lives. These disturbing links would be just as agonizing - and just as unthinkable - for American citizens as they would be for a militant Islamist teenager in a ski mask jumping hurdles at some secret training camp.

Beneficiaries of the Ptech-connected MAK charities, the young men in Hezbollah and Hamas are fighting in land disputes, not heady ideological quests. They are also bitter, bereaved, murderous bigots with all the psychic rigidity and hysteria found in fundamentalists from Oklahoma to Hebron to Jeddah. Their hatred of the American national security state is surely absolute, but they are also beneficiaries of the Pentagon's need for an Enemy. That means that they can expect the United States to provide covert help of some kind at crucial points in the game. And the most despicable element in the American side of that process is the Bush-Cheney junta itself, which used its own assets inside the terrorist network associated with Osama bin Laden to murder three thousand civilians in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania as a pretext for unending warfare. This was done for reasons of state. But it was also done for personal gratifications including vast sums of money, permanent blackmail over those involved, and a heroin-like rush of criminally insane individual power. Sophisticated or naïve, cynical or grandiose and idealistic, each person involved betrayed humanity. And the apparatus that permitted this remains in place - as do most of the personnel.

The solution to the Ptech problem is not just to get all that creepy software the hell off the computers. The bigger solution is transparency and disclosure, de-militarization and political internationalism; localization of production and exchange; and a more equitable distribution of resources and opportunity. As Stan Goff has explained in these pages, the word opportunity does not necessarily refer to competition for purchasing power and domination. It means the opportunity to grow Haitian rice in Haiti and sell it in Haiti, without having to contend with the export dumping of American corporate agribusiness. It means the chance to maintain a tribal existence in an Afghanistan that is neither the proving ground for a US-Soviet proxy war nor the playground of American-funded drug lords. And though all ideals are warped by the rigors of practice, this was the point of President Kennedy's de-escalation in Laos, his Alliance for Progress in Latin America, and his refusal to invade Cuba:

What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children--not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women--not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.

Now let's get back to the business of sticking up for people who were murdered on 9/11 and in its aftermath, and to diminishing the present danger. - JAH].

January 27, 2005, PST 0900 (FTW) - Ptech - the software company whose major investors and directors are strongly linked to the Muslim Brotherhood - produced software that derived from PROMIS, had an artificial intelligence core, and was installed on virtually every computer system of the U.S. government and its military agencies on September 11, 2001.

This included the White House, Treasury Department (Secret Service), Air Force, FAA, CIA, FBI, both houses of Congress, Navy, Department of Energy, IRS, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Enron and more.

Whoever plotted 9/11 definitely viewed the FAA as an enemy that morning. Overriding FAA systems would be the most effective way to ensure the attacks were successful. To do this, the FAA needed an evolution of PROMIS software installed on their systems and Ptech was just that; the White House & Secret Service had the same software on their systems - likely a superior modified version capable of "surveillance and intervention" functions.

Ptech is enterprise architecture software, which Indira planned on customizing to use as "risk architecture" software.

Enterprise architecture software is designed with the express purpose of knowing everything that is going on throughout the entirety of the enterprise in real-time. In the case of Ptech software installed on Whitehouse, Secret Service, Air Force and FAA systems, the enterprise included all of the data produced by those agencies in real-time.

Maybe this is why Ari Fleischer stated the Whitehouse didn't view Ptech as a threat; quite to the contrary.1 The Ptech software was a vital asset needed for the White House to execute the 9/11 plot, and may still be in place for possible use against professionals in government and military positions trying to do their jobs in the future.

The FAA & Ptech
In the 9/11 Commission report a "phantom flight 11" was added to the official version of what happened that day. A tape was played at the final commission hearing on June 17, 2004, of a woman from the FAA telling NORAD that flight 11 was still airborne at 9:24 am, long after it had actually struck the WTC. Originally this was reported to be the time when the FAA notified NORAD that flight 77 was off course and headed to the Pentagon.

This information was used by the commission to claim NORAD had never been informed that flight 77 was headed towards Washington D.C., leaving the FAA holding the bag for the penetration of the most heavily guarded airspace in the world. The commission's report states they were "unable to identify the source of this mistaken FAA information."

So what was it doing there?

FTW's position is that "phantom flight 11" was injected onto FAA radar screens by "the maestro"4 using Ptech software to override FAA systems. Let's examine the feasibility of such a scenario.

Ptech had been working on the data blueprint of the FAA's entire network for 2 years prior to 9/11. Their confidential business plan lays out just how much access they had to the FAA's data systems.

Ptech Inc. Confidential Business Plan: Page 37 of 46

The FAA recognized the need for leveraging its IT investment, with a means of centralizing activities and introducing consistency and compatibility within the operating systems environment. A Ptech consulting team was organized to use activity modeling to identify key functions that could be examined for improvement in network management, network security, configuration management, fault management, performance management, application administration, network accounting management, and user help desk operations.5

What the above tells us is that Ptech had access to the entire informational barn door of the FAA's data systems. In an amazing exchange published in part 1 of this series, FTW editor Jamey Hecht was able to confirm a central thesis of Crossing the Rubicon while interviewing Wall St. Whistleblower Indira Singh. Indira is an IT professional who started First Boston's first Information Technology group in 1975 and had worked on Wall St. until 2002. She's been an IT consultant for Banker's Trust, the U.N., JP Morgan, and American Express. In 1988 she started TibetNet - a derivative of DARPA's Internet, the service you are likely reading this report on at the moment. The exchange was as follows:

Jamey Hecht: You said at the 9/11 Citizens' Commission hearings, you mentioned - its on page 139 of transcript - that Ptech was with Mitre Corporation in the basement of the FAA for 2 years prior to 9/11 and their specific job was to look at interoperability issues the FAA had with NORAD and the Air Force, in case of an emergency.

Indira Singh: Yes, I have a good diagram for that…

Jamey Hecht: And that relationship had been going on mediated by Ptech for 2 years prior to 9/11. You elsewhere say that the Secret Service is among the government entities that had a contract with Ptech. Mike Ruppert's thesis in Crossing the Rubicon, as you know, is that the software that was running information between FAA & NORAD was superseded by a parallel subsuming version of itself that was being run by the Secret Service on state of the art parallel equipment in the PEOC with a nucleus of Secret Service personnel around Cheney.

…In your view, might it have been the case that Cheney was using Ptech to surveil the function of the people who wanted to do their jobs on the day of 9/11 in FAA & NORAD, and then intervene to turn off the legitimate response?

Indira Singh: Is it possible from a software standpoint? Absolutely it's possible. Did he (Cheney) have such a capability? I don't know. But that's the ideal risk scenario - to have an over-arching view of what's going on in data. That's exactly what I wanted for JP Morgan.

You know what's ironic about this; I wanted to take my operational risk blueprint which is for an operational event going wrong and I wanted to make it generic for extreme event risk to surveil across intelligence networks. What you're describing is something that I said, 'boy if we had this in place maybe 9/11 wouldn't have happened.' When I was going down to In-Q-Tel and getting these guys excited about creating an extreme event risk blueprint to do this, I'm thinking of doing exactly what you're saying Cheney might have already had! [emphasis added]

-- end of transcript

Ptech was working with Mitre Corp. in the FAA and, according to Indira, Ptech was the Alpha dog in that relationship. Mitre has provided simulation & testing technologies for the Navy.6 They provide multiple FAA technologies and boast in their annual reports that their two biggest clients are DOD & FAA. Mitre knew the FAA's technological enterprise inside and out, including any simulation-and-testing (war game) technology operated by the FAA.

This was the perfect marriage to ensure that the capacity to covertly intervene in FAA operations on 9/11 existed - in the middle of simulated war games.It is also the perfect marriage to ensure that the command and control of these capabilities was readily available to Dick Cheney via Secret Service Ptech software in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, the bunker to which Cheney was "rushed" by the Secret Service. As already pointed out in part 1 of this series, Ptech does what Total Information Awareness (TIA, the DARPA program to monitor all electronic transactions in real-time) is supposed to do. (There are an undetermined number of other software programs in the hands of an undetermined number of corporations also capable of this. Again, enterprise architecture software is designed with the express purpose of knowing everything that is going on throughout the entirety of the "enterprise" in real-time.

In the case of Ptech software, installed on White House, Secret Service, Air Force and FAA systems (as well as most American military agencies), the enterprise included all of the real-time data of the above mentioned agencies. Indira has confirmed Ptech software could have been set up to allow Dick Cheney to surveil and intervene on FAA radar screens.

As documented by former Bush counter-terrorism advisor Richard Clarke in his book, Against All Enemies, on 9/11 the Secret Service had the capability of seeing FAA radar screens in real time; and as documented by Mike Ruppert in Crossing the Rubicon, Secret Service has the authority to take supreme command over any and all American agencies - including the Air Force.

9/11 is a prime example of what Indira Singh calls "extreme event risk." In the months prior to the attack, she was working on a program capable of providing data in real time to prevent these types of events from happening. She had pitched this very idea just one week before 9/11 at In-Q-Tel Headquarters (CIA) in Virginia, giving a final presentation for an ICH (Interoperability Clearinghouse) project code named "Blue Prophet." Indira explained to CIA why she was supporting ICH in this project.

She told the In-Q-Tel team, "The intelligence and other agencies need this now." One of the men with CIA looked at Indira with what she describes as the "blackest, coldest look anyone has ever given her."

They weren't interested in Blue Prophet's software for interoperability or risk, but rather the data it would produce because the data would point in the right directions. That data was very predictive, producing quality real-time intelligence. This is one week before 9/11. If In-Q-Tel already had this capability, it's no wonder they would be wary of someone like Indira - the woman from New York in Risk Management who resided a few minutes' walk from the Twin Towers.

Debriefed by Secret Service - looking for a PROMIS
It was Indira Singh whose investigative research into Ptech laid the groundwork for this series. One of the first reporters Indira contacted was Joe Bergantino, a 20-year veteran investigative reporter for a CBS affiliate in Boston.

"There are some great people in mainstream media," says Indira, and according to her, Joe is one of them. Joe told her that Ptech's CEO Oussama Ziade had stated, "If it wasn't for that woman in New York, none of this (the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) raid) would be happening". Neither Joe nor Indira liked the way that sounded.

Joe contacted Senator Grassley's office. A Secret Service agent, Charlie Bopp, was reassigned to Grassley's office, and put in charge of the Ptech file. An initial meeting was scheduled with Indira in January 2003.

Indira showed up with what she called, "A major Ground Zero attitude." She was supposed to be on the 106th floor of the WTC on 9/11 but instead responded as a civilian EMT that morning. This was very personal for her. Charlie understood and nevertheless made the arrangements for a debriefing at the Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) in April 2003.

During the debriefing Indira was asked by a member of the Secret Service, "Is Ptech PROMIS?"

"I already knew what had happened to Danny Casolaro, and they were asking me if I had copies of Ptech," Indira told FTW.

Danny Casolaro was the investigative journalist mysteriously "suicided" in a West Virginia hotel room while investigating the theft of PROMIS software. Casolaro's investigation had uncovered a shadowy network he called "the Octopus" that seemed to have its hands in everything from drug trafficking and money laundering, all the way up to political assassinations and coups d'etat. When Casolaro's body was discovered, his arms were violently slashed and all the documents he traveled with were missing. He had told friends and relatives if anything happened to him they shouldn't believe it was by accident.

Being asked such a loaded question, she responded with her Ground Zero attitude saying:

"You have a copy of the software, why don't you tell me? This is not about the software guys, ok - was it a PROMIS? It was a place you could hide a PROMIS, a place you can drop a PROMIS."

Indira told FTW, "I was going to use Ptech software for risk surveillance at JP Morgan - Duh!"

By the very nature of risk surveillance, it is necessary to use PROMIS progeny based on artificial intelligence to achieve the capabilities we are describing. Charlie Bopp and those present for Indira's debriefing knew this, but they wanted to talk about the software and not the people behind the software. That is extremely significant. In part 1 of this series we've shown how the major people behind Ptech link to the Muslim Brotherhood, elements of the Saudi Royal Family, as well as Dick Cheney and the powerful American 'Christian' cult known as "The Fellowship," or, "The Family."

Indira wanted to name names, but Charlie wouldn't let her. "We can't investigate the people behind Ptech," said Charlie. "Just trust me, let's focus on the software." They gave no reasoning for this, they just said, "we can't."

"Well if you can't talk about the people behind this, it's a waste of time because with software like that you can't find trapdoors now. This is live stuff!" Singh told FTW. "You can't prove an intelligent agent [a small software component that reaches out to claim or insert information from another system - Ed.] went out and sent information somewhere. It's like proving you ate a piece of cake when you were 10 years old, unless you have video of it, it's not going to happen. It's that ephemeral." [emphasis added]

In other words, PROMIS-based activity leaves no footprints.

This means trapdoors are no longer necessary, or at least, no longer detectable. If Indira is correct, there would have been no "fingerprints" left of any kind showing just what Ptech software was used for on 9/11 and who used it.

"These guys debriefing me were from Military Intel, so they were trying to find out what I knew," says Singh. According to her, August of 2002 (the month before the story on Ptech was shut down by the White House, and three months before Ptech was raided) was a significant month. There were supposedly leaks of some kind coming out of the Persian Gulf. She was asked if Ptech software could have been the source of those leaks.

Singh responded, "Well if Military Intel are using Ptech in the Gulf, obviously! YES!"

During one of the initial meetings Indira threw a hat on the table from FDNY Engine 4, Ladder 15 and said, "I want you to put this on your desk, so any time you think of playing some political games you remember there were real people down there."

Indira Singh was done playing games.

Muslim Brotherhood, Christian Cultists, and Nazis
In part 1 of this series we documented the extensive ties from the Muslim Brotherhood running through Ptech. The Brotherhood was founded by Hassan Al-Banna and expanded with the help of Mahmoud Abu Saud of the House of Saud.7

This extensive network runs through various shell organizations and charities with interlocking boards, such as the New Jersey based real estate investment company BMI, CARE International, and the Northern Virginia based SAAR network - named after al Sulaiman Abdul Al-Aziz al-Rajhi, a scion of one of Saudi Arabia's richest families. Heading the SAAR network (renamed Safa) is Yakub Mirza, who also sits on the board of Ptech. It is of interest to note that claims against Al-Rajhi Banking & Investment Corp. for funding and supporting terrorism were recently dismissed by U.S. District Judge Richard Casey.

One of the central funding mechanisms in this nexus is the Al Taqwa Bank of Switzerland - now Nada Management - which the Department of Treasury says funds Al Qaeda.

Hitler supporter Albert Friedrich Armand Huber (aka Ahmed Huber) and Youseff Nada sit on the board of Al Taqwa. Nada reportedly helped the Grand Mufti escape from Nazi Germany when the Third Reich was teetering on the brink of collapse, and Ahmed Huber knew the Grand Mufti quite well; so well in fact, it was the Mufti who convinced Huber to convert to (the Brotherhood's form of) Islam.

Huber has spoken publicly of a "New Right" marriage of Nazi ideology and Islamist fascism. He has both a picture of Adolph Hitler and Osama bin Laden in his Swiss home.

Al Taqwa is a "hawala," a bank conducting transactions leaving no paper trail through a "good faith" global network that transfers funds - no questions asked.8 Bank Al Taqwa is located in the Bahamas; the parent company, Nada Management, is based in Lugarno, Switzerland, and is linked to the Royal Family of Liechtenstein.

Al Taqwa has done business with Asat Trust. The now deceased Prince Emanuel von und zu Liechtenstein became a board member of Asat Trust in May 1970 and stayed until November 1990, when he was replaced by Martin Wachter, the trust's current director.9

Asat Trust is on the American and U.N. terror list. According to the American Jewish Daily Forward, copies of business registration documents on file with authorities in Liechtenstein show that Asat Trust has been intimately involved with the Al Taqwa network during the last 30 years, registering changes in company names, personnel and financial structure.10

Most frightening of all is that this network seems to have links back to the powerful American Christian cult known as "The Fellowship," or "The Family." This organization is tied to American 'Christian' men of high political power including John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, multiple Congressional members and prominent business leaders. Some "Family" members have stated they would love to have Osama bin Laden as a guest speaker because of the covenant he has with his followers. Doug Coe, the Family's leader who was praised by George H.W. Bush at the 1990 National Prayer Breakfast for his "quiet diplomacy," openly admires Hitler's "covenant."11

Yassin Al Qadi - the Saudi terrorist financier who funded Ptech and BMI - claimed to have met Dick Cheney in Jeddah before he became Vice President and the two "still share cordial relations." When Cheney's office was asked to comment on this, spokeswoman Jennifer Miller Wise stated the Vice President gave her no reason to believe he had met with Al Qadi before he assumed office.12

That is a non-answer; "no reason to believe" he met Al Qadi leaves no reason to believe he didn't. Regardless, there are more transparent connections between elements of Saudi and American elites.

In November of 2001, Halliburton was awarded a $140 million contract to develop an oil field in Saudi Arabia by the kingdom's state-owned petroleum firm, Saudi Aramco, and a Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root, along with two Japanese firms, hired by the Saudis to build a $40 million ethylene plant.13

Dick Cheney is, of course, the former CEO of Haliburton.

As recently as 1991 ARAMCO had Khalid bin Mahfouz sitting on its Supreme Council or board of directors. Mahfouz, Saudi Arabia's former owner of the nation's largest bank, has been reported in several places to be Osama bin Laden's brother in law. However, he has denied this and brought intense legal pressure to bear demanding retractions of that allegation.14 He also denies any involvement in financing terror organizations.

One journalist who was sued by bin Mahfouz, Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, is counter suing in New York Federal Court. She is the only one of some 30 authors not to retract claims that Mahfouz has financed Al Qaeda operations as published in her book, Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop it.

Khalid bin Mahfouz has major partnership investments with the multi-billion dollar BinLadin Group of companies and is a former director of BCCI, the infamous criminal drug-money laundering bank which performed a number of very useful services for the CIA before its 1991 collapse under criminal investigation by the legal apparatus of multiple countries.15

George Herbert Walker Bush, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney all have extensive ties to the Saudi Royal family and Saudi elites, who in turn have questionable ties to terrorist financiers such as Yassin al-Qadi. It is therefore not unreasonable for Dick Cheney to have met al-Qadi while in Jeddah while CEO of Haliburton.

This is the reality of the world we live in; where a covert international power structure supercedes the interests of nation states, and the misnomer of "national security" is used to keep this network's secrets hidden from the prying eyes of authentic journalists and the public at large.

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The Black Budget Report - 2

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Organized Crime, Drugs, and the CIA

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Evidence That Denver and D.C. Quakes Caused by "Nukes"

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Evidence That Denver and D.C. Quakes Caused by "Nukes"

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by Sterling D. Allan
September 18, 2011

from PureEnergySystemsNews Website

Today I've received a phone call and a number of emails from people referring to an interview (below Audio) conducted recently with Benjamin Fulford, who asserts that the recent DC and Denver Quakes were spurred by underground nukes wiping out two of the New World Order bunkers by "white hat" elements in the U.S. Pentagon, signaling the end of days for the dark cabal that have been running the planet for millennia.

Va/Denver Quakes

Nuked NWO Underground Bases

The interview concludes with a discussion about how with this victory over the dark elements of the former powers-that-be, that many hitherto suppressed energy technologies will soon be released.

It's all a bit difficult to believe, and I probably wouldn't be mentioning it to you were it not for some hard facts that support the key points about the earthquakes not being natural. They have the same seismological signature as what accompanies a nuclear blast detonated a few miles below the Earth's surface.

Here is a government website that gives a comparison of a nuclear test and an earthquake on seismograph. Here is a comparison they show between the May 11, 1998 Indian Nuclear Test, and the April 4, 1995 earthquake in Pakistan.

It explains:

Livermore seismologist Bill Walter explains that the differences in seismic P- and S-wave energy provide one method of discriminating explosions from earthquakes.

Seismic P waves are compressional waves, similar to sound waves in the air. Shear (S) waves are transverse waves, like those that propagate along a rope when one end is shaken.

Because underground explosions are spherically symmetric disturbances, they radiate seismic P waves efficiently. In contrast, earthquakes result from sliding or rupture along a buried fault surface and strongly excite the transverse motions of S waves.

Thus, we expect that explosions will show strong P waves and weak S waves and that earthquakes will show weak P waves and strong S waves, as seen in Figure 2.

With that in mind, now look at this image of the seismic signature of the DC quake as shown at NBC17:

Readings from a seismograph at Washington and Lee University,

about 85 miles southwest of the earthquake's epicenter in Mineral.

Does that seismograph depict a natural quake or a nuke or explosion-induced quake?

Could it be any more blatant?

Its as obvious as Building 7 being brought down by pre-placed demolition charges on 9/11.

Here's the seismograph from the August 23 Denver quake that same day, as published by the Denver Post.

A seismogram of the Trinidad earthquake

as recorded on the Kent Denver School seismograph.

Again, the immediate onset of the large quake at the bottom right is indicative of an explosion-induced quake, not a natural quake.

In poking around a little bit, I found an August 24 story from the Canadian PressCore, titled: Seismic evidence reveals underground nuclear detonation south of Washington DC.

The author says that he was put onto this possibility by an unusual email he received from someone who apparently was a whistleblower.

I was pointed to this overlooked piece of evidence by someone who claimed to be with the United States Air Force.

The story submission appeared to be sent by mistake as nothing was visible in the body of the submission. Instead of sending it to the trash I thought I would apply an old intelligence trick I was taught back in 1989. I right clicked my mouse on the body of the submission and selected all, then copy. I then opened up the notepad and selected paste from the menu.

You would expect nothing to be pasted as there was nothing in the body of the submission but, just as I thought, a paragraph was pasted into the notepad. What was revealed was 1 paragraph whereby who ever sent it stated he was a member of the United States Air Force.

He stated that the Virginia 5.8 magnitude earth "wasn't a natural earthquake and not a HAARP earthquake".

He told me to find a seismograph of the Washington DC area earthquake and compare it to a past earthquake. Then he stated that I should Google DUMB or Deep Underground Military Bases. He ended by stating "the ABC warnings are real".

I tried to trace the IP of the submission but they don't exists.

Air Force tunnel boring machine links

deep underground military bases across U.S.

In the introduction to the interview with Fulford about the Denver and D.C. earthquakes not only being nuke-induced, but that they were used to destroy two underground New World Order bunker cities (of possibly 30,000 people each).

I'm familiar with the underground bunkers and cities that the black-ops have been building.

The best documentary I know on this was done by Jesse Ventura in his "Conspiracy Theory" series. The last half of the program was devoted to the underground bunkers that have quietly been built by dark elements in the U.S. Government looking out for their own survival with no thought for informing or preparing the population at large.

Here is some material that my awakened friend, Fred Burks compiled, who was formerly a translator for two U.S. Presidents:

Comparisons of seismograph readings

for earthquakes with nuclear tests

- Comparison of a nuclear test and an earthquake on seismograph on a government website
- Comparison of seismograph signatures for various events

Washington, DC, 5.8 earthquake

on Aug 23, 2011, 1:51 PM local time

- Most striking seismograph of DC quake on NBC affiliate
- Cornell University seismograph quite definitive
- Multiple seismographs of DC quake
- Access to hundreds more

Denver, 5.3 earthquake on Aug 22, 2011, 11:43 PM local time

(roughly 12 hours before the DC quake)

- Denver Post seismograph showing clearly nuclear explosion signature
- Hundreds of seismograph readings

To see what seismographs look like for more normal earthquakes, click below:

- 4.6 scale Aug 18, 2011 Off the coast of British Columbia
- 4.7 scale Sep 2, 2011 Utah

Both the Denver and DC earthquakes were quite shallow, with official reports giving 3.7 miles depth for the DC quake and 2.5 miles for Denver.

That is well within even conventional drilling technologies these days.

According to Wikipedia, earthquakes under 70 km (43 miles) are considered "shallow focus" earthquakes.

The Virginia quake was the largest there in 117 years, while the Denver quake was the largest in Colorado in 41 years. These two rare quakes happened only 12 hours apart. (Washington Post; Denver Post; Aug. 23, 2011)

So I find the evidence fairly solid that both of these quakes were not natural.

I agree with Fred that there is definitely enough evidence to consider the two very unusual quakes on August 23 as probably being spurred by nukes.

The question that is intriguing is why, who, and how.

Though it's hard to believe all the stuff covered in the interview, I do think it's worth a perusal, to give you something to think about and a working hypothesis to start from. It's definitely worth our attention, especially if the release of hitherto suppressed free energy patents is one of the upshots of this recent counter coup.

What is alleged by Fulford is that the nukes were done by good elements in the Pentagon who are fed up with the New World Order conspirators using the U.S. Military to enforce the spread of the police state tyranny, whose plan is to reduce the world population by 90% down to a "manageable" 500,000,000.

I personally am greatly encouraged by the possibility that there is that high a level of resistance from within the ranks of what used to be nearly totally controlled by the conspirators. It's a rebellion from within what used to be something they controlled.

The two underground cities were probably two key bunkers where the New World Order conspirators thought they could go run and hide while they bring destruction to the inhabitants on the surface.

But now they have been sent a message:

"We're all in this together here on planet Earth; what you do to others you do to yourself, so stop the destruction."

Hanks Mills comments...

On September 17, 2011 11:43 PM, my associate Hank Mills added:

Elected government officials are not the only individuals who control the course of human events.

There exists powerful individuals from the realms of banking, finance, secretive extra-government agencies, and the military-industrial complex, who manipulate the strings that make the puppets in official elected offices do their bidding. This tangled web of the ultra elite power barons is not easy to sort through.

I do not think anyone fully understands the true structure of these organizations, and their true motivations. What we do know, is that these institutes and families of power have suppressed exotic technologies and the truth about extraterrestrial activity on our planet. This suppression has been on going since before the crash of an extraterrestrial space craft near Roswell, NM in the year 1947.

If a nuclear attack did take place on one or more underground bases, this would be a clear indication of dissension in the ranks of the "powers that be." This whole situation reminds me - to a certain extent - of the situation in the fictional series Stargate SG1. In that fictional series, a highly secret, ultra black-budget military organization exists called, "Stargate Command."

The leadership of this organization have the task of trying to protect our planet from extraterrestrial threats, exploring the galaxy by traveling through "stargates" which allow near instantaneous travel to other worlds, and maintaining the secrecy of their program.

Those working for Stargate Command are portrayed as being the "good guys", despite the fact they suppress exotic technologies, withhold fundamental information about the universe from the public, and often take it upon themselves to make decisions that impact the entire human race - mostly with little supervision from elected authorities.

In this same fictional series, there are rouge groups, agencies, and organizations that compete with the Stargate program.

Some of these entities claim to be opposed to Stargate Command's secrecy and track record of sometimes putting humanity at risk, but in reality have their selfish motivations.

Of course there are groups of extraterrestrials in this fictional series that have their own desires and interests.

Some of these groups of extraterrestrials are benevolent, others are opportunistic, and still others are hostile. Although communicating with these species have often benefited Stargate Command's efforts to protect humanity, interaction with them have often created troublesome situations or threats to Earth.

The simple fact is that in the fictional series of Stargate and in our reality, it is not always easy to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. Even the attack on the underground bases may (or may not) have prevented some sinister plot, this does not mean those who launched the attack were "good."

They may not be heroes, or on the side of the billions of people on this planet. Their motivation for the attack may not be as simple and pure as we may hope.

If these apparent earthquakes were actually attacks on underground bunkers, thousands of people may have died. Many of these people probably were not evil, sinister individuals plotting for the eradication of 90% of the population, but could have simply been engineers and scientists working jobs, to earn a paycheck. The majority of those employed by these bases may have had no political agenda at all, and simply were thrilled to work on exotic technologies - or needed to find a way to pay their mortgage!

For example, NASA has naysayed alternative energy and alternative propulsion technologies for decades. The space agency has also belittled and mocked the incontrovertible evidence that unknown craft are visiting our planet. Regardless what we think of those who have actively participated in suppression, we cannot forget that the majority of people at NASA have had nothing to do with it.

To think that everyone at NASA is in a plot to suppress information that could change our world is simply implausible beyond measure.

Most of those individuals working at NASA truly believe they are working for the agency with the most advanced space technology in existence, or are simply there to get a paycheck.

Any nuclear attack that has taken place is a total and complete tragedy.

If those who perpetuated the attack desired to do the right thing, they should have organized a way to come forward to the public, and share what they knew. Instead, these individuals - many of which have probably been actively participating in suppression of various topics - may have taken another path that limits their personal risk while ending the lives of others.

Standing up and releasing highly classified information about extraterrestrial life, exotic technologies that could benefit all of humanity, or the operations of ultra secretive organizations, can be risky. In fact, it can be very dangerous, but fear of persecution is not an excuse for a nuclear attack.

I would urge the individuals and organizations that want to do the "right thing" to avoid conflicts with other entities, and simply speak up. Despite their rank, position, or situation they should organize the information they have, and share it with the world.

We live in an age where communication is easier than ever before.

If someone really wants to tell a story, in a matter of hours or less they can upload videos of their testimony to YouTube, send the video to thousands of people via email, post the information on countless message boards, drop a few hundred DVDs in the mailbox, create a Facebook profile with the information, and transmit the information in so many ways NO ONE will be able to stop it.

The more aspiring "good guys" who are willing to come forward and distribute their story at the same time the better it is for everyone involved.

There is no excuse for violence. Even when it comes protecting ones self, the best defense is honesty and full disclosure. I think the motivations and sincerity of any group that would perpetuate an act of violence should be questioned.

Let's hope if a nuclear attack did happen on one or more top secret bases, that these will be last such attacks.

What the world needs is the truth, the full truth, and nothing but the truth.

Sterling Adds...

The fact that the President and Congress have such low approval ratings has a lot to do with how unbelievable they have become.

Who can trust the government when they say:

"This is how and why 9/11 happened, and this is what we should do about it; when a common sense look at what actually happened screams so loudly to the contrary."

Some truth from the government would be nice, but it will take some time before people start believing again because they have been lied to for so long.

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Inside the Military UFO Underground

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Inside the Military UFO Underground

by A.J.S. Rayl, bibliotecapleyades.net
January 13th 2012

Name:

Bob Lazar, independent contract scientist and businessman

Claim:

To have worked as a propulsion-system engineer in late 1988 and early 1989 on one of nine extraterrestrial spacecraft being researched and tested on the Nellis Air Range in central Nevada.

Background:

From 1982 to 1984, Lazar claims he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in the Meson Physics lab with a Q-level security clearance. In 1985, while on vacation in Nevada, he wound up buying into a legal Reno brothel; the investment proved so profitable that he didn’t have to return to full-time employment for a while.

He moved to Nevada in 1986. In 1988, he wanted to get back into scientific work and was hired, he says, to work on the top-secret Project Galileo. Lazar passed a lie-detector test in 1989, arranged by George Knapp, then an anchorman for KLAS-TV, the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas, Nevada, for a special locally aired series, UFOs: The Best Evidence.

The Story:

"In 1988, I decided to reenter the scientific community and sent resumes to various people. Finally, I interviewed with a placement firm to work for the Department of Naval Intelligence in a civilian capacity, and in the fall of 1988, I was hired on an on-call basis to work on a project involving advanced propulsion systems. At that point, that’s all I knew.

"Not long after, I was flown along with several others out to Area 51 on the Nellis Air Range. There, we were put on a bus with blacked-out windows and driven about 15 miles south to the Papoose dry lake bed, bordered by the Papoose Mountains, where there was an installation they called `S4.’

"I was introduced to my supervisor and a co-worker and then given a stack of briefings on various projects, including Project Galileo, which was devoted to the study of nine disc-shaped extraterrestrial craft that were somehow acquired by the U.S. government.

"I was assigned back engineering tasks on the reactor and gravity-propulsion system of one of the discs--essentially to help figure out what made it work. I don’t know whether it was a crash retrieval, although I doubt it, because the disc didn’t appear damaged in any way. In the briefing reports, there were pictures of several discs along with some of the information they had already obtained from back engineering research.

"I was stunned and exhilarated at the same time. But there were well-armed guards everywhere, and this place wasn’t exactly the kind of environment where you could just start asking any and every question you had. Security, in fact, was oppressive. You were escorted everywhere, even the bathroom. And if your I.D. badge was just the slightest bit out of place, you would be tackled by a guard and held with a gun to your head until your supervisor arrived. And the guards lived for that.

"At times, the whole thing seemed just surreal. There was a poster of the disc I was working on, which I dubbed the Sport Model, on several walls. It read, They’re here.

"I dealt with only the power sources and propulsion systems on one of the discs, and I did enter that one disc on several occasions. The disc was approximately 15 feet tall and about 52 feet in diameter. It had the appearance of brushed stainless steel or brushed aluminum. I didn’t run a test on it, so I don’t know if it was metal, but I did run my hands down the
side of it getting in, and it felt cold, like metal, and it looked like metal. It had no physical seams, no welds or bolts or rivets, and it looked as if it were injection molded.

"Inside, there were tiny little seats, much too small to comfortably handle an averaged-sized human. I bumped my head on the ends of the craft, so I concluded that the ceiling curved down to below five feet, 11 inches inside. There was not a right angle cut anywhere in the craft. Everything had a smooth curve to it.

"The reactor, which produced antimatter and then reacted it with matter in an annihilation reaction, was only about 18 inches in diameter and 12 inches tall and was located in the center of the disc. It operated like a tiny ballet, where everything that happened relied on the effect before it. The way it accelerated protons inside of it, the way the heat was converted to electricity, was totally smooth without any wasted heat or latent energy. It was phenomenal, approaching a 100-percent dynamic efficiency. Now that seems impossible when you consider the laws of thermodynamics. All I can say is that this technology is well beyond anything that we now know with our twentieth- century knowledge.

"The reactor is fueled with an element that is not found here on Earth. Part of my contribution to the program was to find out where this element plugged into the periodic chart. Well, it didn’t plug in anywhere, so we placed it at an atomic number of 115. It has been theorized for some time that elements around 113, 114, and 115 may become stable and nonradioactive, and this is apparently what we were seeing. Element 115 is a stable element, but one with some interesting properties. It can be used inside the reactor as a fuel, but also as the source of an energy field accessed and amplified by the craft’s gravity amplifiers. In other words, the craft was both fueled and propelled by virtue of element 115.

"There was a storage of silver-dollar-sized discs of element 115 from which triangular wedges were cut and put into the reactor. It was a copper-orange color and extremely heavy. While it was not radioactive, we assumed it was a toxic material and consequently handled it as such.

"In all the discs at S4, there were three gravity amplifiers positioned in a triad at the base of the craft. These were the propulsion devices. Essentially, what they did was amplify gravity waves out of phase with those of the earth. The craft operated in two modes--omicron and delta, which indicated how many gravity amplifiers were in use. In the omicron configuration, only one amplifier was used; the other two were swung out of the way and tucked inside the disc. In omicron mode, the crafts can essentially rise and hover but do little else. To leave the atmosphere, however, all three gravity amplifiers have to be powered up and focused on the desired location. Finally, the crafts do not travel in a linear mode. Rather, we determined that the discs produced their own gravitational fields in order to distort time and space and essentially pull their destinations to them.

"One afternoon, my colleagues and I walked out onto the dry lake bed. The disc on which we had been working, the Sport Model, had already been moved out of the hangar and was beginning to lift off. Except for a slight hissing, it made no noise. It lifted to about 30 feet off the ground. The hissing stopped, and it just hung silently in the air, moving to the left, then right. It was absolutely amazing.

"The way information is compartmentalized, that’s all the hands-on information and experience I was allowed to have access to, though we were given the chance on occasion and only for short periods of time to read briefing reports that detailed other aspects of this project. The reports I read that dealt with power and propulsion systems were accurate, and I proved that to myself by working on the system. Still, I draw a hard line between what I know to be true and what I read in the other briefing reports.

"With that understanding, I did read reports about the origin of this disc. According to one of the briefings, it came from the Zeta Reticuli star system. Now obviously I didn’t fly in a craft or go to that star system, so I don’t really know if it came from there. I didn’t speak to any aliens or see any, so I don’t know if they exist or not. That report also said that contact was made at a certain date; however, all the dates were in code. Also, according to the report, these beings told our officials that they had been coming here for 10,000 years, that humans are the product of externally corrected evolution, and that they were integral to the accelerated evolution of man.

"My tolerance for the intensive security rapidly diminished. Because of the 24-hour telephone surveillance, they found out I was having marital problems and told me the situation had made me a candidate for `emotional instability.’ They then took my security clearance and told me I could reapply in six months.

"Well, I knew the test schedule, and I couldn’t resist, so one night I decided to show some friends from a distance what I had been working on. We all caravaned out into the desert where we watched a test flight. We got away it with it that time, so we started coming back again and again.

"Anyway, the third time we got caught by the Wackenhut Security guards out on the Bureau of Land Management land that surrounds the range. They turned me in. Needless to say, officials at Nellis weren’t happy. I went through a debriefing and was threatened at that time. I was scared and felt that I needed to break away from this before I couldn’t.

"Not only did I believe this technology should be given to the greater scientific community, but I also believed my only protection was to get the story out. A friend convinced me to talk to George Knapp at KLAS-TV. I figured if they killed me, then it would simply prove that what I was saying was true.

"There are many scientists who theorize that there simply cannot be extraterrestrial discs here, that aliens could not possibly have come here specifically, because the distance traveled is too great and the energy required too awesome, and that there’s no relatively quick way to go that distance even at the speed of light. What I reported is what I experienced, though in some respects I regret going public. If I had it to do over again, I might be more inclined to stay on as one of the boys."

Update:

In 1990, after Lazar says he was released from Project Galileo, he accepted a freelance job setting up a database and surveillance system for an illegal Las Vegas brothel. That gig eventually garnered him six felony counts, including aiding and abetting a prostitute, running a house of prostitution, and living off the earnings of a prostitute. The charges were quickly dropped to a single felony count of pandering. The one good thing that came out of the resulting trial, Lazar says, is that he’s not being followed anymore--at least not to his knowledge. "I guess they figured the pandering conviction discredited me," he comments.

Lazar currently earns a living from his two small companies, an independent contracting firm that repairs nuclear devices, and a photo lab. He also builds and races jetcars. And, every year since 1984, on the weekend before July 4, he has staged Desert Blast, which he says is the "the largest illegal fireworks show in the West." This annual pyrotechnic extravaganza features huge fireworks and assorted gas bombs made by Lazar and friends as well as jetcar demonstrations and a little semiautomatic weapons venting. Lazar recently sold his movie rights and is working on a new home video.

Official Response:

"The Air Force comment is that there is no comment on anything that goes on at the Nellis Range," says Air Force Master Sgt. J. C. Marcom of Public Affairs. Meanwhile, according to Technical Sergeant Henderson of Public Affairs, "The Air Force has no record that Lazar ever worked at Nellis Air Force Base, though we have compiled an extensive list of inquiries as to his status."

The Critics’ Corner:

"We’ve pretty well determined that Lazar did work at Los Alamos, but it’s been impossible to verify exactly what he did," says Mark Rodeghier, scientific director of the Center for UFO Studies. "As for element 115, physicists admit that such an element is theoretically possible, but we don’t know how to manufacture it or where to get it.

So, Lazar’s claim to have worked with this element is not necessarily insane, but it’s completely unverifiable. Finally, he seems to know enough to have really worked at Area 51 or Dreamland where secret aircraft are tested, but his story remains a murky mystery. The bottom line: It’s impossible to verify. So far, we have not found anyone to corroborate the essentials of what Lazar says."

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America's Top Secret Bases

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America's Top Secret Bases

by Kevin Vogt, bibliotecapleyades.net
November 30th -0001

from ThinkAboutIt Website

Fifty years ago, an American pilot called Kenneth Arnold saw nine discs in the sky over Area 51 in Nevada, where the US military tests high-tech aircraft. The term ’flying saucer’ was born - and with it, a whole new subculture which believes that alien life is not only somewhere out there, but also here (indeed, probably in Area 51), ready to take over the world.

Highway 93 winds through the Nevada Desert. There are no cars, no houses, no nothing, just sage brush and dust devils and a lunar landscape of grey mountains creeping into a never-ending distance. At junction 375 a signpost says "Extraterrestrial Highway". The driver has strayed from normal space-time co-ordinates and is heading towards Rachel, the town that thinks of itself as the UFO capital of the world.

Rachel is, in fact, a very small trailer park whose significance arises from the fact that it sits on the border of Area 51. This vast mass of desert land has been central to the UFO myth since, 50 years ago, a pilot named Kenneth Arnold spotted nine discs over Mount Rainer and the term ’Flying Saucer’ was born.

People have never accepted that Area 51 is merely a highly classified military site devoted to testing high-tech aircraft. In 1988 it was claimed on TV that aliens lived there and, furthermore, they enjoyed eating ice-cream and listening to Tibetan Music.

A year later, an individual named, Bob Lazar presented himself and announced that, when working as a physicist on the base, he had seen several flying saucers parked in hangers. Patrol guards carrying guns, surveillance cameras and notices saying that "USE OF DEADLY FORCE IS AUTHORIZED" have done much much to fan an interesting aura of secrecy.

Consequently, Area 51 also known as Dreamland has become a mecca for the subversive, the hacker and those who have seen far too many episodes of the X-Files.

John Holmgren sells T-shirts from a trailer named Close Encounters. On his desk there is a flyer advertising "support" for "contactee groups". On his wall there are quotes from the Bible.

"My professional belief is that in 1947, when the Roswell crash happened, they brought the saucer here because they needed to reverse-engineer it and find out how it worked. I believe that fiber optics, microchips and Velcro were developed as a result of this."
"Velcro John?"
"Yes. When the aliens undid their space suits in New Mexico there was a ripping sound and it was discovered that they had no zips..."

John has quite a lot of other theories. He is sure that a secret cabal known as Majestic 12 live in Area 51 where they are plotting to take over the world. They will do this by forcing the population to wear a "transpondental" chip without which it will be impossible to buy anything or drive.

"The chip will be stamped into your right hand and if you don’t have a right hand, then it will be stamped on to your forehead". John is ready for the New World Order.

"There are people with arsenals," he says. "My father is one of them. They are just waiting for the government to screw up. There are millions of people ready to start a war. I have got the supplies, now all I need is the Guns..."

Glen Campbell runs the Area 51 Research Center from a bright yellow trailer in Rachel. Designating himself as the token Sensible Person, he does not sell souvenirs, because they are "incompatible with serious research", but he does, oddly, sell videos of Monty Python’s Life of Brian, as well as the viewers guide, in which he writes :

"This is a guide to hunting for UFOs and not secret aircraft but I do not honestly believe you are going to see any."

Those searching for luminosities are, however, difficult to dissuade and they are most welcome down at dirt track where Joe and Pat Travis run a Little A-Le-Inn. The sign at the door says "Welcome Earthlings" and, behind the bar, there are alien heads and alien models, some of whom are dressed in Gestapo uniforms. There is also, more unnervingly, a raffle for the Pat Westcott Medical Fund whose first prize, proudly displayed, is a MK90 semi-automatic machine-gun.

Joe Travis has a beard and a very red face and has adorned his hostelry with color photographs so that the visitor can eat an "Alien Burger" ($2.75) surrounded by pictures of the "Alien Autopsy" in which the humanoid’s green leg is shown with a bleeding wound.

"A few weeks ago, I saw a craft in the sky," says Pat Travis. It was cigar-shaped and it had porthole windows..."

Pat and Joe understand that, in America, all experiences are marketable, and to this end, they provide a wide range of items displaying a bug-eyed, bald-headed logo.

The Shop at the Little A-Le_inn sell alien jewellry, alien t-shirts, alien fridge magnets, Roswell dolls and Area 51 ashtrays.
Some of these are supplied by Jim and Mary Greenen who spend their lives in a mobile home, traveling to UFO conferences around the country.

A Visit to Dreamland (Area 51)
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I’m not sure when I first got the idea to go attempt to view the rumored and elusive ’Aurora spy plane,’ but I had certainly considered it many times before setting out to do it. I still haven’t seen anything resembling the ’Aurora,’ but I did experience something that I will not soon forget.

It was Thursday, March ll, 1993 at 1:45 p.m., and I was just finishing my last mid-term test before spring break at UNLV. Dr. Charley Pranter gave us an extra-credit question on the last page of the exam that simply asked "What will you be doing over spring break?" Why should I lie? I wrote that I was going straight from class to the northern edge of Nellis Range to an area called "Groom lake" or "Area 51" also known as "Dreamland" to try to view Americas newest top-secret Spy Plane, "Aurora!"

From all the speculation that I have read, Aurora is allegedly a Mach 6 to Mach 8 spy, plane using advanced technology in the design and propulsion systems. It may or may not launch from a "Mother Ship," whose job is to get the "Aurora" to a sufficient speed and altitude to ignite the advanced pulse engines. There is also speculation that the only reason that the Air Force retired the SR-71 Blackbirds is that they have new toys to replace the old ones.

Reports claim that people in the area of Groom Lake have heard strange, loud pulsing noises that may be the sounds of the advanced engines that power Aurora. Armed with just enough information to be dangerous, I set out to find whatever was out there.

I drove north on US 93 to Highway 375 and continued on to "Groom Lake Road." I had a current Aeronautical Sectional map of the area and used it as a reference as I made my way in my silver 1978 VW Rabbit diesel (with Texas plates) to the vicinity of Area 51. I drove down the long and straight road until I reached signs on both sides that stated restrictions to just about everything. On the other side of the signs was a four-wheel-drive vehicle with two individuals in desert camouflage uniforms. I turned around and headed back out to what I now know as Castle Rocks Road. I watched my mirrors to see if these guys were following me but could see nothing behind me. I turned South on Castle Rock Road and started looking for a place to park and watch the skies for anything unusual.

As an experienced military aircraft watcher, I thought I could distinguish known aircraft, modern or dated, from anything else that might exist. Because one of my hobbies is watching and monitoring military aircraft, I frequent Nellis Air Force Base and sit at the departure end of runway 3 or the approach end of runway 21 and monitor the local control frequencies. I listen for IFE’s (in flight emergencies) and see if I can personally see the problem on the craft as they pass overhead. B-1’S will sometimes have to shut down an engine during a Red Flag exercise, or an F16 will develop a Hydrazine leak and have to return to base and have to have an "Arrested Landing"-- what a fiasco! F117- A’s, (call-signs Stealth 1 and Stealth 2) will take-off just after dark on practice missions and once the gear are retracted will assume "Stealth Mode" without lights. An hour and forty minutes later they will return to the base. Black T-38’s from Holloman AFB will fly in earlier in the day before these flights.

As I started along Castle Rock Road, I passed through a ravine and unfortunately struck a rock with the oil pan of my car. This incident seemed to have damaged my oil pan as well as my transmission. My car was, now inoperable.

I surveyed the situation and realized that I wasn’t going to drive my car out of there and I sure didn’t want to walk to Rachel or Alamo, the nearest areas of human populations. It was almost 5:15 p.m. so I decided to set out and look for the Cammo guys in the 4x4. I thought that the easiest way to find these or any other humans would be to climb to the highest point in the vicinity and look for anyone I could find.

I gathered up everything valuable from my car and set out. In my fanny pack I had: a loaded Taurus 357 magnum, my radar detector, a water bottle, candy, a compass, a Las Vegas Aeronautical Sectional, a March ’93 Popular Science, and a Mag-Light flashlight. I had warm clothes, hiking boots, ski gloves, a hat and my 20x50 binoculars.

I started hiking East-South-East right up the center of a dry arroyo since it was the smoothest path in that direction. Distances are deceiving in the open desert and my trek took longer than I anticipated. By 7:00 p.m. it was fairly dark and I was hiking without light so that I wouldn’t ruin my night vision. The moon rose to the East shortly after dark and travel became fairly easy again. I hiked on the lighter sandy soil and avoided the darker brush. After tripping over a few cacti and topping one ridge to find an even higher one to the East, I continued my trek.

I was getting pretty good at avoiding Joshua trees, and at one point was avoiding what I thought to be another tree just past the saddle of a ridge when I looked up to see a pole with what looked to be an 18" shiny mirrored globe on top at about 10’ high. I had no idea what that was doing in the middle of the desert, and wasn’t sure I wanted to find out. I continued East-South-easterly down the face of this hill and climbed to the top of the next ridge. I figured that I would eventually reach the top or run into the fence around Area 51, When I topped the final hill I realized that I had gone too far! At the top of the hill, I had a perfectly clear and unobstructed view of Groom Lake Test Facility sparkling on the desert floor.

There were no more hills or ridges between me and the facility. Now, for the first time I was scared, really scared. I knew that I was well within the boundaries of the installation, How could I have been permitted to romp so easily right on to a top secret military installation that doesn’t officially exist? Now what should I do?

I sat on the top Eastward facing part of the hill at about 8:00 p.m. and tried to decide what to do. North of me about and estimated 500-600 yards away was what looked to be a small cube shaped building with a satellite dish on the southern side of it apparently facing south-southeast. There was also a tall tower with what looked to be a microwave dome pointing Easterly towards the facility. There was a light on the Southeastern corner of the building with what appeared to be a Ford Bronco parked on the Eastern side.

Looking at the facility itself, I could see a long runway running roughly northwest to Southeast. The runway had blue lights up and down the majority of the strip with a series of red lights on the ends. I couldn’t see any real details of the base itself except for many lights.

There was a road leading from the building that led south along the base of the hill that I was very near the top of. The road went beyond the end of the runway and curved around west then back North to the complex. At one point I watched a vehicle travel the road from the complex to the building with the satellite dish. The vehicle appeared to be one of the Ford Bronco-type patrols.

At approximately 8:05 p.m., it was a perfectly calm clear night without any clouds or wind, and I noticed what appeared to be three flares dropped from an aircraft to the Northeast of my position. Two to three minutes after this I saw three more flares to the Northwest. I then noticed that there were many airplanes all around me at in what was roughly a huge circle at what must have been a range of 20 miles more or less. I counted eleven planes all roughly orbiting in set positions. Through my binoculars, I could see these planes circling one way then the other over one space as if patrolling a set area. At about 8:15 p.m. as I was alternating between scanning the base and the sky, I noticed what appeared to be an aircraft taxi out onto the runway from the hanger area. The craft slowly taxied to a position headed Southeast on the runway away from the buildings. The aircraft stopped on the runway and sat for a minute or so. The other airplanes at a distance were still holding their positions in the sky.

From my vantage point I could see the red and green running lights of the aircraft as well as the strobes flashing in various locations on the surface, I couldn’t make out any shape or features of the craft due to the darkness. The craft started a slow take-off roll to the Southeast and slowly and silently (from my position) lifted off in a short arc. The craft then slowly started emitting an orange-ish light. It wasn’t like someone flicked a switch and the light was on, it happened a little more slowly like turning a rheostat. It took maybe 2-3 seconds to gain full intensity.

The light enveloped the craft so that I could no longer see the running lights or strobes. Within fifteen seconds, the craft appeared to stop and hover right over the field at an estimated attitude of 300-500 feet AGL. It appeared to stay motionless in this position for about five minutes. Through my binoculars, I could simultaneously see the runway lights and the apparently motionless craft. Next the craft quickly went from a stop to relatively fast rate down field about a mile, still apparently over the runway, then quickly back to an apparent hover again within about 20 seconds.

The craft stayed in that position over the field for another 4-5 minutes, then appeared to quickly go straight up to an estimated altitude of 1000-1300 feet AGL then stop rising as quickly as it started. It remained at this altitude for another 4-5 minutes and then slowly descended in an arc starting downward then arcing northwestward over the runway, Three to five seconds before touching down, the glowing emission went away to reveal the strobes and running lights. The craft then taxied back toward the hangers and disappeared in the maze of lights. The aircraft around the perimeter then left their positions and went roughly south Vectoring well around the base.

The entire time that the craft from the base was in the air, it never appeared to fly laterally so that its path took it anywhere other than over the runway. It also never made any noise that I could hear. When the craft made its transitions other than take-off and landing, it appeared to move much more quickly than a conventional helicopter or any other conventional known aircraft that I can identify (Harriers included). The entire flight from take-off to landing lasted about 15 minutes and other than the transitory movements was rather uneventful.

After seeing this aircraft, I was intrigued. Although it wasn’t Aurora, I am certain that it is something that I have never seen before. I decided to stay a little longer to see if anything else might happen.

At about 9:50 p.m. a conventional fighter type jet (possibly an F-16 based on the sound) taxied out onto the same runway and took-off. It headed in a southern direction until out of sight. I might add that I could distinctly hear this jet from my position and still would have been able to hear it at 20% of its noise volume. Whatever was flying over the field earlier flew silently with absolutely no noise heard from my position.

By 11:00 p.m. or so I had decided to try to sleep where I was and hike out to the Groom Lake Road entrance to the base at the first sign of light at dawn. After a little over an hour of squirming on the rocks, I chose to walk out then at l2: 00 p.m. I took an approximate compass heading to the north-east -- hoping to intersect the road just outside the base perimeter and find help.

Either my estimate at a direction was wrong, or I went off course because when I came to the road, I was still 1/4 mile within the perimeter of the restricted area. I followed the road back to the warning signs and continued out of the base and on to BLM land.

When I was about 200 yards outside the entrance, I heard a vehicle start and quickly speed towards me without headlights on (I’ll have to assume that they were using night vision equipment to see me). As they came close to me they turned on their high beams and skidded to a stop. I heard the doors open and then two men yelling frantically, "Drop what’s in your hands and raise your hands in the air." I dropped my binoculars and complied.

They yelled, "What are you doing here?" I explained that my car broke down and that I was looking for help so I could get a ride out. The following is an approximate transcript of the "conversation". They yelled,

"You have two automatic rifles aimed at you right now so keep your hands up and don’t move other than to talk."

"Ok."

"Where are the people you are with?"

"I came alone!"

"Don’t lie to me! Where is your camera?"

"I don’t have one with me!" (one guy starts searching bushes beside the road with a flashlight)

Yelling, "What’s in your fanny-pack?"

"Some candy, water, a flashlight, a map, a radar detector ... the valuables from my car so nobody would steal them."

"Anything else?"

"Well... There is a loaded 357 magnum..."

Screaming, "A WHAT?"

"A 357 magnum for protection ... I"

Screaming,

"Keep your fuckin’ hands straight up in the air and do not-I repeat do not so much as move a muscle. My partner’s got a nervous trigger finger and right now he’s real nervous with that gun in your pack!"

At this point one of the two guys, a Caucasian, mid 40’s balding, fair skin, gold rim glasses walks where I can see him. He’s got a stocky build with fairly pale skin, short reddish-blonde hair and desert cammo fatigues, He appears to be holding an M-16 carbine with a paratrooper stock -- pointing it at me. He tells the other guy to call "the Lieutenant" or "the Sergeant" (I forget which he said) to come evaluate the situation.

For the next 20 or so minutes until their supervisor arrived, they drilled me with the same questions about whose Chevrolet Suburban was parked at the base of White Sides ... where were my friends ... where is my camera ... what did I see ... what was I really doing out there, etc.

I explained that my car broke down and that I hiked over the side of the hill, not up the road and that is why they didn’t see me approach them. While I was explaining my situation, the younger guy, a clean cut Hispanic male, late 20’s or early 30’s started following my footprints back up the road. The conversation became more heated after they found that the prints lead 1/4 mile onto the base before going off road. They told me that their supervisor was approaching and that when he arrives that he will be in control of "the situation" and to follow his commands. This guy drove up behind me and parked with his high-beams on me. The supervisor was a taller guy with what looked to be reddish-brown hair, a mustache, and a pale complexion.

He notified me that he was now in control of the situation and to turn and face him. I complied. He told me to unzip my leather jacket with one hand and then one corner at a time open my jacket so he could see inside. I did. He told me to reach down with my right hand and disconnect the quick release on my fanny pack, let it drop to the ground, and step away from it towards him. I did so. The Hispanic guy scurried in commando style and grabbed my pack and took it over and placed it on the ground beneath the headlights of the supervisor’s 4x4 and started going through it. He found everything just as I stated was in there.

I gathered that they couldn’t search me or they would have by then, but they weren’t quite sure what to do with me. I even asked them to search me so that I could put my hands down and they wouldn’t. My hands remained in the air.

They decided to call the Lincoln County Sheriff and turn the situation over to him when he arrived. In the mean time I had to stand with my hands in the air. The questions continued, the gun pointing continued, but their voices loosened up a little. There was at least a human tone to the older balding guys voice. I asked if I could at least zip my jacket since I was very cold and my knees were shaking. He allowed me to zip-up as long as I made slow movements. Then back up with the hands.

It took Tracy, the Sheriff 50 minutes to travel from Alamo to where we were, and my, arms were in so much pain by the time he arrived that I was almost ready to call their bluff and slowly lower my hands, telling them that I couldn’t possibly keep them up anymore. I would have gladly laid spread eagle, face down in the dirt at that point. As the Sheriff was driving up beside the first vehicle, the supervisor explained that Tracy is now in control of the "situation" and I should follow his orders exactly.

Tracy stepped out of his Blazer and cordially greeted everyone. He told me to first put my arms down and come fill out an incident report on the hood of his 4x4. Tracy is a Hispanic individual who looked early 40’s, fairly clean cut with glasses. He explained briefly about my car being damaged and wandering to the cammo guys for help. Nothing else!

Tracy then gave my possessions back, told me not to load my pistol, and drove me back to my car to verify for the cammo guys that my story was true. The cammo guys followed us to the damaged car, Tracy easily determined that it wasn’t operable, and told the Cammo Guys who turned around and drove back west on Groom Lake Road.

We then started driving back to Alamo so he could drop me off at the Meadow Lane Motel for the rest of the night. On the way back Tracy asked me what I was really doing there ... off the record. I told him everything, every detail as I remembered it. After hearing my story, he told me that I had just witnessed a "Special Operation" and that I was lucky that the cammo guys didn’t find me on the base or the outcome would have been MUCH different. "Those guys mean business!" He said. He asked me if I knew why those planes were orbiting out in the distance. I told him that I assumed that they were there to keep other planes out of the area. Tracy explained that they were there to shoot that special craft down if the pilot decided to fly it out of the area. He also told me that the "Supervisor’s" wife worked as a waitress at the truck top in Alamo and that I would be well advised to refrain from talking about my experience with anyone there or anywhere else.

We got to Alamo at around 3:30 a.m. and I checked into one of the rooms. It was tacky but clean, and the heater worked. That was all I needed. I slept like a baby before my morning departure.

I woke up around 9:00 a.m., and walked to the truck stop for breakfast and started looking for a ride. A local rancher eating breakfast said he was going into Vegas a little later on and would take me along. What an adventure!

I called to see what it would cost to tow my car back into Las Vegas and realized that I didn’t have the more than $400.00 to get it there. The repair costs and the towing would have cost much more than the car was worth, so I did nothing. I returned to the area since this ordeal, and my car is gone. Somebody found it worth towing!

I thought of speculating about what I might have seen, but the possibilities are endless All I can say is that what I saw flew very differently from anything that I have ever seen before or since. One of my goals in life is to know what this was sometime before I die. No rush!

UPDATE

Here’s the EXECUTIVE ORDER about Area 51 signed by Mr. Bill Clinton:

THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON
September 29, 1995

Presidential Determination No. 95-45

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE

SUBJECT: Presidential Determination on Classified Information Concerning the Air Force’s Operating Location Near Groom Lake, Nevada.

I find that it is in the paramount interest of the United States to exempt the United States Air Force’s operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada (the subject of litigation in Kasza v. Browner (D. Nev. CV-S-94-795-PMP) and Frost v. Perry (D. Nev. CV-S-94- 714-PMP)) from any applicable requirement for the disclosure to unauthorized persons of classified information concerning that operating location. Therefore, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 6961(a), I hereby exempt the Air Force’s operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada from any Federal, State, interstate or local provision respecting control and abatement of solid waste or hazardous waste disposal that would require the disclosure of classified information concerning that operating location to any unauthorized person. This exemption shall be effective for the full one-year statutory period.

Nothing herein is intended to: (a) imply that in the absence of such a Presidential exemption, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) or any other provision of law permits or requires disclosure of classified information to unauthorized persons; or (b) limit the applicability or enforcement of any requirement of law applicable to the Air Force’s operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada, except those provisions, if any, that would require the disclosure of classified information.

The Secretary of the Air Force is authorized and directed to publish this Determination in the Federal Register.

[Signed] William J. Clinton

DULCE BASE

THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL COMES FROM PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE DULCE (UNDERGROUND) BASE EXISTS. THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO WORKED IN THE LABS; ABDUCTEES TAKEN TO THE BASE; PEOPLE WHO ASSISTED IN THE CONSTRUCTION; INTELLIGENCE PERSONAL (NSA, CIA, FBI ETC.) AND UFO / INNER-EARTH RESEARCHERS.

THIS INFORMATION IS MEANT FOR THOSE WHO ARE SERIOUSLY INTERESTED IN THE DULCE BASE. FOR YOUR OWN PROTECTION BE ADVISED TO "USE CAUTION" WHILE INVESTIGATING THIS COMPLEX. An ongoing investigation:

"THE DULCE BASE"
by Jason Bishop III

This facility is a "GENETICS LAB" and is connected to Los Alamos, via a "Tube-Shuttle." Part of their research is related to the General Effects of Radiation (Mutations and Human Genetics). Its research also includes other "Intelligent Species" (Alien Biological Life Form "Entities").

In the revised September 1950 edition of "THE EFFECTS OF ATOMIC WEAPONS" prepared for and in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, under the direction of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, we read about how "complete Underground placement of Bases is desirable". On page #381:

"There are apparently no fundamental difficulties in construction and operating Underground various types of important Facilities. Such facilities may be placed in a suitable existing mine or a site may be excavated for the purpose".

CAUGHT IN THE GAME Centuries ago, Surface People (some say the Illuminati) entered into a pact with an "Alien Nation" hidden within the Earth. The U.S. Government, in 1933, agreed to trade Animals and Humans in exchange for High Tech Knowledge, and allow them to use (undisturbed) UNDERGROUND BASES, in the Western USA. A Special Group was formed to deal with the Alien Beings. In the 1940’s, "Alien Life Forms (ALF)" began shifting their focus of operations, from Central and South America, to the USA.

The Continental Divide is vital to these "Entities". Part of this has to do with Magnetics (Substrata Rock) and High Energy States (Plasma). [See: BEYOND THE FOUR DIMENSIONS, Reconciling Physics, Parapsychology and UFOs by Karl Brunstein. Also: NUCLEAR EVOLUTION (Discovery of the ainbow Body) by Christopher Hills.]

This area has a very high concentration of Lightning Activity, Underground Waterways and Cavern Systems, Fields of Atmospheric Ions, etc, etc.

WHO’S PLANET IS THIS?

These Aliens consider themselves "Native Terrans". They are an Ancient Race (descendent from a Reptilian Humanoid Species which cross-bred with Sapient Humans). They are untrustworthy manipulative Mercenary Agents for another Extraterrestrial Culture (The DRACO) who are returning to Earth (their ancient "Outpost") to use it as a staging area. But, these Alien Cultures are in conflict over Who’s Agenda will be followed for this Planet. All the while Mental Control is being used to keep Humans "in place", especially since the Forties.

The DULCE Complex is a Joint US Government / Alien Base. It was the first built with The Aliens (others are in Colorado, NV, AZ.)

THE SECRET "ACTIVITY"

Paul Benewitz reports, about his study into the Dulce area,

"Troops went in and out of there every summer, starting in ’47. The natives do recall that. They also built a road - right in front of the people of Dulce and trucks went in and out for a long period. That Road was later blocked and destroyed... The signs on the trucks were ’Smith’ Corp. out of Paragosa Springs, Colorado. No such corporation exists now - no record exists..... I believe the Base - at least the first one was being built then under the cover of a lumbering project.... problem - they NEVER hauled logs. Only BIG Equipment".

R&D AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

THE RAND CORP. became involved and did a study, for the Base. Most of the lakes near Dulce were made, via Government grants ’for’ the Indians.

NAVAJO DAM is the main source for conventional electrical power, with a second source in EL VADO (also, an entrance).

Note: If RAND is the mother of "THINK TANKS", then the "FORD FOUNDATION" must be considered the father. Rand secrecy is not confined to ’Reports’, but on occasion extends to Conferences and Meetings. On page #645 of The PROJECT RAND, proceedings of the DEEP UNDERGROUND

CONSTRUCTION SYMPOSIUM (March 1959) we read:

"Just as airplanes, ships and automobiles have given man mastery of the surface of the Earth, Tunnel-Boring Machines... will give him access to the Subterranean World".

Note: The Sept. 1983 issue of "OMNI" (pg#80) has a color drawing of "THE SUBTERRENE", the Los Alamos nuclear-powered tunnel machine that burrows through the rock, deep underground, by heating whatever stone it encounters into molten rock (magma), which cools after the SUBTERRENE has moved on. These underground tubes are used by electro-magnetically powered "Subshuttle vehicles", which can travel at great speeds. They connect the "Hidden Empire" Sub-City Complexes. Also, the top-secret project code-named: "Noah’s ARK", uses "TUBE-SHUTTLES" in connection with a system of over 100 ’Bunkers’ and ’Bolt Holes’ which have been established at various places on Earth. With other Bases inside the Moon and Mars.

Many of these underground Cities are complete with streets, sidewalks, lakes, small electric cars, apartments, offices and shopping malls. There were over 650 attendees to the 1959 RAND Symposium. Most were representatives of the Corporate-Industrial State, like:

THE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

AT&T

HUGHES AIRCRAFT

NORTHROP CORP.

SANDIA CORP.

STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE

WALSH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

THE BECHTEL CORP

COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES, ETC, ETC.

BECHTEL (pronounced BECK-tul) is a supersecret international corporate octopus, founded in 1898. Some say the firm is really a "SHADOW GOVERNMENT" - a working arm of the CIA. It is the largest construction and engineering outfit, in the USA and the WORLD (and some say BEYOND).

The most important posts in the US Government are held by former BECHTEL Officers. They are part of "The WEB" (an interconnected control system) which links the Tri-Lateralist plans, the C.F.R., the Orders of "Illuminism" (Cult of the All-Seeing Eye) and other interlocking groups.

SURVIVING THE FUTURE The DULCE FACILITY consists of a Central "HUB", the Security Section, (also some photo labs). The deeper you go, the stronger the Security. This is a multi-leveled Complex. There are over 3000 cameras at various High-Security locations (exits and Labs).

There are over 100 Secret Exits near and around Dulce. Many around Archuleta Mesa, others to the south around Dulce Lake and even as far east as Lindrith. Deep sections of the Complex connect into natural Cavern Systems.

A person who worked at the Base, who had an "ULTRA 7" Clearance, reports:

"There may be more than seven levels, but I only know of seven. Most of the Aliens are on 5-6-7 Levels. Alien housing is Level Five."

21st CENTURY POWER: "BIO-TECH"

We are leaving the Era of expendable resources, like Oil based products. The Power of the Future is Renewable resources... "Biologically" Engineered. The Dulce Genetic Research was originally funded under the cloak of "BLACK BUDGET" Secrecy. (Billions $$$$)

They were interested in intelligent "Disposable Biology" (Humanoids), to do the dangerous Atomic (Plutonium) Rocket and Saucer experiments.

We Cloned "our" own little Humanoids. Via a process perfected in the Bio-Genetic Research Center of the World, Los Alamos! Now we have our own disposable slave-race. Like the Alien "Greys" (EBES), the US Government clandestinely impregnated females, then removed the hybrid fetus, (after three months) and then accelerated their growth in the Lab. Biogenetic (DNA Manipulation) programming is then instilled - they are "Implanted" and controlled at a distance through RF (Radio Frequency) transmissions. Many Humans are also being "Implanted" with Brain Transceivers. These act as telepathic "Channels" and telemetric brain manipulation devices. The network-net was set-up by DARPA (Advanced Research Project Agency). Two of the procedures were, RHIC (Radio-Hypnotic Intercerebral Control) and EDOM (Electronic Dissolution of Memory). The brain transceiver is inserted into the head thru the nose. These devices are used in the Soviet Union and the United Stated, as well as Sweden. The Swedish Prime Minister Palme gave the National Swedish Police Board the right (in 1973) to insert brain transmitters into the heads of human beings COVERTLY!

They also developed ELF and EM wave propagation equipment (RAYS) which affect the nerves and can cause nausea, fatigue, irritability, even death. This is essentially the same as Richard Shaver’s Cavern "Telaug" Mech. This research into biodynamic relationships within organisms ("BIOLOGICAL PLASMA") has produced a RAY that can change the "genetic structure" and "HEAL". Shaver’s Cavern "BEN-Mech" could HEAL!

WARNING: MANIPULATION AND CONTROL

FEAR, FRAUD AND FAVOR... The Pentagon, the CIA, NSA, DEA, FBI, NSC, etc. seek to capitalize on the Beliefs of the American Public. The Secret Government is getting ready to ’stage’ a Contact-Landing with "ALIENS" in the near future. This way they can ’CONTROL’ the release of Alien related Propaganda. We will be told of an Inter-Stellar Conflict.

But... what looks real, may be "FAKE". What is disinformation?

Is your attention being diverted by the Strategy of a "SHADOW PLAN"?

COVERT AND COVERT RESEARCH

As US Energy Secretary, John Herrington named the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory to house new advanced genetic research centers as part of a Project to decipher the Human Genome. The Genome holds the genetically coded instructions that guide the transformation of a single cell - a fertilized egg - into a Biological Being.

"The Human Genome Project may well have the greatest direct impact on humanity of any scientific initiative before us today", said David Shirley, Director of the Berkeley Laboratory.

Covertly, this research has been going on for years, at DULCE LABS.

Level #6 is privately called "NIGHT-MARE HALL", it holds the Genetic Labs. Reports from workers who have seen bizarre experimentation, are as follows:

"I have seen multi-legged ’humans’ that look like half-human /half-octopus. Also Reptilian-humans, and furry creatures that have hands like humans and cries like a baby, it mimics human words... also huge mixture of Lizard-humans in cages".

There are fish, seals, birds and mice that can barely be considered those species. There are several cages (and vats) of Winged-humanoids, grotesque Bat-like creatures... but 3 1/2 to 7 feet tall. Gargoyle-like beings and Draco-reptoids.

Level #7 is worse, row after row of thousands of humans and human mixtures in cold storage. Here too are embryo storage vats of Humanoids in various stages of development.

"I frequently encountered humans in cages, usually dazed or drugged, but sometimes they cried and begged for help. We were told they were hopelessly insane, and involved in high risk drug tests to cure insanity. We were told to never try to speak to them at all. At the beginning we believed that story. Finally in 1978 a small group of workers discovered the truth. It began the Dulce Wars". (and a secret resistance Unit was formed)

Note: There are over 18,000 "Aliens" at the Dulce Base. In late 1979, there was a confrontation (over weapons), a lot of Scientists and Military personnel were KILLED. The Base was closed for a while....But, it IS currently active. Note: Human and animal abductions (for their Blood and other parts) slowed in the mid-1980s, when the Livermore Berkeley Labs began production of artificial blood for Dulce.

William Cooper states:

"A clash occurred where in 66 people, of our people, from the National Recon Group, the DELTA group, which is responsible for Security of all Alien connected Projects, were killed."

The DELTA Group (within Intelligence Support Activity) have been seen with badges which have a black Triangle on a red background. DELTA is the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. It has the form of a triangle, and figures prominently in certain Masonic Signs. *EACH BASE HAS ITS OWN SYMBOL. The DULCE Base symbol is a triangle with the Greek letter "Tau", within it and then the symbol is inverted, so the triangle points down. * The Insignia of "a triangle and 3 lateral lines" has been seen on "Saucer (transport) Craft", The Tri-Laterial Symbol. * Other symbols mark landing sights and Alien Craft.

INSIDE THE DULCE BASE

Security Officers wear jumpsuits, with the Dulce Symbol on the front upper left side. The standard hand weapon, at Dulce is a "Flash Gun", which is good against Humans and Aliens. The ID card (used in card slots, for the doors and elevators) has the Dulce Symbol above the ID photo. "Government Honchos" use cards with the Great Seal of the U.S. on it. "The Cult of the All-Seeing Eye" (THE NEW WORLD ORDER) 13, "666" The Phoenix Empire....."9" "Illuminism"... "One out of many".

After the Second Level, everyone is weighed, in the nude, then given a Uniform. "Visitors" are given an ’off white’ uniform. In front of ALL sensitive areas are scales built under the doorway, by the door control. The persons card must match with the weight and code or the door won’t open. Any discrepancy in weight (any change over three pounds) will summon Security. No one is allowed to carry anything into or out of sensitive areas. All supplies are put through a Security conveyor system. The Alien Symbol language appears a lot at the Facility.

During the construction of the Facility (which was done in stages, over many years) the Aliens assisted in the Design and Construction materials. Many of the things assembled by the workers, were of a Technology they could not understand, yet...it would function when fully put together. Example: The elevators have no cables. They are controlled magnetically. The Magnetic system is inside the walls.

There are no conventional electrical controls. All is controlled by advanced Magnetics. That includes a magnetically induced ( phosphorescent ) Illumination System. There are no regular light bulbs. All EXITS are magnetically controlled. Note: it has been reported that, "If you place a large magnet on a entrance, it will affect an immediate interruption. They will have to come out and reset the system."

THE TOWN OF DULCE

The area around Dulce has had a high number of reported Animal Mutilations. The Government and the Aliens used the animals for Environmental tests, Psychological Warfare on people, ect. The Aliens also wanted large amounts of Blood for Genetic, Nutritional and other reasons.

In the book, "ETs & UFOs - THEY NEED US, WE DON’T NEED THEM" by Virgil "Posty" Armstrong, he reports how his friends (Bob & Sharon) stopped for the night in Dulce and went out to dinner.

"They overheard some local residents openly and vociferously discussing Extraterrestrial Abduction of townspeople for purposes of experimentation."

The ET’s were taking unwilling human guinea pigs from the general populace of Dulce and Implanting Devices in their heads and bodies. The townspeople were frightened and angry but didn’t feel that they had any recourse since the ET’s had our Governments knowledge and approval.

Recently, participants in a "field investigation" of the area near Archuletta Mesa, were confronted by two small hovering ’Spheres’. They all became suddenly ill and had to leave the area.

"THE MONITORS": ABDUCTIONS

In the Fifties, the EBES (Greys) began taking large numbers of humans for experiments. By the Sixties, the rate was speeded up and they began getting careless (they didn’t care). By the Seventies, their true colors were very obvious, but the "Special Group" of the Government still kept covering up for them. By the Eighties, the Government realized there was no defense against the "Greys". So... programs were enacted to prepare the Public for open contact with non-human "Alien" Beings.

The "Greys" and the "Reptoids" are in league with each other. But, their relationship is in a state of tension.

The "Greys" only known enemy is the Reptillian Race, and they are on their way to Earth. (Inside a Planetoid).

Some forces, in the Government, want the Public to be aware of what is happening. Other forces (The Collaborators) want to continue making "whatever deals are necessary" for an Elite few to survive the conflicts.

The Future could bring a Fascist "WORLD ORDER" or a transformation of Human Consciousness (Awareness). The struggle is NOW...your active assistance is needed. Prepare! We must preserve Humanity on Earth.

MIND MANIPULATION EXPERIMENTS

The DULCE Base has studied Mind Control Implants, Bio-Psi Units, ELF Devices capable of Mood, Sleep and Heartbeat Control, etc,etc.

D.A.R.P.A. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is using these Technologies to manipulate people. They establish ’The Projects’, set priorities, coordinate efforts and guide the many participants in these undertakings. Related Projects are studied at Sandia Base by "The Jason Group" (of 55 scientists). They have secretly harnessed the Dark Side of Technology and hidden the beneficial Technology from the Public.

Other Projects take place at "AREA #51" in Nevada...

"DREAMLAND" [Data Repository Establishment and Maintenance Land]

ELMINT [Electro-Magnetic Intelligence]

CODE EMPIRE

CODE EVA

PROGRAM HIS [Hybrid Intelligence System]

BW/CW

IRIS [Infrared Intruder System]

BI-PASS

REP-TILES

The studies on LEVEL #4, at DULCE, includes Human-Aura research, as well as all aspects of Dreams, Hypnosis, Telepathy, ect. They know how to manipulate the BIOPLASMIC BODY (of Man). They can lower your heart beat, with Deep Sleep "DELTA WAVES", induce a static shock, then re-program via a Brain-Computer Link. They can introduce data and programed reactions into your Mind (Information impregnation - the "Dream Library".

We are entering an ERA of the Technologicalization of Psychic Powers. The development of techniques to

enhance man/machine communications

Nano-Tech

Bio-Tech Micro-Machines

PSI-War

E.D.O.M. (Electronic Dissolution of Memory)

R.H.I.C. (Radio-Hypnotic Intra-Cerebral Control)

various forms of behavior control (Via-Chemical Agents, Ultra-Sonics, Optical and other forms of EM Radiation). The Physics of "Consciousness."

BETTER LIVING THROUGH BIO-TECH???

The development of "BIO-TECHNOLOGIES" will mean a revolutionary change in the Life of every Human Being now on Earth!

WARNING... FASCISM IS "CORPORATISM"

We have passed the point of no return, in our interaction with the "Alien" Beings. We are guaranteed "A Crisis" which will persist until the final REVELATION (or conflict).

The crisis is here. Global and real. We must mitigate or transform the nature of the disasters to come and come they will. Knowing is half the battle. Read the book, "THE COSMIC CONSPIRACY" by Stan Deyo.

THE PHANTOM EMPIRE: ABOVE THE LAW

The Dulce Base is run by a "Board."

The Chairman of the Board is JOHN HERRINGTON. JIM BAKER (of TENN) is the CIA link to Dulce. House Speaker JIM WRIGHT, D-Texas (the nations third highest office) is Treasurer at Dulce.

There is currently a power struggle going on. As Rep. William Thomas, R-Calif., put it... Part of Jim Wrights problem is; "HE fails to understand what’s equitable and fair. It’s the arrogance of power." Even among his fellow Democrats, many find Wright to be "uncomfortably aloof". Wright’s operating style leaves him vulnerable.

Most meetings of "The Dulce Board" are held in Denver and Taos (N.M.). Former New Mexico Senator Harrison "Last man on the Moon" Schmitt has full knowledge of Dulce. He was one of 7 Astronauts to tour the Base.

In 1979, he held an "Animal Mutilation" conference in Albuquerque, N.M. This was used to locate researchers and determine what they had learned about the links between the "Mute" operations and the Alien/Government.

Senator BRIAN (

The Missing Forty Trillion Dollars

2012-02-03T00:19:00.003-06:00

Underground Infrastructure : The Missing Forty Trillion Dollars

bibliotecapleyades.net

by Steven J. Smith
from ScientificPapers Website

Introduction

For many years there have been reports and rumors of a vast network of underground complexes and tunnels beneath the North American continent. Starting in the late 1980s, the American government has tried to deflect these rumors through a campaign of misdirection and misinformation. Disclosure of the Greenbrier Congressional Shelter at White Sulphur Springs is a good example of this campaign.

To believe the existence of the Greenbrier complex was revealed against the wishes of the American government is the height of naiveté. This revelation was allowed to take place. The Greenbrier underground complex was no longer useful, so it was sacrificed to divert attention away from a much larger secret. In other words, a classic misdirection ploy.

While I do not have complete knowledge concerning the extent of America's covert underground infrastructure, I do have detailed first hand experience with many sites near my home in Oregon. Based on my experiences, and assuming a roughly uniform distribution correlated with U.S. population demographics, the total number of covert underground facilities is in the tens of thousands.

What follows is both a compendium of my observations, and a do-it-your-self field guide for those who wish discover the true extent of the American covert underground infrastructure.

Rabbit holes

The covert underground infrastructure serves many functions. Among these are strategic storage of materials and weapons, clandestine research and production facilities, alternant basing for military personnel and equipment, surface environment control systems (atmospheric lensing, synthetic earthquakes, weather modification, civilian population control, etc.), and of course sheltering essential government personnel during time of national crisis or war. This list is not complete, it is only indicative of the diverse ways in which the underground infrastructure is utilized.

It should be obvious that many of the uses listed above require both support from, and easy access to, the surrounding surface communities. I call these underground access points "rabbit holes", and they represent a key detectable feature of the underground infrastructure.

It should also be obvious that many of these uses require the facilities to be interconnected by a network of tunnels. The construction of these tunnels creates surface evidence of their existence, albeit transitory.

From the perspective of detection, the transitory nature of the evidence makes tunnel construction less useful than covert underground access points, however as we shall see, the evidence itself is far more compelling.

Searching for Alice

As previously mentioned, many underground infrastructure functions require surface access, furthermore many underground facilities also make use of above ground support such as electrical utilities, generally as backup for their primary supply source. These requirements pose a design dilemma. The underground access points must be well hidden, and at the same time, easily accessible to personnel and/or vehicular traffic. What is true of covert underground access points, is also true to a lesser extent for utility supply points.

How do you hide traffic and personnel movement? By mixing it with a legitimate flow of people and vehicles, in locations already under government ownership or control. In rural areas, public parks and recreational facilities make ideal locations. For instance, at a public camp ground, who will notice if 20 cars go in, but only 15 come out? In urban areas, post offices and other purpose built government installations are used.

After all, who pays attention to the comings and goings at a post office? In other words, the underground access points are hidden in plain sight. This is both a strength and a weakness. It is a strength if nobody is paying close attention, however it is also tremendous weakness, since anyone wishing to observe the location will blend in to the general ebb and flow of activity. In some respects, rural underground access points are easier to locate, but more dangerous to investigate, since the level of human activity will be less.

Another aspect of rabbit hole location is proximity to some useful above ground resource. For instance, a public zoo makes a good source of genetic material for a bio-lab facility. It should be obvious that a major metropolitan hospital would make an ideal source for human genetic material, as well as the perfect location to "field test" some new weapon-ized bacteria or virus. What is true of urban access points, is also true for rural access points.

Many are located near the periphery of major urban populations. A large water reservoir, or a public camp ground located near a major highway, are good examples of useful above ground resources. Rural underground access points are favored as utility supply points, since the supply is less likely to be interrupted in time of national crisis.

As we shall see, this last observation can be used to great advantage in detecting rabbit hole locations.

Urban rabbit hole detection

The detection of urban access points requires both persistence, and a certain amount of luck. Quite often, it will be some apparently trivial detail that will be your first clue.

The following is a list of indicators that are cause for suspicion:

A post office parking lot full of cars, with only one or two people visible inside the post office.

Sporadic late night activity at a government office building.

Security that is out of proportion with presumed facility use.

Unbalanced traffic patterns. Example: people or vehicles go in but do not come out, or visa versa.

Facility size is out of proportion to traffic flow. Example: many delivery vehicles at a small government office building.

Utility services is out of proportion to facility size. Example: large electrical service supplying a small government office building.

Deliveries are mismatched to presumed facility use. Example: 40 foot refrigerated truck, or medical supply truck unloading at social security office.

Facility location is inappropriate for presumed use or function. Example: social security office located in an industrial district.

Facility construction and/or layout is inappropriate for presumed use. Example: office building with oversized warehouse style loading dock.

Facility staff size and/or type is inappropriate for presumed facility use or function. Example: large ratio of managerial personnel (business suites) to clerical personnel.

The above list is far from exhaustive. R

ather, the list is intended to illustrate what sort of details should be examined to uncover a rabbit hole. As can be seen from the list, many clues involve some activity that does not match the presumed use or function of the facility. Other clues involve a mismatch between the physical nature of the facility and it's presumed function.

Once a suspected rabbit hole has been located, further observation is required to develop a profile of anomalous activity. Drive by the location at different times of the day and night. Keep detailed records of observations. Enlist the help of individuals who live within sight of the facility to monitor activity.

Does a medical supply truck show up every Tuesday at a social security office? Is there any discernable pattern to the traffic flow imbalance?

It is the details that will ultimately confirm the existence of a suspected rabbit hole.

Rural rabbit hole detection

As with urban access points, it will be a mismatch between activity and/or the physical nature of a facility, and it's presumed use or function that will indicate the presence of a rural underground access point. In addition, there are several aspects of rural underground access points that appear to be unique.

Most rural underground access points employ a form of radiated electro-magnet field that functions as a wide area deterrent to birds, rodents, and insects. The purpose of the field being to act as a contamination shield or barrier for the underground access point entrance. Next, since rural underground access points receive less intense public scrutiny, their supporting above ground infrastructure is generally speaking, more blatant.

The presence of a well maintained home with around the clock human supervision of the suspected facility is common feature. These homes will have multiple satellite dishes, and/or radio antennas. Another common feature of rural rabbit holes is the presence of odd alpha-numeric markings on the reverse side of highway traffic signs located near the underground access point.

The following is a list of rural underground access point indicators.

A well maintained branch road leading to a little used park or recreational facility.

Electrical power lines that are routed near facility, when such routing results in longer line length and/or routing over a natural obstacle (mountain, river, etc.).

Electrical power lines or substations much larger than visible local load requirements.

Large reservoirs that serve no apparent useful function. Example: not needed for flood control or civilian water supply, or that have larger capacity than is required for presumed function.

The presence of truck traffic on rural roads with no known destination, or inappropriate truck types for apparent destination.

A public park or recreational facility that is maintained at a level well in excess of other nearby facilities, especially if facility less well known or used than other nearby facilities.

Public facility personnel (park rangers, etc.) that are overly nosey and/or suspicious of your activities, especially if personnel occupy the site on a 24/7 basis.

Public park or recreational facility where part of facility is fenced off, or accessed by a gated road, or otherwise made inaccessible to the general public.

The presence of inappropriate or unusual structures and/or construction methods. Examples: small cinder block building with an electrical power feed normally used on major office buildings. An unmarked, but well maintained trail in public park. An old building (possibly abandoned) with a new door, and expensive lock.

People at camp grounds that seem out of place. Example: improperly dressed, or using inappropriate equipment, or having unusual accents (these are people taking a recreational break from underground facilities).

Well maintained roads that are not shown on maps, or follow a different route than shown on maps.

A noticeable lack of wildlife (birds, small animals, insects, etc.) in a location that would normally support a large wildlife population (see 1.2.4 preface).

Any of the applicable indicators listed under urban rabbit hole detection. Example: unbalanced traffic flows, etc.

As with urban rabbit hole detection, this list is far from complete. It is intended to illustrate what sort of indicators to look for, when searching for rural underground access points. Again, all of the techniques employed in urban rabbit hole discovery are applicable to rural underground access points.

However, it must be stressed that rural access point detection and observation is far more dangerous. Not only are there less people to hide your activities, but a larger faction of those people who are present will likely be rabbit hole occupants or guardians. Failure to exercise due caution may lead to becoming an unwilling underground guest.

For this reason, the author suggests one or more of the following precautions.

Be very discreet in rural underground access point observation.

Always inform a trusted friend of your intended destination and expected time of return.

When possible, use a group recreational outing as cover for your activities.

Spread your observation activities over several months, at random times and days of the week.

Assume you are being watched at all times, and act appropriately. i.e. As somebody who is enjoying a day in the park.

Tunnel construction

The techniques used for covert tunnel construction are very different than civilian tunnel construction. Covert tunnel construction makes use of a boring machine that actually melts earth and rock (by chemical valence disruption), thereby forming a glass like tunnel wall. This has several advantages over civilian tunnel boring methods.

From the perspective of secrecy, the biggest advantage is that little or no waste material (rock, dirt, etc.) is produced by the boring process, thereby alleviating the need for above ground disposal sites. Another advantage is that tunnels can be bored through lose rock, sand, etc. or other locations that would be unsuitable for civilian boring methods (for instance, a river bed). Large underground cavities are also constructed using this technique.

Covert tunnel boring produces several phenomena that are detectable by surface observation. These phenomena are transitory, and will disappear shortly after tunnel completion. However the presence of these phenomena is unmistakable evidence that covert tunnel construction is taking place.

The method used to melt earth and rock employs electro-magnetic energy to disrupt the chemical bonds within the material. This method produces little or no heat as a by product of the melting process, and is therefore very stealthy. However it does cause the evaporation of water to take place at an accelerated rate.

Since the method is electro-magnetic, there is a certain amount of "leakage" radiation, and this is detectable by the odd effect it produces on surface water. In particular, the water will appear to rise from the ground as wisps of steam, even though the ground is cold. This phenomena is very noticeable during rain storms on cold winter nights. The steam does not rise into the air, as it would if the ground was actually warm, but instead forms a layer just above the surface.

Another side effect of covert tunnel boring is a peculiar rippling in road surfaces. This rippling is very slight, and most noticeable while driving at highway speed (55 mph). It is more heard than felt. What sets this ripple apart from normal highway bumps and imperfections is it's consistency. Assuming a constant driving speed, the ripple is perfectly constant. In some cases, the rippled road surface will continue for several miles, without the slightest change in pitch or intensity.

The "cold steam" phenomena is only observable while covert tunnel boring is actually taking place. However the "road ripple" phenomena will persist for several weeks after covert tunnel boring is finished.

These phenomena are best observed late at night.

Forty trillion dollars

Despite an ever increasing tax burden, the roads and bridges continue to decline, the cities continue to decay, social security and Medicare benefits continue to dwindle. Today with both husband and wife working full time jobs, the American standard of living is less than 1950 when the husband worked, and the wife stayed home.

In 1950, most government buildings were somewhat dilapidated, having a "well used" look about them, while most American homes were modern and well cared for. Today the cities are full of shinny new government office buildings, and many American homes look dilapidated and in need of repair. Government budgets and deficits continue their upward spiral, while the American family is learning how to "make do" with less.

Consumer prices continue to rise and wages continue to fall, as the American dream fades, replaced with the nightmarish specter of advancing middleclass poverty. Inexorably, despite every effort to reverse the trend, American wealth has been systematically striped from the people, and transferred to the government

Something has gone horribly wrong in America.

For the past several decades, there have been an unbroken chain of government scandals involving over billing and multiple invoicing for items ranging from toilet seats to bombers. Inevitably the media portray these scandals as unscrupulous corporations taking advantage of an inept government bureaucracy.

Sadly these incidents are more pervasive than media reporting indicates, and the truth is far more ominous than mere government incompetence or corporate greed. When the clandestine diversion of tax revenue was no longer sufficient to satisfy the requirements, a second method was instituted. American jobs were outsourced to other countries, thereby allowing the government to repatriate nearly 100% of product and/or service revenue through the foreign purchase of American government bonds.

Since the early 1960s, the American citizenry have been the unwitting victims of government fraud, perpetrated on a scale so vast that it staggers the imagination. When figured in 2004 dollars, the total amount exceeds 40 trillion dollars.

What did the American government and it's corporate accomplices do with this almost inconceivable wealth?

The government has built a entirely new underground civilization beneath the abandoned factories, tattered homes, and crime ridden streets that litter the American landscape. In this new society, there is no poverty, no crime or illicit drug use. In this new society, healthcare is affordable, energy is free, public transport is efficient. And you, the American tax payer have paid for it all, without receiving any benefit whatsoever for your Herculean efforts.

As to why this monstrous crime was committed against the American people, is the topic for a future paper. Suffice it to say, you will not like the motive, nor the eventual disposition planed for you and your loved ones...

Disclaimer

ALL information contained herein is derived from public sources, widely accepted scientific principles, and/or authors first hand experience. The author has NO written or verbal agreement with ANY governmental agency forbidding disclosure of the information contained herein. In disclosing this information, the author is exercising his right to free speech as a private citizen of the United States of America.

While the author advocates the discovery and disclosure of the American covert underground infrastructure, NO ATTEMPT should be made to interfere in any way whatsoever with the personnel and/or operations of said infrastructure.

The proper method for achieving discontinuance of these activities is through court ordered injunctive relief.

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Gas refineries at Defcon 1 as SCADA exploit goes wild

2012-02-03T00:19:00.001-06:00

Gas refineries at Defcon 1 as SCADA exploit goes wild

by Dan Goodi, theregister.co.uk
September 8th 2008 6:32 PM

Gasoline refineries, manufacturing plants and other critical facilities that rely on computerized control systems just became more vulnerable to tampering or sabotage with the release of attack code that exploits a security flaw in a widely used piece of software.

The exploit code, published over the weekend as a module to the Metasploit penetration testing tool kit, attacks a vulnerability that resides in CitectSCADA, software used to manage industrial control mechanisms known as SCADA, or Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition, systems. In June, the manufacturer of the program, Australia-based Citect, and Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) in the US, Argentina and Australia warned the flawed software could put companies in the aerospace, manufacturing and petroleum industries at risk from outsiders or disgruntled employees.

The exploit was created by Kevin Finisterre, the director of penetration testing at security firm Netragard. He said he decided to release the code following conflicting statements by Citect about the severity of the flaw. As a result, he said, organizations that use CitectSCADA were confused about whether they were truly vulnerable.

"In reality, I would be willing to wager a small fortune that most of the folks that received the Citect advisory were not inspired to take immediate action," Finisterre wrote in this paper published to the Milw0rm website. "In general, no one should be more knowledgeable about a software product than the vendor, so if the vendor pulls an Alfred E. Newman and says 'What, me worry?' you can rest assured the userbase will do the same."

At least partly responsible for the confusion is the theoretical reality that the bug should be of little consequence to organizations who take proper precautions with SCADA systems. A core tenet among system administrators of such systems is that remote terminal units and other critical industrial controls should never be exposed to the internet. In reality, however, there are frequently numerous ways unauthorized people can gain access to those controls.

Two of the more common means for gaining unauthorized control include wireless access points and internet-facing controls designed to save organizations money by allowing employees remote access, according to Core Security, which discovered the bug early this year.

To cut through the confusion, Finisterre provided a detailed description of the bug, which he described as a "classic stack-based buffer overflow." By default, a server component of CitectSCADA known as ODBC, or Open Database Connectivity, monitors TCP/IP networks for client requests. Attackers can gain control by modifying the size of the packets sent to the system.

The public exploit is just the latest chapter in a growing body of research revealing the risks of using SCADA systems. In May, Core warned of a flaw in monitoring software known as InTouch SuiteLink that put power plants at risk of being shut down. That same month, US lawmakers lambasted the organization that oversees the North American electrical grid. A UK government minister sounded a similar alarm in that country last month.

Given the increased reliance of SCADA systems - and the confusion that frequently surrounds security advisories - Finisterre said it's crucial white-hat penetration testers have a full chest of tools at their disposal for detecting and fixing vulnerabilities in the systems.

"If you outlaw SCADA exploits, only outlaws will have SCADA exploits," he wrote. "Spread information and inform both yourself and others." ®

Original Page: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/08/scada_exploit_released/

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If you're not on the list, we're not going in

2012-02-03T00:18:00.001-06:00

McAfee buys whitelisting firm Solidcore

by John Leyden, theregister.co.uk
May 18th 2009 1:37 PM

Net security firm McAfee has bought whitelisting firm Solidcore for approximately $33m in cash, rising to $47m if sales targets are met.

The deal was announced Friday, and is expected to close by the end of Q2 2009. It will allow MCafee to offer endpoint security technology to a broader range of embedded devices, including ATMs, point of sale (POS) systems, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.

Whitelisting technology ensures that only pre-authorised software and code (ie known safe applications) can run on devices. The approach is an alternative to looking for either the signature or behaviour associated with known bad applications - the more traditional blacklisting approach of anti-virus scanners, intrusion prevention tools etc.

It's an elegant idea, but it can come unstuck, particularly in corporate desktop environments, where a large variety of legitimate and often changing applications might be running on PCs.

The whitelisting approach has much more in its favour when applied to embedded devices, where typically only a closely defined list of applications need to run. After all you're not going to run OpenOffice - much less Doom - on an ATM or SCADA device, assuming such a thing were possible.

The security of control systems at utilities that rely on SCADA technology has become a topic of concern over recent months, with anonymous Feds spinning the line that overseas intelligence agencies have hacked into the US national grid, for example.

The Solidcore acquisition allows McAfee to offer products designed to mitigate against these types of attack, as well as arguably more pressing concerns about malware on retail sales terminals. McAfee plans to integrate Solidcore’s dynamic whitelisting and compliance enforcement technology with its existing compliance mapping and policy audit tools. The acquisition will also allow McAfee to beef up its product portfolio in virtualisation security, using Solidcore’s technology for locking down virtual environments. ®

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2012-02-03T00:08:00.001-06:00

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The Powers That Beat: CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

2012-02-02T23:44:00.001-06:00

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

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CORRECTED-Cyber attacks could wreck world oil supply | Reuters

2012-02-02T23:21:00.001-06:00

Dec 8 (Reuters) - Hackers are bombarding the world's computer controlled energy sector, conducting industrial espionage and threatening potential global havoc through oil supply disruption.

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Oil company executives warned that attacks were becoming more frequent and more carefully planned.
"If anybody gets into the area where you can control opening and closing of valves, or release valves, you can imagine what happens," said Ludolf Luehmann, an IT manager at Shell Europe's biggest company .
"It will cost lives and it will cost production, it will cost money, cause fires and cause loss of containment, environmental damage - huge, huge damage," he told the World Petroleum Congress in Doha.
Computers control nearly all the world's energy production and distribution in systems that are increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks that could put cutting-edge fuel production technology in rival company hands.
"We see an increasing number of attacks on our IT systems and information and there are various motivations behind it - criminal and commercial," said Luehmann. "We see an increasing number of attacks with clear commercial interests, focusing on research and development, to gain the competitive advantage."
He said the Stuxnet computer worm discovered in 2010, the first found that was specifically designed to subvert industrial systems, changed the world of international oil companies because it was the first visible attack to have a significant impact on process control.
But the determination and stamina shown by hackers when they attack industrial systems and companies has now stepped up a gear, and there has been a surge in multi-pronged attacks to break into specific operation systems within producers, he said.

"Cyber crime is a huge issue. It's not restricted to one company or another it's really broad and it is ongoing," said Dennis Painchaud, director of International Government Relations at Canada's Nexen Inc. "It is a very significant risk to our business."
"It's something that we have to stay on top of every day. It is a risk that is only going to grow and is probably one of the preeminent risks that we face today and will continue to face for some time."
Luehmann said hackers were increasingly staging attack over long periods, silently collecting information over weeks or months before attacking specific targets within company operations with the information they have collected over a long period.
"It's a new dimension of attacks that we see in Shell," he said.

NOT IN CONTROL
In October, security software maker Symantec Corp published a report on a mysterious virus, discovered and named Duqu by Hungary's Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security, that contained a code similar to Stuxnet.
Experts said it appeared to be designed to gather data to make it easier to launch future cyber attacks.
Other businesses can shut down their information technology (IT) systems to regularly install rapidly breached software security patches and update vulnerable operating systems.
But energy companies cannot keep taking down plants to patch up security holes.
"Oil needs to keep on flowing," said Riemer Brouwer, head of IT security at Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO).
"We have a very strategic position in the global oil and gas market," he added. "If they could bring down one of the big players in the oil and gas market you can imagine what this will do for the oil price - it would blow the market."
Hackers could finance their operations by using options markets to bet on the price movements caused by disruptions, Brouwer said.
"So far we haven't had any major incidents," he said. "But are we really in control? The answer has to be 'no'."
Oil prices usually rise whenever tensions escalate over Iran's disputed nuclear programme - itself thought to be the principal target of the Stuxnet worm and which has already identified Duqu infections - due to concern that oil production or exports from the Middle East could be affected by any conflict.
But the threat of a coordinated attack on energy installations across the world is also real, experts say, and unlike a blockade of the Gulf can be launched from anywhere, with no U.S. military might in sight and little chance of finding the perpetrator.
"We know that the Straits of Hormuz are of strategic importance to the world," said Stephan Klein of business application software developer SAP.
"What about the approximately 80 million barrels that are processed through IT systems?," said Klein, SAP vice president of oil and gas operations in the Middle East and North Africa.
Attacks like Stuxnet are so complex that very few organisations in the world are able to set them up, said Gordon Muehl, chief security officer at Germany's SAP, but it was still too simple to attack industries over the internet.
Only a few years ago hacking was confined to skilled computer programmers, but thanks to online video tutorials, breaking into corporate operating systems is now a free for all.
"Everyone can hack today," Shell's Luehmann said. "The number of potential hackers is not a few very skilled people -- it's everyone." (Editing by William Hardy)

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Israel tops cyber-readiness poll but China lags behind

2012-02-02T23:20:00.001-06:00

Israel, Finland and Sweden are seen as leading the way in "cyber-readiness", according to a major new security report.

The McAfee-backed cyberdefence survey deemed China, Brazil and Mexico as being among the least able to defend themselves against emerging attacks.

The rank is based on leading experts' perception of a nation's defences.

The report concluded that greater sharing of information globally is necessary to keep ahead of threats.

It also suggests giving more power to law enforcement to fight cross-border crime.

The UK, with a grading of four out of five, ranks favourably in the survey - along with the USA, Germany, Spain and France.
'Subjective view'
The study was carried out by the Security and Defence Agenda think tank and its rankings are based on the perceived quality of a country's cyber-readiness - the ability to cope with a range of threats and attacks.

"The subjectiveness of the report is its biggest strength," explained Raj Samani, McAfee's chief technology officer.

"What it does is give the perception of cyber-readiness by those individuals who kind of understand and work in cyber security on a day-in, day-out basis."

Countries ranked for cyber-readiness

Country Rating

Source: McAfee

(None)

Finland, Israel, Sweden

Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, UK, USA

Australia, Austria, Canada, Japan

China, Italy, Poland, Russia

Brazil, India, Romania

Mexico

(None)

A good score depends on having basic measures like adequate firewalls and antivirus protection, and more complex matters including well-informed governance and education.

Sweden, Finland and Israel all impressed the report's experts - despite the fact that the latter receives reportedly over 1,000 cyber attacks every minute.

Isaac Ben-Israel, senior security advisor to Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is quoted in the report as saying: "The hacktivist group Anonymous carries out lots of attacks but they don't cause much damage. The real threat is from states and major crime organisations."

He added that the country has set up a cyber-taskforce responsible for assessing threats to key infrastructure such power production and water supplies.
'Enhancing co-operation'
At the other end of the security scale, Mexico ranked as least prepared to cope with the cyber threat - a situation which is blamed on the country's authorities needing to overwhelmingly focus on the country's gang and drugs problems.

China is regarded by some Western observers as an aggressor in cyberspace.

But one expert Peiran Wang said the country was itself vulnerable because it lacked a joined up strategy.

Mexico's drug problems means available resource is put into real world policing - and not on cybercrime

"The Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of State Security and even the military are involved and they don't communicate well," said Peiran Wang, a visiting scholar at Brussels' Free University.

In the UK, the report praised a £650m investment programme in cyber security.

However, the Home Office's plans were criticised by information security expert Peter Sommer.

"A great deal depends on co-operation from the private sector, which controls about 80% of the critical national infrastructure.

"Over half of the new funding will go to the 'secret vote', the intelligence agencies, where value for money will be difficult to investigate. I would have preferred more emphasis on public education - helping potential victims help themselves."
Cybercrime fighters
Among the report's conclusions is the recommendation that greater efforts be made to improve cross-border law enforcement.

"Cybercriminals route their connection through multiple different countries," said Mr Samani.

"If criminals are particularly clever, they go through countries where they know there isn't any co-operation."

In the UK, millions has been pledged by foreign secretary William Hague to fight cyber issues

"The bad guys share information - we need to do the same as well."

Dr Joss Wright from the Oxford Internet Institute welcomed the report's findings. However, he had serious doubts over the feasibility of its suggestions.

"They're recommendations that people have been saying for maybe 10 years," he told the BBC.

"I would love to see good information sharing - but when you're talking about national security, there's a culture of not sharing.

"They're not suddenly going to change 70, 100, 1000 years of military thinking."

Countries ranked for cyber-readiness
Country	Rating
Source: McAfee
(None)
Finland, Israel, Sweden
Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, UK, USA
Australia, Austria, Canada, Japan
China, Italy, Poland, Russia
Brazil, India, Romania
Mexico
(None)

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Hackers outwit online banking identity security systems

2012-02-02T23:19:00.001-06:00

Criminal hackers have found a way round the latest generation of online banking security devices given out by banks, the BBC has learned.

After logging in to the bank's real site, account holders are being tricked by the offer of training in a new "upgraded security system".

Money is then moved out of the account but this is hidden from the user.

Experts say customers should follow banks' official advice, use up-to-date anti-virus software and be vigilant.

Devices like PINSentry from Barclays and SecureKey from HSBC - which look a lot like calculators - ask users to insert a card or a code to create a unique key at each login, valid for around 30 seconds, that cannot be used again.

This brought a new level of online banking security against password theft. The additional line of defence provided security even if a user's computer along with any password information was hacked.

While these chip and pin devices make the hackers' job more difficult, the hackers themselves have raised their game.
'Man in the Browser' attack
A test witnessed as part of a BBC Click investigation suggests even those with up-to-date anti-virus software could be at risk.

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Find out more

BBC Click is on BBC News Channel, Saturday 4 February 1130 GMT and will be available afterwards on iPlayer

BBC Click's website

There is no specific risk to any one individual bank.

In the test the majority of web security software on standard settings did not spot that a previously unseen piece of malware created in the software testing lab was behaving suspiciously.

The threat does not strike until the user visits particular websites.

Called a Man in the Browser (MitB) attack, the malware lives in the web browser and can get between the user and the website, altering what is seen and changing details of what is being entered.

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How to spot if you have been infected

If your transaction seems to be taking longer than normal, there is a chance it is going via a fraudster's system

If you are asked for more information than normal, especially entire passwords where previously you were only asked for part, your machine may have been infected

Computers that have been infected often slow down while malware monopolises both the processor and the internet connection

Some versions of the MitB will change payment details and amounts and also change on-screen balances to hide its activities.

With the additional security devices, the risk of fraud is only present for one transaction, and only if the customer falls for the "training exercise".

"The man in the browser attack is a very focused, very specific, advanced threat, specifically focused against banking," said Daniel Brett, of malware testing lab S21sec.

"[Although] many products won't pick this up, they've got a much bigger scope, they're having to defend against all the viruses since the beginning of time."

Every time a new update to the malware is released, it takes the security companies a number of weeks to learn how to spot it - to learn its common features.

Continue reading the main story
What to do if you suspect something

Contact your bank by phone, not by email

Tell them the time and date you believed you were accessing your bank account, and if the bank's records do not match, it is likely your computer has been compromised

In the UK, banks usually refund victims of online fraud as a matter of course

But one security company did privately concede that, if this threat had come from a source not known to be bad and started communicating with a web address also not on the black-list of "bad" sites - until they had discovered and analysed it - it probably would have beaten their protection.
Fraud detection software
Makers of many of the security products featured in tests argued that it was not valid as it only tested one part of their protection.

They point out that they continually search for and blacklist websites, emails, and other sources of malware.

Mark Bowerman, of Financial Fraud Action UK, said: "Banks also employ what's called back-end security and that's what's happening behind the scenes to protect you from online banking fraud.

"We've got intelligent fraud detection software, and it's used to seeing how you operate your online bank account.

"Any deviations from the norm and the software is going to pick it up - that may be the type of transaction you've made or the amount."

Hackers can even manipulate online statements so customers will not automatically see changes

Most PC security products will block this kind of threat if their security settings are turned up to maximum but will also block many legitimate programs too.

Online banking fraud losses totalled £16.9 million in the first six months of 2011, according to Financial Fraud Action UK.

In the UK, banks usually refund victims of online fraud as a matter of course.

Banks and experts say customers must continue using online security anti-virus products.

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Nevada chosen for federal cyber security training program - My News 4 - KRNV, Reno, NV

2012-02-02T23:16:00.001-06:00

CARSON CITY, Nev. (KRNV & MyNews4.com) - Governor Sandoval today announced Nevada’s selection by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for this year’s Community Cyber Security Maturity Model program implementation for two of Nevada’s communities.
The DHS program assists communities in assessing their cyber security awareness and preparing for cyber security issues that cross both the public and private sectors.
“Cyber security is a growing issue in our state and our country and I’m very pleased Nevada has been chosen for this award,” Governor Sandoval said. “As we grow our technology infrastructure, Nevada needs to maintain a leadership position in this area.”
Administered by the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS), an extension of the University of Texas – San Antonio, the program consists of a 14-month training and exercise program focusing on community cyber security prevention, response, and recovery.
In a highly competitive process, Nevada is one of two states to be chosen this year. Clark County and Washoe County/Carson City are the two Nevada communities chosen for the program.

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Inside the Real Paterno-Sandusky Relationship - Black Shoe Diaries

2012-02-02T22:12:00.001-06:00

In terms of the recent affairs and allegations surrounding the Penn State football program, it can be all too easy to get caught up in the firestorm of rumor and opinion. With much of the story still missing there is quite a lot that Penn State fans just don’t know. That isn’t to say there aren’t informed opinions to be had but the misinformation circling this story can make it a difficult row to hoe.

One of the theories regarding Joe Paterno’s involvement is the belief that his alleged inaction after his report to Curley and Schultz was out of a friendship between himself and Jerry Sandusky. Certainly it does not seem far fetched that a man who had coached under Paterno for 32 years would have built some sort of relationship with him. But not everything is as it seems.

In 1999 a Sports Illustrated article covering the Sandusky’s retirement.

Sandusky was asked last week if he'll miss Joe Pa. "Well, not exactly," he said. "You have to understand that so much of our time was spent under stress, figuring out how to win. That takes a toll. We've had our battles. I've quit. I've been fired. I've walked around the building to cool off." Paterno says, "I'm not the easiest guy to work with."

This conflict came to head when Sandusky was informed by Paterno himself that he would not be Paterno’s successor. A surprise to many as Sandusky was seen as the obvious heir apparent to the Paterno throne.

Some may say that this is merely the result of a workplace conflict. That because you don’t like your coworkers does not mean you would jump at the opportunity to send them to jail. While there is plenty of truth to this, Paterno’s comments a few years later to the Center Daily Times indicate that Paterno wasn’t exactly sad to see Sandusky go.

"In staff meetings, it was getting to be “We'” and “You” and it should be “Us.” Jerry [Sandusky's] leaving gave me an opportunity to get that out of the way and do things I'm comfortable with," Paterno told the Centre Daily Times in January 2002.

For Paterno, as much as Sandusky brought to the table, he was almost breathing a sigh of relief when Sandusky finally made his exit.

While this relationship does not solve the answers to some of the pressing questions regarding Paterno’s actions it does make one wonder why Paterno would not act if he knew more. In one conversation with a shaken Mike McQueary, Joe Paterno was given the opportunity to save the image he had created at Penn State, and rid himself of a man he was all too eager to see go.

Ultimately we can only speculate on the motives and actions of Paterno, even with the Grand Jury report any serious conclusion in terms of motive is premature without the entire story. However it does seem that the speculation that Paterno acted on behalf of an old friend seems to be unfounded.

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Ms. Understood - Aspergers, Synaesthesia and TCFMs Don't Mix STOP CLOCK AT 3:10

2012-02-02T19:53:00.001-06:00

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"All I Really Want"

Do I stress you out
My sweater is on backwards and inside out
And you say how appropriate
I don't want to dissect everything today
I don't mean to pick you apart you see
But I can't help it
There I go jumping before the gunshot has gone off
Slap me with a splintered ruler
And it would knock me to the floor if I wasn't there already
If only I could hunt the hunter

And all I really want is some patience
A way to calm the angry voice
And all I really want is deliverance
Do I wear you out
You must wonder why I'm so relentless and all strung out
I'm consumed by the chill of solitary
I'm like Estella
I like to reel it in and then spit it out
I'm frustrated by your apathy
And I am frightened by the corrupted ways of this land
If only I could meet the Maker

And I am fascinated by the spiritual man
I am humbled by his humble nature
What I wouldn't give to find a soul mate
Someone else to catch this drift
And what I wouldn't give to meet a kindred
Enough about me, let's talk about you for a minute
Enough about you, let's talk about life for a while
The conflicts, the craziness and the sound of pretenses
Falling all around...all around
Why are you so petrified of silence
Here can you handle this?

Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines
Or when you think you're gonna die
Or did you long for the next distraction
And all I need know is intellectual intercourse
A soul to dig the hole much deeper
And I have no concept of time other than it is flying
If only I could kill the killer

All I really want is some peace man
a place to find a common ground
And all I really want is a wavelength
All I really want is some comfort
A way to get my hands untied
And all I really want is some justice...

~break~ CLOCK 4:40

"So Unsexy"

Oh these little rejections how they add up quickly
One small sideways look and I feel so ungood
Somewhere along the way I think I gave you the power to make
Me feel the way I thought only my father could

Oh these little rejections how they seem so real to me
One forgotten birthday I'm all but cooked
How these little abandonments seem to sting so easily
I'm 13 again am I 13 for good?

I can feel so unsexy for someone so beautiful
So unloved for someone so fine
I can feel so boring for someone so interesting
So ignorant for someone of sound mind

Oh these little protections how they fail to serve me
One forgotten phone call and I'm deflated
Oh these little defenses how they fail to comfort me
Your hand pulling away and I'm devastated

When will you stop leaving baby?
When will I stop deserting baby?
When will I start staying with myself?

Oh these little projections how they keep springing from me
I jump my ship as I take it personally
Oh these little rejections how they disappear quickly
The moment I decide not to abandon me

Not Funny. Stop Hacking My Site.

2012-02-02T19:46:00.001-06:00

Operation Ghost Click

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Special Issue on Police Corruption & Brutality 'Speak-Out' forum

2012-02-02T19:07:00.001-06:00

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NEW JERSEY CRIME LINE - NJ-SPEAKOUT PUBLICATION e-mail: nj-speakout@igc.apc.org snail: PO Box 1214, Belle Mead, NJ 08502 Vol. 1 No. 4 September 4, 1995 ============================================================= SPECIAL ISSUE ON POLICE CORRUPTION Vol. 1, No. 4, is a special issue dealing primarily with issues of police brutality and corruption, particularly in Philadelphia. As we deal with issues of the war on crime and the prison system, we also have to consider, how some people end up in prison unjustly. Currently this journal will be posted to the following lists: nj-speakout@igc.apc.org parcer@igc.apc.org 3strikes@cmsa.berkeley.edu I invite your suggestions of other lists that might be open to publishing this journal and your feedback and invite you to forward the journal to other lists and individuals yourself. To subscribe to nj-speakout, send this message: subscribe nj-speakout to this address: majordomo@igc.apc.org This issue is broken into to posts, Vol. 1, No. 3 and Vol. 1, No. 4, due to length. The following are the contents of this post: >>01. PHILADELPHIA COPS ON FRAME 'EM UP RAMPAGE - 5 PARTS >>02. NJ COP ISSUES =============================================================== >>01. PHILADELPHIA POLICE - FRAMING 'EM UP BY THE THOUSANDS? Posted by Bob Witanek 8/28/95 Today, the facts about the Philadelphia Police forces propensity for manufacturing evidence, planting contraband and perjuring themselves in court was finally the subject of a New York Times article. The following is a recent news report by Jose Santiago, radio journalist for our favorite listener sponsored, non- commercial listener sponsored radio station WBAI-99.5FM (NYC): JOSE: Attorneys for Mumia Abu-Jamal claim the activist was persecuted by the local police and an adverserial judicial system because of his work with the Black Panther Party, and because of the nature of his journalistic work which often focused on the many instances of police corruption and misconduct during the years when Frank Rizzo served as police commissioner and then as mayor. While Mumia's appeal remains in a temporary holding pattern, the issue of corruption and misconduct on the part of Philadelphia Police moves ever closer to center stage. Right now in the City of Brotherly Love, a US Justice Dept investigation is uncovering evidence of widespread police misconduct and corruption, not back in the Rizzo years, but today. RECORDED CHANTING: Stop Police Brutality in the Black Community! JOSE: A group of Mumia Abu-Jamal supporters chanted as they gathered at the entrance of a recent fundraiser which published reports had said would be picketed by police. While they were there to block any attempts by police to disrupt their event, their chant reflected the views of many Philadelphians who for the umpteenth time in the city's recent history are opening their pages of their morning newspapers these days to find more revelations of police corruption and misconduct. WILL GONZALES: Some officers have confessed to arresting people on false pretenses. Some officers have confessed to planting evidence. JOSE: Will Gonzales is executive director of Philadelphia's Police-Barrio Relations Organization, a watchdog group that monitors relations between the police department and various sectors of the community. LOU GONZALES: Officers have confessed to putting guns in people's mouths and playing Russian Roullette. Officers have confessed to lying in court and falsely stating that people were involved in criminal activity that has resulted in their arrest. These are statements of officers themselves that have done it. JOSE: For weeks he has been reading about what one local legislator has described as the worse police scandal in Philadephia history dwarfing even the 1979 Justice Dept lawsuit in which Philadelphia cops were accused of widespread racist attacks against the city's Blacks and Latinos. In the current investigation, 5 Philadelphia Police from the city's 39th. police district have admitted they maintained stashes of illegal drugs at local precints, drugs they used in order to plant evidence on innocent people who in many cases wound up spending time in prison for false arrest often made on the basis of search warrants obtained under false pretenses, and in most cases after police lied on the stand to obtain conviction. Published reports say some of the 5 original officers accused in the case have implicated other cops, and as many as 30 officers might eventually be indicted. In a related case, 2 officers have admitted they ran a fencing operation in which property stolen by police from innocent victims was sold by cops out of a Philadelphia store front. Representative David P. Richardson, a longtime activist in the Philadelphia Black community who has served in the state legislature for more than 20 years. REP. DAVID: If anybody believes for the most part that there is not conspiracy at times, with the police department, not only here in this city, but across this nation, they're crazy. We have witnessed it not only as a legislator, but before, and what happens at the 39th. district that has just been unveiled, it exists and it happens every single day. JOSE: Richardson and others say the scandal being uncovered in the 39th. District is but the tip of the iceberg. He says that only fear keeps more from speaking out, a view echoed by WIll Gonzales: WILL GONZALES: There is a very big fear factor that gets in the way of people coming forward to testify, to make statements, to officially do something about it. That's the only way that the authorities will get involved, if people will attach their name and their address and phone number, and are willing to go as witnesses, etc. It's very frustrating to try to address the problem of police abuse when people are so scared of coming forward. JOSE: Authorities working on the investigation were not available for comment. Published reports say that as a result of the probe, 40 people who were serving time in prison for false arrest have been released. And according to one report, before the probe is completed, as many as one thousand one hundred convictions may be thrown out. That is one thousand one hundred people now doing time in the Pennsylvania prison system whose convictions may have been obtained through fabricated evidence, false arrests and police lies on the witness stand, some of the same points being made by Mumia Abu-Jamal's attorney in his appeal. Again state representative David Richardson: REP. DAVID: People call here about cases that take place, a lot of times you say to them, well, do you have any supporting documents, information that can substantiate your point of view. Becauseyou can't go agaisnt hte police knowing that htey have the upper hand. And the corruption that exist right now in the 39th., if you can compare this to what's taking place with Mumia, I have not heard, any prosecutor, any DA's office, saying anything negative about the police and what should happen to them. But Mumia was assassinated character-wise, as soon as a police officer was involved. PHILADELPHIA POLICE - FINE TIME TO DIMANTLE THE CIVILIAN POLICE REVIEW BOARD? Posted by Bob Witanek 8/29/95 JOSE: While the scandal seems to indicate that the police should be monitored more closely, there is a move in Pennsylvania to shut down Philadelphia's recently established civilian complaint review board. The current board which was established despite Mayor Ed Randell's veto and for which Mumia Abu-Jamal and other activists lobbied heavily since the early 1970's could be dismantled under a new bill now being debated in the Pennsylvania state legislature. Pushed by the Fraternal Order of Police and supported by soncervatives of both parties, the bill would eliminate Philadelphia's civilian complaint review board and force it to turn over all of its investigations to the District Attorney, the same DA that has never returned an indictment against a police officer and who currently pursues the death penalty in a higher percentage of cases than any DA in the country. In addition the bill would make it illegal for any other municipality to establish a civilian complaint review board. Juan Ramos, a Latino rights activist for many years anad current member of Philadelphia's civilian complaint review board. JUAN RAMOS: We expect that to be a very tough legislative battle in Harrisburg ... We think it's going to be a very tough fight. I'm not in a position to predict which way it will go but, all the forces against the urban cities and the people in the big cities like Philadelphia have really teamed up against us. We have a hell of a battle up there. JOSE: But that battle may not be limited to Pennsylvania. Nancy Rose is with the NCOPA group, the National Coalition for Police Accountability: NANCY ROSE: These kinds of multi-pronged, multi-leveled strategies to undermine police accountability seem to be a step up from what has happened in the past. We've always had police guilds and police lobbies be very well organized at the state level. In any state you want to go to, there's lots of piecemeal legislation that occurs regularly that removes police from scrutiny, from our point of view. This seems to be kicking it up to the next level, this legislation that would actually bar any kind of citizen oversight in an entire state. I think there's some concern that if this works in Pennsylvania, then in any other state police will try it. JOSE: Across the country says Rose, police are lobbying and finding much conservative support to limit the ways private citizens can influence police conduct. One of the arguments that has been echoed by Mayor Rudolph Guiliani in New York is that the civilian review boards interfere with investigations being carried out by local district attorneys. But Rose says that argument does not hold water: NANCY ROSE: That's something that district attorneys and people who oppose any kind of oversight tell the public. In fact, anyone familiar with criminal or legal kind of investigations aknow that multiple investigations are very common. This is not anything that is rare or out of the ordinary. That there are often any number of investigations going on. What happens is you set up a system, there's an order in which the investigations go, and some people hold off and other people go first, and that's normal. This really is an insincer argument. And it plays on what lay people don't know about how the justice system works. There are often multiple investigations. JOSE: The Pennsylvania anti-civilian complaint review board bill is currently making its way through the leggislature, although it has a ways to go before it is voted on. For progressive Philadelphians who fought for more police accountability for years, it is ironic that the civilian complaint review board that they set up may be dismantled at a time when the city is facing numerous multi-million dollar lawsuits from what might wind up being more than 1000 people who have been falsely arrested. And also at a time when the history of the police department's abuses is under such close scrutiny because of the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Again Juan Ramos, who sits on the Philadelphia review board: JUAN RAMOS: There's a move to the right. And one of the targest are these review boards. Just 2 years ago, 32 out of 50 major US cities had civilian review boards. In the last couple of years, with this change in Washington, there's this move to get rid of us at the local level. Interesting enough, recently I saw that in Washington, the NAR and some other folks are proposing a civilian type review board to overlook the FBI and the ATF. There's a bill in the house being proposed by republican legislators. They see it as something good for them and this business of militias and gun control, but they don't see it as something that is good for the cities, and I think because the cities are inhabited by minorities. It's good for them up there, but it's not good for us down here. PHILLY COPS ON A 'FRAME 'EM UP' RAMPAGE - MICHAEL NOVICK INTERVIEW Continuing this mini-internet series on Philly Cops, the following is from the Monday, August 28, 1995 news report by Jose Santiago, radio broadcast correspondent for listener sponsored, non- commercial radio station WBAI-99.5FM (NYC). Included is an interview with author Michael Novick which puts developments in Philadelphia in a national context. JOSE: New York City's corruption plagued police department pales in the light of the revelations of police misconduct and corruption now surfacing in Philadelphia in a story reported here on WBAI about 2 weeks ago (posted by nj-speakout in last 2 days). The New York Times today ran a front page article detailing instances of beatings, false arrests and perjury on the part of Philadelphia's 39th. Police District, which covers one of the city's largest Black communities. In what one elected official has called the worse police scandal in Philadelphia history, a justice department probe has uncovered as many as 1100 cases in which people may be serving time in Pennsylvania's prisons as a result of false testimony and in some cases evidence planted by police. The probe has focused on 5 corrupt officers who have been named and as many as 30 who already have been implicated but whose identity has not been released. So far Pennsylvania's corrections officials have been forced to release about 50 people from prison because of the pattern of false arrest. Many of those released are planning to sue the city. One grandmother recently released after serving 3 years in prison for a crime she did not commit has already sued for $7 million. Tonight as we continue to follow the situation in Philadelphia, we bring you the comments of Michael Novick, author of WHITE LIES, WHITE POWER: THE FIGHT AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY AND REACTIONERY VIOLENCE. Novick knows that these days what is often portrayed as the work of a handful of police officers is actually part of a much braoder and sinister agenda: MICHAEL NOVICK: My analysis of this is that these are not just individual and isolated cases but represent both the tendency within the police forces and a strategy of the white supremacist groups to advance goals that both white supremacists and the police have. What we're seeing in the current period is an increasing wole by police agencies and members of police departments and the military, to play a role in politics that is exceedingly reactionery. In California, we have a case where a Compton police officer was recently elected to a city council locally and one of the suburban cities and said that the problem with gangs is insoluble because there are 200 years of gang members from father to son in the Mexicano community. I know that in Philadelphia we've been seeing a role played by the FOP trying to suppress any support for Mumia Abu-Jamal, and apparently that is not only in Philadelphia, but around the country, we've seen a great deal of repression. There were mass arrests in San Francisco, over 200 arrested and charged with arson because someone set fire to a trash can. We've heard of cases of intimidation of people attempting to have programs. At Verso Books, they felt they couldn't have a tbale outside of an activity to support Mumia because they were afraid it would draw attention from the police station. We've heard of many similar stories of people trying to speak at public activities, at libraries, where calls were received making threats of police shutting down the facility if the events are held. JOSE: You make an interesting connection between the right and the police. Looking at what is happening in Philadelphia, in the context of Mumia Abu-Jamal, many of the things his defense attorneys have said went wrong, in terms of the police and some of the evidence they came up with, and evidence they suppresses, back during his trial, seem to be happening right now, in terms of this 39th. police district and some of the revelations that are coming out today, with the New York Times story. A lot of the people who were incarcerated on lies by police and lies on the witness stand, planted evidence, it's so difficult to be able to say, yes this is part of a larger movement when the police are saying that it's basically 5 cops, an isolated situation. It always seems to come down to 4 or 5 rogue cops taking the blame. Have you found a connection between activity by individual cops to a larger philosophy. MICHAEL NOVICK: I think there's a problem between the police department and the prosecutors. For example, in Southern California, there have been a number of cases. First of all, there was a recent police shooting of a 14 year old Mexicano youth in Los Angeles. The officer who did it was one of 44 so-called problem officers identified on the force by the Christopher Commission, Warren Christopher, at that time was investigating police brutality in the wake of the Rodney King beating by the LAPD. And even though these 44 rogue officers were identifies, 34 of them are still on the LAPD, 4 years later. This particular one internally was ordered expelled from the force by an executive agency of the police department, and was reinstated on suspension by the police chief, and retained on the force. This is a pattern we particularly see around the white supremacy cases. We have a situation on the LA Sheriff's Dept, where an officer burned a cross inside the county jail. It was investigated by the FBI. He was fired and reinstated by the sheriff who is an elected official in LA. Subsequent to that, he shot and killed a Mexican national in an incident on New Years Eve where the man was firing a gun into the air to celebrate New Years Eve and this Deputy Sheriff took a gun out and told people he was planning to get somebody. The latter half of this incident was reported by a commission that investigated the sheriff's department, a Judge Colts (?) here. Colts specifically cited the fact that the district attorney refused to press any charges against this officer as an example of the inadequacy of the supervision of the sheriff's by either the sheriff himself or by the prosecuting officials in the county. He never talked about the earlier incident of open white supremacy by the same officer where he burned the cross. The pattern where the district attorneys do not hold the police accountable or answerable is something that goes on around the country, again here in Los Angeles, the district attorney recently announced because of budget cuts, he's eliminating entirely the unit in his department that prosecutes police for shootings and brutality. The situation is that the prosecutors work together with police departments and probably coach them. The system functions on this basis. Not that there are one or two rogue cops who falsify evidence. They are told what standard they are suppsed to meet to make a case and they proceed to fulfill that standard by whatever means they have to, to lock somebody up. JOSE: I see the FOP and other police organizations to lobby at the state level in a number of states, like Pennsylvania. The situation in Philadelphia where the community has fought for 20 years to get a civilian complaint review board. They finally got it and now there's a bill being pushed by republicans in the state legislature that calls for the disbanding of the board and turning over of their investigations to the local district attorneys. Any thoughts? MICHAEL NOVICK: Its a longstanding trend. When I was in New York in the 60's, the PBA was instrumental in winning a referendum to end the civilian complaint review board that was established by Mayor Lindsey in New York at that time. They did so with the support of the John Birch Society, and the American Nazi Party was the lead group along with the PBA in opposing that. This question of white supremacy linking up with police forces is a longstanding problem. I think that civilian police review boards are a bandaid solution at best. The Christopher Commission offered a brief civilian review and reform proposal, what they served to do was derail an organized effort from the grassroots for community control of the police. That is a much different aspect where the if the city had had that put on the ballot and passed in LA, from the grassroots, the community would have elected boards supervising the police entirely, not just reviewing their conduct in some cases. It would have set up a special prosecutor to deal with all police brutality and abuse cases. Civilian review boards in my study have become coopted, by the agencies themselves proving to be not too scary to the officers, in terms of holding them accountable. JOSE: Here in New York, after an investigation, the best they can do is make a recommendation which the commissioner does not necessarily have to follow. MICHAEL NOVICK: That's pretty typical around the nation. JOSE: We've seen here in New York, a couple of Sunday's ago, there was a what church goers out in Queens say was a police assault with a helicopter, and apparently someone high enough in the police department was able to get those light turned out on the entire block. And down in Philadelphia, a few weeks earlier, there had been a very similar situation, with police going in and arresting a man that they could have arrested at any time but chose to to arrest him at the largest Black Church while he was in the process of being married. A lot of boldness there, are they sending a message? MICHAEL NOVICK: When they talk about community based policing, we sometimes talk about police based communities, and I think that this whole view that police function as an occupying army, and that there's a role of terror. A group I'm with is called People Against Racist Terror. And that terror is carried out not only by nightriders in robes, I think that the police have a history of terrorizing communities as a way to maintain control. There's a magazine called LAW AND ORDER, which is one of the police trade magazines in which they communicate to each other and try to sell the hardware for surveillance. This magazine pretty openly refers to community based policing as the domestic equivalent of psychological operations in warfare. They do have the mentality that says that they're at war, and both the military type of activites they carry out, and the whole crime bill on the heels of previous federal aid to police departments has basically been about federalizing and militarizing the police. It is important for people to see that community based policing is only an aspect of that militarization. It is not a reform or transformation of the role the police play. JOSE: Are we headed toward a situation where we have a national police state like some of the countries in Latin America? MICHAEL NOVICK: We always have the federal system which has proven resilient and useful for them in terms of increasing the size of the police force. I doubt that they will completely nationalize the police agencies. The federal division of local, state and national police forces is being broken down ever since the law enforcement assitance administration in the Nixon years continuing with the crime bill, with the funding and the equipment coming from the federal government. In the Waco hearings, it was startling that they had one whole day of testimony from the military. Unblinkingly, they didn't mind at all the fact they said its policy, this Southwest joint task force 6, that all law enforcement is able to make use of, all the resources and the manpower, training, equipment of the army, and other military forces in the border region of the Southwest under the control of 6 federal agencies that transfer along to local agencies. The border patrol, the INS, DEA, ATF are able to call upon the army in joint operations with local police forces throughout the Texas, Arizona, Colorado . . . INTERVIEW WITH PASTOR WHERE PHILLY COPS MADE THEIR INFAMOUS WEDDING CEREMONY BUST Posted by Bob Witanek 8/31/95 "In Philadelphia, in many instances and parts of this city, when you're confronted with the criminal at one end of the block and the police at the other, you don't know which way to run." - Rev. Joseph Patterson INTERVIEW WITH PASTOR WHERE PHILLY COPS MADE THEIR INFAMOUS WEDDING CEREMONY BUST Philadelphia cops recently storm trooped in on a wedding ceremony to arrest the groom at Philadelphia's largest Black Church. Jose Santiago, reporter for Pacifica radio station WBAI 99.5FM (NYC) recently conducted the following interview with the Pastor from the church. JOSE: Earlier today, we spoke with the Reverend Joseph Patterson, President of the Black Clergy of Philadelphia, who described what happened at the Zion Baptist Church earlier this summer, when police raided the church during a wedding, interrupting the service and arresting the groom who was wanted for missing a court appearance. Here is a segment of the conversation we had earlier today with the Reverend Joseph Patterson of Philadelphia: REV. JOSEPH PATTERSON: In our church there are 3 major sacraments. There's the sacrament of Holy Baptism, Holy Community and Holy Matrimony. The police went in during the ceremony, started some pushing and shoving ... They were walking on the pews in the Church. And when they got outside, a larger scene was caused by the police and the way that they had gone into the church, in gear, in their uniforms, to apprehend a person who was wanted by the police. They tried to make an issue to say that we were against them arresting this fellow. We have no sentiments at all as far as the criminal was concerned. That was not the case. The case was that they violated the sanctity of the Church. This fellow was not considered to be a public enemy number 1. He was not even considered to be public enemy number 101. But when it came time to arrest John Dillinger, they didn't break into the theatre. They waited until he came out because they said someone could get hurt on the inside. Likewise, with Noriega. The whole army was after him. The navy, the army, the marines and we chased him all over Panama. And he ran into a church and we had Howlitzers, and Sherman tanks and all sorts of weaponry. Aimed at that church, but we would not go in because we wanted to respect the church. If we could do that with the army, if we could do that with public enemy number 1, then why would they go into our church. JOSE: Is it your sense that the police had more than enough opportunities outside the church to arrest this person? REV. JOSEPH PATTERSON: Certainly. One of the reasons they said they didn't arrest him outside is because there was a fair going on across the street in the parking lot. That was the weakest excuse because where the fair was going on, there was an 8 foot fence. That was about 100 yards away and so, there was really no justification for what they did. JOSE: I understand that the church and the police district these officers are from, is that the same district where there has been all the revelations of police corruption? REV. JOSEPH PATTERSON: Exactly. JOSE: Do you think that there's any connection there. REV. JOSEPH PATTERSON: I think that when you have a poorly disciplined police station, you have a real problem, because first of all you have men with a badge, with revolver and with the authority to abuse people. They're just discovering this. This has been going on for a multiplicity .. you have men who have spent time in prison because of the what the police like these fellow have done. I think that is what gives impetus to the OJ Simpson trial. To show you how police manufacture proof, or evidence, against criminals, against people who have been incarcerated for being criminals. Not fair! When you think of the lives of men have been ruined. This 39th. district, they just discovered it in yesterday's paper. New revelations where they believe some of those policemen beat a man to death. In Philadelphia, in many instances and parts of this city, when you're confronted with the criminal at one end of the block and the police at the other, you don't know which way to run. JOSE: Let me ask you, is your sense that what happened at the church was just merely bad judgement or bad police practices on the part of some cops, or do you have any sense that they were trying to provoke something. REV. JOSEPH PATTERSON: I wouldn't say they were trying to provoke. I won't say that about the Sergeant. I think it's bad judgement and the abuse of power. I think that's what it amounts to. But there have been times when the police have tried to provoke things in the city. They provide them, and once they get them started, then they hide the hand. Throw the stone and hide the hand. ANd then those persons who have been provoked into retaliation are then labelled as troublemakers, renegades, what have you. This thing going on in Philadelphia, especially up around that 39th. police district, which is not the only district by itself. This thing is widespread across the city but, it's almost like nazi Germany. When they began their takeover, it happened the same way. The abuse and flagrant use of power against minorities in particular. They have a field day in Philadelphia. JOSE: It's strikes me as ironic that this continues to happen while at the state level there's a move to disband the civilian complaint review board. REV. JOSEPH PATTERSON: Of course. JOSE: Is that something that the clergy has been involved in? REV. JOSEPH PATTERSON: We've been trying our best to combat against this. I'm not talking as a partisan man. But when you have republicans who are hellbent on turning back the clock, when you have them in authority, in high and key positions, there is very little you can do. Because they are going to disregard whatever you say with hope that they can go back to the good old days, as they call them. There's the frustration because we can't go back to those days. It's the same thing with Moses not wanting to go back to Egypt. You can rest assured, we're not going back to those good old days when we were abused and misused without any consequences at all. JOSE: How would you gauge the community sentiment in regard to the increase in abuse by police. REV. JOSEPH PATTERSON: The community is becoming more aware of it. Before, there was little if any belief. They are now becoming more aware of the truth about these things that we've been claiming over the years. As a matter of fact, I got several letters from Jewish groups offering there support to whatever we were striving to do. The Catholic Community, they sent us letters, from Cardinal Devolaqua (?), stating their dismay over what had happened in the church. The community is beginning to wake up. We're beginning to face the 21st century. If we take these patterns in full bloom into the 21st. century, our country is doomed for destruction, the same way the things have come apart in Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia, Poland and all these other places, ... the same thing will happen here. I don't think it will be as devastating. But I think more bloodshed will be realized when you begin to pit groups against groups. That is the most ridiculous thing. And it has no positive consequences, none whatsoever. This is where they're headed with all of this verbalization coming out of Newt Gingrich and Jesse Helms and that crowd. All they're doing is exciting the American people and turning up some flames into the minds of those who have some philosophical or social problems within their own being. I think the city fathers need to really do some soul searching and not allow this thing to get out of control. Especially in a city like New York. The song "I like New York?" We all like New York. Let's not make New York the Selma, Alabama of yesteryear. NEW YORK TIMES ON PHILLY COP FRAME-UP SCANDAL PHILADELPHIA SHAKEN BY CRIMINAL POLICE OFFICERS, 8/28/95 by Don Terry PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23 - The congregation at Refuge Evangelical BaptistChurch was rocking here last Sunday to glory songs, trumptes, and the word of the Lord. But no one has a reason to shout "Hallelujah," louder than Betty (Mizzy) Patterson, a stout, 54-year-old grandmother in a flowered sun dress. Mrs. Patterson, a widow, who cleaned other people's floors and clothes to keep her family together and now delivers newspapers before dawn with her grandson, was framed by corrupt police officers and spent 3 years in prsison in the early 1990's after being falsely convicted of selling crack cocaine. Mrs. Patterson and her church always knew whe was innocent, but only in the past couple of months has the rest of the city learned the truth. And although Philadelphia has been rocked by one police scandal after another in recent years, the new charges reveal a group of officers so corrupt, so calloused to the rights and welfare of residents, that the details have shaken the city to its roots. Mrs. Patterson is one of dozens, perhaps even hundreds of victims of a band of 5 renegade offciers who for at least 3 years haunted her predominantly poor and Black North Philadelphia neighborhood, beating, robbing, lying and planting phony evidence on the good and the bad, Federal and local prosecutors said. "She went to jail for 3 years for something she was completely innocent of.," said Lynne Abraham, the Philadelphia District Attorney, "This whole thing has made me physically ill. This is the ultimate betrayal of the public trustm and it has some very destructive consequences. It justifies people's suspicions of the police." Earlier this year, the officers pleaded guilty in Federal Court to being criminals in blue; nearly 50 drug cases that they were invovled in, including Mrs. Patterson's have been overturned by the courts and the District Attorney's office. Hundreds more could also be thrown out. Scheduled for sentencing in October are Officer Hohn Baird, 40, Sgt. Thomas BeGovanni, 44, Officer Steven Brown, 48, Officer James Ryan, 39, and former officer Thomas Ryan, 38, who is on disability. Most of them have apparently been cooperating with investigators. A sixth officer, Louis J. Maier, 38, from the same district, was charged today in Federal District Court with conspiracy to violate civil rights. There are reports that even more officers will be charged, expanding the scandal and the city's potential liability. Ken Rocks, a vice president of the local Fraternal Order of Police said he expects more arrests any day, an expectation he called "very, very distressing." "This is killing morale," Mr. Rocks said of the department which has already endured several brutality and corruption scandals over the last 2 decades. At least 1400 drug-related cases are expected to come under review, and the scandal could cost the city millions of dolalrs in lawsuits - dollars that Mayor Edward G. Rendell says "we desperately need for human needs and basic services." Prosecutors and defense lawyers also say they expect several murder convictions to be reviewed or thrown out as a result of the scandal. Mrs. Patterson;s lawyer, Jennifer St. Hill said that 3 of 5 officersm who had already pleaded guilty, used a warrant secured with lies to illegally search her client's home, and at least one of them planted drugs in her bedroom. None of the officers has officially admitted doing thatm but during an interview with investigators, one officer said his partner had planted drugs as they searched for evidence against Mrs. Patterson's 3 sons, who were suspects in a drug related killing. "When the police are indistinguishable from the bad guys,: Mrs. Abraham said, "then society has a serious problem." So far about a dozen people have been freed from priosn or parole. Mrs. Patterson was on parole before her case was vacated last month, and most of the other overturned cases involved people on probation, many of whom had criminal records. "Shaking down drug dealers is no excsuse for breaking the law," Mrs. Abraham said. Bradley S. Bridge, a local public defender asked the DA to dismiss the cases after the foficers were indicted last February on Federal charges including conspiracy, obsrtuctoin of justice and "pocketing more than $100,000 ni cash they robbed from suspected drug dealers through beatings, intimidations, illegal searches and denying suspects their constitutional rights.: The first batch of dismissals included 42 cases and nearly as many defendants. Mr. Brudge has written prosecutors asking that another 60 cases be dismissed and, he said thaae other day with a sigh, "The end is nowhere in sight." Mr. Bridges said the scandal could change how juries perceive the police. IN the past, Mr. Bridges said, many jurors took what police officers said on the witness stand almost as the gospel truth. "Too much credibility has always been given to the police in court," Mr. Brudge said. Maybe that will change a little bit now. Noe one who comes to court should be given a ticket to be believed." The revelations of police corruption have already given encouragement to the supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Black radio journalist condemned to die for killing a police officer here in 1981. MR. Abu-Jamal is seeking a new trial partly on the ground that he had been framed by the police. On the other side of the country, conjuring suspiscions of police misconduct is a major strategy being employed by OJ Simpson's lawyers to convince a jury that he was framed in the slayings of his former wife and her friend. Judge Lance Ito is considering allowing Mr. SImpson's lawyers to give jurors hours of tape recorded conversations in which a former detective Mark Fuhrman boasted of beating suspects and other abuses. The 5 indicted Philadelphia officers were assigned to the 39th. District, but they roamed through other rough patches of North Philadelphia, a part of town plagued with unemploymentm poverty and the deadly violence that often accompanies drug money. Tjey were aggressive officers and several of them were well known on the streets where drugs are almost as available as newspapers. When the young men in he neighborhood saw the officers coming, they would run or disappear in doorways. The other day, Rashine Brown, 20, and Cynthia Taylor, 24, who works for the IRS were puttng oil in their cars on their block in North Philadelphia. Both said they had known about the renegade police officers long before they were charged. "I can't even remember all the bad stories I heard about these cops,: Mr. Brown said. "They used to beat people down, take their money. A lot of people were scared of them." Mrs. Taylor said the officers operated for so long outside of hte law because they patrolled a poor neighborhood ignored and abandoned by the city, a naighborhood not ulinke Chicago's South Side or Harlem, where a scandal in the NYC police department is unfolding. "You can't trust the cops around here," Mrs. Taylor said. "They're in it for themselves, not the community. I guess they forgot why they took the job. : The human toll of the scandal will be difficult if not impossible to calculate. Unlike Mrs. Patterson, George Porchea, 27, was still in prison when the years of police lies became public. But on July 20 after being locked up for nearly 3 years, Mr. Porchea was able to watch his daughter graduate from pre-school a few hours after he walked out of a courtroom in City Hall a free man. He has not seen his oldest daughter yet. She was placed in a foster home in N. Carolina while he was in prison. "I'm trying to geth her back," he said. "i'm trying to get my whole life back." Mrs. Patterson was released on parole in 1994, but long before that she had much to be thankful for. Her church and its interracial congregation stood by her since the day she was arrested in 1989. And she remained loyal to her church. As soon as she could, Mrs. Patterson got a job in the prison laundry, where she made less than 50 cents a day. Still ,each month she sent her $5 tithe, said the Rev. Wilbert S. Richardson, her pastor. To pass the time, Mrs. Patterson who made it to the 10th grade, buried herself in her Bible and became a mother figure to many of the younger inmates who called her "Miss P." One of the women was Patricia Lytle, who was serving time on a drug charge that she admits she was guilty of. On Sunday, Mrs. Patterson brought Ms. Lytle to her church. "The whole time" in prison, Ms. Lytle said, "you wouldn't believe how the women would look to her. She was grinning and smiling while the rest of us were crying. She was always hugging and praying. Girls would come to her for comfort." Last Sunday, Pastor Ruchardson asked Mrs. Patterson to come forward and testify about her faith. She carried her Bible to the front of the church and read from the Acts of Apostles where Herod had thrown Peter into prison unjustly. "That's me," Mrs. Patterson told the congregation, her voice heavy with the accent of her native south. "I, too was like Peter in prison. When people see me they are amazed at what can happen to a person.." When she closed her Bible and smile, the church suddenly surged with song and the sound of trumpets. Mrs. Patterson waved her hand in the air and in a clear, free voice, shouted, Hallelujah." =================================================================== Posted by Bob Witanek 09/01/95 A TALE OF 3 CITIES AND THE COPS THAT OCCUPY THEM: NEW YORK TIMES ON COPS IN PHILLY, LA AND NYC . . . AP ARTICLE IN NEW YORK TIMES, 9/1/95 US IS SAID TO SEEK PHILADELPHIA LOGS Philadelphia, Aug. 31 (AP) - Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed the records of more than 100,000 arrests in 6 police districts in the city as part of a widening investigation of police corrpution, a newspaper reported today. The subpoenas, some for logs dating to 1985, were served on Monday, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. 42 drug convictions have already been overturned because of falsified police reports, illegal tactics and perjury by 6 police officers in the 39th. District. In addition, 5 murder cases are being reinvestigated because some of the officers were on the cases. On Wednesday a former 39th. District police officer, Louis Maier, became the 6th. from his district to plead guilty to 1 count of conspiracy to violate civil rights. Prosecutors said Mr. Maier and his partner, John Baird, took the law into their own hands to arrest drug suspects. They said Mr. Maier and Mr. Baird, both now dismissed from the police force, took drugs from a district building stash to use as evidence. They also said the former officers lied on arrest reports to justify their illegal searches, bullied suspects and stole their money. After pleading guilty earlier this year, Mr. Baird gave investigators the information they needed to charge his partner. Mr. Maier, the 6th. officer from the 39th. District to plead guilty in the growing scandal, admitted his part in 4 incidents in May and June 1990. He agreed to cooperate with and ongoing Fed investigation into police corruption in exchange for possible leniency for his sentencing which is scheduled for Dec. 15. "He's been upset for a while now," Mr. Maier's lawyer Felipe Restrepo said after his client's appearance before Judge Harvey Bartle 3d of Fed District Court here. "He feels very sorry." In May, 1990, the plea agreement said, Mr. Maier and Mr. Baird repeatedly rammed John Clouse's car with their unmarked police car. When Mr. Clouse pulled into a parking lot, one of the men smashed the driver's side window, pulled Mr. Clouse from the car and ordered him face down on the ground. Mr. Maier and Mr. Baird charged Mr. Clouse with possession of 12 vials of cocaine. Mr. Clouse, who told investigators he was a drug addict at the time, denied having any drugs but said that a female companion might have dropped some in his car. Mr. Baird falsified a police report that said he and his partner saw Mr. Clouse buying vials of crack. The report said that they got out of their car and identified themselves as police officers and that Mr. Clouse then smashed into their car. FUHRMAN IS NOT AN EXCEPTION, The following opinion piece by Joe Domanick, author of TO PROTECT AND SERVEL THE LAPD'S CENTURY OF WAR IN THE CITY OF DREAMS, appears in today's New York Times (9/1/95): 30 years ago, James Baldwin described the hate a white policeman feels in every Black neighborhood in America: "He is facing, daily and nightly, people who would gladly see him dead, and he knows it. He moves ... like an occupying soldier in a bitterly hostile country, which is exactly what he is." This is the world Mark Fuhrman moved in for much of his career, and it is clear from the hate-filled tapes in the Simpson trial that this is exactly how the former detective felt. It's not unusual. The most common reaction for a white policeman is to sink into deep cop cynicism that culminates in detesting everyone who doesn't see the world through his own narrow prism. After all, learning to respect how hard it is for people in South Central LA and blighted neighborhoods everywhere to survive their crushing lives requires an effort and an empathy that most of us don't possess. So to claim that the former detective's attitudes and apparent actions are a gross aberration, as the LA political and police union leaders are trying to do, is disingenuous at best. Mr. Fuhrman' attitudes toward minority groups and women are not unique to LAPD. Cops, as Anthony Bouza, the former Minneapolis police chief has pointed out "have been given the very confusing and unpleasant task of being society's char cleaners ... so they lie ... and stick together." Just as the Knapp and Mollen Commissions revealed corruption particular to, though not solely the province of, the NYPD, the Fuhrman tapes tell us a lot about the LAPD: how 40 years of unchecked power of the chiefs of police produced a tolerance, even encouragement of racial attitudes and street justice. William H. Parker, the chief from 1950 to his death in 1966, was so openly racist that he would not allow patrol cars to be integrated until the early 60's. In 1959, expressing his feelings about Mexican- Americans, he said, "Some of these people have been here since before we were, but some of them aren't far removed from the wild tribes of Mexico." During the 1965 Watts riots, he warned of the growth of the Black population: "It is estimated that by 1970, 45% of the metro area of LA will be Negro. If you want any protection for your home and family .. you're going to have to support a strong police department. If you don't do that, come 1970, God help you." Ed Davis, the chief in the 70's was not overtly racist, but he found his own ways to echo Bill Parker. Mr. Davis seemed to think that the only good cop was a white, male, x-marine. He railed against the idea of women on patrol and bitterly fought increased hiring of women and minorities. He said that homosexuals could not become officers because no one would be able to use the radio microphones in police cars after they did. He answered complaints that too many Blacks were being killed by the police by pointing out that more white people had been "fatally shot by police officers last year than Black people ... so we don't discriminate." These attitudes continued under Daryl Gates, who became police chief in 1978 and served until he was forced to resign after the riots in 1992. He once differentiated Blacks from "normal people;" "joked" that Latinos who were slow to rise through the LAPD ranks just might be "lazy;" and advised the Senate Judiciary Committee that casual drug users "ought to be taken out and shot." The sign sent by the leaders of the police force were crystal clear to the Mark Fuhrmans on the force. So clear that the Christopher Commission, which had been appointed after the Rodney King beating to investigate the department, spent 23 pages of its report documenting the extent and virulence of the LAPD's sexism and racism. In response to that report, the new police chief Willie Williams, was brought into root out these entrenched problems. Maybe the Fuhrman tapes, postions of which will be used in the Simpson trial, will now give him the backbone to do that. The message officers received in years past was that a good cop was willing to confront people constantly and be hard-nosed and aggressive as a matter of course. As the complaints rolled in, the tacit understanding was that they would be ignored. As the Christopher Commission documentedm out od more than 2000 complaints of excessive use of force filed by the public against the police from 1966 through 1990, only 2% were sustained. None of this is any great revelation to anyone living ni LA. We've seen the Fuhrman attitudes before from the shooting and chokehold deaths of scores of unarmed suspects in the late 70's and early 80's to the baton blows to Rodney King's back. When will the LA political establishment stop pointing to Mark Fuhrman as if he sprung out of a vacuum of just dropped down from Mars? GHOULIANI ENDORSES POLICE RIOT AGAINST JAMAICA, QUEENS CHURCH We recently posted the comments of Rev. Emmanuel Osei-Acheampong regarding a police attack on his congregation in which roughly 30 of his followers were wounded. Yesterday, NYC Mayor Guiliani endorsed the vicious assault, saying that the police were responding to provocations, including bottle throwing. In response to Guiliani's comments, the Rev. Osei-Acheampong stated "When you sit in this office and say that people coming out of a church with Bibles are throwing things,

CIA's Support to the Nazi War Criminal Investigations — Central Intelligence Agency

2012-02-02T18:59:00.001-06:00

Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S. : Report Says

by Eric Lichtblau, bibliotecapleyades.net
November 13th 2010

Dr. Josef Mengele in 1956, left.

Arthur Rudolph, center, in 1990, was a rocket scientist for Nazi Germany and NASA.

John Demjanjuk, right, in 2006

WASHINGTON

A secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad.

The 600-page report, which the Justice Department has tried to keep secret for four years, provides new evidence about more than two dozen of the most notorious Nazi cases of the last three decades.

It describes the government’s posthumous pursuit of Dr. Josef Mengele, the so-called Angel of Death at Auschwitz, part of whose scalp was kept in a Justice Department official’s drawer; the vigilante killing of a former Waffen SS soldier in New Jersey; and the government’s mistaken identification of the Treblinka concentration camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.

The report catalogs both the successes and failures of the band of lawyers, historians and investigators at the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, which was created in 1979 to deport Nazis.

Perhaps the report’s most damning disclosures come in assessing the Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement with Nazi émigrés.

Scholars and previous government reports had acknowledged the C.I.A.’s use of Nazis for postwar intelligence purposes. But this report goes further in documenting the level of American complicity and deception in such operations.

The Justice Department report, describing what it calls,

“the government’s collaboration with persecutors,” says that O.S.I investigators learned that some of the Nazis “were indeed knowingly granted entry” to the United States, even though government officials were aware of their pasts.

“America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the persecuted, became - in some small measure - a safe haven for persecutors as well,” it said.

The report also documents divisions within the government over the effort and the legal pitfalls in relying on testimony from Holocaust survivors that was decades old.

The report also concluded that the number of Nazis who made it into the United States was almost certainly much smaller than 10,000, the figure widely cited by government officials.

The Justice Department has resisted making the report public since 2006. Under the threat of a lawsuit, it turned over a heavily redacted version last month to a private research group, the National Security Archive, but even then many of the most legally and diplomatically sensitive portions were omitted.

A complete version was obtained by The New York Times.

The Justice Department said the report, the product of six years of work, was never formally completed and did not represent its official findings. It cited “numerous factual errors and omissions,” but declined to say what they were.

More than 300 Nazi persecutors have been deported, stripped of citizenship or blocked from entering the United States since the creation of the O.S.I., which was merged with another unit this year.

In chronicling the cases of Nazis who were aided by American intelligence officials, the report cites help that C.I.A. officials provided in 1954 to Otto Von Bolschwing, an associate of Adolf Eichmann who had helped develop the initial plans “to purge Germany of the Jews” and who later worked for the C.I.A. in the United States.

In a chain of memos, C.I.A. officials debated what to do if Von Bolschwing were confronted about his past - whether to deny any Nazi affiliation or,

“explain it away on the basis of extenuating circumstances,” the report said.

The Justice Department, after learning of Von Bolschwing’s Nazi ties, sought to deport him in 1981. He died that year at age 72.

The report also examines the case of Arthur L. Rudolph, a Nazi scientist who ran the Mittelwerk munitions factory. He was brought to the United States in 1945 for his rocket-making expertise under Operation Paperclip, an American program that recruited scientists who had worked in Nazi Germany. (Rudolph has been honored by NASA and is credited as the father of the Saturn V rocket.)

The report cites a 1949 memo from the Justice Department’s No. 2 official urging immigration officers to let Rudolph back in the country after a stay in Mexico, saying that a failure to do so “would be to the detriment of the national interest.”

Justice Department investigators later found evidence that Rudolph was much more actively involved in exploiting slave laborers at Mittelwerk than he or American intelligence officials had acknowledged, the report says.

Some intelligence officials objected when the Justice Department sought to deport him in 1983, but the O.S.I. considered the deportation of someone of Rudolph’s prominence as an affirmation of “the depth of the government’s commitment to the Nazi prosecution program,” according to internal memos.

The Justice Department itself sometimes concealed what American officials knew about Nazis in this country, the report found.

In 1980, prosecutors filed a motion that “misstated the facts” in asserting that checks of C.I.A. and F.B.I. records revealed no information on the Nazi past of Tscherim Soobzokov, a former Waffen SS soldier.

In fact, the report said, the Justice Department,

“knew that Soobzokov had advised the C.I.A. of his SS connection after he arrived in the United States.”

(After the case was dismissed, radical Jewish groups urged violence against Mr. Soobzokov, and he was killed in 1985 by a bomb at his home in Paterson, N.J.)

The secrecy surrounding the Justice Department’s handling of the report could pose a political dilemma for President Obama because of his pledge to run the most 'transparent' administration in history. Mr. Obama chose the Justice Department to coordinate the opening of government records.

The Nazi-hunting report was the brainchild of Mark Richard, a senior Justice Department lawyer. In 1999, he persuaded Attorney General Janet Reno to begin a detailed look at what he saw as a critical piece of history, and he assigned a career prosecutor, Judith Feigin, to the job.

After Mr. Richard edited the final version in 2006, he urged senior officials to make it public but was rebuffed, colleagues said.

When Mr. Richard became ill with cancer, he told a gathering of friends and family that the report’s publication was one of three things he hoped to see before he died, the colleagues said.

He died in June 2009, and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. spoke at his funeral.

“I spoke to him the week before he died, and he was still trying to get it released,” Ms. Feigin said. “It broke his heart.”

After Mr. Richard’s death, David Sobel, a Washington lawyer, and the National Security Archive sued for the report’s release under the Freedom of Information Act.

The Justice Department initially fought the lawsuit, but finally gave Mr. Sobel a partial copy - with more than 1,000 passages and references deleted based on exemptions for privacy and internal deliberations.

Laura Sweeney, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said the department is committed to transparency, and that redactions are made by experienced lawyers.

The full report disclosed that the Justice Department found “a smoking gun” in 1997 establishing with “definitive proof” that Switzerland had bought gold from the Nazis that had been taken from Jewish victims of the Holocaust. But these references are deleted, as are disputes between the Justice and State Departments over Switzerland’s culpability in the months leading up to a major report on the issue.

Another section describes as “a hideous failure” a series of meetings in 2000 that United States officials held with Latvian officials to pressure them to pursue suspected Nazis. That passage is also deleted.

So too are references to macabre but little-known bits of history, including how a director of the O.S.I. kept a piece of scalp that was thought to belong to Dr. Mengele in his desk in hopes that it would help establish whether he was dead.

The chapter on Dr. Mengele, one of the most notorious Nazis to escape prosecution, details the O.S.I.’s elaborate efforts in the mid-1980s to determine whether he had fled to the United States and might still be alive.

It describes how investigators used letters and diaries apparently written by Dr. Mengele in the 1970s, along with German dental records and Munich phone books, to follow his trail.

After the development of DNA tests, the piece of scalp, which had been turned over by the Brazilian authorities, proved to be a critical piece of evidence in establishing that Dr. Mengele had fled to Brazil and had died there in about 1979 without ever entering the United States, the report said. The edited report deletes references to Dr. Mengele’s scalp on privacy grounds.

Even documents that have long been available to the public are omitted, including court decisions, Congressional testimony and front-page newspaper articles from the 1970s.

A chapter on the O.S.I.’s most publicized failure - the case against John Demjanjuk, a retired American autoworker who was mistakenly identified as Treblinka’s Ivan the Terrible - deletes dozens of details, including part of a 1993 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that raised ethics accusations against Justice Department officials.

That section also omits a passage disclosing that Latvian émigrés sympathetic to Mr. Demjanjuk secretly arranged for the O.S.I.’s trash to be delivered to them each day from 1985 to 1987.

The émigrés rifled through the garbage to find classified documents that could help Mr. Demjanjuk, who is currently standing trial in Munich on separate war crimes charges.

Ms. Feigin said she was baffled by the Justice Department’s attempt to keep a central part of its history secret for so long.

“It’s an amazing story,” she said, “that needs to be told.”

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Office of Special Investigations

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Office of Special Investigations

ushmm.org | Jan 6th 2011

The Office of Special Investigations (OSI), in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, has been investigating and prosecuting cases against Nazi offenders since 1979. OSI has established a record as the most active and successful such law enforcement unit in the world. It is the only law enforcement unit of its kind to win awards from Holocaust survivor organizations. The first director of OSI, Walter Rockler, had been a prosecutor during the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings.

OSI conducts civil proceedings, as criminal prosecutions in the Nazi cases are, in effect, barred by the ex post facto clause of the United States Constitution. Sanctions imposed as a result of successful civil prosecution by OSI are denaturalization (revocation of U.S. citizenship) and deportation. The key element in OSI prosecutions is past participation of the defendant in Axis-sponsored persecution of individuals on the basis of race, religion, national origin, or political opinion. Naturalization fraud or visa fraud allegations are often included as well. There is no statute of limitations on civil immigration and naturalization fraud claims.

Despite initial predictions that its work would soon be finished, OSI has been active for over 25 years. It has opened hundreds of investigations and has initiated proceedings leading to the denaturalization and/or removal of more than 100 Nazi offenders from the United States. In addition, with the assistance of the INS -- and, since 2002, its successor, the Department of Homeland Security -- OSI has succeeded in blocking attempts made by more than 200 individuals suspected of participating in Nazi crimes to gain entry to the United States, among them the former United Nations Secretary General and later Austrian President Kurt Waldheim. The majority of persons against whom OSI has initiated proceedings were either members of auxiliary police forces serving in German-occupied territories, or guards at concentration camps and forced-labor camps.

OSI and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are "siblings" of a sort, having been conceived within the same political and moral context of the late 1970s. In recent years, the Museum has been of great assistance to OSI, both in granting access to key documentation that the Museum has microfilmed in archives in Germany, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union, and in the commitment of the Museum to provide expert historian witnesses in prosecutions initiated and tried by OSI. The OSI plays a critical role in drawing attention to the significant legal, moral, and ethical issues raised by Nazi crimes.

In December 2004, the U.S. Congress expanded the jurisdiction of OSI to cover post-World War II offenders who have obtained U.S. citizenship after participating in genocide, torture, or extrajudicial killing abroad under cover of foreign law.

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Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S

2012-02-02T18:58:00.003-06:00

Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S. : Report Says

by Eric Lichtblau, bibliotecapleyades.net
November 13th 2010

Dr. Josef Mengele in 1956, left.

Arthur Rudolph, center, in 1990, was a rocket scientist for Nazi Germany and NASA.

John Demjanjuk, right, in 2006

WASHINGTON

The 600-page report, which the Justice Department has tried to keep secret for four years, provides new evidence about more than two dozen of the most notorious Nazi cases of the last three decades.

Perhaps the report’s most damning disclosures come in assessing the Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement with Nazi émigrés.

The Justice Department report, describing what it calls,

“the government’s collaboration with persecutors,” says that O.S.I investigators learned that some of the Nazis “were indeed knowingly granted entry” to the United States, even though government officials were aware of their pasts.

“America, which prided itself on being a safe haven for the persecuted, became - in some small measure - a safe haven for persecutors as well,” it said.

The report also documents divisions within the government over the effort and the legal pitfalls in relying on testimony from Holocaust survivors that was decades old.

The report also concluded that the number of Nazis who made it into the United States was almost certainly much smaller than 10,000, the figure widely cited by government officials.

A complete version was obtained by The New York Times.

More than 300 Nazi persecutors have been deported, stripped of citizenship or blocked from entering the United States since the creation of the O.S.I., which was merged with another unit this year.

In a chain of memos, C.I.A. officials debated what to do if Von Bolschwing were confronted about his past - whether to deny any Nazi affiliation or,

“explain it away on the basis of extenuating circumstances,” the report said.

The Justice Department, after learning of Von Bolschwing’s Nazi ties, sought to deport him in 1981. He died that year at age 72.

The Justice Department itself sometimes concealed what American officials knew about Nazis in this country, the report found.

In fact, the report said, the Justice Department,

“knew that Soobzokov had advised the C.I.A. of his SS connection after he arrived in the United States.”

(After the case was dismissed, radical Jewish groups urged violence against Mr. Soobzokov, and he was killed in 1985 by a bomb at his home in Paterson, N.J.)

After Mr. Richard edited the final version in 2006, he urged senior officials to make it public but was rebuffed, colleagues said.

When Mr. Richard became ill with cancer, he told a gathering of friends and family that the report’s publication was one of three things he hoped to see before he died, the colleagues said.

He died in June 2009, and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. spoke at his funeral.

“I spoke to him the week before he died, and he was still trying to get it released,” Ms. Feigin said. “It broke his heart.”

After Mr. Richard’s death, David Sobel, a Washington lawyer, and the National Security Archive sued for the report’s release under the Freedom of Information Act.

Laura Sweeney, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said the department is committed to transparency, and that redactions are made by experienced lawyers.

It describes how investigators used letters and diaries apparently written by Dr. Mengele in the 1970s, along with German dental records and Munich phone books, to follow his trail.

Even documents that have long been available to the public are omitted, including court decisions, Congressional testimony and front-page newspaper articles from the 1970s.

That section also omits a passage disclosing that Latvian émigrés sympathetic to Mr. Demjanjuk secretly arranged for the O.S.I.’s trash to be delivered to them each day from 1985 to 1987.

The émigrés rifled through the garbage to find classified documents that could help Mr. Demjanjuk, who is currently standing trial in Munich on separate war crimes charges.

Ms. Feigin said she was baffled by the Justice Department’s attempt to keep a central part of its history secret for so long.

“It’s an amazing story,” she said, “that needs to be told.”

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The CIA Created 'Safe Haven' For Nazis And Jews

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The CIA Created 'Safe Haven' For Nazis And Jews

by Ronald Swenso, bibliotecapleyades.net
November 30th 2010

by Katherine Smith, PhD

November 30, 2010
from MiddleEasternStudies Website

The long-hidden report "CIA created ‘safe haven’ for Nazis in US" obtained by the New York Times November 13, 2010, may be the most concrete account yet of the role that prominent members of Germany’s Nazi party played in the early, formative years of the CIA, following World War II.

It alleges the CIA created a “safe haven” for Nazis believed to be of use to the US’ Cold War efforts. ^[1]

Notice the words alleges and believed, to be of use to the US’ Cold War efforts. What if there was another reason the CIA created a “safe haven” for Nazis?

In Search of J. D. Salinger, by Ian Hamilton, recounts Salinger’s experience during and after World War II, serving with the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC).

Salinger’s reclusive behavior may have been the result of knowledge he gained while in the employ of the United States Defense Intelligence Department during and after World War II.

He took part in the creation of the mind control program, MK-Ultra and Project Artichoke and in the interrogation of captured Nazis (denazification of Germany) ^[2]

Project Artichoke was developed under the influence of the former Nazis who worked with CIC and The House of Rothschild to make sure the end of the Diaspora and the Jews arrival in Palestine happened in exactly 1260 years from the “abomination of desolation.”

The Cassandra Prophecy by Ian Gurney

Salinger, it is reasonable to assume, had access to the secret memorandum written on June 21, 1933, from the German Zionist Federation to the Nazis,

“All German Jewish organizations, it was declared, should be dominated by the Zionist spirit”.

In 1941, the “Stern Gang,” among them Yitzhak Shamir, later Prime Minister of Israel, presented the Nazis with the Fundamental Features of the Proposal of the National Military Organization (NMO) in Palestine:

The NMO, which is well-acquainted with the goodwill of the German Reich government and its authorities towards Zionism activity… is of the opinion that: the NMO in Palestine… offers to actively take part in the war on Germany’s side.

The Iron Wall, London 1984, pp.195-197

The Wall Street Journal December 2, 1976

Concentration camps weren’t the only camps set up by Hitler and the Gestapo.

During the 1930s, in cooperation with the German authorities, Zionist groups organized a network of some 40 camps where prospective settlers were trained for their new lives in Palestine.

The Transfer Agreement between Hitler’s Germany and international Zionism, implemented in 1933 and abandoned at the beginning of WWII, allowed German Jews to immigrate to Palestine. ^[3]

Therefore, we can logically deduce that Salinger may have uncovered the Story behind the Story of Adolph Hitler and the Modern State of Israel, aka The Key to the Secret of the Universe.

‘For Esmé - With Love and Squalor’

In his celebrated story For Esmé - With Love and Squalor, Salinger, trying to get a grip on life, most probably is talking about himself when he starts a correspondence with a thirteen year-old British girl.

A Perfect Day for Bananafish is another story about his struggle with suicide because he was tormented by:

The knowledge he learned as a counterintelligence officer that millions of deaths and an untold amount of suffering caused by two World Wars and the Holocaust had only one purpose: to create the Modern State of Israel and end the Diaspora, in 1948. The Key...

Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that Salinger connected WW I, WW II, Adolph Hitler and the 'Holocaust' to The Modern State of Israel.

Salinger was living with both the memory of the horrors of war and with the knowledge that millions of deaths and untold suffering caused by World War II had nothing to do with an incompetent fanatical dictator, Adolph Hitler, financed by George H.W. Bush’s father, Prescott, trying to take over the world. ^[4]

In one of the rare moments when he did speak to the media, he said,

“I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.”

He displayed the mental anguish of a misanthrope involved in one of the bloodiest episodes of the war in Hürtgenwald, a useless battle, where he witnessed the horrors of war, and has to confront the reality that 70 million people died in order to create the Modern State of Israel.

Salinger himself was hospitalized for stress, according to his biographer, Ian Hamilton, and later retreated into his private world and Zen Buddhism. Alleging a conspiracy about the story behind the story of two World Wars and the Holocaust in 1950 would be hazardous to your mental and physical health.

It was a choice between getting killed or ridiculed; he kept silent and waited for death.

Endnotes

[1] A report the Justice Department has been trying to hide for the past four years offers the most detailed account yet of the CIA’s efforts to protect known Nazi war criminals in the United States. Eric Lichtblau, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html?_r=1

[2] The project’s intentionally oblique CIA cryptonym is made up of the digraph MK, meaning that the project was sponsored by the agency’s Technical Services Division, followed by the word ULTRA (which had previously been used to designate the most secret classification of World War II intelligence). Other related cryptonyms include MK-NAOMI and MK-DELTA.

A precursor of the MK-ULTRA program began in 1945 when the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency was established and given direct responsibility for Operation Paperclip.

Operation Paperclip was a program to recruit former Nazi scientists. Some of these scientists studied torture and brainwashing, and several had just been identified and prosecuted as war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4443934.stm, http://www.jlaw.com/Articles/NaziMedEx.html

Several secret U.S. government projects grew out of Operation Paperclip. These projects included Project CHATTER (established 1947), and Project BLUEBIRD (established 1950), which was later renamed to Project ARTICHOKE in 1951. Their purpose was to study mind-control, interrogation, behavior modification and related topics.

[3] When Lenni Brenner’s, 51 Documents: Zionism Collaboration with the Nazis was published the Pro-Zionist British Jewish central organization wanted Amazon to issue a warning to their customers,

“We have urged Amazon to acknowledge on the site that this book is of a dangerous and controversial nature.”

Brenner’s introduction:

The Nazi era is the most discussed period in history, yet most Jews and others are unaware of the interaction between Zionism, Hitler and Mussolini.

What happened to the Jews is constantly utilized in Zionist propaganda as justification for the creation of the Israeli state, the silver lining around the dark cloud of desolation.

[4]

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The CIA, The KKK and The USA

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The CIA, The KKK and The USA

by Sherwood Ross, bibliotecapleyades.net
October 15th 2010

By assigning covert action roles to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), it is as if the White House and Congress had legitimized the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) to operate globally.

That's because the CIA today resembles nothing so much as the "Invisible Empire" of the KKK that once spread terror across the South and Midwest. Fiery crosses aside, this is what the CIA is doing globally.

The CIA today is committing many of the same sort of gruesome crimes against foreigners that the KKK once inflicted on Americans of color. The principal difference is that the KKK consisted of self-appointed vigilantes who regarded themselves as both outside and above the law when they perpetrated their crimes.

By contrast, the CIA acts as the agent of the American government, often at the highest levels, and at times at the direction of the White House. Its crimes typically are committed in contravention of the highest established international law such as the Charter of the United Nations as well as the U.S. Constitution.

What's more, the "Agency," as it is known, derives its funding largely from an imperialist-minded Congress; additionally, it has no qualms about fattening its budget from drug money and other illegal sources. It is a mirror-image of the lawless entity the U.S. has become since achieving superpower status. And it is incredible that the White House grants license to this violent Agency to commit its crimes with no accountability.

The Ku Klux Klan was founded shortly after the end of the U.S. Civil War. Klansman concealed their identities behind flowing white robes and white hoods as they terrorized the newly emancipated blacks to keep them from voting or to drive them from their property.

Allowing it to operate in secret literally gives the CIA the mythical Ring of Gyges.

In Plato's Republic, the owner of the ring had the power to become invisible at will.

As Wikipedia puts it,

Plato "discusses whether a typical person would be moral if he did not have to fear the consequences of his actions."

The ancient Greeks made the argument, Wikipedia says, that,

"No man would keep his hands off what was not his own when he could safely take what he liked out of the market, go into houses and lie with any one at his pleasure, kill or release from prison whom he would, and in all respects be like a god among men."

The CIA, like Hitler's Gestapo and Stalin's NKVD before it, has provided modern man the answer to this question. Its actions illuminate why all criminal entities, from rapists and bank robbers, to Ponzi scheme swindlers and murderers, cloak themselves in secrecy.

There are innumerable examples of how American presidents have authorized criminal acts without public discussion that the preponderant majority of Americans would find reprehensible.

Example:

it was President Lyndon Johnson who ordered the CIA to meddle in Chile's election to help Eduardo Frei become president. If they had known, U.S. taxpayers might have objected to such a use of their hard-earned money to influence the outcome of another country's elections. But the public is rarely let in on such illegal foreign policy decisions.

Where the KKK after the Civil War terrorized blacks to keep them from voting, the CIA has worked to influence the outcome of elections all over the world through bribery and vote-buying, dirty tricks, and worse.

According to investigative reporter William Blum in "Rogue State", the CIA has perverted elections in,

Italy

Lebanon

Indonesia

The Philippines

Japan

Nepal

Laos

Brazil

Bolivia

Chile

Portugal

Australia

Jamaica

Panama

Nicaragua

Haiti,

...among other countries.

If they had known, taxpayers might also object to the CIA's numerous overthrows of foreign governments by force and violence - such as was done in Iran in 1953 by President Eisenhower and Chile in 1973 by President Nixon.

Both overthrows precipitated bloodbaths that cost tens of thousands of innocent civilians lives. Blum also lists the countries the CIA has attempted to overthrow or has actually overthrown.

His list includes,

Greece

The Philippines

East Germany

Iran

Guatemala

Indonesia

Iraq

Viet Nam

Laos

Ecuador

The Congo

France

Cuba

Ghana

Chile

South Africa

Bolivia

Portugal

Nicaragua,

...to cite a few.

As I write, today, October 11, 2010, Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina called on President Obama to revise U.S. (imperialist) policies toward Latin America.

He questioned why the U.S. continues to plant its military bases across the region.

That's an excellent question. If the U.S. is a peace-loving nation, why does it need 800 bases the world over in addition to 1,000 on its own soil? Americans might recoil in disgust if they knew of the CIA's numerous assassinations of the elected officials of other nations.

Is it any wonder Americans so often ask the question,

"Why do they hate us?"

As historian Arnold Toynbee wrote in 1961,

"America is today the leader of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in the defense of vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for.

Rome consistently supported the rich against the poor in all foreign communities that fell under her sway; and, since the poor, so far, have always and everywhere been more numerous than the rich, Rome's policy made for inequality, for injustice, and for the least happiness of the greatest number."

The CIA's protective secrecy resembles nothing so much as the KKK, which proudly proclaimed itself "the Invisible Empire" and whose thugs killed citizens having the courage to identify hooded Klansmen to law enforcement officials.

Today, it is our highest public officials that protect this criminal force, said to number about 25,000 employees.

It is actually a Federal offense to reveal the identity of a CIA undercover agent - unless, of course, you happen to be I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and are employed by Vice President Dick Cheney.

Libby leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame to punish her husband Joseph Wilson for publishing a report that undercut the White House lie that Saddam Hussein had purchased "yellowcake" from Niger to fuel WMD.

Today, high public officials direct the CIA's criminal policies and protect its agents' identities the better to enable them to commit their crimes.

According to journalist Fred Cook in his book "Ku Klux Klan - America's Recurring Nightmare",

"The Klan was inherently a vigilante organization. It could commit the most atrocious acts under the guise of high principle and perpetrators of those acts would be hidden behind white masks and protected by Klan secrecy... (The Klan) set itself up as judge, jury and executioner" - a policy adopted by the CIA today.

CIA spies have conducted their criminal operations masquerading as officials of U.S. aid programs, business executives, or journalists.

Example:

The San Diego-based Copley News Service's staff of foreign correspondents allegedly was created to provide cover to CIA spies, compromising legitimate American journalists trying to do their jobs. While the murders committed by the KKK likely ran into the many thousands, the CIA has killed on a far grander scale and managed to keep its role largely secret.

As Tim Weiner, who covered the CIA for the New York Times noted in his book "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA":

"In Guatemala, 200,000 civilians had died during forty years of struggle following the agency's (CIA) 1954 coup against an elected president."

Weiner adds,

"the CIA's officers in Guatemala still went to great lengths to conceal the nature of their close relations with the military and to suppress reports that Guatemalan officers on its payroll were murderers, torturers, and thieves."

When it comes to murder, the CIA makes the KKK look like Boy Scouts.

Like the KKK, CIA terrorists operate above the law. KKK members committed thousands of lynching yet rarely were its members punished for them. In 2009 at a speech at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, President Obama revealed he was not intent on punishing CIA agents for their crimes but would rather "look forward."

This seemingly charitable philosophy may be driven by the fact that Obama worked for Business International Corporation, a CIA front, at least in 1983 and perhaps longer, and allegedly is the son of a mother and father both of whom also worked for the CIA, as did Obama's grandmother!

I could find none of this in Obama's biography when he ran for the presidency, when a gullible American public elected a CIA "mole" to the White House.

Consider this, too:

an agency President Truman feared would become "an American Gestapo" when he signed the enabling legislation into law in 1947 has become just that, and it casts a lengthy shadow over the White House.

Ominously, it has in Barack Obama one of its own former employees sitting in the Oval Office - a man who, according to news reports, has vastly expanded the frequency of the CIA's assassinations by drone aircraft in Pakistan and who illegally claims the "right" to assassinate any American citizen abroad as well.

What's more, from 1989 to 1993 George Bush Sr., the CIA's own former Director, sat in the White House.

Additionally, from 2001 to 2009, the CIA had that Director's son, George W. Bush, in the Oval Office giving the CIA a blank check after the 9/11 massacre.

Bush Jr., according to The New York Times, in the summer of 1974 worked for Alaska International Industries, which did contract work for the CIA. The Times noted that this job did not appear in his biography when he ran for the White House in 2000, terming it "The Missing Chapter in the Bush Bio."

Thus, two presidential candidates with CIA ties - Bush Jr. and Obama - both neglected to mention them. And in Bill Clinton, who presided from 1993 to 2001, the CIA had a go-along president who satisfied the Agency's blood-lust when he authorized the first illegal "rendition," a euphemism for what KKK thugs once knew as kidnapping and torture.

Is there any question that the Agency has not played an influential, behind-the-scenes or even a direct role in the operations of the U.S. government at its highest level?

It may indeed be a stretch to argue that the CIA is running the country but it is no stretch to say that year after year our presidents reflect the criminal philosophy of the Agency.

Other parallels with the KKK are striking.

As Richmond Flowers, the Attorney General of Alabama stated in 1966,

"I've found the Klan more than just another secret society... It resembles a shadow government, making its own laws, manipulating local politics, burrowing into some of our local law-enforcement agencies... When a pitiable misfit puts on his $15 sheet, society can no longer ignore him."

Yet the descendants of those misfits have moved up today where they feel comfortable as operatives in the shadow government run by the White House.

One of the CIA's illicit duties has been to serve as a conduit for funneling U.S. taxpayer dollars to corrupt dictators and strongmen bent on suppressing the popular will of their citizenry.

As Noam Chomsky wrote in "Failed States", in Honduras,

"military officers in charge of the battalion (3-16) were on the CIA payroll."

This elite unit, he says,

"organized and trained by the United States and Argentine neo-Nazis," was "the most barbaric of the Latin American killers that Washington had been supporting."

Like the KKK, the CIA kidnaps many of its victims with no thought ever of legal procedure. It exhibits utter disdain for the rights of those individuals, the sovereignty of foreign nations, or respect for international law.

At least hundreds of foreigners, mostly from the Middle East, have been the victims of "renditions" just as the KKK kidnapped and flogged and lynched blacks, labor leaders, Catholics, Jews, or wayward wives whom it felt to be morally lacking. In September, 1921, The New York World ran a series exposing the KKK. It pointed out that, among other things, the KKK was violating the Bill of Rights wholesale.

This included the Fourth amendment against "unreasonable searches and seizures," the Fifth and the Sixth amendments, guaranteeing that no one may be held without a grand jury indictment or punished without a fair trial. And these rights today are similarly trampled by the CIA against American citizens, not just foreigners.

Apparently, only foreign courts care to rein in the CIA. The 23 CIA agents that it took to render one "suspect" in Italy are wanted there by the magistrates. (The spooks, by the way, ran up some fabulous bills in luxury hotels on taxpayers' dollars in that escapade.)

Former President Jimmy Carter wrote in his book "Our Endangered Values", the CIA transferred some of those it kidnapped to countries that included Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Morocco, Jordan, and Uzbekistan where,

"the techniques of torture are almost indescribably terrible, including, as a U.S. ambassador to one of the recipient countries reported, 'partial boiling of a hand or an arm,' with at least two prisoners boiled to death."

The KKK's methods of punishment were often as ugly: the brutal flogging of blacks in front of vicious crowds, followed by castration and burning their victims alive, and then lynching of the corpses.

As for the CIA, "Why?" asks investigative reporter William Blum,

"are these men rendered in the first place if not to be tortured? Does the United States not have any speakers in foreign languages to conduct interrogations?"

That the CIA is a terrorist organization was upheld in the famous "CIA On Trial" case in Northampton, Mass., in 1987, when a jury acquitted 14 protestors who tried to stop CIA recruitment on campus, according to Francis Boyle, the University of Illinois international law authority who defended the group.

The defense charged the CIA was,

"an organized criminal conspiracy like the SS and the Gestapo."

Boyle said,

"You would not let the SS or the Gestapo recruit on campus at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, so you would not permit the CIA to recruit on campus either."

Another shared characteristic of the KKK and CIA is greed, the desire to loot the hard-earned wealth of others.

Often, Klansmen terrorized African-Americans who had amassed property to frighten them off their land. Law-abiding black citizens who had pulled themselves up by the proverbial bootstraps were cheated out of their homes and acreage by the night riders.

Similarly, the CIA across Latin America has aligned itself with the well-to-do ruling class at every opportunity. It has cooperated with the elite to punish and murder labor leaders and clergy who espoused economic opportunity for the poor. The notion that allowing the poor to enrich themselves fairly will also create more wealth for an entire society generally, including the rich, has not permeated CIA thinking.

I emphasize what historian Toynbee noted:

"America is today the leader of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in the defense of vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for."

In sum, by adopting the terrorist philosophy of the KKK and elevating it to the operations of government at the highest level, the imperial Obama administration, like its predecessors, is showing the world the worst possible face of America.

Foreigners do not see the goodness inherent in the American people - most of whom only want a good day's pay for a good day's work and to educate their children and live at peace with the world. Every adult American has a solemn obligation to demand that its government live up to international law, punish the CIA criminals in its midst, and become a respected citizen of the world.

This will not come to pass until Congress abolishes the CIA, putting an end to its KKK-style terrorism which threatens Americans as well as humankind everywhere.

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The Origins of The Overclass

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by Steve Kangas

1999

from ConspiracyArchive Website

“In 1999, a journalist [Steve Kangas] who had written exposes of Richard Scaife was by all appearances murdered in the Oxford Centre of Pittsburgh, PA - the office complex of the foundation of his subject - Scaife.

Richard Mellon Scaife is the heir of the Mellon fortune and a major funder of the Heritage Foundation and other right wing organizations, although, like the Coors family, Scaife also funds abortion and gay rights organizations.

Shortly before his death in February 1999, Kangas catalogued the gruesome accomplishments of the CIA and issued a scathing indictment of their paymasters - the very elites who created the CNP!”
- The Council For National Policy

George Bush Sr.

former CIA director

The wealthy have always used many methods to accumulate wealth, but it was not until the mid-1970s that these methods coalesced into a superbly organized, cohesive and efficient machine.

After 1975, it became greater than the sum of its parts, a smooth flowing organization of advocacy groups, lobbyists, think tanks, conservative foundations, and PR firms that hurtled the richest 1 percent into the stratosphere.

The origins of this machine, interestingly enough, can be traced back to the CIA. This is not to say the machine is a formal CIA operation, complete with code name and signed documents. (Although such evidence may yet surface - and previously unthinkable domestic operations such as MK-ULTRA, CHAOS and MOCKINGBIRD show this to be a distinct possibility.)

But what we do know already indicts the CIA strongly enough. Its principle creators were,

Irving Kristol

Paul Weyrich

William Simon

Richard Mellon Scaife

Frank Shakespeare

William F. Buckley, Jr.

the Rockefeller family,

...and more.

Almost all the machine's creators had CIA backgrounds.

During the 1970s, these men would take the propaganda and operational techniques they had learned in the Cold War and apply them to the Class War. Therefore it is no surprise that the American version of the machine bears an uncanny resemblance to the foreign versions designed to fight communism.

The CIA's expert and comprehensive organization of the business class would succeed beyond their wildest dreams.

In 1975, the richest 1 percent owned 22 percent of America’s wealth.

By 1992, they would nearly double that, to 42 percent - the highest level of inequality in the 20^th century.

How did this alliance start?

The CIA has always recruited the nation’s elite:

millionaire businessmen

Wall Street brokers

members of the national news media

Ivy League scholars

During World War II, General "Wild Bill" Donovan became chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA.

Donovan recruited so exclusively from the nation’s rich and powerful that members eventually came to joke that "OSS" stood for "Oh, so social!"

Another early elite was Allen Dulles, who served as Director of the CIA from 1953 to 1961. Dulles was a senior partner at the Wall Street firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, which represented the Rockefeller empire and other mammoth trusts, corporations and cartels. He was also a board member of the J. Henry Schroeder Bank, with offices in Wall Street, London, Zurich and Hamburg.

His financial interests across the world would become a conflict of interest when he became head of the CIA. Like Donavan, he would recruit exclusively from society’s elite.

By the 1950s, the CIA had riddled the nation’s businesses, media and universities with tens of thousands of part-time, on-call operatives.

Their employment with the agency took a variety of forms, which included:

Leaving one's profession to work for the CIA in a formal, official capacity.

Staying in one's profession, using the job as cover for CIA activity. This undercover activity could be full-time, part-time, or on-call.

Staying in one's profession, occasionally passing along information useful to the CIA.

Passing through the revolving door that has always existed between the agency and the business world.

Historically, the CIA and society’s elite have been one and the same people.

This means that their interests and goals are one and the same as well. Perhaps the most frequent description of the intelligence community is the "old boy network," where members socialize, talk shop, conduct business and tap each other for favors well outside the formal halls of government.

Many common traits made it inevitable that the CIA and Corporate America would become allies. Both share an intense dislike of democracy, and feel they should be liberated from democratic regulations and oversight. Both share a culture of secrecy, either hiding their actions from the American public or lying about them to present the best public image.

And both are in a perfect position to help each other.

How? International businesses give CIA agents cover, secret funding, top-quality resources and important contacts in foreign lands.

In return, the CIA gives corporations billion-dollar federal contracts (for spy planes, satellites and other hi-tech spycraft). Businessmen also enjoy the romantic thrill of participating in spy operations.

The CIA also gives businesses a certain amount of protection and privacy from the media and government watchdogs, under the guise of "national security."

Finally, the CIA helps American corporations remain dominant in foreign markets, by overthrowing governments hostile to unregulated capitalism and installing puppet regimes whose policies favor American corporations at the expense of their people.

The CIA’s alliance with the elite turned out to be an unholy one. Each enabled the other to rise above the law. Indeed, a review of the CIA’s history is one of such crime and atrocity that no one can reasonably defend it, even in the name of anticommunism.

Before reviewing this alliance in detail, it is useful to know the CIA’s history of atrocity first.

The Crimes of the CIA

During World War II, the OSS actively engaged in propaganda, sabotage and countless other dirty tricks.

After the war, and even after the CIA was created in 1947, the American intelligence community reverted to harmless information gathering and analysis, thinking that the danger to national security had passed. That changed in 1948 with the emergence of the Cold War. In that year, the CIA recreated its covert action wing, innocuously called the Office of Policy Coordination. Its first director was Wall Street lawyer Frank Wisner.

According to its secret charter, its responsibilities included,

“propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, antisabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world.”

By 1953, the dirty tricks department of the CIA had grown to 7,200 personnel and commanded 74 percent of the CIA’s total budget.

The following quotes describe the culture of lawlessness that pervaded the CIA:

Stanley Lovell, a CIA recruiter for "Wild Bill" Donovan:

"What I have to do is to stimulate the Peck's Bad Boy beneath the surface of every American scientist and say to him, 'Throw all your normal law-abiding concepts out the window. Here's a chance to raise merry hell. Come help me raise it.'" ¹

George Hunter White, writing of his CIA escapades:

"I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun... Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the all-highest?" ²

A retired CIA agency caseworker with twenty years experience:

"I never gave a thought to legality or morality. Frankly, I did what worked."

Blessed with secrecy and lack of congressional oversight, CIA operations became corrupt almost immediately.

Using propaganda stations like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, the CIA felt justified in manipulating the public for its own good. The broadcasts were so patently false that for a time it was illegal to publish transcripts of them in the U.S. This was a classic case of a powerful organization deciding what was best for the people, and then abusing the powers it had helped itself to.

During the 40s and 50s, most of the public was unaware of what the CIA was doing.

Those who knew thought they were fighting the good fight against communism, like James Bond. However, they could not keep their actions secret forever, and by the 60s and 70s, Americans began learning about the agency’s crimes and atrocities. ³

It turns out the CIA has:

Corrupted democratic elections in Greece, Italy and dozens of other nations

Been involved to varying degrees in at least 35 assassination plots against foreign heads of state or prominent political leaders. Successful assassinations include democratically elected leaders like Salvador Allende (Chile) and Patrice Lumumba (Belgian Congo); also CIA-created dictators like Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic) and Ngo Dinh Diem (South Vietnam); and popular political leaders like Che Guevara. Unsuccessful attempts range from Fidel Castro to Charles De Gaulle

Helped launch military coups that toppled democratic governments, replacing them with brutal dictatorships or juntas. The list of overthrown democratic leaders includes Mossadegh (Iran, 1953), Arbenz (Guatemala, 1954), Velasco and Arosemena (Ecuador, 1961, 1963), Bosch (Dominican Republic, 1963), Goulart (Brazil, 1964), Sukarno (Indonesia, 1965), Papandreou (Greece, 1965-67), Allende (Chile, 1973), and dozens of others

Undermined the governments of Australia, Guyana, Cambodia, Jamaica and more

Supported murderous dictators like General Pinochet (Chile), the Shah of Iran, Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines), "Papa Doc" and "Baby Doc" Duvalier (Haiti), General Noriega (Panama), Mobutu Sese Seko (Ziare), the "reign of the colonels" (Greece), and more

Created, trained and supported death squads and secret police forces that tortured and murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians, leftists and political opponents, in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Haiti, Bolivia, Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Iran, Turkey, Angola and others

Helped run the "School of the Americas" at Fort Benning, Georgia, which trains Latin American military officers how to overthrow democratic governments. Subjects include the use of torture, interrogation and murder

Used Michigan State "professors" to train Diem’s secret police in torture

Conducted economic sabotage, including ruining crops, disrupting industry, sinking ships and creating food shortages

Paved the way for the massacre of 200,000 in East Timor, 500,000 in Indonesia and one to two million in Cambodia

Launched secret or illegal military actions or wars in Nicaragua, Angola, Cuba, Laos and Indochina

Planted false stories in the local media

Framed political opponents for crimes, atrocities, political statements and embarrassments that they did not commit

Spied on thousands of American citizens, in defiance of Congressional law

Smuggled Nazi war criminals and weapon scientists into the U.S., unpunished, for their use in the Cold War

Created organizations like the World Anti-Communist League, which became filled with ex-Nazis, Nazi sympathizers, Italian terrorists, Japanese fascists, racist Afrikaners, Latin American death squad leaders, CIA agents and other extreme right-wing militants

Conducted Operation MK-ULTRA, a mind-control experiment that gave LSD and other drugs to Americans against their will or without their knowledge, causing some to commit suicide

Penetrated and disrupted student antiwar organizations

Kept friendly and extensive working relations with the Mafia

Actively traded in drugs around the world since the 1950s to fund its operations. The Contra/crack scandal is only the tip of the iceberg –- other notorious examples include Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle and Noriega’s Panama

Had their fingerprints all over the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X. Even if the CIA is not responsible for these killings, the sheer amount of CIA involvement in these cases demands answers

And then routinely lied to Congress about all of the above.

The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that by 1987, 6 million people had died as a result of CIA covert operations. ⁴

Former State Department official William Blum correctly calls this an "American Holocaust." We should note that the CIA gets away with this because it is not accountable to democratic government.

Former CIA officer Philip Agee put it best:

"The CIA is the President's secret army."

Prior to 1975, the agency answered only to the President (creating all the usual problems of authoritarianism).

And because the CIA’s activities were secret, the President rarely had to worry about public criticism and pressure. After the 1975 Church hearings, Congress tried to create congressional oversight of the CIA, but this has failed miserably.

One reason is that the congressional oversight committee is a sham, filled with Cold Warriors, conservatives, businessmen, and even ex-CIA personnel.

The Business Origins of CIA Crimes

Although many people think that the CIA’s primary mission during the Cold War was to "deter communism," Noam Chomsky correctly points out that its real mission was "deterring democracy."

From corrupting elections to overthrowing democratic governments, from assassinating elected leaders to installing murderous dictators, the CIA has virtually always replaced democracy with dictatorship. It didn’t help that the CIA was run by businessmen, whose hostility towards democracy is legendary.

The reason they overthrew so many democracies is because the people usually voted for policies that multi-national corporations didn't like:

land reform, strong labor unions, nationalization of their industries, and greater regulation protecting workers, consumers and the environment.

So the CIA’s greatest "successes" were usually more pro-corporate than anti-communist.

Citing a communist threat, the CIA helped overthrow the democratically elected Mohammed Mossadegh government in Iran in 1953. But there was no communist threat - the Soviets stood back and watched the coup from afar. What really happened was that Mossadegh threatened to nationalize British and American oil companies in Iran.

Consequently, the CIA and MI6 toppled Mossadegh and replaced him with a puppet government, headed by the Shah of Iran and his murderous secret police, SAVAK. The reason why the Ayatollah Khomeini and his revolutionaries took 52 Americans hostage in Tehran in 1979 was because the CIA had helped SAVAK torture and murder their people.

Another "success" was the CIA’s overthrow of the democratically elected government of Jacabo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954. Again, there was no communist threat.

The real threat was to Guatemala’s United Fruit Company, a Rockefeller-owned firm whose stockholders included CIA Director Allen Dulles. Arbenz threatened to nationalize the company, albeit with generous compensation. In response, the CIA initiated a coup that overthrew Arbenz and installed the murderous dictator Castillo Armas.

For four decades, CIA-backed dictators would torture and murder hundreds of thousands of leftists, union members and others who would fight for a more equitable distribution of the country’s resources.

Another "success" story was Chile. In 1973, the country’s democratically elected leader, Salvador Allende, nationalized foreign-owned interests, like Chile’s lucrative copper mines and telephone system. International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT) offered the CIA $1 million to overthrow Allende - which the CIA allegedly refused - but paid $350,000 to his political opponents.

The CIA responded with a coup that murdered Allende and replaced him with a brutal tyrant, General Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet tortured and murdered thousands of leftists, union members and political opponents as economists trained at the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman installed a "free market" economy.

Since then, income inequality has soared higher in Chile than anywhere else in Latin America.

Even when the communist threat was real, the CIA first and foremost took care of the elite. In testimony before Congress in the early 50s, it artificially inflated Soviet military capabilities.

A notorious example was the "bomber gap" that later turned out to be grossly exaggerated. Another was "Team B," a group of hawkish CIA analysts who seriously distorted Soviet military data. These scare tactics worked. Congress awarded giant defense contracts to the U.S. military-industrial complex.

And not even the fall of the Soviet Union and the demise of American defense contracts have stopped the CIA from serving the elite. Journalist Robert Dreyfuss writes:

Since the end of the Cold War, Washington has been abuzz with talk about using the CIA for economic espionage. Stripped of euphemism, economic espionage simply means that American spies would target foreign companies, such as Toyota, Nissan and Honda, and then covertly pass stolen trade secrets and technology to U.S. corporate executives. ⁵

If this isn’t bad enough, a worse problem arises in that the CIA doesn’t hand over this technology to every American auto-related company, but only the Big Three:

Ford

Chrysler

General Motors

In a 1975 interview, Ex-CIA agent Philip Agee summed up his personal observations of the agency:

To the people who work for it, the CIA is known as The Company. The Big Business mentality pervades everything. Agents, for instance, are called assets. The man in charge of the United Kingdom desk is said to have the "U.K. account"…

American multinational corporations have built up colossal interests all over the world, and you can bet your ass that wherever you find U. S. business interests, you also find the CIA… The multinational corporations want a peaceful status quo in countries where they have investments, because that gives them undisturbed access to cheap raw materials, cheap labor and stable markets for their finished goods. The status quo suits bankers, because their money remains secure and multiplies.

And, of course, the status quo suits the small ruling groups the CIA supports abroad, because all they want is to keep themselves on top of the socioeconomic pyramid and the majority of their people on the bottom.

But do you realize what being on the bottom means in most parts of the world? Ignorance, poverty, often early death by starvation or disease…

Remember, the CIA is an instrument of the President; it only carries out policy. And, like everyone else, the President has to respond to forces in the society he's trying to lead, right?

In America, the most powerful force is Big Business, and American Big Business has a vested interest in the Cold War. ⁶

Domestic Recruitment

The CIA had no trouble recruiting elites who sought a more exciting life. Between 1948 and 1959, more than 40,000 American individuals and companies acted as sources for the U.S. intelligence community. ⁷

Let’s look at each area of recruitment, and see how they enabled the CIA to conduct its crimes:

Big Business
The CIA co-opted big business right from the start, beginning with the most famous billionaire of the time: Howard Hughes.

Hughes had inherited his father’s million-dollar tool and die company at age 19. Anxious to expand his fortune, he made a conscientious decision "to go where the money is" - namely, government. With a few well-placed bribes, Hughes secured defense contracts to build military planes. The result was the Hughes Aircraft company.

By 1940, he had also acquired a controlling interest in Trans World Airlines. His government connections and international airline soon caught the attention of the CIA, and the two began a lifelong relationship. Hughes, whom the CIA dubbed "The Stockbroker," became the agency’s largest contractor. Not only did he let the CIA use his business firms as fronts, but he also funded countless CIA operations.

Perhaps the most notorious was Operation Jennifer, an allegedly failed attempt to recover nuclear codes from a sunken Soviet submarine. Hughes’ right-hand security man, Robert Maheu, was a CIA agent who at one time represented the CIA in negotiations with the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro.

The CIA’s contacts with big business quickly spread. The agency showed a preference for international companies, public relations firms, media companies, law offices, banks, financiers and stockbrokers. The CIA didn’t limit its activities to recruiting businessmen; sometimes the CIA bought or created entire companies outright.

One benefit of co-opting big business was that the CIA was able to create a secret source of funds other than from government. With stock portfolios multiplying their profits, it’s impossible now to say how flush the CIA really is. If Congress ever cut off funds for a mission, the business fraternity could easily replace them, either by donations or even setting up profitable businesses in the target country.

In fact, this is precisely what happened during the Iran/Contra scandal.

By allying itself with the business community, the CIA received the funds and ability it needed to remove itself from democratic control.

The Media
Journalism is a perfect cover for CIA agents.

People talk freely to journalists, and few think suspiciously of a journalist aggressively searching for information. Journalists also have power, influence and clout. Not surprisingly, the CIA began a mission in the late 1940s to recruit American journalists on a wide scale, a mission it dubbed Operation MOCKINGBIRD.

The agency wanted these journalists not only to relay any sensitive information they discovered, but also to write anti-communist, pro-capitalist propaganda when needed.

The instigators of MOCKINGBIRD were,

Frank Wisner

Allan Dulles

Richard Helms

Philip Graham

Graham was the husband of Katherine Graham, today’s publisher of the Washington Post. In fact, it was the Post’s ties to the CIA that allowed it to grow so quickly after the war, both in readership and influence. ⁸

MOCKINGBIRD was extraordinarily successful. In no time, the agency had recruited at least 25 media organizations to disseminate CIA propaganda.

At least 400 journalists would eventually join the CIA payroll, according to the CIA’s testimony before a stunned Church Committee in 1975. (The committee felt the true number was considerably higher.)

The names of those recruited reads like a Who's Who of journalism:

Philip and Katharine Graham (Publishers, Washington Post)

William Paley (President, CBS)

Henry Luce (Publisher, Time and Life magazine)

Arthur Hays Sulzberger (Publisher, N.Y. Times)

Jerry O'Leary (Washington Star)

Hal Hendrix (Pulitzer Prize winner, Miami News)

Barry Bingham Sr., (Louisville Courier-Journal)

James Copley (Copley News Services)

Joseph Harrison (Editor, Christian Science Monitor)

C.D. Jackson (Fortune)

Walter Pincus (Reporter, Washington Post)

ABC

NBC

Associated Press

United Press International

Reuters

Hearst Newspapers

Scripps-Howard

Newsweek magazine

Mutual Broadcasting System

Miami Herald

Old Saturday Evening Post

New York Herald-Tribune

Perhaps no newspaper is more important to the CIA than the Washington Post, one of the nation’s most right-wing dailies.

Its location in the nation’s capitol enables the paper to maintain valuable personal contacts with leading intelligence, political and business figures. Unlike other newspapers, the Post operates its own bureaus around the world, rather than relying on AP wire services.

Owner Philip Graham was a military intelligence officer in World War II, and later became close friends with CIA figures like Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Desmond FitzGerald and Richard Helms. He inherited the Post by marrying Katherine Graham, whose father owned it.

After Philip’s suicide in 1963, Katharine Graham took over the Post. Seduced by her husband’s world of government and espionage, she expanded her newspaper’s relationship with the CIA.

In a 1988 speech before CIA officials at Langley, Virginia, she stated:

“We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things that the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.”

This quote has since become a classic among CIA critics for its belittlement of democracy and its admission that there is a political agenda behind the Post’s headlines.

Ben Bradlee was the Post’s managing editor during most of the Cold War. He worked in the U.S. Paris embassy from 1951 to 1953, where he followed orders by the CIA station chief to place propaganda in the European press. ⁹

Most Americans incorrectly believe that Bradlee personifies the liberal slant of the Post, given his role in publishing the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate investigations.

But neither of these two incidents are what they seem. The Post merely published the Pentagon Papers after The New York Times already had, because it wanted to appear competitive. As for Watergate, we’ll examine the CIA’s reasons for wanting to bring down Nixon in a moment.

Someone once asked Bradlee:

"Does it irk you when The Washington Post is made out to be a bastion of slanted liberal thinkers instead of champion journalists just because of Watergate?" Bradlee responded: "Damn right it does!" ¹⁰

It would be impossible to elaborate in this short space even the most important examples of the CIA/media alliance.

Sig Mickelson was a CIA asset the entire time he was president of CBS News from 1954 to 1961. Later he went on to become president of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, two major outlets of CIA propaganda.

The CIA also secretly bought or created its own media companies. It owned 40 percent of the Rome Daily American at a time when communists were threatening to win the Italian elections. Worse, the CIA has bought many domestic media companies. A prime example is Capital Cities, created in 1954 by CIA businessman William Casey (who would later become Reagan’s CIA director).

Another founder was Lowell Thomas, a close friend and business contact with CIA Director Allen Dulles. Another founder was CIA businessman Thomas Dewey. By 1985, Capital Cities had grown so powerful that it was able to buy an entire TV network: ABC.

For those who believe in "separation of press and state," the very idea that the CIA has secret propaganda outlets throughout the media is appalling.

The reason why America was so oblivious to CIA crimes in the 40s and 50s was because the media willingly complied with the agency. Even today, when the immorality of the CIA should be an open-and-shut case, "debate" about the issue rages in the media.

Here is but one example:

In 1996, The San Jose Mercury News published an investigative report suggesting that the CIA had sold crack in Los Angeles to fund the Contra war in Central America.

A month later, three of the CIA’s most important media allies - The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times - immediately leveled their guns at the Mercury report and blasted away in an attempt to discredit it.

Who wrote the Post article? Walter Pincus, longtime CIA journalist. The dangers here are obvious.

Academia
By the early 50s, CIA Director Allen Dulles had staffed the CIA almost exclusively with Ivy League graduates, especially from Yale. (A disproportionate number of CIA figures, like George Bush, come from Yale’s "Skull and Crossbones" Society.)

CIA recruiters also approached thousands of other professors to work in place at their universities on a part-time, contract basis. Not stopping at recruiting scholars, the agency would go on to create several departments at elite universities, including Harvard's Russian Research Center and the Center for International Studies at MIT.

Although most academics were supportive of the CIA in the 50s, most were unaware of its abuses. In the 60s, academia would become outraged to learn that anti-communist organizations like the National Student Association were actually creations of the CIA.

The most audacious CIA front was the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an organization that attracted liberal, freethinking artists and intellectuals who nonetheless deplored communism.

By the late 60s and 70s, growing reports of CIA crimes and atrocities had deeply alienated academia.

Scholars were further troubled to learn that the CIA had penetrated and disrupted student antiwar groups. Unlike business and the media, academia overwhelmingly denounced the CIA after the Vietnam era. This eventually forced the CIA to turn to new places to find their analysts and scholars. The most important source was the conservative think-tank movement, which it helped to create.